Mr I
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2/26/2016
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On Ruthless:
Depending on where you are in the Labyrinth of Tigers story, Capture a new exhibit (off The third coil) will give you +3CP per action.
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Zero
Posts: 136
2/26/2016
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So what's the deal about scraps, exactly? I know they're extremely valuable, and you can trade them with the Relicker for... Stuff. He offers a lot of options, though. Which offers are the best? And how can I acquire more scraps? The few I have are all from the 'making your name' storylines.
EDIT: Another question! What's a good way to increase my Dangerous 59 stat? I'm trying to follow the Black Ribbon stuff at the docks, but the success rate is still low for me and I'm gaining more wounds than exp.
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
2/26/2016
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There are four relickers that trade in scraps, and each offers a large array of options. Several of the very most expensive items can only by obtained this way — but as far as I know these all have no purpose in the game apart from bragging rights and a high sell price. Most people who collect scraps are probably going for this, as there are easier ways to get the cheap items.
As far acquiring scraps, they come from various opportunity cards, including every Lodgings card (giving 1 to 3 scraps per card depending on how expensive the Lodgings was). This is very slow, and if you want the most expensive items you can expect it to take months if not years.
The Relickers also allow you to gamble scraps by "recertifying;" this has a positive expected value, but I wouldn't try it until you have many scraps and are in it for the long haul, since in the short run you could easily lose dozens of scraps.
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Jermaine Vendredi
Posts: 588
2/26/2016
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Is there a way of changing "Closest to"? Jermion was careless about this and finds himself associated with people he'd rather not know. Or not that well, anyway.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Jermion
Oh -- and could someone kindly point me towards instructions for adding a spoiler tag here?
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
2/26/2016
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You can change closest to - the option to break your ties is on their card. You then need the card for the faction you want to be closest to. It does cost various items but you can see what you need on the relevant cards.
There is another way to get closest to - by selling the Location of the Nadir to someone. But only four factions are willing to buy and that might not include the one one you want. Also you can only do it once.
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dov
Posts: 2580
2/26/2016
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TheThirdPolice wrote:
There are four relickers that trade in scraps, and each offers a large array of options. Several of the very most expensive items can only by obtained this way — but as far as I know these all have no purpose in the game apart from bragging rights and a high sell price.
The Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell does have a purpose in game: you need this if you want to upgrade your lodgings at the brass embassy to the 5-card sanctum the "regular" way. (There's also the cheaper way during Christmas, but that requires selling your soul, which is not an option for everybody)
Also, just before SMEN was suspended, it introduced a mechanic in which the 4 top relicker items (3200-scrap items) could be sacrificed to make progress in Seeking. Us Seekers are still waiting for its return.
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Jermaine Vendredi
Posts: 588
2/26/2016
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@ lady ciel
Thank you!
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Schmidt
Posts: 114
2/27/2016
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lady ciel wrote:
You can change closest to - the option to break your ties is on their card. You then need the card for the faction you want to be closest to. It does cost various items but you can see what you need on the relevant cards.
There is another way to get closest to - by selling the Location of the Nadir to someone. But only four factions are willing to buy and that might not include the one one you want. Also you can only do it once.
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Jermion, definitely be aware that abandoning a faction will cost ALL of the connected with the group. So cash in beforehand.
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Kestrel Zestvim
Posts: 40
2/27/2016
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Speaking of The Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell, I've been trying to draw the Connected: The Great Game card since before the Feast, so I can progress with Ambition: Heart's Desire. I could take another option, and buy the thing with brass skulls and books, but it's frightfully expensive, and I'd been getting said card quite often before I started actually looking for it. Does this card only show up in certain parts of the city? Or am I just having a streak of bad luck?
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metasynthie
Posts: 645
2/27/2016
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It can be drawn anywhere in London proper, and you're having a streak of bad luck. As usual with bad luck in card draws, you can always improve your odds by drawing in a neighborhood without special card draws (Mahogany Hall, the Forgotten Quarter, the Labyrinth of Tigers), by thinning your deck of cards with requirements (sell off companions and pets that cause cards to appear, lower connections below 5, etc) and keeping higher-frequency cards in your hand.
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th8827
Posts: 823
2/27/2016
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Considering how valuable the Location is, I suggest doing the Heart's Desire trade for it. That trade is only available during your current step in the Ambition, and you can still do the Great Game trade later, if you want another for selling, collecting, or upgrading the Brass Embassy housing.
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Gonen
Posts: 817
2/27/2016
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th8827 is right. The location gained via Ambition is about 80% cheaper than the value of the location itself. Value of the location is 1560 echos (!) and the cost at the ambition is around 250 echos. So many choose to take that discount opportunity and buy the location from the Ambition - a one time offer that won’t return - and keep the location earned via cave of nadir. So anytime you see a very cheep opportunity for this very high value item - take advantage of it. Even if it require you postpone progress for another 3 weeks or so to gain materials.
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Kestrel Zestvim
Posts: 40
2/28/2016
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Thank you all so much! For some reason, when I did my math with the Wiki, I thought the Heart's Desire purchase was significantly higher than that--wonder where I went wrong? At any rate, that does sound preferable to selling my only Cave tip.
Hilariously, Mahogany Hall is where I'd been grinding most of that time, without success. Yet what happened as soon as I'd read your comments and made up my mind not to sell? That's right, I drew Whispers From the Surface in The University. Oh, RNG.
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Johnny Felix
Posts: 180
2/28/2016
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Can I throw in a question? Two years ago, my character got married, and received as a memento a 'Set of wedding lithographs', renamed 'Images of a wedding'. Now, I can't find those anywhere in my inventory, although the marriage is still happily intact. Was there ever an option to spend/lose those items, which I may have accidentally triggered? I can't explain how they went missing.
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Lady Taimi Felix
Posts: 202
2/28/2016
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I had a right devil of a time finding our wedding album as well, my darling, so don't feel badly. I think perhaps one of the maids relocated it during the clean-up after that pesky venge-rat assassin squad staged their armed incursion in our parlour. Ha, oh, that was a fun day, wasn't it? Anyway, check over by all the doodads and geegaws by the mantle... Goodness, we do collect many trophies during our tromping about, don't we? "A life of adventure," as promised!
[[I can't find the lithographs in my inventory either. I think they might have disappeared when FB did some rearranging of the inventory categories. The lithographs are still thankfully listed on my Mantle options though, so I suppose that's really of the most use.]]
Edit: Oh glory be. The lithographs are actually on the Scrapbook items, not the Mantle. I knew I shouldn't have opened that last bottle of '68 last night. It's made me useless today. :P
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Gail Gerrund
Posts: 18
2/28/2016
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Thanks for the help. Another question: is there any way of clearing out of undesirable lodgings? Now that I have a an advantageous address it's tedious collecting mail from the lesser flats.
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dov
Posts: 2580
2/28/2016
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Gail Gerrund wrote:
Thanks for the help. Another question: is there any way of clearing out of undesirable lodgings? Now that I have a an advantageous address it's tedious collecting mail from the lesser flats.
Not at the moment, unfortunately.
FBG have commented a *long* time ago that the ability to sell lodgings will come at some point in the future.
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Jermaine Vendredi
Posts: 588
2/28/2016
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Twice now, Jermion has wanted to accept and invitation from another player and received the message "One of you is, regrettably, in the wrong place to do that".
What kinds of locations would that refer to?
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
2/28/2016
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Jermaine Vendredi wrote:
Twice now, Jermion has wanted to accept and invitation from another player and received the message "One of you is, regrettably, in the wrong place to do that".
What kinds of locations would that refer to?
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Jermion
Menace states usually. Areas with their own card decks too, such as heists, zee voyages, the cave of nadir, and flash lays. If its not on the map of locations you can see using the travel button, odds are its out of bounds for social actions, but not always. Basically anywhere where receiving social actions might break the game.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
2/29/2016
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Though there are a few strange exceptions to social actions and areas: I discovered the hard way that it's possible to go to zee during a Moon League duel, lose K&C form and all stats, and be later stabbed out in the middle of the ocean.
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