/tg/Station 13

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but like hot damn so much time spent watching the study clock wind down as you combine up all these random lores so you can get the ones you need, probably the least enjoyable portion of the game is all the time spent just grinding your core stats up and then smooshing lores together

Studying like a madman as fast as you can to get all your core stats up to 3 seems like a must right off the bat. 4 in Resolve isn't a bad idea if you can swing it because you're gonna be throwing one at your job the entire time. I've had limited success trying to use Painting as a replacement job, it rewards you with a ton of mysteries and glimmers which can be neat but you also randomly get notoriety from it even if you aren't painting lore objects so it also kinda sucks, and sometimes people just dont buy your art and you get no money from it. 3+ health is handy for not dying and it gives you extra health both to risk for studying, using to explore, and in dreams when you aren't trying to farm Mansus (sometimes you'll get random comforts and shit from it, it's not bad). Also if you get your strength up high enough + Ascend you can try beating up Hunters 1v1 like a REAL AMERICAN.

After that its all about book farming for lores, then using the lores to recruit morons, dream, and fuse. With a pack of dipshits you can have them do all the exploring for you until you find some good Scooby Doo Mysteries to send them on.

Basic gameplay flow is then like
1) Get your stats up so you can effectively multitask/not die from diseases
2) Get the lores so you can get into mansus
3) Explore mansus while fusing the lores you need to get further into mansus + ascend
4) Repeat Step 3 while making sure your ascension doesnt kill you
4.5) At this point you can probably promote some of your culties and really start pounding explorations to gather tools and better books, maybe get lucky and score some additional rites. You're gonna NEED those tools though unless you get super lucky with Influences at the right time
5) Prepare for your ritual and finish it

creating masterpieces to use in rite and shit

talking to one of your cultists about the job will send them to murder people and make it much easier for you to work or ascend there. Eventually you can become a senior board member by doing this and the job is a no-brainer but pays a ton. it'll also delete notoriety for you (though you could randomly also get fired for doing this)