MrScytale
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Is it true that I can no longer go back to the Cave of the Nadir after I have sold the location, as the storylet requires no more than 3 of the Route quality? It seems odd that I would not be able to go somewhere simply because others know where it is. I don't recall a warning on the storylet to sell it, though it could be that because I have irrigo I do not see the proper storylet to return, currently.
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Diptych
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7/12/2013
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I believe the Urchins offer a Starstone Demark - much the same as the Organza. I believe the Urchins have a deal of interest in the Nadir - in their odd, heterodox way - but not much material wealth to offer, while the Devils are rich enough, but not overwhelmingly interested in something which does not directly contribute to the soul trade. What, I wonder, would be the flavour of a soul that has forgotten every interesting experience it ever had?
The Game, meanwhile, can find a buyer for anything - especially something that might lead an enemy agent to forget that they've been compromised, or a dead-drop that no-one but the intended recipient will ever find. And the Revolutionaries, well, we know they have a particular interest in uncommon sources of light, so they're going to bid as high as they can.
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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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Diptych
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If every choice offered equal rewards, then there'd be no temptation not to go with one's personal favourite - and so it would be no choice at all. If you choose to pass secrets on to the Urchin-gangs even though they're by very definition a loose collection of warring clans of prepubescents whose only sources of income are petty pilfering and collecting detritus from parts of the city so remote that no-one else even thinks to go there (I call it skylarking, as in like mudlarking but in the sky,) THEN you can be considered Closest To them.
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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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Alexis Kennedy
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Dolan wrote:
But the Devil's explanation makes zero sense [...] she's spending around 50 echoes (10 echoes per 4 supplies x 5 = 50 echoes and 20 supplies). I alone have cost her more than 312.50E [...] wouldn't Hell be willing to drop ~1500E on indirectly acquiring that location of the Prince? .
Fallen London's system of rewards and currency, considered as a consistent economic system, makes less than no sense. You'll have a marginally easier time poking holes in it than you would poking holes in over-ripe Brie. It exists primarily to indicate and reinforce storytelling effects, and secondarily as a pacing mechanism. The disparity here exists to lend texture to a point about why Hell isn't pursuing the Nadir (and why Virginia wasn't a Rival).
But I suspect you know this, and I imagine your actual point is, "why won't my preferred choice give me enough moneys and I want you to change it so it does". Getting shouty about this sort of thing is troll's work, and as Alan Partridge would say, we're all better than that.
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Alexis Kennedy
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7/12/2013
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This has crossed the line from discussion to angry nit-picking. Locking the thread.
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Alexis Kennedy
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Dolan wrote:
Well sure, you can muddle out an in-game explanation for just about anything if you try hard enough.
You certainly can! Or as Sir Fred did, you can read the clues (the Urchin even tells you that they can't afford to pay too much), work out the underlying rationale, and use that to address some of the game's mysteries. Not all factions are created equal, and not all choices have identically profitable outcomes.
>so far
And there's the rest of your answer.
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