CameoAppearance
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2/6/2014
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My noman just died, which absolutely blindsided me because I finally managed to find some Tears of the Bazaar this week and that got my Noman's Friend up to 51. I thought this would be enough to carry me through to next week even if I ended up with, like, Noman's Friend 2 after Time the Healer got to me, but... no. No it did not.
I'm really quite annoyed about this, because I was flipping cards waiting for the Portly Sommelier to show up so I could give him the seven airags I collected (and I couldn't even force-draw him with Favourable Circumstances like I did last week to get one last bucket from the urchins), and I had Noman Knows 14 so even if I'd decided to cut my losses I didn't quite have enough even to take that option. Bad luck and bad timing in spades. I did an expedition at the last minute, too, but didn't get the Tears I was hoping for (I got Elemental Secrets).
Does anyone else still have a noman? Mine had already outlived all my friends' nomen by at least a week because of my tireless Wild Words grinding and repeated archaeology digs for airag and tears. I was already getting suspicious that they were speeding up the noman melt rate last week because I saw more people losing forty-something points of Noman's Friend, including one who lost 49 when the biggest loss I'd seen before that was 44. (I lost 39 last week; I had 61 before that after I boosted it all I could, and while I don't remember the exact losses before that, I do recall that one was in the low forties, one was in the mid-thirties, and one was in the high twenties.)
Honestly, last week I was predicting that this would be the day my noman died, but then I finally got seven airags together and that gave me a little spark of optimism. Which grew into a rather far-fetched dream of seeing my noman through to the Feast of the Exceptional Rose if I got lucky with the archaeological digs. It did not turn out that way.
edited by CameoAppearance on 2/6/2014
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Snowskeeper
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2/7/2014
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
I suppose you could leave London and never come back if you want to keep it forever?
edited by Sara Hysaro on 2/7/2014
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Sara Hysaro
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2/7/2014
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You can definitely save your Noman with 1 Tear a week by ignoring the storylet and clicking the Tears in your inventory. It's the only reason I still have mine, and might be able to keep it through the Feast.
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lady ciel
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2/7/2014
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CameoAppearance wrote:
I suspect you're not supposed to be able to use items anywhere outside of London, but I've been told you can use them in Polythreme.
I'm not too sure about that - there are two different types of red border to items - one where you can still click and use the item (if you are in a storylet for example) and another where you can't even click on the item. Certain items at Zee - like lodgings and Tears of the Bazaar have this but you can still do conversions. In the Iron Republic all your items have the unusable red border. I'm doing a tour of the Islands at the moment and will see what can be used where.
Edit to add - last time I was in Polythreme (a while ago I must admit) you couldn't convert items.
edited by reveurciel on 2/7/2014
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RandomWalker
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2/11/2014
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My Noman's Friend is at 87 with one more visit of the 'healer' before the feast starts, so beyond another dramatic ramp up in melt, he should make it that far. I'll post if anything interesting happens.
Incidentally, I have no plans to keep the thing alive through to the end of the feast, unless some hint is dropped that it would be worthwhile to do so. Can anyone tell me if that 'flash of light' that happened last year was at the end of the feast, the beginning or an unrelated event?
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