Cant get rid of evidence?

[Zyczu]

I keep losing my runs bc of the detective and evidence, my friend told me followers with knife can kill the detective and moth can get rid of evidence but even when promoting to level 5 they just come back with a wound i have to heal.

Is it impossible to stop the evidence or do i need smth special to unlock it?

[Kırmızı Konsol]

Send a edge or a Moth aspect follower OR summon a creature to do that for you. Which can be done with the rites.

[The Queen Salis]

5 is enough to maybe succeed but not enough to be reliable. (Sounds like your luck has just been in the gutter)
You need more qualified minions.

As for your runs, my best advice is to STOP doing sketchy shet when there's any Notoriety or Evidence on board. Slow the heck down, let the rumours die down. Then resume your spooky business.

[The Queen Salis]

Safest way to deal with Notoriety (before it becomes evidence) is with the help of a charming Heart follower. Talk to them about your cult business to aks for their talents in that regard

[Gilmoy]

See my thread for one detailed play-by-play of clearing multiple Notoriety:
Touring the Nine Venerations (In Parallel): Deferred Cults vs. Gambit Cults
I had a clean slate (0 Dread, 0 Fascination, 0 Notoriety, 0 Evidence)
suddenly blow up into a Notoriety flash crash,
and then I cleared it all to restore a clean slate.

Even a Moth 9+, with 70% success rate (to eat Evidence), can fail twice in a row.
But not 3 times in a row (yet). That's the "secret".

Mathematically, a high-aspect double-failure is (30%)² = 09% ~= 1 in 11.
You'll surely snipe at Evidence more than 11 times in 1 game.
Then you should expect a couple of Moth fumbles, and know how to survive it.

[The Queen Salis]

Do NOT check that thread unless you want to be very spoiled or very confused or are okay with basically bypassing the learning curve of the game.

It's a great read and compelling prospect but could potentially impact someone's enjoyment of the game <3

Basically it's a university course level engagement with the game while OP is very much pre-high school in terms of familiarity with it.

[Zyczu]

Originally posted by The Queen Salis:

5 is enough to maybe succeed but not enough to be reliable. (Sounds like your luck has just been in the gutter)
You need more qualified minions.

As for your runs, my best advice is to STOP doing sketchy shet when there's any Notoriety or Evidence on board. Slow the heck down, let the rumours die down. Then resume your spooky business.

Idk what are the chances but i used 3 Moth 5 followers and all of them failed and i had to heal them after. I didnt wanna risk getting a corpse cuz i heard it can really backfire

[Glyph]

Summoning a voiceless dead is cheap (2 knock, 2 heart, 4 winter) and I use them to destroy evidence if I need to. Worst thing that happens is the summon is destroyed. Make another!

[The Queen Salis]

Originally posted by Zyczu:

Originally posted by The Queen Salis:

5 is enough to maybe succeed but not enough to be reliable. (Sounds like your luck has just been in the gutter)
You need more qualified minions.

As for your runs, my best advice is to STOP doing sketchy shet when there's any Notoriety or Evidence on board. Slow the heck down, let the rumours die down. Then resume your spooky business.

Idk what are the chances but i used 3 Moth 5 followers and all of them failed and i had to heal them after. I didnt wanna risk getting a corpse cuz i heard it can really backfire

yeah if you only have 5's then you really shouldn't rely on them to deal with it.
Yes a corpse would be bad. Unless it's a corpse of your enemy :) There are *things* corpses can be quite useful for, if you know the ways.

You need to maneuver around the suspicion.
You need to not have too much Notoriety and Evidence at once and the most reliable way to do that is to do mundane stuff and let the rumours quiet down. Prevention is best. You have a margin of 1 of either Notoriety or Evidence that you can live with. If it's there, treat it as a sign to calm down with the spooky stuff.

If you are a bit too deep and want to stall an investigation, generating vague inconsequential publicity by the way of art might help you confuse and delay the inevitable long enough for the case to dissolve.

If you know enough hidden truths, you can risk trying to share the most dreadful or fascinating with the investigator to shake their resolve.

[Cloudyeller]

You have a 70% chance of succeeding at level 5. You have a 30% chance below than, and 90% with 10.

RNG is hard for players to accept sometimes. My Moth folks have so many scars they look like a scratching post, despite their 70% chances.

[Morse]

Originally posted by CitSci:

You have a 70% chance of succeeding at level 5. You have a 30% chance below than, and 90% with 10.

Not quite. There is no "90% on 10" option for destroying evidences. While most of the interactions do indeed follow the 30%-70%-90% rule, there are some exceptions. Removing evidence is one of them, being capped at 70% on 5. There is an option to remove it with no moth at all though: 10% chance, good luck with that :)

[Cloudyeller]

Originally posted by Morse:

Originally posted by CitSci:

You have a 70% chance of succeeding at level 5. You have a 30% chance below than, and 90% with 10.

Not quite. There is no "90% on 10" option for destroying evidences. While most of the interactions do indeed follow the 30%-70%-90% rule, there are some exceptions. Removing evidence is one of them, being capped at 70% on 5. There is an option to remove it with no moth at all though: 10% chance, good luck with that :)

That's very interesting! Thank you for the correction!

[Air Raider]

use heart to remove notoriety before it decays
or vomit 40 mystique on douglas face