So then, what’s outside Saint Gorfu? The overworld:
And an honest disclaimer:
Once outside, interacting with the district’s entrance brings a box up:
With some quality-of-life implementation. To rest, I don’t have to enter the zone then tread back to the brothel then climb the stairs then enter my room; I can just select ‘Rest’. Likewise to switch party members. Opting for the ‘View’ option brings some art up:
Nice. Not nearly as decrepit as what people in Gorfu say; rather it looks like a clean deserted street in big-city Japan. But the reason I exited to the overworld map is because I want to go the Eagle’s Nest, for there dwells the Old Watch faction, and I want to talk to them about that crazed assassin the Bloody Hawk. Unfortunately, I do not yet have the 5000 credits required for Kaywin to fix the broken car sitting in our garage; so we’re footing it. Fortunately, it’s a short distance north, and this is how it looks:
Very cool. So I enter the zone. Wait… no… I’m not provided with the option to enter?
Uh. ‘Favors’ brings a menu up explaining to me that my reputation with the Old Watch currently stands at 1, and I would need a reputation of 30 to access any Favor. Uh². Intrigued, I take the ‘Contracts’ option, and face a choice between a Hosting contract or a General Contract. Well, we are Courtesans, aren’t we, thus hosting seems a fitting and behoveful endeavor for us. The job pays 268 credits, and 3 Esteem (Reputation, I suppose?). I accept and the game, mindfull of quality-of-life, generously offers to warp me back to Gorfu straight away:
But it only brings me back here:
Still, it turns out to not be a mistake at all, as the hosting contract does not in fact entail me going back to the brothel, contrarily to what I had thought. Instead, it is resolved from the overworld map:
Damn it. No matter whether my Perception or Charisma is checked, they’re both at 3, so I’ll fail. But wait…
Yes! Dice, dice, baby! So I only need a 1, and unless 1 is considered a critical failure no matter what, I should succeed. I roll 3 and—bless your non-sadistic heart, Tyranicon—1 works just fine.
For this I received 268 credits and 3 Esteem, per the contract—but also +1 Reputation with the Old Watch. So Reputation and Esteem are two different things, though I haven’t learned the difference yet.
Still, that doesn’t bring me closer to my first goal: meeting the Old Watch anent the Bloody Hawk. But I remember, in Gorfu, a member of the Old Watch named Skal, who previously had helped me lift the mercantile freeze enacted by the cops. Yet afore I could re-enter Gorfu, I face this prompt:
Fuck ’em. I confront them.
You do what boy? You toss a few creds at me and my girls, as if we’re some common Bronx trash with names like Lateesha and DeShandrey?
Yeah, you best not forget. You do not fuck with Courtesans.
But come on now, back into Gorfu to see Skal of the Old Watch.
Another contretemps. But who am I to refuse them a shopping spree? I pay, and they have fun, but don’t bring back anything useful. And with this, I haven’t progressed much.
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