Moon-Miser Herding (Guide)

Mid Firmament Content and Onwards

Moon-Miser Herding Summary

Fixed-Length Activity

Setup

0 A

Progress

7 A

End

0 A

Progress Details

Play cards to raise Stations of the Herd to 7.

Items Inputs/Outputs

Outputs

Latent Recollections

Raw EPA

5

How to unlock

Moon-Miser Herding is accessible as part of the Firmament storyline.

Access to Moon-Miser Herding is in Zenith, unlocked with Firmament 360 (the end of Chapter 3). The storylet The Gate of Misers begins this activity. After entering for the first time, the player will need to pass through it at least four times (28 actions) before unlocking the payout mechanic.

Progress

Progress through the activity is done by drawing and playing cards. When first unlocking the activity, the player is limited to a hand size of 2. Every card will clear the hand and grant 1 level of Stations of the Herd, which acts as a progress tracker for the activity. There are 2 High Urgency cards associated to each level of Stations of the Herd, so the player will always initially see the same 2 cards on any given level. Once Stations of the Herd reaches 7, Come to your senses will autofire, ending the activity and awarding 1 x Latent Recollections.

Additional options are unlocked by playing specific actions on some cards, gaining 1 CP in one of three qualities per relevant option. Ending the activity with one of those qualities at level 2 will unlock another associated quality, as follows:

• Acclimating to Prolonged Inversion unlocks Seeing a new Frame of Reference
• Awakening to Miracle unlocks Hearing Chimes at Midnight
• Tasting Ichor unlocks A Mouthful of Light

Note that ending the activity will reset Acclimating to Prolonged Inversion, Awakening to Miracle and Tasting Ichor, so the 3 CP required to unlock the associated qualities must be obtained in a single attempt. See the cards table below to see which cards can increase which qualities, or the runs table for a summary of which cards should be played in which run.

Having Seeing a new Frame of Reference, Hearing Chimes at Midnight and A Mouthful of Light will unlock new options on existing cards, each of which grants 1 CP of another new quality, Opening Another Eye. Similarly to before, ending the activity with Opening Another Eye at level 2 grants the final quality, Seeing More than Two Paths. Note that failing the checks that grant Opening Another Eye will remove the associated quality, so be sure to have the stats necessary to 100% the checks: Chthonosophy of at least 7 and Kataleptic Toxicology of at least 10.

Having Seeing More than Two Paths raises your hand size for the activity to three, allowing new, non-High Urgency cards to be drawn. Most of these do nothing other than progressing the activity, although Moulting Hour awards a small amount of Shard of Glim. Three of the new cards, however, allow the player to cash out Latent Recollections. These are the gold-bordered cards Blood of the Stone, Fearful Symmetry, and Peal of Thunder. Playing any one of these cards will convert all your Latent Recollections into 35 worth of items (although 10 of this value is in items sellable for Stuivers) per recollection, as well as granting 1 CP of respectively Stone-Hearted (up to level 6), Salt-Veined (up to level 6), or Stormy-Eyed (up to level 6).

Runs to unlock Seeing More than Two Paths

This table shows the four runs required to unlock Seeing More than Two Paths and the profitable Latent Recollections cards. They cannot be combined, but the first three can be completed in any order to gain their respective qualities needed for Opening Another Eye in the fourth run.

Cards

Since each amount of Stations of the Herd has exactly two High Urgency cards associated to it, the player will always draw the same 2 cards until unlocking the third card slot with Seeing More than Two Paths.

The standard frequency cards have no dependency on Stations of the Herd and all of them can be drawn at any time during the activity, with one exception: the gold-bordered cards Blood of the Stone, Fearful Symmetry and Peal of Thunder all require having Latent Recollections and cannot appear a second time if the player has already spent their Latent Recollections.

Standard Cards

The cards are divided into two groups: Gold and Silver. The Gold cards allow you to cash out your accumulated Latent Recollections, while the Silver cards are only there to add flavour.

Gold

These cards can only be drawn when you have Latent Recollections.

Recommendation

Part of the value for cashout items will be tied up in Stuivers, so take that into account when deciding which option to take. Fearful Symmetry offers the most direct payout in Echoes. Peal of Thunder pays out partly in Storm-Threnody, which can be sold at the Rat Market, upping its value considerably.

Additionally, every 3 levels of Stone-Hearted (5 CP) can be cashed out in Burgundy on Cardinal Disagreements in exchange for 1 x Memory of Moonlight, 1 x Stolen Kiss, 50 x Sample of Roof-Drip (total value 2.5 + 350; equivalent to 20 total) and a small reduction in Wounds and Nightmares.

Stone-Hearted is also needed to unlock some actions in Stonegift, start the Dream of Sisyphean Effort, and obtain the Guiltgift Pendant.

Every 3 levels of Salt-Veined (5 CP) can also be cashed out at Queeneater's Castle via Bleed onto the roots, for 1 x Memory of a Much Stranger Self and 3 x Roof-Chart (total value 20.47 or 400), at the cost of some Wounds gain.