Talk:Uncovering the Secrets of the Face-Tailor/@comment-43804946-20191009165702

To briefly summarize this storyline, since its paths are a little confusingly entwined: Ignoring lore and writing content, there are two possible final outcomes here: Uncovering Secrets 5 or 6. All outcomes are functionally identical, giving a page from the Liber Visionis and closing the storyline. Uncovering Secrets 5 unlocks a single option on a Game of Chess card, but is otherwise only notable for RP reasons (and for being rarer than the others). If you do not take the Scowling Flint Idol in "Death and the river," your path is pretty linear: US 2 -> US 3 -> US 6. Any time you have the idol, you're able to chuck it and get redirected to the Idol-less story path, if that's something you want. If you do have the Idol, the absolute best option is to "feed it the blood of small animals" in your lodgings, which gives you one free Fate. You can then sell it for 8 Echoes' worth of Jade, if you want, and then attract the attention of the Ministry to finish the storyline. The mountain-path dream has some interesting options and lock conditions, but all paths are roughly equivalent. "Catch a bird" is the only way of getting to US 5, while all others set US to 6. Since the "rewards" are not very significant, you're totally free to play whatever you want to play! (Get the Fate, though.)