Hannah Flynn
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8/17/2015
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Delicious ones!
I'm delighted to officially confirm that the Fruits of the Zee festival will return, this week.
This year we have excised the quirk reductions! You can now fish to your heart's content without fear of having quirks reduced upon successes.
There won't be any new story content this year, as we are flat-out on a lot of major content reworking, and some exciting new content for a favourite island in Sunless Sea - more news of that soon. There is a little new art, which I think you'll enjoy.
A full announcement will follow when the festival opens.
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RandomWalker
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8/18/2015
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This was a year ago, but this is what I recall (may be completely wrong in places):
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The festival is broken into two parts: fishing, and cashing in your catch.
Fishing is fairly simple - you have a set number of turn out fishing (ten?), and during that time you can either answer a quirk challenge, or else (not always an option) turn in navigational items for progress, with more expensive items offering greater progress.
Once your time is up, you offer your catch to the inhabitants. Apart from the well, which should be left well enough alone from what I recall, there's two people who offer navigational fungibles and menace reduction (one does wounds, another does nightmares), and someone who lets you into the cove.
Your catch is likely to be in the range of 1-12 (1-5 if you just do quirk challenges).
The material rewards from the menace reducers is random, not effected by the size of your catch. The menace reduction did vary by catch size.
In the cove, you can cash in your catch for various rewards of varying usefulness, if your catch is EXACTLY the right value - if you want a prize that goes for catch size 2, and your catch is size 5, you're out of luck. Top prize was a nice friendly hamster weapon. No loot is top of class, but some of it is very nice mid-tier stuff and unqiue.
The problem with cashing in is that your catch is reduced by a random amount four(?) times between fishing and reaching the cove. The reduction is something like 0-2, or 0-3 each time, I think, so what you have in the boat need not reflect what you can get in the cove, or from the menace reducers.
First tip: Be patient. Treat this like fidgetting writer. Don't count your catch until it's done, and be used to your 10 point catch dropping to 7, and so missing the prize you want at the final hurdle.
Best technique - go out, fish with just quirks, cash in your catch with the menace reducers for navigational stuff. Go back out, fish with the navigational stuff. If you have a good catch, try to cash it in, otherwise throw it back and see if the second fishing expedition goes better.
That's all I can remember, and a lot of it is probably wrong in many ways.
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edited by RandomWalker on 8/18/2015
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Seno
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8/17/2015
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Pigmote island hopefully. I want faction relations to Guinea pigs and rats.
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fortluna
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8/17/2015
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Gul al-Ahlaam wrote:
Oooh! A fan-favorite? Irem, I hope! Or perhaps Wisdom? I look forward to it either way.
I second the Pillars! (I'm - scared of Wisdom. Maybe that ocular toad will finally come in handy?)
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twitchett
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8/18/2015
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Oooh, how very exciting! I'm rather new to Fallen London so this will be my first festival event, I'm eager to see what fun new avenues there are to explore.
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Danko
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8/17/2015
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Hannah Flynn wrote:
Delicious ones!
I'm delighted to officially confirm that the Fruits of the Zee festival will return, this week.
This year we have excised the quirk reductions! You can now fish to your heart's content without fear of having quirks reduced upon successes.
There won't be any new story content this year, as we are flat-out on a lot of major content reworking, and some exciting new content for a favourite island in Sunless Sea - more news of that soon. There is a little new art, which I think you'll enjoy.
A full announcement will follow when the festival opens.
Favourite island? The one with the guinea pigs, surely!
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