Individual99991
Posts: 56
6/8/2014
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I've been toying with the idea of using the Merry Gentleman card to buy a four-card-slot room at the Royal Bethlehem, but grinding secrets for those 50 antique mysteries is tedious in the extreme. Are any of the other accommodations easier to get, or at least a fraction more varied in their grinding? I'm not terribly bothered which one I go for, though a place at the bazaar would probably have more pleasant neighbours than the Brass Embassy or Bedlam...
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dov
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6/8/2014
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The best way, as always, depends on your stats and options available to you.
My preferred method is via Thefts of Particular Character.
With a Gang of Hoodlums and a high enough Shadowy, it's 10 actions to get each Antique Mystery.
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Dr Cop
Posts: 38
8/22/2016
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It's not the most efficient, but for me the least painful / most enjoyable grind was gathering 80,000 whispered hints for premises at the Bazaar.
You can grind hints. You can also exchange 1000 jade or rostygold for 1,100 whispered hints at the labyrinth of tigers. You can even amass a fortune in rats, trade them in at the Department of Menace Eradication for rostygold, then trade this to the tiger keeper.
You can easily cross-convert just about anything to Tales of Terror!! or Journals of Infamy, convert these to Extraordinary Implications, then head to mutton island to break these implications back down to whispered hints.
Grinding 50 Bazaar permits or Antique Mysteries is a chore, but most storylets provide materials that can eventually be broken back down into whispered hints.
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
8/24/2016
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I've done it! After two trips to the Tomb Colonies, several trade secrets, several hundred echoes, a number of ring fights, and some nightmares grinding, I have my Royal Beth reservation.
I am off to try this in the Nadir next.
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sosisqua
Posts: 120
8/24/2016
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Individual99991 wrote:
but grinding secrets for those 50 antique mysteries is tedious in the extreme
Depends on for how long you're playing FL. In time you start to see which farm is extreme and which is just dull and repetitive as in some Korean MMOs. All the for-cards are easily farmed for if you're targeted for a 2nd buying options. I've actually Royal Beth lodgings. It took me only 2.5 days of farming Mysteries via Flit and half a day after to gain Nightmares 5 for Merry Gentleman to appear. And i didn't even spend first 2.5 days on just farming, using 5 out of 20 action points on rolling cards and socialising, I'm farming for Yacht now, afterwards getting a Salon or an Orphanage and after that i'm pretty sure i'll get a Bazaar reservation
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Johnny Felix
Posts: 180
8/26/2016
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Perhaps it might interest some people that there is an alternative way to get Premises at the Bazaar: At the Temple Club (ask for an invite at the Singing Mandrake) you can purchase the Lease for 250 Collated Research. It's the same Echo value, but perhaps an easier grind for some players.
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Reaeh
Posts: 10
8/22/2016
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You can also get 2 antique mysteries on the 4th step of the Fidgeting Writer, but that obviously requires lots of good luck.
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
8/23/2016
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...I wish someone had mentioned that it's far less hassle doing this via honey and notions than by relics. So many tomb colonist favours. I've been to the colonies once and spent all the carnival favours and it still isn't enough.
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