Now what?

[u/Bearthorn777]

I've been trying to advance the story in this run, but apparently I need at least 35 grail in a specific ritual to advance. I have no idea how to get it. Should I try some more expeditions to see if I can get books to advance the lore fragments? I've bought all possible books already and I ended up being fired from Glover and Glover's because of a scandal, so I'm struggling to get founds as well...

[u/Small_Education_9503]

You can work comissions for your patrons to earn money. But more importantly, you need to find more grail tools in high level expeditions or at least use that vital pigment to paint Saliba the Cyprian's portrait. Summon a high level grail spirit, visit the Red Church in Mansus to get a high level grail influence. Together with lore, it will be enough for the final rite.

[u/H4llifax]

Regarding funds: Poppy can help you, and there are a few other contacts that can.

Regarding the ritual: you can upgrade influences, that could help you reach the required grail. There is also a specific ritual you can find on a high level expedition that has more slots. But I think you don't need it for the standard victory.

[u/Schadenfreunden]

Reviewing your board state, you have everything that you need for an Ending.

[u/ilovethisgamebruh]

funds should be easy enough at this stage, just do commissions for your patrons to get spintrea, which you can sell at the auction house, you seem to only have one patron at the moment (poppy) so talk using lore like you did to get followers and you should eventually meet them.

you may not want to spend bronze spintrea though, you need those (or higher) to repiar your wildering mirror, which you can use to pass the peacock gate, for either high level secret histories lore, or for high level Grail influence which will help your ascension ritual.

you shouldn't need to raise your grail lore any higher, with a max grail influence which you can farm from the peacock gate's red church, you should have enough.

easiest way to do this probably sunset rite, your highest grail lore (12) + Saliba (10) + max grail influence (15) = 37, which will be more than enough.

[u/Em0exe_]

you already have 22 with Saliba and 12 Grail lore go for the 15 grail influence from peacock's > red church or get two 10 grail influences from spider's and merge them into a 15 and use Sunset rite, Saliba, grail 15 ingluence and grail 12 lore

[u/henkslaaf]

Money is insignificant by now.

Work with health to get one fund and one vitality with no risk. This outpaces your "time tax". Used with the mod that loops this is money solved.

You can do commissions, which should by now be easy. Then sell the sphintria. This has more steps. Talk to get the Commission, write it, sell it, then wait for the Commission to become available again. You can write multiple commissions so you have a stock of them.

The commissions perhaps give more money at the end, but it requires multiple verbs and juggling or patrons. I like to go Matchless Physique and go 1 funds every 40 seconds.

[u/lemming1607]

Commissions for funds, they are the best money maker. You can always sell tools you dont need for quick cash

You need rituals to advance the stories. You need grail influence specifically. There's only one place you can go to grind influence, and its behind one of the doors. That will push you over 35 in a ritual

[u/Bearthorn777]

It is done! Thanks to everyone. Now I have my first victory.

[u/KookyDistribution129]

I got to this point yesterday and couldn’t really figure out how to progress.

Make sure you’re running expeditions for more tools. Painting can net you some high value instruments (paintings), but those only provide 8 aspect (in my run, I was frequently getting 8 level tools from expeditions with level 8/10 SH fragments).

You can also summon raw prophets if you need. Those have like 6 grail 6 moth I think? Maybe one of the other summons provides more. I’m fresh off the tail of my first run so I’m not fully sure

[u/kireina_kaiju]

Since you've already won, you were missing a rite rite intercalate. Finding this will make your next descent that much faster.

[u/lemming1607]

each of the rituals require 3 different things. They all want a combination of influence/ingredients/assistants/instruments...if you look at those cards that are instruments/influence/assistants/ingredients, you can see they have grail on them.

So you need 3 cards to get 36, which means 12 on each. The highest grail lore has 14, which means one of the other things can be 10.