Diptych
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9/19/2016
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O Why do you wither and wamble?
Why do you drumble and drove?
For 'tis the Monday of questions
And here are the answers I plove.
(Weekly questions; traditional.)
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Wiwo
Posts: 365
9/22/2016
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Harlocke wrote:
What's the EPA of writing poems/novels in court?
Well first, you'll spend 1 action to select a poem or a novel.
Since you can't Indulge yourself with the lead when writing poems and novels, you'll have to Cloister yourself and work or similar (there are several equivalents if you prefer the flavor).
The rare success on the Inspired options at court is believed to be 10%, which means that each action is expected to give you (10*.9+20*.1)=11cp of Inspired.
You need to hit 34 Inspired, which is 595 CP (yikes!). So we expect that you'll be slaving away for 595/11=54.09 actions on average.
Then you'll need 1 action to finish your masterpiece and present it to the court.
At that point, you'll earn 60E in goods, 25 CP of Bohemians rep (roughly .5E in value), and... something else. Let's assume you've chosen to write a Patriotic Adventure since Docks Favours are pretty good either turned in directly or used to fuel Forgotten Quarter Expeditions. There are a LOT of variables which determine the exact EPA of FQ Expeditions themselves and I need to limit my scope here, so let's just say you turn them in directly and note that using them in the FQ will improve this EPA.
So you've gotten 1-3 Docks Favours (2 on average), which will take 1 action each to earn 4.2E in Glim when you turn them in at Wolfstack.
Next, you'll start the cycle over. Every 4 cycles, you'll be Called to the office and need to Refuse the Veteran Privy Counselor. So that represents 2/4=.5 extra actions per cycle.
So summing up, we have 1 action to choose your work + 54.09 actions to become sufficiently inspired + 1 action to finish your masterpiece + 2 actions to turn in your Docks favours + .5 actions of telling the VPC to go soak his head = 58.59 actions on average to earn 60 +.5 + 8.4 = 68.9 echoes. Our resulting rate of earnings is 68.9/58.59=1.18EPA.
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Wiwo. Almost certainly not a squid in a cunningly tailored suit. Surely.
 Care for some cider? Here's how to ask me for some. Strange pranks strongly preferred.
Care to pet a Heptagoat? Too bad. It doesn't do anything (probably).
I'm a Correspondent and would be delighted to lecture at your orphanage.
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Sara Hysaro
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9/21/2016
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You need to be able to get up to modified 200 Watchful to reach the requisite 77 FaM to start raising it via luck checks.
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Passionario
Posts: 777
9/22/2016
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The Master wrote:
Buy some Nikolas & Sons instant ablution absolution, kiss it's lips, go to your "myself" tab and drink some of it if you still can, only drink enough to get you to like 7 scandal and then reduce it in normal ways because the scandal reduction on this is pretty low.
Please don't drink the Instant Ablution Solution. It's a household cleaning product, not a beverage.
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Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending
Passion: Profile, Appearance
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The Master
Posts: 804
9/22/2016
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Passionario wrote:
The Master wrote:
Buy some Nikolas & Sons instant ablution absolution, kiss it's lips, go to your "myself" tab and drink some of it if you still can, only drink enough to get you to like 7 scandal and then reduce it in normal ways because the scandal reduction on this is pretty low.
Please don't drink the Instant Ablution Solution. It's a household cleaning product, not a beverage.
I think it may be too late for the poor fella...lucky me my criminal record was always too high to try it.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking
A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath.
No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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Wiwo
Posts: 365
9/22/2016
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Yes. The Royal Beth opp card is profitable if you're a high-shadowy spirifer and the Bazaar's is profitable if you're high persuasive. The Brass Embassy opp card isn't good for much other than acquiring a couple of companions for fate.
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Wiwo. Almost certainly not a squid in a cunningly tailored suit. Surely.
Care for some cider? Here's how to ask me for some. Strange pranks strongly preferred.
Care to pet a Heptagoat? Too bad. It doesn't do anything (probably).
I'm a Correspondent and would be delighted to lecture at your orphanage.
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Vexpont
Posts: 137
9/22/2016
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Passionario wrote:
Please don't drink the Instant Ablution Solution. It's a household cleaning product, not a beverage.
Now you tell me.
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Dangerous to my enemies; loyal to my friends. Not too handy at telling the difference.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
9/22/2016
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Mamick wrote:
Is there a reason to favour one 4-card lodging over another? I have enough Ancient Mysteries to get one now.
The beth is the cheapest to upgrade at christmas, IIRC, and the bazaar is the hardest, but the bazaar offers an actually good card, (hard persuasive challenge with a 2 echo and 4 scrap payout on success.) while the beth's card is only good if [fate-locked].
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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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Parelle
Posts: 1084
9/21/2016
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For Late Game mood use consider:
- saving up Someone is Coming and going on a Rat robbing spree
- Frost Moth catching if you really just want a pile of wax
- the handful of Nadir cards with high skill checks
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Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous.
pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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The Master
Posts: 804
9/21/2016
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Skinnyman wrote:
Parelle wrote:
For Late Game mood use consider:
- saving up Someone is Coming and going on a Rat robbing spree
- Frost Moth catching if you really just want a pile of wax
- the handful of Nadir cards with high skill checks
Number 1 and 3 are the options I was thinking of, but I don't get the Frost Moth part.
You can either hunt rats or frost moths in watchmakers hills, the reward for both increases the higher your dangerous is.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking
A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath.
No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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Wiwo
Posts: 365
9/21/2016
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Post in this thread and an eligible prior Kickstarter backer will be along shortly to send you an invitation. The invitation will open up a new storylet for you in the Forgotten Quarter. You'll expend your invitation getting into the Temple club but you can stay as long as you like. You'll need another invitation to get back in in the future.
I'm about 80% sure that's right, but it's been quite some time. Anybody care to correct?
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Wiwo. Almost certainly not a squid in a cunningly tailored suit. Surely.
Care for some cider? Here's how to ask me for some. Strange pranks strongly preferred.
Care to pet a Heptagoat? Too bad. It doesn't do anything (probably).
I'm a Correspondent and would be delighted to lecture at your orphanage.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
9/23/2016
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At the moment of draw.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/sunnytime
A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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earthbourn
Posts: 149
9/25/2016
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Is there any word on when marriages to other players will return? (Extraneous information, but I recently got engaged IRL and I was hoping to do the same with my fiance in FL.)
edited by earthbourn on 9/25/2016
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Tenterhook - A sun-seared creature learning to be human.
The Mechanist, L. - Found what she was looking for. Gone now.
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The Master
Posts: 804
9/26/2016
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Grenem wrote:
what's the earliest method to get unaccountably peckish? I know that the bats-and-cats has a good one if you have a starvling, but i'd like one that shows up earlier- do any exist?
You can ask to constantly send starveling cats and back to someone or to your alt from your main, can't really think of anything else at the top of my head.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking
A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath.
No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
9/20/2016
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Skinnyman wrote:
Grenem wrote:
*snip*
Otherwise, sideconversions are probably a good way to speed things up. there are a lot of exceptional epa (see the repentant forger, with his up-to-4 echoes in clues cards) card-based sources of cryptic clues, and even after you go through the trouble of upcrafting it's still worth doing.
Upcrafting CCs into ToT!! followed by Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe conversion?
I'll prefer to stick to Velocipede in this case as my 36k CC are reserved to check the Rare Success chance from A bag of low quality diamonds.
Didn't sell CCs nor Airag for Goat, but I only have 7 bottles atm; decided pretty late that I'll try for a Crimson Book this year!
EDIT: And, as usual, thanks, Grenem!
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Yes, as well as any other useless 50+ half-echo item stockpiles. I don't think they're all faster than just grinding wine, but many would be.
Alternatively, if you're not in a rush, when snow falls in december, you could stockpile night-whispers and storm threnodies, and use the urchins to get pails of lacre, and the ToL in the nadir to get a few tears that way. It's quite expensive, but it's a nice shortcut, if you have a handful of the requisite items. I know I managed to get at least 5 such vials before christmas. Snow doesn't melt until late january, practically febuary. Of course, that only would work if the club doesn't show up this year until post-christmas, in which case we wouldn't have seen them this year! In other words, it's only a viable plan if you are fine with waiting another year, or assume the devs would be so cruel as to not have the story appear at all this year- {at which point getting it for next year starts to sound fishy too!}
edited by Grenem on 9/20/2016
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Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza
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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dov
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9/20/2016
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Skinnyman wrote:
my 36k CC are reserved to check the Rare Success chance from A bag of low quality diamonds.
If it helps, I've converted 272,000 CC into diamonds (1360 conversions) and got the rare success 73 times, which is 5.37%.
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