Ecdysis (Guide)
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Early Firmament Content |
Ecdysis Summary | ||||||||||||||
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0 A | 9/19+ A | 1 A | ||||||||||||
Progress
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Raw EPA | 5.35 | Raw SPA | - |
How to unlock[edit]
You'll first need access to the Roof from the Firmament storyline, which will begin once you've reached Involved in a Railway Venture 40. Once you're in Hallow's Throat, you'll want to raise
Lung and Spleen to 2 to access The Arms.
To unlock Ecdysis, you must ingratiate yourself to some smugglers in The Arms, either with a Persuasive 180 challenge if you have
Twilit Smuggler 10, or a
Persuasive 240 challenge and
200 x Stuiver.
This will increase Lung and Spleen and reward you a single
Ascended Ambergris, after which the Proprietress will forward you to the Resculptor. Offer her the Ambergris and Accept her gift, she will introduce you to the process of Ecdysis. If you have somehow lost your Ambergris between these steps, another can be purchased at this time in The Arms for
100 x Stuiver.
This first round of the carousel acts as a tutorial and only allows the monetary reward "Emerge as a freshly-made self". You'll gain the Discovered: Your Own Discarded Exuviae quality, allowing Boon rewards on subsequent rounds.
This process will increase your Lung and Spleen to 8, from now on you'll be able to access the carousel via The Path to the Spleen in Hallow's Throat.
Progress[edit]
The carousel has two main qualities: Preparing for Ecdysis tracks your progress (21 CP to finish), while
Bodily Tendency determines which kind of rewards you can get.
Bodily Reshaping is a secondary quality that governs how the possible boons can be stacked.
At the end you'll be able to choose between two types of rewards: a Boon that lasts for roughly a week or a purely monetary reward.
- If you plan on cashing out, you can ignore
Bodily Tendency and
Bodily Reshaping and focus on finishing as fast as possible.
- However, if you want a certain boon, you need to pay close attention to which option will push
Bodily Tendency into the range needed for your boon. Your starting
Bodily Tendency is randomized, and the challenges are exceedingly high, so you might not be able to get the boon you wanted on your first try.
Starting from Preparing for Ecdysis 2, the carousel is heavy on menaces, namely
Nightmares and
Wounds. Root yourself in place is the only safe option and is always available, but only yields 1CP of
Preparing for Ecdysis. If your focus is on cashing out and/or finishing as quickly as possible, it might be worth taking the potential 4CP to each menace in exchange for finishing the carousel in only 9 actions (as opposed to 19 actions and no menaces). Do keep in mind the actions required to reduce your up to 8 CP in menaces per carousel run, you can expect to spend at least 2 additional actions on Aid requests, and if you run the carousel 3 times for the maximum
Bodily Reshaping (giving 24 CP in menaces), you can expect to spend at leat 4 actions if you take the best options for and aid requests unless you have a better or more profitable method to spend your actions on. Thus it might be for the best to mix in safe options instead of going purely menace free or all menaces.
Building up
Preparing for Ecdysis[edit]
Preparing for Ecdysis 1 (1 Action)[edit]
Option | Unlocked | Challenge | Success | Failure |
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Preparing for Ecdysis 2-3 (4 - 7 Actions)[edit]
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Root yourself in place | ![]() |
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Preparing for Ecdysis 4-5 (4 - 11 Actions)[edit]
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Reimagine yourself as something alarming | ![]() |
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Reimagine yourself as something unpredictable | ![]() |
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Reimagine yourself as something malleable | ![]() |
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Root yourself in place | ![]() |
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Cashing out[edit]
Money[edit]
The option to cash out is always available. Note that two of the resources gained ( Memory of a Much Stranger Self and
Tempestuous Tale) can be converted into the Roof-specific currency
Stuiver. If you do so, the carousel gains you
320 as well as
37.5 in other items, totaling
53.5.
Option | Reward |
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Emerge as a freshly-made self | ![]()
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(* Item cannot currently be sold for Echoes. Conversion-rate: 0.05 =
1)
(** Can be converted to Cryptic Clues at the Bazaar and subsequently sold)
Boons[edit]
Instead of a monetary reward, you can choose to gain a boon, Each boon gives between 1 and 3 points of Bodily Reshaping.
- You cannot have multiple of the same boon.
- You cannot have more than
3 Bodily Reshaping.
- Boons and
Bodily Reshaping last until
Time, the Healer's next arrival.
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Open your eyes | ![]() |
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Sharpen yourself | ![]() |
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Obscure some of your bones | ![]() |
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Smile | ![]() |
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Refashion yourself into something more malleable | ![]() |
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- ↑ also
+1 CP Nightmares