There was a warning on twitter about an hour earlier I think. But who checks twitter every hour? I mean, apart from people who have actual twitter accounts and don't just visit individual twitter pages.

You are both a PoSI as well have stats around 150~200, right? So it's a bit of a stretchy claim to make.

The only quirk I could use was Magnanimous, thanks to playing numerous "Nurse an acquaintance back to health" options from my lodgings. You seem to forget mid-level players also do not tend to have quirks ranging in the 10+ ranges. If they do, I would like to know where I can grind them at my level. As I remember you need at least level 5 in a quirk to use them at all in fishing and the menace stacks up rapidly on failing.

The compass is hilarious. An admonition not to do what the admonisher is, at that moment, doing... coupled with a tool that clearly shows the forbidden path to follow by pointing at every alternative path, which cannot be usefully followed except to the very thing it's pointing away from.

I'm irrationally scared: Will my precious Progress qualities remain safe when I leave London on the ferry to Mutton Island? Do I need to set any affairs in order?

I am so confused. My last two Strange Catches were worth 7 and 9, but each time, I only got the level 6 Cove options. Is that how it's meant to work?

As I remember you need at least level 5 in a quirk to use them at all in fishing and the menace stacks up rapidly on failing.

You can get every reward without having to toss back catches, but throwing back your catch can make it easier.

Short form of my process when trying to get a high catch: do a quirk-only run, result doesn't matter as long as I get at least one catch. Turn that result into the chef or the curate in return for various items. It's the partial maps that you want the most.

Go back out and offer up items at every opportunity. It's the partial maps that give the best boosts, but the zee-stories aren't bad either.

If you're desperate, throw back a mediocre catch, but it's really inefficient and it caps at 7 - the best you can carry over is 4 RB.

The only reason to have Stormy-eyed higher than 19 is to be able to spend longer in the Mind of the long dead god as you get kicked out as soon as it reaches 0. It is a fascinating experience and well worth visiting.

Is it just me is is there not a whole lot to do there for someone pre-PoSI and <80 stat-wise?

Well, you CAN reduce menace via the Messages system also for the regular -3CP, which could be handy if you also have an alt.

I don't think you can accept messages on Mutton Island. I think you need to be in London to do that.

And I've also been led to believe that we are not supposed to use alts to gain game-mechanical advantages.

I rather wonder how many people would prefer to simply have a long but definite grind toward more certain rewards, and not face the randomness of the Strange Cove modifications each time after a long outing followed by lots of waiting around. But perhaps that is just the overall tendency of Fallen London?

Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:

The compass is hilarious. An admonition not to do what the admonisher is, at that moment, doing... coupled with a tool that clearly shows the forbidden path to follow by pointing at every alternative path, which cannot be usefully followed except to the very thing it's pointing away from.

It's certainly not a metaphor for parenthood, or anything. Absolutely not.

Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:

I am so confused. My last two Strange Catches were worth 7 and 9, but each time, I only got the level 6 Cove options. Is that how it's meant to work?

I'm confused by this as well. This morning I had a shot at a crate of parabola-linens, but unwisely chose the flint out of curiosity. At that time, the catch score was all that mattered, and the guineau pig was too many levels below me. Later today, with similar catch results, I've been getting the "wreckers cove" results instead, and level 5 catches are only giving me 4 ranks in wreckers cove, the guineau pig is 3 levels above me now, and I'm frankly a bit nonplussed by the whole affair.

lady ciel wrote:

NinjaComedian - as long as you keep fishing, and have sufficient running battle, you will get strange catches. Once you have a weapon reward that option is locked and the other options will be the only ones you can get.

Are you kidding me? Damn, I really wanted that Armored Guinea Pig - I saw absolutely nothing that would imply that picking a reward locked all other options. At every other festival we could get almost everything available if we kept at it.

RandomWalker:
Well, I don't know if there is RNG involved in it but I ended up with 0 RB.

I should point out that the reward from the chef and the curate doesn't seem to vary on the size of your catch, so I'd give the good (6+) catches to the lady.

Whereas 'Give your Strange Catch to the Melancholy Curate' carries the note 'This will reduce your Nightmares.' There's no mention of useful items,

Will I still be able to cash in my Professional Reward there? Time the Healer is only a few days off...