Jean Rowley
Posts: 28
8/30/2016
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So I just decided to take the Keen-Eyed Lapidary up on her offer to make a bejewelled Cane. I was short 2 venom rubies and 3 sapphires, so I went shroom-hopping for the venom rubies and then lizard-throwing at the Carnival for the sapphires. In the process of garnering three sapphires, I probably used 40 turns or so and gained 22 sulky bats...
[spoiler] And the bejewelled cane isn't that great anyway... [/spoiler]
10/10 would do again.
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Jean Rowley, a young scholar and only daughter, taking refuge in the Neath.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Jean~Rowley
alt: Isaac Albergower, a private tutor to society families, and confident swordsman http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Isaac~Albergower
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Snado
Posts: 67
8/30/2016
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when you die, you get to meet the boatman. so i intentionally die just to meet him.
here is how i imagined the boatman
from the picture above. i imagined him as a dutiful man who's just doing his job. he asks no question and will do anything the passenger want (other than going back to the living). he also looks like a badass and only sends the passenger to the dead world. no hell no heaven, the netherworld. he has no connections and he only does things what he feels right.
thats how i imagined the boatman. so i gazed into a mirror and die.
guess what ?. im playing the mobile version. he's creepy.
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it doesnt help when you fail a dice game. he grins ALL the way BACK to his head. creepy[/spoiler]
still worth it because i got the courier of the dead story.
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Passionario
Posts: 777
8/31/2016
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(And at the next Feast, I plan to raise it to 77 all over again)
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Passion: Profile, Appearance
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
9/1/2016
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Well, I play this game called Fallen London...
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
9/1/2016
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I stick to sensible endeavours.
My goodness, I need to get back to playing. My zee voyage is already longer than an actual Victorian would take to cross the Atlantic.
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Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Diptych
Administrator
Posts: 3493
8/30/2016
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I ground for an Impossible Theorem, just 'cause I'm a fan of contradictory truths in general, and thought it would be a lark to have one of my own. I was right.
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Barse
Posts: 706
8/30/2016
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The most recent pointless thing I did was obtain 777 Sun-Stamped Mirrorcatch Boxes for my mantle, and right now I'm working on maxing out Advancing the Liberation of Night.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
8/30/2016
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Seeking purely to destroy my lodgings- i believe i will have spent 6000 echoes minimum before I actually get to beau's candle.
no regrets no regrets no regrets.
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I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters.
On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning.
Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Dean Lee
Posts: 133
9/1/2016
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collated 77 tomes of each type of research. Realizing that I could theoretically get the money for an overgoat exclusively from selling pages or from selling the resulting collated volumes.
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Research progress:
77 volumes of cryptopaleontoligy
77 volumes of Prelapsarian archeology
77 volumes of theosophistry.
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Dandy Rumplestuff
Posts: 3
9/1/2016
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I'm currently building up my casing to have 100% in robbing the Brass Embassy. Then selling the souls back to Hell's Fence in bulk. Rinse, repeat. Not because it's the most efficient use of my time, but because I find it amusing to be more underhanded and evil than the Devils themselves. (Plus I needed to grind some Shadowy.)
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
9/1/2016
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I spent around a week camped in Watchmaker's Hill trying to become An Annoyance to Jack. Upon further reflection, maybe attracting the attention of an immortal, body-hopping, knife-wielding serial killer is not actually a good idea, even aside from the time investment. On the other hand... actually that hand was lost in the conflict.
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
8/30/2016
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Bringing Making Use of Bats to 44 (I'm almost at 50, yay!) and keeping all Sulky Bats. It doesn't give me any profit (because I'm not cashing it in); it's just an enormous action sink (1275 actions) just to have the bragging rights to say that I have an army of well-trained and efficient messenger bats.
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"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix
My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to:
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Parvorus
Posts: 42
9/4/2016
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For absolutely no good, sane or comprehensible reason, Parvorus is grinding "Freed of the Name".
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th8827
Posts: 823
8/30/2016
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I ground Empire Kingmaker to 77 (and then purposely got Turncoat 4) and Nevercold Brass Slivers to 77777 for my mantelpiece.Just because. I plan to stay nice and warm once I go North.
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Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Dudebro Pyro
Posts: 756
8/30/2016
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How about bringing Casing all the way up to 57, to be able to steal premises at the bazaar all in one go.
I am going to literally steal the bazaar (or at least a small part of it)!
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Shadowcthuhlu
Posts: 1557
8/30/2016
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Grinding my connected urchins with the speak softly option. 202 and counting. . .
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Hotshot Blackburn
Posts: 110
8/31/2016
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Grinding out 900 echoes (a small amount in the grand scheme of things, but it seemed long at the time) to purchase 77 sorrow-spiders solely so I could RP growing a spider-council under my lodgings.
It's not finished though, really. Once I get 8096 echoes...well, then it'll be time to buy 700 more.
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Passionario
Posts: 777
9/2/2016
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Optimatum wrote:
It's not as painful as you might expect. Iirc it didn't involve any stat-loss at all, just a lot of Fate. Legendary Charismas can have a brief romantic interlude with Lilac during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, which gives one level of Irrigo, so paying to reset the conversation over and over can result in the above. If my math is right it would take 200 Fate, down to 170 if first visiting the Nadir and leaving with Irrigo at least 9.
Replaying the conversation costs 10 Fate, and success gives 1 point of Irrigo.
So it's a minimum of 660 Fate to hit 77 (more if you fail some of those Persuasive challenges or decide to explore other dialogue branches), assuming that you first visit the Nadir and leave with Irrigo 11 (picking a 2-point gain option when at 9). The conversation isn't 0-action, either - it took me almost a week to hit the target.
(The story behind it getting and losing that Irrigo can be found here and here, respectively)
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Ysrthgrathe
Posts: 87
9/3/2016
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Just look at my mantelpiece and my scrapbook.
I am also in the preposterous possession of 23 cryptobotanical rosettes, 55 tiny cave fishes and 2222 volumes of collated research
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Art Shrival
Posts: 51
9/4/2016
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One of my characters has never gone on a Zee-Voyage or played the Flint storyline or left Court all so they could grind Fascinating... to 100 for the sole purpose of feeling a little bit more desirable.
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An Individual
Posts: 589
8/30/2016
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My Alt collected a total of 41 eyeless skulls over many months of grinding Seeking Curios in the Forgotten Quarter only to convert them all to Ray Drenched Cinders and sell them when Seeking returned as part of buying a goat. And then it immediately halved it's watchful thanks to a miss click which negated the whole point of the sale. The goal was to get to 77 but alas the Northward call was too strong.
On my main account, I spent several years worth of collected coffee and feasts in the mad rush to Courier's Footprint just so I wouldn't have to wait for a second mood card. And it's not like SotC 21 does anything for you. There's also that Noman tattoo. And you don't want to know what I went through to find that eggshell on my mantelpiece.
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The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away.
Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help.
Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting.
Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint.
Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road.
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Snado
Posts: 67
8/30/2016
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i got a memory of light. i decided to intentionally go insane to visit the mirror marches mainly to listen to the music and capture the location image. i still have yet to experience most of the march.
well, i want to at least go to every menace area once. is going to the state of some confusion worth it ?. i dont care about my dream qualities
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
8/30/2016
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absimiliard wrote:
I have to admit to some temptation to that myself Grenem. It's the only way to get rid of them isn't it? I mean, it's a terrible reason to Seek .... or is it .....
It is the only way to get rid of them. however, unless you're willing to spend ~1000 echoes per effective standard card removed, you probably would be better off waiting for selling them to become viable. Even at the cheapest, you'll need to both die and go to jail seven times, stain your soul seven times- costing about 110 echoes in laudnaum- spend at least 98 actions and 910 echoes on betrayals- assuming you only betray real players- or i suppose you could exclusively betray nomen, but that'd add up fast. And that route would involve about 20 weeks of waiting, so it'd be too late to pull that off and get a christmas lodging. [not to mention that you'd need to repurchase at least one lodging. premises at the bazaar would be a good place to start, along with whatever low-level lodgings appeal to you.. however, you'd need to go with a 4-card deck until christmas, which would not be pleasant or trivial.]
The only reason I'm bothering is because I value optimization more than its inherent value. While Destroying these lodgings would doubtless pay off in the long run, the wait would be large enough that it's likely- almost certain- that it's not actually going to pay off in any substantial way, insofar as echoes are concerned, at least.
also, for a more minor one- getting a criminal record to the highest possible number for that quality. [the number the number the number the number]
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I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters.
On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning.
Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Amelia Syrus
Posts: 626
8/30/2016
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I thought this thread was about in general pointless activities until I read the responses and noticed where this thread was. SO I'll list a few of the things I have done in Fallen London out of boredom or lost on what to do next:
- Stolen from the Bazaar to purposely raise Master Thief above 10. Mostly to see how far I can raise this before the game says no more or if it ever will.
- Purposely went through the Mirror Marshes to see what it was like. Then kept raising Nightmares because I really liked some of the flavor text for the place.
- Did the same thing for the Royal Beth after hearing about it from a friend, though I didn't try to purposely keep Nightmares high.
- Stayed a little longer out at Zee to see what kind of Troubled Water opportunity cards would appear.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
8/30/2016
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Boatman's Opponant 40 and 30 Searing Enigmas (for an Impossible Theorem) all before buying an Overgoat. A really terrible idea (particularly since I've ended up selling the Enigmas for the goat)
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
8/30/2016
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I have to admit to some temptation to that myself Grenem. It's the only way to get rid of them isn't it? I mean, it's a terrible reason to Seek .... or is it .....
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Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
8/30/2016
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Grenem wrote:
Seeking purely to destroy my lodgings- i believe i will have spent 6000 echoes minimum before I actually get to beau's candle.
no regrets no regrets no regrets.
edited by Grenem on 8/30/2016
I'm doing the same, plus I plan on sacrificing seven Fluke-cores for Cerise because Science. I'm also trying to grind for Cider before I visit Winking Isle, but Science comes first.
(I hope that K&C returns before Christmas so I can get those lodgings back for that profitable card)
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sosisqua
Posts: 120
8/30/2016
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Dudebro Pyro wrote:
bringing Casing all the way up to 57
Quite an achievement! Closest i came to you is 50 during my quest for mysteries for a room at Beth
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lazy%20Citizen is LOITERING with everyone.
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Barse
Posts: 706
9/2/2016
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Somehow forgot about this in my last post.
edited by Barselaar on 9/2/2016
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
9/1/2016
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My alt, Delmar Tramontane, has made 7 Classic Stories, and my other alt, Madison Lavery, is working up to 10,000 Empire's Kingmaker.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
9/1/2016
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Matthew Enigma wrote:
Passionario wrote:
(And at the next Feast, I plan to raise it to 77 all over again)
edited by Passionario on 8/31/2016
...how?!?
ps: Wow that must have hurt! But, on the other hand, seeking can halve your watchful, so it wasn't so bad in the grand scheme of things.
ps2: Did anybody say you're awesome for doing this? Because you're awesome for doing this.
It's not as painful as you might expect. Iirc it didn't involve any stat-loss at all, just a lot of Fate. Legendary Charismas can have a brief romantic interlude with Lilac during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, which gives one level of Irrigo, so paying to reset the conversation over and over can result in the above. If my math is right it would take 200 Fate, down to 170 if first visiting the Nadir and leaving with Irrigo at least 9.
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Vasu Mishra
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8/31/2016
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Hands down, coveting two London street signs and selling the rest for the expressed purpose that they are for Portobello Road and Marleybone Street. Why? No reason.
As for a scheme that is more or less pointless, I plan to begin collecting ALL the lodgings. No real reason. I just want my character to have his collection of places to relax and reside in. Also, I still can't decide whether to get a shop at the Bazaar, a Suite in the Royal Beth, or a guest room in the Embassy so I decided to just go for ALL of them!
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folklore364
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9/1/2016
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I've been working on gathering all the lodgings and eventually all the various pets you can find. I've also been grinding to get a fluke's core.
Most pointless was wasting a horse head amulet on trying to deliberatly visit the boatmen for a chat.
Also attempting to murder Fedducci multiple times. The failed visit to the boatman was not part of that last bit.
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8/31/2016
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Thanks to my OCD, I feel compelled to only buy items at the Bazaar and its sidestreets, when there is no other way. For everything else, I resort to grinding or trust to the RNG. When my ambition asked for a patent scrutinizer, I began collecting mourning candles one trip to the tomb-colonies at a time, before I had enough to upconvert. All the advanced objects, I had to pick them up here and there. I have to say, it has worked fine so far.
Apart from those d___ned Books of Hidden Bodies, that is.
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Matthew Enigma
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8/31/2016
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Passionario wrote:
(And at the next Feast, I plan to raise it to 77 all over again)
edited by Passionario on 8/31/2016
...how?!?
ps: Wow that must have hurt! But, on the other hand, seeking can halve your watchful, so it wasn't so bad in the grand scheme of things.
ps2: Did anybody say you're awesome for doing this? Because you're awesome for doing this.
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tsukinofaerii
Posts: 56
9/2/2016
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Well, I'm a Seeker. 
But more specifically, I recently sped through fourteen levels of Seeking in only a few days, using no small amount of Fate on action refreshes, in order to pay yet more Fate to replace my perfectly good Destiny with Torment at the Festival. All because I got a hair to have my Destiny match my destiny, the Festival was nearly over and I didn't want to wait for Sacksmas.
The candle was a nice perk, though.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
9/2/2016
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Just broke 950 for Connected: The Duchess.
Nice! I'm only at around 500 Duchess myself because I keep doing heists, and using up that Connected quality keeps the cats from turning me in. :-)
I suppose my most ridiculous activity has been getting my Connected: the Church over 1600.
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Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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9/4/2016
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
squiggle wrote:
Just broke 950 for Connected: The Duchess.
Nice! I'm only at around 500 Duchess myself because I keep doing heists, and using up that Connected quality keeps the cats from turning me in. :-)
I suppose my most ridiculous activity has been getting my Connected: the Church over 1600.
1600? How...
Are you exceptionally well acquainted with literature on the Anchoress or did you construct your own church somewhere entirely out of candles? I can't even fathom--
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