And then, in totally trivial annoyances that don't at all matter:

[xiphias]

I appear to be the only one of my friends who's still playing Echo Bazaar. Which is fine. But I think that, in order to make more progress in one of the storylines I'm involved in, I need an item which is only gainable by a rare result on an interaction that someone else has to start -- and it's an interaction which the other person only has a rare chance of having a chance of, anyway.

See, to make progress in the "Seeking Mr Eaten's Name" storyline, I need to have a "Starveling Cat". Getting a Starveling Cat is something that can, rarely, happen when you open "A Boxed Cat?"

You get "A Boxed Cat?" when a friend of yours gets the "Pass The Cat: An Unusual Game" card, plays it, and chooses you as the person to mail the thing to.

So, in order to make progress, I need to have a friend get one particular card, choose to play it and choose me to play it on, get the rarest result after that. And I don't yet know if I only need that to be done once, or if I'm going to need that to happen SEVEN times.

Comments

[navrins]

Shall I hook you up with someone who is (I'm pretty sure) still playing?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

I am still playing and will be happy to send you a boxed cat. Same username, on twitter. I don't read the twitter though, so you can tell me if the cats ever work by emailing me at the same username at gmail.

[yendi]

I love the idea of (and the writing in) EB, but the "you must spend hours on the site to get all your turns" thing drove me away. If they ever change their system to giving you all the day's turns at once, I'll probably go back.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Check if incandescens is still playing?

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking I should go back and play more and then I keep not doing it. I should really change that, I'm sure I've missed N things by now.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

So far, it's cost me about 30 points in stat loss, five points of Connected: Masters of the Bazaar, about 100 Echoes worth of various stuff, and a point of Admired, along with the aforementioned seven deaths, seven imprisonments, and seven bouts of insanity, of which I've so far managed six deaths (well, I've died seven times in this quest, but in one of them, I drowned before I bled to death, so it didn't count), and five imprisonments.

The Unfinished Business in Watchmaker's Hill/Veilgarden/Spite/Ladybones Road storylets help with the grinding, since they give you an Echo's worth of stuff per turn. Still, even at eighty or 100 Echoes a day, it's STILL a lot of grinding.

[ailbhe]

My twitter feed was full of starveling cats for ages and I idly wondered why a bit. It's clearer now.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Schrödinger wants to know how often is "rarely".

[erik-j-meyer.livejournal.com]

I am on there, I have gotten the boxed cat a number of times. Think it still pops up at least once a week. Usually I just let it go (1 wounds, points with duchess). Connect and I will pass them along to you.

EDIT TO INCLUDE LINK:
http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com/Profile/Erik%20J.%20Meyer-Curley