In case anyone needs a cheap, quick, easy and also very gamey way to get rid of stressed/depressed

[Lycrist Katkiller]

Hi

Are you feeling down? Is life not worth living? Do they never shut up about their pigs?
Are you feeling stressed? Is it too much pressure? Do you think there is so much to do but so little time?

You are not alone!
[Actually you are not. There is always help]

Fear not, friend, because there is a great way to make you feel better!

Step 1:
Kidnap some children. Any children will do, but preferable are those of rulers you hate anyways. Any means of kidnapping work, but pillaging is probably the best. If that's not available, invite their parents, then tell them to leave

Step 2:
Put them into house arrest - we are not that evil, or are we?

Step 3:
Make them ambitious when they read 14.5 years age. You need good stats for this, of course

Step 4:
Slip you finger

Step 5:

Spoiler: Cured

Works with depressed as well.
Works only once in ten years, and shares the cooldown with Lovers and Friends death

In case you just want to add skulls to your collection, make sure you got any of

 

[TanEfficient]

Man, this is amazing. So cruel and useful.

 

[Reman]

Alt solvency: become rivals with anyone by using the antagonize button, then kill them. No need to go to the bother of tutoring a child for many years. It's also much easier to get a tyranny-free kill on an adult than on a child.

And even this option has the easier alternatives of the carousing focus or rank 2 hermit potion.

Stressed/depressed are some of the easiest traits to get rid of.

 

[Lycrist Katkiller]

Alt solvency: become rivals with anyone by using the antagonize button, then kill them. No need to go to the bother of tutoring a child for many years. It's also much easier to get a tyranny-free kill on an adult than on a child.

And even this option has the easier alternatives of the carousing focus or rank 2 hermit potion.

Stressed/depressed are some of the easiest traits to get rid of.

Killing rivals means either the risk of getting injured/killed in a duel, getting merciless modifier or becoming a know murderer. Furthermore Antagonizing can take a while till they are rivals.

All you have to do is kidnap some children and educate them till they 14.5, which usually, if your dungeon is full of children will happen within 1 year.
Of course this is not available or not as easy to to achieve is you are not raiding... but it's not impossible to manage

Obviously you use children of different courts to avoid tyranny or any mean of tyranny-free kill

Hermit Potion is not available to pagans or anyone with learning <8... Also it's boring AF at not RP at all to be Hermit all the time.

Hunting and carousing requires you to change focus (might take up to 5 years), to stay at peace (boring) and the hunting doggo can take forever to get triggered

Don't be so narrowminded please

 

[Reman]

Killing rivals means either the risk of getting injured/killed in a duel, getting merciless modifier or becoming a know murderer. Furthermore Antagonizing can take a while till they are rivals.

There are many ways of killing people without getting any of those penalties. And antagonize pretty consistently gives rivalry in a few years or less.

All you have to do is kidnap some children and educate them till they 14.5, which usually, if your dungeon is full of children will happen within 1 year.
Of course this is not available or not as easy to to achieve is you are not raiding... but it's not impossible to manage

Obviously you use children of different courts to avoid tyranny or any mean of tyranny-free kill

Don't you still have to be in the war for the execution to by tyranny free?

Don't be so narrowminded please

Your strat certainly isn't useless by any means, but it should be evaluated in the context of other options.

 

[gdj]

Can´t we all just get along and go carousing?

On second thought, nah, your variant is more fun..

 

[Lycrist Katkiller]

There are many ways of killing people without getting any of those penalties. And antagonize pretty consistently gives rivalry in a few years or less.


Don't you still have to be in the war for the execution to by tyranny free?


Your strat certainly isn't useless by any means, but it should be evaluated in the context of other options.

Which ones?

No

Other options = boring

 

[Reman]

No

That changes things. Serves me right for trusting the wiki.

In that case you can target anyone who can be executed tyranny-free (e.g. lowborns, characters in other realms, people who have been excommunicated) in your dungeons, become a rival with them either way (through education or antagonizing), and simply keep them in your freezer until you need them. If you ever become stressed you can thaw them and chop their head off the next day.

In this way, your strategy is stronger than anything I listed above. No need to bother with the restrictions/drawbacks of potions or focuses. The only downsides are the once a decade restriction, and the tiny amount of setup micro if you want it to be instant. Otherwise the strat is reliable and super generic. I like it

 

[Lycrist Katkiller]

That changes things. Serves me right for trusting the wiki.

In that case you can target anyone who can be executed tyranny-free (e.g. lowborns, characters in other realms, people who have been excommunicated) in your dungeons, become a rival with them either way (through education or antagonizing), and simply keep them in your freezer until you need them. If you ever become stressed you can thaw them and chop their head off the next day.

In this way, your strategy is stronger than anything I listed above. No need to bother with the restrictions/drawbacks of potions or focuses. The only downsides are the once a decade restriction, and the tiny amount of setup micro if you want it to be instant. Otherwise the strat is reliable and super generic. I like it

You can antagonize characters in your dungeon, but of course, if you know some dirt about someone (plotters or anything) you may antagonize, imprison, kill.
Children of Foreign courts give you -10 opinion of the realm, but who cares!?

 

[Kurblius]

Has anyone figured out the different ways one can deliberately get the stressed or depressed trait? Sometimes I just want to hasten death... One way I think is the "attempt to intimidate" button which seems to have a high probability of failure and giving you the stressed trait.

 

[junassa]

Has anyone figured out the different ways one can deliberately get the stressed or depressed trait? Sometimes I just want to hasten death... One way I think is the "attempt to intimidate" button which seems to have a high probability of failure and giving you the stressed trait.

Rulership will eventually give you depressed. Pretty sure stewardship will give you stressed but it's been awhile since I've taken that so I'm not sure.

If you want your character to die take a long boat trip and get scurvy.

 

[Mindel]

For additional stress relief, pick martial and you can use them one at a time as dueling bait.

If their personal combat ability is too high, then you can blind them ahead of time.

 

[Lycrist Katkiller]

For additional stress relief, pick martial and you can use them one at a time as dueling bait.

If their personal combat ability is too high, then you can blind them ahead of time.

no need for blinding, just educate them poorly :-D

 

[Rags17]

"Chancellor ! I am feeling kind of down today - bring me a child to murder !"

Ahh, that did the trick, things are looking up already !

 

[Arrnea]

Has anyone figured out the different ways one can deliberately get the stressed or depressed trait? Sometimes I just want to hasten death...

Best two ways I've seen:

• Rulership Focus.
• Have your friend or lover die.

 

[Kurblius]

Has anyone figured out the different ways one can deliberately get the stressed or depressed trait? Sometimes I just want to hasten death... One way I think is the "attempt to intimidate" button which seems to have a high probability of failure and giving you the stressed trait.

I just want to correct this for the record. I was wrong, It's not the "attempt to intimidate" decision. It's the "invite to private conversations" decision that becomes available from certain wonders. You need to however be plotting to kill the person before you invite the said person to have private conversations with. Doing so will unlock a 3rd option to attempt to assassinate the character (rather than the normal two of seduction and improving relations). Then, in the likely event it fails (success in my experience is very low even with decent intrigue) you'll get 50% chance of getting stressed. Given that you can take the decision every 6 months it's a pretty sure-fire way to get the trait.

 

[_Perun_]

Has anyone figured out the different ways one can deliberately get the stressed or depressed trait? Sometimes I just want to hasten death... One way I think is the "attempt to intimidate" button which seems to have a high probability of failure and giving you the stressed trait.

Hermetics with seduction focus get the depressed trait the most reliably.
1 seduce like there is no tomorrow
2 wait for the event forcing you to break with one of three lovers or get the stressed trait
3 choose the stressed trait
4 make potion of eudaimonia, ideally of anything BUT plants to maximize the chances of the apathy event
5 wait for the depressed trait of drug overuse to appear, if it doesnt, repeat the steps 1-4
6 have a rival
7 commit a suicide via duel so your heir will not inherit half of the opinion penalty due to suicide

 

[Karlington]

You can antagonize characters in your dungeon

You can't antagonize children, and you can't antagonize anyone in prison.

 

[Lycrist Katkiller]

You can't antagonize children, and you can't antagonize anyone in prison.

yes
but of course you may antagonize someone, then declare war for rivality, then decapitate them

 

[MateuszS]

Mutilated prisoners become your foes, so you can still duel them (but I'm not sure if that "stress relief" event works on foes).