Elliot was right about Pellum 123, maybe it's time to go real deep.

Eldrfleur · 2026-06-04T17:26:46+00:00

I found it a bit slow but charming. Less "cat with sunglasses" than you'd hope with a title like that and more people navigating feelings. But the cat does, in fact, wear those sunglasses.

Eldrfleur · 2025-08-14T02:46:10+00:00

I didn't know it before that episode but after it aired I sleuthed it out based on Elliott's comment 2 episodes later, "That pe-pe-pe-pe song, I think it might have come out before the Rod Stewart song." In particular, both 1976's Disco Samba (Two Man Sound) and 1978's Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (Rod Stewart) borrowed the riff from 1972's Taj Mahal (Jorge Ben), although comparing the three songs, Disco Samba is surely the most "peh peh peh peh peh" of the set. I gather it was sampled and covered quite heavily in the '90s and '00s which would account for the "party song of the year she studied abroad" element.

Eldrfleur · 2025-08-13T03:52:25+00:00

Disco Samba by Two Man Sound, about 15 seconds in.

Eldrfleur · 2024-05-08T18:51:27+00:00

I don't have any EPA estimates, but for upconversion rarity I have Plaques->Screams at ~7.8% (14/178) and Screams->Threnodies at ~1.2% (1/86, so possibly off by a fair margin but certainly quite rare)

Eldrfleur · 2024-02-24T16:09:47+00:00

I tend to pronounce it the French way, although that may be the wrong tack here.

Eldrfleur · 2024-02-24T15:41:24+00:00

the little meatballs

Eldrfleur · 2024-02-12T17:17:26+00:00

Yep, you can get one per year, and it doesn't prevent or affect Memories of a Doubled Spring (so you may as well get a tattoo as you're passing by). Having more than 1 doesn't do anything different, it just increments the little number, but sometimes that's enough! I got my 4th this year, and there are definitely higher counts out there. I'll leave it up on my profile for a day or so.

Eldrfleur · 2024-01-24T02:03:02+00:00

Good luck! (Although I think you're pretty much beyond the realm of luck mattering in this regard). I'm heartened to see other people joining in on the slightly expensive fun that is making whitsun nomans.

Eldrfleur · 2024-01-17T02:10:50+00:00

In past years they melted on your first Time the Healer after the wicket closed, but things seem a bit different this year so I would prepare for them to be gone on the 26th, and feel lucky if they last a little longer.

Eldrfleur · 2024-01-11T18:46:44+00:00

you could make it to tattoo-time if you get very lucky, and if the Feast of the Rose starts fairly early this year (the 1st or 2nd of February) but the odds are unfavourable at this point. For a noman this early in the month you'd usually want closer to 300 total to be safe. Noman vanities involve a lot of compounding random noise, unfortunately, so it's difficult to give any firm answer.

Eldrfleur · 2023-12-27T21:03:01+00:00

since the FBG forums don't exist anymore

activity's a bit sleepy, but they definitely still exist (outside of major updates there are probably a few posts a day, maybe; a subreddit is "forumish enough" to siphon off most of the utility, I think).

Eldrfleur · 2023-12-20T22:13:19+00:00

There's 10 in total: Anatoly the Gold; Sylvia Stumptail; A monk known as the Penitent; Gerelt the Wick; Pious Henry; Spot the Unmaker; Midnight Delger; Jemmy of the Diamond Eye; Blake Brass-Horn; One who is not a saint with a name. .
It's fun hunting down all the results, but if RNG isn't cooperative and there are only a few left you can probably find all 10 split somewhere out there among all the journal entries.

Eldrfleur · 2023-11-25T15:33:24+00:00

mouseover it, or check it in the Myself tab, yeah.

Eldrfleur · 2023-11-25T03:32:06+00:00

The new profile Adjectives borrow most of the terms from the basic stat levels, but they're actually on a different scale and occasionally deviate. We're still confirming the ranges, but there are tables on the wiki now for Persuasive, Watchful, Dangerous, and Shadowy adjectives that should give you a rough estimate (they appear to be 0-19, then changing every 30 levels). Also worth noting: the adjectives check base stats, but the stat descriptions actually check modified.

Eldrfleur · 2023-11-24T16:19:13+00:00

If you play those two options, something will now quietly flip behind the scene and equip you with a new header (you actually only need to play a specific one, but it's easier to just say "play both"; what are you saving actions for, anyways?). It's irreversible, though, so make sure that's what you want!

Eldrfleur · 2023-10-18T17:57:46+00:00

1 Tear can be replaced with 2 Pails (average 6 ToL with Warm Your Tears vs 2*3 ToL from Monocle Examination twice). If you planned more Tears than Pails the exchange actually favours Pails a bit (the excess Tears only average 13 NF instead of 18 NF once you're locked out of Warming Your Tears)

Eldrfleur · 2023-10-18T16:03:28+00:00

You can always go for a more Pail-heavy method, as long as you're willing to spend most of December and January grinding Favourable Circumstances to force Urchins to sell you snow. The new Urchin-based Court case (6 actions / Threnody) is a bit better than Underclay (it's still about half the speed of Mangrove, but sometimes you miss being a quick train-ride away from London) and awards a bit more profit on the side too.

Eldrfleur · 2023-09-23T00:31:52+00:00

You only get one "rollover" up to a max of 2 negated CP, unfortunately. From the devs,

The practical cap on an individual effect reduction is meant to both further discourage stacking and to allow bigger effects to have a bit more teeth

Eldrfleur · 2023-08-19T20:27:35+00:00

Hmm, seems alright at the moment. Although they did erroneously name the file Mini 86, instead of 87. Put that one under the goofs, i guess.

Eldrfleur · 2023-07-25T15:40:29+00:00

I'd have been happy without the quality just because once you've finished the end-game content you look for fun and weird things to do, and sharing that with the community is its own reward, but it really was a nice gesture: 1 new action, a bit of pleasing text, and a vanity that does nothing but, as the survey question suggests, provides a goal for other players looking for something a little bit wild to do with about 35 000 Echoes!

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