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Second Chances on Fate-Locked Actions
Severine Chamberlain
Posts: 6
4/3/2015
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Hi, folks. I just had a weird experience with a Fate-locked action and wanted to ask if the behavior that I noticed was intended or not.
I drew the opportunity card you get at Marked by the Eater-of-Chains level 1, and since my character has barely enough Dangerous to unlock that story, neither of the actions were particularly likely to work. I had 3 Fate from answering survey questions and decided to use it on the 3-Fate-locked option that's a little easier and also uses Foxfire Candles; since it was a risky challenge on an opportunity card, I also used a Hard-Earned Lesson to get a second chance. I took the option (paying my 3 Fate), failed, used the Hard-Earned Lesson... and couldn't actually take my second chance, because I didn't have any more Fate and the option was locked. I was okay with a failure result, because it was a hard challenge and the message implied there'd be interesting story content about the Eater behind the Fate-locked option regardless, but instead I paid 3 Fate and a second chance for nothing. I still had the card, but I discarded it because I figured trying the non-Fate-locked option at my current Dangerous wasn't worth the risks.
Are Fate-locked options with checks involved really supposed to lock you out of second chances until you pay the Fate again? Is this known/intended behavior? If this is expected, I'll probably avoid Fake-locked options that involve chance where the checks aren't at straightforward difficulty for me, and I'll definitely not bother using second chances on this stuff.
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I didn't see any other threads that looked to address this issue. I'd appreciate any feedback and advice that people have; I'm a new-ish player (had an account years ago, but rejoined with a new one about two weeks ago), and I enjoy the game, but I'm trying to work out the kinks of how to play it again.
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