Ow.

On Tuesday, I went to the doctor so I could get a renewal of that prescription that keeps my hands from skeletonizing. That's important stuff. Anyway, while I was there, they asked me if I wanted a flu shot. I asked them to give me the pros and cons. Pretty much the only con was that my arm would be sore for a couple of days, so I figured I probably ought to get it.

It really wasn't too bad. Actually, the spot where I'd been pierced so they could steal some of my blood for their alleged "tests" hurt more. At first, anyway.

As the day wore on, my arm began to hurt more and more, until finally, about 16 hours after the injection, it really freaking hurt, and then it tore itself free from my body and animated itself as a freakish monster that pulled itself across the floor with my fingers, hunting for blood or souls or something. That was not one of the side effects they had warned me about.

I managed to stun it long enough to reattach it, and now it seems to be fine. But holy crap that hurt like crazy.

Echo Bazaar

I have officially maxed out Dangerous, Watchful, Persuasive, and Shadowy at 100 each. So, what's left to do now?

Some Opportunity cards still require alarmingly high stats, so I can keep an eye out for those. Even with all of my Shadowy stuff equipped to put me up to 109, my delivering a mirror to the thing under the Shuttered Palace was still a Modest challenge.

I don't seem to be as far along on my dreams as a few of my friends who are playing. I think I must have focused more on Storylets and less on Opportunities. So there's that to work on.

And I think I'm going to try to accumulate the 80,000 Whispered Secrets required to purchase lodgings at the Bazaar. I have 32,887 so far. I suppose I could sell a bunch of stuff and buy them, but I don't want to wipe out my stockpiles of other stuff in case Failbetter gives us some new content and I turn out to need any of it.

So what have I accomplished and accumulated in the last three months playing this silly game?

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