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The tribulations of fame
Arepo
Posts: 21
12/6/2013
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After a little scrying in my crystal wiki (and some suspicion founded on the shaded ‘unlocked with’ options in certain storylets), I’ve come to suspect that becoming a Person of Some Importance might be a Faustian pact. Surely, I’ll gain access to a lot of new potential content, but it seems that it will become significantly more arduous and expensive to excise nightmares, wounds, suspicion and perhaps also scandal.
Given that much of one’s daily grind is already given over to keeping such maladies in check, increasingly so as I find myself exploring new areas of London, I’m wondering if I should put it off as long as I still have sensible other things to do with my time?
Or are the reduced benefits of the bottled remedies I’d usually use for these problems offset by other, more efficient ways of keeping myself trim?
One particular worry – I have been stockpiling half-bottles of Tincture of Vigour in anticipation, since unlike their complete counterparts their storylet doesn’t bear the warning that becoming a PSI will reduce their potency, but it now occurs to me that this is but weak assurance. Perhaps it implies that on attaining this dubious notoriety, rather than retaining their full value, they’ll be of no use at all, fit only to be sold to the bazaar for the pittance they’ll offer for saliva-tainted mouthwash. Which fate can I expect for them?
edited by Arepo on 12/6/2013
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Cocytus
Posts: 187
12/6/2013
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I recommend finding a contact with whom to exchange Menace-reducing social actions. One friend and I have been doing this for months, and I've still never died, gone mad or been back to jail. Exiled a few times though, but it's not so bad.
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Cocytus, the Avuncular Wordsmith, a river outside a box.
Stock Titus, a rapturous individual ahead of its time. (Dormant)
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Gillsing
Posts: 1203
12/6/2013
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I've received a large number of tinctures and laudanum from F.F. Gebrandt and my plan was to drink it all before becoming a PoSI. But I rarely need any of it, as I can always keep my menaces down with a moment's peace, a restorative, law's long arm, an elaborate strategy with a cat in a box, siding with the Church vs Hell, or siding with Urchins vs the Widow. And some of the more advanced dreams have luck-based reduction of nightmares, and investigating Dr Schlomo is a very effective option with very high Watchful. I'd have to put in a deliberate effort to wreck myself nowadays. And I'm not even PoSI yet.
So I wouldn't worry. Then again, I may be more cautious than most. I'll probably try to consume all the laudanum before becoming a PoSI, just for the Hedonist in me who would want more gifts.
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