Progress in Fallen London

It doesn’t say so here, but in addition to providing me with a bigger hand and a neat place to live (bookstore apartment, woo!), this place also gives me a significant defence bonus in Knife and Candle. I don’t know why. Maybe bookstores just aren’t good places for casual murder. At any rate, Cryptic Clues are valuable and your ability to get them rises/falls as you unlock different storylets, and right now I have no easy way to farm them. Essentially, this was a sacrifice, but it was also risk/reward kind of sacrifice. This action is available as an option for an opportunity card, meaning I’ve never had this option before now. And I don’t know when I’d get the option again. The risk of declining is that I may not see the card again, and the risk of accepting is that I may need those clues. Is the reward of a new place to live, and a defence bonus in PvP, worth that risk? I think it will be, as I’m training my Dangerous right now and plan to do some PvP.

        In the mean time, my bigger hand and familiarity with some of the cards means that I’m scoring nightmares like crazy. I’ve got three different dreams in my hand right now, but my Nightmare is too high for me to use them. I need to talk to somebody about that, but their Nightmare has to be relatively low so I don’t screw them over. And I need Sudden Insights for that action, meaning I have to play chess then talk about my nightmares. Usually, they’ll end up having to tell ME about the nightmares that I GAVE THEM, so it’s a long, expensive process.

        And it’s really fucking awesome.

        edit: Not sure who will see this, but: this directory now chronicles neat stuff I’ve done in Echo Bazaar, with EB2, EB3, and EB5 being pictures I didn’t think were interesting enough to make posts about. EB2 is me making the best penny-dreadful ever, EB3 is me wasting 4 Fate to clear my Nightmares for Science! (the info wasn’t on the wiki, I’m waiting for editing permissions) and EB5 is a cool storylet I just unlocked by being Dangerous. I don’t think any of you are training Dangerous right now so that’s why I took it.

        Everyone knows buckets are practically bullet-proof!