Paint

Painting is a job you can do by using Work with either Passion or Imagination.

## Painting with One Passion

Working directly with Passion takes 60 seconds, during which you can place Restlessness in the slot labelled "Yearning."

With 30% chance it will be a success and will produce 2 Funds and 2 basic rewards. Otherwise it will produce 1 basic reward (from Basic Rewards Deck). The Restlessness is consumed.

### Basic Rewards Deck

This is drawn from by Painting with Passion:

* 2 Contentment
* 4 Glimmering

Refreshes when exhausted.

## Painting with Imagination

Working with Imagination creates new slots labelled "Art or Bread." The first level of Imagination creates two slots and every higher level adds one more, up to a total of four. You can fill these with Passion or Reputation cards.

Once you hit start, the painting has several phases:

1. Inspiration - 20 seconds. You can add an Influence (A Mood Painting), a Follower or an Acquaintance (A Portrait), a Summon (An Unusual Portrait), Lore (Esoteric Art), Medium? memory (A Life Retold). Or nothing.
2. Paints - 20 seconds. You can add 1 Funds or a Pigment. Or nothing. It will be consumed.
3. A Good Day - 1 second. Rare. Repeatable. Every instance of it increases the Quality of the painting.
4. Focus - 10 seconds
5. Completion - 1 second
6. Quality - 5 seconds

Total time: minimum 56 seconds.

### Inspiration

Any suitable card will add a point of Insight, but an Unusual Portrait (Summon) or Esoteric Art (Lore) will also produce Notoriety, which will increase the amount of Fame's Rewards at the end. Choosing an inspiration that carries the right kind of aspect is important for the creation of a masterpiece. Restlessness will be consumed.

* Mortal follower, acquaintance, or influence - 1 Insight
* Summon or lore - 1 Insight and 1 Notoriety

### Paints

Using a Pigment is required to create a Masterpiece, with a quality of Something Unique.

* Funds - 1 Insight
* Pigment, not matching inspiration - 1 Insight, 1 Notoriety
* Pigment, matching inspiration - 3 Insight, 1 Notoriety, level 6 Influence
* Additionally: Vital Pigment, matching inspiration (Grail) - 1 Notoriety
* Additionally: Piebald Pigment, matching inspiration (Moth) - 1 Restlessness
* Additionally: Greydawn Oil, matching inspiration (Winter) - 1 Dread

### A Good Day

30% chance, repeating. Every instance adds a point of Insight.

### Focus

Passion is used in to gain Insight and, through it, Art's Rewards.

No Passion is not called for if A Good Day happens to trigger, so A Good Day is not negated if no Passion was put in.

* No Passion - A Rote Effort: -1 Insight
*"Honestly, I'm only going through the motions. The quality of my work will no doubt suffer."*
* 1 Passion - A Day's Work: 1 Insight
*"I have not shirked."*
* 2 Passion - Passionate Intensity: 2 Insight
*"I can see mistakes, but I can also see the end."*
* 3 Passion - All Conviction: 3 Insight
*"The world goes away."*
* 4 Passion - Utter Focus: 4 Insight
*"All that I am, is here."*

## Painting with Imagination - Results

### Insight

Insight determines how many Art's Rewards you will receive from painting.

* 0 - Worthless - *Nothing*
*"I've produced nothing of any significance at all. I should be ashamed of myself."*
* 1 - Competent Work - 2 Art's Rewards drawn
*"There's nothing to be ashamed of here."*
* 2 - Good Work - 3 Art's Rewards drawn
*"This is work I can be proud of."*
* 4 - Exceptional Work - 4 Art's Rewards drawn
*"This is something special."*
* 6 - Magnificent Work - 5 Art's Rewards drawn, Fascination
*"I've created something both distinctive and beautiful. It will very likely enhance my reputation."*
* 8 - Glorious Work - 6 Art's Rewards drawn, Fascination
*"If I never touch another canvas, I have earned my place in history."*

### Reputation

Reputation determines how many Fame's Rewards you will receive from painting.

* 0 - Unknown - *Nothing*
*"Nothing has sold. Perhaps the work is its own reward. I hope so."*
* 1 - Noticed - 1 Fame's Rewards drawn
*"With luck, something will sell."*
* 2 - Known - 2 Fame's Rewards drawn
*"Something should sell."*
* 3 - Significant - 3 Fame's Rewards drawn
*"I may yet earn a living from this, but nothing is certain."*
* 5 - Notable - 4 Fame's Rewards drawn
*"I've exhibited the latest paintings publicly. Surely someone will buy something."*
* 7 - Famed - 6 Fame's Rewards drawn
*"My latest paintings have reviewed well."*
* 9 - Celebrated - 7 Fame's Rewards drawn
*"My name is known, and my work has done well."*

## Painting with Imagination - Rewards

*This information is determined by extensive testing and comparison of the results, with a bit of data-mining. There may be notable inaccuracies.*

### Art's Rewards Deck

This is drawn from by Painting with Imagination and Passion:

* 5 Contentment
* 7 Glimmering
* 7 Mystique

Refreshes when exhausted.

### Fame's Rewards Deck

This is drawn from by Painting with Imagination and Reputation:

* 4 **Overexposure**

* 12 Funds
* 4 Mystique

Refreshes when exhausted.

### Masterpieces

The creation of a Masterpiece requires an intensity of 9 of the corresponding Aspect and Insight score of 7. Pigment counts towards that. That makes it so that the creation of a Masterpiece requires dedication of 4 Passion to the act. Otherwise getting 7 Insight requires a trigger of A Good Day which is based on luck.

Creating a Masterpiece also generates 3 Glimmerings and a Contentment and will replace any Art's Rewards or Fame's Rewards drawings that would have happened otherwise.

Each Masterpiece can be created only once. If one was already created then Painting with a Pigment will result in a regular reward.

## Staleness

*testing was done with v2019.6.a.1*

**Staleness** is an Aspect on Skill: a Vivid Imagination and its upgrades. Its magnitude may reach up to 5, reducing the rewards you get by painting.

### Staleness effect

Limit the amount of Fame's Rewards available:

* Unknown and Noticed are not affected by staleness

* Known - need 2 reputation and less than 5 staleness

* Significant - need 3 reputation and less than 4 staleness

* Notable - need 5 reputation and less than 3 staleness

* Famed - need 7 reputation and less than 2 staleness

* Celebrated - need 9 reputation and no staleness (less than 1 staleness)

### Staleness reduction

Staleness is reduced by 1 if painting quality is "Exceptional Work" or better (insight 4 or more). \*It happens before Fame's Rewards check, allowing them to be 1 step higher than initial staleness permitted.

### Staleness growth

Fame's Rewards Deck now contains:

* 4 **Overexposure**
* 12 Funds
* 4 Mystique

Refreshes when exhausted.

After Fame's Rewards are drawn, if reputation was Significant and above (reputation 3 or more), 1 level of staleness is added for each overexposure card and overexposure cards are removed.
If reputation was below Significant, Overexposure cards decay into Funds.