A few notes on things people have mentioned.
Failbetter: This is not FB. AK and Lottie left Failbetter to work on smaller, more experimental projects without risking the livelihood of others.
DLC: There's going to be a few (as well as free patches). I seem to recall hearing the number 6 thrown around at some point, but AK has said it depends a lot on how much money the game brings in.
Dragging stacks: You can drag whole stacks by the number.
Dread/Fascination: The emergency is not when a token snatches up three and the the 'game ending' countdown begins. The emergency is when a token snatches up
one , deal with it ASAP (as a rule of thumb, deal with any threat ASAP). The following are not exhaustive lists.
Random Crowds of Sleep dream (dream with Reason/Passion, no lore)
Dreaming with Health (only a partial chance)
Painting (sometimes)
Season of Serenities (random)
Season of Suspicion, with no hunters or reputation on the board
Season of Visions, resolution (curing fascination with dread)
Dreaming with Funds (can cause negative effects such as sickness and despair)
Some Mansus locations (especially the Sage Knight’s Lodge)
Visit the Ecydis Club
Nightmares (dream with Reason)
Allow Restlessness to decay
Talk to a Detective with Winter Lore
Fail an expedition (send one money and a pawn)
Work with Decrepitude
Some Mansus locations (especially the White Door)
So, I'm doing pretty well, and figuring that they will just go for a believer instead of me like they did last time I let the evidence get too high without doing anything. Of course they don't. They are coming to arrest me, and there isn't anything I can do about it. A favor would save me of course, but I hadn't even seen a favor the entire game and have no clue where I would get one. So I'm dead in about two minutes and there isn't anything I can do about it I'm just continuing whatever I had done, and was just waiting till the end and was hoping beyond hope that they would let me go or I would have some kind of last chance to avoid prison.
So, I had a dream of doors planned and it just happened to finish, and when I drew a card out of the two random options it just happened to be a favor.
With that exceedingly lucky favor in hand I proceeded to just walk out of the court room, laughing at the investigator.
After that I summoned Ezeem from the depths of the grail and snuffed out his insignificant life for daring to target me.
E: Ugh. I just realized that I burned like 8 passion and reason total on something that didn't require me to use any at all. Right now I am at 3 each (instead of like 7 each) after having used all the bookstore and auction house books. Will that dead end me later on in the game, or will I be fine due to being able to get more/not ever really needing more then that?
You should be okay