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At your level a cheerful goldfish and a horsehead amulet were helpful to me. Buying a sulky bat or lucky weasel will have interesting consequences and not cost too much.
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Silvergun1000 posted:Ok that's good to know, thanks! Should I be stockpiling stuff like rostygold I get for doing things, or is that purely to sell? I would stockpile everything if I were you. Whispered Secrets are the prime currency for buying most real estate, for instance, and very often specific storylets will require a certain quantity of a certain item to progress in it (Jade fragments for a particular plant's growth, wine for certain Ambitions, Rostygold for the Opportunity which increases your Running Battle and so on). After you play a bit longer, you'll then have a better idea of what you need and what you don't, as well as much more of everything: at that point you may then feel free to buy and sell as required. As catfrog mentioned, a Cheerful Goldfish will do wonders. I'm not so fond of Horsehead Amulets since the weapon slot I can usually fill with something better - like the gift that your mysterious benefactor would have given you - but if you're pursuing the Dangerous path as well it may be good.
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Don't bother buying anything unless you need tonics, or really want to wear some fake clothing. Everything I'm currently equipping I just got through cards and/or stat grinding. After you hit 20 points or so the rewards for the stats get better. Only twice have I bothered to actually purchase anything, and they were stuff like '400 rats to afford this lodging house'. Although I am currently sitting on about 15 echoes just by selling most of the Fourth City Relics I ended up with. e: Oh yeah, I bought the bat and the weasel for certain opportunity cards. They're like 80p. Corridor fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Mar 31, 2011 |
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Mar 31, 2011 04:37
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I am the proud owner of a possible-cat box. Is anyone else still looking for one?
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I just started playing and I have been presented with the option to pursue an ambition called Light Fingers. It's the first one I've seen and I am not interested in it. I have been leveling up my qualities trying to make a different one show up but to no avail. My question: What is the scale of investment for any given ambition? Is this first one that I come across like, a newbie ambition that I can finish in a few days and then move on to a different ambition? Or will I be stuck with this for the rest of the game? I ask because this one doesn't sound very interesting to me, but I don't really see any other way to move forward also, i'm in as niko_myshkin GirlBones fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 1, 2011 |
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Apr 1, 2011 21:29
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GirlBones posted:I just started playing and I have been presented with the option to pursue an ambition called Light Fingers. It's the first one I've seen and I am not interested in it. I have been leveling up my qualities trying to make a different one show up but to no avail. Ambitions last for the entirety of the gametime, so pick carefully as they can only be changed with Fate once chosen. They're also a hefty investment resource-wise so keep a store of items once you start.
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Apr 1, 2011 22:29
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how many ambitions are there? is there a way i can see them all before i chose one?
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Apr 1, 2011 22:35
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GirlBones posted:how many ambitions are there? is there a way i can see them all before i chose one? There's four, they'll usually appear once the skills needed are around Level 10 I think.
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Apr 1, 2011 23:46
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I read somewhere there were two "secret" ambitions. Anyone know anything about that?
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Anyone here willing to help reduce my Scandal? The guy who usually does it for me is in a State of Some Confusion and can't be reached. And I keep failing at that stupid church-attending option which is raising my Scandal.  gently caress you, priest.If you help lay rumours about me to rest, it'll increase your Scandal just a little but raise some other stat, forget which, Persuasive maybe. Plus I'll owe you a favour, the most valuable currency of all! e: As I write this, it occurs to me that a lot of people are posting in here saying "I signed up to Twitter just for this game" or "I usually hate browser games but..." and so forth. So I'm guessing that not many of us have Echo Bazaar contacts outside this thread. It might be a good idea to make a sort of list of Fallen Londoner goons, and the Menaces they are willing to help reduce. For example, I tend to get a lot of Scandal and Suspicion so I can't really help there, but I'm totally up for lowering people's Nightmares (#cyberasylum) if they're getting too high. And I promise to nurse Wounds without poisoning anyone. I have way too much loving time on my hands at the moment as I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere living out of bags and a laptop, so if you guys just wanna post your info, I'll put the list together.
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Long time SA reader, first time poster, and this is the only thread that's enticed me to de-lurk. I'm a huge fan of EB, and yes, I signed up to twitter just for this game. I'm happy to offer my services for reduction of menace (fnord2323 on twitter), I've got plenty of turns left a day because I've run through most of the storylines except the new ones. I was lucky enough to be introduced to the game by one of the writers, and it's one of the few games that makes you feel and believe the world it's set in. I'd love to see it used in a film or TV series. It started small but had a solid coherent feel to it, and the new storylines just keep adding layers and expanding without losing that feel. I could (and have) go on about this game for ages to people.
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Once more I've hit that point where Sudden Insights are necessary to progress my ambition. Anyone up for a game of chess? Hit me up at @citamoixa.
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Apr 3, 2011 16:53
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I let my scandal get too high and the penalty actually wasn't too bad. I may have lucked out but it was some fun stuff to read and only cost me a handful of actions to get through.
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fnord2323 posted:
What a great introduction! This game is ruining me for other games at the moment - the dark whimsical snideness, the plot twists, the writing are unparalleled IMO. Have you seen the tumblr http://deepdarkmarvellous.tumblr.com/ ? It's curated by another player ( little lady d, I think) and sometimes captures the flavor quite well. Corridor, did you know that using a boxed cat can reduce your scandal?
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Corridor posted:e: As I write this, it occurs to me that a lot of people are posting in here saying "I signed up to Twitter just for this game" or "I usually hate browser games but..." and so forth. So I'm guessing that not many of us have Echo Bazaar contacts outside this thread. It might be a good idea to make a sort of list of Fallen Londoner goons, and the Menaces they are willing to help reduce. For example, I tend to get a lot of Scandal and Suspicion so I can't really help there, but I'm totally up for lowering people's Nightmares (#cyberasylum) if they're getting too high. And I promise to nurse Wounds without poisoning anyone. Aria_Dabbler - I'm full of Nightmares and Scandal I'm willing to trade away, and always up for a game of chess. I also have a box that is full of possible cat I'm willing to pass to someone.
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catfrog posted:Corridor, did you know that using a boxed cat can reduce your scandal? Yeah, but at the moment for me it's still at Almost Impossible level.  It taunts me every time the catbox shows up.God loving dammit, the mirror house. I just used the dream mirror, even though it pretty much says "Only an idiot would use this, you idiot" and it sent me straight to A State Of Some Confusion. Lost aaaaall my Recurring Dreams. I'd been working so hard keeping my Nightmares down too. This is like my fourth trip to this place  e: oh hey thanks for reducing my Scandal #sometaffer. e2: gently caress this Keen Eyed Lapidary bitch. After ages of failing at her card, I finally got high enough to retrieve her stupid pearls. Her reward for me - sweet nada. The follow-up card for the storyline involves her asking me for a giantass bag of glim, which I stupidly handed over even knowing I'd probably get gently caress all for it. The result - "Your Assisting The Keen-Eyed Lapidary quality is rising" (bar fills a tiny bit). Apparently I'm going to have to redo this card several times over just to fill that stupid bar and advance the story. That first bag cleaned me right out already. Corridor fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Apr 4, 2011 |
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Apr 4, 2011 09:34
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Thank you, thread! I have a starveling cat now.
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I've been hunting for some specific opportunity cards for quite a while, but I never seem to get them. Does the area you're in determine what cards you get, or is it random?
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Apr 5, 2011 16:43
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Yes, I'd love any cats people want to send my way. I'm also always down to help reduce scandal or nightmares or whatever (assuming I'm not in jail or a State of Some Confusion myself). Sravingmad on twitter.
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Apr 5, 2011 16:57
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Man, some of these higher level events require ridiculous amounts of Honey. 1400 to continue my ambition, 5000 to get the correspondence stones back...
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Elswyyr posted:I've been hunting for some specific opportunity cards for quite a while, but I never seem to get them. Does the area you're in determine what cards you get, or is it random? Mostly it's random. There are a few cards that will only appear if you're in a specific location, though - I've seen a couple of them and I suspect there are more.
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Tricky posted:Man, some of these higher level events require ridiculous amounts of Honey. 1400 to continue my ambition, 5000 to get the correspondence stones back... How did you happen to lose them may I ask? If it makes you feel better I am saving up 80,000 whispered secrets for a spot at the bazaar. Currently I have 5,102. Augh.
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Is it better to spread your stats out evenly or just go with 1-2 of them exclusively?
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So far all my stats are pretty low so if people need help with nightmares or scandals, I don't care, send it my way. I'll accept pretty much anything: chess, fistfights, scandals, etc. Makes no difference to me at all. If I don't respond however, that pretty much means I was kicked out of town or went to the loony bin for awhile. In which case I'll accept when I get back. Twitter is : Red_mundus
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Corridor posted:Yeah, but at the moment for me it's still at Almost Impossible level. It does have a use in some of the ambitions, if you don't want to waste time getting nightmares that high.
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Just subscribed again for another month, I figure if they keep making new content with great writing it is worth  . Also sent a catbox to CrashLaunching.
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I just came back to this myself, had a lot of fate saved up and spent it on premium. The writing in this was spot on last I played and it's great to see that it's stayed just as excellent. You can find me #TrevorGood
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Okie dokie amigos, I got sufficiently bored enough to make a list of all the goons who posted their twitters in this thread, in the order they were posted. Let me know if your twitter account was actually for facebook (I couldn't find any FBs but hey) or if I got your name wrong or whatever. I also noticed that a few people who post regularly here neglected to actually post their EBZ account names, so if that was an oversight just post it here and I'll add you to the list. Same goes for anyone I just missed by accident. I was gonna add notes for who is up for whatever activities, but uh, everyone seems to be up for pretty much anything from anybody, so V  VSA Username - Twitter Username Not So Fast - SofiaAust A student - Somerandompaul xdistak - goonar Wachepti - Wachepti Hiryu Protagonist - HiryuProtagonis Brock Samsonite - HerrGomez ninety - THE_REAL_GOKU onefish - CrashLaunching Sir Ophiuchus - AsclepiusUnbnd Tricky - citamoixa StarkRavingMad - Sravingmad Grilox - Kuroyanagiryou Dinho Eledair - Dinho_Eledair Cantaloupe - Firestomp thanthos - Hypnic_jerk Rueish- Rueish Gravy Train Robber - Gabriel_Syme Wutasumi - RTFMSmith Cheap Trick - Antonio_Mocker El_Molestadore - Crypticant rev.justin - madjnunofirem Dallan Invictus - DallanInvictus Alaemon - Kumeatel Quasipox - quasipox catfrog - La_Poodle Colton - chadlicious John Pastor - derekkatz Dr. Arbitrary - HeiroSchop Corridor - cyberasylum Hotwire - ErasmusJacobs Mr. Spooky - DJCrashOverride The Normandy - cosettemoreau Yuran M. Bazil - Dan9410 Dthulu - Dthulu Whitenoise Poster - WhitenoiseTwitt Red Mundus - Red_Mundus Elswyyr - elswyyr oldskool - shigogouhou Akunin - EitherOrlok Ripley - Fitzquaid TJO - LionelCrumb Dammit Who? - BatsYouOrdered hemophilia - laserspewpew hoju22 - hoju22 Blisster - VirusBazaar Sneaksie Taffer - sometaffer Silvergun1000 - Silvergun1000 Pogonodon - chevalierdind GirlBones - niko_myshkin fnord2323 - fnord2323 Eschers Basement - Aria_Dabbler Goodchild - TrevorGood Oh yeah, and here's a snippet of info that I entirely missed on my first read through this thread, which I think is worth pointing out again: Sir Ophiuchus posted:Interacting with the NPCs on Twitter is always fun, but usually doesn't give you anything special. Every so often Mr_Wines gives out bottles of new wines via Twitter.
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I'd like to jump on the Starvelling Cat bandwagon, so if anyone would like to send me some catboxes, I'd be much obliged! EDIT: Opportunity cards are really annoying me. I'm looking for some specific golden ones, but the more I level my Qualities the larger the pool of cards get. I wish I could just say no to all the Watchful 10 cards so I wouldn't have to discard everything. Elswyyr fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Apr 6, 2011 |
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Thanks for posting that list. I'd be happy to help most anyone, but I'm not sure how to tell what I should and shouldn't be doing or what I'm particularly good for. I'm a Watchful and Dangerous gentleman if that helps. Also I could use a cat box too. Someone sent me one already but it was actually a giant spider that wounded me.
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How is your ambition coming along? Focus on that, I'm assuming you're doing The Vake if you're watchful and dangerous. It's really creepy/fun and has a great reward at the end of it.
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Okay, I've gotten two boxes of supposed cats so far. I freed the first one because I didn't think anything of it, and I got injured for being nice (though I did get some contact levelup). What exactly does passing a box onto someone else do? I'll send it to the first person who gives me a response I think is legitimate. Signed up for Echo Bazaar as TastyLemonDrops, by the way. TastyLemonDrops fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Apr 6, 2011 |
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TastyLemonDrops posted:Okay, I've gotten two boxes of supposed cats so far. I freed the first one because I didn't think anything of it, and I got injured for being nice (though I did get some contact levelup). What exactly does passing a box onto someone else do? I'll send it to the first person gives me a response I think is legitimate. They can unwrap the final layer of the box, and they could either get hurt or get something very valuable.
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Corridor posted:Okie dokie amigos, I got sufficiently bored enough to make a list of all the goons who posted their twitters in this thread, in the order they were posted. Let me know if your twitter account was actually for facebook (I couldn't find any FBs but hey) or if I got your name wrong or whatever. I've added to this to the OP (although I've updated mine to use my more active account).
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Elswyyr posted:Wait, some of the ambitions have ends yet? I thought they were all unfinished. No, it doesn't end, but it does have a reward at the end of the finished content.
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Not So Fast posted:I've added to this to the OP (although I've updated mine to use my more active account). i'm helping  I've been checking out all the NPCs on Twitter. It's pretty cute how they talk to each other. Most of the Masters are quite verbose and snide, but Mr Irons puts everything in brackets for some reason [seems like a whisper kind of] and Mr Stones seems a bit deranged and only uses monosyllables. Sinning Jenny uses every tweet to her as an opportunity to invite the player to her boudoir. Overgoat is my favourite.
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Right, so I've been playing this off and on for a month now. Made the mistake of using my actual twitter account so I won't post it here just yet, but if you see a Hiram Thugsworth about, that'd be me. Up for Chess or Nightmares or whatever. Anyone still interested in helping with First City coins? I'm at that fun part of the ambition.
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Destrado posted:
Sure, I'll help. I'm La_poodle on twitter.
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catfrog posted:How did you happen to lose them may I ask? Either gave them to Virginia or sent them to the colonies, I forget. Either way, it was dumb. I feel ya on the bazaar thing, I'm saving up for the Royal Bethlehem myself right now. Edit: The ~100 Watchful content in the University (creating the Department of the Correspondence) is pretty much the best. Tricky fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Apr 11, 2011 |
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