Thanks to @sacchihikaru I've gotten reoriented with where I'm generally 'up to' in my overall narrative.
Turns out I'm waaaaay far into the end. I was basically ready and waiting to do City in Silver the moment it dropped. I hadn't, however, done Gaider's Mourn or Evolution, so I'm plugging away at those as we speak. I was already a base-cap Zeefarer, so it was an easy start, but bounty hunting is definitely an end-game activity! Whew. Nearly died a few times there.
Been doing Evolution more recently - holy shit, the Wax-Wind is horrifying, eh? Great writing though. Really enjoying it. Even if I did grind up Zee Legs enough for Zeefaring 7... Before starting Evolution. Ah well. The pirate bounty is still valuable. Not time wasted. DID just fuck up, like, as I'm writing, on the last check of the Aeschaven Naturalist Carousel, so now I've gotta go thru again just to get back and try again. Failed an 87% check. Blegh.
Yesterday I sat down and worked out how close I am to Paramount Presence, and, aside from the 7x12 Notability grind, I'm 88.5% of the way there via methods that aren't the easy ways out.
I'm PoSI Shattering already, so that's one 12 Notability down. For Sinew, I have 41/50 Mementos of Violence - this was basically by accident, because I was, in the past, grinding out Defender of the Public Safety via Pinewood Sharks in Parabola. I'm only at like Influence 24 or something - it'll actually take me less time and effort to get the last 9 MoVs than it will the 90 Influence for Sinew.
Blood, I'm surprisingly close on, except I fucked up, meaning I'll likely leave Blood 'til last so I can grind up the one dream I fucked up. Death By Water: 8/10, What the Thunder Said: 19/15, The Fire Sermon: 0/15 (accidentally reset it after finishing :<), The Burial of the Dead: 6/15, Is Someone There: 14/15, A Game of Chess: 14/15. Even though I could just take the easy way out and Cherish the Spouse(s), I'm so close to the dreams success, I'd rather see it through.
Marrow is another one where I'm accidentally most of the way to the longest way through (not so much the hardest, Wealth would be the hardest now; it'd cost much less than 10k echoes to acquire the Treasures straight up.) - Renown: Criminals: 45/50, Renown: Constables: 42/50. It's still, y'know, 104 actions getting and then cashing in the needed favours, but I get to keep a lot of items this way, for less than a day's actions. (Opportunity cards not withstanding, of course. -_-;)
Nerves, funnily enough, I've almost completed all three options. The only thing I don't have are many if any Mementos of Silence. 3/50. I do have The Boatman's Opponent 40/40, Scholar of the Correspondence 21, and two Übergoats. I thought I would try for a Heptagoat, but I'm putting off any no-mechanical-benefit grinds until, y'know, after doing any and all grinds that are mechanically beneficial in addition to narratively beneficial.
But, boy howdy, do I love the idea of my poor private investigator, after falling down the Cumaean Canal and surviving a life being stranded in the Neath, now a Legendary Monster Hunter,
being flanked by two Übergoats.