Painting in Balmoral (Guide)
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Raw EPA | 4.40 | Raw SPA | 5.68 |
General[edit]
Balmoral is found at the fourth station of the Railway. Apart from visiting the local forest (the Moonlit Woods, where you can gain
Moonlit for painting) and Balmoral Castle, you can join the artist in the old Distillery in
Crathie and take up commissions for Her Enduring Majesty. She has neglected to visit the place since the Fall, but that doesn't seem to bother anyone.
Painting Progress[edit]
Your progress towards a finished piece is tracked by Painter's Progress. It is set to 1 when beginning a new commission and when it reaches 7, the painting is finished. This means you have 6 actions to contribute to your work and it takes 8 actions to fully begin and finish a painting. Your painting's style (the reward) is determined by the combinations of
Painting: Luminosity,
Painting: Nostalgic and
Painting: Incendiary.
You have 6 actions to influence your work for every painting. Both success and failure increase Painter's Progress by 1.
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With Moonlight |
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Paint! |
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- ↑ 11.00 with
The Seal of St Joshua
- ↑ Reduced with high
Renown: Revolutionaries
Creating a painting is essentially a 45-75 investment in order to gain different items.
Since both success and failure add one of the three attributes, your painting will always end up with 6 marks in total. The amount and combinations of these determine the rewards.
You must present your Completed Painting before starting another one!
There are small additional rewards for the success of each option:
Inspired... (+1 CP) for Paint with Moonlight
15 x Romantic Notion for Paint Balmoral in a subversive cast and Paint!
Failure consumes the items as well, except for "Paint!" where the penalty is only 3 x Touching Love Stories.
Finishing a painting also increases the Painter of Fine Art quality by 1, tracking the number of paintings you completed and your reputation as an artist.
Rewards[edit]
Return to either London or the Helicon House in Ealing Gardens to present your painting. Only a Completed Painting may be presented.
Requirements | Reward | Value ( |
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London - Presenting your Painting | ||
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80 | |
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80 | |
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100 | |
Any other combination |
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25.20 |
Helicon House - Display your own painting | ||
Any combination |
Analysis[edit]
Each painting essentially takes at least 9 Actions: one to begin, six to paint, one to complete, and one to sell.
- Traveling to sell your paintings will take 3 Actions, irrelevant on your preference of selling method (
London or
The Helicon House).
You have six chances to influence your painting, with each option giving a point of Painter's Progress. Failing checks is not only likely, but encouraged, if you are looking for the best EpA.
The following are the listed actions needed for sourcing the necessary items for each option:
- Paint with Moonlight — 4 Actions +
2 x Moonlit (see
Irem (Guide) for sourcing)
- This option presents difficulty as it pretends to
Moonlit as a prerequisite. For the time being, it was ignored for the purposes of the guide, but if a compelling method is found, it will be factored in.
- This option presents difficulty as it pretends to
- Paint in a subversive cast — 6 Actions (see
Old Newgate (Guide) for sourcing)
- This option is by far the most expensive in terms of Actions and the less rewarding, as both its success and failure offer points in styles easier to gain through the other methods.
- Paint! — 5 Actions (see
Irem (Guide) for sourcing)
- Even so, as mentioned above, the failure on the option to Paint! consumes only
3 x Touching Love Story for one progress and 1 x
Incendiary
- Failure can be used as a cheap option to fill the rest of a painting after gathering 4 of any other desired painting styles.
- This can be improved through the use of your
Kraken in
the Lofty Tower card to source
1.5 x Touching Love Stories per Action.
- Even so, as mentioned above, the failure on the option to Paint! consumes only
The following is a table detailing the EpA, or SpA, of any end option, using the factors above:
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Requirements | SPA |
Any combination |
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Strategy[edit]
The above results were obtained by taking into account all options as they report to Paint!, thus any option for "at least 4" were completed using the Failure on Paint!, likewise Incendiary and
Nostalgic were both sourced from Paint! such to be augmented by the presence of the
Kraken option.
This segment will detail an attempt at integrating a Bone Market recipe in the grind, for the purposes of cashing out the resources provided by the 4 Incendiary option, in
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- Assuming: an initial investment of
7 x Brass Skulls, so a start of 437.5
, and that
The Diplomat's Current Fascination is birds or skeletons with many skulls.
- One cycle of painting failure (through the use of a
Woesel) will cost
18 x Touching Love Story.
- Thus, with our
6 Incendiary we can choose the payment for
4 Incendiary, which will give us
1 x Skeleton with Seven Necks and 17.5
worth of sellable goods.
- Thus, with our
- We turn to the
Bone Market for a worthy recipe for a
Skeleton with Seven Necks.
- Diplomatic Bird recipe:
Skeleton with Seven Necks ✓
7 x Brass Skulls ✓
1400 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
2 x Wing of a Young Terror Bird (sourced from Hunting in Burrow or A Composed Composer) ✓
- Diplomatic Bird recipe:
- Traveling to the
Khanate (requires a
Khaganian Safe-Conduct):
- Sell your Bird to the Diplomat. This will gain you
1011 x Khaganian Coinage.
- Sell your Bird to the Diplomat. This will gain you
- Total: 1.91 EpA
- This can be further improved through the use of the
Kraken method.
- Up to 2.21 EpA
Please note that travel actions were not included for the London - Khanate route
This is no longer the better method, leaving in place the 3 Incendiary and
3 Luminosity option.
- At: 3.97 EpA
- And further improved through the use the
Kraken.
- Up to 4.40 EpA
References[edit]
- ↑ Valued at 62.50
, but no direct way of selling it
- ↑
Favours: Society valued at 10.27
from Tiger Tribute
- ↑
Favours: Society valued at 13.55
\ 11.5
from Tiger Tribute is exchanged at the Ratket