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[E. Albright]

It's one of the most random and annoying bits but it's also the only way to secure a personal recommendation without having to waste a ton of actions or money in the side streets.

Well, aside from the slow and unreliable Talk of the Town grind from party invitation cards.

Can you continue to level it up through opportunity cards, or is there a line beyond which you HAVE to challenge other lillies to advance?

Attending to the needs of a singular plant can always be gained by cards. The Tournament is generally pursued for its prizes, not for toughening up your sprout.

[nenjin]

So that really is the end-all-be-all of that storylet? Meh.

[Theodolus]

Yeah, the Talk of the Town... there used to be an option in your lodgings to attend a social party or something like that as a route to get to the party. That alone is the reason why my allegedly menacing character's two top attributes are watchful and persuasive. It was much simpler doing talk of the town before and was actually somewhat enjoyable if you bothered to RP a little in your head about how the night went. Much more interesting. Now it's just an "oh hey, I guess I should do this since it never shows up" type of card.

[E. Albright]

If any of you haven't checked the FL twitter recently, they've started doing weekly one-week-only storylets. Last week's gave a minute selection of monkey-related content (the discounted Malevolent Monkey option makes sense now that the Feast is upon us), and this week's is the Apicius Club, who mostly appear to be offering to take seasonal items off your hands for pennies (I don't recommend offering them buckets of Liar's Tongues, incidentally)... although there is that one option for M_____'s B___d...

[nenjin]

I really wish they didn't do this via Twitter links. I'm not a Twit, I don't read Twitter, I don't follow people. It really seems like a shameless plug for their Twitter account, and I'm not really of the mind to start having to remember to check their Twitter weekly. For the holidays? Sure, why not. But the whole year? Meh.

Goddamnit, I hate Social Media so much. Just put the freaking storylet in the game already, FFS.

[E. Albright]

Well, for what it's worth, most of the options on this storylet aren't worth bothering with for a PoSI - sure, I can sell all my Venge-Rat corpses for a 1E markup over what the Bazaar would give me, but for the action I waste doing so, I could just go earn that selfsame Echo.

Likewise buying the ape last week. Sure, okay, 10E cheaper. That's, um, nice.

If I weren't a PoSI, these might seem neat. But I am. And I have been for quite a while. About as long as I wasn't one, now. And that's a decent slice of the problem with FL: it's kinda hard not to fly along to the point where you're endgamey, and at that point you either outright can't do a lot of things, or you're strictly doing them for the sake of doing them - which pulls you away from the grinding you're encouraged to revel in.

[nenjin]

Well, every once in a while I do look up from the grind to appreciate the storylets. I don't really care about the rewards per se (I got a pair of Watchful boots that nicely fit the middle gap between "nothing" and "nothing" for Watchful Boots during the Mr. Sacks Twitter storylets...), I just don't like missing the content. Moreso I don't like having to hunt outside the game for content, for multiple reasons.

Anyways, are there any sources of Masquing after 30+? I got a huge boost from a Fate gift someone spent (bless 'eir 'ittle heart), but I haven't been getting anymore form the regular Opportunity cards. Is the 100 Masquing Companions honestly only for people getting Fate gifts?

[E. Albright]

Pretty sure even the Masquing 40 companions are only for people getting Fate/Nex gifts.

(And I don't mean to dismiss content-for-content's sake in favor of content-for-grindy-progression's-sake. Were it not for the former I'd have quit this awful game long ago. It's just that the ones currently under discussion (though not so much the Advent calender ones) are a sentence or two of uninspiring prose coupled with a game-mechanics sop of uninteresting nature due to a need for balance across all levels... though that didn't stop them giving out ravens and Scuttering Squads at Christmas, so I can't even firmly get behind the balance explanation...)

(And to revisit an older discussion with you, my Scuttering Squad has given me no problems in the two months I've employed them. Research indicates that one has to have a certain sort of feline houseguest for there to be personality conflicts... and having the Squad on hand gives me no desire to seek out that particular soul...)

[nenjin]

Ah well. I long ago rolled the dice and got out from under that (rather dull) Sword of Damocles. I'm glad for it because I think that'd make me appreciate all the pets I have now less.

[baruk]

 Just to re-animate this discussion...

if one is simply trying to make an honest echo, what's the best course of action?

 Possibly old news, but if you have the persuasive for it, there's a certain scandalous option temporarily available at the carnival that might be of interest, worth 150 pennies a time.

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Perfumed pleasure garden: join the dancers nets 3 incendiary gossip. Also a rare success nets 3 masquing and an item worth 12.50

There's also a spectacularly lucrative option on one of the feast of the rose cards that requires 15 masquing, I don't exactly remember all the details, but it involved the captivating princess.

[nenjin]

I've currently been grinding the two action Watchful challenge in Revisiting Ladybones Road. Two actions gets you ~20 to 40 Fourth City Relics, which 1000 sell for 50 echoes. I suppose there are better ways to make money but since Watchful is always my weakest stat but to the nature of getting rid of Nightmares, I figured it was a pretty good compromise for a trait I needed to level.

And on that note, the Feast is over. I shall dream of the pleasure gardens veiled in hookah smoke for a long time....particularly since I won't be getting as much sleep since I'm back to drinking hot wine to get rid of Nightmares......*shudder*

[E. Albright]

I spent the Feast indulging in obscene amounts of deviled hearts, which in addition to being delightfully tasty (and occasionally enough to set one's Passions Alight) made one both more observant and eloquent, but were of great artistic inspiration to me...

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Every (common) devil's heart was +5CP of Inspired, +1 Watchful & Persuasive, and something like 0.9E. I gained about 10 in each Watchful and Persuasive over the course of the Feast, as well as finishing a symphony and a novel - and coming close to finishing some poetry - for the Traitor Empress, and still had time to catch the eye of every available companion under 40 Masquing.

Did any of you do the weekly storylet with Lady Lilac? I pursued her to the theater, but spent the whole time actually watching the Seventh Letter and didn't have a chance to, you know, actually talk to her, really...

Nenjin, if you're in Ladybones and looking to be Watchful, it'd probably be a bit lovelier if people were to gift you beeswax - something like 80 - 160 at a time -  than sullying your hands in the trade of antiquities. I've found that unless you specifically need what the multi-action opportunities give you, you're almost always better off with the simpler ones. But each to their own...

[FireCrazy]

Soo.. whatever this is, I created an account.

[E. Albright]

What's your in-game name?

If you decide to stick with it for any length of time, don't rush to develop your stats for the sake of "progressing". Take your time; higher-level content is no more text-rich than low-level content... just grindier. And as you advance, you'll gradually close the door on lower-level stuff that you may or may not have seen. So if you keep playing for any length of time, be patient and enjoy the ride.

[FireCrazy]

uh, my username is FireSentinel. Just chilling in my lodgings i got from selling secrets.