Cash DeCuir
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6/4/2015
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A roar from the jungle shatters the morning silence, and nearly breaks the windows of Heartscross House. Your secretary smiles. "His Royal Highness will see you presently."
An old friend from Court has made good on his word. Port Carnelian - London's last colony, a hotbed of intrigue - is yours to govern.
Brave the heat to go among the people and learn what they need most. Bend the spirit and the letter of the law to its fullest extent in the pursuit of your interests.
But always remember: the Crown is watching.
Players who have been promised a governorship can now access it.
Begin by completing a term in the Foreign Office (even if you have done so before).
edited by h4nchan on 6/4/2015
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Alexis Kennedy
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6/4/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
Offer not applicable for Facebook?
I never log in to Facebook any more, because I'm quite frightened of my family.
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Ian Hart
Posts: 437
6/4/2015
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But... there's no wiki content! How am to know exactly what the optimal decisions are???
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Diptych
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6/4/2015
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I completely forgot about my beautiful wife, somehow.
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Spacemarine9
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6/9/2015
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The Iron Republic has its own shop, which basically exists for a joke. Still, it proves it might be possible to do location-specific stores, maybe. Maybe something like a value-exchange using item prices rather than echoes; sell presbyterate passphrases for mysteries of the elder continent or something similar, maybe.
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metasynthie
Posts: 645
6/4/2015
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Don't worry: anything you see that looks like content or a story isn't quite real. The tangible ache of your steps on the carousel is the true flesh of reality in the Neath. You will awake from your fevered dreams of plot and character development to find that you are staring at your six out of twelve boxfuls of intrigue again. Until you look at the journal of echoed fragments by your bed and wonder: did it really happen?
Alexis: that makes sense! In a similar vein, I still enjoy it when television shows with big writer's rooms list a primary author for an episode; helps pluck out notes of flavor.
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Natalie H.
Posts: 16
6/6/2015
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Has anyone posted this yet? I appear to have found all the possible titles available.
- Minor footnote in History
- Remembered by the people
- A popular role model
- A cherished leader
- A lasting influence
- A legacy established.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
6/4/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
By the way, Evil Tiger Overlord - please add a border to The Manifestation of Promises! I almost charged into switching side for a moment. Pretty please?
I'm pleased to announce that anyone bugging me personally with a content request change will get a Free Giant Bag of Spaniel Entrails! For a limited time only, this offer is also available on Twitter.
(feedback@failbettergames.com is the place to go for this)
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
6/4/2015
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metasynthie wrote:
Exciting! Colonialism at a dizzying height of complicity. I take it Cash is the author of this one? (I wish there were more individual author credits.)
There used to be - but
(i) because so many stories have new branches added, or old content changed, over time, the credits almost invariably ended up misleading
(ii) we run a really collaborative process. Everyone in the content team has some input. We do like to indicate announce time who's the primary author, though, especially when it's a freelancer.
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deadcrystal
Posts: 125
6/4/2015
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Alexis, dear tiger, assist me.
I have been grinding for so long I am not sure I can re-adjust to life on the 'outside'. All my friends and family have moved on, the quality of light seems different. How do I *do* content. Is it a new Affair of the Box branch? How many times round the carousel do I go? How can I possibly adjust? Oh, my but I'm getting light-headed.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
6/4/2015
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Cash DeCuir wrote:
Players who have been promised a governorship can access it after completing a term in the Foreign Office.
completing a term in the Foreign Office.
in the Foreign Office.
In Wilmot's End
Foreign Office's Notability hasn't changed, because it is lower than 0
I look forward to interacting with my spouse for the first time in years. Please speak, please speak, O please.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
6/4/2015
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WELP
[spoiler] [/spoiler]
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Trifa
Posts: 19
6/4/2015
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mmk wrote:
Thank you for your advice, good people of London! Regrettably neither of the Gossipers at my Lodgings opens the way to Wilmot's End. One sends me to the Fleet. The other to the Shattered Palace. Something must be wrong with them. (Or maybe some Influential Tiger just doesn't want to see me governing his Coast)
edited by mmk on 6/4/2015
You will also need to be a Person of Some Importance, and have either a Persuasive or a Shadowy that is 110 or above.
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Happy Londoner
Posts: 74
6/4/2015
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Stat requirement, importance status... Pff! Could a weekling have frightened and outraged the Court by the sheer force of Personality?! I'll show them! One day. (And this day I will humbly grind as I usually do )
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RandomWalker
Posts: 948
6/9/2015
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I like the idea of opening up the Blue Bazaar. Maybe get more contraband items or suchlike? Not sure how to balance it, but it sounds nice.
I'd also like the option to join the Ladies Club that your aunt is a member of, which sounds quite pro-active.
Anyway, just thought I'd add another point of data for anyone trying to work out how the reward system works:
1152 Striped Delight resulted in 40 Presbyterate Passphrases and 16 antique mysteries, for total value of 300 echoes. This leads to an echo per favour rate of 0.26. Which generally means that there's no real benefit to hoarding points for the high values. That was pretty certain anyway, but it's nice to be sure.
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Very dangerous tomato farmer
Posts: 5
6/6/2015
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Lovely new content. The setting is atmospheric, and the morality of some of the choices offered is rather interesting. But why on earth do I LOSE imperial legitimacy for doing things the foreign office explicitly asks me to?
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Roshirai
Posts: 16
6/6/2015
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Very dangerous tomato farmer wrote:
But why on earth do I LOSE imperial legitimacy for doing things the foreign office explicitly asks me to?
Best that I can tell, Imperial Legitimacy measures how loyal/upstanding you appear to the Court, etc., back in London. It goes down when you appear to be too sympathetic to one group of colonials or another, and goes up when you publicly reinforce your ties back in London or directly carry out their orders.
Most of these situations are relatively obvious, but a wrench is tossed into the works by the addition of the Foreign Office. The Foreign Office is not the Court. Sure, you, the Office, and even London itself may benefit from intelligence gathered from a Khaganian source, but all the Court sees is their appointed Governor getting rather cozy with the enemy. Thus, a loss in Legitimacy.
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Owen Wulf
Posts: 715
6/8/2015
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Spoiler chat based on the Foreign Office below and my expectations of this new content.
[spoiler] I was expecting a continuation of the Foreign Office Story and its characters. Perhaps the Devout Intriguer or the Cultured Attaché making an appearance to render the aid of the Teeth or the Face. Granted it is a pleasure to encounter a certain member of the Dilmun Club and this is solid ground for the team to work on. It would also be quite interesting if there were other markets outside of the London Bazaar we could peruse in the Bazaar Tab while abroad, and the nominally named Blue Bazaar in Port Carnelian seems a perfect place to do business - though perhaps lacking compared to its greater namesake. [/spoiler]
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
6/4/2015
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Anyway, off-topic, moderators moderate me. Talk about Port Carnelian, you guys, because I was reviewing it last night and it is properly fine work. I'm delighted to have added Cash to our permanent writing team.
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Jeremy Avalon
Posts: 345
6/4/2015
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mmk wrote:
fortluna wrote:
Wilmot's end can come from opp cards, or by speaking to the sculpturess/urchin in your lodgings
Will the Grubby Urching do? The one you can buy at Redempions for 28.80.
That's a companion. You need to go to your Lodgings and use the storylet titled "FIND NEW STORIES: Chat with the Local Gossip", which serves exactly the purpose you need -- finding your way to new content.
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Trifa
Posts: 19
6/4/2015
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mmk wrote:
fortluna wrote:
Wilmot's end can come from opp cards, or by speaking to the sculpturess/urchin in your lodgings
Will the Grubby Urching do? The one you can buy at Redempions for 28.80.
No, you need to go to your Lodgins, and click on the Local Gossip. You can then talk to the Urchin (or one of the other three, each associated with a main stat).
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fortluna
Posts: 306
6/4/2015
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I think there's a stat requirement, plus person of some importance status?
From the wiki - Persuasive/Shadowy at 110.
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Did you find yourself in a beautiful house? Or perhaps in another part of the world? Letting the days go by, water flowing underground? My god, what have you done?!
The stray rivulets of the forgotten quarter are noxious but not quite lethian; no, it was when the Bazaar assumed the only thing I might like to do with her is divorce :[ and if even the Bazaar thought our disparity so unsurmountable, then there's nothing for me, is there. I've been in the squalid haunts of the flit for months and months, trying to bury those pesky feelings :[[
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An Individual
Posts: 589
6/4/2015
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Looks like it's time to finally get banished from court. Life of the mind, how I shall miss thee.
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MadmanAtW
Posts: 231
6/4/2015
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It is a location in Wilmot's End. And I guess it's finally time to get kicked out of Court as well!
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fortluna
Posts: 306
6/4/2015
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I completely forgot about my beautiful wife, somehow. Are there any options for bringing the foreign office attachés along/interacting with them over there?Wilmot's end can come from opp cards, or by speaking to the sculpturess/urchin in your lodgings.
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Sackville
Posts: 295
6/9/2015
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Can the engine even support multiple different shops?
If it can, shopping at the Blue Bazaar would definitely be cool. Trade can't be *profitable*, though, since then with enough starting capital you could make virtually unlimited epa just by zailing. So they'd need to sell different goods, but at fair prices (or, technically, at prices laughably unfair in the Blue Bazaar's favor). There's still a lot of options though. Tier 2 instead of Tier 1 items? New and exotic but mechanically equivalent clothing, weapons, and companions for us to sink echoes collecting? Sapphires?
Even if it just sold Visions of the Surface, Mysteries of the Elder Continent, and maybe Whispered Secrets at semi-fair prices (or in exchange for carousel rewards), it would be useful if you want to spend a lot of time in Port Carnelian but didn't bring a lot of those currencies with you. Hell, even if a new shop is impossible a storylet for those transactions would be kind of nice.
[spoiler]And hopefully it would also be a new and decently competitive way of getting Visions and Mysteries (to convert to Gossip) for the FW, since stealing Journals of Infamy and doing a million side conversions is a huge chore.[/spoiler]
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fortluna
Posts: 306
6/9/2015
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I can't imagine what it'd take to buy a mountain sherd from the blue bazaar as a Londoner. 500 antique mysteries?
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Ian Hart
Posts: 437
6/9/2015
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While I agree that in general the Blue Bazaar should just sell different goods, it is possible for there to be some profit making as well. Some goods have a limited maximum quantity (rubbery skull, recipe for zzoup, etc) and selling those overseas could be profitable without breaking the economy. It could also just let you sell various goods that, for whatever reason, can't be sold in London at all.
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bitterhorn
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6/9/2015
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RandomWalker wrote:
I'd also like the option to join the Ladies Club that your aunt is a member of, which sounds quite pro-active.
Very much agreed! As we were discussing in that other thread about clubs, the current options are essentially a pair of fraternities. This might be a nice way to offer something of a different flavor, perhaps more appropriate for characters played as more classically "ladylike" without feeling like a total anachronism.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
6/4/2015
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Prett sure you can't get back to Court yet, but the Carnelian Coast is pretty swell. Some very hacky rough calculations I did suggest it might be pretty profitable, maybe, possibly, but they were very rough calculations (and I didn't take into account factors like Legitimacy or the zee journeys or anything, so who knows). Still, I'm liking it, you can chill out with tigers or go drink a tea maybe.
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MissCrumpet
Posts: 113
6/4/2015
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But... I don't want to be exiled from the court! Surely they would want a spy from inside the court, wouldn't they?
Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
fortluna wrote:
I completely forgot about my beautiful wife, somehow.
Did you find yourself in a beautiful house? Or perhaps in another part of the world? Letting the days go by, water flowing underground? My god, what have you done?!
And so began the liberation of the night.
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Estelle Knoht
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6/5/2015
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Sir Joseph Marlen wrote:
Before I run through the Foreign Office and head out to zee, I'd like to know if there's anything I should bring along we me when I visit Port Carnelian.
Consider capping your Watchful and Persuasive. Most challenges are 100% at 2xx, with the exception of the lone Watchful challenge that is 60% or so at 270 Watchful.
Occasionally there are actions requiring Mysteries of Elder Continent, but the payoff is not very good.
By the way, Joseph, you can set a forum signature on the "My Profile" link on the upper right corner instead of pasting it for each post....
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Diptych
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6/5/2015
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Yep, that's it - finish your novel, and keep completing works, and eventually the Councillor will propose a scheme involving a scandalous opera that leads to your being banished. Worth noting, while you're at that stage: novels and poems take longer to complete, but they give you copies of the publication on completion, and those have a handful of uses here and there.
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Roshirai
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6/5/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
Sir Joseph Marlen wrote:
Before I run through the Foreign Office and head out to zee, I'd like to know if there's anything I should bring along we me when I visit Port Carnelian.
Occasionally there are actions requiring Mysteries of Elder Continent, but the payoff is not very good.
You may also have the opportunity to please some of your constituents by sharing Visions of the Surface. Whether the reward is worth the cost or not, I admit I was a bit disappointed to find myself lacking them when the opportunity arose.
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Diptych
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KyrianaKhaos wrote:
Anyone know how long it takes to finish a novel. Got inspired at like 35 and don't know where it finishes at.
You should be able to publish at Inspired 34 - there'll be a storylet called "Your novel is complete!"
Mr. Mercutio wrote:
Curious if anyone has willingly declined another term and gone back to London of their own accord. Does that lock you out of returning to the Port, or can you agree to become governor again back in London?
I've finished a few terms and come back to London, and there was no quality change to suggest I wouldn't be able to return to governance. I'm guessing that I'll be able to zail back and resume my duties (they seem to have a high turnover rate in governors.)
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Sara Hysaro
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6/6/2015
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Oooh, now we have an easy way to get Sworn Statements. I figured there would be a way to repair one's Imperial Legitimacy in the Foreign Office without it hitting 0, but I wasn't expecting items on top of that.
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