Lemexis
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11/8/2015
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Delicious friends,
I am currently, I believe, in the later stages of the game, the part in which I am under the impression that I have already done all of the stories in the game, and the only thing left to do for me is to collect rare items (a Fluke Core, a Breath of the Void, and so on).
Yet I am appaled at how very little I know about the Masters. My character is quite fond of the Masters and has tried all of his career to get close to them. I always sided with them whenever I had the chance, and I always chose the storylets that would let me know more about them. I have also played all of the Fate-locked stories I could find.
But in the forum, I sometimes "overhear" (I try not to read too much because I don't want to be spoiled, but sometimes curiosity gets me) people casually discussing some highly confidential information about them that I never even suspected before. Talking about the past of Mr Veils, about the personality of some other Masters, the relationships between them, ... like it was common knowledge.
So the question is :
How, delicious friend, do you know so much about the Masters ? What did I miss ? What should I do ?
Tell me, please, before I go mad and decide to go North looking for answers.
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malaugurie
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The entirety of my knowledge of the Masters comes from Spacemarine9's lore blog and from digging in the wiki! So if you are curious I definitely recommed checking them out!
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Lemexis
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Thanks, but I was expecting more of how to discover it in game.
Where do people who wrote these documents learn what they talk about ?
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Màiread
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11/8/2015
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Knowledge about the masters is handed out piecemeal in several major storylines. The ambitions all have a fairly big chunk (except possibly heart's desire? I haven't progressed that one). The Jack case involves Spices. Stones and Fires are in the affair of the box. Mr Pages is involved in becoming a reliable and the Dandy case, and Mr Wines has his revels. The Long Road path when choosing a destiny reveals some tidbits. I think there may be some stuff in the fate locked foreign office branch, but I've never done it. There are undoubtedly more bits in fate locked places I've either never seen or have forgotten. Hope that helps!
ETA: Oh and there are some nice and informative scenes available when taking certain fate locked paths once the snow comes, and by interacting with the various Sackses generally.
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Lemexis
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Well, I have done all of that - apart from the ambitions that are not Light Fingers, and my destiny is of course with the Masters, yet I still lack knowledge on some things.
What surprised me the most was when people mentionned the origins of Mr Veils. How do you learn about him ? Is it from "Bag a Legend" ?
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suinicide
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11/8/2015
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One of the most expensive scrap options has a short discussion on some of the master's relationships
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Màiread
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11/8/2015
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Yep, for Veils you want bag a legend. The ambitions have a lot of lore, so it's worth playing through with an alt if they interest you.
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Lemexis
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11/8/2015
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Yeah but I don't want to start all of my grinds all over again, so I guess I'll just wait until they finish the ambitions (so in a very long time) and then I'll just do them all with my character.
Anyway thanks for the infos !
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Màiread
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Sure thing! Keep in mind it costs fate to reset your ambition, but obviously that does save on repeated grinds.
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11/8/2015
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Lemexis wrote:
Yeah but I don't want to start all of my grinds all over again, so I guess I'll just wait until they finish the ambitions (so in a very long time) and then I'll just do them all with my character.
Anyway thanks for the infos !
Speaking as a player who has alternates, it's best you make one or more to try the different Ambitions.
Not only does it cost a lot of Fate to reset an Ambition, it takes a hella-long time to get to said point before you gain said Masters Tidbits (like near the end part of the Ambitions released, but not the conclusions of any Ambitions, as this was not released at the time of this reply was posted.) And as you will learn about Ambitions, the later parts require a lot of very expensive and time-consuming items (think around the level of Bejeweled Lenses.) Getting there three more times with the same character will not be as easy as doing them in parallel with alternates.
But if spending 50 Fate (that's about 12 USD or around 8 Pounds) each time you want to reset the Ambition is fine, by all means, feel free to spend 150 Fate eventually. But if I was buying that much Fate, I would certainly spend it on something better (or just make alts to try them all out.) Even a peculiar enhancement gaining a Boneless Consort for 50 Fate would be better spent than "Curiosity about other Ambitions."
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Màiread
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This is a very good point! Also, obviously if you create an alt with a particular focus in mind you can progress a lot more quickly than you would just noodling around exploring every corner as I'd imagine you'd do with your main.
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Lemexis
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Well I actually expected the admins to let us just play the other Ambitions once we're finished our current one. I'm not talking about reaching the end of the current content, I'm talking about really finishing the Ambition storyline - so in a very long time.
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11/8/2015
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Lemexis wrote:
Well I actually expected the admins to let us just play the other Ambitions once we're finished our current one. I'm not talking about reaching the end of the current content, I'm talking about really finishing the Ambition storyline - so in a very long time.
The Ambitions are almost done, but the developers are currently working on other things. it still however may not be "a very long time"
However, that written, once a storyette is done-including Ambition ones-it's non-progressable again. Don't expect anybody to "let" you play the other alternate branches without literally paying fate to reset it. Other users who have been here even more years can confirm this.
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Lemexis
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Well I didn't think of the other Ambitions as alternate branches, I mean they are not mutually exclusive since they're very different stories, right ?
If one Ambition was "working with the Masters" and another one was "working with the Revolutionaries" I would see how that would be a problem, but here I don't see why I couldn't just go on with the other ambitions once I'm done with this one.
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Ginneon Thursday
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11/9/2015
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Suincide, I am nearing 3200 scraps for the first time. Which scrap provides that information? Veils Velvet?
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suinicide
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11/9/2015
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I believe it's the rumourmonger's network. But it is short, so don't buy it for only the information. (Then again, I don't think there's a use for any of these yet, so do as you like)
Edit: (But veils-velvet does contain a small brush of a hint)
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