Research:Buying Lives

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These are results for buying a lot of lives one after the other, with a Pishite to restore stats and life in between, and with "quite good" alignment. The character in question had died 6 times so far, and had 3 spare lives left before. Lives cost in royals: 1st 3, 2nd 3, 3rd 3, 4th 3, 5th 3, 6th 4, 7th 5, 8th 5, 9th 5, 10th 5, 11th 5, 12th 5 and 13th 7.

These are results for buying a lot of lives one after the other, with a Pishite to restore stats and life in between, and with "neutral" alignment. The character in question had died 7 times so far, and had 26 spare lives left before. Lives cost in royals: 1st 6, 2nd 5, 3rd 6, 4th 7, 5th 8


Results for a (mostly) "quite good" character; usually there's at least 24 hours between lives unless noted, other factors probably render this information invalid, but it just shows that a lot of variables go into the cost of a life:

Deaths Spare lives Royals Notes
15 11 6
15 12 6 Restored, immediately bought
15 13 6 Restored, immediately bought
15 14 6
15 15 7
16 15 7
16 16 7
16 17 7 Restored, immediately bought
16 18 7
16 19 7
16 20 8
16 21 8
16 22 9
16 23 7
16 24 7
16 25 8
17 25 6
17 26 11 Restored, immediately bought
17 27 7
17 28 7
17 29 7
17 30 9
17 31 8 Restored, immediately bought


Results for Seima. They started out with 20 deaths in reserve, and having died 22 times already. These lives were all bought at the same time (buying a life, restoring, repeating) over a period of a few hours, and we stopped when they got the Living in Fear achievement (100 lives in reserve). They were 18 degrees evil the whole time, and a Sekkite. At first they tossed in one royal at a time--after the 80th, they started tossing in the first ten all at once, then tossing in the rest one at a time.

Deaths Spare lives Royals
22 20 8
22 21 8
22 22 11
22 23 7
22 24 7
22 25 8
22 26 9
22 27 9
22 28 10
22 29 9
22 30 11
22 31 10
22 32 10
22 33 12
22 34 10
22 35 10
22 36 10
22 37 11
22 38 13
22 39 11
22 40 13
22 41 14
22 42 12
22 43 12
22 44 11
22 45 10
22 46 13
22 47 11
22 48 14
22 49 14
22 50 15
22 51 11
22 52 11
22 53 11
22 54 12
22 55 13
22 56 16
22 57 12
22 58 13
22 59 14
22 60 13
22 61 14
22 62 18
22 63 15
22 64 14
22 65 17
22 66 13
22 67 14
22 68 17
22 69 16
22 70 16
22 71 18
22 72 15
22 73 18
22 74 16
22 75 18
22 76 19
22 77 17
22 78 17
22 79 17
22 80 17
22 81 16
22 82 16
22 83 18
22 84 21
22 85 21
22 86 19
22 87 18
22 88 18
22 89 19
22 90 20
22 91 23
22 92 18
22 93 21
22 94 17
22 95 17
22 96 20
22 97 19
22 98 21
22 99 19

I plotted this as cost of each life (Royals) vs lives bought previously (ie I deducted the 8 initial lives for the calculations).

15 dollars per life plus 3 royals, +- 20% looks good :

Seima lives.png


Some more results:

Andschana did not buy her lives in batches, and the alignment information was taken from "score align".

Deaths Lives (after) Age Guild level Alignment Cost
12 13 77 days, 12 hours 247 barely good 5 Royals
12 14 77 days, 18 hours 247 neutral 5 Royals
12 15 78 days, 22 hours 253 neutral 4 Royals
12 16 79 days, 18 hours 257 neutral 4 Royals
12 17 80 days, 23 hours 263 neutral 5 Royals
12 18 83 days, 9 hours 270 barely good 7 Royals
12 19 87 days, 13 hours 278 neutral 6 Royals
12 20 88 days, 18 hours 279 neutral 6 Royals
12 21 93 days, 7 hours 298 barely good 5 Royals
12 22 98 days, 0 hours 301 barely good 5 Royals
12 23 100 days, 19 hours 301 barely good 6 Royals
12 24 103 days, 23 hours 301 barely good 8 Royals
12 25 106 days, 15 hours 301 barely good 8 Royals
13 25 112 days, 10 hours 301 barely good 7 Royals


Jantiff bought lives in batches and got restored by a Pishite in between who also checked the alignment. Where it happened it is visible from his age.

Deaths Lives (after) Age Guild level Alignment Cost
7 27 ~45 days ~190 neutral 6 Royals
7 28 ~45 days ~190 neutral 5 Royals
7 29 ~45 days ~190 neutral 6 Royals
7 30 ~45 days ~190 neutral 7 Royals
7 31 ~45 days ~190 neutral 8 Royals
7 33 ~47 days ~200 1 degree evil 10 Royals
7 34 49 days, 20 hours 211 4 degrees good 8 Royals
7 35 49 days, 20 hours 211 4 degrees good 7 Royals
7 36 49 days, 20 hours 211 4 degrees good 7 Royals
7 37 49 days, 20 hours 211 4 degrees good 7 Royals
7 38 49 days, 20 hours 211 4 degrees good 7 Royals
7 39 49 days, 20 hours 211 4 degrees good 8 Royals
7 40 49 days, 20 hours 211 4 degrees good 7 Royals
7 41 52 days, 10 hours 221 2 degrees good 9 Royals
7 42 52 days, 10 hours 221 2 degrees good 8 Royals
7 43 52 days, 10 hours 221 2 degrees good 9 Royals
7 44 52 days, 10 hours 221 2 degrees good 9 Royals
7 45 52 days, 10 hours 221 2 degrees good 11 Royals
7 46 52 days, 10 hours 221 2 degrees good 10 Royals
8 46 57 days, 12 hours 234 6 degrees good 9 Royals
8 47 57 days, 12 hours 234 6 degrees good 10 Royals
8 48 57 days, 12 hours 234 6 degrees good 9 Royals
8 49 57 days, 12 hours 234 6 degrees good 9 Royals
8 50 57 days, 13 hours 234 6 degrees good 10 Royals
8 51 57 days, 13 hours 234 6 degrees good 9 Royals
8 52 57 days, 13 hours 234 6 degrees good 10 Royals
8 53 57 days, 13 hours 234 6 degrees good 11 Royals
8 54 57 days, 13 hours 234 6 degrees good 9 Royals
8 55 57 days, 13 hours 234 6 degrees good 11 Royals
8 56 58 days, 11 hours 237 6 degrees good 12 Royals
8 57 58 days, 22 hours 237 6 degrees good 9 Royals
8 58 59 days, 13 hours 241 6 degrees good 11 Royals