KOL Journal (08/23/2015)

So, some thoughts about the community service challenge path.

It's good for:

1) You have no time to do ascensions, but still want to get karma.
2) You don't even want to think about doing another ascension, and want to do something easy.
3) You only have mobile and don't have access to a desktop/laptop.
4) You want to do 100% familiar runs really easily (if you remember to equip the familiar immediately and leave it there for the duration of the run)

It took me 6 days because I kinda messed up on the first day. I'm not optimizing at all so it takes me a long time. I don't care though.

Guess I'll do more runs to pick up a couple skills and stuff.

1) DB, hobo monkey, disco leer
2) SC, Space Buddy
3) SC, Leprechaun
4) SC, Hovering Sombrero

KOL Journal (08/14/2015)

Wow, this new path... really speaks to the lazy person in me. It'll be about 5 days or so if I don't care about optimizing...

Anyway, I need to at least collect the stuff from the rewards.

And, it totally seems like Jick wanted to tease... troll? something like that? all the super optimizers who arrange everything so carefully in order to lower their turn counts as much as possible.

That's something which I respect in others, but don't do myself to that extent because it would tax my brain and wouldn't be fun for me.

I probably won't do this path that much, despite the possibilities with the rewards selling for a lot or whatever.

KOL Journal (08/07/2015)

Soon, as in next week, it will be new challenge path time. I'm making good progress on meat restoration and should be done by the time of the next path.

While the hot charter looks cool, I mean hot... I can't buy every IOTM. I bought the deck because it would probably be useful in run for boring stuff I don't like doing. I bought the lovebugs because they don't require fiddling. I bought conspiracy island because it looked cool.

Right now, I've figured out what I need to get from that 70's island.

Lava Miner's Daughter 50 MP combat skill
Psycho From The Heat +15 hot damage
The Firegate Tapes +3 hot res
lava balaclava 10-12 mp regen (to replace warscarf)
lavalarva cold res (tangentially useful?)
3 lava lamps (because they're cool, need to check component prices vs. buying almost complete lava lamp)
smooch outfit- 45 superheated metal
basaltamander buckler - a myst version of the fake washboard

Also, the colourblind version of cheesecookie's snapshot pages looks way better. 

Inflation of Mr. A's is only a bit... It looks like it's 20.5 mil each right now. the last time I bought one to get the deck, it was 19.8 mil. So maybe I'll have to earn 22 million or more for the next time... Or I could buy one now at lower prices and save it for a future IOTM? 

I'd rather not tempt myself into using an IOTM, so I suppose I will not do that.

Future plans:

1) earn meat

2) monitor hot charter items for acceptable prices

3) when new path is released, do that, get reward for display case

4) assess whether farming reward is worth it (either to sell it or to use as a skill) or doing the path is interesting

5) some other items I haven't gotten yet:

fake washboard (25% muscle gains, DA +50)

backwoods banjo (20% moxie gains, HP/MP +200)

Hodgman's journal 2: Entrepreneurythmics

observation/pickpocketing - Wombat, Blender, or Packrat sign

disco leer - DB

slime-covered lantern via rusty old lantern

stainless steel scarf - S HC

3 more dice runs

6) more Ed runs?

7) automate 6 hc runs using bumcheekascend?

8) oxycore? (*shiver*)