Ramble 9: Collection, Summit and you : The Collection
Whenever you defeat an enemy or an npc with binding damage types like chain and glue, they become helpless allowing capture.
Capturing will place them to collection.
access collection through items-> collection.
What can you do with the collection npcs?
1. You can Bind to keep them there as your personal captives, put to work in summit (Summit will be addressed later) or raise their opinion enough to be made a party member.
- to keep them secure, you need to bind them enough to stop them escaping represented by bars below their image and with yellow ! in collection page.
- When bars are filled, they can never escape.
- Putting them in display stand or cage wont require any bindings.
- Not binding your collection fully has them do struggle checks anytime you enter a new floor.
- You can tighten restraints to reapply the restraints they have struggled off.
- progressing 2 perk shrines without tying them up will mark them escaped ( red ? ).
- Escaped are stuck in Summit until you either go there and deal with them or release them through collection menu.
- If you deal with them, entering summit you either fight them to return them back collection, or let them reach the door so they can escape for good.
2. You can change their outfit to your own liking.
3. You can release them.
- Releasing factionless currently has no consequences.
- Releasing faction members for now incur minimal rep penalty of -0.01% or -0.005%.
4. You can Ransom faction members for money. Note you will get -0.4% rep penalty for it.
5. You can put them on display stand with bindings of your likings. Anyone placed within display stand or cage can never escape regardless of bindings, unless you let them out.
- Interact with furniture to get options to put npc in.
Now that collection is somewhat covered, now on to summit.
The summit and its facilities
What is the summit and how to access it?
- Summit is special safe area for player to store their their items (just drop to floor and it will not despawn), display captives from collection or make them manage recycler and the cuddle Lounge facilities.
- To access Summit, you need to clear out point of interest called "Dark passageway" or "Elevator hall" of its resident/s to unlock an elevator with summit access.
- Floor 1 has quaranteed Dark passageway and unlocking multiple elevators allows you to fast travel between them.
Facilities.
Within summit there are 3 useable facilities. To access them you need to enter summit and then go items-> facilities.
Recycler
- To use recycler, you need to be within summit.
- Recycler allows you to recycle restraints and armor into base materials to make specific Restraints to bind your prisoners (or yourself) and unenchanted armor.
- While armor is unenchanted, it gives base access to ones with powerful passives even without the magical enchantments.
- You get the 4 base materials from their respective recycled restraints while the runes come from recycling enchanted armor.
- When you recycle restraints, it first adds them as unprocessed material, that gets processed based on your recyclers effectiveness anytime you enter a brand new perk shrine ( complete a floor)
To make Recycler more effective, it will need servants and management.
To make make willing servants, there are generally 2 ways:
1. Saving prisoners.
- Saved prisoners will automatically love you enough to be servants.
- after removing them from your party they can be seen in guests section of the collection with options be promoted to servant.
- Npc needs to have been at your party at least once to show up as guest.
- While instant access, it is limited on prisoners found while stronger servants are extremely rare as captives, which leads to the second way.
2. Capturing enemies to your collection and Raising their opinion through Cuddle Lounge.
Cuddle Lounge
- Cuddle lounge is how you raise opinion of your captives and servants.
- Unlike recycler, after accessing Summit once you can adjust Cuddle lounge any time.
- Placing collection members in the lounge and then progressing to new perk room will improve their opinion of you.
- More captives you put in, more effective the cuddling will be with effectiviness varying based on how submissive or dominant the captives are.
- Eventually with high enough opinion you can promote them to servants to operate recycler or as management.
- Assigning servants to cuddle lounge will visually have them start moving captives in lounge to display stands. Servants in lounge will also considerably boost the prisoner opinion gains.
Management
- Assigning servants to management increases efficiency of all the facilities.
- Stronger npcs offer better results.
- Assigned management will roam the summit.
To help with prisoners, there is Warden
Warden
- Assign Warden and give them restraints and they will apply restraints to prisoners.
- She will need you to give her restraints for her to operate.
- She applies restraints same time as other facilities, at the perk shrine room.
- She apply one restraint to each prisoner and does not tighten.
- Perk shrines have a courier you can use to give restraints to warden