I don't know how to win in the Apostolic Bureau, there's no hint. And paradoxes will accumulate and become more numerous, unable to be eliminated, and the three paradoxes will die. I don't know what to do

What is the benefit of doing solo expeditions? Its harder to hit the checks and there don't seem to be any new rewards for it

The paradoxes shouldn't actually be triggering paradox checks that early. I'll look into it.

Not sure how you're supposed to survive the Apostle Legacy. It seems like you need a ritual, but by the time you get one the paradoxes have usually piled up and killed you, especially given that preventing that requires a difficult influence.

Alright, I'm stumped, I've got six marks, I've A Record of my Travels, I... Have no idea how I'm supposed to actually ascend.

Yes I saw now that it belongs to other mod, I'm sorry

@Castellari are you talking about " My Own Effort "?

So take the matters on my own hand is not a card from your mod?

Plan card? All you need is the job card, a vault, at least one tool, and any amount of tools and ingredients. Don't forget to bring some funding too.

I already got two tools, but whenever I start a expedtion It doesnt pull the plan card, neither I can put it somewhere

You need at least one tool to begin an expedition, and you can only use studied tools. In retrospect this isn't communicated very clearly and I really should fix that when I get around to fixing all the other issues people have pointed out.

I dont know how to use plan for expeditions, I dont know if it's bugged or I'm just dumb

@nova
I really, really enjoy this mod, it's delightful!
That said, after installing this mod, I find that cards keep doubling on me.
Which is to say, whenever a card transitions to another card inside of a verb, it's been giving me two copies of the new card.

Painting with 1 Passion gives me 2 Exhausted Passion, 1 Health becomes 2 Wounds/Afflictions, 1 Wound/Affliction becomes 2 Health, fulfilling a commission gives me two "unavailable" copies of the Patron in question, etc.

It's rather confusing, and seemed worthy of mention.
Cheers!

Oh, you have to use the university position with it, nvm

I think the Paradoxical curio is supposed to have the studyable aspect, but it doesn't. I don't have any other mods enabled, (apart from acheiveintergrations) and nobody else seems to have this problem, so I'm not sure what this is.

Or kick a Health out with your first work, like the Physician Legacy does with A Position at the Institute?

Sadly Time Passes is coded to be induced whenever you gain funds. I could perhaps remove the funds you get from your first work but that might be a bit strange too.

I'd suggest starting the seasons clock (aka "Time Passes") only after the player gets their first Health card. As is, there's nothing stopping the player from accidentally delaying studying the Paradoxical Curio long enough that they may get to season of afflictions and die.

Do let me know if I've missed anything of course. They remade the entire engine on me and I've just not had the time to sit down and seriously test things since then.

@Vortis I'm looking into it, but it seems like the issue might be on AE's end. For now I've added a workaround that probably breaks compatibility with other mods but this one works.

I want to try this out. Does anyone know if the bugs mentioned have been fixed?

I think the recent update to achieveIntegrations might have broken Season of Ambition's ability to pick up Ascencion: Discovery, unless advancing past the 3rd Mark of Wanderlust is done via another method I've not figured out.

Maybe "You painted this, so you know all there is about it"?
Can confirm, the Geminiad can't be studied.

how do I go on solo expeditions?

the Knock 2 Tool and the Whispering Amulet would both be really nice for the earlier expeditions though, before you've gotten a 12-aspect tool. as for the Masterpieces, maybe something like 'There is not enough History to this item to Glean anything worthwhile'? that's what i thought of off the top of my head anyway. besides that, i love the mod though.

@Dr. Bones It is intentional that the masterpieces can't be studied, though I probably should put in a hint stating as such. I skipped the multiaspect tools as well though they might be studyable at some point.

How do you study masterpieces or the Whispering Amulet? i tried slotting in 10 lore for the Masterpieces and it says i need something else? same thing for the whispering amulet as well.

Nevermind i'm just dumb and never once had the thing i actually needed available because gaining money is a very primal urge.

So this might be a super obvious question, but i wanna ask to make sure, do you have to lock in your Desire before you can perform solo expeditions?

I think you're probably right that I could have been a lot more loose about the solo expeditions and accepted a higher odds of failure. I'm pretty well-trained by vanilla to try to make sure you get as high a success rate as possible, when failing 70%s can very quickly add up to dead followers and just how very punishing curses are. Although curses are still super punishing either way.

@Walandil You make some good points, and a few things are being done to address the expedition mechanic in an upcoming update but maybe I should just go ahead and push that sooner. Anyway I just want to quickly say that while you need 10 of an aspect for the highest odds of success, your odds with 5 are actually still pretty good and the penalty for failure is actually lower than normal expeditions, as you can infinitely replenish your injured health while followers will die if they acquire too many scars.

That said I do have a few different ideas for how to fix this, and on the top of the list is lowering the lore requirements for lower level tools.

Finished a standard victory (Archeo legacy, Vagabond victory). Couldn't figure out how to do the alternative one, even looking at the code a bit

Overall, I wasn't particularly impressed by the whole solo-expedition mechanic. There's a lot of things that make it unreasonable w/o out of game knowledge (the wiki). Without any way to "reinforce" your solo expeditions, you have to have everything prepared already. Since you need 10 in a given stat to consistently pass challenges, in order to pass any place that takes 3 different stats, you need 3 different level-12 items. And if you want to use tools instead of ingredients, you also have to have the appropriate level 10 lore

If you're playing without meta-knowledge from previous runs or checking the wiki, you need to run through all the unique locations with standard cultists, then the generic location with standard cultists to note the challenges, and then finally do your solo expedition. So I just started checking the wiki

keep dying because of sickness before I get health

I did figure out the level 10 thing for studying tools, I don't think there's a technical issue for me with the desire card though, I think its an ID10T error.

@evbogerd studying tools requires rank 10 lore matching the aspect of the tool.Can you elaborate on the issue you're having with the desire card?

I feel like I'm missing something, while I get why I apparently need more lore to study artifacts I am unable to start a study expedition. Is there a minimum amount of a certain lore, a studied artifact, or something else I've missed? I haven't been able to advance the desire past 2 either, not sure what I'm missing as I've tried dreaming with it (it only would work with the Stag Door so far), but no need to spoil if that's related to not being able to study artifacts or go on expeditions yet. It's just getting very frustrating, and not in a fun way,

@Infomaniac It probably shouldn't have any conflicts but I haven't looked at the professor's code myself.

Does this work with the professor mod?

@quietest1one If I recall correctly it's that you need at least a rank 10 lore to study non secret histories tools. Maybe I should adjust that a bit, though. You can always use ingredients for lower level vaults, however, so long as you have one studied tool (this is part of the reason you're given a curio at the start)

hello op sorry if this is me being stupid but i'm having trouble studying tools? it prompts you to add lore in the second slot, but i haven't been able to find a single combo of tool+lore that it'll accept??? is it a really specific level of lore required for each tool, or something else? hope i'm not missing really something obvious :/

I don't have discord but I could leave another comment with them if that is acceptable. I will probably give this mod another run-through to both see if I can find more typos and find these other endings. Thanks for your reply.

@surfychicken Are you on the discord? I'd love a list of all the typos you noticed. The shires one is already fixed on my end now.

As for the other issue I might have buried the lede a little bit too hard, but there is a subtle ongoing background theme to the marks that I thought would serve as a good hint. There technically are two other endings as well, though they're far easier to figure out.

Having finished the "normal" ending I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this mod. I think your style of writing fits quite well with the base game. I do have a couple of small complaints though. First, there are a couple of typos, with the most memorable being when I added the shire notes to the travel log but honestly they aren't severe and I'm just nitpicking. Second and more importantly, I couldn't find anything for the variant ending. I'm the type of player that will read every description and check every aspect and I couldn't find more than a hint. I will admit I could have missed something though. Over-all this is a great mod and it was well worth the time spent with it. Thank you!

@aster The talk verb shows up after you do the first story bit involving Oriflamme's

Is it intentional that I haven't received the talk verb?

@whosyourdaddy There may be more to the record, yes.

I have cleared a 36 Secret Histories ending. This mod is very attractive to me. But I am puzzled, is there any other use for “a record of mytravels” besides 12 Secret Histories? Is it related to a hidden ending?

@Nova Apologies, for some reason my head mixed up the amount you need to recruit a rival with the amount you need to do the victory ritual. Tyvm! I enjoyed this a lot.

@Fish what great work are you referring to? If you're referring to the victory ritual you might just not have enough marks, or a high enough degree of the required aspects.

@Nova thank you, that fixed it, although now I cant seem to do the great work ritual. Any idea what's going on?