Diptych
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2/24/2016
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Hullo, folks! We're beginning a bit of a new venture here, inspired by the fine folks at the Fallen London subreddit. Every week, we'll have a thread where folks with questions can find answers, or advice... or at least earnest encouragement! To keep these threads accessible, up-to-date, and generally peppy, I'll be closing them one week after their creation.
So, if you need to know what a quality is for, or where to earn Memories of Distant Shores, or what the difference is between the Cantigaster and a cantilever, this is the place to ask! And I hope and trust that the forum's thoroughly impressive, and sweetly-scented, collective brains will do their best to answer. I'll be closing this thread at noon GMT, Wednesday the 2nd of March.
edited by Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook on 2/24/2016
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Mr Sables
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2/24/2016
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malthaussen wrote:
Who killed Cock Robin, then?
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I killed Cock Robin!
And I'd do it again, too, if it wasn't for you pesky Londoners and your pet Heptagoat!
*shakes fist*
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dov
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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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Schmidt
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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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Lady Taimi Felix
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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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Mr I
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2/25/2016
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malthaussen wrote:
Who killed Cock Robin, then?
-- Mal
"I!" said the Cat
the Starveling Cat
"I killed Cock Robin!"
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Gonen
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2/24/2016
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Sir Joseph Marlen wrote:
On the flip side, does anyone know how best to get rid of my Revolutionaries connection without progressing the LoN? I'd prefer it to be as profitable as possible, but the main goal is to lower their connections. Any ideas?
Not profitable, but effective: Gain 4 turncoat via AotB and reset that quality using Revolutionaries. Lowering it very quickly.
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lady ciel
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2/24/2016
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I think seeking curios in the Forgotten Quarter can be quite profitable and effective at raising your Nightmares as well. The lower your watchful the quicker your Nightmares will rise, as you will fail the tougher challenges, but even with high watchful you will accumulate nightmares.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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Kaigen
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2/24/2016
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The Master wrote:
I was thinking of making a thread for this, but now that this exists...
I need a way to advance liberation of the night that still provides some profit, I know you can use some items to get it but that doesn't really give me much, am I stuck with this option? Grinding Connected: Revolutionaries in the Forgotten Quarter and cashing it in using Call in Favours in the Flit is reasonably profitable even taking the suspicion into account, but it does require you to draw the right opportunity card in the right place, so it's not grindable.
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metasynthie
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2/24/2016
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th8827 wrote:
What is the fastest/easiest way to grind up each of the quirks?
That is a complex enough question that it might take a guide to answer it! It depends on how high you want to raise them [5/10/15] and whether you're just going for one or multiple quirks, since raising one will often lower another. And some can only be raised beteen 10 and 12 via non-repeatable means. Are you thinking of a particular quirk, or wondering how to grind all of them up to 5, or 10? (15 I think can only be done on new characters at this point.)
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metasynthie
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2/25/2016
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Short answers...
Austere: loop though the first half of the Iron Republic repeatedly
Hedonist: have debauched affairs in Court, at the University (with the Summerset Provost), or with the Melancholy Curate & sister; if those are all locked, pay Fate to play croquet with a Deviless or wait for the Feast of the Exceptional Rose and enjoy the decadence at Mrs. Plenty's
Heartless: betray the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer by borrowing moon-pearls from her; or, be a Spirifer and sell souls to Hell; or, let a Noman die carelessly
Ruthless: let a Noman die and fight it in its final moments ("wait with a bucket")
Subtle: let a Noman die and go wait on a park bench while it dies
Steadfast: there's a grindable option partway through the Velocipede Squad fate-locked story; or you can raise Criminals Renown very high with an Old Bone Skeleton Key
Magnanimous: be a Shepherd of Souls and turn in souls & infernal contracts together; or let a Noman die and be nice to it
Melancholy: huff Tears of the Bazaar
Everything else is either non-repeatable (like say, many of the Making Your Name gates when those qualities go up, or climactic points in Ambition stories, Tales of the University, etc) or has other problems.
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Rupho Schartenhauer
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2/25/2016
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th8827 wrote:
Well... My immediate need is Ruthless to 8 (for something Fate locked), and I don't have a Noman.
I was advised to hire clay laborers, but I was hoping that there were other, less expensive options.
- Past that, repeatedly visit Mutton Island to pick up the quality that lets you "Blackmail Mrs Plenty" in London...
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Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
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2/24/2016
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Sir Joseph Marlen wrote:
Also, what about nightmares? What are the best ways to raise nightmares that can be somewhat profitable or beneficial (such as raising dreams or getting exhibition supplies)? Forgotten Quarter; Seek Curios and Secrets (Airs dependent) or use Appalling Secrets for Expedition Supplies. (Reference.)
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TheThirdPolice
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2/24/2016
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I have to make up for these weak-in-the-knees turncoats. What's the fastest way to advance the Liberation of Night?
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Sara Hysaro
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2/24/2016
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The fastest way is probably by converting Memories of Light since you can side convert your other resources into Luminosity. After you're through with Memories of Light (or whenever you have enough) you can convert the Mourning Candles for even more points until you hit the LoN cap.
Edit: Actually, I think even the lowest tiers of Luminosity raise LoN now, so using those would probably be your best bet.
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The Master
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2/24/2016
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
The fastest way is probably by converting Memories of Light since you can side convert your other resources into Luminosity. After you're through with Memories of Light (or whenever you have enough) you can convert the Mourning Candles for even more points until you hit the LoN cap.
Edit: Actually, I think even the lowest tiers of Luminosity raise LoN now, so using those would probably be your best bet.
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edited by Sara Hysaro on 2/24/2016
Yes, the lowest tier does increase LoN, you can farm it in unfinisehd business in ladybone road and get it to 50 in probably about a week.
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No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
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Mr Sables
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2/25/2016
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Gail Gerrund wrote:
I got Master Thief up to five recently, and also performed a grand seance for War of Illusions. Both told me that they would open up new story branches, but I'm not seeing anything popping up. Have I missed something.
Recently, the system was changed somewhat . . .
Essentially, the game now works on a sort of 'tier' system; each stat has a 'making your name' quality, and you unlock a point of this quality by achieving certain 'checks', and eventually you can get as high as 7 in each stat. The 'Master Thief' is one of these checks; once you hit 5, you can move on to the next part of 'making your name'. The thing is that older players were given a page to say where they were in the game, so that they could essentially set their own progress . . . so if you'd moved on much farther than the 'master thief', so you could tell it so, and forgo grinding it up to 5.
This brings me to my guess that your "A Name Whispered in Darkness" (under the 'story' section of 'Myself') is probably quite high, enough so that achieving these two things doesn't actually unlock anything new . . . the 'will unlock new stories' is basically there for newer players that need this quality to unlock stories, as opposed to people way past the check.
(I could be wrong, but it's something to look at) 
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Zero
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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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lady ciel
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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.
spoiler tag is [ spoiler ] text [ / spoiler ] (without the spaces
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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Jermaine Vendredi
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3/2/2016
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re: Journal entries
Does anyone else find that if the heading of the storylet text begins with quotation marks (or ends with ellipsis plus quotation marks, or both) it fails to transfer to the dialogue box and a heading has to be added manually?
Not that Jermion doesn't appreciate the opportunity to exercise his creative, um, muscles...
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Corran
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3/2/2016
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This is unfortunately a long standing bug with a low priority on the fix list.
Jermaine Vendredi wrote:
re: Journal entries
Does anyone else find that if the heading of the storylet text begins with quotation marks (or ends with ellipsis plus quotation marks, or both) it fails to transfer to the dialogue box and a heading has to be added manually?
Not that Jermion doesn't appreciate the opportunity to exercise his creative, um, muscles...
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Gonen
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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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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness.
The long journey to eccentricity:
On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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