Visions of a moonlit city. A disturbance among London’s criminals. Mirrorcatch Boxes, stamped with a sun.
Navigate the perils and profits of London’s forbidden sunlight trade in this tale of lunacy, ambition and addiction.
Play An Exceptional Story: an Unlikely Assassin to begin.
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[spoiler]For those whom have come by their own sun-stamped Mirrorcatch Boxes, and have peered at their contents; your new quality isn’t harmful, but it does unlock some opportunities, most of them luck based. Failing the challenge removes this quality. It can, however, be regained through the use of another Mirrorcatch Box.
And yes, that was wonderful to play through. I have a whole new set of questions regarding the nature of light, and I fear none of them are easily answered.[/spoiler] edited by Cotton Dee on 8/27/2015
the ending I chose seemed to have locked me out of getting it again once it is lost. I am fine with my decision, just wondering if it’s possible to end the story with the option of regaining it intact
Really enjoying the story so far… particularly the glimpses of ‘Upstairs’. Very… enlightening, so to speak. :p I’m reaching the point in the story where I start to worry, though - so far, all the Exceptional Stories have included some big decision at the end with large-scale consequences… and ever since the one with the mirrors, those’ve made me twitchy. >_> I hope some other chaps get there before I do so I can get some warning about consequences and rewards.
the ending I chose seemed to have locked me out of getting it again once it is lost. I am fine with my decision, just wondering if it’s possible to end the story with the option of regaining it intact
If there is a way I’d be surprised, my choice seemed like it would but I’ve got no way back.
Has anyone echoed the results on “an Unlikely Assassin”? I know none of the options are likely to give anything unique, but they do all sound rather interesting.
[quote=Balefire Phoenix]The elephant in the room here is the fact that tons of Mirrorcatch boxes were just handed out to nearly every player.
This kind of messes with the idea of that Iron League attack, and the fact the things are supposed to be a super rare relic.[/quote]
Well, for ‘nearly every player’, read ‘nearly every Exceptional Friend’, which probably translates to somewhere between ten percent and five percent of the player base (and I’d guess it’s closer to five).
Anyway, they were a super-rare relic for a long time, and I understand that most of them were squirrelled away out of circulation. They had no impact on the game for the vast majority of the player base because they wouldn’t know who had one, or have a chance of holding on to it if they did. Or else it sat in the inventory of an otherwise idle alt out of fear of theft. Having more in circulation, and reducing their relative value, means that they’re suddenly accessible to a lot more people.
This has improved the depth of the game for lots of people, and made a possession less valuable for a small handful. Seems reasonable to me (but then I never had one in the first place).
[quote=RandomWalker][quote=Balefire Phoenix]The elephant in the room here is the fact that tons of Mirrorcatch boxes were just handed out to nearly every player.
This kind of messes with the idea of that Iron League attack, and the fact the things are supposed to be a super rare relic.[/quote]
Well, for ‘nearly every player’, read ‘nearly every Exceptional Friend’, which probably translates to somewhere between ten percent and five percent of the player base (and I’d guess it’s closer to five).
Anyway, they were a super-rare relic for a long time, and I understand that most of them were squirrelled away out of circulation. They had no impact on the game for the vast majority of the player base because they wouldn’t know who had one, or have a chance of holding on to it if they did. Or else it sat in the inventory of an otherwise idle alt out of fear of theft. Having more in circulation, and reducing their relative value, means that they’re suddenly accessible to a lot more people.
This has improved the depth of the game for lots of people, and made a possession less valuable for a small handful. Seems reasonable to me (but then I never had one in the first place).[/quote]
You actually get one in the initial (free) storylet accessible to everyone.
I do agree that more of them should be in circulation, but maybe they could have been put behind an Enigma-esque ARG lock or otherwise limited in some fun (as in, not "grindable quality X at Y"/POSI) way so that the guessing game mechanic is still relevant. edited by Balefire Phoenix on 8/27/2015
Any player, even a newly registered account, can get a Mirrorcatch Box this month by choosing two of the four options in the very first storylet, which doesn’t require Exceptional Friendship.
I’m sure quite a few Mirrorcatch Boxes before this were locked out of circulation due to being stashed away on unattackable accounts or just being in possession of inactive players. So this does make the item less rare, and doing “Mirrorsnatch!” now might be a little silly (since it costs an expensive item, perhaps that cost should be removed). However… it’s worth it for story purposes if you ask me! Boxes that can hold dangerous sunlight, or perhaps very angry dream-snakes? Too good to let dwindle away into the vaults.
Has anyone started collecting the results of the final choice yet? Four options. What consequences and rewards wait behind each? I am paralyzed by indecision…
Ah, well that explains why no one has shared their choice for the public storylet. No one wants to give away the fact they now have a Mirrorcatch box. Does anyone want to at least share the 2 options that don’t give a box, to prove they don’t have one?
