Painting about my crimes to hide my notoriety

[JohnnyT]

I've found a viable strategy that probably shouldn't work. When the suspicious season comes around and I have a hunter looking for notoriety, I can simply paint using the notoriety as an ingredient and the hunter cannot find it.

Sure, the notoriety will come back after the painting and all the extra mystique will keep the hunters in play, but you can do this until any evidence expires.

Edit: Mostly my concern is that this makes absolutely no sense.

[Tower]

I've done that in a pinch, too, but honestly it's kind of a pain in the ass. If you're going to use your Work slot to fend off hunters, the two easiest summons are of the evidence-destroying variety.

[Triphemia]

I've tried doing that. It usually comes back to bite me, because the Notoriety itself doesn't time out while it's being painted, and because something usually comes up where I need to be working something else when Colombo starts looking for new clues.

I don't know if it's just bad luck but I've had a terrible time dealing with Notoriety and Evidence in general. Everything I try except lying low and doing nothing nefarious when the detective is active seems to blow up in my face somehow or other.

[Faey]

You will also produce extra Notoriety, not just Mystique.

[Triphemia]

I don't think I've ever seen a painting generate additional Notoriety without using an occult inspiration.

[Serpentarius]

I have never been able to paint with notoriety, ever how do you do that O.o

[Triphemia]

I think you have to study Glimmerings to level up your imagination at least once, and then you Work your Imagination and put Notoriety in the boxes labeled "Art or Bread"

[Xenu's Paradox]

Originally posted by Serpentarius:

I have never been able to paint with notoriety, ever how do you do that O.o

Vivid Imagination. Also happens to be the single best way of making money.

[Faey]

Originally posted by interleaper:

I don't think I've ever seen a painting generate additional Notoriety without using an occult inspiration.

Might be just because I usually use Lore for Painting I guess.

Originally posted by Serpentarius:

I have never been able to paint with notoriety, ever how do you do that O.o

When using the Skill (not just straight Passion) to Paint you can use Reputation (Notoriety/Mystique/Corpse?) in the slots as well as/instead of Passion.

[Serpentarius]

ah thats why, didn't even know you could use that to paint XD

[128th]

Here is another bug / feature, that you may "hold" card with notoriety, dread or fascination, during events until it ends, so they couldn't be magnetized.

[ADogAndAMan!]

I found that painting with notoriety gave me even more notoriety.
The best way to ignore notoriety is to get an erratic hunter, cause he's more likely to fail to generate evidence with notoriety than without.
I've played a 4 hour game with one and he's only ever got to damming evidence once while I'm just pumping out constant notoriety.

[Zorlond]

It is a viable tactic to paint with Notoriety to keep hunters at bay, but it has drawbacks as others have mentioned. The Notoriety doesn't decay while fueling your painting, the Mystique generated insures the inspection never ends, there is a risk of Fascination or Dread generation, and using any Lore as your inspiration or using any special paints from your item collection will generate more Notoriety. It's a bit easy to get 'stuck' in an endless loop of painting and investigation. It can work out if there's Damning Evidence already in play, just keep things going until it decays to Tentative, then stop painting. You don't really need 30+ Funds on hand.

But a better approach may be to just let the Notoriety be found and just casually mention to a Disciple that the Damning Evidence gathered is really such a bother to your delicate sensibilities...

[Acheum]

My solution was to paint on mystique, and so generate a ton of mystique to flood the hunter, until all the notoriety and evidence disappear. It's quite slow and you have to stop generate notoriety during this time, but it works quite well.

[Prometheus]

You can decay the notoriety by about 10 seconds each cycle. Use influences, moods or people for inspiration and you only generate mystique. So if you keep at it and don't generate more notoriety than you can use with your imagination you can eventually just kill it off.

My strategy is after establishing max health and a level of imagination and study I start painting up a storm. Generate lots of mystique and use it to paint while studying passion. Get the glimmerings until imagination is maxed. Then go on a recruting spree. I stop recruiting when I have 4 notoriety then and start converting aquaintances to the cult.

End up with a lot of people to boss around, evidence that is decaying (and maybe not, heh) and all the money. This even beats meticulous hunters.