User blog comment:StoryGirl83/Diamond Choices I'm Working Toward By Series/@comment-3452092-20190119173749

My last list of things took longer than planned, but I stuck to it, because I wanted to. Here's my next list for my reference.
 * Recruit my darling Nina in It Lives Beneath, because Nina deserves to be involved as much as I can involve her after the sacrifice she made. 25 💎s. If all goes well, I should have enough by Monday evening. I seriously hope that's the last of the diamond choices I want for this play through, because I have other books I want to focus on, but there are only 2 or 3 chapters left in the book, most likely, so I should be okay.
 * Time to collect some desk items and spells. Spells are the priority if I run out of time and or diamonds. I will not spend any diamonds until after I restart the game Friday. If all goes well, by that point I should have 30 💎s unless there is something I can't resist in It Lives Beneath or The Elementalists. If the last spell costs and is in that chapter or there is a diamond choice to get one of the last two desk items, I will probably go ahead and grab them, because I plan to get those items anyway. Chances are there will be something, so I'll probably pay for that. Mostly I have bought Beckett scenes in this book with one Griffin scene to play with my familiar, and nabbed all of the spell balls. I did by the one spell for breathing under water. Including those 30 💎s, I should have about 82 💎s to spend on various things in the quick playthrough over the week. 81 💎s would get me all the currently available desk items. 45 💎s is what I need for all the currently available spells. And there is another 15 💎s for a Beckett scene I missed and want this time around . . . obviously, not getting this all in one week. I think I will aim for grabbing all the spells and whatever other items I can squish into that count. So that's probably at least two weeks worth of diamonds, three if you are including the upcoming one that is partially It Lives Beneath.
 * The next thing on the list is to recruit Niles Edison. This would be higher up on the list, but those other two books I love way more and they are both getting close to their completions. I don't know how close, but It Lives Beneath is already in the middle of the final confrontation, so, not much there. My guess is two weeks, but it could be three. I do believe it will be at least two, because there is still too much to fit into one week. Anyway, for this phase, I will be getting Niles, Whisper, probably one or both of the fancy headquarters, and the thief tools. This is between 80 and 98 💎s depending on if I get one or both on those headquarters which means it will take around two weeks to get everything on this list (and there is more I want or kind of want, but this is all I am grabbing for now. Peter can stay as my Grifter for now and I don't Lena).
 * Next on the block is a ton of Across the Void stuff. I really love this book and I want to enhance the ship, because reasons, basically. A quick count says the round one stuff I want (which includes more than just upgrades is about 194 💎s, so this should take a month. With everything else going on, it is possible, but improbably that the book might have started back up before I get starter and even if it has started by the time I start, it is slightly more likely to have started back up before I finish. If it does, I will have to be quicker with playthroughs, because I don't want to miss anything. However, they keep saying spring and spring isn't for almost twelve weeks, so I should be fine.

Assuming everything goes fine this should take about nine weeks to get through. . . yes, I just said I have my diamonds locked up for two months. Oh, boy am I in trouble if I actually like Ride or Die.