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Can't access Empress Court
Marsha Glade
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12/23/2015
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I don't know if I've been banished or not when Failbetter revamped the Persuasive System and I barely paid attention at the time (as I was focusing on other things). Nothing in my big list of things I have a big list says "Banished from the court" so I'm assuming I can go there.
But I go to the Shuttered Palace and all I can do is trade favours or go to the rose garden. Does that mean I've been banished and in such a way I can't even access the foreign office? Because only recently have I heard that going to the palace would make reducing menaces much easier.
I'm a Significant Individual and my persuasive is above 85. So what? I've been banished?
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Nigel Overstreet
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12/23/2015
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stylesrj wrote:
I don't know if I've been banished or not when Failbetter revamped the Persuasive System and I barely paid attention at the time (as I was focusing on other things). Nothing in my big list of things I have a big list says "Banished from the court" so I'm assuming I can go there.
But I go to the Shuttered Palace and all I can do is trade favours or go to the rose garden. Does that mean I've been banished and in such a way I can't even access the foreign office? Because only recently have I heard that going to the palace would make reducing menaces much easier.
I'm a Significant Individual and my persuasive is above 85. So what? I've been banished?
If you are banished, you should have "Banished from the Court - Mad, bad, dangerous to know" under your Accomplishments on your "Myself" tab.
What is your "Name Signed With A Flourish" level?
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Sara Hysaro
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12/23/2015
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When you write the Short Story be sure to select the Make Your Name option available at Potential 40 - there are other stories available to publish, but they won't help.
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12/24/2015
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stylesrj wrote:
I guess there's a lot more to getting into the court, because a few months ago I was able to just walk in after trading favours (or at least I could see I could enter and realise I didn't have anything to trade in).
Thanks for the help! I guess I'll have to tank through Wilmont's End for my Whirring Contraptions
edited by stylesrj on 12/23/2015
A few months ago, they did the changes to early content.
Each phase of "A Name [FL Attribute Statistic linked to it]" gives a huge attribute (as in each phase can award up to 5 ranks not CP but RANKS of stat increases) bump (linked to the location type of course) and also: consumable items, connections, quirks, some phases for every attribute award one or more of a clothing slot item, and free access unlocks to other places we used to have to pay up to 50 echoes worth of stuff to enter when completed.
For instance, finishing "A Name Scrawled in Blood" to 5 unlocks the Labyrinth of Tigers and gives you a Season pass for free, allowing you to get those thousands of rats for other uses at the end of Coil 1.
It's really really really highly recommended you do this Name Signed with a Flourish path for the next few days rather than Wilmont's End for the above reasons.
edited by the truthseeker on 12/24/2015
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12/24/2015
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stylesrj wrote:
I'm only 4 Whirring Contraptions off from the Zubmarine (and many spyglasses away but that'll be later). I thought if I could use the Court to reduce my menaces while getting those Contraptions I'd be golden.
Does the Empress' Court make it easier to get the obs diamonds needed for spyglasses as well?
It offers a LOT of individual components, see here.
And of course, there was that whole Making your Name huge stat boost thing.
But short of accomplishing a phase which wipes out your menace (in Persuasive case, Scandal,) Court is more likely to give Menace due to its tougher stat checks. But a lot of options are needed for things are in the court, so at least you should have full access to it before continuing.
This is also where you compose works for big money but many turns including a Symphony SoTC work.
And for Diamonds, what you need are best done through Criminals to 7 and cashing in An Implausible Penance, Pugilism and Politics Beating the Minister, or get a bunch of Cryptic Clues and bulk convert them at the Empire Adornments. Like 10,000 bulk.
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