Catherine Raymond
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PSGarak wrote:
Koenig wrote:
dov wrote:
Under Attend to Matters of Society in your lodgings.
So it will cost me 12 notability to reset, and then another 15 to get the level? Sheesh this is going to be a miserable grind.
And actually another 5 notability to select your new specialization.
Yeesh. On the other hand, a number of storylets that didn't used to give any MW now give a point or two, so grinding MW may have gotten a bit easier.
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john sledge
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8/15/2017
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When is the "fruits of the zee" festival?
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Catherine Raymond
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john sledge wrote:
When is the "fruits of the zee" festival?
I believe that last year it was sometime in September.
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Sara Hysaro
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8/15/2017
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No, last year it was around this time. The year before that it started on the 20th of August, and in 2014 it started on the 28th of August.
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Anchovies
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8/15/2017
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Plynkes wrote:
Quick lore question: I know there's an illicit trade in sunlight, but what do people actually do with the sunlight? What is it used for? Getting a tan? Growing vegetables? Murdering insects via a magnifying glass? Captured sunlight is an addictive "substance". Here's how it feels to take a hit of the stuff, from Sunless Sea:
Open the box. Let it bathe you. Its warmth is long-needed sleep, clear crystal air, a lover's embrace -
The light has enfeebled you. It's raising terrible lesions on your skin. You can't survive much more of this. But oh, the Sun, the Sun... I imagine the compulsion of sunlight is a feeling not unlike that of the Dawn Machine (THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN etc), but surface sunlight has the nasty side effect of imposing natural laws which contradict your continued existence.
In the absence of sunlight, natural selection would favor plants which don't waste energy and biomass on chloroplasts. With an atrophied or entirely lost ability to photosynthesize, the Neath's flora wouldn't benefit from the sudden addition of sunlight, and would probably suffer from the imposition of the surface's natural laws.
Tangent: "mirrorcatch box full of sunlight" is an oddly accurate description of a microwave oven. Imagining mirrorcatch boxes as microwave ovens is quite fun. A microwave oven full of very angry dream-snakes, anyone? It would explain why mirrorcatch boxes can be purchased only in Khan's Shadow; the Khanate has electric lighting, so perhaps they also have electric kitchen appliances. Maybe the Leopard Clan values darkdrop coffee because they want to finally get some use out of the ol' Keurig.
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Dudebro Pyro
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8/15/2017
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Is there a better way to grind tens of thousands of Romantic Notions than *shudder* Polythreme?
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Catherine Raymond
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8/15/2017
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
No, last year it was around this time. The year before that it started on the 20th of August, and in 2014 it started on the 28th of August.
I stand corrected. I don't recall hearing anything about this year's Fruits of the Zee festival. Does that mean it's not going to happen this year, or will it just be a bit later?
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Sara Hysaro
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I'm fairly confident we'll still have it this year, but we'll just have to wait and see.
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Tyrconnell
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8/16/2017
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Dudebro Pyro wrote:
Is there a better way to grind tens of thousands of Romantic Notions than *shudder* Polythreme?
Polythreme is the quickest at 12 notions per action. Using Unfinished Business in Veilgarden to grind honey instead and converting it to Romantic Notions is 9.54 notions per action, significantly slower if you truly need thousands.
But why do you need so many Romantic Notions? You can't need that many Comprehensive Bribes, can you?
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navchaa
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8/16/2017
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Sinnouk wrote:
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Is there any guide to a party to optimise favours or MW? I seem to recall seeing something like that recently but can't find it. Like this one? Or this? Not a guide, yes, but the last few pages were discussing it.
edited by Sinnouk on 8/15/2017
Yes! Thank you!
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Dudebro Pyro
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8/16/2017
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Tyrconnell wrote:
But why do you need so many Romantic Notions? You can't need that many Comprehensive Bribes, can you?
Going to grind notability with side-conversions. Starting with Notions and upconverting them gives a decent amount of MW, and doing the non-sustainable run of Notions->Visions->side-convert until Tales of Terror->Extraordinary Implications provides some of the best MWPA in the game. The downside is that it requires something like 10-15k Notions to go to Notability 15.
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Teaspoon
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8/16/2017
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Are there chickens in the Neath?
And if not, why not? I can't see them getting into a fight with the Masters somehow.
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Siankan
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8/16/2017
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Teaspoon wrote:
Are there chickens in the Neath?
And if not, why not? I can't see them getting into a fight with the Masters somehow.
Unknown, but it makes perfect sense. Chickens should be easy enough to raise without the light, so eggs and chicken should be easy enough Surface additions to London diets (though the eggs might take on a different taste). The same with pigs; I never understood why pork is talked about as a rarity when pigs will happily live off your fungal scraps. If we can keep *horses* alive down here, you'd think we could do better with some of the lesser livestock.
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Plynkes
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8/16/2017
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Anybody studied the new chess mechanics much?
I was just wondering about the options that use menaces. Do we know if higher levels of menace give you a better chance of winning or if it makes no difference?
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Dudebro Pyro
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8/16/2017
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If I want the Cellars of Wine, and I'm also grinding up Church renown, is the Hound of Heaven somewhat viable or would I still be better off grinding otherwise?
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Anchovies
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8/17/2017
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Well, it will usually take around 20 actions to put to zee, catch a plated seal, and return to London (1 to depart, 5 to build TW via "steam boldly: make it up as you go", 2 to catch the seal, 12 to build AJE, 1 to return) and then 23 to breed a Hound and turn it over to the Bishop. That's 43 actions to get 3 cellars, 3 church favors, and £15 of Broken Giant '44. Probably worth it if you're collecting both church renown and cellars of wine.
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Siankan
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8/17/2017
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I think I've seen this, but I can't find it: Several friends have reported nothing from the Time to Dine! storylet except the option to leave early. The chief common denominator is using the app. Is this a known issue?
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Sara Hysaro
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8/17/2017
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I'd recommend sending an email to support, just to ensure they know and will look into the issue:
support@failbettergames.com
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Kaijyuu
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8/17/2017
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Getting a tan, yeah. A tan that includes hallucinations and euphoria followed by injuries and addiction.
It's the "hard drug" for honey's "soft drug."
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gronostaj
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Kaijyuu wrote:
It's the "hard drug" for honey's "soft drug."
does that mean that walking out onto the Surface without having drinked cider is, essentially, a golden shot
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