Shroom-Hopping (Guide)

Early MYN Content

Shroom Hopping Summary
Locked Variable-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
1 A				4-6+ A				1 A
Progress Details			Raise In the Lead while you have Time Remaining...
Items Inputs/Outputs Outputs Bottle of Greyfields 1882 Whispered Hint Silk Scrap Piece of Rostygold Jade Fragment Moon-Pearl Shard of Glim Carnival Ticket F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum Venom-Ruby Sudden Insight Confident Smile Hard-Earned Lesson Hastily Scrawled Warning Note Making Waves
Raw EPA						0.77
Special						2.03 Making Waves/A

This guide is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.

What needs work: Missing challenge information and failures on some challenges.

This guide covers the repeatable activity accessible from A stroke of luck! (3 FATE) on A day at the races. This content is FATE-locked, so per this Wiki's Content Policy, the covered content will not otherwise be included on the Wiki, and the guide may contain mechanical descriptions but not narrative content.

Overview

This action brings you to a new location. The activities here are repeatable as long as you do not leave the area it brings. There are unique cards, repeatable storylets, and a carousel.

The Cards

This location has a unique Opportunity Deck. It is pulls from your same draw pool, and uses the same hand size you normally have. All cards are discardable. If you have a 5 card hand size, you will draw one of every card.

Card Icon	Options	Challenge	Requirements	Success	Failure
		45	N/A	28 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey	Scandal +1 CP
		45	N/A	55 x Piece of Rostygold	Nightmares +1 CP
		N/A	Shepherd's Timepiece	1 x Favours: The Church Scandal -2 CP	N/A
		N/A	15 x Inkling of Identity	1 x Favours: Society Scandal -1 CP -15 x Inkling of Identity	N/A
		45	N/A	45 x Whispered Hint	Wounds +1 CP
		N/A	Spirifer's Fork	55 x Nevercold Brass Sliver	N/A
		45	N/A	1 x Confident Smile Favours: Society Making Waves +1 CP	Wounds +1 CP
		50%	200 x Jade Fragment	200 x Jade Fragment	-200 x Jade Fragment
		30%	200 x Moon-Pearl	300 x Moon-Pearl	-200 x Moon-Pearl
		10%	200 x Whispered Hint	700 x Whispered Hint	-200 x Whispered Hint

This is a very easy way to gain Favours: Society and if you're a Shepherd Favours: The Church at one favour per action, and same goes for Confident Smiles.

The Storylets

Storylet	Options	Challenge	Requirements	Success	Failure
		N/A	N/A	Starts the Carousel	N/A
		?	Iron Hat	40 x Whispered Hint	???
		?	Iron Hat	60 x Nodule of Deep Amber	???
		?	Pirate Hat	2 x Appalling Secret 1 x Zee-Ztory	???
		?	Ridiculous Hat	12 x Proscribed Material	???
		N/A	N/A	Leaves the subarea	N/A

The Carousel

You will start with 6 x Time Remaining... and each action you take will decrement it by 1 or 2. Your goal over the course of this carousel is to increase your In the Lead as much as you can and then at 7 x Time Remaining... there will be one final challenge based on In the Lead to determine the payout. There are 2 different tracks depending on whether you currently have any In the Lead, and when you do not have any, you will have opportunities to acquire Burst of Speed!s which can be spent to gain In the Lead.

The Storylets

	>0?	Needed?	Storylet	Options	Challenge	Success	Failure
6	N/A	X			N/A	1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	N/A
					?	In the Lead +2 CP -1 x Time Remaining...	???
5	✓	X			43	In the Lead +2 CP 21 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882 -1 x Time Remaining...	???
					45	In the Lead +4 CP 1 x Confident Smile 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson -2 x Time Remaining...	???
	X	X			41	1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	???
		✓			43	In the Lead +2 CP -1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	???
4	✓	X			40	In the Lead Reset 40 x Whispered Hint 1x Confident Smile -1 x Time Remaining...	???
					43	In the Lead +2 CP 43 x Silk Scrap -1 x Time Remaining...	???
					43	In the Lead +4 CP 43 x Piece of Rostygold -2 x Time Remaining...	???
	X	✓			?	In the Lead +2 CP -1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	???
		X			?	1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	???
3	✓	X			43	In the Lead +4 CP 43 x Piece of Rostygold -2 x Time Remaining...	???
					50%	In the Lead +2 CP 1 x Confident Smile 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson 1 x Sudden Insight -2 x Time Remaining...	In the Lead Reset 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson Wounds +? CP -1 x Time Remaining...
	X	✓			?	In the Lead +2 CP -1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	???
		X			?	1 x Burst of Speed! 20 x Piece of Rostygold -1 x Time Remaining...	???
2	✓	X			46	In the Lead +2 CP 43 x Jade Fragment Wounds +? CP -2 x Time Remaining...	???
					43	In the Lead +2 CP 10 x Moon-Pearl -2 x Time Remaining...	???
	X	✓			?	In the Lead +2 CP -1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	???
		X			?	1 x Burst of Speed! -1 x Time Remaining...	???
1	✓	✓			1	Wounds +2 CP Time Remaining... Reset	In the Lead Reset 75 x Moon-Pearl 75 x Piece of Rostygold 75 x Jade Fragment Wounds +2 CP Time Remaining... Reset
		X			2	Time Remaining... Reset	In the Lead Reset 75 x Moon-Pearl 75 x Piece of Rostygold 75 x Jade Fragment Time Remaining... Reset
	X	✓			5	In the Lead +2 CP Time Remaining... Reset	Wounds +1 CP Time Remaining... Reset
		X			1	75 x Moon-Pearl 75 x Piece of Rostygold 75 x Jade Fragment Time Remaining... Reset	Scandal +1 CP Time Remaining... Reset

Rewards

The final rewards are based on your ending In the Lead which caps at 4 and can be found in the table below:

In the Lead	Reward
0	1 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note (Up to 21) 1 x Confident Smile (Up to 21) 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson (Up to 21) 1 x Sudden Insight (Up to 21) Dangerous +1 CP Persuasive +1 CP Shadowy +1 CP Watchful +1 CP Making Waves +1 CP
1	150 x Piece of Rostygold 150 x Moon-Pearl 150 x Shard of Glim Dangerous +1 CP Persuasive +1 CP Shadowy +1 CP Watchful +1 CP Making Waves +2 CP
2	150 x Piece of Rostygold 150 x Moon-Pearl 150 x Shard of Glim 20 x Carnival Ticket Dangerous +2 CP Persuasive +2 CP Shadowy +2 CP Watchful +2 CP Making Waves +3 CP
3	150 x Piece of Rostygold 150 x Moon-Pearl 150 x Shard of Glim 1 x F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour 1 x F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum Dangerous +2 CP Persuasive +2 CP Shadowy +2 CP Watchful +2 CP Making Waves +6 CP
4	150 x Piece of Rostygold 150 x Moon-Pearl 150 x Shard of Glim 1 x Venom-Ruby 1 x F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum Dangerous +5 CP Persuasive +5 CP Shadowy +5 CP Watchful +5 CP Making Waves +15 CP

On each level of Time Remaining..., there is an option to leave the carousel and return to the main lobby if you're not sure you'll win, or the option to leave the area altogether.

Strategy

The best route to complete this in the fewest number of action is to take the options that result in a loss of 2 Time Remaining.... This will make the carousel take 6 actions and get you the max rewards 80% of the time. This is an average of 2.03 making waves per action. Otherwise, losing provides 1 of each of the second chances for a similar number of actions. EPA wise this is pretty terrible at 0.776 EPA.