DonaghyLogan
Posts: 205
11/15/2017
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At long last, I achieve Courier's Footprint! Now, on to finally getting kicked from court . . . .
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Aberrant Eremite
Posts: 362
11/16/2017
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DonaghyLogan wrote:
At long last, I achieve Courier's Footprint! Now, on to finally getting kicked from court . . . .
Congratulations, Professor Logan! I believe that you've beaten both Professors Kan and Drake to it.
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DonaghyLogan
Posts: 205
11/16/2017
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Aberrant Eremite wrote:
Congratulations, Professor Logan! I believe that you've beaten both Professors Kan and Drake to it.
I was lucky enough to have pulled a mood card and a Dream of Blood, and to have a magnificent feast and lots of coffee stockpiled. Best of luck to the efforts of Professors Kan and Drake!
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Mr. Zane
Posts: 62
11/16/2017
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At long last, after innumerable setbacks, Courier's Footprint is mine!
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
11/22/2017
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Just noting a few points where the original post needs some updating:
1. The Orphanage is not listed as a Watchful-boosting affiliation.
2. Destinies, the Newspaper, and the Voluminous Library, unlike everything else, are not linked to the appropriate Wiki articles.
3. Watchful specialization is no longer permanently locked in.
4. 300 Watchful is, in fact, now possible without an Overgoat.
5. Small typos: "You're blood" instead of "your blood" in paragraph 2, and Fate-locked not capitalized or hyphenated in the last full paragraph.
I also think that it's worth noting that a Correspondent or a Monster-Hunter with a Mood card in hand can skip the Goat grind entirely, considerably shortening the road. The improved Midnight Matriarch we were gifted on Hallowmas has made this road notably easier.
Ex.
Overcap +15 (215)
Preternaturally Intent +30 (245)
Smock of 4,308 Pockets +10 (255)
Insatiable Glove +8 (263)
Pot of Violant Ink +12 (275)
Wax-Hardened Boots +5 (280)
Midnight Matriarch of the Menagerie of Roses +12 (292)
Destiny +5 (297)
Voluminous Library +3 (300)
N.B. This route as given above does not require marriage or Great Game 40 to achieve its goals. (In fact, the only thing I currently lack is the overcapped Watchful bonus.) Possessors of those items can get away with a lower overcap, or go with an unimproved Matriarch, or have a non-Watchful profession or destiny. In short, the routes to SotC are becoming more and more open as time goes on.
As I figure, the base routes now are:
Overcap + Mood + Profession
Overcap + Mood + Game
Overcap + Goat + Profession
Overcap + Goat + Game
Mood + Goat + Profession
Mood + Goat + Game
Within these are any number of variables based on one's precise equipment. In fact, it's right now possible to get up to 296 without a Mood or a Goat. Might we one day see moodless, goatless Footprint? We're very close. Of course, it depends on what Failbetter considers the minimum acceptable effort to get to SotC 21. Is Game 40, Revolutionaries 25, +15 overcap, and some rare equipment enough? Maybe, maybe not. I suppose that we shall see.
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Tay1or
Posts: 163
11/22/2017
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The thing is--the 215 overcap is as bad as the goat. Getting the goat was actually more enjoyable. But that was in the days before the PP quality--there's now a reason to grind to 215. I did it with an overcap of either 207 or 208 with the goat. Then months later, I did the 215 grind for London's Nerves.
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Dudebro Pyro
Posts: 755
11/25/2017
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Tay1or wrote:
The thing is--the 215 overcap is as bad as the goat.
Is it really? I didn't rush Notability up to 13, then went up to 14 and then 15 in a single week. Considering 7-8 is achievable in a single day (which was instrumental during Hallowmass just now), assuming there's some scheme in store I could probably overcap to 15 in two weeks, maybe a bit more than that. but definitely comfortably within three weeks.
Meanwhile, with a 1.8EPA grind and an EF (or lack of sleep) boosted 136 actions, getting the 11,700E takes about 48 days, so you're looking at around 7 weeks. This means that roughly, the entire PP grind (including getting to N12 four times) is about on par with an Ubergoat.
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earthbourn
Posts: 149
6/26/2018
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Without a Watchful profession, destiny, or spouse, it seems that I can't reach 290 without a mood (I will have an Overgoat, but no Ubergoat). I'd rather not wait for two mood cards, so my question is: what is the viability of hitting levels 20 and 21 on a single mood?
As an EF, two full candles should be just enough, but the wounds gain would be enormous. Would I need both A Dream of Blood and a Magnificent Feast, or could I do it with just one? Maybe if someone gave me a couple healing actions?
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Jolanda Swan
Posts: 1783
6/26/2018
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Well, I began with two full candles, and a Shepherd's card which takes away all your menaces. I used it halfway. Elsewise, there is always using fate to refresh your candles - which incidentally, I also did. The cost is relatively low.
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earthbourn
Posts: 149
6/26/2018
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That's true--with a few extra actions, I could just pop some bottles of Gebrandt's.
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Dudebro Pyro
Posts: 755
6/27/2018
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The thing is you don't die as long as you keep researching (i.e. never click "Onwards" or "Perhaps Not"). If I remember correctly since you're just levelling up a quality using a single action this works throughout all levels, so you can go from 19 to 21 in one single go. The only issue is if you run out of actions and end up having to pop some coffee - this obviously requires exiting the research storylet, so you can't do that with Wounds 8+. This makes it harder to manage actions - but as an EF, 46 (or 45 to be safe) actions is enough if you're already at 19.
When I got mine, I ended up on the river with something like 20 Wounds. Having Boatman's Opponent 40 (which makes rolling dice literally more efficient than chess) made it a fun couple of days grinding my way back to life.
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Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them.
For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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earthbourn
Posts: 149
6/27/2018
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I didn't think of that! Why avoid Wounds 8 when I could just be an unstoppable juggernaut of research?
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The Mechanist, L. - Found what she was looking for. Gone now.
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Augusta Lenore Coldbridge-Wynne
Posts: 12
12/22/2018
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Being possessed of an Ubergoat, preternatural intensity, a pot of violant ink, a smidgen of Fate and no regard at all for her own mortality, Augusta Coldbridge-Wynne has at last achieved Courier's Footprint. Now to just deal with that pesky Boatman, and it's time to grind Paramount Presence!
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Greg M
Posts: 197
2/23/2019
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Thank you for the excellent guide! Worth noting that, for the February 2019 Exceptional Story "Cricket, Anyone?" Courier's Footprint now has an ACTUAL BONA-FIDE USE.
Which is why I'm now grinding to switch specializations to Watchful, then grinding to overcap Watchful, and then to 10,000 echoes, and then to 11,712 echoes and the Overgoat. Sweet Merciful Masters!
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