The Orient
Overview
Located in the Palace District, The Orient is Emerald City's most established party palace, at least for the older generations. The Victorian-inspired interiors and well-dressed waitresses deter the Emkids clique, whose absence at least ensures a calm and discussion-friendly environment.
The player can place himself and his followers at a dinner table to visit the bar for a drink or go downstairs and enjoy tonight's show. The show starts at 8 p.m. and lasts for approximately two hours.
Opening Hours
The Orient is open 24 hours a day
Dinner Table
When choosing to sit at the dinner table, the player can order these items:
- Trendor ribs: $150
- House's fawnfish: $140
- The Orient: $120
- Bottle of The House: $150
- Côtes-du-rouge: $400
- Lembar wine: $700
- Volkmar's Red: $2500
The Bar
The Orient's bar charges a huge mark-up. However there are side benefits to drinking there which might make this worthwhile: a chance to socialize with the upper echelons of Ikaanan society, and maybe gain esteem in their eyes (in the form of Palace Rating points). And also the possibility of learning things from interesting people (Science and Academics skill increases).
Buying a drink and drinking it takes no time. But each drink affords an opportunity to socialize with the Orient's clientele, which will take 18 minutes if chosen. Each socialize attempt makes a Charisma-based check, which if successful will gain you +1, +2 or +5 Palace Rating points. However, each drink has a chance of making you increasingly drunk, and drunkenness will progressively reduce your success chance. Your success chance is also affected by your Influence and by your Arena fame. And each type of drink affects your chance too; more expensive drinks tend to boost it.
The discussions you have socializing when drinking whiskey or house wine also have a decent chance of increasing your Science or Academics skills respectively, regardless of whether you make the socialize check.
This is all that is available from the Orient bar:
| Beverage | Price | Drunkenness progression chance | Palace Rating increase chance modifier | Other benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Ale | $30 | 50% | -20 | none |
| Expensive Ale | $90 | 100% | +0 | none |
| House's Wine | $250 | 100% | -10 | 25% chance of +1 Academics (cap: 80) |
| Expensive Wine | $500 | 100% | +15 | none |
| Whiskey | $150 | 150% | +0 | 25% chance of +1 Science (cap: 50) |
The Show (WIP)
As of right now, the show is currently WIP, so, the player can not enjoy it.