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Polythreme!
SeanH
Posts: 65
3/18/2012
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Ah! Polythreme! I feel more alive every moment I spend here! Unfortunately, so did my cravat. I no longer wear cravats.
I am currently Investigating the local colour - anyone had much success at this? The 13-point options seem consistently out of my reach...
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the_antichris
Posts: 49
3/21/2012
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I've been grinding Surface-Silk and Romantic Notions in the 'One might profit...' storylet, then bribing heavily with those. After that, I exchange the Progress quality I don't want (I've only had one pass where I was unlucky with every bribe) for the quality I do, and use the Masked Man card and the skill-based card to run out the clock. Slow with all that grinding, but effective. That gets me to 13 with a bit of luck - if it doesn't, there are options in 'Spending your time' for 12 Investigating/Fascinating.
Currently I've just started Writing of my Polythreme Travels and I'm hoping there's a skill-based card for that too. Apart from the Masked Man, all the luck-based cards seem to end in me tearing my hair out.
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heresiarch
Posts: 13
4/1/2012
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I'm rather bitterly disappointed in Polythreme to find such an unrelenting field of chance-based actions, with hardly a skill-based challenge in sight. I'm the kind of player who rarely tried actions riskier than modest unless absolutely necessary, and it drives me to conniptions to get unlucky that last time and end one point--one singular point!--away from 12 and being able to do anything interesting. I had to sail through two oceans to get here! Now I am wasting my time grinding for the right cards, resetting the damnable card clock every time I draw one, unable to reliably progress. Chance upon chance does not make for a pleasant gaming experience.
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"...London Bridge is rising up; rising up, rising up; London Bridge is rising up, my fair dev'less..."
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/heresiarch
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Rupho Schartenhauer
Posts: 787
4/25/2012
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beaglebag wrote:
I read something about being able to earn an unfinished hat here. No luck yet. Any tips? Is that a possibility?
"A Clay Snub" starts this storyline. You'll need an Exceptional Hat.
edited by Rupho Schartenhauer on 3/24/2015
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Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it.
Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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