Painting in Balmoral (Guide)

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Painting in Balmoral Summary
Fixed-Length Conversion Activity
Setup Progress End
1 A 6 A 2* A
Progress

Details

Raise , , and while you can add as required for desired payout.
Items Inputs/Outputs
Inputs
Outputs

2.5E :

12.5E :

62.5E :

Raw EPA 5.37 Raw SPA 5

General[edit]

is found at the fourth station of the Railway. Apart from visiting the local forest (the Moonlit Woods, where you can gain for painting) and Balmoral Castle, you can join the artist in the old Distillery in 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 . 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 , and .

You have 6 actions to influence your work for every painting. Both success and failure increase by 1.

Option Cost ~In E Challenge Success Fail
0
Undertake a commission
1-6
With Moonlight
  • 2
 ~11.60[1] 200 Luminosity 1 Nostalgic 1
In a subversive cast 12.50 4[2] Incendiary 1 Nostalgic 1
Paint! 12.50 200 Nostalgic 1 Incendiary 1
7
Complete a commission
  1. ↑ 11.00 with
  2. ↑ Reduced with high

Creating a painting is essentially a 70-75 E 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 before starting another one!

There are small additional rewards for the success of each option:

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 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 may be presented.

Requirements Reward Value (E )
London - Presenting your Painting
Nostalgic at least 4
80
Luminosity at least 4
Incendiary at least 4
80
100
Any other combination
  • (up to 7)
  • 75
  • +
  • 1
  • (only once, during story)
  • (+5 CP)
 25.20
Helicon House - Display your own painting
Any combination
  • (+ CP)
  • + ( - )

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 . 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 + (see for sourcing)
    • This option presents difficulty as it pretends to 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.
  • 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 for sourcing)
    • Even so, as mentioned above, the failure on the option to Paint! consumes only 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.

The following is a table detailing the EpA, or SpA, of any end option, using the factors above:

London - Presenting your Painting
Requirements EPA
Nostalgic at least 4
Luminosity at least 4
Incendiary at least 4
2.88
Any other combination ~3.32 w/ Kraken [2]
  • 1
  • (only once, during story)
Helicon House - Display your own painting
Requirements SPA
Any combination

Strategy[edit]

Considering all prior sourcing, methods, and payment, we can conclude that failure on Paint! six times, and the 4  Incendiary payment are our the best options for EpA:

  • Assuming: an initial investment of 7 Brass Skulls, so a start of 437.5 E , and that is birds or skeletons with many skulls.
  • One cycle of painting failure (through the use of a Woesel) will cost .
    • Thus, with our 6  Incendiary we can choose the payment for 4  Incendiary, which will give us and 17.5 E worth of sellable goods.
  • Traveling to the Khanate (requires a ):
    • Sell your Bird to the Diplomat. This will gain you 1011 Khaganian Coinage.
    • Buy s at a rate of 130 x  Khaganian Coinage per device. This will produce around 7.77 Crackling Devices per trip, as this is rounded for multiple trips where coinage adds up.
    • A visit to the Rat Market, if it is in season for Crackling Devices:
      • Sell all your s (7.77 in our given case) for 660.45 E as your final payment.
  • Total: 4.74 EpA
      • This can be further improved through the use of the Kraken method.
  • Up to 5.37 EpA


If some are wondering about the second best source of EpA, or the best use of Luminosity, that is the 3 x  Incendiary, 3 x  Luminosity option.

  • Total: 3.72 EpA
    • This can be further improved through the use the Kraken method.
  • Up to 4.09 EpA

Please note that travel actions were not included for the London - Khanate route

  1. ↑ Valued at 62.50 E , but there's no direct way to sell it.
  2. ↑ valued at 13.96 E
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