Talk:Hand over your hou... snake/@comment-24389606-20170827161244

Given that Opportunity deck based sources for Favours: The Church have become rare, doing an assessment of how efficient this permanent storylet option is, to grind them.

There are 2 stages -

a) capturing a Plated Seal (only possible with Troubled Waters 10 in The Broad Unterzee).

It takes 1 action to set sail from Wolfstack Docks.

Then, the quickest way to raise TW is via Make it up as you go, which will consume ~3.6 actions on average to reach TW 10 (simultaneously giving you ~28.4 CP of Approaching Journey's End.

Then 1 turn to capture the seal.

This is where it becomes tricky to estimate actions. Either you can try to scrape the rest of the  26.6 CP of AJE - but it becomes really difficult with the card deck at TW 10. In the worst case scenario, you would be stuck with three Fury of the Unterzee cards in your deck, and be forced to play one of them to spend 1 action to reset your AJE to Level 5. (i.e. 15 CP). Luckily it also removes all your TW so you wont have to worry about that anymore.

There onwards, you need 40 CP of AJE to unlock the Across the Southern Archipelago option. Given the distribution of cards in the Unterzee deck, this should be easily achieved in 14 turns (assuming 3 CP of AJE gain per action which on average most cards do grant)

And finally 1 turn to return to London.

Adding up, overall it would be a conservative estimate of 21 turns to leave London, get the seal and return to London.

b) breeding the seal. This requires 21 actions to raise The Hunt is On!, Taming the Beast and Thwarting Beastly Devils to 6 each, and 1 turn to Breed the Plated Seal. (This assumes your Dangerous is at 200).

Thus, it should be possible to repeat this entire cycle in 43 turns, to get 3 Favours: The Church. Which is actually a great conversion rate for a permanent storylet option to raise Favours, if you compare with the storylet options for favours from Tomb Colonies (Flute Road carousel), Hell (Polythreme carousel) or Docks (5% chance in the Chandler's Workshop when Airs of London is > 95).

Plus, you also get 52.5 E worth of items at the end of this cycle, translating to 1.22 E/A.

(The time spent on Broad Unterzee needs to be tested however, will get around to it someday when I finally start grinding Church.)