DonaghyLogan
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1/29/2017
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As an eager adopter of Fallen London pets and companions, I've been working toward gathering one of each of the various types of raven available from the Dazed Raven Advisor evolution. Has anyone else attempted this? Any ideas for raven names? My Mystic Raven Advisor is called Lenore (because, of course), but I'm not sure what I'll name my Devious Raven Advisor when he returns from his final evolution.
More generally, what advice do my fellow Neath-dwellers have regarding collecting Companions?
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Siankan
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1/29/2017
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I don't know if anyone has attempted to get all the possible ravens at once, at least independently (as opposed to being part of a collect-'em-all companion plan). I think it's an excellent endeavor, and I salute you. Just... make sure they're all housebroken.
For names: I myself went th Huginn and Muninn route, though as it turns out, I got a mynah first and decided to name her Muninn, in the name of my own amusement. When I did eventually pick up a raven he got named Huginn, of course, and I decided I liked the pair better than the traditional salt-and-pepper pairing, so Huginn and Muninn they stay.
On companions: If you do decide to build a full Neathy menagerie, it is impossible to have all companions at once; there are several mutually-exclusive sets out there. The connected pets from Watchmaker's Hill are obvious; less obvious are the Salt Weasel/Rubbery Euphonium/Haunted-Looking Dog triad. If you don't have one of the latter group, do some research ahead and choose carefully; they can be sold, which will allow you to get a different one, but chasing the opportunity card *twice* is a particular pain. Rare companions are thick on the ground at certain seasons, so researching beforehand what you're wanting and what you'll probably need going in (barring changes from Failbetter, of course) will save you a mort of frustration.
Also, (unless you like surprises) it's helpful to know which companions add opportunity cards in your deck, whether you want to seek these or avoid them. Some companions have conflict cards, too, either with each other or with other pieces of equipment. This too is something to keep in mind.
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MidnightVoyager
Posts: 858
1/31/2017
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DonaghyLogan wrote:
As an eager adopter of Fallen London pets and companions, I've been working toward gathering one of each of the various types of raven available from the Dazed Raven Advisor evolution. Has anyone else attempted this? Any ideas for raven names? My Mystic Raven Advisor is called Lenore (because, of course), but I'm not sure what I'll name my Devious Raven Advisor when he returns from his final evolution.
More generally, what advice do my fellow Neath-dwellers have regarding collecting Companions?
I have a problem.
If you don't have a panther kitten, I just had a litter, if you'd like one?
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Hotshot Blackburn
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As a companion-collector myself with a bad need to name all my companions in the X, (Descriptive) (Title) format, I feel your pain and your joy. My rag-tag band of revolutionaries and beasts are too big to list in one go, but the one I am most proud of is also my most pointless and least 'canon':
As far as collecting companions goes, let me also say that (in addition to the Rose Feast) to be watchful for a future Mayoral Election sometime in the summer (northern hemisphere) as the 2015 one had several unique companions depending on which candidate you backed (as well as a neutral companion) - all but the first (if you chose a companion) were Fate-purchased only and required switching between candidates. No idea whether or not previous companions will be available for purchase in future elections, so make sure and snap them up if it doesn't look like they will be! I didn't get the caricature artist myself, but I was pretty happy picking up Aj Tenamit Itzamatul, Copper Republican (Reactionary Tomb-Colonist), Madame Elizabeth, Militant Suffragist (Redoubtable Dame-Harbinger), and Sister Aziza, Unfettered Reformer (Enfranchised Anchoress).
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Kukapetal
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2/15/2017
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Sounds like nobody can ever get a moment's peace around there :P
My character's pets all sleep in his room, but the humans have their own rooms, although some of them have to share. There's one room for men, one for women, one for urchins, one for people with unknown genders (hope the Cat's Chiefest Claw has learned some rubberyspeak so they don't get too lonely :P ), one for Devils (it's the room in the znail zhell that originally housed the snail's butt, because Fleshy hates devils), one for the Firebrand (because the boss being in love with you always gets you special privileges :P ), a guest room in case Cheeryman or Mrs. Plenty want to visit, and an old dog bed down in the basement for the former Provost of Summerset because he's a very stupid man who actually thought going home during the last Feast with the guy whose career he ruined was a good idea.
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The Master
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1/29/2017
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Just collecting pets? You can't just do that, if you are going to be a collector you must follow the true path of a collector, collect everything! Destroy yourself to collect things! Seek the Name for the items as a true collector would, destroy your wallet and make it cry!
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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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The Master
Posts: 804
1/30/2017
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My name picking abilities are so horrible that I honestly think a dog given a keyboard could do a better job(I actually named my haunted dog Dug ages ago, that taught me a lesson to never try to make original names), I don't even want to imagine the ways my ravens would commit suicide if they saw what names I would give them.
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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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Siankan
Posts: 1048
1/30/2017
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DonaghyLogan wrote:
Siankan: I'm most interested in the animal companions, but the human(ish) ones can be quite fun as well. Particularly a couple (Well-Scrubbed Urchin, Esoteric Accomplice) I acquired this past Hallowmas! What about you?
I am somewhat interested in both; it's been a joy to watch my unusual little household grow. Right now the chief members of the house are myself; Ondine, my accomplice and first companion; Brother Justus, my pious henchman; Orlando, a well-scrubbed urchin; Algernon, the L.B. bandit who tried to invade my place; a chatty rat named Polonius; and the aforementioned Huginn and Muninn. There's also an Araby fighting-weasel named Saladin, Chryses the goldfish, Midnight the Parabolan panther kitten, and a stable of messenger-bats that are mostly called Here-Shut-Up-And-Take-This.
That reminds me: Since you're interested in companions, be sure to pop over to the Panther Kitten Adoption Agency. Kade Carrion says she doesn't have a queue right now, so you'd be well-positioned to get one as soon as she has some available. Or you could just put your name down on the Agency thread and you might get one from someone else first. A Parabolan kitten won't help you stat-wise (+3 Persuasive, +1 Bizarre, so less than what you've already mentioned here), but for a true companion collector, they are a must.
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I don't even want to imagine the ways my ravens would commit suicide if they saw what names I would give them. There's always the tried-and-true method of grabbing a random book, flipping pages until you find a proper noun, and then applying that as your companion's new name. It will, at the very least, prove interesting (unless you chose a math textbook, but that one's on you).
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DonaghyLogan
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1/30/2017
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Siankan, I love your companions' names! Especially Polonius for the talkative rat (I agree, Kukapetal, what a brilliant allusion!) and Algernon for the bandit :0)
My household is crammed with an entire Scuttering Squad (known as the Shamskies), Fitzhugh the working rat, Igor the devious henchman, Fitsroy the bandit chief, Windermere the lucky weasel (with some extras for the Urchins), Aristippus the reprehensible lizard, Vlad the sulky bat, Vincent the cheerful goldfish, Vespertilio the bat with attitude, Corleone the Araby fighting-weasel, Fitzwilliam the talkative rat, Elvira the albino rat (I guess the girls don't use a fitz-), Leucon the haunted dog, Lenore the mystic raven, Yetl the devious raven, Oberon the tomb-lion, Ciaran the hungover terrier, Arabella the canny costermonger, a rampaging gang of my readers known as The Society for Purportedly Hopeless Cases, Pangur Ban the Parabolan kitten, Imogen the esoteric accomplice, Arthur Robin the well-scrubbed urchin, Anthony the haunted goldfish, and Ludovica the extravagantly-titled tigress.
Thank goodness I have plenty of properties! My suite at the Royal Bethlehem may be large, but it's not THAT large! (Also, I'm not sure that I want the scuttering squad anywhere near my other companions - bad influence and all that.)
I've already got a Parabolan kitten. I only just found out about him a few days ago, though, so you were completely right to proffer the advice :0)
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
1/31/2017
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Pangur Ban! That one made me smile the most - though it's pretty ironic for such a darkly-shaded cat.
I'm glad you guys like Polonius. This is what you get for letting an English professor play the game. O Although I certainly don't want to lose him, if he does get it while investigating the Big Rat, at least I know what his last word will be.
I suppose I should've mentioned my own rampaging gang of readers. My stories tend to involve mystical voyages that would make Jules Verne happy (if Verne happened to be in the Unterzee), so said rampaging gang is known as the Hesperidean Biblophilic Society. Ondine is the president. (There's already the euphonium, but unless it starts to show sentience all of a sudden, I'm not really counting it.) I am hoping a certain midnight matriarch will make her home her eventually; I'm not absolutely sure what her name will be, but I'm leaning toward the straightforward Bast.
So, confession time: I plan out the details of my Neathy existence in far too much detail. When I lived above a bookshop, only Orlando (they call him Landy, and it annoys him) lived with me. Ondine had a guest room, and Brother Justus a pallet in the garret, but their full-time abodes were elsewhere. (In Bro. Justus's case, this was my old cottage on Watchmaker's Hill.) When I bought the old S.S. Sirene I moved everyone there, and that is also where Algernon ended up coming to us. The old cottage got abandoned to a new tenant of the green variety. Now I'm in a townhouse with room for everyone (or at least when I'm not retired to a giant zhell), but Bro. Justus tends to prefer the seclusion of the Sirene most of the time. Algernon stays with him, in the name of irony, and both of them are in charge of giving the bats their sodding crickets. (There may also be a list somewhere of where I store all of my possessions, down to the last lump of beeswax.)
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Kukapetal
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1/29/2017
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I have all the Ravens (excluding the bandaged raven connected pet), and they were fairly easy to get. Some of the items you need to evolve them are a little costly, but nothing that will break the bank.
I named my first Raven "Flagg" after the villain from "The Stand," and decided to name all the others after characters from the book as well. The black ones are named after villains and the white ones after good guys :P
Anyway, glad to meet another companion collector! The advice you've gotten so far is good, and I don't have much to add other than to point out a couple other sources of mutually exclusive companions. One is via your Profession. Some (but not all) professions give you a companion, however you can only have one job at a time and you lose your companion if you change jobs. So that's something to take into consideration when choosing a profession and deciding how far you want to advance in it.
The other is via your Ambition. If you haven't chosen an Ambition yet and want as many companions as possible, you'll want to choose either Bag a Legend or Heart's Desire, as they each give you a unique companion (Half-Wild Mandrake and Cardsharp Monkey). The other two Ambitions don't give you companions (although they probably give you other unique items).
Like another person said, festivals are good places to get companions and another good place in when you start breeding monsters in the Labyrinth of Tigers, You'll end up with nine pretty cool monsters to call your own (plus a horse in the transportation section) and five of them have opportunity cards which can be useful.
Best of luck and happy hunting!
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
1/30/2017
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DonaghyLogan wrote:
I lucked into obtaining the Haunted-Looking Dog a while back, who'd be my first choice anyway.
I too got lucky in this regard, acquiring a Rubbery Euphonium within my first week or two of playing. I am assembling a collection of Neathy instruments (and will pick up both the Amber Cello and the Consonant Violin as soon as the right cards show themselves), so it was the perfect one for me. I had no idea until much later that I could have been locked out from it.
Out of curiosity, which do you find more interesting: the animal companions, or the human ones? (Okay, human-ish.)
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Meradine Heidenreich
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1/30/2017
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I also have the full complement. The Dreamy Ravens are Rustle, Perdita and Rowena, while the Waries are Caution, Rambeau and Daubeny. The naming of ravens, like the naming of cats, is a mystery, so names just come to mind and are not chosen deliberately or questioned. Which reminds me, my moth is still just "it"...
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No plant battles, please.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
1/31/2017
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I wish I had your problem :P
*sneaks into your house in the middle of the night and steals your falcon, panther, mole, gilded crustacean and Last Constable*
There! Now I do! :P
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
1/31/2017
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MidnightVoyager wrote:
I have a problem.
Yes, I see the problem. Not enough bats.
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MidnightVoyager
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1/31/2017
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Siankan wrote:
MidnightVoyager wrote:
I have a problem.
Yes, I see the problem. Not enough bats.
I have two battitudes. That's like ten bats worth of battitude.
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MidnightVoyager
Posts: 858
1/31/2017
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Siankan wrote:
MidnightVoyager wrote:
I have two battitudes. That's like ten bats worth of battitude.
lol
I was just being tongue-in-cheek. It's a fine collection, and I commend you for managing to get some sleep with all the noise about the place.
You can sleep through anything with enough wine!
Now that I've had enough time to go through the thread more thoroughly, I see you've got a kitten. Cool! Most of the stuff that comes to mind has already been covered.
The Feast coming up will be a good opportunity to get some. A TON of mine are from there, both gifts and companions you trade gifts in for, and there may even be new ones. If you've done the Nadir story yet, you can get a companion that way and upgrade them during the Feast.
A bit of an obscure one is a combination of the rose-bearing maggot and the hamper of heart-cuts.
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Siankan
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2/1/2017
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Seems nicely thought-out. I commend your thoroughness and creativity.
DonaghyLogan wrote:
Handsome Townhouse (Orphanage) - Arthur Robin the well-scrubbed urchin; also, a meeting place for my appreciation society is reserved in one of the drawing-rooms.
More confession time. When I moved into my steamer, I looked up plans for old steamers until I found one that made me happy, then plotted out what use Mr. Kan would make of its various spaces. Having set the precedent, when I moved to the townhouse I scoured London until I found an appropriate square, and then - wonder of wonders! - managed to dig up plans for one of the houses that stood there at the Fall. Maybe I spend too much time on this...
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an extravagantly-titled tigress won't settle for anything less than my best available lodging. I'm not entirely sure how to expel a tigress from one's lodgings, so she's left to pad around the place making the other pets nervous as long as she doesn't do them any serious harm.
Quite right! Even if you managed to shove her off elsewhere, could you imagine the complaining? On the other hand, if she gets too uppity, there's always tigerskin rug jokes to be made. Just make sure to keep any tiaras of your own out of claw's reach. 
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MidnightVoyager
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2/1/2017
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DonaghyLogan wrote:
I second that emotion! MidnightVoyager, that's an amazing companion collection :0) I'm a little jealous - I don't even recognize a lot of those! Also, MidnightVoyager, thanks for the Feast of the Rose advice. I've participated before, but I didn't get very involved and now can't remember how it works. Time for a trip to the wiki!
I've been collecting forever. I wouldn't recommend my exact level of fanaticism for collection, though even I'm not mad enough to try for a heptagoat. But I had to settle on something to work out my masochism on after quitting Seeking!
(Also, if you want to know about any of them, I can point you to the right place)
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Kukapetal
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2/1/2017
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I love how you divvied your companions up between your lodgings, as well as your headcanon about why they go there and how well they all get along. The bit about the extravagantly titled tigress made me giggle 
I decided all my character's companions live with him (except for Cheery Man and Mrs. Plenty, because I can't picture either of them wanting to reside in some random weirdo's house when they probably have quite comfortable lodgings of their own). He lives in a Znail Zhell and I can't imagine how LOUD it must be in there. I feel really sorry for the Neurasthenic Assassin. Poor guy must spend all his time curled in a ball with his fingers in his ears.
Then again, it is his own fault. The fact that he wanted to hook up with my character because he had a "soothing voice" when my character constantly screams in all caps shows an appalling lack of judgement :P
Also, I might be mad enough to try for a Heptagoat. Just got my second Overgoat yesterday. Only 12 more to go!
*thinks about what she just said and bangs her head on the desk on despair* :P
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Bertrand Lyndon
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2/15/2017
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I know I'm late, but here's my two cents: I plan on naming all my ravens (once I get them, I'm kinda new to FL) after characters from Plato's dialogues.
- the shadowy ones will be (from least to most shadowy): Protagoras, Gorgias and Thrasymacus
- the watchful ones will be (same order): Phaedrus, Timaeus and Parmenides
- I called the dazed raven advisor Ion
I also named my Scuttering Squad I Malebranche, because I could.
Lastly, I have been searching for a name for my chatty rat for a long while now, but I couldn't decide on one. After seening Siankan brilliant reference, I decided to name him Falstaff (maybe it's not as witty, but I find it fitting).
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 Jordan Farchild, a kid who often meddles in things bigger than herself, and Bertrand's ward.
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Siankan
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2/16/2017
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Bertrand Lyndon wrote:
I know I'm late, but here's my two cents: I plan on naming all my ravens (once I get them, I'm kinda new to FL) after characters from Plato's dialogues.
I just want it to be stated that I approve of this scheme.
Also, you have now given me a brilliant idea for what to do if the talkative rat gets too loud. I just need a laundry basket...
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crazyroosterman
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4/5/2017
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ive got about 17 animal companions who nostly live in a shack of mine in the flit and take care of them self's.
my true companions though are my rats (talkative disgraced and working in that order) who i keep for various reasons asides from companionship not willing to go into further detail than that
and my ravens Christine(a bandaged raven a lovely old lady with lots to talk about)
martemous (my mystic raven advisor who spends most of his time writing poetry when hes not out and about with me and varys)
varys (my devious advisor and best friend we go every were and do everything together and im being quite literal)
the names i choose mostly because they felt right though varys is a reference to a character in certain book series and television show.
as for were i live well without giving to much away..i live in a prison an old prison forgotten by time and society for the most part.
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Siankan
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Kukapetal wrote:
It would still be pretty loud. Flesh-Stick has no indoor voice :P
There's a reason I don't take most of my companions with me when making social calls. Landy, to hold my cane (and because he's worse than Sam Gamgee). Ondine, if I need a touch of class (or to look like I'm taken). Maybe Brother Justin if I need to look that extra bit intimidating, or one of the birds if I need an unobtrusive pair of eyes. Other than that, they stay home.
(Can you imagine the disaster if I took Polonius with me? At Christmas I had to have one of the servants give him a dish of treacle to glue his jaws shut. Algernon looked about to kill him, and murder is always impolite at the dinner table, except between the last course and dessert.)
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Otachi
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My collection isn't as impressive as the MidnightVoyager's, as I've been playing for just a little over two years, but I'm quite proud of it. I don't have many of the Hallowmas companions because I wasn't playing much at that time (and was short of echoes to replace the upgraded companions). It's also missing the new Feast companions because I haven't drawn the d___ed card yet.
As for their names: the only one that has a name is the ocelot ("Sheba") because I've grown quite attached to it. I've always imagined that they are all cluttered in Rowan's room at the Royal Beth. They share the room with every single one of them. Maybe that's why Rowan is there in the first place.
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- Accepting all social actions (especially chess).
- I can no longer accept calling cards.
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Alfred_Bloodwine
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1/29/2017
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Heya, It's as valid a form of collecting as anything else in the game. I have the two final evolutions and had toyed with the idea a month ago, but got distracted by a couple of other costly grinds. The two obvious names that come to mind are Hugin and Munin (or double 'n's at the end depending on your choice of spelling)Edit - You appear to be a well developed character so this is all probably pointless.
- make sure to get a full Neathy-mon collection
- Bats with Attitude are awesome but a very rare outcome on the opp card so can be grindy (im trying to get one for each master)
- if you have any spare pails of snow you could try risking them for a crustacean (def use the monkey if you do)
- Camp for a Salt Weasel
- Prob my fav pet is the Frost Moth from the Nadir (because of SS) and o/c some 40 renown have great companions as well.
- prepare to burn a lot of echoes/resources and fate in about 2 weeks on Eternal Rose companions!
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