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[E. Albright]

I'm 8 Watchful shy of being able to pierce the mahogany-framed mirror. Soon...

[Shakerag]

Shake, I sent you the coins as agreed upon. Actually, if you need any more (I think you need 90 or 100 or something don't you?) I have another 35 just sitting around my pockets.

I had 50 already from blowing my Master's connection point, so I'm actually set right now.  Thanks!  (Oh, and it was 77.)

And, while I will possibly come to regret this, if you need assistance on your quest, I'd be willing to help.  Although I think you're a ways from that.  Well, I suppose I can send any boxed cats your way now.

BlindKitty, if you have problems with Scandal in the future, I'm willing to sop it up off of you. I don't mind bleeding off Scandal - it's forgetting my Nightmares that's a pain for me...

I see Laudanum in your future.

[Theodolus]

Any and all boxed cat offers will be greatly appreciated. Took me forever to get my first (and only) one.

[E. Albright]

I see Laudanum in your future.

That's a habit I've been trying hard to avoid acquiring, though the price of doing so has been living with Nightmares perpetually floating in the 5-7 range and 8-fingered gentlemen watering down my hand.

[Shakerag]

Any and all boxed cat offers will be greatly appreciated. Took me forever to get my first (and only) one.

I've sent you three >_>

Also, I finally managed to whip up an exceptional story.  Now if I can only draw the card to set my profession to journalist ...

[E. Albright]

I'm in the same boat, more or less. Well, I've been a Journalist since the end of last week, and just finished my exceptional short story (yay recreational Laudanum usage!). I'm about to start the miserable grind of Bohemian rep from 8 to 25 so I can advance to Author (once I draw the card again, natch). Is there anything better than the Banned Poetry Reading to increase that when your Persuasive tops out in the mid-70s?

[Shakerag]

I'm in the same boat, more or less. Well, I've been a Journalist since the end of last week, and just finished my exceptional short story (yay recreational Laudanum usage!). I'm about to start the miserable grind of Bohemian rep from 8 to 25 so I can advance to Author (once I draw the card again, natch). Is there anything better than the Banned Poetry Reading to increase that when your Persuasive tops out in the mid-70s?

There's a Church/Bohemian conflict card that seems to come up pretty often for me.  Lose some Church connection for a goodly sized chunk of Bohemian. 

[E. Albright]

Aye, it's worth about 2-3x as much as a Poetry action, and since I'm going to be spending plenty of time in church to dissipate the Scandal from failed poetry readings (stupid action isn't available above ~70% success, grumble grumble), it's not like it really costs me anything noticeable.

[nenjin]

Oh my god, screw these rats. Haven't had a trait or quality yet that was this annoying. Probably 2 to 3 days worth of NOTHING but rat killing. I've made at least 15 Dangerous just off this story arc alone. What's annoying is all the new events that you get seem to not reduce the quality by significantly more than previous options. And failures INCREASE the quality.

So here I am, repeating the same freaking two to three cards day in and day out. Still 7 quality levels to go. Blech. At least I have a very good idea of how cards work now, since after drawing 60 some odd a day and discarding them all, a pattern has finally started to present itself.

In hindsight, it was my own weakness that set me up for it. After this long in FL, I should have known there's no such thing as an innocent rat. Or an innocent anything, really. Eating my lunch, you say? Had I known what I know now, I would have terminated them with the utmost extreme prejudice. 

I have gotten ~1300 Rats On A String and ~1000 Rostygold in the process, so that's something. I'd probably be more annoyed if I weren't already qualified for the Feast of Masks.

[Shakerag]

Oh my god, screw these rats. Haven't had a trait or quality yet that was this annoying. Probably 2 to 3 days worth of NOTHING but rat killing. I've made at least 15 Dangerous just off this story arc alone. What's annoying is all the new events that you get seem to not reduce the quality by significantly more than previous options. And failures INCREASE the quality.

So here I am, repeating the same freaking two to three cards day in and day out. Still 7 quality levels to go. Blech. At least I have a very good idea of how cards work now, since after drawing 60 some odd a day and discarding them all, a pattern has finally started to present itself.

In hindsight, it was my own weakness that set me up for it. After this long in FL, I should have known there's no such thing as an innocent rat. Or an innocent anything, really. Eating my lunch, you say? Had I known what I know now, I would have terminated them with the utmost extreme prejudice. 

I have gotten ~1300 Rats On A String and ~1000 Rostygold in the process, so that's something. I'd probably be more annoyed if I weren't already qualified for the Feast of Masks.

Make sure you snag the bandit chief rat at the end


Also, I have *fucking finally* become a Scholar of the Correspondence. 

[E. Albright]

Oh my god, screw these rats. Haven't had a trait or quality yet that was this annoying. Probably 2 to 3 days worth of NOTHING but rat killing. I've made at least 15 Dangerous just off this story arc alone. What's annoying is all the new events that you get seem to not reduce the quality by significantly more than previous options. And failures INCREASE the quality.

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So here I am, repeating the same freaking two to three cards day in and day out. Still 7 quality levels to go. Blech. At least I have a very good idea of how cards work now, since after drawing 60 some odd a day and discarding them all, a pattern has finally started to present itself.

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I have gotten ~1300 Rats On A String and ~1000 Rostygold in the process, so that's something. I'd probably be more annoyed if I weren't already qualified for the Feast of Masks.

I'm pretty sure there was an option where failure either did nothing, was minimally damaging, or at least was easy enough that it didn't happen much at all. I wanna say I did almost entirely stuff off of "Go after the footsoldiers", with a little bit of pantry defense on the side.

You should get the chieftain coming out to challenge you well before you get to one.

I used the resulting pile of vermin as a good jumping-off point for the wretched offering of 5k rats you need to get into the Labyrinth of Tigers.

All the above assumes we're talking about vermin at home and not some later storyline. If I have even MORE rats in my future, I'm not gonna be happy.

[E. Albright]

Also, I have *fucking finally* become a Scholar of the Correspondence.

Is the route to that just doing lots and lots of expeditions? I've done some small research on the subject, and most descriptions were cursory and vague. And when I've given in and explicitly rooted around on the wikis for direct answers, I end up finding "no longer in the game" pages standing between me and my goal.

(My own recent accomplishment of note was making Author. I thought getting up to 25 Bohemian rep would be the miserable part, but I did that in less than a day... and then spent the next couple of days waiting (i.e., emptying my hand every 1-3 waking hours) for the normally-omnipresent-and-unwanted Demimonde card to grace me with its presence once more, grr...)

[nenjin]

I used the resulting pile of vermin as a good jumping-off point for the wretched offering of 5k rats you need to get into the Labyrinth of Tigers.

This is one of those moments I'm going to regret refusing to read a wiki in favor of discovering the game.

[BlindKitty]

Well, but the game tells you what you need to open various routes, from right at the beginning - in your Lodgings, in the opening routes storylet, there are requirements right there...

[E. Albright]

Well, that particular tidbit I discovered in the game. My obsessive little inner explorer memorized all the costs under my lodging's "Open a way to other parts of the City" option early on, and has been compulsively driving me to spring the latches to the various portals and suchlike rather sooner than my stats suggest I'd want or need to. I'm currently cruising along towards getting dock access even though I have no sane reason to do so with my natural Dangerous down around 40...