OPG
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5/1/2013
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How does one start this storylet? I heard it can be found at your lodgings, but it doesn't appear there for me. Are there any prerequisites other than PoSI?
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OPG
Posts: 387
5/1/2013
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This angers me. I demand the right to join the parties of high society when I choose! *shakes fist*
Although, to counter the 'hiding from K&C' issue, I do think it would be interesting if there was a special K&C oop. card that would let you fight someone while using up time at the party.
EDIT: Nevermind, there is already an interesting option for K&C participants. I still think that there should be a method of entering the storylet in your lodgings, perhaps that option would require paying a bunch of Incendiary Gossip or somesuch up front, whereas the opp. card would be free.
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Tesuji
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5/5/2013
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OPG wrote:
Yeah, but TotT is a good way to get Favors in High Places and [Personal Recommendations], much in the same way Lethal Prominence and the Pickpocket's Promenade are.
It's a way to get Favours in High Places and Personal Recommendations, but I wouldn't consider it a particularly good one. (In the same way, the War of Assassins is really only a good source for Whirring Contraptions, but that's a separate discussion.)
If you need either of those items, you're better off using the Sidestreets for the Recommendation or conversion for Favours unless you need that item and only that item (and don't care about any excess items) and want it as quickly as possible.
If you need a Favour in High Places, for example, the most efficient way (in the long run) to go about this is to play 4 cycles of the Iron Box to gain 28 Stolen Kisses, then convert them to 5 Favours, which costs a total of 57 actions (or 11.4 actions per Favour). Conversely, using Talk of the Town is likely to cost more than 30 actions for a single Favour.
In the long run, you're better off using conversion, since you get 5x Favours in less than twice the time of using TotT for one. In the short run, if you only need one Favour, but you want it right now, the Elegant Party gets you there quicker.
Depending on how this change was implemented, this rationale is either drastically reduced or completely eliminated. If one Polite Invitation card lets you stay in the party as long as you want, then, if you're lucky and your "I need it now!" situation comes up at just the point you have that card in your hand, it's essentially the status quo ante. If, however, you need a new card for each cycle through the party, then Talk of the Town becomes both the least efficient and the slowest way of getting these items.
... all of which is a shame. I think the writing for this vignette is superb; I've played through it multiple times just to try all of the various options. I just wish the rewards were within the neighborhood of being commensurate with the time and effort required.
(Of course, this is all based on my having last played this about six months ago, so if the rewards or actions needed for the rewards were changed when it became an opportunity card, my analysis might be incorrect.)
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Aximillio
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Personal Recommendations are easier to buy at the Bazaar Sidestreets, and Favours in High Places can be gained through Item Conversions, so it's not as valuable as it used to be.
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Sara Hysaro
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5/8/2013
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Or if you want to save time you can click the yep. I made it link to the one that gives you Compromising Documents. 
edited by Sara Hysaro on 5/8/2013
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Seberin
Posts: 113
5/23/2013
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I just drew the card in Watchmaker's Hill! It looks like it's no longer restricted to our lodgings.
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Finvara
Posts: 430
5/23/2013
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awesome!
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OPG
Posts: 387
5/1/2013
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Why does everything useful have to be an opportunity card? What's wrong with a good, old-fashioned storylet?
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OPG
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5/1/2013
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... You murderous bastards! I'm not even K&C, and you guys are still causing me grief!
Let me guess: The Pickpocket's Promenade is now an opp. card as well, right?
EDIT: Nope, it isn't. Failbetter, please make the Polite Invitation a proper Lodgings storylet. This is just ridiculous.
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