User blog comment:StoryGirl83/Diamond Choices I'm Working Toward By Series/@comment-3452092-20190104055537

I would like some input on this please. It is inregard to diamond choices in It Lives Beneath. Thanks!

So now that my major The Crown & The Flame project to get all the allies is completed, I have put that series back into the mix of things and am going to focus for the next two weeks on It Lives Beneath. If I get all the diamonds I can during that time period I should be able to get about 80 diamonds. I will hold back about 20 of those diamonds for potential use tomorrow or next Friday since I am likely to buy something from The Elementalists in at least one of those weeks. I will also hold back another 20 for the marlinespike, which is in It Lives Beneath, but will not be part of this since I will be getting it before I restart my playthrough (unless by some bizarre chance it takes two weeks before we get to that choice, in which case I'm not). That leaves me about 40 diamonds to spend, which is really that much. It comes out to about two diamond choices. Since I have gotten a lot over the course of the book (one special scene per character plus every special item and weapon . . . hence the plan for the marlinespike and two animals, the otter and the jackalope). I am not concerned with nerve points at the moment since my nerve points are pretty high due to all the other diamond choices I have gotten. So here are some options and what I would like input on:
 * Help the Coyote in chapter 5. This is 20 diamonds and likely will come up soon along with the other animals, so I expect a scene involving the coyote will come up in one of the next three chapters. If it is like the animals in the previous book, probably not worth a lot of nerve points, but still it's always worthwhile to help someone in need. Bonus because Tom is my MC's love interest and this involves him.
 * Hide with Parker in chapter eight. Costs 16 diamonds, so better economically and everything Parker does seems to be adorable, so I'm sure it's a pretty cute scene. Not bad on the nerve front either since it gives 10 nerve points each to the MC and Parker. He's not my MC's love interest and he probably won't be my second new MC's love interest either since I kind of don't want to submit him to that playthrough, but he will probably my my MC's love interest for the third playthrough. And regardless, he's adorable.
 * Same chapter, make friends with the snowy owl. Like with the coyote, this is a 20 diamond choice, so well within bounds, but not cutting any close. Also likely to come up soon, and likely not much help on the nerve points, although initially brings 10 to the MC (who doesn't need them as she's currently at 100). Could potentially be a cute scene with Elliot before all the mess that is currently going on.
 * Eat dinner with Imogen in chapter nine. This is another twenty diamond choice that benefits one of my low (comparatively) nerve point characters (Imogen and Parker are both in the upper 70s which isn't low, but compared to MC at 100 and Tom and Danni in the 90s, it's low). It could be interesting to see her thoughts on being inducted into the society and as she might be my next love interest (sorry Imogen . . . but that does mean I will protect you . . . and only you, if I pick you for that playthrough) I might want to have as much of her stuff picked as possible.
 * Let Tom help MC with wounds in chapter eleven. This is an eighteen diamond choice which gives the MC the chance to tell Tom she (in my case) loves him and since he is my current MC's love interest, that would be cool. Nerve points are decent, but not really needed for either character in my case . . . can't believe I am saying things like that, but really with my current nerve points, they aren't.
 * Talk to Danni at Ned's for nineteen diamonds in chapter twelve. I felt really bad about not being able to talk to her, but my diamonds were being saved for things. No matter what choice she made with her nerve check it has to be messing with her something terrible.
 * Go and talk with Parker in chapter thirteen for twenty diamonds. Like with Danni in the previous chapter, I felt pretty bad about this and I suspect I will feel worse by the end of next Wednesday, because he's likely to be hurting no matter what choice he makes.

Thoughts? Those are the diamond choices I am currently considering for a quick playthrough of It Lives Beneath next week. I can get two of them and I'd like your thoughts on them. Thanks!