God Save the Queen, Indeed: Let's Play Long Live the Queen!

[Deme]

No. Which, since it's been concluded by everyone that I should suggest something...
There's going to be a whole bunch of stuff that's unlocked by high Lore or very high Novan History in a few weeks. These things can kill us, or can prevent us from being killed in other ways, and so on. I think if we start power-training for Lore within the next week or two, we can do it.
We can also go for the same effect by trying to invest heavily in our Novan History skills, also sort of power-leveling, with maybe a little spare.

Oooor...We can not do anything about it, avoid that route, and proceed on Plan Animal.

Basically, it's your call what we do, but it could pass us if I didn't say anything.

[Sightsear]

Let's visit that tomb and get us some Lore!

...Wait, what mood is it that gives us a bonus to lore? Where's that chart...

[Mirrinus]

Lore is under Faith, which is boosted by Afraid and Pressured. I think we can get Afraid via Attending Service and maybe Visiting Tomb again (the latter may or may not be required, I forgot).

[Deme]

Pressured and Afraid.

[Sanguine]

Afraid is out of our reach, this week anyway, but we can become Pressured by Attending Court. So I say we do that and power-level Lore.

[TengYt]

Warning, major spoiler:

Spoiler

If we're going for what I think we are, the Briony route, we have absolutely no chance of survival, since you need high in a lot of skills we have nothing in. We can always go the "talk Briony out of it" choice or the "tattle to the family" choice, but if we actually go on the adventure we're just gonna die. A lot. Basically, surviving that requires very careful and deliberate training from turn 1.

[Kizor]

Hey, can you use one of these?

Skill	Angry	Afraid	Cheerful	Depressed	Willful	Yielding	Pressured	Lonely
Royal Demeanor	-	-		-	--	+		-
Conversation			+	--			-	+
Expression	-			+
Agility		+
Weapons	+	-	-			---
Athletics			+	-			+
Animal Handling	-			+
History					--	+
Intrigue		-	-		+			-
Medicine	-							+
Economics					--		-
Military	+	-	--		+
Faith		+					+	-
Lumen					+	---

[Lycan 01]

Changing my vote to Attending Court.

[Deme]

Originally Posted by TengYt

Warning, major spoiler:

Spoiler

If we're going for what I think we are, the Briony route, we have absolutely no chance of survival, since you need high in a lot of skills we have nothing in. We can always go the "talk Briony out of it" choice or the "tattle to the family" choice, but if we actually go on the adventure we're just gonna die. A lot. Basically, surviving that requires very careful and deliberate training from turn 1.

Spoiler

Yeah, I know. XD
But I figure once we die, we can vote to not agree to help and undo all the training we're doing now, even. Or we can vote for one of the other options. Death is not the end for this LP...So doing things that only pay off if we don't die isn't an issue. Or, heck, we could decide to make a training schedule all the way back to turn 1 to get us through, even. Sky's the limit.

[TengYt]

Originally Posted by Deme

Spoiler

Yeah, I know. XD
But I figure once we die, we can vote to not agree to help and undo all the training we're doing now, even. Or we can vote for one of the other options. Death is not the end for this LP...So doing things that only pay off if we don't die isn't an issue. Or, heck, we could decide to make a training schedule all the way back to turn 1 to get us through, even. Sky's the limit.

Spoiler

Haha, fair enough.

Amusingly, if we don't pass the Lore or History check, Briony will die anyway assuming we go to the party, which'll trigger the "Kevan is a vengeful jackass" scene, so passing the check will save Elodie's butt either way ;)

[Forum Explorer]

You know what? I'd rather stick with the animals.

[smuchmuch]

Originally Posted by Deme

Spoiler

Yeah, I know. XD
But I figure once we die, we can vote to not agree to help and undo all the training we're doing now, even. Or we can vote for one of the other options. Death is not the end for this LP...So doing things that only pay off if we don't die isn't an issue. Or, heck, we could decide to make a training schedule all the way back to turn 1 to get us through, even. Sky's the limit.

I assume the moment we reach corronation, though, this LP is over, right ?

Okay let's lore away.

[JeminiZero]

Well then, Court for Pressure and then Lore

[Deme]

Chapter 30: Week 23, Mood: Pressured
or
Lore of the Land

Spoiler

Well, you appear to have gone along with my crazy plan. I bet it'll end in resets all-round!


Our current skills. Now, we're gonna fill out that last bit of the "Mystical" corner some!


Lore is, at first, mostly stuff about magic.

See? We live in an anti-magic world because magic screwed things up so bad it basically salted the earth.


(Which means money.)
Thanks for stealing my lines, Elodie.


"I have dabbled in musical styles from many countries, and can entertain your guests and lighten your evenings."

(Immortalise me in words? I wonder if she wrote that filthy poem?)
Eh, maybe...But that could have been anyone.


So this singer can either be our friend or our enemy.

The musician sings a little ditty to demonstrate her skills with the lute.


And we can guess from that failed listen check that she's kind of terrible.


And we've got a little choice. It won't affect our mood either way, so vote away!
Also, vote for weekend activity and how we'll continue our goal! I reccomend for leveling out some 'walk in the gardens,' which will keep us pressured but help our depression. Or attend service, for when you'll probably want us to switch to horses later.

[Forum Explorer]

Somebody has to be around to sing this:



"Nannanananananana Elodie!"

[Sanguine]

I think she's a spy...a psychic spy.

Nah, not really. I think we should keep her. If shes a spy our Intrigue should hopefully allow us too uncover the fact, we can then turn her or use her against her employer. If she's not a spy maybe we can make her one.

After that we should Attend Service and double up on Divination.

[Starbuck_II]

Accept her, we need a theme song, don't we?

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Originally Posted by Forum Explorer

Somebody has to be around to sing this:



"Nannanananananana Elodie!"

This. Seriously.

Hey, maybe this is our Elan character.

[Loki_42]

I think we should keep her. Who cares that she sucks, if we aren't good enough at music to tell the difference.

[Eldonauran]

Accept.

We can always get rid of her later. Maybe.

[Tavar]

Accept: the spy you know is better than the spy you don't.

[Lycan 01]

Accept.

Walking in the Garden.

Lore and Divination.

[smuchmuch]

It seems Elodie's taste in music is unsuprisingly as good as her taste in fashion.

Kay, well accept and after that let's lore away some more.

[Deme]

Chapter 31, Week 24, Mood: Pressured
Or
Nowhere to Look But Inside, Where We All Respond to Pressure!

Spoiler

And it's unanimous!

I'd like you all to imagine a little 'ding' as we fill out an (already filled) checklist item: Hire a Spy.
However...

"I will do my best for you!"
Elodie never realizes this lady here is a spy without passing more of the checks.
Sorry, hopeful people.

Anyway, since we've not yet walked outside, let's do that. Only two votes, after all.



So the key to divination is waiting for random stuff to happen. How...Depressing.


Look how close we came to slamming into that point cap. Dang.
Also, tentacle monsters and their flood myth. Coolbeans.


So far, he's enjoying himself with your uncle Armand in Mazomba. He says the trees look different, and there are a lot more frogs. He looks forward to visiting the lookout fort at Shepherd's Point.
At this point, you usually get a letter from him...But this is the nicest, since it sounds most like the kid's writing it in peace.


Oh, the dungeons give no effect right now, and Attending Service does -1 Angry. That's all that's different this week.

[Sanguine]

That was a short week.

Attend Service, then Meditation and Divination.

[Tavar]

Attend Service, then either dual meditation if that's the only way to bust the cap, or Meditation+Divination if the cap can be broken only by one class.

[Deme]

You need both at 25 to bust the cap.

[Mewtarthio]

I say we get Divination to 25 before we start on Meditation.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Originally Posted by Mewtarthio

I say we get Divination to 25 before we start on Meditation.

I concur. Let's watch for those omens!

[Sanguine]

Originally Posted by Mewtarthio

I say we get Divination to 25 before we start on Meditation.

However we only need one more class in Divination to get it above 25. Thus our most efficient option is to split our classes between the two skills.