th8827
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11/9/2015
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I just arrived at the Empress's Court and started working on a Novel. I noticed that the location does not appear on the map, so reentering might be complicated...
Anything noteworthy that I should look out for? I have a lot of options, many of which require much more connections than I have...
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Sestina Valdis
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11/9/2015
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You have to go back via the Shuttered Palace again, which is tricky... So you have to be careful with travelling around London while you are at Court, I guess. But the Palace lets you farm the rep necessary to re-enter Court, so that's ok.
You can just use the options that don't require any/as much connections to write your novel. If I remember correctly most of the options are there as alternatives for flavour. I don't remember the progress actions themselves giving me anything extra special, and certainly nothing that's unique-- although I might be wrong-- other than progress for the texts you are writing at Court (they might've changed that recently, though. I did the Palace before the recent "A Name Written with a Flourish" update).
Edit: However, some of the progress actions do give interesting items that are rare but not unique-- e.g. Secluded Addresses. You might want to explore and try each option once, since there aren't exactly very harsh penalties for failing the checks, although do note that succeeding (and sometimes even failing) actions that require connections will often drop that connection slightly. It depends which you'd rather lose: some Inspired... quality or some Connections quality.
Edit again: It seems my info is outdated; thanks for the clarification, everyone!
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th8827
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11/9/2015
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Well... I lucked out and got a pair of Secluded Addresses from the Decency Evaluator. That's something interesting, even if it has a low success chance.
I'm wondering if there are any rare successes that get me anything else nice... or anything at all.
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Seno
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11/9/2015
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I believe the one with plays about the main lead gives you a diamond on rare success (think it's a flawed one though).
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Optimatum
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11/9/2015
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Thanks to the persuasive tracker, returning to the Court is now free. Well, it still uses an action, but nothing else.
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Cimanyd
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11/9/2015
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Though, if you really miss the old way of traveling to the Court (that required spending connections), you can visit the Bohemian Sculptress in your lodgings to spend a large amount of Connected: Society to get in, for no reason whatsoever.
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Guest
11/9/2015
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If anybody has questions as to options in creating a work at Court, this guide does a good job breaking it down.
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Ben
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11/9/2015
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I cannot stress the importance of being at court.
There are two things you can do there, that while you have small chances of opertunity to do them latter, become harder then.
You can get hedonist to 15, and you can get correspondence to 10. (whoops, sorry, fixed)
The completionist in me begs you to perform and compose everything before the court that you can. This means denying somebody important a number of times, but that's okay, he'll get over it.
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Optimatum
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11/10/2015
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The Correspondence symphony only raises SotC to 10.
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11/10/2015
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Optimatum wrote:
The Correspondence symphony only raises SotC to 10.
Yep. Not to sound one-sided or anything (such as somebody choosing one composition to write a tale for a zubmarine for example,) but this is one of the only methods up to SoTC 10 you don't have to pay Fate or have a high Watchful and amount of Plaques to advance SoTC. If not role-playing locked for Court selection, it's seriously a good idea to make all of them Correspondence performances. This might be the last chance you can get easily to raise that without spending a lot of cash either in game or out of game (the latter referring to Fate.)
[spoiler] And I didn't realize this, but there is a SoTC option for the Owl if you pass the Luck check speaking of Fate. [/spoiler]
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th8827
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11/10/2015
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Do I need any points in SotC to get points from the Symphony? I have not touched the Forgotten Quarter much yet, because of a lack of resources to get supplies.
edited by th8827 on 11/10/2015
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Sara Hysaro
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11/10/2015
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Yes, you need to be a Scholar of the Correspondence to do that symphony.
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