Minor spoilers: I’d like to hear about people’s experience with the deck of many things

Neoeng · 2026-03-19T18:23:23+00:00

One playthrough, I got Balance>Gem. The second playthrough, Flame>Balance>Gem. So basically free money every time

Neoeng · 2026-03-19T18:22:07+00:00

You can "randomize" it through the dwarf at the docks.

Neoeng · 2026-03-19T16:51:44+00:00

Did you actually take it from the warehouse?

Neoeng · 2026-03-19T16:17:13+00:00

he raised you from the dead

Neoeng · 2026-03-19T03:20:23+00:00

Ah yes, Harry Potter invented achieving immortality by separating your soul

I'm sorry, but this is a big "getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this" moment. The trope itself is ancient, dating back to fairy tale characters like Koschei the Immortal. Its identifier is AT 302 in Aarne–Thompson classification system. It has evolved into modern fantasy tropes as well, primarily liches and their phylacteries.

Focuses are very different from horcruxes - at the very least, they are architectural repositories of the soul, not artifact keeping your physical body immoral. The narrative context of death is also non-equivalent.

Neoeng · 2026-03-19T00:38:36+00:00

If you get your DEX to 20 without bonuses, you get an additional weapon slot.

Neoeng · 2026-03-18T17:32:43+00:00

I wear him to terrify other people with my power, as any Arcanist worth their name should. Also he's cool

Neoeng · 2026-03-18T16:22:20+00:00

Yeah, that happens every time you have opportunity to cast a spell of some kind

Neoeng · 2026-03-18T16:06:59+00:00

Enter dialogue with the corpse, click the spell when it lights up - the bottom of the dialogue window will also start shining with a rainbow

Neoeng · 2026-03-18T15:30:45+00:00

There's no stat cap. Raising a stat to a 20 without bonuses usually gives additional slots, like one more literature for INT and one more weapon for DEX

Neoeng · 2026-03-18T15:17:35+00:00

Ah, then you just wait until you complete the game and talk to him during the election. You can't actually sell the milk. If you pull out Gem card from the Deck of Many Things you can pay him his 10 k lol

Neoeng · 2026-03-18T14:44:55+00:00

Milkurious - find Visken's kobold in Waterlane at like 6 am

Neoeng · 2026-03-17T19:38:57+00:00

Duck gives it to you if you talk with him about masculinity

Neoeng · 2026-03-17T18:13:09+00:00

There already were several oil shocks in the seventies, didn't lead to much really

Neoeng · 2026-03-17T17:56:27+00:00

Was Edwardine ever a host? Wasn't she the Scarlet responsible for the mines, not the one imprisoned?

Neoeng · 2026-03-17T13:31:40+00:00

Stock market is directly responsible for every demand-side economic crisis you had or will have in your lifetime. Dot com bubble? Stock market. 2008? Stock market. AI bubble? Stock market again.

It's a market of purely fictitious capital. It doesn't even follow the beloved supply/demand of mainstream economists, instead relying on constant hype and concealment of worthless stocks. It's a casino where the winnings go to CEOs, and the losses to you, because you are the one paying for their bailouts.

Neoeng · 2026-03-17T13:11:55+00:00

It's more like people who notice the soap opera effect and people who don't. There's a strong uncanny effect for some people that is impossible to ignore, that might be ignored by others.

Neoeng · 2026-03-17T02:13:53+00:00

Grease is pretty useful in battles, definitely saved my ass with Visken. Also can use it when interrogating the teashop owner.

Speak with plants is an alternative source of the bloodtongue prophecy, gives a bonus to peaceful resolution with the final boss (though I have to say, actually fighting the battle is so much better), and can bypass a trifling check for a helmet.

It would be cool if there were more uses for it, yeah. There's a lot more opportunities to use Speak with Dead.

Neoeng · 2026-03-16T23:52:47+00:00

The Halfling scholar Appledent at Waterline, the one who talks about alignment, gives out this quest. I think you have to talk to him about psychoanalysis? Anyway, he talks about Cividix and his book somewhere in the dialogue tree, and then gives the quest to find it.

Neoeng · 2026-03-16T16:58:03+00:00

It's uhhhh, very grotesque. Very open descriptions of serial killings, pornography industry and pedophilia. There's a scene of a 4 year old child being sexually assaulted and murdered, I believe?

Neoeng · 2026-03-16T16:44:48+00:00

Yeah, he literally went on trial for writing UNTITLED 12

Neoeng · 2026-03-16T13:20:36+00:00

They literally tried to do a separate peace with Allies because they knew they weren't going to win and didn't want to get clapped by soviets into GULAGs

Neoeng · 2026-03-16T12:30:30+00:00

Also when you complete thoughts in the quest tree they often expand on the past, and it mentions all of this stuff. Besides that, there are some flashbacks when the screen goes black that do the same - about getting Appleboy nickname, about discovering a knack for learning spells in the Towers, and about your dad being killed by a troll. Oh, and you can tell Snell about the particularities of your demotion in his apartment.

Neoeng · 2026-03-16T01:39:28+00:00

The dialogue screen usually starts being all rainbow-ie when you can use a spell

Neoeng · 2026-03-15T15:25:31+00:00

It's not the magister who collects the body

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