shoulda held the mystique in your tingers

There is a simple solution: don't have any notoriety.

This is painfully familiar.

Yeah, I usually send Raw Prophets to destroy the evidence instead for this exact reason. No matter how much mystique or notoriety is on the board, there can only ever be one or two sets of evidence.

your finger nails aren't clipped all the same..

But yeah, it's a little obnoxious that charm prioritizes mystique over notoriety at all, when painting with notoriety can make more mystique that'll be prioritized over the notoriety for charm. I feel ya.

Best use of charm, is in sync with expeditions: you get plenty of warm-up time to pick up the one Notoriety left at the end of the expedition. It's also an alternative means to get rumors for recruitment, if you have painting trained, to keep investigators from picking up your extra notoriety while you gradually reduce it. It's sadly, not an instant fix for multiple stacks of the stuff.

Charm is meant to plug a leak of Notoriety/Mystique, not mop up a flood. May I instead recommend building up your passion and painting, or using a Moth disciple to destroy evidence?

But yeah, the 120 sec social verbs are a little bit obnoxious, when the investigations all get 10 and 30 sec intervals.

level 10 heart disciples can reliably destroy notoriety, but I do find that it's usually simpler to just murder the hunters,

@coleman_corps
This.
This save me on multiple occations.
Also decaying cards don't decay when in a verb.
Use what I said to your advantage.