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Commiseration: Our most painful failures

Finvara Posts: 430 4/4/2013	What would you say is your most painful failure in recent memory within Fallen London? I think right now, mine has to be the end of Passing Time in Flute Street, with a seventeen in twenty chance of success and using a sudden insight for a second chance, I managed to fail twice in a row. Just ouch. edited by Finvara on 4/4/2013 edited by babelfishwars on 1/25/2014 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor~Varald
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Grenem Posts: 2067 11/3/2015	I tried to rename my orphanage, somehow managed to rename my gang of hoodlums. they're now called grenem's home for wanderin and wayward children. this isn't going to do good things for my notoirity in the underworld, nor my orphanage's reputation. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Theus Posts: 311 4/4/2013	Finvara wrote: I just learned that 89% success rate doesn't prevent failing five out of six tries. Educational. That nears a 1/16,000 probability. I don't know if this makes you feel better or worse. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hefty~Harrison
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Finvara Posts: 430 4/4/2013	I just learned that 89% success rate doesn't prevent failing five out of six tries. Educational. Edit: What can I say except that failing all of these Watchful challenges is giving me Nightmares. In every sense of the statement. edited by Finvara on 4/4/2013 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor~Varald
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Aldeberan23 Posts: 6 4/4/2013	I failed a robbery on the Brass Embassy and lost all of my connections to Hell. It was the faction with which I had cultivated the strongest bond. I very nearly stopped playing.
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dariuseng Posts: 7 8/30/2017	I don't know if this is the sort of thing you guys mean by painful failures, but I just got rid of 14 Notability while trying to raise one of my stats to 215 by accidentally clicking "Come to the assistance of Dr F______" and I feel like I need to share this with someone and it felt very painful to me edited by dariuseng on 8/30/2017 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Morgan%20Hood
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Pyrodinium Posts: 639 11/4/2015	Grenem wrote: I tried to rename my orphanage, somehow managed to rename my gang of hoodlums. they're now called grenem's home for wanderin and wayward children. this isn't going to do good things for my notoirity in the underworld, nor my orphanage's reputation. Dear Madam Grenem, I had the most wonderful time in your Home for Wanderin and Wayward Children. At first I was rather surprised that these children as so tall and robust. You truly like to take care of your little ones. They were a bit rowdy but when I told them that the Big Bad Constable will get them if they don't behave they suddenly turned into the little angels that they really are. I had an appointment to make after my surprise visit so I swiftly distributed the Bags of Fierce Mint Humbugs that I had with me. You should just see the look in their eyes! In fact, one of the healthier ones who calls himself "Morgan the Man-Breaker" (kids these days and their overacting imagination) had tears in his eyes and told me that I am the father that he never had (such sweetness). Again, keep up the good work Madam. You are a light in this dark city. Sincerely, A very happy Londoner -- My profiles: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Pyrodinium (A Monster hunter on the hunt of his twin brother's killer. Overprotective dad of his twin's daughter) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rudolph~of~Taured (an indeterminate person of potentially rubbery lineage) * All social actions except photographers and loitering welcome!
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Lady Sapho Byron Posts: 770 12/27/2017	Selected the wrong mood on a mood card. Now my mood is >:-( -- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Lady%20Sapho%20L%20Byron Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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Lorn-Fluke Posts: 50 9/3/2016	My newspaper is called the Sixth City Times. I miscounted. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Milisa
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Dungerson Posts: 44 11/22/2015	Allow me to regale you with a tale of my quest toward Scarlet Sainthood. I am not yet expelled from the palace, and I am rather pleased at that. I have spent so many days seducing that well-known, delightful pair of Beauty and Wit that I am sure that the Empress' throne should be mysteriously soggy by now. My Persuasive shot up to an unprecedented level that it is now my strongest point. At last, I reached an untold level of debauchery. Hedonism 12. At last, all I have to do now is to return to London from my exile and book a voyage to the Iron Republic. But, I thought to myself, perhaps I should grind my Austere to 10 while I'm in the Tomb Colonies. I was an idiot. Perhaps some of you could guess where this was going. After all, you can't get out of the Tomb Colonies without halving either your Austere or Hedonist unless they're both below 10. Ah, dear readers, if only I am just a simple idiot. Au contraire! I thought to myself once more. I'd just buy that Fate option. An Imperial Pronouncement!* What a magnificent title for a storylet. Surely that would return me home safe and sound.* Is it wrong to disclose what that Fate option did? Just to be careful, I won't say what it did. I would just say what it didn't do. It's certainly not obvious enough for me, but on hindsight, the placement of that option is rather odd. Suffice to say, what I thought would be an Imperial fleet coming to take me home never came, because that Fate option did something else. But I was in a daze because I placed my faith - I believed, with all my heart - that I would be transported home. So I just went to the storylet option without looking twice, and clicked in a panic, wondering if there's a bug, if I had to pick another option to go home, anything that justified me throwing money at empty air. Of course, I clicked at the first non-grayed option. The option that would halve my Hedonist quality. Yes, I am not a simple idiot. I am a complex idiot. Now I am the proud, reformed ex-debauchee at Hedonist 6 and Austere 10. I need to seduce those miserable people all over again. Now I will get to collect the matching pair of the Empress' earring that I have obtained and sold a million times. All those days wasted. I am filled with impotent rage at myself and the world, but mostly at myself. At this moment, I want to kill everyone in the palace, burn everything down, and then go to the Tomb Colonies and burn everything down over there so that everyone could die a true death, aristocrats, bandaged people, and all. Then I will probably bring about the Liberation of Night, and then kill myself, leaving behind a Fallen Commonwealth of London that is republican, dark, but most importantly, free of uncomfortably moist thrones and wit and beauty. That would probably bring me to Hedonist and Austere 11.5, I would think. edited by Dungerson on 11/22/2015 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Dungerson
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Mechafluke Posts: 9 11/4/2015	Upon attempting an action with a 97% chance of success, I failed. Not once. Not thrice. Not even ten times. TWELVE. TIMES. In succession. I have never before known such an abysmal run of luck. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth involved that day. What are the odds? -- A gentleman with a keen eye, a sharp mind, a taste for mysteries and a fondness for zailing, he came from the Surface to study the Correspondence and uncover the secrets of the Judgements. He lives with a friendly clothes-colony and has an unhealthy interest in the Red Science.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 2/19/2017	Not the usual drastic disaster, but... Invited to a little soiree. End up late with something unfortunate on my heel. Accidentally embarrass the Turkish Girl. Insult my dance partner. Watch the Jovial Contrarian send the Whiskered Admiral into the soup tureen. In fact, fail every single Persuasive check save one - even with lots of confident smiles. Go to church to deal with the resultant scandal. Spend nine actions there, in fact. Become a sermon illustration in almost all of them, and end up with nearly as much scandal as I had to begin with. Some days, you should just stay home. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Revenant Posts: 3 9/9/2018	I failed a shadowy test 17 times... I had a 90% chance of success. London know me now as The Screaming Spy -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Revenant55
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Roqi Posts: 22 1/5/2016	I received a response for my ticket, and they're going to implement a change tomorrow. Huzzah for Failbetter! Do you know any other dev team that responds so quickly and helpfully? Hell naw. (I figured this warranted one of those retro smileys. I'm so sorry) -- Custom cameo by moi.
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 9/10/2018	Yup, it happened! Rushing on my mobile phone, a scroll event was recorded as a click. A click to sell my level 18 and 18 CP plant! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Dr Cop Posts: 38 10/16/2015	... and it goes on beyond that. One more loss, and the odds of having a winning streak this long will drop below 1%... -- fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/hawkinsssable
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DeserterKalak Posts: 94 6/30/2015	Pretty minor compared to some of these horrific tragedies I've read here, but I came home slightly drunk one night and finished collecting enough Prisoner's Honey to sponsor an expedition to the Unterzee. At Wolfstack, because I was drunk and unfocused, I clicked the "put to Zee" button instead, and locked myself into a lengthy voyage. I was confused as hell when I found myself at zee, I wasn't sure what had happened. I like to think my character was also drunk when it happened, so he staggered down to the docks and came to on his ship, bleary-eyed, face marked with the pile of netting he was using as a pillow, with no memory of how he got there. And then his crew just looked at him expectedly and rather than admit what happened and ask them to turn the ship around, he just started yelling orders and decided to head for Mutton Island at random. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/DeserterKalak
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Passionario Posts: 777 12/31/2015	Kukapetal wrote: Psyche Labyrinth wrote: Not necessarily a failure, but I made the rash decision to pursue the jewel thief. Now we are married and I've wasted so many echoes on him. I want a divorce, but there are no better (affordable) choices yet, and I like how he makes my rows (in my journal) all nice and even. Hate him though. When I got stuck with the Revolutionary Firebrand as a companion after deciding I hated him, I consoled myself by naming him Fido and deciding my character makes him live in the basement and eat dog food. Perhaps you could pretend you have a similar situation with Mr. Jewel Thief until you are able to give him the boot? It's small consolation, but it's something :P -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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NNNnobody Posts: 103 9/17/2018	An accursed pile of dung! I planned to keep the location of the Nadir a secret for all eternity, but now I accidently sold it to Hell. I just wanted to quickly take the favor from the opportunity card but I already had seven favours and hit Watchfull 200 recently so the "Sell the location" option was at the top. Now I did what I never wanted to, got incredibly less for it, and am suddenly allied with people I abhor (atleast that one is mutual, as the Charming Devil who wanted my soul skedaddled pretty quickly when I offered it). So, a very bad day for me. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/NNNnobody
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Wilhelm Leibniz III Posts: 63 6/23/2018	The Last Constable....... -- Wilhelm Leibniz III, Glassman, Hearts Desire
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RandomWalker Posts: 948 8/17/2016	So my main went to Mutton Island by ferry, which was fine. But when he headed back he somewhat whimsically chose to take his own pleasure yacht. At which point he lost about 60 levels of casing he had been farming. Oops.
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Ocanthus Posts: 22 6/22/2016	I was just on the Cave of the Nadir expedition, 90 supplies, modified watchful of 173. I got unlucky and the first rival's progress shoots up in about 12 actions. I still beat her against slim odds and push on. I get up to 57 progress (3 more to finish I believe) before I have to deal with rivals again. This time it's a straightforward watchful challenge, plus another based on supplies. I have enough left that it's 96%. But guess. What. Happened. I'm back to square one, and I can no longer use the dockers to get supplies. Had I spent a few more actions to buy supplies, 2 or 3 probably, I would have made it.
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Brian Hibbs Posts: 3 4/13/2016	Of all the times I have failed in Fallen London the one that still sticks in my mind as particularly frustrating to this day, for some reason, is when I was uncovering the secrets of the face tailor and failed a shadowy challenge, missing out on the scowling flint idol. I've probably had worse failures but for some reason this one always stuck with me more than anything else. -- Hello: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Brian~Hibbs
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Dudebro Pyro Posts: 755 7/30/2017	Once upon a time, I purchased a Handsome Townhouse. I soon decided to put it to use, and organised an orphanage in there. Naturally, that came with costs, both for the initial setup, and for actually running it. I dilligently purchased orphans at the Bazaar, spent perhaps a few hundred echoes building up my scheme, all that stuff. Never really did anything in particular with my Notability besides voting in elections, though. After a while, I started to regret my choice, seeing as God's Editors already provide 4BDR and the Salon provides additional Bizarre (which is, I believe, the rarest of the three BDR stats). So out goes about 8 leftover scheme, out go all the echoes spent on the establishment, and in comes a fashionable Salon (for another hundred or so echoes). And one additional detail: I've always wanted a Laconic Prodigy, but only had a vague idea that it was fate-locked, and never bothered to find out where one would actually acquire one. Today I finally decided to look it up on the wiki. And now I weep. -- Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them. For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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Jermaine Vendredi Posts: 588 8/28/2017	Don't you hate that little, snide comment about "this challenge is old territory for you!" Yes, but -- still dead. -- No plant battles, please. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Jermion
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Siankan Posts: 1048 8/3/2017	Pumpkinhead wrote: (Yeah, d----d misclicks, although there are much worse things to misclick on than the Slime and Amber card ) Tell that to the Rubbery Man. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Tozh Taurog Posts: 114 8/25/2017	I'm really into Correspondence. It's one of my favorite parts of FL and my character's favorite pursuits. So I got ready to get my last two levels of SotC. Got the mood card ready - have been saving it for ages! Got all the resouces prepared. Cleared wounds. Double checked that I have enough Correspondence Plaques. Full candle. Some saved coffees. Saved card to clear acquired wounds. All prepared. Ready. Set... And then, instead of Go, I click Discard on my mood card. No more mood card - and therefore no Courier Footprint in the forseeable future. Head->Desk. -- A Correspondent. Thrilled to advance science by educating the younger generation at your Orphanage. A Marvellous player. Willing to talk about it to the press. An amateur horticulturist. Usually up for socializing, especially with text. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/TozhTaurog
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Teaspoon Posts: 866 8/3/2017	I am very sorry, Rubbery Man. I meant to shake hands, not shake you down in a dark alley. (d----d misclicks...) -- Truth lies at the bottom of a well. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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Slyblue Posts: 224 8/27/2017	"That's hilarious" I said. "Who could possibly die from being shot in the hand?" And then I took a Velocipede Squad to the knee edited by Slyblue on 8/29/2017 -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Aronia Posts: 36 10/23/2017	For the first time here, I feel like I'd pay Fate (and a great amount of in-game loot) only to undo what I've just done. I don't know what I was thinking, why didn't I use any of the options I was given! Most of the time, I like the fact that nothing can be undone in Fallen London. But. The Last Constable is dead. The Last Constable is dead. And, you know, there actually is another story in this game that can be undone with Fate. But I don't care for my aunt, let her rot in Hell, I could buy out her soul and resell it further for all I know. But the Last Constable. D__n it. -- Lucy van Helsing, phantom de sa fille, a breathtaking and inescapable lady, spending most of her time among the Bohemians, the Devils and the Society. I don't loiter right now, but I like chess and coffee, Strage Pranks, Bifurcated Dreams and the like. I also accept Calling Cards. Ask this shady individual to loiter or help with Menaces if you'd like. Out of Skulls for now, though.
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Aberrant Eremite Posts: 362 3/23/2017	I have just successfully robbed the Brass Embassy with exactly 13 Casing (50% chance) five times in a row. Okay, the odds against that are high but not astronomical. But… I’m trying to get arrested here! Come on, devils, I’m openly wearing my CVR pocket-watch while I case the joint! The really embarrassing part is that I’ve already written loving farewell notes, gently tinged with self-pity, to friends. Now I’m free and rich and completely out of actions and Casing and my Suspicion is still below 2. Okay, so maybe I had a chat with the Chief Inspector over billiards at the Parthenaeum, but I just wanted him to fix a few tickets, not make me immune to criminal prosecution forever! -- Hieronymus Drake: Gentleman scholar, big-game hunter, scar-faced aristocrat. Remarkably sane, all things considered. Tanith Wyrmwood: Longshanks cat-burglar; Bohemian author; now, perhaps, something more. Bubbly, expressive, and affectionate. It’s not only still waters that run deep. Telemachia Lee: Gentle lady by birth, brawling Docker by choice. Good company in the drunk tank.
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parandr0id Posts: 11 10/16/2017	A few days ago I accidentally got rid of my Level 11 Plant. Never fought with it, but had been tending to it for years. RIP -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Parandr0id
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Six Handed Merchant Posts: 141 1/1/2018	My latest woe is a failure born of roleplaying. (Or rather, my failure to realize my character.) In game, I have spent the last several months grinding all the Renoun needed to open a salon. I am now 1 favor away from completing it! However, while roleplaying The Six Handed Merchant with other people, I have come to realize how immensely kindhearted Six is. In all the months that I have played Six, their Magnanimous had shot up to 10 in the first few weeks and stayed there, never falling once. That's when I realized: The Six Handed Merchant wouldn't open a salon, they would open an orphanage! Which means this is what actually happened: ---------- The Six Handed Merchant was beaming: everything had fallen into place. After months of renovations and endless string-pulling, Six's very own salon would finally open!! Soon they would be sipping warm brandy while weaving new theories together with the greatest minds in London! Six wandered through their gleaming new salon, straightening out books and moving chairs until everything was perfect. That was when Six noticed the extra tablecloth thrown into a corner. The workers must have forgotten it. It was at that moment that the tablecloth started to move. Six approached the tablecloth cautiously and poked it with the tip of their cane. The tablecloth rolled, and a tiny girl poked her head out of the pile of crimson fabric. "Please forgive me Sir- er, Madam- er, yes. I will go without making any fuss, but may I keep this here blanket? They threw it away because it was torn, and I am so cold..." Six just stared at the kid. Outside, the lacre began to fall. * * * Six doused the last oil lamp in their gleaming new salon. Everything was in place. The chairs had been removed, and every couch now had two small children sleeping on them, nestled under piles of warm tablecloths. The Six Handed Merchant sighed to themselves, "I will have to get new furniture in the morning." ---------- In other words, Six is now the proud owner of an Orphanage. edited by Six Handed Merchant on 1/1/2018 -- The Six Handed Merchant: If it's the truth you seek, The Six Handed Merchant is the gentlemen-, er, lady-, er, detective you need! Just pay no heed to that Eradication Officer tailing Six: that poor fellow is simply out of his mind! Six's Mantlepiece (I am available for roleplaying and SAs. My schedule is pretty full, so please PM me first to work out the details.)
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corvidcall Posts: 2 11/3/2015	I may or may not have accidentally sold my soul to an Affectionate Devil. Whoops? I mean, its turned out to be a pretty fun rping opportunity, but still. I was using that!!!
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Baron Leichtsinn Posts: 34 4/11/2016	And then there's this. Don't even go there. Just don't.... -- All the world's problems can be solved by poetry. And violence. Poetry and violence. Who said, violence wasn't a solution? Actually it solves all the problems, that couldn't be solved by poetry. ___________________________ http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Baron~Leichtsinn
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Hotshot Blackburn Posts: 110 3/2/2018	I was a Shattering Force and was preparing to make the jump to Legendary Charisma to finally pursue the Paramount Presence grind. I had 14 Notability, was prepared for the last grind to 15. I thought, might as well go all the way to 15, pay the 15 FATE to change focuses without losing Notability, and then go immediately to Legendary Charisma with 15 Notability and use my saved card to get Persuasive 215. It was a great idea!... Until I looked at the requirements and realized that after you revert your specialization, getting a new specialization involves spending 5 Notability. The grind from 0-5 Notability is way less time-consuming than the grind from 9-15 Notability... -- Hotshot Blackburn: Messidor, Aspirant to the Calendar Council. Paramount Presence. Seeker of the Name. A firm believer in kindness, solidarity, and sufficient use of force and firepower.
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Roqi Posts: 22 1/3/2016	I made an account JUST to post in this thread, because I feel like crying right now and sorely need back-pats. I wanted to create a short story that would shake the Bazaar to its core, making its spires' inhabitants grasp at their cups. That would make the Masters gasp and rustle, discomfited, under those cloaks. One that would knock every weirdly-shaped sock off its owner's appendages. A classic. A truly worthy mantelpiece treasure. I spent all my notes and resources on raising its Potential, pouring money and time into it. Eight weeks of waiting to gather two Trade Secrets. This would all cost me much more than I could possibly make off the story, Echo-wise, but that didn't matter. I was creating Art. Today, finally, with Time the Healer, I could get the second Trade Secret to push the Potential above 200, and consider if I would wait another four weeks and raise it even higher to lessen the possibility of failure. As I was weighing the matter, I went to look at what my odds are. My Name Signed with a Flourish is 2. The only options of publishing is the Making your Name one, with a meager 40 Potential requirement and a set result, and writing a story for Mr Pages, requiring 50 Potential and similarly having a set result. All this time, all this everything, and I can't publish. Truly, I am an unrecognized genius. I would say that only after my death my short story will be given the recognition it deserves, but we can't even count on that in the Neath, can we? I'm seriously considering just never moving on, never publishing anything else, and keeping the 209 Potential. A mantelpiece souvenir of failure through a dumb oversight. -- Custom cameo by moi.
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Vexpont Posts: 137 11/3/2016	Hallowmas. A raven perches on a nearby lamp-post, singing Queen Mary's Funeral March. I have A Dusty Bookshop ready, since I won't clear Watchful 200 without it. It's time to wait for my actions to build, attend a certain Lecture, and sell my foolish soul for what looks like an old jar of Bovril. At which point, I idly turn a card: Capering Relicker and Gulliver. Decide to try my luck, forgetting that doing so changes the Airs. Well, could be worse. The Opportunity Lock add-on has saved me several times. Many, many, many Airs later, the walls are unsplotched with the right kind of fungus, and that damned raven is on strike. You'll sing Purcell if you know what's good for you, birdie. -- Dangerous to my enemies; loyal to my friends. Not too handy at telling the difference. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Vexpont
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Eglantine-Fox Posts: 872 6/26/2016	It was an 80% chance to succeed at robbing the Bazaar. Never again will I try that short of 100%. Ouch... -- Eglantine Fox, the charming and androgynous Correspondent, teetering between hobbies of seduction and self-destruction. Siobhan O'Malley, Irish patriot (or 'bl__dy Fenian' if you're impolite). Isidore Day, an up-and-coming London gentleman. All allegations of wrongdoing are categorically denied.
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Professor Strix Posts: 616 7/3/2016	I didn't intend to leave Derek jobless until he was almost a posi, but almost all factions hate the guy. Now, he is finally connected enough with bohemians to be a journalist, but guess which card doesn't appear to him for 3 freaking weeks? -- The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds. "THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used." --------- Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Derek%20Davis
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Professor Strix Posts: 616 5/9/2016	Packed a little more than 1100 candles to visit Flute Street, used all of them mid-way, had to come back home and try again. Then, I went to do unfinished business at Veilgarden to get some candles, and, in my first try at the priest storylet, I got precisely 1 (one) candle as a random reward. To get how angry the RNG was at me, I went to my second trip to Flute Street with 1200 candles and I ended it with more than 600 spare candles when all was said and done. -- The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds. "THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used." --------- Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Derek%20Davis
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 11/4/2015	3/100^12. Or, we could just say, astronomical. -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 11/4/2015	Seriously, the devs should give him a special reward for beating such odds. -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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Nameseeker Posts: 6 6/7/2016	Wanted to increase Connected:Urchins, didn't realize was out of Lucky Weasels, sold them the Location Of The Cave Of Nadir, which I was planning to keep secret. FUUUUUUUUUUUUU... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Nameseeker
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Lucky Cinnamon Posts: 17 1/21/2015	Time just came for me literally twenty seconds after getting enough MW for my next Notability level. -- LC's Mobile Clinic: Weakening Wounds, Suturing Stabs, and Alleviating Aches since 1892! Non-profit wound healing available at most hours. Repeat customers welcomed and encouraged. Now also accepting problems of the mind for no charge!
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genesis Posts: 924 10/30/2015	Woke up this morning and accepted a confession of Whimsy which dropped my Scandal and Suspicion. Realised that I have a vast supple of heads. Spent about half of my actions employing them in practical jokes and got my scandal to 7. Except that I forgot I had been wearing a modish bonnet.... And went to exile where I spent most of the remainder of actions getting rid of the scandal I've just accrued + 5 actions to get back to London. The remainder of my actions were then spent to get back to 3 Scandal. So that was 40 actions (~13 Confessions=52 Spirit of Hallowmas) to essentially accept a confession and then get rid of my supply of heads :S -- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/mikey_thinkin Keeping track of incomplete content and loose ends in Fallen London
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Ginneon Thursday Posts: 265 10/24/2014	For the first time ever, I drew "A Little Omen" this week. I had grand plans to use it to steal bazaar permits (taking advantage of the hour-long +30 stat-of-your-choice boost it gives). But I kept it in my hand two days waiting for a time when I had an hour to devote to pilfering permits. I am now kicking myself because - when I finally sat down to do it - I decided to first pop into the Cave of the Nadir for some echoes to help buy gear with a further shadowy boost. This, of course, cleared my hand of all my cards. I had even stopped myself from visiting the Cave twice in those two days. It hurt. -- Ginneon Thursday: Revelrous Professor of Benthic Departments of Mycoenology, Lepidoptery
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Màiread Posts: 385 1/6/2018	Well I could scream. Decide to play around with a heist, content I’ve never done. Fail to realise failing a heist leads straight to jail, losing my spotless record. Decide ‘that’s okay, I’ll experience some new content while I’m here!’ The very first card I play reduces my overcapped persuasive to 214. I am 3/4 of the way to Paramount Presence. Now I either have to do a truly awful grind again after being so happy about leaving it behind, or be stuck forever with a persuasive of 214. There are times when one could get very cross with this game. edited by Màiread on 1/6/2018 -- Màiread - Correspondent, composer, lover of cats. Can probably bake you a d__n fine cake. Useful Links: Traveller's Friend (Progress Tracker & Notability Calculator) \| phryne's Guide to Favours & Renown \| Peggy the Nowoman lived to see the Feast. Thank you for the memories, Snow Lady. I'm happy to accept most social actions except for lethal sparring and loitering suspiciously. Please challenge my plant! Currently not accepting calling cards.
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 12/17/2015	Thrice have I attempted to create a Classic Short Story. Thrice have I instead made a Masterful Short Story. But I will not go farther than 200 potential to increase my chances. I will NOT be defeated. DO YOU HEAR ME, RNG? YOU WON'T BREAK ME. -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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VoxExMachina Posts: 20 4/6/2013	Hmm. I'll set my teeth to Intermediate Gnashing.
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Vega Posts: 150 1/10/2019	I'm on Polythreme, trying to make progress in spite of my unruly clothing. I have 5-card lodgings, and have filled 4 of my 5 spaces with unwanted opportunity cards, with one space free to draw from the deck. Based on this spread, I know that the deck will only contain 3 cards, and of those 3, one (The Masked Man) is unwanted and two are wanted (At the Market, and The Priest at the Temple). 2 of 3 is good odds, right? This morning I fired up the game with a full 10-card deck ready to draw from. First card I drew The Masked Man, so I discarded and re-drew. Drew the Masked Man again. I burned through all 10 cards. All of them were The Masked Man. RNG hates me today. -- The Jaunty Mystic, Taranlei, roams the streets of London, interviewing fellow citizens. Member of the Sanguine Ribbon Society and the Temple Club (happy to send invites). Accepting all Acquaintances, lethal duels, social interactions, and opportunities for casual roleplay. The Shifty Spectre has departed on the final voyage. "I have gone down, down, my love..."
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 5/18/2013	I just accidentally clicked the wrong button on the Restitution card and am no longer Seeking Mr Eaten's Name. No support is available for SMEN content and once you're free of the name , you can't begin Seeking again. Life pretty much sucks beyond the telling of it. -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Shadowhand Posts: 197 12/23/2014	"Throw the Amanuensis out on his oily ear" is definitely one of those options that I wish had an "Are You Sure" popup when you click it, especially when you're at 15 Notability. -- Twitter: @mortshadow - Fallen London: Shadowhand Benjamin Gabbay, a silly and crafty individual of mysterious and indistinct intentions
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 4/10/2015	In a haze of sleep deprived confusion I mistook the sell your plant icon for the cider dream icon and had an unfortunate misclick. My poor Singular Plant, Little Saint Lily, who was but a few cp off of level 19 and who has been my constant companion and loyal friend since my very first days here in the neath is now gone and passed away. This was a terrible loss of a dear friend at a time when I have given up so much already and have little resources left to rebuild my singular plant. RIP Lily, you will be missed ): edited by NiteBrite on 4/10/2015 -- I AM currently accepting calling cards. Stats loss counter: reset, irrigo equivalent: none [00:34] <@ortab> NiteBrite's laugh is that of a condemned soul gazing into the abyss. Merciless Modiste avatar by Paul Arendt (based on an original image by Joe England) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/TheBriteModiste
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 11/1/2015	I misclicked while using counterfeit heads to grind scandal for hallowmas and got sent to the tomb colonies. Then when it came time to leave I misclicked further and halved my hedonist instead of my austere. Now my hedonist is 8 and I can no longer use counterfeit heads at all. If I didn't have a back up plan of blackwings absinthe, I'd be totally wreckt from this. As it is, it's more of a grievous but survivable quirks wound. The sad thing is there is no way to get hedonist above 10 any more let alone to the requisite 12. Not even by one off storylets or anything. By being tired and clicking two things wrong I lost quite a lot of irreplaceable things at a time when I needed them the most. edited by NiteBrite on 11/1/2015 -- I AM currently accepting calling cards. Stats loss counter: reset, irrigo equivalent: none [00:34] <@ortab> NiteBrite's laugh is that of a condemned soul gazing into the abyss. Merciless Modiste avatar by Paul Arendt (based on an original image by Joe England) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/TheBriteModiste
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 7/31/2014	This isn't really _painful_, but it deserves mentioning: A Surprise Package from the Notability card yielded a single (1) Surface-Silk Scrap, worth a grand 0.10 Echoes. -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Corran Posts: 401 3/3/2016	I misclicked on the "Rat Melancholy" card on my phone and inadvertenly spent 30 Fate. Now I have to do the "Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face" storyline all over again. When I asked, I was told they don't reset for misclicks which I can certainly understand. Not using a confirmation window/click does make the user experience less pleasant for those actually wanting to spend the Fate, no argument there either. But I after having thought about the problem a little more I would suggest not putting the "redo" options on cards where it's relatively easy to click them by mistake but to put them all one one storylet in your lodgings where they are a lot safer. You could also just put them on the Fate page instead of course. The only downside I can see is that it would be quite a long list after a while. -- My Fallen London profile
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Arcengal Posts: 196 9/5/2018	A friend of mine recently started playing after I told her about the game. She's been enjoying it but she was really worried about SMEN after hearing some bad stuff about it. I told her "It'll be fine, it's optional, you'll probably never run into it" and after some time, helped her to relax about it. Some random just sent her a Betrayal. edited by Arcengal on 9/5/2018 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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Arcengal Posts: 196 1/18/2019	Tried to get a Tomb Colonists favour for 3 days straight to get up to 7 so I could buy my Renown 40 companion while exiled. Didn't know you got a favour for BEING exiled in the first place. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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Smiling King Posts: 19 4/26/2018	For me, it would by dying from wounds gained by preparing for the Black Ribbon. Not even fighting, but PREPARING. -- [https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Smiling%20King]The Smiling King[/https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Smiling%20King] ~ The throne will be mine again. I simply have to wait for the usurper's kingdom to crumble.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 4/4/2013	I just clicked the wrong thing while not paying attention and lost all my Connected: Criminals. -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Finvara Posts: 430 4/5/2013	Theus wrote: That nears a 1/16,000 probability. I don't know if this makes you feel better or worse. Both, actually! How remarkable! At the same time, that does make my failure somewhat more monumental. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor~Varald
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Finvara Posts: 430 5/22/2013	It's not hugely painful all at once, but it stings a little every time I look at a card with a cloud on it, and then find out it's only Weather at Last. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor~Varald
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Cedric Appleby Posts: 121 3/12/2014	I've sided with the Revolutionaries at every opportunity, always, which included passing them location of the Nadir. I have, to my knowledge, the highest amount of Connected: Revolutionaries around - it's sitting at 602 right now. And then Hallowmas showed us just what the Liberation of Night actually is. Ahh, regrets. -- That is, in fact, a beak. Tea is difficult. @21stCenturyBird on Twitter. -- In-game profile.
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Alexis Kennedy Posts: 1374 2/10/2014	Flyte wrote: And in the unlikely event that you succeed, you will regret your success. Oh lor don't encourage them :-)
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Emain Ablach Posts: 348 2/14/2016	Just got a Boneless Consort (to improve my BDR), which... sent me directly to the Tomb-Colonies with Scandal at 10. Right when I need all the actions I can gather to improve my Notability (currently at 13). And my Time the Healer strikes in 3 days... <_<... Oh my... -- Went NORTH. Got salted. Never came back. We won't remember him. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Emain%20Ablach
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colinsapherson Posts: 191 10/28/2015	Just had three successes in a row when playing with my mandrake (stop sniggering at the back). Normally that would be great, but given that this is a challenge where the odds are 'strongly against you' where success grants 1cp of wounds (and 6cp Dangerous and a Hard-Earned Lesson) but failure gives 2, I'm really more interested in failure during the Feast of Masks. I do love it when luck comes at just the wrong time. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Colin%20Sapherson%2c%20Lord%20President%20of%20the%20Council Available for Knife & Candle Moon League matches, Tournaments of lilies and other social actions (including boxed cats and photographers). http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Strangewheys~Wandering http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/RUSKIN~WARE
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jasper Posts: 55 9/23/2016	I threw out the amanuensis ... :'( Don't try it at home kids.
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Passionario Posts: 777 1/27/2016	On my way back from the Iron Republic, I mindlessly hailed another passing yacht. "Austere has dropped to 11 - Ascetic!" -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Catherine Raymond Posts: 2518 4/4/2013	Finvara wrote: What would you say is your most painful failure in recent memory within Fallen London? I think right now, mine has to be the end of Passing Time in Flute Street, with a seventeen in twenty chance of success and using a sudden insight for a second chance, I managed to fail twice in a row. Just ouch. edited by Finvara on 4/4/2013 In the painting in Black and Gold Fate Storylet, well...let's just say I pushed too far and lost the Acquaintance of the Reluctant Forger. (I also managed to blow any chance of pecuniary reward, but that was a very secondary issue.) I felt bad about it for days, and it took quite a while to re-make his acquaintance and still longer to build up the connection. Even now, it's not has high as it was. -- Cathy Raymond http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355 Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 2/10/2016	Today commemorates my 4th attempt at getting a Classic Short Story only to get a Master Short Story. That's eight months of Trade Secrets down the drain. Oh well, my fault I suppose. I could always just wait over two months to get more Trade Secrets to up my chances at getting what I want, but where would be the fun in that? -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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IgnatuStone Posts: 208 10/10/2016	I was trying to grind casing 77. I forgot this and went to zee at 64 loosing all my progress. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ignatus~Stone
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 1/17/2017	https://gyazo.com/8a33e3189cedaffe10a378ffd2205d49 I WANT TO DIE. THIS IS MY THIRD TIME FAILING. AND I FAILED AT A LOW-RISK PERSUASIVE CHALLENGE, NOT THE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE LUCK CHECK. OH MY GOD. -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Suhe Gul Posts: 200 3/16/2017	went to prison to get the last criminal renown item without checking what happens and lost 50 levels of casing. been a long while since I went to prison. All the actions that went to ether. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/suhe%20gul I am open to social actions except affluent photographer and loitering. Correspondent and willing to make orphanage calls. Want a sip of cider? http://community.failbettergames.com/topic20425-want-a-sip-of-hesperidean-cider-heres-how.aspx
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M. Cinder Posts: 25 5/5/2016	For me it would be losing my Aunt to devils. She got better, though. The other time would be when I misclicked and accidentally fed a missionary to my house plant. Then I decided that since I messed up I might as well start feeding coalmen and missionaries to my plant until I realized I am a monster and decided that my plant will have to make do with a diet of sorrow spiders. Liv Fza wrote: That d***ed mottled man storyline. Came as far as the infernal sommelier, tried to make a deal with the devil with two brilliant souls (after grinding away items for quite some time) and then poof-- nothing. It also was my second time having a go at this storyline. So frustrating! Oh, you sweet child of False-Summer... I don't envy the grind you'll have to go through at all.
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Grenem Posts: 2067 11/4/2015	malthaussen wrote: 3/100^12. Or, we could just say, astronomical. -- Mal (5.31441x10^-19)% chance, to be precise. which is to say, less than 10 in a billion billion- or a million million million. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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SarahTheEntwife Posts: 50 3/17/2014	I assume I have many more epic failures to come, as such is the way of life, but I was finally starting to find my feet when I decided to put on that ridiculous hat. It drained all my stats to almost nothing and then some urchin stole the d---ed hat. I have purchased a new hat. I will not be bested by haberdashery. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Strel Retired zee-captain turned scholar. Open to social interactions of various sorts. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Winona~Tintenfisch Winona Tintenfisch, aspiring street urchin. Would definitely be up for some fisticuffs or loitering.
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RandomWalker Posts: 948 8/15/2014	Due to a spot of carelessness, I seem to have mislaid my soul. During my efforts to get it back (or at least a close facsimile thereof), I gained a starveling cat. I do not consider this an equitable exchange :-( edited by RandomWalker on 8/15/2014
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Hobnail Posts: 179 10/5/2015	I CONTRIBUTED TWO TRADE SECRETS TOWARDS THE WRITING OF A CLASSIC SHORT STORY AND FAILED THE CHALLENGE TRADE SECRETS TO THE VOID -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hobnail
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Dante Kinkade Posts: 50 9/30/2015	I failed 5 out 8 run throughs at Polythreme, with most hitting 11 or a few points off 12. Also I always make sure to spend as much surface silk as can, so the turns farming it also add up. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/dante~kinkade
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th8827 Posts: 823 1/11/2016	I went from low 6 to high 7 Scandal through my Lodging's Menace reduction option. Then, I failed a Shadowy action... and got Scandal, sending me to the Tomb Colonies. Then, I failed the Society challenge that has "How can you fail?" odds. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827?fromEchoId=7537829 edited by th8827 on 1/11/2016 edited by th8827 on 1/25/2016 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Dudebro Pyro Posts: 755 6/21/2018	Ah, the Election. Time for debating on the forums, gathering up Reputation for your career, and making sure you're topped off at 15 Notability. Or, apparently, time for accidentally overcapping. Sure, that works too. I needed that Dangerous, really. edited by Dudebro Pyro on 6/21/2018 -- Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them. For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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Sir Goomy Posts: 111 9/21/2016	Recently, I concluded my quest of painstakingly farming 70 "Lens of Black Glass". I was hoping to turn at least half of them into Coruscating Soul and finally get an Over-goat or two. BUT, luck was as usual against poor ol'Goomy and from the 70 Lenses that took me months to aquire...only 7 turned into what I wanted. I admit it ain't the MOST painful of failures, but it's pretty high in my list right now. Not to mention I still feel kind of bitter/cheated. -- Social actions, invites, roleplaying and general merrymaking is more than welcomed! http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sir~Goo
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Roqi Posts: 22 1/6/2016	Well... This is not a commiseration, rather... a celebration. But I thought I'd better give an update. Check my mantelpiece. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Roqi Also, from the mail I received: We've just launched a patch for A Name Signed with a Flourish, so that anyone who has written a short story and has one in their inventory will now advance to the next tier. This may help more people than me! Throw your hats in the air! -- Custom cameo by moi.
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Zero Posts: 136 5/5/2016	Camping at the Bazaar's Sidestreets. Trying to draw the "Skin of the Bazaar" card. A week there and still no results. -- SEND ME CHESS AND I SHALL RECIPROCATE Daniel Ember - Once a doctor. Now something else. My Twine games
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ChangelingChilde Posts: 231 4/26/2018	I am on my third mysterious plant because the get rid of it option is the one on top. -- DO you recall how the Hunger began? I'm sorry, my darling, I don't think I can! OUT past the High Wilderness and beyond I fear I've gone Seeking, for of Him I'm fond. --The Elfin Cannibal Seven scars, seven chains, a soul too stained for Hell, and seven sainted candles burning at the well. Gone to Grieve on the 17th day of the 7th month, 1897. Will be Vake-hunting next.
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Canvas Brimming Posts: 30 12/30/2017	I discarded AT LEAST 3 Mood cards. It's worth mentioning that I've had insane luck with them and used one for every stat on the road to PoSI, including one that brought Watchful to 100 and made me draw the Ambitious Barrister card (5 in total). I've started playing in July, so that's at least 8 Mood cards in 6 months. I got rid of the plant on level 10 by accident. Felt lucky and lost 3 buckets of Lacre by trying to use them with the Semiotic Monocle (70% is a good chance, isn't it? Who has the time to study that pesky Correspondence?). Marked some of the best favor-raising common opportunity cards as useless and missed out on too many favors and renown. Y'know, the standard stuff. -- Canvas Brimming, The Nostalgic Investigator - A private investigator, a Wilmot's End regular and a rising pawn, with an insatiable sense of sentimentality towards the Surface. Why don't you leave a card? ~(Very active, RP always encouraged and appreciated!)
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gronostaj Posts: 403 8/25/2017	in comparision, it's not particularly groundbreaking in terms of gameplay; however, I'm not sure how is my pride ever going to recover after dying from being shot in the hand. -- Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones. Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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Aniline Posts: 144 9/29/2018	I was going for Nota 12 and TTH was approaching. I know exactly when it hits (4:58pm Monday local time) and was worried I wouldn't make it. No Salons, no Nights on the Town, no POSI spesh. Drew the Bazaar lodgings card, kept it in my hand for a while waiting for the 7th Society favour. No luck: no Society card, no slug, no sedan, no party. The amanuensis appears and I sink the favours into the appropriate option for a very small waves gain. The next card is the sedan, yup. It's about 2 hours left, I have a stack of ToTs and see sideconverting doesn't cut it. Trying to host a dinner, it turns out my characters aren't acquainted, so I waste an action remedying the situation. The dinner isn't all that effective. An hour and 6 actions until deadline, I remember I can UPCONVERT ToTs. 3 upconversions take me to 1 single MW point away from MW 46, a sideconversion brings me over the finish line, another action force-draws the amanuensis. I'm furiously refreshing the page, waiting for that last action. Five minutes. Four. Two. But of course this is Our Most Painful Failures, which is why it's entirely expected that at that moment my boss, leaving for the day and having previously praised me for submitting a valuable suggestion regarding the data model, decided to clarify a few points. "You need Making Waves 46 (you have 23)" D__n. (I could've bought a candle for Fate, but then I'd feel even more of a failure.) -- Melantha Prescott, the Suspicious Statistician. "3% failure chances crop up nine times out of ten." Francesca Ayers-Kernighan, bat-hunter, cat-whisperer
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Bitty Posts: 234 10/12/2017	I just started playing in April and until like early August i never got the point of the journal so i just....never used it, i rlly wish I did i like keeping track of stuff
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Herbal Tea Posts: 23 12/15/2017	I failed a 98% skill check on the Bazaar lodging card and was immediately shipped off to the tomb-colonies. Moral of the story, check your menace progression and never believe in chances that aren't 100%.
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Slyblue Posts: 224 3/26/2017	I'm 100% ready to change my Lodgings, but the Devils' card is being surprisingly elusive. I mean, after pulling literally every Connections card, asked what I wanted to do with my Slug two times in a row, meeting the Photographer at least once per card flip and being bombarded by Plant cards, you'd think the devils would've stopped laughing their asses off by now. edited by Slyblue on 4/6/2017 -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Amsfield Posts: 176 1/2/2018	Six Handed Merchant wrote: Story wise, maybe... SNIP ...and sold the Bazaar Side-Street items to pay for grubby urchins. Ouch, that must have stung a little, but such dedication to RP is immensely commendable. I'd still consider it a triumph, albeit of art over convenience. -- Amsfield: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Amsfield A devotee of pleasures intellectual and fleshy. Always fabulously masked. Honoria Kastern: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Honoria%20Kastern A hunter, a shooter and a fisher. Also a patriotic busy body. Mildly corrupted. Maiser: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Maiser A young firebrand of obviously criminal intent. Venshik: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Venshik Not a nice person. Asmeria: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Asmeria Quiet, thoughtful and possibly mad. Excellent listener though. Favours grey.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 1/7/2017	Two dunderheaded failures. Initial mistake: buying a lease at the bazaar as my 4 card lodging about a month ago. I had the cash, because I've been working towards an overgoat. I kept thinking I'd only need ToL 8 to upgrade it. I visited the wicket today, and lo and behold, I'm an idiot. I realized my mistake, and then bought the enough honey to buy a room at the Royal Beth. I have ToL 8, so I can upgrade it. That's fine. Having dinged my pocketbook, I noticed I had several thousand primordial shrieks to sell. So I tried. But I must not have put the right amount in, because here it says I have 6000 left? So I try again. And then I have 12000. Oh yes. I'm in Nicholas pawnbrokers, not sell my things. **** I guess it's not the worst thing I could have bought ~9000 of, but it's not getting me any closer to an overgoat. So now I'm at about 2000 echoes. A week ago I was almost halfway. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 12/9/2017	I need Making Waves 42. I have Making Waves 40 when I go to bed, fairly confident I can make 42 before Time the Healer pops by this evening. Father Time came early. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 1/5/2018	Yep. I did it. Not being used to 5 cards yet, I accidentally clicked the wrong spot and discarded a carefully-husbanded mood card. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 12/11/2016	I accidentally double tapped my touchscreen and discarded that mood card that I've been holding onto for nigh on a month. Noooooooooooo..... Edit: This is maddening enough that I think I need to add another Nooooooooo.... Nooooooooooo... edited by Pumpkinhead on 12/11/2016 -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 10/11/2017	So I've got a bunch of cellars of wine from breeding hounds of heaven. I've been meaning to upconvert them, so I draw all my cards at my lodgings. Drew my first Presumptuous Opportunity card in several days, immediately discarded it. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Polite Society Posts: 25 12/30/2017	Now I know many people will have tales of wondrous woe that will shock and awe many readers of this thread, however I just took a wander to the Cave of the Nadir and was greeted by a card to get a vial of tears of the Bazaar for a steep price of 7 taste of Lacre. Ok, says I, I have 10 taste and 2 pails, so let's do this for a prize of something I don't know what it does, but it sure sounds fancy. So I get the tears, then open up a pail and gaze into it with my Semiotic Monocle, because that's what you do with weird spacecrab misery-snow. After weeks of scrupulous learning and research I had become a wise wizard in all things Correspondance, so with a 90% chance I figured 'this should be ok - all those nights dunking my head in buckets when my hair caught on fire will pay off'. You have failed a Scholar of the Correspondance Check Touche, Fallen London, touche. -- Absolute gentle person and in no way associated with anything nefarious or villainous of any measure. Absolutely not. Anyone saying so will have a quiet chat with Big 'Arry n'the lads.
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The Curious Watcher Posts: 263 11/3/2017	Reinol von Lorica wrote: Failing two low risk challenges in the attempt to make a Exceptional Short Story. I made sure it was straightforward the next time. If you ever decide to make a Classic Short Story, try not to repeat the mistakes of the others before you and be absolutely certain that it will be created. It will take months, but it is better than returning to this board to vent you rage. -- The Thirteenth Master of the Bazaar: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Thirteenth%20Master%20of%20the%20Bazaar The Silent Vake Hunter: GONE NORTH The Ravenous Wanderer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Ravenous%20Wanderer The Melancholic End-Bringer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Melancholic%20End-Bringer The Lethal Nightmare: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Lethal%20Nightmare
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Canvas Brimming Posts: 30 11/10/2017	It would have to be the time I accidentally scrapped my entire plant by mindlessly going through my deck. There really should be a warning on the "Get rid of the plant" option, why would ANYONE want to get rid of their green bud? -- Canvas Brimming, The Nostalgic Investigator - A private investigator, a Wilmot's End regular and a rising pawn, with an insatiable sense of sentimentality towards the Surface. Why don't you leave a card? ~(Very active, RP always encouraged and appreciated!)
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absimiliard Posts: 759 5/24/2016	Grrrrrr. Going to write a letter, accidentally click on the wrong button and --- POOF I gave up my profession. After all the . . .. I was so frustrated. I try to write the game, in my RP, but this threw me so badly I wasn't sure I could/wanted to. In the end I decided it needed to non-canonical to my personal story and that I had to get it back before anyone saw I was missing my glasses. Spend Fate for more actions -- gonna need 'em for what's coming as I was just about out. Then buy Favorable Circumstances, and Summon the Church, become a campaigner. Buy more FC, Summon the Church, become a Mystic. But MORE FC, Summon the letter, try for Glassman . . . . watch it fail on the first try . . . . cross fingers for the second chance . . . . . and breathe a huge sigh of relief at not needing to buy more Favorable Circumstances and do it again. So, expenditures of actions and fate complete I can now pretend this never happened. Well, except for mentioning it here, I guess. ;D -- "Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend. Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Dudebro Pyro Posts: 755 11/10/2017	So in my 20 or so months playing, I have drawn three mood cards so far. One was accidentally discarded not 10 minutes later. Another survived for several weeks, before an unfortunate misclick sent it into the void as well. The third one was cherished and protected over the course of several months. All this time I've been playing with a 2-card deck, because I still don't have a 5 card lodging and I kept a non-discardable card in front of the mood at all times. Finally, yesterday, I was ready, and went for Courier's Footprint, goatless but barely able to qualify. I had SoC 19 when I played my mood. Now, it takes 1 action to play the mood, and then 20+21 = 41 actions to get Courier's Footprint. With a full 40-action candle, that means you come up 2 actions short of completing everything in one go. But that's alright, since you have an hour to use the mood, so 45-46 effective actions (assuming no refreshes). Plus, a rare success will give 3CP instead of 1, effectively saving 2 actions - and in 40 tries, it's wouldn't be particularly lucky to get at least one of those. Anyway I think you might have guessed how this ends. I went the whole way with no rare successes, depleted my actions, got called off to do something, one thing led to another, the game slipped my mind, and by the time I got back my mood was gone and all I could do was hop on an extended river trip. 2CP short. And this is the tale of my moods. My next goal is a goat, because I'm never relying on mood cards to do anything ever again. -- Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them. For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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xxJ Posts: 1 5/9/2016	1) Got my first point of notability on the Snowcake card on the mobile app. Forgot to sync. Open game in browser. Lost my notability. Took 2 weeks to draw the Snowcake card again... 2) Failing the luck check for getting the Yacht 5 times in a row...
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 11/10/2017	Dudebro Pyro wrote: I just drew the bookshop Discard it and let's see what happens! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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th8827 Posts: 823 2/7/2016	I made 5 attempts at A Literary sort of Fist Fight this morning. It had a 86% success rate. I got 7, fail, 6, fail, fail... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Dr Cop Posts: 38 12/15/2015	I guess if you roll the dice enough times, this is bound to happen sooner or later -- fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/hawkinsssable
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 11/26/2015	More funny than painful: I was considering changing up to Writer from Journo, so went to work and finally beat an Extraordinary Short Story into shape. Only trouble is, they want an Exceptional story... Which reminds me of a question: do I get paid for that story? -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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NotaWalrus Posts: 221 10/19/2015	Tried to Nobble the Benthic team as a guest lecturer in the university without bothering to change my clothes, since the challenge was at 98% Guess who now has to regrind 40 levels of Benthic connection? (I'm noticing a pattern in the things I post in this thread. Next time I'll forget to cash in Connected: Society when I consent to a potentially depraved union, I can see it) -- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/NotaWalrus Ignacious, the Fluid Professor, he will accept most social invitations, including boxed cats and affluent photographers (but only betrayals), though he is absent-minded and might take more time than entirely necessary. He apologizes.
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Mr Sables Posts: 597 4/12/2016	My alt is trying to get rid of his soul, to stop those pesky devils from recurring . . . around 25 times of 'Hear Them Out' and I still have yet to convince them to take it. I'm wondering why there isn't a "hand it over" option. Edit: Got the card again, yet another 'fortunate' result . . . edited by RobinMask on 4/12/2016
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 1/3/2016	Now 5 buckets of lacre and counting...and I bought the 5th bucket from the urchins and it cost me SO much money... is torn between crying and punching herself I need a hug...or maybe some wine :P EDIT: Bucket #6 finally did the trick. Now I AM crying...with joy (and my character is doing naked cartwheels in the town square) :P What do you think I should name it? "Frustration?" :P edited by Kukapetal on 1/3/2016
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Hobnail Posts: 179 9/3/2016	My Rat of Glory just exploded the moment I acquired St. Arthur's candle! Hah! -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hobnail
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Andrew Astherson Posts: 118 11/25/2015	Another misclick. Once Rew had to start his monster-hunter career from the very beginning (he just wanted to write a letter, goddamnit !), and now he brutally threw a slowcake's employee from his doorstep (and a total of 1810 CP of "making waves" with him) instead of eyeing him snobbishly in silence. The amount of lost MW constitutes as 10-12 salon evenings Oh well... let the show go on, then. Edit: just restored the damage edited by Andrew Astherson on 12/4/2015 -- > Currently open for RP: Andrew Astherson - heavy-tempered, rapacious but reliable menace of slavonic-tatar origin. Clement "don't you call me Clem!" Mustela - merry and licentious to a stupid degree Irishman-detective > My lads appearances ; Astherson's short backstory > Seeking for RP partner(s), are you ? This thread might be the right place.
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Hobnail Posts: 179 9/3/2016	Only to my bloody NERVES -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hobnail
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RandomWalker Posts: 948 2/16/2016	If you haven't been kicked out of court yet, you can get candles for composing a hymn. Much better rate than buying them from the bazaar. There's also the unfinished business in the Veilgarden (IIRC) that gives them too.
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hwoosh Posts: 104 7/25/2014	Accidentally hit my laptop's touchpad at just the wrong moment and sold the location of the Cave of the Nadir to Urchins. Curses! I had intended to clutch that secret to my breast for all time. I guess I'll just have to RP the thing, now, but the wind has been taken out of my sails a bit. -- Persona: hwoosh R Fellow Oswho. Don't ask what the "R." stands for. The poor fellow is sensitive about it. And violent. Most social requests gladly and promptly answered.
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RandomWalker Posts: 948 5/6/2016	I have an alt who is trying to get his quirks to zero. It's harder that I thought it would be. I picked up some connected : devils to start a salon, but then wanted to dump them, to clear my deck back up. Turns out that picking the church option on the conflict card (warn them about the devil's plot regarding the relic) is somehow austere. So because of that mistake I now need to convert the austere to hedonist (easy enough), convert that hedonist to melancholy (weather at last card), convert that melancholy to subtle (weather at last, again), convert that subtle to steadfast (the gentlemen in blue), and convert that steadfast into ruthless (plotting against the masters), at which point I can drain it in the carnival mirror. That one mistake means I have to draw five more specific cards before I reach zero quirks. All this leads to one question: why is warning the church about sabotage an austere act?! Sigh. edited by RandomWalker on 5/6/2016
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ashdenej Posts: 66 7/2/2015	In my, ah, excitement to play this month's Exceptional content I decided to grind my Connected: Revolutionaries to 50, starting off by blowing up a statue. I quite forgot that it required Casing..., and that I've been grinding Casing for weeks. So! I just lost about 100 or so levels of it. Blast. edited by ashdenej on 7/2/2015 --
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Mimic Posts: 26 2/2/2016	I just managed to lose 119 Noman's friend on a single TTH, over a third of my total. Ugh. -- Mimic's Mantelpiece
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An Individual Posts: 589 1/6/2015	It seems these past 24 hours have been full of bad decisions. Yesterday drew the first mood card I've seen in a very long time (hurray!) which resulted in me spending my notability on an unsigned letter. I have lots of BDR but until I get that first point I can't upgrade my lodgings at the wicket (boo). So I figured I could at least make a Noman now that the wicket's open (hurray) and I realized right after clicking the button that Time the Healer visits me this afternoon (doe). I hope the RNG looks kindly on me in the coming days because it seems I'm not doing myself any favours. -- An Individual's Profile The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away. Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help. Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting. Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint. Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road. Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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An Individual Posts: 589 6/12/2016	This morning my alt account bought a goat. It then ran over to The Seeking Road to attempt to cash in a set of Appauling Secrets so it could get on with murdering itself. Unfortunately I forgot that having sold my wine items the option would be grayed out and I wasn't completely awake so I ended up blackening my mind by accident. Good bye 100 levels of watchful. On the plus side it did pass the check so it got it's 1 point of seeking. Small victories I suppose. -- An Individual's Profile The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away. Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help. Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting. Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint. Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road. Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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phryne Posts: 1351 29 days ago	When you've been playing for years, and still forget that going to Zee resets certain qualities... there you go, Inspired... 22 -- Accounts: Bag a Legend • Light Fingers • Heart's Desire • Nemesis • no ambition Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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Grenem Posts: 2067 12/15/2015	I'm on my 12th straight non-airag expedition. it's like the RNG doesn't want me to get my 10th vial of tears of the bazaar, the B______. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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angelcat Posts: 26 2/3/2016	I finally hit Noman Knows 15 the other day, and decided to keep a Noman's Progress card in my hand until TtH day just in case something unforeseen happened to extend my run. (I was down to 13 Noman's Friend with no more buckets of snow and no more PtPT so I knew this was the end one way or the other). So TtH day dawned today and I prepared to say goodbye to my Noman. And then I accidentally clicked on "Listen" instead. Noman Knows dropped back down to 14. I spent the rest of the day frantically drawing cards, but Noman's Progress was nowhere to be found. My Noman melted away with Time the Healer's visit, leaving me with one last bucket of so-called snow. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/angelcat
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phryne Posts: 1351 2/12/2017	Phryne is currently grinding "Changed by the Iron Republic" (no, don't ask why). A single misclick shoots me out of the neat carousel there, forces me to select options that reset my Scandal (25) and Wounds (31) and to leave the Iron Republic. Well, so what! Let's go back to London and see whether I can finally raise Hedonist beyond 10 with that Feast rare success! Only one rare success in 60+ tries. Then I don't pay attention to my Scandal and am sent to the Tomb-colonies. Mad laughter upon realizing I can only leave by the option that halves Hedonist. Back to the Iron Republic. Funny how just a few weeks there make you totally unsuitable for any other place already. I don't think I'll leave again. It's nice here and I fit in well. -- Accounts: Bag a Legend • Light Fingers • Heart's Desire • Nemesis • no ambition Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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Schmidt Posts: 114 12/4/2015	I failed a 98 percent chance to sabotage Pleat on the gallery expedition, and then failed a 97 percent chance at buccaneering, where Pleat then shot ahead to 10 and won. I had 37 progress. Truly, I am as Melancholy as the tears I wished to grind. sob -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Atticus%20Schmidt I'll accept any actions, except loitering and Affluent Photographer (will accept dupes).
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 2/29/2016	So far I've been unlucky when converting my Rooms at the Royal Bethlehem about 10 or so times now in a row. Needless to say, I want to spare the God-Eaters the trouble and murder these Fidgeting Writers myself. edited by Sir Joseph Marlen on 3/1/2016 -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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hwango Posts: 101 4/15/2013	Hardly earth-shattering, but I just feel stupid and frustrated about it. I just wasted 5 actions on the Unfinished Business in Veilgarden storylet "Your crowd of admirers." I keep forgeting that Straightforward no longer means 100% success, and didn't check to make sure I was properly equipped. Turns out it was only 97%, which I failed, so instead of having 5 actions worth of wine I gained a point of scandal. All because I forgot to check the chances of success and go tweak my equipped items. -- Mantelpiece \|\| Art Gallery of Doom
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 4/6/2013	I failed to spend Fate during the lacre clearing and missed out on that nice item not thinking I'd be given something later, which was pretty stupid. I wasn't online during the final hours of the Feast, which was stupider. And I didn't figure out the Mirrormatchbox thing in time, which was supposedly stupendously simple, so that's probably the stupidest. -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Passionario Posts: 777 6/27/2016	Professor Sketch wrote: ...crafted amongst the madness of the Name, his laudanum addiction... Bertrand Russell wrote: William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was “A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.” -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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protonsinthedark Posts: 106 6/6/2015	In the vein of what Huey said earlier about the most painful failures being the ones you can't blame anyone but yourself for: Got myself all scandal'd up and kicked out to the tomb colonies so I could get a Tomb Lion for some Theological Husbandry. Spend 2 entire days cycling my opportunity deck trying to get the tomb lion card to show up. After 100+ card draws and no tomb lion, I'm beginning to wonder if something funky is going on, so I decide to write an email to Failbetter. During the process of writing my email 1 card has refreshed so I draw it before sending my email off in a last-ditch effort. It's a tomb lion--finally! Huzzah! And then...I realize the option to take the Lion with me back to London requires a Tincture of Vigor, and...I don't have one with me. Doh. Not a particularly punishing failure--time and actions spent were the only thing I really used, but spending all those actions and having to come home empty handed because of my own poor planning... That is a special kind of self-inflicted hurt right there. -- Mio, a midnight, sinister, irresistible, and breathtaking lady of mysterious origins. Calling cards, social actions, menace reduction requests, and newspaper interviews (Nemesis ambition) welcome. No boxed cats or Affluent Photographer requests please. Other Characters: tinyassassin, an orphan trained as an assassin, currently hunting the Vake. Alexandre and Adriana, a pair of hedonistic twins betting their souls on the Marvellous...if they don't lose them to the devils first.
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Guest 6/24/2016	I'm not entirely sure if I can moan about this as a failure, but I meant to use Appalling Secrets to try to get another level of SMEN and ended up Blackening my mind instead, halving my watchful. Again. After I spent the past two weeks grinding it back up. D: Mr. Eaten, I sure hope you're happy with all those owl brains.
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Guest 12/26/2015	I clicked on the pail of snow with Sacks the first day and forgot my taste was above 5 facepalm
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Ewan C. Posts: 675 10/31/2015	Not exactly a failure. But... I finally - and it does feel a very, very long time - accumulated my first 3200 scraps. Excitedly, I spent them on 'something secret' which had intrigued me ever since I first saw the option... only to find that it is a [spoiler] Prince of Hell's location[/spoiler], which I already own. Argh, argh, ARGH! Another year of grinding for the next such item...
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Ewan C. Posts: 675 1/12/2014	OK, the only thing in FL that's made me want to post here really: just lost 3 consecutive Tears on their first huff each. Which, OK, 900 Echoes up in smoke. ok. BUT this was just after (i) the unexpected 6 lacre Noman cost had taken me to zero lacre, and then (ii) I used my last pail to get to 3, needing to get to I believe 8 for the last 5-card lodging (the sanctum). So now I'm at 7 and stuck there :-(.
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Flyte Administrator Posts: 671 2/10/2014	NiteBrite wrote: Thankfully Failbetter has put in a good amount of effort to make it very difficult to lose one's account forever... Knowing the community as I do, I feel the need to add: please do not attempt science on this. Your support requests will leave me forlorn and unsatisfied. And in the unlikely event that you succeed, you will regret your success.
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 7/15/2017	The Unsigned Message should be there when you return. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Arcengal Posts: 196 8/29/2018	Just wasted 3 Fate on refilling my opportunities because I was half asleep. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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NNNnobody Posts: 103 9/19/2018	That would actually make it worse, since it would mean its payback for the little prank with my stained soul, and I was proud of that one. edited by NNNnobody on 9/19/2018 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/NNNnobody
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 12/4/2018	I just managed to **** up royally On the mobile version of the site I wanted to write a letter. I clicked "Change Profession" just as I had reached Glassman yesterday... There should be a (0) next to it so you can still change your mind when you want to switch professions... This is the second time I hit that option by accident -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 10/26/2018	I just had enough Mayoral favour to get the new weapon.... And as my phone loaded the page the button jumped and I clicked on "Ask what the mayor is up to" There goes two more confessions... Guess I won't upgrade any companions or advance the story. -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Miss Perative Posts: 46 8/2/2014	an_ocelot wrote: This isn't really _painful_, but it deserves mentioning: A Surprise Package from the Notability card yielded a single (1) Surface-Silk Scrap, worth a grand 0.10 Echoes. A misclick on the Notability card just raised my max Shadowy--which, of course, will flatten itself like a sad souffle every time I visit the Nadir over the next few months. sigh This is what I get for playing before my morning tea. I miss my Notability. -- I've removed my profile link for the time being as I don't play often enough these days to engage in social actions.
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Reshemin Posts: 226 12/20/2016	Kukapetal wrote: Why oh why do I keep trying to recertify scraps? I've lost almost 40 of them in the last day because I can't stop taking the risk. Is this how a compulsive gambler feels? :P Probably. I keep doing this for years now, despite having ascertained that I totally do know better for almost as long. Still, everytime a relicker comes around, I scroll down, click that one and then stare intently at the screen just again. On the plus side, it satisfies my gambling needs enough to never do that with real money, in real life.
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Playersideblog Posts: 397 12/4/2013	Thinking that Time the Healer was going to show up before I could get on again, I tried to get Notability 5 with a 46% chance of success. No dice. In a short amount of time, I'll try the gamble again, though with not as much of a chance... EDIT: WAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Said miserable fortune has reversed. I tried again, with a 30% chance for Notability 5...and I got it! Then I faced down a 39% chance Watchful challenge to become a Correspondent...and won! edited by Playersideblog on 12/4/2013 -- My profile I am now a Correspondent, and no longer able to accept invitations as an Author. (Or so I believe.)
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David Posts: 79 4/6/2013	Nigel Overstreet wrote: I failed to spend Fate during the lacre clearing and missed out on that nice item not thinking I'd be given something later, which was pretty stupid. I wasn't online during the final hours of the Feast, which was stupider. And I didn't figure out the Mirrormatchbox thing in time, which was supposedly stupendously simple, so that's probably the stupidest. If this were a drinking game, where I were required to drink when our regrets match up, I'd need to call for a ride home by now...
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Loon Posts: 379 2/4/2014	Not so much a failure as a stupid, stupid mistake. I'm collecting beasts for breeding, and spent some time at court to increase my scandal and go to the tomb colonies. So I wrote poetry, and when I got my inspired to 33 (you need 34 to finish), I got sent to the tomb colonies. I caught my beast and went back to London to breed it. Then I left to catch the next one, which prowls the underzee, and watched in horror as the message "Your "inspired" quality has been reset" appeared on the screen. -- My main character Krawald can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Krawald and welcomes all social actions bar photographers. My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers. My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Xhavius Posts: 12 12/26/2015	Accidentally selling a Singular Plant by misclicking an icon shortly after starting Fallen London up again. Double digit value on my quality, and I got some paltry sum for it.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 3/4/2016	Corran wrote: I misclicked on the "Rat Melancholy" card on my phone and inadvertenly spent 30 Fate. Now I have to do the "Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face" storyline all over again. When I asked, I was told they don't reset for misclicks which I can certainly understand. Not using a confirmation window/click does make the user experience less pleasant for those actually wanting to spend the Fate, no argument there either. I've reset Affair of the Box at least twice. I really don't think that a confirmation window would be that intrusive. -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Corran Posts: 401 4/15/2013	Finvara wrote: I just learned that 89% success rate doesn't prevent failing five out of six tries. Educational. I failed a 92% succes chance four out of five times. -- My Fallen London profile
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Liv Fza Posts: 5 4/4/2013	That d**ed mottled man storyline. Came as far as the infernal sommelier, tried to make a deal with the devil with two brilliant souls (after grinding away items for quite some time) and then poof-- nothing. It also was my second time having a go at this storyline. So frustrating! -- Signed with a flourish*
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Diptych Administrator Posts: 3493 4/4/2013	I have had the odd moment of rash decision-making... letting the Detective be my patron for the Dilmun Club instead of holding out for His Amused Lordship was one such case. I'm sure there have been others... -- Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron. Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Emain Ablach Posts: 348 7/1/2015	I clicked the wrong button and sold my boat... <_< Had to buy it again. sigh Next times I'll read the texts, even those I already read one hundred times. -- Went NORTH. Got salted. Never came back. We won't remember him. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Emain%20Ablach
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Emain Ablach Posts: 348 6/26/2016	I've been trying a challenge with 34% chances of success. Right now, I'm at my 19th fail in a row. PS : it's a challenge needing 1771 appaling secrets each time, and which use them anyway even if I fail. Now that's some bad luck. PPS : it ended with 24 fails in a row. Amazing bad luck. Should have played the lottery. edited by Emain Ablach on 6/30/2016 -- Went NORTH. Got salted. Never came back. We won't remember him. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Emain%20Ablach
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KatarinaNavane Posts: 462 11/7/2013	With on fell misclick, I accidentally sold my plant which I had been growing for two years an was just starting to climb in the tournament. I actually ragequit FL entirely for about a month after that, before returning to find that in my absence fellow Tournament of Lilies competiters who I had told about my plight had showered me with gifts. Typical of the online games I've played, even when the game makes you want to quit, the community will bring you back again and again. edited by KatarinaNavane on 11/7/2013 -- Storynexus sn Katarina Navane. My art page (much of which is dark, Victorian, and/or full of tentacles): http://www.facebook.com/demonkittydesigns
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Rupho Schartenhauer Posts: 787 12/5/2014	Trying to advance my alt from Murderer to Licentiate I've just failed the 28% high-risk challenge seventeen times in a row! Each time using a second chance of course. I think that was the longest series of failures at a single challenge I've ever had. The eighteenth try was finally successful... edited by Rupho Schartenhauer on 12/5/2014 -- Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it. Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely. Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated. Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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Passionario Posts: 777 3/17/2015	Went zailing with Dramatic Tension 2. -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Passionario Posts: 777 5/29/2015	Another 100 Tales of Terror spent, another fat zero Coruscating Souls to show for it. I think I need help. -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Catherine Raymond Posts: 2518 4/9/2017	Pumpkinhead wrote: 100 ish tales of terror dumped into the fidgeting writer, for 4 deals with a devil. Then, on to 2 room numbers. Whee. You have my complete sympathy. Last time I tried the Fidgeting Writer, I started with 100 Senses of Deja Vu and ended up with not a single Coruscating Soul. Not one! -- Cathy Raymond http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355 Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Barse Posts: 706 9/3/2016	BOOM! (Seriously though, that shouldn't be too bad) -- The Scorched Sailor, up for most social actions and RP. Not as scary as he looks.
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fitz Posts: 91 8/9/2015	The first time I went to Zee. I was so excited to get my new Clipper, I set out straight away... only to receive the update, "'Casing...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?" This was before I started checking the wiki for potential resets. I had thought the three in the description were the ones reset. Losing 60 LEVELS of Casing was tough, especially after spending weeks grinding it for my next residence. It made my first trip to zee somewhat bitter-sweet... For another similar failure, not long after that, I ground Dramatic Tension to 3. This was the first time I got it at Wilmot's End and I had expected DT to behave similar to Casing (for some stupid reason), and had to face palm after it was reset. Needless to say I always check new options in advance before playing them these days. It does take the fun out of it, but I did those two within a week or two of each other, and that has somewhat biased me since... edited by fitz on 8/9/2015 -- Ô fitzGwahir
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 9/6/2016	Failed a Straightforward luck challenge. Forgot that you lose all your progress traits (hunt is on, etc etc) when you go out to Zee. Went out to Zee to get a Plated Seal (to create a Hound of Heaven). Was at Approaching Your Destination 9 then set myself back to 4. Took a while to get back to London, then once I was there, I entered the Labyrinth and realised what I had done. -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Pan Tofel Posts: 55 8/17/2017	It's probably nothing so terrible in comparison to some other tales in this thread, but I failed at my first attempt for a classical story, with almost 70% chance due to saved up case-notes. It proves to be a bit harder to swallow then I was expecting... EDIT: Spelling. (D__n, was it terrible) edited by Pan Tofel on 8/17/2017 -- Pan Tofel, the ever curious empiricist is accepting all kinds of social actions. Chrchleater, who has a good heart and a terrible fate, is doing so as well. Strange sorts of pranks are to be directed here.
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Pan Tofel Posts: 55 9/1/2017	dariuseng wrote: I don't know if this is the sort of thing you guys mean by painful failures, but I just got rid of 14 Notability while trying to raise one of my stats to 215 by accidentally clicking "Come to the assistance of Dr F______" and I feel like I need to share this with someone and it felt very painful to me edited by dariuseng on 8/30/2017 I came here to say I accidentally threw the Amanuensis on his oily little ear, but this... is something else. I feel your pain. -- Pan Tofel, the ever curious empiricist is accepting all kinds of social actions. Chrchleater, who has a good heart and a terrible fate, is doing so as well. Strange sorts of pranks are to be directed here.
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navchaa Posts: 561 11/2/2015	I'm not sure if this counts as a most painful failure, but I'd been diligently putting together a list of Hallowmass confessions (sent, received, accepted) on a gmail draft. Since I play on two computers and a mobile, the list got switched between platforms too many times and I lost over 30 names on it. Have given up and am just accepting and sending confession requests to reciprocate now. Sob! -- Paramount Presence (London's Marrow 2, London's Nerves 2, London’s Sinew 3, London’s Blood 3) and mercenary Notary Married to Myrto :: Exchanging Surprise Packages with anyone interested :: Exchanging cat boxes with Kitty Rambunctious http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/navchaa
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 6/5/2017	Meradine Heidenreich wrote: Are you absolutely sure that is the right vessel for you? On special offer today, we have this neat little steamer, one careful owner. It will get you there, I promise! Tramp? Who said anything about tramp? (Commiserations, by the way...) edited by Meradine Heidenreich on 6/5/2017 That yacht will be mine! Remember how I said seven failures? Yeah, make that eight. -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 6/5/2017	Ninth failure! Perhaps ten times' the charm? -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Optimatum Posts: 3666 1/11/2018	In my experience, you just hold onto it for a million years until you need to draw the wine tradein card for a grind. -- Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome. Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi! PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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OctaviaCrowe Posts: 137 2/12/2017	Wasted six tales of terror in a row pursuing the Fidgeting Writer. SIX! Madness. Madness. Frankly, every loss is painful, simply because time is precious and it will take SO much to grind Helfarer beyond my current competitor. -- Ms. Octavia Crowe, the Hellfaring Mystic, former keeper of the Books of Brass. The Seeking... the Name... it has devoured... everything.
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bitterhorn Posts: 61 5/4/2015	There was that time earlier today that something-or-other happened in the Cave of the Nadir. I think. Or maybe I just heard about that somewhere. -- Marsh(-)mark(ed) thurifer, bookkeeper, &c. of Blackfen-on-Zee; Bazaarine aesthete, unnatural historian, thing-about-town. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/bitterhorn
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bitterhorn Posts: 61 3/3/2015	1) Acquire Alight With Passion quality (Ultra-temporary +30 PRSV) 2) Flip out and spend nex on extra actions with which to grind Persuasive vs. normally-tantalizing-yet-impossible challenges which are suddenly "Modest" or better. 3) Manage to fail such a high percentage regardless that Scandal is teetering on the cusp of 8 by the time $-candle is exhausted. #alightWithMourningCandles edited by bitterhorn on 3/3/2015 -- Marsh(-)mark(ed) thurifer, bookkeeper, &c. of Blackfen-on-Zee; Bazaarine aesthete, unnatural historian, thing-about-town. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/bitterhorn
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Màiread Posts: 385 1/6/2018	I am aware of that - the fact remains if I want to regain 215 persuasive (which I had planned to retain, forsaking the Nadir) I must repeat a horrible grind so that I can change my specialistion back to legendary charisma and then experience the unbridled joy that is reaching N15. Again. I don’t think I did anything last year in FL except grind notability. If I choose not to do this before finishing PP I will be stuck at 214 until who knows when since there’s currently no mechanism for Paramounts to overcap. Sincere apologies if this comes over as grumpiness dirrcted at you - I’m afraid my tolerance for ‘months of extremely tedious and horrifically boring effort being wiped out for a stupid reason’ has worn wafer thin. It is not my first go on this particular rodeo. I really hate having to quadruple check the wiki before I even breathe. I suppose I should be grateful that this liberates me from having to care about the other stats. -- Màiread - Correspondent, composer, lover of cats. Can probably bake you a d__n fine cake. Useful Links: Traveller's Friend (Progress Tracker & Notability Calculator) \| phryne's Guide to Favours & Renown \| Peggy the Nowoman lived to see the Feast. Thank you for the memories, Snow Lady. I'm happy to accept most social actions except for lethal sparring and loitering suspiciously. Please challenge my plant! Currently not accepting calling cards.
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An Individual Posts: 589 1/27/2016	My last Time the Melter of the month has arrived, I've formed my Noman, and I've begun the process of hurling buckets of Lacre on it in a desperate bid to keep it alive until the feast begins. To aid this process I had 2 Tears of the Bazaar. Unfortunately, both of them disappeared after a single huff. I should hopefully have enough pails to make it but that was a pretty disappointing start to the process. -- An Individual's Profile The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away. Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help. Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting. Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint. Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road. Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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An Individual Posts: 589 7/6/2017	Well, I just turned 10 notability into Watchful with a misclick. Not a great time for that. This is the second time I've done done this particular misclick. Really wish the ability overclock options were in a sub menus or had a confirmation page or something. -- An Individual's Profile The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away. Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help. Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting. Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint. Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road. Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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Aodyssey Posts: 43 12/29/2014	My hard won Tears of the Bazaar burned up on my first tries warming Lacre. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Aoditor - a frequently moral upholder of standards, possessing mysterious and indistinct qualities; countenance; loyalties. Promoted from Pawn to Knight piece of the Great Game. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Char_name - a lady from across the Zee, advocate of Khaganian supremacy. Trying to be cruel. Under the generous auspices of the ever estimable Sam Stephens, an Extraordinary Mind.
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Parelle Posts: 1084 11/25/2015	I sold my Level 13 plant for wine, I'd love to be able to lock off those choices! More recently, I had just gotten the Singer up to 10 Aquinatance, and then I accidentally borrowed pearls I don't even want from her, damaging my Steadfast as well and setting me all the way back to 0... -- Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous. pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog \| Useful Guidance and Explanations
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kinoko Posts: 2 3/19/2014	Nothing too bad compared to some of the other things I've seen being posted here. However I have had the displeasure of having February catch up to me just as I was sitting at 59 Archaeologist's Progress on the initial expedition to the Nadir. Even fate couldn't solve it, since I had 9 supplies and the fate option for more supplies required I have literally any other amount of supplies. That was pretty disheartening. -- "Step through the glass, careful now, wouldn't want to ruin your fancy coat." Welcome to the other side. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/kinoko
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hyperion122 Posts: 31 8/3/2014	i tried to rob the brass embassy with a 90 percent chance of success and i failed i FAILED A LOW RISK CHALLENGE and i went to prison as well as lost a whole 32 levels of connected:hell it was my highest connections it took me MONTHS to slowly gain it back and the worst part is that i remember having 1 action left and thought either raise your casing quality or go for it i mean what are the chances ughhhhhhhhhhh and i didn't become a master thief edited by hyperion122 on 8/3/2014 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/hyperion122
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A B Nile Posts: 414 12/13/2014	So yeah. After deciding that probably my key RP decision for the game was that I was never going to sell my Soul, I clicked the top option on the Western Tower card (expecting it to be the learn about the soulless Scrap thing) and didn't realise it had changed. My soul's gone, and all I got out of it was a lousy Night-Whisper and some Storm Threnodies. Anyway, as I've said elsewhere; RP-wise I'm assuming my character was conned by a opportunistic devil while distracted. I expect they asked for my autograph (that happens to me a lot) and I didn't check what I was signing carefully enough. Dangerous to visit the Brass Embassy without one's wits fully about onesself - a valuable lesson learned. -- My profile: A B Nile My alt: Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate (seeking Acquaintances and accepting all social actions) Item conversion table - finally complete with all rare successes! Bloody, bold and resolute
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Virgilian Posts: 8 12/17/2016	All pails of snow so far...examined thru monocle with SotC 9. All failures. Sets me back a year. Painful.
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A B Nile Posts: 414 3/4/2016	Zeroebbasta wrote: After much painful days of grinding, I mistook First City Coins for Surface currency and accidentally sold them, thus blocking my Ambition: heart's desire. I had to spend my sole point of connection to the Masters to get more coins ;_; Ah, sorry to hear that. If this happens again, consider requesting a loan of 30 coins (i.e. someone sends them to you until you have sufficient stocks, at which time you send them back). I (and, I am sure, many other fellow Marvellers) would be happy to assist. -- My profile: A B Nile My alt: Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate (seeking Acquaintances and accepting all social actions) Item conversion table - finally complete with all rare successes! Bloody, bold and resolute
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Valiant Posts: 127 10/19/2015	Kukapetal wrote: I suppose it should have been obvious that, after treating my character like nothing but a living ATM machine who funds the mission and then is ignored in favor of bickering with the ex/exploring the cave, the guy would only have slept with him to further his goals. He showed quiet a lot feelings in the beginning of the story, when the Cave of the Nadir wasn't even introduced. And if you decide to pay fate for his upgrade on Christmas, he'll be a bit more overt. After all, he is a very reserved gentleman, so this demeanour is only to be expected -- Sir Valiant Carrington, a heartless hedonist and honorary governor of Port Carnelian. You can ask him for a sip of Cider (here's how by an_ocelot) if you catch him in London. Farshin Jarrah, merry trickster and incorrigible optimist. Serine, gone down the well but not forgotten. Avatar artwork by lovely Farseer Drijya
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Valiant Posts: 127 7/6/2017	An Individual wrote: Well, I just turned 10 notability into Watchful with a misclick. Not a great time for that. This is the second time I've done done this particular misclick. Really wish the ability overclock options were in a sub menus or had a confirmation page or something. I'm with you on this misery boat! After an overall bad morning I misclicked and got my 14 Notability converted to Persuasive. And I was only a few cards away from maximum Notability for god's sake... And only five days of election to go. I swear it, I'll never use the damn card again! -- Sir Valiant Carrington, a heartless hedonist and honorary governor of Port Carnelian. You can ask him for a sip of Cider (here's how by an_ocelot) if you catch him in London. Farshin Jarrah, merry trickster and incorrigible optimist. Serine, gone down the well but not forgotten. Avatar artwork by lovely Farseer Drijya
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JimmyTMalice Posts: 237 12/30/2017	I got rid of a level 17 plant once. -- Gideon Stormstrider, the Esoteric Gadgeteer Jimmy T. Malice, gone. A Tale of Two Suns - Meeting Your Maker - A Squid in the Polls
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Lorayna Regina Posts: 5 12/10/2015	Mine seems so petty compared to everyone else. I sold my soul (stupid). I got married (can I get a divorce?) And I accidentally used up my fate by hitting the deck after I had no cards left.
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Esurnir Posts: 10 3/9/2016	I've spent a week, and I think 50 fate or so refilling my opportunity deck, to get skin of the bazaar. only to discover that framing secret in gold, a story which I completely forgot sadly.... is at 53, therefor i locked myself out. **** me. If only I could spend fate to replay it I would, I just... have no idea what the story is about anymore. edited by Esurnir on 3/9/2016
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Skylord_Ettin Posts: 2 2/2/2016	Failing on the Luck challenge for the Magnificent Pleasure Yacht, seven times so far, and I still haven't got it. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Skylord_Ettin
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 1/2/2016	4 buckets of lacre and still no dark-carapaced crustacean. I haven't been this P.O.ed at the game since my stupid plant lost like, 20 contests in a row :P Seriously, if I miss out on all the ToL goodies AND home furnishings and end up with nothing to show for it, I'm putting my fist through my screen. And possibly doing something unspeakable to my monkey beforehand :P
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 10/18/2015	My character spent ages pining after the Revolutionary Firebrand. So naturally, when I finally had all the levels/items I needed, I was excited to go looking for the cave of the Nadir and continue his storyline. And then...nothing. After all that work, the only reward I get is the cad telling me "I'm glad you're still here." That was frustrating enough, but then I find out I COULD have hooked up with him during the expedition, but didn't because I never clicked on "A Cautious Day." The description of it made me worry I might lose time/supplies if I clicked on it, and I was panicking because my rival was sprinting ahead of me and I was losing supplies too quickly trying risky challenges to keep up (I was scared if I failed the expedition I'd have to grind for one of those blasted skulls again). So I avoided that option and just forged ahead...and missed out. Normally something like this would only be a mild annoyance, but since I was roleplaying a character who was MADLY in love with the guy, and for whom going to the Cave of the Nadir with him was a MAJOR goal, knowing I missed out on an opportunity to get them together because I was too nervous to click on something during the expedition makes me wanna punch myself. ALL that work and selfless devotion and I get friendzoned :P
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Dante Kinkade Posts: 50 9/30/2015	Well there goes my only point. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/dante~kinkade
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Dante Kinkade Posts: 50 12/13/2015	20/22 attempts to increase my scraps or so have failed, so I lost over 200 scraps. I also got the rare fail with Mr Page, and he sent some very special constables to rummage through my life. (but at least that was interesting and amusing.) -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/dante~kinkade
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 12/20/2016	Why oh why do I keep trying to recertify scraps? I've lost almost 40 of them in the last day because I can't stop taking the risk. Is this how a compulsive gambler feels? :P
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Mr Sables Posts: 597 2/9/2016	I learned a lesson about acting too hastily . . . Got excited about the "Feast", sent a 40-fate gift to someone . . . forgot to check the name properly, so - long story short - seemed to have sent it to an account that's been inactive for five years and also a player that's so new they haven't even left the prison >_< I've learned a lesson about double-checking that the in-game name is the same as the in-forum name, along with triple-checking the name and whether it's the right one . . . Maybe I can role-play the loss of fate/money by saying that my character used an surface bank-account to arrange for their divorce XD They're shady enough that it could work XD curses being too overly excited and wasting money
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 11/27/2015	Hmm, I anticipate being PoSI shortly. Perhaps I'll put it off for awhile. I'd rather have the cash. -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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ZHAndy Posts: 17 11/25/2015	I was attempting to kill to Goat Demon in the Flit - failed 5 70% chances in a row... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Aria~Anderson
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th8827 Posts: 823 11/6/2015	I failed the same 90% success rate bronze-edged opportunity card three times... I'm still waiting to draw it again... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Vavakx Nonexus Posts: 892 2/14/2017	You've gained 1 x An Antediluvian Ushabti (new total 78). -- Amets Estibariz, the Moulting Eidolon: Cradled by a sun all their own. Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness. Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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Vavakx Nonexus Posts: 892 8/17/2016	You have my commiserations, RandomWalker. -- Amets Estibariz, the Moulting Eidolon: Cradled by a sun all their own. Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness. Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 11/7/2018	Same difficulty as realizing they are different companions without using Google. -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 7/21/2017	Well, I finally did it! I got my watchful to 211 instead of getting a nice gift! And I just increased my Notability to 11 (first time and highest) 2 weeks ago! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Edward Frye Posts: 263 3/16/2017	I accidentally clicked the button to get rid of "Closest to: The Urchins". -- My profile, http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Edward~Frye Edward Frye's Appearance http://community.failbettergames.com/topic9363-your-characters-appearances.aspx?Page=7 My alt http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ulysses~Beechworth My Mr. Eaten profile http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Laurens~Haymore Edward Frye is currently open to pretty much any social options except loitering.
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Morucant Posts: 184 8/26/2016	Tried to get out of Prison using the Contact you Lawyer gamble, and I went from suspicion 3 to suspicion 6 trying. What is it with me and 50% chances? -- Morucant, who was once called Scholar of the Name. Good for Chess, Sparring, Caligula's, and perhaps Midnighter lectures at Orphanages. Uilx-Magnus, who truly loved...to Hate. October is as unpredictable as wildfire and twice as dangerous. Don't ask his real name. He has seen Hallowmas, now he will stay silent no more.
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Raiseth Ascendant Posts: 27 1/2/2017	Well, I am another writer. Except that I also Seek the Name for the kicks ( which is a terrible failure all in itself). So I realize that for one Candle I need a sacrifice. Preferably, willing and expendable. So, yeah, I decided to write a Classic Story, and, what can I say, losing eight weeks worth Professional Perks just because I was impatient d___bly hurts. It hurts so much. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Desole%20Terrek Writer, Seeker, Correspondent. Ocassionaly, a good conversationalist.
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Zero Posts: 136 3/4/2016	After much painful days of grinding, I mistook First City Coins for Surface currency and accidentally sold them, thus blocking my Ambition: heart's desire. I had to spend my sole point of connection to the Masters to get more coins ;_; -- SEND ME CHESS AND I SHALL RECIPROCATE Daniel Ember - Once a doctor. Now something else. My Twine games
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Saklad Posts: 528 12/30/2015	I spent seven Sudden Insights and failed to get any Searing Enigmas out of my Rat of Glory, only to later realize I could have gotten a Companion worth 500 Echoes guaranteed instead. -- Saklad5, a man of many talents
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Nibelethe Posts: 7 12/27/2015	I only just found Fallen London two days ago and I've been really enjoying it. After two visits from Mr Sacks I drew his card a third time. Before clicking on it I clicked open the Bazaar tab determined that I was going to be able to offer him something this time as I vaguely remembered he liked wine. I sold a diamond I had acquired to purchase a bottle of every wine I could just in case (as obviously consulting with the wiki to see which vintage he/it preferred would have been entirely too sensible for me) and then went back and clicked on the card... not only did I not have the correct wine but this time he was asking for diamonds... I think I'm going to remember this mistake for some time. -- The stars were close enough to almost touch... http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Nibelethe
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Hydranova Posts: 1 11/28/2015	Accidentally selling the Location of the Nadir to the Great Game (at least it wasn't hell, or the Revolutionaries!)
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surreyjack Posts: 105 12/9/2016	I was trying to grind for a classic short story. I though 90% chance was good enough. Boy, was I wrong -- My paramount presence, poet laurate, correspondent, main : http://fallenlondon.com/profile/surreyjack
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ViridianDreams Posts: 1 12/16/2015	an_ocelot wrote: For the SECOND time, I have mis-tapped on my little tablet and started the Affair of the Box over for Fate. Grrr. I've mis-tapped and spent fate for 10 new opportunty cards... twice now. Touch Pads seem to hate me.
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Jeremiah Oathes Posts: 73 11/7/2018	I failed to notice that there are different flavours of Hallowmas Companions. Since they all share the same artwork, I thought they were the same. And now I am VERY annoyed because of this fact. I mean, bl__dy hell, how difficult can it be to change a background colour? You can do that even without the source material! -- Dr Jeremiah Oathes - Natural Philosopher, Alchemist and Anatomist (part-time). Occasionally in Service to the Crown and the Bazaar. Would like to dissect a Master (for science and mad laughter).
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Harvey Hattington Posts: 13 4/25/2018	Grinding Notability to increase my maximum Watchful via an Extraordinary Mind. Completely forgot that I hadn't chosen the specialization yet. I was at 9 Notability and 22 MW. ...I think I'm going to lie down for a moment. -- Harvey Hattington, an inescapable gentleman: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Harvey%20Hattington Morgan Adams the Wax Woman. Gone North, gone forever: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Morgan%20Adams
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Daedalus_Falk Posts: 234 9/25/2018	Gillsing wrote: Daedalus_Falk wrote: Or at least make it so you can't pick the skill boost if your base stat is 199 or higher. I'm pretty sure they already changed it to locking those options when your base stat is 200+. Before that change you could waste favours for not a single CP of gain, which I'm pretty sure I did once with five Favours: Criminals. That master thief sure got me good that time. And since part of their 'design philosophy' seems to be to let players always retain the option to use resources in terribly inefficient ways, I wouldn't expect a change to those options. I could imagine a player really, really wanting to spend five favours on five CPs (or less), because they just drew "An unsigned message" and plan to spend all their Notability on boosting the relevant base stat to 215 right at that moment, and have no time/Actions left to spend on actions that would increase that stat naturally to 200. Not every player plays the game the same way. ________________________________ edited by Gillsing on 9/24/2018 I suppose that's fair, but all the same, playing on mobile (the direction things seem to be going in terms of design) DOES seem to have a concurrently higher risk of mis-clicks. I dunno; seems like there has to be room for adjustment there. Like, at the end of the day losing 5 favours (or 20 expedition supplies) is a bummer, but it's not a huge deal in the end - whereas doing something like accidentally selling the nadir or your plant might be VERY frustrating. edited by Daedalus_Falk on 9/25/2018 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Daedalus_Falk ---- For I was hungry, and you gave me rats. I was thirsty, and you gave me rats. I was naked, and you gave me rats. The rodents were gathered together, the cats slept in the Sun’s blindness, and the rats rose like the Moon, in the light at the edge of the cheese.
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gronostaj Posts: 403 8/13/2017	I've been stood up for a coffee at Caligula's by a dead bat for 77 consecutive days. Who does he think he is-... -- Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones. Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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gronostaj Posts: 403 8/29/2017	Siankan wrote: Technically, I don't even think you were shot. I think your gun was shot out of your hand. Perhaps the stock whacked your head as it went by. the mortician jotted down the cause of death as "public humiliation" and noted that shortly after recovery the citizien in question, despite excellent physical condition, repeatedly requested to be mummified and shipped off to the farthest tomb-colony -- Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones. Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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Six Handed Merchant Posts: 141 1/2/2018	Siankan wrote: I think you put this in the wrong place. This is obviously an outstanding achievement. Props for knowing (and following) your character. Story wise, maybe. But mechanically, it was really painful!! I spent months of grinding for renown, finagling a membership into the Parthenaeum, half a dozen POSI-level items from the Bazaar Side-Streets....and I was only waiting on one last Society favor when I relented and canned the project and sold the Bazaar Side-Street items to pay for grubby urchins. edited by Six Handed Merchant on 1/2/2018 -- The Six Handed Merchant: If it's the truth you seek, The Six Handed Merchant is the gentlemen-, er, lady-, er, detective you need! Just pay no heed to that Eradication Officer tailing Six: that poor fellow is simply out of his mind! Six's Mantlepiece (I am available for roleplaying and SAs. My schedule is pretty full, so please PM me first to work out the details.)
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Azothi Posts: 586 2/5/2019	Arcengal wrote: Today I learned that when you use Favourable Circumstances to force a specific opportunity draw, it pushes the rightmost card out of your hand. That stings when the rightmost card was a Mood. Edit: Wait, the mood came back after I went back and played through the card. Huh. Weird. edited by Arcengal on 2/4/2019 It's a display issue. The number of cards in your hand increases by one, and so if you have a full hand, the rest get pushed aside. This behavior occurs for other actions that force-draw opportunity cards, like the Amanuensis and Seeking, if I recall correctly. -- Azoth I, the Emissary of Cardinals - A Paramount Presence (not currently accepting new Proteges) Away to where the Chain cannot bind us. Hesperidean.
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GoingFTL Posts: 113 5/4/2017	Got a Starvling Cat from a bundle of oddities. Have mercy on my soul.
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Rasvarmo Posts: 54 2/9/2017	On the Slowcake's Amenuensis card, I meant to click on the option to wait for him to speak first. Instead, I clicked on the option to throw him out on his ear. Why are those options right next to each other?! Not the worst disaster, but the notability hit, and especially the hit to Connected: Masters, really ground my gears. -- Rasvarmo - a lady of distinction and ambition. Open to social exchanges. "No records. No writings. Words can be treacherous. If a story is important, it will be remembered."
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KytherM Posts: 7 2/8/2017	I failed a 85% success check for stage managing a show 7 times in Mahogany Hall. The show must go on
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 2/28/2017	Please, Winking Isle. I just need 4000 more Fasting and Meditating and I'll leave you alone for a while. Actually, after an afternoon's work, now I only need 10,000 more Fasting and Meditating. D--- RNG. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Ada Porthwait Posts: 1 10/18/2016	I made the delightful mistake of not paying enough attention to an opportunity card a while back and wound up selling that d__nable, hungry little plant as it approached level 9. I've spent the past few months getting it back to the same place. edited by Mx. Solst on 10/18/2016
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Siankan Posts: 1048 12/29/2016	Not so much bad luck as good luck at all the wrong times. First, after collecting all the necessaries to begin searching for the Nadir, I decide to wander the quarter a bit on the off chance that the Airs might cooperate and I might start the trip with a sign to follow. They did not. However, they did deliver me a second eyeless skull. Great! I thought. That's one less to find when I get there! Of course, that also means I get to keep all those attractive skull cards... Second, the Nadir has been found, and I'm back out looking for more skulls. As an unfortunate side effect, all but one of my hand slots are filled with skull cards. At this point, the RNG decides to be nice to me and send me the dusty bookshop card - which means I either waste it on seeking curios, or I get no more opportunity cards until I get that ray-drenched cinder - Mr. Sacks included. I chose Sacks in the end. Naturally, then, about fifteen minutes into the watchful mood, my father calls me to tell me he needs my help. So much for that. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 4/8/2017	Ablution solutions are also pretty useful, if you've got cash on hand. I personally have always found it pretty easy to keep my suspicion and wounds in check. Scandal is a bit harder since the ablution solutions do very little to it, and nightmares are the worst because I don't like laudanum. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 12/11/2018	I am preparing for a post-Christmas sprint to SotC 41. I have Darkdrop, I have mood cards, I have supplies, I have A Dream of Blood... ...wait. No I don't. I just misclicked and discarded it. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 9/1/2017	dariuseng wrote: I don't know if this is the sort of thing you guys mean by painful failures, but I just got rid of 14 Notability while trying to raise one of my stats to 215 by accidentally clicking "Come to the assistance of Dr F______" and I feel like I need to share this with someone and it felt very painful to me That would be precisely the thing, and I am so very, very sorry. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Loulou Posts: 51 1/2/2017	I had two mood cards in my hand. I just...discarded them both because my browser froze for a minute whilst I was trying to discard City Vices cards instead. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even know what else to say. -- Dr. Emmaline Anders, Open to most social actions, and accepting all calling cards. Lieutenant Balzac Thibault, seldom seen in public and rarely (if ever) available for social actions. Rest in love, Lady Ellia Stoneham, gone NORTH at last. Open to PMs if you're looking for help with affairs 'enigmatic'.
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Teaspoon Posts: 866 1/30/2017	Melitaele wrote: I've joined in mid-December, just in time to catch the remains of the Advent Calendar. One of the things that I've gotten from it was something worth 62.50 Echo, which was a lot of money at the time. So I sold it and bought some starter gear. Well, it was the Nodule of Pulsating Amber, of course. I didn't even check what I can do with it, since I was just starting and didn't understand the meaning of the green border. Uh, it's not like I can't get it otherwise, and it's not like I need it painfully, either. But a free Renown-grinding item would've surely been good. edited by Melitaele on 1/29/2017 Be of good cheer - by the time you're in a position where Renown-grinding is actually something you really want to be doing, you'll probably have seen several more just in the normal course of play. -- Truth lies at the bottom of a well. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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Slyblue Posts: 224 12/18/2016	My very devout, anti-devil character just accidentally sold his soul.To the wrong devil. Because I thought I was playing as the pro-devil character. And this is why you don't randomly poke the Affectionate Devil for the lulzs. GAH edited by Slyblue on 12/18/2016 -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 2/16/2017	A small one: Raided a ship in the middle of the unterzee, almost went to jail as soon as I came back to London, for exactly 25 pieces of beewax. "Bundle of Oddities of high value", my foot. -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 12/30/2017	Me: I don't want to give up my dreams! And I'm not going to pick the safe option! Waah! Also me: Poet-Laureate who? I don't know her. And at this rate, I never will. -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 10/31/2017	I thought Feducci would lower my criminal record by one level, not one point And this is why the reading part of "reading game" is important, kids. Edit: Looking back, the text does say "This will reduce your Criminal Record by one.". I just assumed it would be one level, I guess. Is there any way to make that warning a bit clearer for us dummies? Edit2: Thank you for changing this, invisible powers that watch over our posts! edited by Slyblue on 10/31/2017 edited by Slyblue on 10/31/2017 -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 1/7/2017	The amount of people who accidentally sell their soul at the Embassy is really astounding. A̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶ ̶p̶o̶k̶e̶s̶ ̶d̶e̶v̶i̶l̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶s̶i̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶i̶n̶t̶ On the local news, right after nodding to myself about ten times and deciding to eat the Magnificent Feast from this year's advent calendar, my internet provider decided to go "lol nope" and knockout the DNS servers until the next day. Could be worse, I know. But, those 10 action points...orz -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Herbal Tea Posts: 23 7/2/2016	This literally just happened and I'm still boxing my own ears for my sheer stupidity. I was 1CP away from leveling my St. John's lily to 16 and I accidentally touched the get rid of your plant option on my phone with my fingers that are apparently the size of lorn-fluke tentacles and as clumsy as clay men dipped in 3 extra layers of sediment casing! Considering the amount of bad luck I've been having raising the plant I literally wasted 2 months of progress, not to mention the hundreds of little creatures that died for a lost cause. Oh well time to find another lily. Edit: After rage-flipping over 300 opportunity cards I have yet to find myself a new plant. I just want to ask if it is possible to get a new plant after you rid yourself of your first one :/ edited by Inalynne on 7/3/2016
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Slyblue Posts: 224 7/15/2017	Oh, thanks goodness...I still feel monumentally stupid for changing out of the Nightmare-reducing stuff (The cane and the goldfish), because the mood is a -Hat-, but...Well, it's a little bit better. Thanks guys. -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Herbal Tea Posts: 23 7/3/2016	an_ocelot wrote: Inalynne wrote: After rage-flipping over 300 opportunity cards I have yet to find myself a new plant. I just want to ask if it is possible to get a new plant after you rid yourself of your first one :/ Oh yes, I've accidentally sold my plant like three times. If you use Firefox on mobile, or can otherwise install user stylesheets, check out this: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic21878-user-style-option-protector-pending-approval.aspx Thanks for the tip! I already have the option protector installed on my browser but I doubt I can use it in the app. Now that I think of it, my deja vu feeling is correct and this is the second time you sent me this link my dear friend. Unfortunately there is no protection guaranteed against MY BIG CLUMSY CLAY HANDS WITH DETERMINED MINDS AND WILLS OF THEIR OWN. I will have to resort to cutting them off and modeling a new pair out of silk scraps and rat fur. Cheers.
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Rainette Posts: 5 9/3/2016	After a long hiatus from the game, having forgotten sides taken and loyalties extended and ending up with a Turncoat rating of 3 edited by Rainette on 9/3/2016 edited by Rainette on 9/3/2016
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earthbourn Posts: 149 10/31/2017	I accidentally kicked the Amanuensis out on his oily little ear when I meant to "say nothing," so I lost 2 levels of Notability rather than getting the MW I needed to gain a level. The favours payout makes it sting a little less, but it effectively dashed my hopes of getting to 8 for a confession this week. And of course it cost me 30 echoes for a new Slowcake's. grumble, grumble edited by earthbourn on 10/31/2017 -- Tenterhook - A sun-seared creature learning to be human. The Mechanist, L. - Found what she was looking for. Gone now.
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Dima Lazarev Posts: 172 1/2/2018	I shared dream of skies untainted with Mr. Sacks and lost a level of Persuasive. Being Paramount Presence, I won’t be able to restore it any time soon. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Dima Lazarev
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memespawn Posts: 50 2/13/2017	Just lost a chance at a classic short story with... 221(around there?) potential. I mean, I was just going to throw it down a well, but it still stings & sets me back ages (and means I'm not going to be able to get a tattoo unless I wait a year.) My bad for rushing, I guess. -- Open for social actions http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/memespawn
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 12/18/2016	Pumpkinhead wrote: I find myself here yet again, lamenting my woes... I have been partaking in foolish activities, grinding secrets to be drowned. In the last week of grinding and drowning, I have sacrificed ~4000 appalling secrets, and in return, have increased SMEN by...1. Which was my free TtH point. The total is up to ~4800 appalling secrets and about two weeks wasted. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 2/18/2017	In my last ~5 or so runs through being a governor, I have seen the man from the Mithridate Office probably 10 or so times, and I've failed each one of them with a 60% chance. I know that's not great chances, but RNG! will you please stop ruining my EPA? -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 3/3/2017	100 ish tales of terror dumped into the fidgeting writer, for 4 deals with a devil. Then, on to 2 room numbers. Whee. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Ragnar Degenhand Posts: 197 6/15/2019	@ Arcengal Now that really is awful luck. "A sign" is sometimes very elusive. Commiserations from someone who did the Nadir expedition with 99 supplies and ended with just four to spare. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Ragnar%20Degenhand
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Siankan Posts: 1048 3/23/2017	bjharts wrote: I have just successfully robbed the Brass Embassy with exactly 13 Casing (50% chance) five times in a row. Okay, the odds against that are high but not astronomical. But… I am deeply amused that you consider this a failure. (Yes, I understand why. No, this doesn't affect my appreciation of the irony.) -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 4/18/2017	After a month-long dry spell, I finally drew a mood card last week! After being up with an unhappy baby, I accidentally discarded it this morning -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 4/9/2017	Catherine Raymond wrote: You have my complete sympathy. Last time I tried the Fidgeting Writer, I started with 100 Senses of Deja Vu and ended up with not a single Coruscating Soul. Not one! It turned out alright! My next round I used something like 400 tales and got 14 souls, which was pretty good! -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Jamilah S. Wolf Posts: 122 12/16/2016	One misclick and I was forced to have Turncoat 2. -- Jamilah, a most fascinating Lady of the Neath who finds herself mingling with Society and aligning with Criminals. This Licentiate Extraordinaire would love to align with the Masters, given the chance. A Shattering Force. Huarwar Ceiswyr, a Welshman and detective lured to the Neath to Seek. The toll it has taken does not hide itself, nor does he bother to. On hiatus. Open to all actions, delicious friends. Messages required prior to harmful ones. PM for hints Enigmatic. She wishes for nothing more than to be close to the Masters, for who else can unlock the Mysteries of the Neath?
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Jamilah S. Wolf Posts: 122 9/22/2018	Being unable to collect Wines' Scepter by a margin of one Regnant coin. That stings more than anything I can recall, save for fatal wounds. -- Jamilah, a most fascinating Lady of the Neath who finds herself mingling with Society and aligning with Criminals. This Licentiate Extraordinaire would love to align with the Masters, given the chance. A Shattering Force. Huarwar Ceiswyr, a Welshman and detective lured to the Neath to Seek. The toll it has taken does not hide itself, nor does he bother to. On hiatus. Open to all actions, delicious friends. Messages required prior to harmful ones. PM for hints Enigmatic. She wishes for nothing more than to be close to the Masters, for who else can unlock the Mysteries of the Neath?
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Siankan Posts: 1048 1/2/2018	Six Handed Merchant wrote: In other words, Six is now the proud owner of an Orphanage. I think you put this in the wrong place. This is obviously an outstanding achievement. Props for knowing (and following) your character. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 12/10/2017	This was a few days ago, but it still hurts: "Subtle has dropped to 14!" followed shortly by "Steadfast has dropped to 14!" I know it's reparable, but... it still hurts. Moral of the story, kids: When your memory says, "I think one of these choices is a bad idea," listen to it and check the wiki. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Lallinka Posts: 138 1/29/2018	I saved up over 300 boxes to look for my soul which I had to sell in order to get the 5 card lodgings during Sackmas and was planning to get it right back. Well, they're all gone and my soul is still nowhere to be seen. -- Lallinka is accepting any social interactions as soon as my actions allow it. No Loitering and no Photographer, please. Available for interviews about Nemesis and a Midnighter for Orphanages. Ragish is accepting everything, including Loitering and Photographer. Available for interviews about Heart's Desire and a Crooked-cross for Salons. Pienkava is freshly out of prison and will need charity to survive in the harsh streets of London. Have pity, she is only fifteen.
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Sam Stephens Posts: 73 5/2/2017	My two biggest failures: 1) Losing my soul. It was foolish of me to flirt with devils. I thought there was no harm in a simple conversation, but I was wrong. I intend to get my soul back, and exact my revenge upon the seductress who stole it from me. Eventually... 2) Thanks to a misclick, I snipped my bold little vegetable in the bud after months of caring for it. I've only recently begun to grow a replacement sprout. Here's hoping this one lasts longer. -- Hello, delicious friends! I can be found here: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sam%20Stephens I'm open to all non-menacing social actions. I particularly enjoy a good mystery. I'm also a Corespondent who can teach at your Orphanage.
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Raccoonajr Posts: 105 12/6/2017	Damn that plant. This is the second time I’ve quick clicked and gotten rid of the thing! -- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Raccoonajr
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 12/15/2016	I find myself here yet again, lamenting my woes... I have been partaking in foolish activities, grinding secrets to be drowned. In the last week of grinding and drowning, I have sacrificed ~4000 appalling secrets, and in return, have increased SMEN by...1. Which was my free TtH point. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 6/29/2017	It's nowhere near as disheartening as most of the other things in this thread, but today I failed a 99% persuasive check. It's been a long time since I've failed anything, now that I'm 200 for each stat with good equipment. It reminded me of the days back when everything was a gamble, and nothing was guaranteed... also it reminded me that the RNG is a b-----d -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 8/3/2017	Here many of us lament our woes, whether they be soul crushing, infuriating, or blisteringly unfair. And apparently @Teaspoon complains of accidentally killing a squid. (Yeah, d----d misclicks, although there are much worse things to misclick on than the Slime and Amber card ) -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Sophia Harrow Posts: 20 3/29/2017	My worst failures so far in my adventures have been: Providing for Mr Wine's Revels(and also not throwing a stone at the back of the cheapskates head when I had the chance...), losing some of my money trying to rid myself of The Name for the first time ever, Clicking on one of the certain Mirrors at the Carnival, and lastly... and not picking different actions during the chat with the Lilac. Also... Do things like sampling Bottle of Black Wings Absinthe, and tangling with the Eater-of-Chains(I think that was the first time I nervously gulped before while playing this game.) on a Persuasive/Watchful Character both count?
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Sophia Harrow Posts: 20 3/30/2017	Slyblue wrote: I'm 100% ready to change my Lodgings, but the Devils' card is being surprised elusive. I mean, after pulling literally every Connections card, asked what I wanted to do with my Slug two times in a row, meeting the Photographer at least once per card flip and being bombarded by Plant cards, you'd think the devils would've stopped laughing their asses off by now. I should of mentioned my issue with the cards last post. I am in a similar boat there SlyBlue, only I am confounded by useless cards stopping my dream progress(and gates of the garden quality) from building up. I feel like the opportunity cards are like a simulation of Casino Poker... Rigged. I might have to send fellow Londoners some Singed Playing Cards next years Feast, perhaps it won't be the same cards we draw from the opportunity deck, but who knows.
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laskaris Posts: 66 2/28/2017	Winking Isle is the worst. let us kick the well together. edited by laskaris on 2/28/2017 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/laskaris
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Siankan Posts: 1048 12/18/2016	Slyblue wrote: My very devout, anti-devil character just accidentally sold his soul.To the wrong devil. Because I thought I was playing as the pro-devil character. And now you know the vile power wielded by the minions of Hell! How ceaselessly we must watch against their subterfuge, for they can confuse and destroy the very elect! Beware, my children, beware! In other words, ouch, that hurts - but it does bring with it some serious roleplaying gold. Your character now has an even stronger motivation for hating devils and the soul trade, and should you perhaps regain this mislaid soul one day, it will be a sweet, sweet victory. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Aronia Posts: 36 1/29/2017	I've joined in mid-December, just in time to catch the remains of the Advent Calendar. One of the things that I've gotten from it was something worth 62.50 Echo, which was a lot of money at the time. So I sold it and bought some starter gear. Well, it was the Nodule of Pulsating Amber, of course. I didn't even check what I can do with it, since I was just starting and didn't understand the meaning of the green border. Uh, it's not like I can't get it otherwise, and it's not like I need it painfully, either. But a free Renown-grinding item would've surely been good. I also chose the "not my type" option at the beginning of the Myrrh Rose story, hoping to get another partner. Well, now I have a single Myrrh Rose, and if I want to see the story, I'll have to go to the Tomb Colonies and pay Fate. edited by Melitaele on 1/29/2017 -- Lucy van Helsing, phantom de sa fille, a breathtaking and inescapable lady, spending most of her time among the Bohemians, the Devils and the Society. I don't loiter right now, but I like chess and coffee, Strage Pranks, Bifurcated Dreams and the like. I also accept Calling Cards. Ask this shady individual to loiter or help with Menaces if you'd like. Out of Skulls for now, though.
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Bertrand Lyndon Posts: 95 2/16/2017	Slyblue wrote: A small one: Raided a ship in the middle of the unterzee, almost went to jail as soon as I came back to London, for exactly 25 pieces of beewax. "Bundle of Oddities of high value", my foot. This got a good laugh out of me. Maybe the RNG gods wanted to remind you to cherish your beewax? Obviously, I'm guessing: nobody can know for sure what goes on inside their unfathomable, divine minds. Still, I had my share of woes with well-paid surprise boxes as of late. I just cannot be grateful for a measly 4 compromising documents. Especially when I just exchanged my Intriguing Snippets and I happen to have a cartload of the blasted things. I think I now finally understand Nicias' argument in favor of the existance of the gods. Maybe I'll stop gambling for a while. edited by Bertrand Lyndon on 2/16/2017 -- Bertrand Lyndon, a former Sergeant of the 7th Dragoon Guards who deals in crime and secrets. (My main profile: a Midnighter available for Orphanages) Jordan Farchild, a kid who often meddles in things bigger than herself, and Bertrand's ward. (I check this profile less often than Bertrand and I use it only for very light roleplay) Call me Barren on the IRC.
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Auridan Posts: 2 1/30/2017	Over the course of a few days and several candles' worth of convalescence, I failed the "fatal" duel with a Black Ribbon roughly a dozen times. Several of those attempts were at 70%, which takes forever to accumulate enough Running Battle for. Much more painfully, just now in Sunless Sea... I completed the Mr Sacks line and created a snow child, named him Boreas. This is the first time I actually made it back to London with him, but after getting the clue for the next step I frankly ignored the little guy. When he started melting, I didn't get serious about working his story until the second notice. By the time I determined what could help, third notice had passed and I lacked the materials to progress. Here I finally decided that d--n the rest, I was going to save this thing, and lost about half my Hull full-speeding to Port Cecil. On the way I was jumped by a Bound-Shark: quarter health left. Picked up the materials, flank speed to London, tangled with two nasty pirates. Eighth health left and only 4 crew, limiting me to half engine power. Limped into home port expecting Boreas to melt literally any time. But here I was! Full 200 hull, fuel and supplies to take me anywhere, I burned hard all the way to Iron Republic without mishap. Swapped for a longbox, powered to Station III still without trouble... ...and promptly turned in the box before looking at the other option, the one that would trade it for a heartmetal ingot. FML. This kid is doomed. edited by Auridan on 1/30/2017 -- Khalid Esmerelda Circe-Melville the First-through-Tenth, the Twice Salted, Coffee Merchant of Irem, Companion's Znack. An Erratically Successful and Doomed Zee-Captain ashore to live his original life (Auridan) for the first time.
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Andele Vasyrich Posts: 12 2/12/2017	Certainly when I had just unlocked the Route to Mrs. Plenty's Carnival, went mucking about in the House of Mirrors trying to reduce my Nightmares, and landed in A State of Some Confusion. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Andele%20Vasyrich Currently on the way to becoming a Person of Some Importance. Helpful social actions welcomed!
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Elaina Schill Posts: 191 10/16/2017	Some of these feel physically like someone stabbing you in the chest...all that time! All that work! All that patience! -- Main, Phiri Ulfur, the Cunning Shadow. Their heart belongs to a Pirate-Poet across the Zee. Alt Vermillion Liminate, the Tragic Scholar. Alt #2,Lady Jacqueline Blackwood, the Savage Beauty. Alt #3, Veracity Taylor, the Dame of the Docks. The Dogged Seeker, self explanatory. I will accept any social actions on Fallen London(unless its a box of live rats. I already got rid of the d---ned things once and am not eager to repeat the endeavor).
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SeveredJoke Posts: 171 3/16/2017	Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by getting cocky in a game of chess with the boatman. From Wounds 2 to 9 as I refused to quit out of stubborness. -- Annabelle McAllister - Nemesis Marlon JD - Bag a Legend Suzi Bapsthwaite - Light Fingers Delilah Moreo - Heart's Desire Alexei Totkinder - Nemesis
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reaperOscuroCore Posts: 41 4/6/2017	Rather than an egregious mistake on my behalf, it was more frustration with the game mechanics. The Master Thief Shadowy path. How very, most deplorably, irritating. Even with what one would consider Shadowy as high as it is needed for similar paths in the other storylines, everything was Chancy. AND needing 3 actions a pop. Later discovering that I could instead pilfer paintings for the topsy king with much greater success rates, necessitating only one action a pop, AND with better venture gains than wasting those 3 actions...yea, it was a very long, frustrating process. Suspicion being one of the hardest menaces to reduce also didn't help. -- Arden Terraward -a gentleperson on the search for...EVERYTHING. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Arden%20Terraward
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Reused NPC Posts: 259 7/31/2017	Well let's see. My first time hunting the Nadir, I had a skull, I had a Mood, I had enough laudanum to sedate an elephant. I set forth! And tanked dozens of two-supplies challenges in a row (all of which were at least 70%) and got shipped off to the Boat. When I got back the mood was gone, but it didn't really matter because February was already there and aaaaall those supplies I had accrued and spent on getting nowhere were already gone. Eventually I got another Skull, another Mood, et cetera, and had a lovely chess-off with February that ended with her being hog-tied, so that's some lovely payback. Be sure to send February my regards next you see her, regards in the form of your finest assorted weaponry. -- ReusedNPC, a d__ned lunatic. Edmund Viric, a rather dreamy sort. "I won't stay long, I shan't stay long! Tell me a secret." --the Baldomerian
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Aniline Posts: 144 8/17/2017	The day after successfully storming the Nadir using a hat, I drew another hat. Today I discarded it due to a double-click. I'm... actually relieved. It was a major pain to constantly worry about. Current hat count: 1 used effectively, 2 accidentally discarded. I wish cards would just stay in their d__n slots. edit 2017/08/28: after discarding that one, I drew yet another one the following day and discarded it presently. edited by Aniline on 8/28/2017 -- Melantha Prescott, the Suspicious Statistician. "3% failure chances crop up nine times out of ten." Francesca Ayers-Kernighan, bat-hunter, cat-whisperer
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Aniline Posts: 144 3/5/2018	I was saving up for Destin, reached Nota 11 and accidentally clicked the naughty button on the unsigned message card. The site hung up on me but unfortunately the action still went through. Undaunted, I did the math and saw unmodded Watchful 211 was juuuuust right for me to get the next ASotC level and chase it with a mood card that I had and an EF sub straight to Courier's Footprint, provided I got the +8 home comfort (2 more GG Favour turn-ins). However, I've been sitting on Urchins 40/7 for quite some time and decided to stick my head into the clouds (a scream earned is a scream saved). Drew the SMEN card while there and played it for the cool factor, without thinking. Ouch. -- Melantha Prescott, the Suspicious Statistician. "3% failure chances crop up nine times out of ten." Francesca Ayers-Kernighan, bat-hunter, cat-whisperer
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Reinol von Lorica Posts: 102 11/1/2017	Failing two low risk challenges in the attempt to make a Exceptional Short Story. I made sure it was straightforward the next time. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Reinol%20von%20Lorica edited by Reinol von Lorica on 11/1/2017 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Reinol%20von%20Lorica
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Achanei Posts: 63 10/31/2017	Anchovies wrote: I was taking a real-worldacquaintance yesterday and the conversation turned to forms of currency. I described Marks of Credit as real things which historical monarchs would issue. When I privately double-checked later in the day, I learned that the mark of credit, at least by that name, is a concept original to Fallen London. Whoops ._. Well being called mark of credit, alright, but letters of credit bein exchanged instead of hard currency was definitely a thing at least since the 15th century onward, the french had a year-long rotating market pretty much just about exchanging credit between flanders and genova/venice. Source: Fernand Braudel, 15th-18th Century Civilization and Capitalism. I believe it was in the first volume, might've been the second. also, sorry for offtopic allthough outing myself as a nerd about the wrong part of history could also be construed as a painful failure, right? -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Achanei Midnighter. Man of many talents and faces.
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Achanei Posts: 63 10/31/2017	I once threw out a level 11 plant while in a hurry. hurts. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Achanei Midnighter. Man of many talents and faces.
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ChangelingChilde Posts: 231 11/24/2017	Canvas Blank wrote: It would have to be the time I accidentally scrapped my entire plant by mindlessly going through my deck. There really should be a warning on the "Get rid of the plant" option, why would ANYONE want to get rid of their green bud? I've done that twice now. Why is that even an option? -- DO you recall how the Hunger began? I'm sorry, my darling, I don't think I can! OUT past the High Wilderness and beyond I fear I've gone Seeking, for of Him I'm fond. --The Elfin Cannibal Seven scars, seven chains, a soul too stained for Hell, and seven sainted candles burning at the well. Gone to Grieve on the 17th day of the 7th month, 1897. Will be Vake-hunting next.
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Greg M Posts: 197 1/12/2018	This thread is so terrifying that I installed the whitelist that prevents you from discarding important cards. Two biggest failures: I smashed the kidnapped heiress turned into clay and I still feel bad about it. And I misclicked and sold out an orphan's kids parents and now they are dead. -- Profile: GregM. http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/GregM Available for any non-harmful social interactions.
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Greg M Posts: 197 8/28/2018	(sends out batsignal to Chris) "Oh my. You appear to have purchased an extraordinary quantity of Tinctures." How did this happen? Sir Joseph Marlen wrote: Needed some tincture to heal wounds from my Reputation: Abomination grind. One accidental 0 turned 10 echoes for 10 tinctures into 100 echoes for 100 tinctures. Ironically, I'm still getting use out of them. :P -- Profile: GregM. http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/GregM Available for any non-harmful social interactions.
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lukeskylicker Posts: 85 12/11/2018	I just discovered that a sudden insight does not save you from the rare success option for the rat of glory. -- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/lukeskylicker A man who likes to sound smart when he's really just making it up as he goes. Rehabilitator of Wretched Mogs.
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The Curious Watcher Posts: 263 12/16/2017	Herbal Tea wrote: I failed a 98% skill check on the Bazaar lodging card and was immediately shipped off to the tomb-colonies. Moral of the story, check your menace progression and never believe in chances that aren't 100%. I've learned that you should try to keep a menace at least 3 CP from 8 to make sure that "accidents" do not occur, because the RNG always seems to mess with you at your weakest point. -- The Thirteenth Master of the Bazaar: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Thirteenth%20Master%20of%20the%20Bazaar The Silent Vake Hunter: GONE NORTH The Ravenous Wanderer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Ravenous%20Wanderer The Melancholic End-Bringer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Melancholic%20End-Bringer The Lethal Nightmare: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Lethal%20Nightmare
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Frederick Posts: 27 11/26/2017	I just failed a 55% chance 10 times in a row, second chances each time (so more like 20 times), losing 30 supplies and now being forced to restart an expedition that took me ages to gather resources for and I'm honestly so fucking frustrated I could cry.
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Meradine Heidenreich Posts: 468 6/5/2017	Are you absolutely sure that is the right vessel for you? On special offer today, we have this neat little steamer, one careful owner. It will get you there, I promise! Tramp? Who said anything about tramp? (Commiserations, by the way...) edited by Meradine Heidenreich on 6/5/2017 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Meradine%20Heidenreich The Starveling kit Gobbled up the bit of cheese on my tray .. "O Weh!" No plant battles, please.
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Zero Posts: 136 5/13/2016	Doing the Affair of the box. I'm in Spite, doing things for or against the Masters to open the damned thing. Clicked without reading. Apparently, the pro-master option is always the second one in every storylet... Except one. And now I am a Turncoat. Grrrreat. -- SEND ME CHESS AND I SHALL RECIPROCATE Daniel Ember - Once a doctor. Now something else. My Twine games
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Zero Posts: 136 4/11/2016	Just failed a 70% succesful skill check five times in a row. RNG god, why do you hate me? -- SEND ME CHESS AND I SHALL RECIPROCATE Daniel Ember - Once a doctor. Now something else. My Twine games
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Jillius Posts: 36 2/18/2017	Wearing Millicents patience thin on uninteresting questions because I thought I could ask her a lot more than what I did. Of course I'd have the option to spent 10 Fate, but no. No. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Jillius Whenever I am sent something, I'll try to add a witty line when writing back. Common decency, really.
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Tyrone Posts: 79 2/16/2016	I've dumped way too much money buying candles trying to do the Ambition: Light Fingers. edited by Tyrone on 2/16/2016
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PJ Posts: 210 5/9/2016	Probably not my worst failure, but I just ended my second Polythreme Promenade in a row with 77 CP of Investigating. The goal is level 12, which is 78 CP. It resets for the next go-round, so 77 is no better than 0. If I had known one action sooner that I wasn't going to make it I could have at least cashed it in for 60 Romantic Notions, but once you're at the end of the carousel it's level 12 or bust. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Peter%20James
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Charlotte_de_Witte Posts: 360 11/29/2015	The moment you realise you went all the way to the Tomb of the Seven without your Watchfull gear on. -- "Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar." Social actions welcome. Only, send me dupes if you need help with the Affluent Photographer please, I like the bats! [And boxed kitties, and extreme gardening]- Thank-you! http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Charlotte%20de%20Witte
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th8827 Posts: 823 1/25/2016	the truthseeker wrote: th8827 wrote: I went from low 6 to high 7 Scandal through my Lodging's Menace reduction option. Then, I failed a Shadowy action... and got Scandal, sending me to the Tomb Colonies. Then, I failed the Society challenge that has "How can you fail?" odds. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827?fromEchoId=7537829 edited by th8827 on 1/11/2016 you need to add a return space between your echo link and the bullet point separator (or remove it and any [ li] entirely in source mode) as it's adding the "li" to the end of the url and not working: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827?fromEchoId=7537829<li> edited by the truthseeker on 1/11/2016 I did not put it there. The forum did not play well with my post when I edited it... In other news... I failed 10 out of 14 checks with an 89% success rate... At this rate, I'll never finish all the empress Court works, and get to move on to the Foreign Office. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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The Master Posts: 804 2/12/2017	OctaviaCrowe wrote: Wasted six tales of terror in a row pursuing the Fidgeting Writer. SIX! Madness. Madness. Frankly, every loss is painful, simply because time is precious and it will take SO much to grind Helfarer beyond my current competitor. laughs cries -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath. No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these. He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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The Master Posts: 804 6/22/2016	4 trade secrets and a masterful short story to annoy me till the end of the time, sigh. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath. No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these. He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 10/31/2015	Not really a major failure, but a string of bad luck with the scrap men has lost me all my certifiable scrap. Six or seven failures in a row re-certifying (I only had 100 pieces or so). -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 1/3/2016	I've said it before and I'll say it again, FBG really needs to clarify that point. A Classic Short Story is only good for bragging rights, but I've seen a few here and there. I plan on doing one myself, after I pick up a few more Trade Secrets. I would be... unhappy to put up all the time and resources and fail the Potential check. -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 11/22/2015	Hands Dungerson a match. -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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Sestina Valdis Posts: 210 11/29/2015	Charlotte_de_Witte wrote: The moment you realise you went all the way to the Tomb of the Seven without your Watchfull gear on. If I'm not wrong, you can switch gear even while on an expedition. I think. -- Sestina Valdis, the Saccharine Satirist. Appearance and Misc. Accoutrements A Past Scattered Across Discarded Stockings Fei Xue, the Artful Assassin. Self Edward de Riere, the Barebones Baron. Avatar by Daniel Ilinca.
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Mr Sables Posts: 597 6/15/2017	"Oh, Winking Isle isn't too bad. I don't know why people complain as they do. It's a fun and quirky mechanic; I'll probably be done in a few days and have made substantial progress. This'll be easy." Haha! Hahaha! Hahahaha! Haha . . . ha . . . haaaa insert uncontrollable sobbing
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NotaWalrus Posts: 221 10/5/2015	Failed 5 straightforward challenges in 7 actions, now on a boat. -- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/NotaWalrus Ignacious, the Fluid Professor, he will accept most social invitations, including boxed cats and affluent photographers (but only betrayals), though he is absent-minded and might take more time than entirely necessary. He apologizes.
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Arensen Posts: 69 1/7/2016	My current most disappointing failure was when I failed 'Examine it through your Semiotic Monocle' on the Bucket of So-Called Snow at 70%. Three times. Now I have one last desperate grind for Storm-Threnodies to obtain another bucket of Snow, and then pray that I can succeed the check before I use the last Mr. Sacks card (if that will even still work) to get to the requisite ToL: 9. Otherwise this will not be a very merry Christmas for Arensen. -- Mysteries are fire. Truth burns. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Arensen
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 5/30/2017	I just wanted a package, but I mis-clicked and now I lost all my notability
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 1/2/2019	I lost all my notability on a misclick AGAIN. I freaking HATE this crap. I put all this frigging work into something only to lose it because when you draw a card several times every day you're bound to make a mistake one time and then it's all gone and you're SOL. God I'm so freaking angry right now I could put my fist through my screen.
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Isaac Zienfried Posts: 364 7/8/2017	I just failed a Modest (63%) challenge to convert Criminals favors to Renown... seven times in a row. Blew like three second chances attempting it, even. -- Isaac Zienfried, 'The Vacillating Belligerent.' A gentleman of complicated loyalties, complicated morality, and complicated goals. But really, it's hard to keep things simple down here!
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Gonen Posts: 817 10/27/2017	Not my MOST painful, of course, but it stings... This Hallowmas, when grinding to that 8 Notability, I planned to arrive to my TTH just after cashing my MW to N7. So everything is according to plan, and an hour an a half before TTH I get to that desired amount of MW. My TTH is around 03:00 AM so I planned to get that N7 and go to sleep. I called the Amanuenses card, but my actions were depleted. With the card in hand, just needed to wait several minutes for that lone action to redeem that N7. Woke up this morning to the Amanuenses' card, staring at me and waiting for me to click on that conversion command... edited by Gonen on 10/27/2017 -- The Ashen Anesthesiologist - Paramount Londoner Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness. The long journey to eccentricity: On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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Gonen Posts: 817 12/20/2015	NiteBrite wrote: I went to send a letter from my lodgings, but misclicked and accidentally resigned from my profession as a Monster Hunter. Luckily I just so happened to have the Unsigned Letter card in my hand. I suppose you can call me "Doctor" Brite now. One moment I was misclicking, the next moment I found myself with 7 years of medical education. Time is a strange thing in the Neath -- The Ashen Anesthesiologist - Paramount Londoner Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness. The long journey to eccentricity: On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 10/19/2015	Valiant wrote: He showed quiet a lot feelings in the beginning of the story, when the Cave of the Nadir wasn't even introduced. And if you decide to pay fate for his upgrade on Christmas, he'll be a bit more overt. After all, he is a very reserved gentleman, so this demeanour is only to be expected Haha, true, I still have the beetle he gave me It's just that, after getting ignored on the expedition, ditched in the cave (after asking the guy to stay with him), spending his time in the cave worried about the guy, and finally saving him from being murdered, my character gets ignored AGAIN in favor of the ex until she leaves, and then he finally gets one sentence that essentially amounts to "Oh, you're still here? That's good, I guess." I half-expected him to add "I need a place to stay and/or some money to get back on my feet." :P That said, my lovesick chump of a character did give him a place to stay, but for now, he can sleep on the couch :P
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Dungerson Posts: 44 8/16/2016	On further reflection, it's not really that disastrously unfortunate, but I just spent 20+ actions after getting Strange Catch 8 to find the Hooded Lady, only to see my Wounds maxing out, my corpse booted out of Mutton Island, and my Dangerous and Shadowy reduced, and I have to share. Naturally my Strange Catch is reset too. If I can find the RNGod and spit in its eye I totally would. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Dungerson
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Lisbella Peridot Posts: 138 10/25/2015	Took me a week to get to prison though the Brass Embassy. I fail and succeed in all the places I don't want to... -- Anatasia Swansong - fencing prodigy, extraordinary beauty, and very stubborn Welcoming friends of all sorts! All independent now. Kelly Siniature - grinning, deranged, elegant child of indistinct gender Kelly is taking a long break on isolation. I also play Town of Salem and a few other games - still Lisbella Peridot! I finally regained stable internet access, so I should be around more often...
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 12/17/2016	I've lost track of all the times I've become a turncoat. Grinding the Affair of the Box on autopilot tends to do that :P
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Juno Posts: 63 11/4/2015	Grenem wrote: I tried to rename my orphanage, somehow managed to rename my gang of hoodlums. they're now called grenem's home for wanderin and wayward children. this isn't going to do good things for my notoirity in the underworld, nor my orphanage's reputation. I'm sorry, but... that is hilarious! And its not such a bad name for a gang, either... My failure was nothing as prosaic as that, a simple sleepy click destroying all of my painstakingly gathered Great Game reputation. I did briefly indulge in a fit of temper, however. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Etheridge An author by trade, available for talks both public and private.
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Esurnir Posts: 10 3/2/2016	Out of two bottle of tears of the bazaar I got 5 lacre out of it. For information the minimum is 4.
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Hobnail Posts: 179 9/20/2016	I played a certain branch without precisely the right amount of Proscribed Material. Not nearly the right amount. Oh pain... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hobnail
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 11/10/2017	http://community.failbettergames.com/messages.aspx?TopicID=25288&Page=31&MessageID=210703#post210703 I think I'd almost be proud of this mistake, if not for how painful it was. It's happenstance like this that makes me regret not passing the Gate up NORTH. -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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Valiant Posts: 127 10/19/2015	Kukapetal wrote: Yeah, I know, I just wanted my character and him to have an intimate encounter, given how important hooking up with him was to said character. Not sure if it'll help you, but from what I gathered, being huge Revolutionary fan myself, you get intimate encounter wih him only if you sided with Missionary in the beginning and want to change sides in process. You can PM me for results of both actions if you want. -- Sir Valiant Carrington, a heartless hedonist and honorary governor of Port Carnelian. You can ask him for a sip of Cider (here's how by an_ocelot) if you catch him in London. Farshin Jarrah, merry trickster and incorrigible optimist. Serine, gone down the well but not forgotten. Avatar artwork by lovely Farseer Drijya
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RandomWalker Posts: 948 5/31/2015	You have my sympathy, BlakeTheDrake. Don't worry though - TotT doesn't reset, just drops a bit, so the extra will carry over for the next time you need one. One question though - if you're after Favors in High Places, why not just upward convert? edited by RandomWalker on 5/31/2015
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Sackville Posts: 295 3/3/2015	Forgot I needed overcapped watchful to grind my last point of SotC, so I ended up spending my mood to get up to 299 watchful. Then I forgot to buy Favorable Circumstances with my notability before cashing the rest of it in, and now I need to wait for the Amanuensis which is just embarrassing.
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A B Nile Posts: 414 1/15/2015	Nagato-01 wrote: I need to draw the Great Game's connection card, so that I can sell them the location of the Nadir, so that I can obtain the location of an exiled prince of Hell, so that I can purchase my final 5 card lodging. I don't really need the Sanctum, but for completion's sake, I want it. I've been thinning out my deck, and I got the card last week. But I reflexively discarded it. It's been a week of nearly continuous drawing, and I've yet to redraw it. Not sure what your Taste of Lacre situation is, but you have a couple of weeks to acquire the Sanctum without requiring the Location of a One-Time Prince. Get yourself down to Penstock's Wicket with Notability 3, Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 8 and Your Very Own Infernal Contract (i.e. having sold your soul) and it's yours! Ultimately you may need to repost this in the Good Fortune thread, as (hopefully) it'll save you a lot of cash! -- My profile: A B Nile My alt: Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate (seeking Acquaintances and accepting all social actions) Item conversion table - finally complete with all rare successes! Bloody, bold and resolute
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circe Posts: 435 11/12/2013	That is a different Orphanage. The one you investigate when you are following the Light Fingers Ambition. And the seduction of that artist means that he comes back to haunt you - frequently. -- Lady Circe in Fallen London - http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lady~Circe Adding no Suppers without prior arrangement, with only 5 Free Evenings a week and being a Patron I can't accept them all. No Affluent Photographer, Sharing Research with Another Scholar or Boxed Cats accepted. I will send Boxed Cats though. All other social actions welcome. Will help menaces, please be reasonable.
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OPG Posts: 387 4/13/2013	In my attempt to become a professional writer, I made the wise decision to promote my work as greater than it was, hoping the public would regard it as merely "exceptional", and then I could get a job. Unfortunately though, I failed by succeeding in the potential check, rendering all my work largely moot in terms of getting me a better job, and meaning I'd have to start all over again. -- overpoweredginger, an irresistible, magnificent, midnight and sagacious gentleman. A Fallen London Roleplay Community exists. Contrary to popular belief, Richard Nixon is not involved.
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mrbasselope Posts: 1 4/16/2013	I've opened well over two dozen nearly-unwrapped Pass the Cat packages, and received naught but bloody scratches and humiliation for my trouble. The Name is so close I can taste it...just one more box.
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MrUnderhill89 Posts: 123 8/7/2015	The past few weeks have not been kind to me. First I forgot to equip my Watchful mood before converting Incunabulum into Enigmas, resulting in 2 double-failures at 80% odds (equipping the mood would have only taken it up to 87%, but still...) Then there was the business in this thread, wherein I forgot that it takes seven Notability to get M_____'s B____ instead of five, so I burned my Favorable Circumstances on an Airag at the last minute. -- MrUnderhill89 - The Master Under the Hill MrUnderhill77 - Doomed Northwards I'll be happy to accept most social invites, but please no Affluent Photographer requests.
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Gillsing Posts: 1203 2/16/2014	Cordial wrote: Please, delicious friends, is there some way to spurn them both? If I have a threesome with them, can I tell them they besmirch even a Traitor's throne, and they should share the trophy for worst NPCs I have been forced to seduce? Once you become a PoSI you get a gold card where the Celebrated Artist's Model becomes available for you to woo. Take the first step towards that, and she'll be quarantined to the Bazaar Side Streets. Do the same with the Master Jewel Thief who also turns up. The artist card remains though, but surely it was only your curiosity that forced you to seduce him? (I consider him to be the 'old lover' who's supplying me with Collections of Curiosities through The Treasures of War. Mostly because I actually would like to send assassins after him. Don't want to lose access to Collections of Curiosities though!) As for the 4-5 card lodgings, they are useful for keeping options open and when going into the Cave of Nadir.They're also useful during pickpocket promenades and heists, but I guess those activities aren't particularly useful in themselves, so perhaps no one cares about them. Menace areas and zee-faring perhaps? Just about any place with its own deck ought to benefit from having 4-5 cards instead of just 3. As for painful failures, right before the feast I began to feel that this game was more of a chore than being fun. And isn't that the worst failure one could experience? I seem to have bounced back for now, so good for me. I mean, I haven't even hit the content barriers yet. I shouldn't be bored yet.
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Gillsing Posts: 1203 9/28/2018	Just as I clicked on "A buccaneering approach" I noticed that when I last left the expedition storylet to save 8 Actions in case of an opportunity to 'Use my goat's... unique talents', I had "A sign?" waiting for me. 4 free expedition supplies thus wasted. It never ends. All the little failures that occur all the time. It really hurts! D:
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Kharsirr Lynx Posts: 318 1/2/2017	I am on my way to the Cider through Heists. 9000+ echo lost due to the Court, 'cause sleepiness and mischecked Cat-Like Thread. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Kharsirr%20Lynx
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Kharsirr Lynx Posts: 318 5/23/2016	While going through string of Heists to obtain Cider (eventualy I'll be here, quarter of the way is already through) I eventually met that Suspicion 8 once again, and some really bleak consequences of newly high Criminal Record. Let's just say it set me back for 1.6 month of farming... -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Kharsirr%20Lynx
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Rackenhammer Posts: 354 11/26/2015	14 Notability... lost on one mis-click... Oddly enough, I wouldn't have minded so much if it was 15, but this feels... incomplete. -- "DO NOT TRUST HAPPY ENDINGS. DO NOT FEAR SAD ENDINGS... NEITHER ARE ENDINGS." ~ Mathieu Psmith: The Bard of Lost Children, loving husband, and a fixture of the artistic set. Can never resist making a show of things... Irene Psmith: Adopted Daughter of Mathieu. Specializes in Information, Acquisitions, and the Acquisition of Information. Vaughan Montblanc: Once a frontiersman of Western Canada, he now practices medicine in London. His discretion may be absolutely trusted.
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Golden Caramel Freedom Fries Posts: 24 12/31/2015	On the last day for Flint - now valued at a whopping 120 FATE - I signed up for Exceptional membership, chose how to greet the bishop, showed up at the House of Chimes, and then (inexplicably) failed to secure access to the story for later. (What do you mean I had to click through that Storylet before the 31st...?) ETA To be clear, I would have been able to play Flint at the time that I had one of my characters become an Exceptional Friend. It was the next day when I noticed, oops, I'd missed out. edited by Golden Caramel Freedom Fries on 12/31/2015 -- Golden \| Caramel \| Freedom Fries
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Shania Wolf Posts: 1 8/2/2014	As for me, I became aware of my biggest mistake quite recently actually. It was in February, I did that Clathermont storylet that gave you the opportunity to get a tattoo... But I couldn't decide which one I wanted, and I thought since I had completed the "quest" that card would stay around... Indeed, at the same time I finally got my boat, and I was so excited to sail that I visited every land I had access to, completely forgetting about the Tattoo's Parlour. Of course, when I came back, it was gone, but I didn't notice it first. Then I got this sudden realisation a couple of months later... and I felt really, really stupid...
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Kyria Posts: 22 3/2/2017	I've been building up casing at times when I don't really feel like playing and just want to quickly spend all my actions. Mostly I want the casing to turn into constables and hell reputation for when they're converted to renown. I recently went to Mutton Island to grind stormy-eyed to get the urchin 40 item. When I returned and did some more casing I realized I had forgotten that casing gets reset when going zailing and my 40+ casing was gone. -- Kyria
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ClearFavourite Posts: 50 11/22/2014	I lost two Very Infrequent cards today; failed to become a Correspondent even with a second chance, and then spent a bunch of actions to get 5000 bottles of the '79, and when I clicked on the Presumptuous Little Opportunity it just vanished. -- The Boisterous Bounty-Hunter
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Parelle Posts: 1084 1/30/2017	This one isn't painful but funny: I just got 8 Cryptic Clues on 277 Watchful for The Mechanics of Progress. -- Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous. pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog \| Useful Guidance and Explanations
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CaptainNemo Posts: 26 12/28/2015	My most painful failures were this week when after I had bought 3 pails on 'snow' from Urchins through grinding shrieks and excavating in the Forgotten Quarter... I gave one to Mr. Sacks on the first card hoping for an +1...when all I saw was "your taste of lacre is above 5..." I cried. Because earlier this week, I wasted a pail trying to use the Monocle a third time in a row! DOH! What a loss of echoes and hard work...ugh. Back to grinding... -- Meet me where the sunless sea meets the city...http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Villads
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Kirr Posts: 44 2/7/2016	I just retired my mid-late-game zee-captain to an elegant townhouse - entirely through inattention and a misclick. facepalm Oh well, back to chasing Salt's Song, albeit from a rather smaller ship... edited by Kirr on 2/7/2016
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Ink Posts: 7 1/7/2015	Robbing the Bazaar with 19 Casing, only a low chance of failure. Annnnd I failed, the only consolation being that it didn't immediately send me away. Trying to go for a deathless run - ooh, shiny mirror - SPLAT. At least some roleplaying can be mined out of it: "You have escaped countless assassinations on your behalf and caught the masters on a good day yet all it took was failing to read a simple sign." -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Gar
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treichle Posts: 57 1/9/2015	I have failed six times at a 'low risk' setting for writing an Exceptional Short Story to become an Author. Each time taking over twenty actions and other resources. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/treichle
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Cotton Dee Posts: 76 1/25/2015	Hah, I don't quite know to which thread this belongs. I just picked an option that I knew would erase all my Connected:Masters because thats what Mr Lamperouge would do IC. It was previously at Level 5 (almost at level 6!). Siiiiiiiigh. On the bright side, that pesky "Revel Of The Masters" story chain will be out of my opportunity deck for just a little while yet. -- Henry Lamperouge may be found here... http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Henry~Lamperouge Current Grind: 1/42 Presumptious Little Opportunites
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An Individual Posts: 589 9/21/2016	Sir Goomy wrote: Recently, I concluded my quest of painstakingly farming 70 "Lens of Black Glass". I was hoping to turn at least half of them into Coruscating Soul and finally get an Over-goat or two. BUT, luck was as usual against poor ol'Goomy and from the 70 Lenses that took me months to aquire...only 7 turned into what I wanted. I admit it ain't the MOST painful of failures, but it's pretty high in my list right now. Not to mention I still feel kind of bitter/cheated. Wow. I've had some bad luck from the Fidgeting Writer in the past but that's absolutely brutal. -- An Individual's Profile The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away. Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help. Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting. Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint. Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road. Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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An Individual Posts: 589 10/31/2016	Welp, after a week of notability grinding for confessions I've finally made a mistake. Had just hit 5 Notability and 12 Making Waves (enough to upgrade to 6) when my actions ran out. Came back later and forgot that I hadn't upgraded my notability yet and traded my current 5 for a confession. Now I'm stuck at 0 notability waiting for the Amanuensis to show up and rescue me from myself. -- An Individual's Profile The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away. Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help. Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting. Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint. Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road. Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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Yang Yang Posts: 69 7/23/2015	While On a Heist, I accumulated 12 Burgler's progress since I couldn't draw the prize card, and I lost all my Cat-like trend. I also failed the luck check and got hit with 9 suspicion. -- A somewhat eccentric, somewhat intellectual, somewhat larcenous fellow. A leopard in the shadows. Check you pockets, and stay away from the alleys.
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Grenem Posts: 2067 4/11/2016	Baron Leichtsinn wrote: Right in the beginning, one of my first actions: Wore a silly hat, all stats dropped to zero. What fun. Recently I sold my Bat with an attitude, because 12 quid. The future will show how sustainable that was. Hindsight, without you everything would be half as dumb. The second was actually a perfectly reasonable action. some people hoard them, but they're just vendor trash. Now, mine isn't really my failure, but this is very painful even if it's not my fault- they made the urchins vs. docks conflict card give mere material rewards rather than the far superior Favors! What a waste! -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Brad O'Connell Posts: 72 5/5/2015	I won my first moon league golden hunt a on a vastly against my odds attack, then failed to notice I needed to select a particular option to get assassin of assassins. Then I went in for a rematch set up the attack in my favor... and lost. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Teleri Up for all social actions except suspicious loitering and trailing the affluent photographer, unless you go with the a selfishness option, in which case go for it. May space out requests for menace reduction.
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Grenem Posts: 2067 10/15/2016	Failed 4 76% chances, each one costing me 385 appalling secrets! They told seeking was foolishness, but I didn't expect this level of hatred for me from the RNG. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Myrto Posts: 209 1/6/2017	Another sucker who mis-clicked and sold an alt's soul on the repositioned "sell your soul" option on the Brass Embassy lodgings card. Edith had been courting the Intimate of Devils storyline for months, and was planning to sell it to the Quiet Deviless, but one moment of inattention on my phone and there it goes! Oh well, now to get it back. -- Myrto, a mysterious veteran spy who is only on their own side. Married to navchaa! Edith Alpha Doyle, social climber with grand ambitions; Correspondent who would be happy to assist you in whatever way she can. , teenage orphan who came to the Neath to pursue a career in crime; monster-hunter. Currently on the Seeking road.
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Kittenpox Posts: 869 7/1/2015	DeserterKalak wrote: Pretty minor compared to some of these horrific tragedies I've read here, but I came home slightly drunk one night and finished collecting enough Prisoner's Honey to sponsor an expedition to the Unterzee. At Wolfstack, because I was drunk and unfocused, I clicked the "put to Zee" button instead, and locked myself into a lengthy voyage. I was confused as hell when I found myself at zee, I wasn't sure what had happened. I like to think my character was also drunk when it happened, so he staggered down to the docks and came to on his ship, bleary-eyed, face marked with the pile of netting he was using as a pillow, with no memory of how he got there. And then his crew just looked at him expectedly and rather than admit what happened and ask them to turn the ship around, he just started yelling orders and decided to head for Mutton Island at random. I've had that happen before - mis-clicked on my phone and ended up wishing I could put my Zubmarine into reverse. I think it would be really good if there was something like a "Last ashore: _____" quality, where it recorded which place you departed from (apply the effect when you put to Zee, for greater accuracy) - and then have an option to Turn Around and return to that place without spending all of your actions (and then some) trying to get to a destination. (I really like your way of looking at it though. ^_^ ) -- Kittenpox Current [Fabulous Diamond] count: Twenty-Five (of 50). Halfway there! ^_^ Metaphysical Caprice: 11. - Currently: Returned to the Neath, and regaining my footing in this place. :-) NO PLANT BATTLES PLEASE.
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phryne Posts: 1351 8/24/2017	Accidentally landed on the Slow Boat with my SMEN-trashed Watchful. Goddamn is it suddenly hard to get out of there! Giving up on chess for now, just waiting for opp cards to refresh. I even sacrificed my weasels and bats which I've never done before! -- Accounts: Bag a Legend • Light Fingers • Heart's Desire • Nemesis • no ambition Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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Marcus of the Mangrove College Posts: 157 1/21/2015	It took me THREE TRIES to find the first piece of the Screaming Map, because I kept failing the "Pretty Good Odds" luck check 3+ times out of the 5 times I tried it. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Torterrable
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Psyche Labyrinth Posts: 159 1/2/2016	Passionario wrote: Kukapetal wrote: Psyche Labyrinth wrote: Not necessarily a failure, but I made the rash decision to pursue the jewel thief. Now we are married and I've wasted so many echoes on him. I want a divorce, but there are no better (affordable) choices yet, and I like how he makes my rows (in my journal) all nice and even. Hate him though. When I got stuck with the Revolutionary Firebrand as a companion after deciding I hated him, I consoled myself by naming him Fido and deciding my character makes him live in the basement and eat dog food. Perhaps you could pretend you have a similar situation with Mr. Jewel Thief until you are able to give him the boot? It's small consolation, but it's something :P Ahh! Oh my god you are all killing me. -- Neath citizen, zee captain, possible deranged serial killer... Profile Backstory Appearance Always happy to meet new people and help out where I can!
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Marcus of the Mangrove College Posts: 157 2/14/2015	Failed a 92% skill check two out of the four times I tried it. Costed 5 Actions each time. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Torterrable
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navchaa Posts: 561 1/6/2016	Kukapetal: I see your 5 buckets and raise you - I only got my crustacean on the 11th try. AND my TOL was too high to benefit. Sobs and recriminations all round. Kukapetal wrote: Now 5 buckets of lacre and counting...and I bought the 5th bucket from the urchins and it cost me SO much money... is torn between crying and punching herself I need a hug...or maybe some wine :P EDIT: Bucket #6 finally did the trick. Now I AM crying...with joy (and my character is doing naked cartwheels in the town square) :P What do you think I should name it? "Frustration?" :P edited by Kukapetal on 1/3/2016 edited by navchaa on 1/6/2016 -- Paramount Presence (London's Marrow 2, London's Nerves 2, London’s Sinew 3, London’s Blood 3) and mercenary Notary Married to Myrto :: Exchanging Surprise Packages with anyone interested :: Exchanging cat boxes with Kitty Rambunctious http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/navchaa
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BlakeTheDrake Posts: 237 5/31/2015	A small thing, perhaps, in the grand scheme of things, but... I've been hanging on 11 'Talk of the Town' for a downright ANNOYING period of time, waiting for another polite invitation to appear so I could finally get that last bit and turn it in for something useful. And it finally came! Another day, another party, another handful of Confident Smiles spent ensuring success on the cards. Then with 2 'Time Passing...' to go, and a single change-point being all that was missing before I hit the big 12 ToTT, I get the Jovial Contrarian's card. I fail the persuade-check on '...is about to give a Whiskered Admiral a fit' three times in a row, despite decent odds. Watching my dwindling supply of Confident Smiles, I shrug and take a last stab at it without insurance - I'm only missing ONE CP, after all, so even if I fail, I should have no trouble picking it up on the last round. Which is when I find out that failing the check on that particular card gets you kicked out of the party instantly. Do not pass go, do not collect Favors in High Places. -_- Of course, that also means that NEXT time I get an invitation to a party - however long THAT might take - I'll basically be scooping up a single CP of ToTT and otherwise wasting half a dozen actions just getting through to the end. BAH! -- One of these days, I will remember to record interesting things in my journal... http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/BlakeTheDrake
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Barse Posts: 706 9/3/2016	True - it is UTTER HELL if you're not expecting it; I imagine your reaction must have been entertaining. -- The Scorched Sailor, up for most social actions and RP. Not as scary as he looks.
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 1/18/2017	Pumpkinhead wrote: Vincent Asmund wrote: https://gyazo.com/8a33e3189cedaffe10a378ffd2205d49 I WANT TO DIE. THIS IS MY THIRD TIME FAILING. AND I FAILED AT A LOW-RISK PERSUASIVE CHALLENGE, NOT THE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE LUCK CHECK. OH MY GOD. You make me very happy that I gave up on getting the yacht. I am still depressed about it. Chances are I'm not succeeding next time, so it'll take another 2 tries. Why. Just.. Why? -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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marcmagus Posts: 168 7/2/2015	Not as painful as some of the others, but I was clicking away my last few actions before sleep in a bit of a daze, and when I drew "A dusty bookshop" I thought it was my room above a dusty bookshop and quickly clicked the first option on the card. As the exceptional hat looked around waiting for a response, I realized I was going to be in a rare mood with no actions to take advantage of it. I'm pretty sure I had enough stockpiled to use my next mood to drive myself near the brink of insanity studying the Correspondence sufficiently to advance my profession, but instead I squandered the opportunity on nothing. -- marcmagus, a scholar of the Correspondence of some minor note and bold explorer of the new Unterzee.
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 6/5/2017	Seventh time! -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 10/21/2015	I've twice tried my hand at writing a classic short story, and twice I've failed the Potential check, throwing away countless echoes and actions. Bloody hell, RNG, bloody fucking hell. -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 7/15/2017	Yup, they got rid of that "wipe deck on moving" thing a long time ago, so you can't get rid of bad cards.... or good cards, either, no matter where you travel to. -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 1/15/2015	I finally got my Orphanage to 15 and ready for a Prodigy! Of course the Tower of Eyes card immediately decides it is time for a vacation and have me draw all sorts of infrequent cards while failing to draw the FREQUENT one I need. -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 11/22/2015	A shout out to A.B.Nile, who forgot to brag to Huffam. Like, send him something nice if you can, because many confessions, very high spirit. -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 2/9/2016	Robin Mask wrote: I learned a lesson about acting too hastily . . . Got excited about the "Feast", sent a 40-fate gift to someone . . . forgot to check the name properly, so - long story short - seemed to have sent it to an account that's been inactive for five years and also a player that's so new they haven't even left the prison >_< I've learned a lesson about double-checking that the in-game name is the same as the in-forum name, along with triple-checking the name and whether it's the right one . . . Maybe I can role-play the loss of fate/money by saying that my character used an surface bank-account to arrange for their divorce XD They're shady enough that it could work XD curses being too overly excited and wasting money I'd send in a bug report on that, were I you. -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Catherine Raymond Posts: 2518 12/22/2016	I was trying to draw the 9 UP card to get the last point of SMEN in order to go for St. Cerise, and I inadvertently settled for the 8. Now I have Marsh-Mired and will have to wait another week. Grr. -- Cathy Raymond http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355 Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Passionario Posts: 777 4/28/2013	Finvara wrote: What would you say is your most painful failure in recent memory within Fallen London? Tasting red honey during the Festival. A woman tempted me. The last time I consumed the damned thing, I had to take name-seeking as a penance. This time, I'll have to think of something more punishing. -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 6/12/2017	I had a Mood card stored for a whole year while I was zailing, but upon my return I forgot what I had planned to do with it (Correspondence training) and wasted it on something trivial. I then gave up on that plan and blackened my mind like paper. I drew another Mood card almost immediately afterward, but was happy to save it until my Watchfulness was back up to 200... until today when a misclick discarded it. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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wallofillusion Posts: 18 1/7/2014	The first time I tried to rob the Bazaar, I saw that it was a modest challenge and said to myself, "What's the worst that could happen?" "You've gained a new Quality: Nightmares - at 8!" Considering I'm very protective of my dream qualities and this may have been back when getting out of the State of Some Confusion cost all of one's dream quality, I was highly alarmed. But I did have some Honeyed Laudanum on hand, and once I succeeded in robbing the Bazaar I found I liked the failure text quite a lot more! Still. After that experience, I resolved never to ask myself what the worst that can happen in this game is. Also, I don't regret pursuing the SMEN storyline (so many fun things to know! So much self-destruction to be pursued!), but I greatly regret what it does to my character's story. Especially the soul-staining. That has enormously damaged Avis's sense of self-worth. -- Avis Webb: A dreamer and a Seeker. It'll bite off more than it can chew eventually, but until then, be wary. A Masked Dreamer (semi-active tumblr account for my character)
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"Many" Chin Posts: 383 12/27/2016	Ack. I awoke a sleeper agent from that damnable rat candle. Why didn't it steal the Chrysalis Candles? -- "My little China girl/You shouldn't mess with me/I'll ruin everything you are/I'll give you television/I'll give you eyes of blue/I'll give you man who wants to rule the world" - The Goblin King.
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Guest 12/20/2015	Does it count if I accidently sold my plant in one of my characters (damnit, I hope I can get it back some day as I'm not drawing that card again to grow it.)
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 5/26/2013	The worse thing that could have happened: My work blocked fallenlondon.storynexus.com !!! Oh, the humanity! I'll have to find a work around. Or maybe ask for some sort of mobile device for my birthday. I guess that' not an in-game problem. It certainly nothing FBG can do anything about. Unless they want to change the ip address again. edited by Nigel Overstreet on 5/26/2013 -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Emain Ablach Posts: 348 1/2/2019	Kukapetal, for what it's worth and with all my sympathy, your final sentence made me laugh x') -- Went NORTH. Got salted. Never came back. We won't remember him. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Emain%20Ablach
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Rupho Schartenhauer Posts: 787 12/8/2016	It is absolutely incredible how often you can fail an option marked "pretty good odds". (I'm talking about Watching the Well, of course...) -- Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it. Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely. Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated. Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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Nagato-01 Posts: 92 1/15/2015	I need to draw the Great Game's connection card, so that I can sell them the location of the Nadir, so that I can obtain the location of an exiled prince of Hell, so that I can purchase my final 5 card lodging. I don't really need the Sanctum, but for completion's sake, I want it. I've been thinning out my deck, and I got the card last week. But I reflexively discarded it. It's been a week of nearly continuous drawing, and I've yet to redraw it. -- He can always be replaced.
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Guest 10/19/2017	My greatest guilts, the ones are remember the most, are these: When persueing the case of the Mottled Man, I miraculously succeded at the fourth or fifth try on gettingg through to the end! However..... Of those five attempts, three times did I meet the infernal sommelier. Three times did I give him two brilliant souls, poor defenseless twins, for him to do as he will. Six souls did I damn.....just to continue on with the story. My other great regret is when I fed a spoonful of lacre to my chatty rattus fabber, who by the way helped me in finding and ending the terrible snuffer known as the Big Rat. I could visualize how the poor creature shriekied a dying shriek, fell still and then turned to goo, which I ignominiously and ingrately mopped off the floor. My greatest failures are those that can never be righted, and are beyond forgiveness.
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 3/3/2015	[spoiler]I tried to send my friend some fate but accidentally misclicked and instead reset my house of chimes entry selection at the cost of 30 nex (ouch). Worse, I was a Scarlet Saint who had since nuked my church and hell connections. I had to grind both connections back to level 75 each (but luckily I still had my opposed greater-than-cap quirks). But I did it. Man that was a costly mistake. Never doing that again aaaa.[/spoiler] edited by NiteBrite on 3/3/2015 -- I AM currently accepting calling cards. Stats loss counter: reset, irrigo equivalent: none [00:34] <@ortab> NiteBrite's laugh is that of a condemned soul gazing into the abyss. Merciless Modiste avatar by Paul Arendt (based on an original image by Joe England) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/TheBriteModiste
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 12/20/2015	This one was a bit of a mixed bag. I went to send a letter from my lodgings, but misclicked and accidentally resigned from my profession as a Monster Hunter. Totally wasn't planning on changing jobs oops. Luckily I just so happened to have the Unsigned Letter card in my hand. I suppose you can call me "Doctor" Brite now, at least until the Sacksmas season ends. It's bad to lose a high level job like that, but the silver lining is at least [spoiler]Mr Iron will be happy with me this year [/spoiler] -- I AM currently accepting calling cards. Stats loss counter: reset, irrigo equivalent: none [00:34] <@ortab> NiteBrite's laugh is that of a condemned soul gazing into the abyss. Merciless Modiste avatar by Paul Arendt (based on an original image by Joe England) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/TheBriteModiste
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Catcliffe Posts: 55 4/11/2015	Accepted a Polite Invitation on the spur of the moment. Had both A Dusty Bookshop and A Little Omen in my hand -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Catcliffe Yet to decline a social invite. Probably will continue with this, as long as you don't send me 5 dupes in a row or something.
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Finvara Posts: 430 4/21/2013	98% chance of success. Failed twice in a row, for a total of six failures since yesterday morning when it was a 97% chance. I know I haven't done this 100 times. I'd be done by now. EDIT: And now twice in five tries with a 99% chance of success. RNGs are made of hate. edited by Finvara on 4/24/2013 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor~Varald
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Tom Davidson Posts: 107 1/2/2019	Embarassing: I forgot that one of the Mr. Sacks options cost Persuasive, and I now have Persuasive 214. Since I've already got Paramount Presence, that's not a huge loss -- but at some stage, I'm going to have to grind back up to Notability 15 just to get that last point (for pride, if nothing else). I suppose I can blow some of my saved-up salon Scheme when it's time. But I should probably visit the Cave of the Nadir a bunch before that. laugh -- http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Black%20Tom
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 4/8/2015	I've been trying to get that damn plant in my lodgings out of my opportunity deck and accidentally sold it for the SECOND time. -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Spacemarine9 Posts: 2234 2/10/2014	NiteBrite wrote: I very briefly and accidentally deleted my entire account last night, haha. Thankfully Failbetter has put in a good amount of effort to make it very difficult to lose one's account forever and it was restored in short order good as new. [spoiler](or better than new actually, since I no longer suffer the ill effects of the sun)[/spoiler] You really do keep coming up with new and exciting ways to put yourself through hell for no good reason, Christ. Next up: Nitebrite manages to crash the entire game forever somehow. Copious drinking of Bottled Oblivion likely involved. -- my rats will blot out the sun Ratgames FL lore/mechanics questions and answers #FallenLondon IRC (irc.synirc.net) Channel! Click to join via Mibbit. #SunlessSea IRC channel! Like the above, but zee-ier.
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Loon Posts: 379 11/1/2015	Yeah, playing with the scrap men is rarely profitable in the long run, you should stick to more reliable sources of scraps. -- My main character Krawald can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Krawald and welcomes all social actions bar photographers. My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers. My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Guy Scrum Posts: 197 9/22/2016	Sir Goomy wrote: Recently, I concluded my quest of painstakingly farming 70 "Lens of Black Glass". I was hoping to turn at least half of them into Coruscating Soul and finally get an Over-goat or two. BUT, luck was as usual against poor ol'Goomy and from the 70 Lenses that took me months to aquire...only 7 turned into what I wanted. I admit it ain't the MOST painful of failures, but it's pretty high in my list right now. Not to mention I still feel kind of bitter/cheated. If your numbers are right, then the odds of getting a result this bad are 1 in one trillion (1e12). The random number generator is surely broken. My best guess is that the random seed isn't being set properly somewhere, which means results are more likely to be repeated, both lucky and unlucky. You might have better success if you switch storylets whenever you run into more than one failure in a row. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Guy%20Scrum Interactive fidgeting writer simulation
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Loon Posts: 379 5/5/2014	Arbar wrote: Snowskeeper wrote: Arbar, if you haven't changed it since then, you can find out who you sold it to by checking who you're Closest To. Thank you! And bother, I seem to be closest to the Great Game...guess they profited from my slip-up. That sounds a lot like them, indeed. -- My main character Krawald can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Krawald and welcomes all social actions bar photographers. My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers. My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Trodgmey Posts: 164 5/5/2014	Dear RNG, Plated Seals are hard to come by. As I am trying to collect all text and rewards associated with them, when you tell me "pretty good odds," it would be really nice to not fail on four straight tests. Love, Trodgmey -- Trodgmey -- an otherwise pleasant chap with a peculiar obsession with the first four cities. http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Trodgmey
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 7/20/2018	I just made it more painful for myself, gotten to Notability 15, used the Unsigned message card "Oh I still need to go to the Nadir!" I went to the Nadir, before doing London's Blood... Guess I'll grind -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Arcengal Posts: 196 11/26/2018	I missed out on any benefits from "A Rainbow of offerings", having saved it for a rainy day, because I didn't realise it would disappear once I specialised. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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Arcengal Posts: 196 4/3/2019	Lost 3 flips in a row. RIP ~50 scraps. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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Arcengal Posts: 196 6/14/2019	Started an expedition with 98% chance to succeed on 3 steps a time and enough supplies for two fails. Failed twice and my rival progressed with every step, so I lost the expedition. Rip 65 echoes and my entire action stock. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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Professor Wensleydale of Hardwick Posts: 208 2/5/2019	Lost my soul... -- Sir Wensleydale of Hardwick- Monochromatic Myrmidon, Newspaper Editor, Legendary Charisma. Mr Netae- SEEKING MR EATEN'S NAME Aaron Wimbleton- Private Detective. Some Medical Experience.
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Maxie Stark Posts: 20 2/16/2019	Failing on a 97% success. I can't remember the exact storylet but that made me go OUCH lol -- Profile link: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/SassmasterMaxie Accepting most social actions!
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MrBreaksIt Posts: 20 7/23/2019	Well, I just let the Last Constable die and I'm rather sure that counts. -- Eliza O'Claire, a Disguised Debutante. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Eliza%20O'Claire
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Arcengal Posts: 196 10/8/2018	From first starting FL to getting my first ever Game of Chess opportunity card was about 6 months. I was excited to finally start going through the story arc. Then I accidentally traded it all in in the Cave of the Nadir. Hopefully draw the starting card before 2019... -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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Arcengal Posts: 196 2/4/2019	Today I learned that when you use Favourable Circumstances to force a specific opportunity draw, it pushes the rightmost card out of your hand. That stings when the rightmost card was a Mood. Edit: Wait, the mood came back after I went back and played through the card. Huh. Weird. edited by Arcengal on 2/4/2019 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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easter Posts: 30 6/27/2018	Fallen Puppeteer wrote: For me, it would by dying from wounds gained by preparing for the Black Ribbon. Not even fighting, but PREPARING. I've done that INTENTIONALLY a couple times. Figured getting wounds down from 7 to somewhere that would let me fight the high ranked people was gonna be faster and cheaper on the boat than anywhere else. Plus you can get lucky and get a free win with courier of the dead. Mine was probably failing the Last Constable/Cheery man roll on both my main and my alt. Or getting an eyeless skull on my first try and then realizing I only had 3 crates of supplies left and having to sell it because it was clogging up 2 of my 3 draw slots. I have not managed to get another of those buggers since.
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Kowth Posts: 64 4/25/2018	I keep losing 7N to the favorable circumstances card. Like twice a month. Drives me nuts.
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 6/21/2018	In the cave of the Nadir I thought I had to play all the cards in my hands until I was forced out... I lost a lot of progress on getting my stats to 200 -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Doomlewa Posts: 60 5/18/2013	Nigel, you appeared in my list, so as you asked I've sent you a way back in. I hope this helps alleviate your misfortune. edited by Doomlewa on 5/18/2013 -- The same on twitter https://twitter.com/Doomlewa http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Matt~Goerwell My Mantelpiece
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friendshipranger Posts: 274 4/6/2013	Did I mention periodically losing acquaintances because my finger slips on the phone? Add that to the list behind not using lacre on one of my pets. Stupid, cheapskate move. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/J.L.%20Moriarty
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lady ciel Posts: 2548 11/22/2015	I mis-clicked with one of my alts today and lost my acquaintance with the Forger. So they took their first visit to New Newgate since the Criminal Record was introduced ... to make things worse this is the only character I had taken to the end of a certain Fate-locked story so had to pay fate to regain his acquaintance. -- ciel Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things. No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible. storynexus name - reveurciel
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lady ciel Posts: 2548 12/2/2013	Obviously I thought about changing professions, but I am happy to be a Glassman though I dread to think what the challenge is going to be when the next tier is introduced. -- ciel Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things. No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible. storynexus name - reveurciel
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lady ciel Posts: 2548 3/18/2015	Another zailing one - forgetting to have enough MW to protect my Notability, oversleeping so I didn't get back to London before Time came calling and then having masquing turned into enough MW to protect me for two weeks ... after I lost a level. -- ciel Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things. No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible. storynexus name - reveurciel
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Loon Posts: 379 2/23/2015	My alt spent quite a few thousand rostygolds getting himself well-liked in the underworld, with the goal of acquiring a gang of hoodlums. Then I accidentally clicked the wrong option and gave up. At least he's a rat-catcher, so getting enough rostygold again was just a matter of waiting a few weeks and concentrating on one of the many other grinds that await a new PoSI in the meantime. -- My main character Krawald can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Krawald and welcomes all social actions bar photographers. My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers. My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Catcliffe Posts: 55 7/16/2015	Not a failure exactly, but why is it that I used to get useless Relicker cards all the time while I was building up scraps and now that I have more than 680 they've suddenly disappeared without a trace? It's like they know how keen I am to get my final item from that tier.. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Catcliffe Yet to decline a social invite. Probably will continue with this, as long as you don't send me 5 dupes in a row or something.
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Playersideblog Posts: 397 5/29/2013	Nigel Overstreet wrote: The worse thing that could have happened: My work blocked fallenlondon.storynexus.com !!! My goodness. How much time have you been logging? -- My profile I am now a Correspondent, and no longer able to accept invitations as an Author. (Or so I believe.)
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Spacemarine9 Posts: 2234 2/5/2014	My recommended method for raising Maganimous is sending rats (obviously). It's only 1cp per send, but it is uncapped at least up to 21. -- my rats will blot out the sun Ratgames FL lore/mechanics questions and answers #FallenLondon IRC (irc.synirc.net) Channel! Click to join via Mibbit. #SunlessSea IRC channel! Like the above, but zee-ier.
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 1/12/2014	It's not a bug, it's just a consequence of how progress qualities work. Try lowering your Persuasive to see if the Melancholy Curate options show up again, or failing that just raise Investigating back up to 18 using the Stones again. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 4/7/2015	Does it count if it's a hardware failure? My computer decided to die on me. D: On a brighter side, at least now I should be able to play Sunless Sea. I didn't think my 7 year old desktop would be able to handle it. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 3/14/2015	Gloria's been stuck in the Tomb-Colonies all night looking for a Tomb-Lion. Still haven't found one. Edit: Yay, it's turned up! edited by Sara Hysaro on 3/14/2015 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 11/15/2014	Right now I'm going into Flute Street repeatedly to collect Rubbery Hounds for the Bishop, and attempting to get every result recorded (success and fail). It's been 5 days, and so far I've yet to fail the Fungus and Pious Wrath combo. Darn it game, let me lose! -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 10/18/2015	Having an intimate encounter with him during the expedition doesn't really change anything in a mechanical sense. In the end you'll still get the same "I'm glad you're still here" text, and get the same companion. You can still pursue things further during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose for 80 Masquing. Edit: By pursuing further he'll become a +9 Persuasive +6 Shadowy + 1 Dreaded Companion. He is not an available spouse yet. -- edited by Sara Hysaro on 10/18/2015 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 8/11/2016	Ah, alright. I figured you meant that, but wanted to be absolutely certain just in case. Again, I wish you RNG luck. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 12/16/2015	ViridianDreams wrote: an_ocelot wrote: For the SECOND time, I have mis-tapped on my little tablet and started the Affair of the Box over for Fate. Grrr. I've mis-tapped and spent fate for 10 new opportunty cards... twice now. Touch Pads seem to hate me. A recent-ish Android update moved "Cancel" and "Ok" to be right next to each other instead of at opposite ends of the dialogue box and ever since then I've been super-paranoid of the same thing happening to me. Sympathies! -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 6/26/2016	Geez, the worst I did was fail the challenge to get to 20 six times. Condolences. -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Spacemarine9 Posts: 2234 4/5/2013	A celebrated short story is worth 130 echoes -- my rats will blot out the sun Ratgames FL lore/mechanics questions and answers #FallenLondon IRC (irc.synirc.net) Channel! Click to join via Mibbit. #SunlessSea IRC channel! Like the above, but zee-ier.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 11/13/2013	GAAAHHH I just misclicked and LOST SEEKING MR EATEN'S NAME. Granted I only had two candles, but still, those were two hard-(bleeping)-won candles, and there looked like a possibility of a line on a fourth with the Feast of Masks, and even if I can get SMEN back (I don't seem to be "Free of the Name"), doing all that over again . . . ! GAAAAHHHHH. -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 5/31/2013	Heh. Scandal holds no terror for me! That's a neat thought but I don't think it's necessary, this is the only thing I'm regularly clicking near that costs Fate without a confirmation screen (though, FBG, it would be really great if all Fate expenditures required one!). If I mess up again I may shut the barn door that way, though. -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Tom Davidson Posts: 107 8/19/2019	I just got rid of my plant again. wry laugh -- http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Black%20Tom
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Chuck Posts: 41 1/8/2014	I was happily running through my usual task of clearing my hand of all cards, when I popped into my rooms at the Brass Embassy to ask about the soulless, only to forget about the current offers and accidentally selling my own soul for the price of a bucket of snow. D__n misclicks. Oh well. At least it will give me something to do. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Charles~Liao
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Finvara Posts: 430 6/28/2013	Woohoo! I successfully got all four eyeless skull opportunity cards in my hand! Wait...this isn't the celebration thread...where am I? Nooo! -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor~Varald
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Finvara Posts: 430 5/18/2013	It all depends on how deep into the search you were when you accidentally abandoned it. If you were deep enough, you won't truly be free of the name, and won't have the quality. If it said you got "Free of the Name" though, you're stuck. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor~Varald
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Tom Davidson Posts: 107 2/16/2015	I have now mis-clicked three separate times on various Opportunity cards, causing myself to repeatedly disassociate myself from a group to which I was previously "Closest." sigh Interestingly, I was "Closest" to two of those groups only because I mis-clicked on earlier Opportunities from the same card. I'm currently "Closest" to the Church for the exact same reason, even though the Church actually makes my skin crawl. -- http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Black%20Tom
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dov Posts: 2580 7/12/2015	Cryptix23 wrote: I've been grinding up Elder items for an Antique Mystery and accidentally converted 50 Mysteries of the Elder Continent into Incendiary Gossip instead of the Presbyterate Passphrases I need. I've only been playing a couple weeks, though, so if that's my worst slip-up... That's not too bad, since side-converting 3rd tier items works in a loop. You can continue to side convert the 50 x Incendiary Gossip into 51 x Memory of Distant Shore, then convert 50 of those into 51 x Brilliant Souls, etc. until you end up again with 51 x Mysteries of the Elder Continent. Should take you 12 actions. See table here. -- Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how. (Most social actions are welcome. Please no requests to Loiter Suspiciously and no investigations of the Affluent Photographer)
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dov Posts: 2580 1/6/2016	I've misclicked on the Call in Favours in the Flit card and by mistake traded with the Revolutionaries instead of with the Urchins. And I was trying so hard to never ever help advance the Liberation of Night... -- Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how. (Most social actions are welcome. Please no requests to Loiter Suspiciously and no investigations of the Affluent Photographer)
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dov Posts: 2580 11/28/2017	Actually, there have been a few very recent reports on the wiki that the rare success cost exactly as many AFP as the regular success. Might be the RNG, of course, but maybe this was a bug which got fixed. I wonder if we'll get confirmation of anyone still getting the AFP increase. ---- edited by dov on 11/28/2017 -- Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how. (Most social actions are welcome. Please no requests to Loiter Suspiciously and no investigations of the Affluent Photographer)
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dov Posts: 2580 1/30/2018	Lallinka wrote: Oh, I didn't know there was a soul-getting opportunity while zailing! The only other source I know (besides Fate) is the One's Public card. If you engage in piracy when passing a ship in trouble you get a bundle with a value up to 300. It's not as good as the 1:200 chances of One's Public, but at zee your deck is much smaller than in London, so you're more likely to draw the card you need. -- Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how. (Most social actions are welcome. Please no requests to Loiter Suspiciously and no investigations of the Affluent Photographer)
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Flipz Posts: 177 5/29/2013	My biggest failure was taking a three-week break from FL during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose. It seems I could have gained quite a lot of FL lore, especially if I had just completed a few more storylines before the Festival had ended... edited by Flipz on 5/29/2013 -- Profile Link Happy to accept all Second Chance, Menace reduction, and Affluent Photographer requests. No boxed cats or SMEN, please. 0/50 Bazaar Permit (New counters coming soon!)
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Ewan C. Posts: 675 2/6/2014	Thought I had Time under control... went to bed last night w/ 36.18 Making Waves, needing to get to 37 but also needing slep. Checked four hours later on making.. NOOOooooo "Making Waves is now 18." Bleagh :-/
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Ewan C. Posts: 675 6/23/2015	On the latest Heart's Desire expedition. At 49 progress. And Virginia swoops by. Argh! That's a LOT of supplies lost
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Ewan C. Posts: 675 9/6/2014	Argh. Either Time came early or I didn't quite keep track - but I think the former, by one day - and I just went down from 15 to 14 Notability. That's a really, really painful point to get back now .
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Ewan C. Posts: 675 9/16/2014	Nope - 15 is cap right now (otherwise I'd have been hosting the Princess more often!).
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Cookoo Posts: 59 5/28/2013	This happened in my earlier days, but while studying the correspondence stones, I ended up losing it in a game of chess with a deviless. I reckoned I only had a low risk of failure, but managed to fail anyway. Unlike many failures, it wasn't one I could easily rectify, or one I could simply try again, till an unexpected opportunity later involving using what was a lot of Muscaria Brandy, particularly for someone who had only just started making a name for himself, turned up. Typically, it then turned out that I really had no more use for the stones, meaning I wasted a lot of energy trying to retrieve them. It would probably have been more useful to just sell it to her. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/cookoo A hunter, of sorts.
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circe Posts: 435 5/23/2013	Well I suppose it isn't a killer but I didn't realise that after driving the Repentant Forger away (that painting - I had to know!) with the knowledge that I could strike up a friendship again in New Newgate it ended up costing me Fate. I hadn't heard anywhere about the cost so it was slightly painful to use what I was saving for another option. -- Lady Circe in Fallen London - http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lady~Circe Adding no Suppers without prior arrangement, with only 5 Free Evenings a week and being a Patron I can't accept them all. No Affluent Photographer, Sharing Research with Another Scholar or Boxed Cats accepted. I will send Boxed Cats though. All other social actions welcome. Will help menaces, please be reasonable.
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Waylander Posts: 56 2/16/2015	i lost my closest great game as well, but when i got it back i received the location of an individual i had not had before -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Wilson~Vetenari
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Hammond Posts: 41 12/28/2013	I was once a Seeker, I have experienced a lot of exciting and interesting failures. But there are two words that will haunt me: "Too Slow". Two words compound my greatest failure. "Too Slow" -- Hammond All invitations are welcome. {Warning: Messages sent within the forum might not be answered in a timely manner. Please forgive me, it is a bad habit I am trying to break.}
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xKiv Posts: 846 8/17/2014	Sara Hysaro wrote: Yes, exactly. It was a three branch choice, each leading to a separate ending. On the bright side you do have the ability to restart the storyline if you spend some Fate. Alternatively, you get the ability to waste a bit of fate by mindlessly misclicking. -- https://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/xKiv - a witchful, percussive, dangermous and shadowry scholar of coexplodence, hopsidirean, and walker of fallen kitties.
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 2/10/2014	I very briefly and accidentally deleted my entire account last night, haha. Thankfully Failbetter has put in a good amount of effort to make it very difficult to lose one's account forever and it was restored in short order good as new. [spoiler](or better than new actually, since I no longer suffer the ill effects of the sun)[/spoiler] -- I AM currently accepting calling cards. Stats loss counter: reset, irrigo equivalent: none [00:34] <@ortab> NiteBrite's laugh is that of a condemned soul gazing into the abyss. Merciless Modiste avatar by Paul Arendt (based on an original image by Joe England) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/TheBriteModiste
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Guest 10/18/2015	My most recent one? hmm...I guess knowing what I was supposed to keep banked or use, but still having my rear handed to me again and again at Polythreme Fascinating/Investigating specific conclusion goals.
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Guest 12/10/2015	Lorayna Regina wrote: Mine seems so petty compared to everyone else. I sold my soul (stupid). I got married (can I get a divorce?) And I accidentally used up my fate by hitting the deck after I had no cards left. If you married a NPC yes you can get a (costly) divorce from your Lodgings. Souls are retrievable, but best to keep it away until after you become a PoSI if you can get Notability before the end of the month, as you can cheaply upgrade a nice Brass Embassy 5-card room. (Condition applies on you getting a 4-card room first of course.) Burnt fate accidently? Now that just sucks indeed.
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Guest 12/27/2015	malthaussen wrote: @Nibelethe: Don't feel too bad. He would have just taken your diamond and given you nothing. Check out the Young Turks thread for new players, there is a lot of good stuff in there, and you can make some valuable contacts for social actions. -- Mal Well, not necessarily. Depends on the diamond.
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Guest 12/27/2015	Nigel Overstreet wrote: the truthseeker wrote: And here I thought it was to be rewarded for Mr. Sacks soon....The RNG only seems to be "nice" once a year guaranteed. I'm torn this year between keeping my Notary Profession and taking the Primaeval Hint or dropping the profession for Mr Sacks and taking the +1 Connected: Masters before getting my Profession back. I've got an Unsigned Message locked and loaded. Decisions, decisions. I'm going soulless for the Sanctum this January so all Unsigned Messages of mine became 6 Gifts for the obvious reasons (a long shot, but at least it's an option and good stuff likely to boot.) Is this what they mean "First 'Neath Problems?"
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Guest 1/2/2016	Kukapetal wrote: the truthseeker wrote: Snow, he said possibly BEFORE-hand, the event with the monkey is over! (Grumbling and pouting is heard as she sulkily storms off.) I'm a she :P That's what I said! Ignore that Edited by! LALALALALALALA! (Fixed)
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Guest 1/6/2016	Entering an access code so long ago with _ when it was multiple words thinking when it failed it was not the right one or it expired, not knowing itworkedasonebigwordmushedup. That's all. [spoiler]Nothing here.[/spoiler] edited by the truthseeker on 1/6/2016
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Diptych Administrator Posts: 3493 8/23/2015	Argus Arcorvus wrote: So I've first come here onto the forum due to the incandescent, apoplectic rage at my most common and constant failure - the inability to keep my blossoming insanity under control without scandalising society at large. It begins, as it does in the neath, with everyday transactions that cause it's insidious tendrils to infiltrate my mind. The only relief from this seems to be a cup of hot wine at the good Mrs Plenty's Carnival, yet even the most minor bout of nightmares necessitates a half-dozen cups of wine. I leave the refreshment pavilion less twitchy but with the contemptuous stares of my fellow rabble-rousers for having imbibed too much. I attempt to remedy this by attending regular church services which ironically INCREASES the scandal society at large inflicts upon me. Kind of depressing when all your actions are spent just trying to keep your character in the damn game. This constant failure is, I state, not mine, but a "flawed" mechanic that works well to the benefit of FBG who reap your hard-earned actions for the dullest of dull grinding... Have you tried asking friends for help? Apparently it's a very time-efficient way of reducing Nightmares. (Also, while I disagree with your furious questioning of Failbetter's motives, I can't deny it's well-written. Include that sort of writing in your menace-reduction requests and you'll have no problems.) -- Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron. Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Helen Demeter Posts: 100 1/22/2014	At the moment I've been having a string of bad luck. I keep trying to chat up priests for candles and to boost up my Persuasive so I can become a Legendary Charisma. I'm at 160+ meaning it happens to be straightforward. But as of late I've been getting nothing but devious reporters in disguise who have been slandering my good name! The lies they printed on the papers. Do not believe a word an article says if it involves me, a Sly Cleric and a bucket, friends. -- Helen Demeter, the Bohemian Beauty Has finally returned after an unexpected hiatus. Please mind the dust but do know that I'm now open to all social actions and invitations.
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Rupho Schartenhauer Posts: 787 9/6/2016	Trying to stain my soul for SMEN, but the damn RNG won't let me - just failed ten times in a row! (it's a 50-50 luck challenge) -- Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it. Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely. Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated. Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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Amalgamate Posts: 435 10/19/2017	Ugh, I just realized my timing is terrible. I'm currently grinding Notability for London's Nerves. I'm at notability 13, and am working on getting to 14 this week. Then one week to prepare, and going for 15 the week after. ...yeah, that falls right across Hallowmas. The holiday where you use up your notability. I'm not giving up my 13th/14th points of notability for some companions that aren't so great anyway... -- http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/amalgamate Social invitations of all kinds welcome, especially games of chess and deadly sparring! Also happy to help with nightmares, send sips of Cider, and plant battle.
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theodor_gylden Posts: 117 1/2/2014	My other account had 100 Hedonist, but I misclicked, and it dropped to 99 Hedonist! Sob. (What do you mean that's not a cataclysmic failure. Do you realize how much I enjoy round numbers.) -- Journal: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/echo_theodor Annotations & Epistles: http://theodor-gylden.dreamwidth.org/ Storylet: http://theodor-gylden.dreamwidth.org/11160.html
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 5/18/2013	Spacemarine9 wrote: i thought the restitution + restaurant options deliberately /didn't/ give free of the Name or take your candles just in case you misclicked i mean getting back to SMEN 8 again would take ages + i'm not really sure how the whole marsh mired thing would work but you probably can get back into the Search No, you can get free of the Name whenever you want, as I have demonstrated. I lost 100 Jade, an Aeolian Scream and one of my favorite storylines. Once you're free of the name you get a "Free of the Name" quality which means you can't pick the story up again. If this isn't so, anyone is free to send me an invite from the Marsh-Mired storylet, but I doubt I'll show up on your drop-down. -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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streetfelineblue Posts: 1459 12/2/2013	Blackleaf wrote: MrUnderhill89 wrote: dragonridingsorceress wrote: Not sure if this counts BUT... I'm at the point in the Missionary and Firebrand story where I am asked to pick a side. I was terribly excited to get to this point, having found both of these characters mysterious and enticing. And then I found out what the Liberation of Night ACTUALLY means at Hallowmas. I don't think I want to do that story any more. It depressed me so much I stopped playing for a week. I still have the Firebrand and Missionary squabbling in my parlor, because I don't want to pick one. That was one hell of a role-playing dilemma for me when I was pursuing the Nadir quest at the same time as the Hallowmas vision. The reasoning I came to was this: [spoiler] regardless of who you side with, you cannot silence both the Missionary and the Firebrand. If you don't give the Calendar Council the location of the Nadir, someone else will (in fact, there's nothing stopping February from simply finding it herself like she was while you were looking for it). By selling the information to the Revolutionaries directly, I ingratiated myself to them, such that if there is ever an opportunity to stop the Liberation of Night (and I would imagine there would be with just a bit of Fate), I'd be in the perfect position to do so. [/spoiler] Clever bastard! I gave it to the great game. I figured giving it to Hell whould be just flat out inhuman. Giving it to the revolutinaries whould be out of character. Giving it to the urchins made no sense. But handing it over to the great game was quite IC because it marked my "Return" to the game. Also considering Saint Joshua's shrine contains irrigo id say the great game alredy has a bit of it. More couldnt hurt. I thought about that a LOT since I entered the Cave. I'm already Closest to the Great Game and happy ai it is - my character being basically a professional spy before becoming Midnighter, and I still haven't understood if it meast continuing the Agent's work at a higher level or forfeiting for doing something similar but with little or no tie to the powers involved in the Great Game. And so in the end I decided to sell the secret of the Cave of Nadir to... ...No one yet, actually. Point is that I don't know whether I could need any of the very rare rewards, so I prefer to keep my options open until I'll be sure that I won't regret to choose the location of a former Prince of Hell instead of the other tasty treats. Though I should need and INCREDIBLY good reason to covet the other rewards to accept such an out-of-character choice such as selling the secret to Revolutionaries or Hell. But come thinking of it, the Midnighter's way being so based on the memory-fading qualities of irrigo, am I so sure that I want my potential adversaries in the Great Game to know about it at all? -- Twitter: @streetfelineblu Blue's LiveJournal Blue's Echo Bazaar profile Blue's Night Circus diary Link to Ocelot's Enigma Ambition hint page; PM for clarification. No direct solutions provided.
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streetfelineblue Posts: 1459 12/2/2013	Gillsing wrote: streetfelineblue wrote: ... choose the location of a former Prince of Hell ... Yoda impression: There is another. Unless you're just planning to sell the reward for Echoes? Then it wouldn't matter that you can get it from elsewhere and instead get the unique item from the revolutionaries. My recent painful failure consists of spending time, resources and connections to qualify for becoming an Author through the Demi-Monde card, when it's apparently much easier through An unsigned message. And as it turns out, I should become an Enforcer anyway. Gah. LOL Yoda... I know that. BUT. First thing, as I said, it would take me a VERY good reason to betray the secret to the Revolutionaries. And second, I'm not sure about how to spend my Scraps yet; it is possible I'll need ANOTHER of those last-tier Relickers items, so I'm not going to buy the location from them either... Yet. About the Professions, don't worry to much about the grind, but do compare the Profession trees and choose one that you won't regret later - it is relatively simple to change professions now, but going on the Notability grind becomes harder so at that point It's just better to stick with whatever you have :s There's a full prospect on the wiki: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Profession -- Twitter: @streetfelineblu Blue's LiveJournal Blue's Echo Bazaar profile Blue's Night Circus diary Link to Ocelot's Enigma Ambition hint page; PM for clarification. No direct solutions provided.
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"Many" Chin Posts: 383 12/27/2016	Reshemin wrote: Kukapetal wrote: Why oh why do I keep trying to recertify scraps? I've lost almost 40 of them in the last day because I can't stop taking the risk. Is this how a compulsive gambler feels? :P Probably. I keep doing this for years now, despite having ascertained that I totally do know better for almost as long. Still, everytime a relicker comes around, I scroll down, click that one and then stare intently at the screen just again. On the plus side, it satisfies my gambling needs enough to never do that with real money, in real life. I always recertify no more than 10% of my total scraps just limit my loss. It's so tempting to gamble with scraps, when you know they're technically junk. -- "My little China girl/You shouldn't mess with me/I'll ruin everything you are/I'll give you television/I'll give you eyes of blue/I'll give you man who wants to rule the world" - The Goblin King.
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Myke Harryson Posts: 309 12/16/2016	5 failures in a row trying to get casing (7 if you count the two used up second chances) on a 65% chance of success. Guess my alt own't be robbing the Duchess anytime soon :/ Just did the math: 0.064339296% chance of that happening edited by Myke Harryson on 12/16/2016 -- Gained immortality on a throne of nevercold brass http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Apollo~Fireweaver 50,000 souls - 12/31/14 3,000,000 souls 10/25/16 - 100% of goal Connection to Hell: 15 22 souls, Connection to Hell 611, 10,000,000 brass - 1/16/17 1/7/19 - The G.O.A.T. Heptagoat is born admist a storm of Engimas 1/31/19 - The G.O.A.T. is taught the Seven-Fold knock over a snifter of Cider after my voyage NORTH Available for Children's Parties (Midnighter)
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"Many" Chin Posts: 383 12/25/2015	Dante Kinkade wrote: 20/22 attempts to increase my scraps or so have failed, so I lost over 200 scraps. I also got the rare fail with Mr Page, and he sent some very special constables to rummage through my life. (but at least that was interesting and amusing.) the 50/50 odds of gambling with your scrap should be quite good in the long run, as you gain more when you win, but lose less when you do lose. when gambling for 10 pieces of scrap, you only lose 8 scraps when you fail. should only avoid gambling for scraps IF you had a long winning streak or you have less than a 100 or so scraps. -- "My little China girl/You shouldn't mess with me/I'll ruin everything you are/I'll give you television/I'll give you eyes of blue/I'll give you man who wants to rule the world" - The Goblin King.
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Master Polarimini Posts: 310 4/6/2013	Nigel Overstreet wrote: I failed to spend Fate during the lacre clearing and missed out on that nice item not thinking I'd be given something later, which was pretty stupid. I wasn't online during the final hours of the Feast, which was stupider. And I didn't figure out the Mirrormatchbox thing in time, which was supposedly stupendously simple, so that's probably the stupidest. Completely agree with the third point, especially because I had already used the same trick once and it didn't occur to me to apply it in this case... -- Devices workshop opening soon... Follow my story at http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Master~Polarimini
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 10/24/2017	Either the forum keeps swallowing my message or I've just triple-posted. I'm missing out on a 10th exceptional story I've subscribed to because I can't learn my lesson about stupid projects that keep me outside of London. Seven and a half years of playing this game and I've never felt so crushed. I hate the monthly unlock requirement. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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VoxExMachina Posts: 20 4/5/2013	My Short Story, on which I had lavished significant attention, failed to reach the heights of literary ambition that I'd hoped. Can someone who'se story made the boards let me know what the rewards was, so that I may know how much to gnash my teeth? I have an Extraordinary Short Story now, but I was very nearly Celebrated...
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Passionario Posts: 777 4/7/2015	BlakeTheDrake wrote: Consumed the Gaoler's Honey. Visited a unique area. Used a couple of actions there and left. Found out less than a minute later that A: That area had several unique Cards available, some of which even give Fate and B: There's no way to go back there. Ever. Nevermind the fate, really. It's the fact that I'll never, ever get to see those cards that really burns. Even if I start up an alt at some point, I'll be pursuing a different Ambition, so I won't get anywhere near the red honey... Oh, how I envy you. If only I could turn back time and never pick those d___d cards. If only I listened to the tiny voice that begged me to stop and resisted the urge to gorge on Fate until I got forcibly kicked out of the Chambers. Of all the choices I've made in Neath, this is one thing I regret the most. (You'll understand once you get to the garden and learn the true price of red honey) -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Passionario Posts: 777 4/27/2015	Failed a 97% chance check twice in a row. -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 6/18/2014	Leonard of Quirm wrote: Even now with an entry in Slowcakes, I still wonder and speculate, and also fear; now that I have died I am tied to the Neath. Yes, you are. Buy Cider. -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 7/4/2014	"Many" Chin wrote: that really doesn't encourage me to buy the sunless sea unless i really wanna hurt (mentally/virtually)myself You should have used the single action option to get the meta quality. The 5 action option is just there as a cheaper way to obtain the exceptionally difficult Whirling Contraptions. They are worth far more than 6 Echoes if you use them in Doubt Street. Don't let this turn you off Sunless Sea. The game is actually quite fun and nothing to do with Echoes per action. Give it a whirl; you'll dig it! -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 5/4/2015	E.C.H wrote: So, setting up a second character can be an interesting process, which was why I was surprised to think up a very old-school and conservative name up for my character so quickly and easily. Turns out the name was literally too Conservative, as in I'd accidentally used the name of a major Conservative politician. Guess I'll have to de-activate that account and set up another one. David Cameron appreciates your discretion. -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Nigel Overstreet Posts: 1220 11/26/2015	uli wrote: My napkin maths is that at 30 attempts, you have 96% chance of getting at least one Night Whisper. 30 ToT at 70% turns into 21 SoDV turns into 14.7 GoSL turns into 10.29 DwtD at 60% turns into 6.174 RNatRB at 50% turns into 3.087 Last Hopes. Presuming even odds up to the Room Number, which would be pretty miraculous, getting 6 failures in a row on a 50/50 split is not unexpected. With numbers that small, all you need is a tiny bit of bad luck and it all goes pear shaped. I've had, literally, 32 failures in a row on a 70% chance. When you're dealing with luck checks, the law of large numbers means that, sometimes, life is going to suck beyond the telling of it. The only cure is a larger sample size. uli wrote: When I inevitably try again a month from now, I'll make sure to invest 60 or so. Still too low. Hundreds. You want hundreds, if not thousands, of data points. -- The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London Are you or someone you know Overgoated? Please, let me know! Cider Club
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 11/22/2015	Feducci, the Bazaar and the Brass Embassy are the exceptions, no? Since coming back from death and prison also takes quite a bit of action. -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 9/30/2015	38thDoE wrote: I am trying to get comprehensive bribes via fidgeting writer. Lost an entire batch of 50 Deja Vus> 12 Last hopes of the figeting writer>0 lens. Makes me want to quit playing ugh. If it makes you feel better, I once had 75 Deja Vu -> 0 Last Hope. You might want to grind Criminal Favours and use it on converting Whisper Satin instead, since the rare success gives two and could be a bit more likely due to spending Favours now. -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Lady Red Posts: 517 11/1/2015	Sorry for your pain, Nitebrite! I did the same but with nightmares and sent myself to the mirror marches, and then accidentally sent myself through to the royal beth and lost my vial of honeyed laudanum. Annoying! -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lady~Red
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 10/15/2016	There's a reason why I always stick my tongue out when someone talks about loss aversion. It is true, but it hurts! -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 7/5/2015	The House of Chimes wrote: You conduct your affair with ____ (____in Fallen London) most satisfyingly. Who could keep their secrets from you? Confident Smile hasn't changed, because it's higher than 20 You've gained __ x Cryptic Clue (new total _____). The House of Chimes wrote: Confident Smile hasn't changed, because it's higher than 20 The House of Chimes wrote: Confident Smile hasn't changed, because it's higher than 20 Ugh. Was not expecting a stealth nerf to the Private Rooms after all this time.... I thought they were trying to get more people into subscribing EF? edited by Estelle Knoht on 7/5/2015 -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 3/26/2015	Went on 5 or 6 or 8 trips to Gallery of Serpent. All Eyeless Skulls, which really blows when you are tip-toeing around the Liberation of Night. Nevermind, finally hit the Elements. edited by Estelle Knoht on 3/26/2015 -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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ruby Posts: 5 6/20/2015	The latest one, not sure if it counts as failure. I driven someone to a point I think he already broke, at the end it just turn out some secret I could find elsewhere. If I spare the man, it takes more time to find the same secret maybe, but at least I won't brake someone.
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 6/26/2016	Emain Ablach wrote: I've been trying a challenge with 34% chances of success. Right now, I'm at my 19th fail in a row. PS : it's a challenge needing 1771 appaling secrets each time, and which use them anyway even if I fail. Now that's some bad luck. edited by Emain Ablach on 6/26/2016 Hm, I wonder how many echoes those failures cost? Let's see here. calculates the loss up to 5047.35 echoes ....I think I'm going to be sick. In all seriousness, my condolences to your wallet. I suppose that's the price we pay when it comes to Seeking, after all. -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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BlakeTheDrake Posts: 237 6/1/2015	RandomWalker wrote: You have my sympathy, BlakeTheDrake. Don't worry though - TotT doesn't reset, just drops a bit, so the extra will carry over for the next time you need one. One question though - if you're after Favors in High Places, why not just upward convert? edited by RandomWalker on 5/31/2015 Eh, now that I think about it, I think I was actually planning to grab a Personal Recommendation... but of course, that doesn't change the question. The simple answer, though, is that I need a bunch of stuff and I don't have enough 'parts' for them all, so picking up a 'freebie' from the party-circuit (especially when I'm so bloody close) would be quite helpful. 's nice to know that the 'excess' ToTT stays with me, though... -- One of these days, I will remember to record interesting things in my journal... http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/BlakeTheDrake
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BlakeTheDrake Posts: 237 3/23/2015	Consumed the Gaoler's Honey. Visited a unique area. Used a couple of actions there and left. Found out less than a minute later that A: That area had several unique Cards available, some of which even give Fate and B: There's no way to go back there. Ever. Nevermind the fate, really. It's the fact that I'll never, ever get to see those cards that really burns. Even if I start up an alt at some point, I'll be pursuing a different Ambition, so I won't get anywhere near the red honey... -- One of these days, I will remember to record interesting things in my journal... http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/BlakeTheDrake
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BlakeTheDrake Posts: 237 7/24/2015	I'm probably the 1000th person or so to pull the old 'Get deliberately exiled to the Tomb-Colonies to catch a Tomb-Lion, but forgot to bring Tincture of Vigor' trick... but that doesn't make it smart any less. Especially since I used a particularly awesome and one-time-only route to get there - the romance at the Imperial Court. Pulling something so spectacular to get exiled, and then realizing once you're there (AND have drawn the somewhat-rare card) that you forgot the bait... GAAAAAAAHH!! >.< -- One of these days, I will remember to record interesting things in my journal... http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/BlakeTheDrake
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Snotra Posts: 67 7/6/2015	Estelle Knoht wrote: The House of Chimes wrote: You conduct your affair with ____ (____in Fallen London) most satisfyingly. Who could keep their secrets from you? Confident Smile hasn't changed, because it's higher than 20 You've gained __ x Cryptic Clue (new total _____). The House of Chimes wrote: Confident Smile hasn't changed, because it's higher than 20 The House of Chimes wrote: Confident Smile hasn't changed, because it's higher than 20 Ugh. Was not expecting a stealth nerf to the Private Rooms after all this time.... I thought they were trying to get more people into subscribing EF? edited by Estelle Knoht on 7/5/2015 I too have noticed this change. Not so long ago I managed to gain 450 smiles from the Private Rooms, (for a very good cause, I must add). I hope it wasn't my actions that have caused this option to be nixed. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Snotra
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Happy Londoner Posts: 74 7/18/2015	They shut me down at Newgate for no reason at all and I lost all my much-grinded "Connected: Society" and "Connected: Constables"! ARRGH!!! As is if it was not enough I said something ambiguous to the gaoler and lost all my "Connected: Criminals"!!! What's wrong with this Newgate?! Why does this place keep stripping me of my connections?! What can I say... F for Fail Better P.S. And when there was the Feast of Exceptional Rose I just came into the game and didn't bother to take part in it alltogether thinking it was there just to distract me from much more important things: stupid low-level grinding, playing chess on the river, doing time at NG, and so forth. edited by mmk on 7/18/2015 -- My profile: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Happy~Londoner
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Jeremy Avalon Posts: 345 7/18/2015	After spending several DAYS trying to get my alt imprisoned with Brass Embassy heists at 50%, I found myself with 17 Casing on my main, decided to cash it in... and failed at 90%. Whither goest thou, Connected: Hell 60? -- How we must glow; yes, I bet we look like snow.
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E.C.H Posts: 16 5/4/2015	So, setting up a second character can be an interesting process, which was why I was surprised to think up a very old-school and conservative name up for my character so quickly and easily. Turns out the name was literally too Conservative, as in I'd accidentally used the name of a major Conservative politician. Guess I'll have to de-activate that account and set up another one.
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Danko Posts: 142 2/3/2016	angelcat wrote: leaving me with one last bucket of so-called snow. Hah, aren't you a heartless bastard! (a Noman on my alt hit lost 50 health twice in first two weeks, just when I was preparing to draw the last card at 15 Progress and get a secret. I was so angry I melted him to snow. so I feel for you too) -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Danko
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navchaa Posts: 561 11/22/2017	Enroute to getting my next point of notability, I misclicked and threw the Amanuensis out on his ear. gnashes teeth -- Paramount Presence (London's Marrow 2, London's Nerves 2, London’s Sinew 3, London’s Blood 3) and mercenary Notary Married to Myrto :: Exchanging Surprise Packages with anyone interested :: Exchanging cat boxes with Kitty Rambunctious http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/navchaa
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 6/4/2017	Missed the yacht a fifth time! Hoorah! (I want to die inside.) -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 6/4/2017	Sixth time. -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Marcus of the Mangrove College Posts: 157 1/25/2015	It's been three days since I've finished the "Solving Cases Around London" storyline, and yet I'm still waiting to draw a Frequent Frequency card. All I want is Flute Street! -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Torterrable
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Psyche Labyrinth Posts: 159 12/29/2015	Not necessarily a failure, but I made the rash decision to pursue the jewel thief. Now we are married and I've wasted so many echoes on him. I want a divorce, but there are no better (affordable) choices yet, and I like how he makes my rows (in my journal) all nice and even. Hate him though. -- Neath citizen, zee captain, possible deranged serial killer... Profile Backstory Appearance Always happy to meet new people and help out where I can!
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Psyche Labyrinth Posts: 159 12/30/2015	Of course I'll get what I can out of him before I leave him to the streets. edited by Psyche Labyrinth on 12/30/2015 -- Neath citizen, zee captain, possible deranged serial killer... Profile Backstory Appearance Always happy to meet new people and help out where I can!
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doctor wolfram Posts: 61 1/13/2015	Oh, I'll just use "Attend a church service" to reduce my Scandal... Three failures later, I'm standing around on the tomb-colony docks. Ah well, at least I can restart that realtionship... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/doctor~wolfram-school2
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Deanscig Posts: 72 7/6/2015	This is no-where near as bad as some of the others but recently I was trying a watchful challenge at 90% and I failed 5 times. The RNG must hate me at times. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Deanscig
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Vicarus Posts: 1 3/20/2015	Literally just happened- been hunting the Skin of the Bazaar card to get SFiG 60 for a while. Drew it the other day, been saving it in my hand until the RNG gives me enough opp cards to get SotC to 10 Today, accepted a Polite Invitation without thinking, clearing my hand. Whoops. edited by Vicarus on 3/20/2015
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Matthias Scathelocke Posts: 27 11/16/2014	Really? The Bazaar tab showed "The Bazaar is out of bounds at the moment" when I tried it. Naturally the first thing I did upon realizing I'd forgotten the Hat was to try to buy one there. If I did err, that can be my failure instead; I'm now halfway back to Polythreme. Edit: Back in Polythreme at long last and can confirm the Bazaar is indeed out of bounds. edited by Matthias Scathelocke on 11/16/2014
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Gremlin Posts: 30 3/11/2015	A relatively minor failure, but: 1. Not choosing between the Missionary and the Firebrand for ages because I didn't trust either of them and didn't realize that there was more to their storyline after that. [spoiler] 2. And, after painfully eking out the route to the Nadir, staying inside too long trying to get something useful out of it and not noticing how I was rapidly approaching a limit of irrigo, even though I'd been firmly warned of the limit. [/spoiler] Ah, well. Next week, perhaps. -- Profile: Inevitable Gremlin
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Marcus of the Mangrove College Posts: 157 4/21/2015	Eyeless Skulls x 2 from the Fate-locked expedition >:T -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Torterrable
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Grenem Posts: 2067 9/24/2016	Sir Goomy wrote: Recently, I concluded my quest of painstakingly farming 70 "Lens of Black Glass". I was hoping to turn at least half of them into Coruscating Soul and finally get an Over-goat or two. BUT, luck was as usual against poor ol'Goomy and from the 70 Lenses that took me months to aquire...only 7 turned into what I wanted. I admit it ain't the MOST painful of failures, but it's pretty high in my list right now. Not to mention I still feel kind of bitter/cheated. well, it's actually a pretty brutal failure. You had, what, 70 150-echo items, and then in a roll that should have rendered 35 312.5-echo items, you only got 7. So you effectively lost somewhere between 8312.5 and 8750 echoes. Pretty sure that's about as brutal as it gets. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Otachi Posts: 23 2/14/2017	Day two of the second half of the Feast: I still haven't drawn the Lilac card. And only one "An encounter at the Feast" so far. D--n you, RNG. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rowan%20Carter - Accepting all social actions (especially chess). - I can no longer accept calling cards. - Going North.
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Otachi Posts: 23 2/7/2017	I halved my character's Watchful two times. Drowned all their secrets. Seven scars. Seven chains. Didn't have a soul for the stains, though, but I had the exact amount of proscribed material needed for the thing. Then I rage-quited Seeking. (I don't even know if this counts as a failure and I don't know if I'm angry at not keeping Seeking or for trying it in the first place. But, darn, I'm really angry at myself.) (Edited twice because I keep eating words. I guess I'm still Unaccountably Peckish after all.) edited by otachi on 2/7/2017 edited by otachi on 2/7/2017 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rowan%20Carter - Accepting all social actions (especially chess). - I can no longer accept calling cards. - Going North.
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Otachi Posts: 23 2/17/2017	No kidding: I've just drawn my second mood card this week and have yet to draw another "An encounter at the Feast" (I have only drawn one so far). -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rowan%20Carter - Accepting all social actions (especially chess). - I can no longer accept calling cards. - Going North.
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Grenem Posts: 2067 1/25/2016	I failed to get my vial of tears for my round in the nadir. Personal failure- i erronously sold my dreadful surmise, and at the same time stockpiled multiple buckets of lacre, so now i have a dillema. Do i sell my buckets, and for what? Do i get a second lodging because i can, or do i get tangible goods, despite the fact that the payout is pathetic, or do i just turn them in to de gustibus, or do i hold onto them and watch them melt... i don't know. Wish me luck! -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Grenem Posts: 2067 2/7/2016	GamerGallade wrote: Whoever decided to make a game of cat and mouse that was purely luck challenges can go jump down the well in Charley Square. Are all of them like that? If so, the screaming map is going to be a pain.... all of them are like that, but for most you can bribe your way through at a loss-or-almost-loss, or reduce it to one actual gamble for a tolerable-if-not-good profit. For the screaming map, that might be quite irksome, though. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Grenem Posts: 2067 12/27/2015	Accidentally quit my job. yay. and i went to notability 0 at the same time, so... yeah. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Grenem Posts: 2067 12/31/2015	I failed to draw the catafalrique again! I know, i've only got a 60% chance of drawing it, but it's stil annoying. The season of tears is short, and I wasted another day, now! -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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An Individual Posts: 589 7/21/2016	My Alt is working it's way towards Notability 12 so it can get Saint Destin's Candle. It's currently at 8 and was exactly 2 CP away from being able to reach 9 when Time, the Annoying Jerk hit and halved it's Making Waves. Even with 32 BDR, this candle is terrible. -- An Individual's Profile The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away. Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help. Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting. Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint. Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road. Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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Màiread Posts: 385 5/30/2015	I've been carefully holding onto a little omen for months. I am about 200 echoes away from my ubergoat, and consequently getting my sotc to 21. I was on my mobile and something glitched out with the cards as I was discarding something else...and I lost the little omen too. I could cry. -- Màiread - Correspondent, composer, lover of cats. Can probably bake you a d__n fine cake. Useful Links: Traveller's Friend (Progress Tracker & Notability Calculator) \| phryne's Guide to Favours & Renown \| Peggy the Nowoman lived to see the Feast. Thank you for the memories, Snow Lady. I'm happy to accept most social actions except for lethal sparring and loitering suspiciously. Please challenge my plant! Currently not accepting calling cards.
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Kylestien Posts: 749 2/10/2015	30 Actions to try and get some Boxfull of Intrigue. 27 failures, 6 Suspicion, 5 Nightmares and 4 Scandal from it all. -- I will accept all actions, though I hold the right to refuse for my own reasons. However, if you explain WHY you send me a harmful action like Loitering or Dantes,And I feel the reason good, I will consider it more. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Kylestien Persuasive patron. You want a lesson, send me a message asking for one.
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Zantumall Posts: 109 1/9/2015	First I waited five minutes too long and let my Watchful mood wear off before I could use it to get the one more point of Scholar of the Correspondence I needed to hit 12. Then I misread the wiki entry on "taking the air" in the Wicket, and thought it gave +1 PTPT and not -1. Cue two days spent grinding for enough Storm-Threnodies to buy another pail, and the loss of my last Night-Whisper. On the plus side, I had forgotten that the Semiotic Monocle option gives you a CP of Scholar, so the second failure managed to cancel out the first one. -- My profile.
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onyhow Posts: 16 1/30/2015	Get too excited with De Gustibus, want a Zzoup recipe, enter Cave of Nadir...while having A Dusty Bookshop card in hand...good bye bookshop. /me headdesk -- My Profie
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thedeadlymoose Posts: 214 11/12/2014	Just now: Paying 10 Nex to refresh my actions (unusual for me, since I have to conserve what Nex I can afford) so I can make it the rest of the way to Notability 6 before Time the Healer hits... ...just precisely before Time the Healer hits, exactly one hour early, for no apparent reason. ;_; -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Eris~Jay http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Red~Rose
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Dragoshi Posts: 9 7/8/2014	While it's not exactly as immense as other failures in this topic... I'd have to say being rash and just kicking the idol off into oblivion instead of waiting until I had progressed further in storylines. ...I honestly would've liked to see what even happens when the Starveling Cat comes into play. Or the one option pertaining towards the Dilmun Club storyline. ...Or the Fire Sermon option, for that matter, even if I'm not as interested in that dream storyline. Ah well, that's life, I s'pose. (Life and like 300 wasted candle stubs, but those are nothing.) edited by Dragoshi on 7/8/2014 -- What manner of rubbish is this, then? (Journal snippets are added with some form of regularity, particularly the results of storyline things, so a spoiler warning may apply. I think. Better safe than sorry, regardless.)
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Battle Potato Posts: 5 5/5/2014	I've never really showed this but I actually have an alternate account I use(not BattlePotato). This other account is supposed to be the polar opposite of my main one, one of the main differences being the alternate one supports the revolutionaries. However, when I was playing this morning I made a teeny... tiny... oopsy. As I was half asleep as I logged onto BattlePotato I thought I was on my alt. As a result of this I sold the information of the cave of nadir to the revolutionaries. I was planning to keep this information to myself and I just... I really don't know what possessed me to click that button. edited by Battle Potato on 5/5/2014 -- Any actions and social requests are heartily welcome! Along with that I want to accept nightmare requests. I have reasons of course, and I assure you they are purely academic. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Battle~Potato
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Rackenhammer Posts: 354 11/17/2014	My alt failed a low-risk Dangerous check, and failed to protect the Functionary from his enemies... I try to play her as heartless, but that still stung. -- "DO NOT TRUST HAPPY ENDINGS. DO NOT FEAR SAD ENDINGS... NEITHER ARE ENDINGS." ~ Mathieu Psmith: The Bard of Lost Children, loving husband, and a fixture of the artistic set. Can never resist making a show of things... Irene Psmith: Adopted Daughter of Mathieu. Specializes in Information, Acquisitions, and the Acquisition of Information. Vaughan Montblanc: Once a frontiersman of Western Canada, he now practices medicine in London. His discretion may be absolutely trusted.
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Gillsing Posts: 1203 7/2/2017	At some point, possibly while you were away, Time the Healer gave Unaccountably Peckish to people who didn't have any to begin with. Quite annoying, but it could be handled by anyone who took notice quickly enough. Maybe it would be a good idea to contact support@failbettergames.com to see if they could remove the quality from poor Derek? After all, what Time the Healer did that time was apparently a bug. Or you could just remove it yourself. I never had more than a couple of levels, and used Scraps from the table from A restorative. _______________________________ edited by Gillsing on 7/2/2017
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Laluzi Posts: 456 12/10/2013	I chose what looked like a pretty standard option in my Ambition and ended up losing my Half-Wild Mandrake. D: Goodbye, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. You will be missed. -- Feel free to ask if you need something! Uninterested in Trailing the Affluent Photographer. Mercer - an enigmatic and brutal individual. Frightfully strong. Has even more frightful manners.
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Gillsing Posts: 1203 1/9/2015	treichle wrote: I have failed six times at a 'low risk' setting for writing an Exceptional Short Story to become an Author. Each time taking over twenty actions and other resources. That's the RNG for you. The trick is to aim for a Masterful Short Story. That way, if you fail you get the Exceptional Short Story you need, and if you succeed you get something you can sell for more money.
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Gillsing Posts: 1203 9/24/2018	Daedalus_Falk wrote: Or at least make it so you can't pick the skill boost if your base stat is 199 or higher. I'm pretty sure they already changed it to locking those options when your base stat is 200+. Before that change you could waste favours for not a single CP of gain, which I'm pretty sure I did once with five Favours: Criminals. That master thief sure got me good that time. And since part of their 'design philosophy' seems to be to let players always retain the option to use resources in terribly inefficient ways, I wouldn't expect a change to those options. I could imagine a player really, really wanting to spend five favours on five CPs (or less), because they just drew "An unsigned message" and plan to spend all their Notability on boosting the relevant base stat to 215 right at that moment, and have no time/Actions left to spend on actions that would increase that stat naturally to 200. Not every player plays the game the same way. ________________________________ edited by Gillsing on 9/24/2018
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MrUnderhill89 Posts: 123 11/29/2013	dragonridingsorceress wrote: Not sure if this counts BUT... I'm at the point in the Missionary and Firebrand story where I am asked to pick a side. I was terribly excited to get to this point, having found both of these characters mysterious and enticing. And then I found out what the Liberation of Night ACTUALLY means at Hallowmas. I don't think I want to do that story any more. It depressed me so much I stopped playing for a week. I still have the Firebrand and Missionary squabbling in my parlor, because I don't want to pick one. That was one hell of a role-playing dilemma for me when I was pursuing the Nadir quest at the same time as the Hallowmas vision. The reasoning I came to was this: [spoiler] regardless of who you side with, you cannot silence both the Missionary and the Firebrand. If you don't give the Calendar Council the location of the Nadir, someone else will (in fact, there's nothing stopping February from simply finding it herself like she was while you were looking for it). By selling the information to the Revolutionaries directly, I ingratiated myself to them, such that if there is ever an opportunity to stop the Liberation of Night (and I would imagine there would be with just a bit of Fate), I'd be in the perfect position to do so. [/spoiler] -- MrUnderhill89 - The Master Under the Hill MrUnderhill77 - Doomed Northwards I'll be happy to accept most social invites, but please no Affluent Photographer requests.
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A B Nile Posts: 414 1/7/2015	Every fourth week, I believe. -- My profile: A B Nile My alt: Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate (seeking Acquaintances and accepting all social actions) Item conversion table - finally complete with all rare successes! Bloody, bold and resolute
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Lady Eris Posts: 162 8/23/2015	Argus Arcorvus wrote: Kind of depressing when all your actions are spent just trying to keep your character in the damn game. This constant failure is, I state, not mine, but a "flawed" mechanic that works well to the benefit of FBG who reap your hard-earned actions for the dullest of dull grinding... You need a little help from your friends. Social actions are the way forward - they are by far the most effective way to deal with menaces. Lady Eris is terribly respectable cough and would be only too pleased to help squash those nonsensical little rumours. Drop her a message. -- Lady Eris Psmith, Society darling, devoted wife. Dangerous when crossed. Accepts most social invitations. Distributor of Parabolan Kittens. Welcomes new acquaintances, especially those who write 'in character'. William Templeton, Viscount Manningham, newcomer, gentleman, all-round good egg - accepting absolutely all invitations.
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Blackleaf Posts: 552 11/29/2013	dragonridingsorceress wrote: Not sure if this counts BUT... I'm at the point in the Missionary and Firebrand story where I am asked to pick a side. I was terribly excited to get to this point, having found both of these characters mysterious and enticing. And then I found out what the Liberation of Night ACTUALLY means at Hallowmas. I don't think I want to do that story any more. It depressed me so much I stopped playing for a week. I still have the Firebrand and Missionary squabbling in my parlor, because I don't want to pick one. You can sell the information to someone other than the revolutinaries. You can also just lash out at them and leave them, stealing their stuff on the way out later on. Its pretty much 100% worth it unless you want the pet-panion. -- No cats or investigations of photographers please. Same goes for Sparring,Loitering,Suppers and Games of chess! Sure I'll accept them occasionaly but I wont help you grind them most of the time. But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!) Character profile can be found here: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Blackleaf Ware serpents and know spires.
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Pyrodinium Posts: 639 11/25/2015	ZHAndy wrote: I was attempting to kill to Goat Demon in the Flit - failed 5 70% chances in a row... Maybe he has some Overgoat ancestry so that's why he's hard to kill. -- My profiles: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Pyrodinium (A Monster hunter on the hunt of his twin brother's killer. Overprotective dad of his twin's daughter) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rudolph~of~Taured (an indeterminate person of potentially rubbery lineage) * All social actions except photographers and loitering welcome!
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RandomWalker Posts: 948 2/7/2016	All games of cat and mouse are luck challenges, unless you pay for the win (either in increasingly expensive materials, or fate). I agree that they're pretty obnoxious, but they're relatively rare.
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RandomWalker Posts: 948 1/20/2015	Zailing does get easier with practice. If you get a five-card lodging, get your stats high enough for the skill-test cards, and use the 'Steam Boldly / Extrapolate from the charts' option when you're out of cards to play, you should be able to get to where you need to go without ever seeing troubled water 11. After a few successful crossings, the 'experienced zailor' card will really help as well. When I was attempting to catch a plated seal, I had real problems getting troubled waters high enough before reaching my destination. It was embarrassing.
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Lumyire Posts: 167 1/12/2014	Ugh, after spending a week trying to get both the curate and his "sister" to bed, I started to put it off and started on Archaeology instead. However, studying the correspondence stones, then deciding that I'm finished studying them removed ALL of my "Investigating" quality, and the curate literally disappeared from my map. Pretty certain this is a bug. Hope support can help me here... -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Lumyire
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Arzei Posts: 19 7/12/2016	Not the most painful, but I wanted to check if there was any good text in the option to change candidates, and it halves your campaign level even if you select the same one. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Arzei Ask me about Enigma if you have any questions!
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 12/14/2017	A few days ago, I had used 2 Pails of So-Called Snow to raise my ToL to 4. Today I chose to get an Incandescent Robe over a fresh new Pail. What I didn't know was that obtaining the Robe gave me 2 points of ToL for a total of 6, getting rid of my chance to raise the quality to 8 with my Monocle. This would have been unfortunate enough, but the difference of 2 points meant that I lost 2 Tears of the Bazaar instead of 1 while raising ToL. Not the worst failure I've had, but certainly not the best. -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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Sir Joseph Marlen Posts: 575 8/28/2018	Needed some tincture to heal wounds from my Reputation: Abomination grind. One accidental 0 turned 10 echoes for 10 tinctures into 100 echoes for 100 tinctures. Ironically, I'm still getting use out of them. :P -- Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft Available for any and all social actions.
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yapperz5000 Posts: 33 7/6/2015	Forced my scandal up to 8, went to tomb colonies. Before realising that I had no tincture of vigour to catch the tomb lion... Anyone feel free to dump Scandal over here... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Yapperzitata~the~Jabberwocky
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JimmyTMalice Posts: 237 12/31/2015	Grenem wrote: I failed to draw the catafalrique again! Is that the card in the Cave of the Nadir that allows you to get a Complaisant Frost-Moth (or exchange PtPT: Lacre for Tears of the Bazaar)? Ah, I know well the pains of trying to draw a useful card in that irrigo-drenched hell. I was lucky enough to get three visits to it this week (my first was just before Time, The Healer, then after my second Mr Sacks came to take my irrigo again) but I've still been able to get little use out of the place. Out of those visits I've only been able to get Irrigo Goggles, Forgotten Spidersilk Slippers, a Frost-Moth and a Searing Enigma. Oh, and a Bottle of M____s' B___d for betraying their confidence and giving the Cave's location to the Calendar Council. edited by JimmyTMalice on 12/31/2015 -- Gideon Stormstrider, the Esoteric Gadgeteer Jimmy T. Malice, gone. A Tale of Two Suns - Meeting Your Maker - A Squid in the Polls
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JimmyTMalice Posts: 237 1/2/2016	I just took a look at a Pail of So-Called Snow through my Semiotic Monocle, only to find that it has no effect if your ToL is over 5. Would have been nice to know that before, so that I could have used it after securing a 5-card lodgings and come back for a Remote Lodings. -- Gideon Stormstrider, the Esoteric Gadgeteer Jimmy T. Malice, gone. A Tale of Two Suns - Meeting Your Maker - A Squid in the Polls
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suinicide Posts: 2409 9/29/2015	I lost my green friend today. Not liking the misclicks, even if it is an unoriginal complaint. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/sunnytime A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence. RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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suinicide Posts: 2409 12/8/2016	Skinnyman wrote: Rupho Schartenhauer wrote: It is absolutely incredible how often you can fail an option marked &quotpretty good odds&quot. (I'm talking about Watching the Well, of course...) You don't really realize you're lucky!!! It's a sign... stop! Sounds like someone is jealous :p -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/sunnytime A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence. RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 10/19/2015	Sara Hysaro wrote: Having an intimate encounter with him during the expedition doesn't really change anything in a mechanical sense. In the end you'll still get the same "I'm glad you're still here" text, and get the same companion. You can still pursue things further during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose for 80 Masquing. Edit: By pursuing further he'll become a +9 Persuasive +6 Shadowy + 1 Dreaded Companion. He is not an available spouse yet. -- edited by Sara Hysaro on 10/18/2015 Yeah, I know, I just wanted my character and him to have an intimate encounter, given how important hooking up with him was to said character. Would have been a much more satisfying conclusion to my character's romantic pursuit of him than what I got. I'm still kicking myself. Thanks for the reply.
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VarietyShow Posts: 18 10/21/2015	Failing a 95% persuasive check at the end of the Fate-locked part of Mr Wines' Revels. "It's a 95% chance," I said. "How can I possibly fail," I said. More painful because to try it again I had to start that series of opportunity cards over. At least I got a laugh out of it when a friend suggested that Var got kicked out of the revel by Special Constables out of a misguided fear that they'd try to set Mr Wines on fire. (Still painful, though.) edited by VarietyShow on 10/21/2015 -- Var Sheridan, the Insatiable Academic, a Correspondent and an Extraordinary Mind. Open to all social actions except cat boxes or SMEN related ones. Open to roleplaying social actions as well as tumblr RPing.
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Dante Kinkade Posts: 50 12/14/2015	Some more fun from me, I decided to use one of my bottles of tears and lost it on the first try and my first two grabs in the bag where the same thing. Still fun bags and am hoping to find the bag I'm looking for. Make that 4 times of the same thing for one and 3 for another. edited by Dante Kinkade on 12/15/2015 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/dante~kinkade
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malthaussen Posts: 1060 11/4/2015	Now, if there were only a way to incorporate this into our forum story about the Cult of the RNG. -- Mal -- "Of two choices, I always take the third." Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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The Master Posts: 804 12/4/2015	It's not a failure yet, but it will be a failure in a few months. I am currently grinding for an Overgoat, my nightmares in real life will grow in the process, and when all is finished, not all shall be well, the Goat will just sit there on my mantlepiece...showing how much sanity I have used to get it. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath. No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these. He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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John Savage Posts: 198 11/22/2015	And all of this is why I continue to grind Running Battle before battling Vendrick. Why grind a lot and fail when you can grind more and succeed? -- If at first you don't succeed, shoot it again. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/John~Savage Scandal and suspicion! Suspicion and scandal! I miss the old days when only blood mattered.
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Dr Cop Posts: 38 11/26/2015	Nigel Overstreet wrote: uli wrote: Every time I try the Fidgeting Writer, I'll invest~30 Tales of Terror!! That's your first mistake there. Fidgeting Writer can be quite profitable, but only in large chunks. 30 will only likely to give you 3 Last Hopes for your Night Whisper on a complete even split, which is rare. It's pretty statistically likely that you're going to get a large swath of failures if you're doing it in such small batches. My napkin maths is that at 30 attempts, you have 96% chance of getting at least one Night Whisper. Losing a 96% luck check is totally in the realm of possibility, but it's still painful when you lose that many actions and resources. The thing is that this is the third or so time I've started with 30 ToT and lost them all. Which is not that unlikely I was trying to get to Black Lens on those other attempts - so 21% chance of failure each, but...No. No more fidgeting writer for me. Ever. When I inevitably try again a month from now, I'll make sure to invest 60 or so. -- edited by Sara Hysaro on 11/26/2015 -- fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/hawkinsssable
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Dr Cop Posts: 38 9/3/2016	I did not bring exactly the required amount of proscribed material. Not even close. -- fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/hawkinsssable
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th8827 Posts: 823 5/13/2016	My plant went on a losing streak from the Contest of Voices down to the Contest of Cunning. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Anaïs Grant Posts: 15 1/4/2017	I just accidentally threw out Slowcake's Amanuensis because I was vaguely sleepy and clicking on automatic pilot, having meant to click 'Say nothing' instead. I don't care so much about the lost Notability (it was quite low atm since I'd spent a lot of it during Halloween), it's easily regained, but the lost Connected: the Masters? That one really stings; I was almost at level 7. It's only one point, but they're so hard to get. I'd suspected this was once going to happen to me, with the buttons being far too close together for my liking, but it still hurts, gah. I think I'll mark the 'throwing out' option as a plan in the future, to hopefully save myself from making the same mistake in the future. On the other hand, since I saw that post about someone inspecting all pails of snow with Correspondence 9 and failing every time... I inspected one at Correspondence four and actually succeeded, to my great surprise. So I guess it... kind of balances out? Sigh. I do so want to cautiously joke around with the Masters. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Ana%C3%AFs%20Grant Criminal mastermind. Expert on the Correspondence. Proud tamer of an Übergoat called Bob. Master of the oratory arts; open to potential new protégés.
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th8827 Posts: 823 12/17/2015	Not super big, but... I drew An Unsigned Message and another card on my phone. I did not want the other card, which was on the left, so I tapped the discard button. After waiting about three seconds and seeing nothing happen, I tapped again. As I pressed the button, the first card disappeared and was replaced by the other, important card... I wanted to use that once my Notability went up for better odds at a prize... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 12/8/2016	Rupho Schartenhauer wrote: It is absolutely incredible how often you can fail an option marked "pretty good odds". (I'm talking about Watching the Well, of course...) You don't really realize you're lucky!!! It's a sign... stop! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 10/10/2016	IgnatuStone wrote: I was trying to grind casing 77. I forgot this and went to zee at 64 loosing all my progress. So my 6 out of 8 failures on a task at 86% success is nothing! My condolences, mate!! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 12/18/2016	Slyblue wrote: My very devout, anti-devil character just accidentally sold his soul.To the wrong devil. Because I thought I was playing as the pro-devil character. And this is why you don't randomly poke the Affectionate Devil for the lulzs. GAH edited by Slyblue on 12/18/2016 You can't know you enemy well until you see it's full potential! My thought on this is that you did well; you know what they capable of. -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 4/12/2016	Here's mine now which made me laugh a bit: I was raising connection via the Public Lecture, but I was at 75% success rate which means that 1 in 4 times I would fail. Two failure would mean an event that may occur 1 in 16 times. Well, the point it is I failed 6 or 7 times in a row which got me to suspicion 6+. Let's say I failed 6 times which means that RNG offered me a "chance" that may occur ONCE in 4096 times. -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 1/12/2019	Well, RNG! Well? First two tears yield 14 total uses which is nice considering the average is 5! But the next 5 went off pretty fast; a total of 10 uses! A louse average of 2/Tear! :\| -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Professor Strix Posts: 616 7/2/2017	So, I don't even know HOW I failed, but Derek has 9 Unaccountably Peckish (and he never ever did anything towards seeking), black bordered cards are everywhere in his deck and an unwise misclick gave him a bunch of menaces and a slight hit in connections and Persuasive. Now I suppose I need to give him SMEN 2 so he can get the Bad Ending storylet, I suppose. But man, trust Derek to screw things up when I'm not looking. That's how he ended in a bat's body in the first place, you know? -- The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds. "THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used." --------- Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Derek%20Davis
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sosisqua Posts: 120 7/16/2016	Became a turncoat (2/3 though) by a missclick during The Affair Of The Box -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sosisqua%20Sardelqua http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lazy%20Citizen is LOITERING with everyone. "Through the gate of North, as we make our way to Mr.Candle"
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Eglantine-Fox Posts: 872 6/11/2016	It was a modest challenge! Modest! But it turns out if you dream yourself onto Hell's flagship, try to mutiny, and fail, they throw you overboard... into death's little boat. At least it's an interesting death? -- Eglantine Fox, the charming and androgynous Correspondent, teetering between hobbies of seduction and self-destruction. Siobhan O'Malley, Irish patriot (or 'bl__dy Fenian' if you're impolite). Isidore Day, an up-and-coming London gentleman. All allegations of wrongdoing are categorically denied.
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Morucant Posts: 184 8/17/2016	Four failures on the first soul stain, two of them nearly Menace Zoning me. edit Make that 5 failures and 3 close brushes with being menace-zoned. Thank you Ablution Solution. Further Edit Six failures, and at last I have been forced to go to the Tomb-Colonies. Between this and waiting for the Hooded Lady, the RNG wants me dead. Hopefully Final Edit 7 Failures, its the number, I've gotten it to happen, should have recorded it for posterity, now can I please get a cat to eat my soul and poop it out?! edited by Morucant on 8/17/2016 edited by Morucant on 8/18/2016 -- Morucant, who was once called Scholar of the Name. Good for Chess, Sparring, Caligula's, and perhaps Midnighter lectures at Orphanages. Uilx-Magnus, who truly loved...to Hate. October is as unpredictable as wildfire and twice as dangerous. Don't ask his real name. He has seen Hallowmas, now he will stay silent no more.
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Morucant Posts: 184 6/9/2016	I've had too many failures on Straightforward and Low-Risk challenges to count. On a note of something that's my fault, I recall that on one occasion I got some Dramatic Tension, then went Zailing. -- Morucant, who was once called Scholar of the Name. Good for Chess, Sparring, Caligula's, and perhaps Midnighter lectures at Orphanages. Uilx-Magnus, who truly loved...to Hate. October is as unpredictable as wildfire and twice as dangerous. Don't ask his real name. He has seen Hallowmas, now he will stay silent no more.
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Clifton Royston Posts: 110 5/18/2016	Hardly in the "most annoying" category, but still frustrating: I have been trying to work on the Fidgeting Writer story, and had started working on it in batches so I don't have to keep switching activities as much. I just lost five Deals with a Devil in a row, wiping out all my Glimpses and nearly all my Bright Souls in the process; I think the odds of that are right around 1 in 100. -- A person of little significance: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/cliftonr Currently accepting all non-harmful social actions, at least until I learn better.
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Amelia Syrus Posts: 626 7/3/2016	Looking at most of the responses here, I feel some relief that my failure wasn't as terrible as it could have been. But I failed the Making Use of Cats Option "Make Contacts Among Cat Kind" 6 times, enough that Suspicion was raised to 5 and to make it worse it was a low risk challenge. A low risk challenge that ate 60 rostygolds and boosted Suspicion in a blink of an eye. I officially don't care if it does make more sense for my character to side with cats. **** cats. Bats all the way. -- Amelia Syrus: A Drunken Thief For Hire.
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Vincur Posts: 8 6/10/2016	Paid for Mr.Wines's revels and failed at the payment card. TWICE. -- Don't go alone out there.
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Dudebro Pyro Posts: 755 11/10/2017	Skinnyman wrote: Discard it and let's see what happens! I honestly seriously considered doing that out of spite, but then I caved and got myself London's Nerves. Sir Joseph Marlen wrote: http://community.failbettergames.com/messages.aspx?TopicID=25288&Page=31&MessageID=210703#post210703 That sounds absolutely horrible. I knew I was setting myself up for disappointment by trying for any ambitious goals, but being within reach of what you wanted only to miss out due to a stupid mistake is terrible. -- Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them. For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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absimiliard Posts: 759 10/15/2016	The RNG hates with a completeness beyond human comprehension. -- "Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend. Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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absimiliard Posts: 759 7/21/2016	I so hate that box. Far better to progress it via opportunity cards, the conflict ones I think. -- "Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend. Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Meradine Heidenreich Posts: 468 7/29/2017	Pumpkinhead wrote: A matter of luck: it could go either way my ***. If it can go either way you'd think I'd get lucky at least once in 10 tries. Stupid RNG. I also have my suspicions about certain "either way" luck checks. There is one (fate) card for which I'm pretty sure I've never seen the success. Ever. In about nine months. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Meradine%20Heidenreich The Starveling kit Gobbled up the bit of cheese on my tray .. "O Weh!" No plant battles, please.
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Jermaine Vendredi Posts: 588 4/6/2017	reaperOscuroCore wrote: . Suspicion being one of the hardest menaces to reduce also didn't help. Actually, suspicion is the easiest. Try Spite -- Confound the Constables. -- No plant battles, please. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Jermion
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Jermaine Vendredi Posts: 588 6/22/2016	The Master wrote: 4 trade secrets and a masterful short story to annoy me till the end of the time, sigh. Yup, did that twice (2 MS, not 2x4TS) edited by Jermaine Vendredi on 6/22/2016 -- No plant battles, please. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Jermion
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Jermaine Vendredi Posts: 588 12/11/2016	Pumpkinhead wrote: I accidentally double tapped my touchscreen and discarded that mood card that I've been holding onto for nigh on a month. Noooooooooooo..... At least you know what happened to it. I had one (the one that resembles Cards with the Civil Service) and have no idea where it went... edited by Jermaine Vendredi on 12/11/2016 -- No plant battles, please. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Jermion
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Jermaine Vendredi Posts: 588 10/24/2017	TheThirdPolice wrote: . I hate the monthly unlock requirement. You're not the only one. I have stuffed up in this way at least twice. -- No plant battles, please. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Jermion
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Baron Leichtsinn Posts: 34 4/11/2016	Right in the beginning, one of my first actions: Wore a silly hat, all stats dropped to zero. What fun. Recently I sold my Bat with an attitude, because 12 quid. The future will show how sustainable that was. Hindsight, without you everything would be half as dumb. -- All the world's problems can be solved by poetry. And violence. Poetry and violence. Who said, violence wasn't a solution? Actually it solves all the problems, that couldn't be solved by poetry. ___________________________ http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Baron~Leichtsinn
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Baron Leichtsinn Posts: 34 4/11/2016	Aldeberan23 wrote: I failed a robbery on the Brass Embassy and lost all of my connections to Hell. It was the faction with which I had cultivated the strongest bond. I very nearly stopped playing. Been there, done that. Twice. What, the first time it worked well, so why not hit them again....well..But then it IS the perfect time to hit them again, because what are they going to do? I am not so good with numbers, yet somehow I became noticably wealthy over time. Don't read it out loud what the real costs are in the end, but yadayadayada: We're besties again, Hell and I. Meant for each other. Devils are, like, so cool: The coolest. Or hottest. Whatever. -- All the world's problems can be solved by poetry. And violence. Poetry and violence. Who said, violence wasn't a solution? Actually it solves all the problems, that couldn't be solved by poetry. ___________________________ http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Baron~Leichtsinn
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Mechafluke Posts: 9 11/4/2015	malthaussen wrote: Seriously, the devs should give him a special reward for beating such odds. -- Mal I was about to say... at odds of less than ten in one quintillion, it almost seems to be more of a success than a failure. I think this may be how it feels to suffer a touch of sun-stroke. -- A gentleman with a keen eye, a sharp mind, a taste for mysteries and a fondness for zailing, he came from the Surface to study the Correspondence and uncover the secrets of the Judgements. He lives with a friendly clothes-colony and has an unhealthy interest in the Red Science.
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Irene Posts: 20 6/29/2016	7 Favours in High Places, 7 Cellars of Wine, 7 Comprehensive Bribes, 7000 Nodules of Deep Amber. No ship yet. Not too lucky, I guess. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/mazgi1
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Ixc Posts: 365 10/12/2017	My painful failure was that I got 7 consecutive fortunate results on the "Steam Boldly" option in the Broad Unterzee. That's a failure, because in this case I wished to capture a Plated Seal. 7 fortunate results... Perhaps this is the work of the Drowned One. -- Pleased to meet you. Ixc, spy and detective. Inventor of the Correspondence Cannon. Are you a Paramount Presence? Record your name here. For posterity, of course. Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
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GamerGallade Posts: 92 1/10/2016	I would have to say failing the strike at the docks with pretty good odds again and again. -- Welcome to Fallen Pun-don! I just noticed if you try to record "why is it so easy to get lost in Fallen London?" The title changes to "What are they trying to hide?"
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GamerGallade Posts: 92 2/7/2016	Whoever decided to make a game of cat and mouse that was purely luck challenges can go jump down the well in Charley Square. Are all of them like that? If so, the screaming map is going to be a pain.... -- Welcome to Fallen Pun-don! I just noticed if you try to record "why is it so easy to get lost in Fallen London?" The title changes to "What are they trying to hide?"
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Eric Larrieu-let Posts: 16 10/19/2017	My greatest guilts, the ones are remember the most, are these: When persueing the case of the Mottled Man, I miraculously succeded at the fourth or fifth try on gettingg through to the end! However..... Of those five attempts, three times did I meet the infernal sommelier. Three times did I give him two brilliant souls, poor defenseless twins, for him to do as he will. Six souls did I damn.....just to continue on with the story. My other great regret is when I fed a spoonful of lacre to my chatty rattus fabber, who by the way helped me in finding and ending the terrible snuffer known as the Big Rat. I could visualize how the poor creature shriekied a dying shriek, fell still and then turned to goo, which I ignominiously and ingrately mopped off the floor. My greatest failures are those that can never be righted, and are beyond forgiveness.
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Frederick Posts: 27 11/26/2017	Ragnar Degenhand wrote: @ Frederick Oh, that really is annoying! Were you gathering the supplies as a secondary activity? One player I know flat out paid for the lot with actual echoes; the whispered hints sometimes produces 2 per turn. More docks favours via the connected pet, perhaps? Or be a Rat-catcher and use strong-backed labour? I love the expeditions, so it's sad to see them go so horribly awry. Having said that, I used up almost the entire 100 for the Nadir expedition, so having extra is a really good idea. edited by Ragnar Degenhand on 11/26/2017 I'm more baffled than anything since the chances of that happening is a decimal fraction to the power of 7, i.e. it doesn't even fit on my calculator. I haven't really taken an action either way as of yet, and am considering sending either some sort of grovelling letter to support or just sucking up and paying for another chance.
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The Curious Watcher Posts: 263 11/24/2017	I've started getting serious about seeking and wanted to save a week of time by converting all of my whispered secrets and cryptic clues into appalling secrets for a level in SMEN (currently 9). I thought that since I had succeeded several times before and was currently a 70% success rate that I had a decent chance, but I failed regardless. It's not something that I take too personally, but it still sucks that I've wasted all of those actions and resources converting for nothing. -- The Thirteenth Master of the Bazaar: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Thirteenth%20Master%20of%20the%20Bazaar The Silent Vake Hunter: GONE NORTH The Ravenous Wanderer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Ravenous%20Wanderer The Melancholic End-Bringer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Melancholic%20End-Bringer The Lethal Nightmare: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Lethal%20Nightmare
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The Curious Watcher Posts: 263 12/12/2017	I got my first point of criminal record due to visiting the waxy eighth room of the Bazaar. It could have been prevented if I asked for Christmas Cards to reduce suspicion, but it's too late now. Also, all my stats dropped by 7 in one action. This holiday, learn from my mistakes: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Den%20Blackwell?fromEchoId=13149900 -- The Thirteenth Master of the Bazaar: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Thirteenth%20Master%20of%20the%20Bazaar The Silent Vake Hunter: GONE NORTH The Ravenous Wanderer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Ravenous%20Wanderer The Melancholic End-Bringer: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Melancholic%20End-Bringer The Lethal Nightmare: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/The%20Lethal%20Nightmare
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Greg M Posts: 197 1/5/2019	I feel your pain! I overcapped Dangerous at 215. My only overcapped stat to date. At some point, got to Airs of London 98 and thought "Oooh, I'll pick up a Dock favour! From the Chandleress." ....yeah. 214 Dangerous, baby! Tom Davidson wrote: Embarassing: I forgot that one of the Mr. Sacks options cost Persuasive, and I now have Persuasive 214. Since I've already got Paramount Presence, that's not a huge loss -- but at some stage, I'm going to have to grind back up to Notability 15 just to get that last point (for pride, if nothing else). I suppose I can blow some of my saved-up salon Scheme when it's time. But I should probably visit the Cave of the Nadir a bunch before that. laugh -- Profile: GregM. http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/GregM Available for any non-harmful social interactions.
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Jeremiah Oathes Posts: 73 7/22/2019	I just discarded the second Mood card I had on the hand for some months now. Who needs them anyway... sobs quietly -- Dr Jeremiah Oathes - Natural Philosopher, Alchemist and Anatomist (part-time). Occasionally in Service to the Crown and the Bazaar. Would like to dissect a Master (for science and mad laughter).
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Asher Posts: 3 8/13/2017	I only wanted to kill that damn demonic goat. 70% chance. Three failures in a row. I hate that goat. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Asher%20Reagan
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Aniline Posts: 144 10/27/2017	^ Almost the same here. I had the Amanuensis card and needed 2 actions to get the required MW with a 90% chance of success and one more to cash out. Got bogged down in debugging some code in a VM, switched back to 4 actions and TTH. -- Melantha Prescott, the Suspicious Statistician. "3% failure chances crop up nine times out of ten." Francesca Ayers-Kernighan, bat-hunter, cat-whisperer
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Mordant Posts: 9 3/4/2018	I spent a year holding on to a mood card waiting until I gathered up enough will to grind to 5 notability. Got there, used the mood, still failed my career upgrade. So now I'm all mooded up with no where to go. Should've used that mood for something else, clearly. -- Imperceptible Sovereign, Perplexing Tempter, Apprehensive Scholar.
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thenagain Posts: 2 5/12/2017	I have been slowly building up notability for when I need it for SMEN. Just threw the amanuensis out by accident. Lost two points of Notability after only just getting my 8th point. Right back at it, I guess...
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reaperOscuroCore Posts: 41 4/8/2017	Jermaine Vendredi wrote: Actually, suspicion is the easiest. Try Spite -- Confound the Constables. Well put -and I'd concur, if it weren't so d_ably random! And invariably even a low-risk turns into a failure...add to it it's the only Menace which cannot be lowered from lodgings without social actions and it, in my humble opinion, remains the trickiest to lower. -- Arden Terraward -a gentleperson on the search for...EVERYTHING. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Arden%20Terraward
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Waterpls Posts: 323 4/15/2017	Ive bought the fate-locked part of Aunt story. No lore. No story or decision to make. No decent reward. Its so frustrating... -- Long grinds: Heptagoat 100/180; Cider Done; Correspondence 21/21; Paramount 4/4.
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Joe_The_Average Posts: 9 2/14/2017	I selected 'sweets to the sweet' on the feast opportunity card, not knowing what would happen on failing the luck check. I got 2 levels of UP and a free trip to the mirror marches for my trouble. I suppose I should have managed my nightmares better.
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absinthey Posts: 6 2/12/2017	I was almost done with the Curate storyline today, and somehow- I still how no idea how- all my progress was erased. I'm back to the 'talking to the Curate's servants' portion. It took me a lot of time to get past it, too. Ugh. I used a ton of actions on that portion, and I will... never get over it. edited by absinthey on 2/12/2017 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/angelred A captivating and observant lady.
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Bertrand Lyndon Posts: 95 2/14/2017	I guess selling that blasted whisper-locked box to the Blind Bruiser, so I had to spend 3 Fate to repeat the storylet and get the metaquality. It's more of a case of being a naive noobie than a real failure, though. In any case, it soured my mood a bit. Good thing it wasn't permanent. -- Bertrand Lyndon, a former Sergeant of the 7th Dragoon Guards who deals in crime and secrets. (My main profile: a Midnighter available for Orphanages) Jordan Farchild, a kid who often meddles in things bigger than herself, and Bertrand's ward. (I check this profile less often than Bertrand and I use it only for very light roleplay) Call me Barren on the IRC.
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Anchovies Posts: 421 7/29/2017	"The strength of scars" advertises "an uncertain but substantial" increase to Dangerous. I just used it once and gained exactly five cp of Dangerous. That's one per Hard-Earned Lesson. FIVE. -- Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him. —Sir Arthur C Clarke Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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Anchovies Posts: 421 10/31/2017	I was taking a real-worldacquaintance yesterday and the conversation turned to forms of currency. I described Marks of Credit as real things which historical monarchs would issue. When I privately double-checked later in the day, I learned that the mark of credit, at least by that name, is a concept original to Fallen London. Whoops ._. -- Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him. —Sir Arthur C Clarke Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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laskaris Posts: 66 2/12/2017	Circling the Well. Winking Isle is the w o r s t. I swear to god Mikhail would have more luck just kicking the blasted thing even wearing the dainty masterwork dancing slippers (because you have to go out in style, of course). Then again with that RNG luck, if kicking the well was an option, he'd probably break both his feet. edited by laskaris on 2/12/2017 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/laskaris
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Viola Posts: 4 1/29/2020	This wasn't accidental, but blackening my mind twice, when I was at early/mid-game, on my main character. I had barely touched my ambition. I'm still not a PoSI. The Watchful would have really helped me progress through Fallen London and unlock everything. Makes expeditions harder, too. Drawing so many Eyeless Skull cards didn't help, either! Maybe if my Watchful were higher I could do something with them (Nadir). But I also lost 45 crates of expedition supplies because I overestimated my Watchful. Sigh... Now I am just milling around, waiting for Docks favours. And drawing more Eyeless Skulls. edited by erudelle on 1/29/2020
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DonaghyLogan Posts: 205 5/11/2017	Argh! I spent weeks grinding Notability to get my Watchful to 207 in preparation for SotC increasing, only to click the wrong option on a dream card and have it reduced by 1 CP. Now I'm going to have to grind that Notability all over again! -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/DonaghyLogan - An eccentric, ambitious professor with a quite frankly unreasonable number of pets
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Lord Garuda Posts: 102 2/6/2019	I was impatient when finishing the Stiff Drink story and tried to aid the Widow with a Hastily Scrawled Note and 50ish chance of success. Not a massive loss, but it stings to lose out on 2000 Jade because I wouldn't wait for a bit. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Cora%20Seacoale - A Correspondent working towards her Heart's Desire. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Ronald%20Valente - A Rat-Catcher hunting the most dangerous prey.
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TheFungalOne Posts: 18 8/16/2018	New failure: being only one right answer short of buying Mr Wine’s Sceptre. -- The Fungal One
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Aberrant Eremite Posts: 362 3/23/2017	Well, I worked hard on those notes! Self-pity is very difficult stuff to work with! You have to inject exactly the right amount! Not like this, which is probably excessive! Edit: added an emoticon because conveying nuance over the Internet is always harder than I think. Siankan wrote: bjharts wrote: I have just successfully robbed the Brass Embassy with exactly 13 Casing (50% chance) five times in a row. Okay, the odds against that are high but not astronomical. But… I am deeply amused that you consider this a failure. (Yes, I understand why. No, this doesn't affect my appreciation of the irony.) edited by bjharts on 3/23/2017 -- Hieronymus Drake: Gentleman scholar, big-game hunter, scar-faced aristocrat. Remarkably sane, all things considered. Tanith Wyrmwood: Longshanks cat-burglar; Bohemian author; now, perhaps, something more. Bubbly, expressive, and affectionate. It’s not only still waters that run deep. Telemachia Lee: Gentle lady by birth, brawling Docker by choice. Good company in the drunk tank.
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Aberrant Eremite Posts: 362 4/14/2017	I just accidentally deleted a Mood Card which I'd been hoarding for months. Ah well, I'm not going to be ready for Courier's Footprint for a few weeks at least, so maybe another one will show up by then. -- Hieronymus Drake: Gentleman scholar, big-game hunter, scar-faced aristocrat. Remarkably sane, all things considered. Tanith Wyrmwood: Longshanks cat-burglar; Bohemian author; now, perhaps, something more. Bubbly, expressive, and affectionate. It’s not only still waters that run deep. Telemachia Lee: Gentle lady by birth, brawling Docker by choice. Good company in the drunk tank.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 7/29/2017	A matter of luck: it could go either way my **. If it can go either way you'd think I'd get lucky at least once in 10 tries. Stupid RNG. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler* now, like she always wanted.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 8/14/2017	Gah I'm tired of trying for this stupid yacht I'll just go and grind docks favors for a while instead... no I won't I don't have a ship stupid yacht -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Chronos Posts: 135 6/4/2017	I tried to fail the casing challenge in order to get to New Newgate, but so far I failed to fail four times in a row. EDIT: now five times edited by Chronos on 6/4/2017 -- Please don't send me harmful social actions main: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Chronos78 alt: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Chronos2
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Plynkes Posts: 631 4/17/2017	Not particularly painful for me, but very much so for my character: Just now failing a 92% chance four(!) times in a row, and getting half stabbed to death by young Lyme with a cheese fork. -- "Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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Plynkes Posts: 631 6/6/2017	Aaargh!!! The one time I'm in with a faction enough to get the 40 Renown item. The one time it doesn't feel so impossibly out of reach that I can't even be bothered trying for it. The one bloody time... And it's a flippin' Watchful +10 item for the weapon slot. The weapon slot! I already got something better for that from my job. AAAAARGHHH! Oh Fallen London, why you hate me so much? I'm going to crawl off into the corner and cry. -- "Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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Sajach Posts: 77 10/27/2016	I grinded up to rob the brass embassy and made the mistake to try and do it while I had a 90% chance of success. Of course I fail and end up in new new gate. Plus I was grinding to improve my shadowy and failing made me take a big hit to cp for that. edited by Sajach on 10/27/2016 -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Sajach
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Siankan Posts: 1048 12/30/2017	I've been holding two mood cards for weeks in preparation for my final sprint to Courier's Footprint. (No, I haven't discarded them--yet.) The last piece in my plan was the Magnificent Feast from Christmas. So, naturally, I entirely forgot about the Advent Calendar on Christmas Day, and not remembered that fact until just now. It is, of course, too late. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 2/8/2017	DonaghyLogan wrote: Tried to get a table at Dante's as part of FotER without checking the wiki - now I'm saddled with 3 Unaccountably Peckish :0( I feel your gastronomic pain. Three straight boxes of honey fungus truffle were bad. I spent quite a bit of time eating nuts of questionable origin before my stomach finally settled. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 5/2/2017	Not huge, but... ugh. Being close to acquiring a new address at the Bazaar, I've been trading in Appalling Secrets for Whispered Hints (about my least favorite Unfinished Business, but at least it gets me there). Twice today - twice - I have traded in an Appalling Secret and gotten in return... 1 Whispered Hint. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Siankan Posts: 1048 8/29/2017	gronostaj wrote: in comparision, it's not particularly groundbreaking in terms of gameplay; however, I'm not sure how is my pride ever going to recover after dying from being shot in the hand. Technically, I don't even think you were shot. I think your gun was shot out of your hand. Perhaps the stock whacked your head as it went by. -- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 12/17/2016	Virgilian wrote: All pails of snow so far...examined thru monocle with SotC 9. All failures. Sets me back a year. Painful. Ouch. This has inspired me to go do a bit more studying of the correspondence to get my SotC up to 10 before I look at any more pails. -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Pumpkinhead Posts: 516 2/1/2017	My seeker just hit SMEN 21 and is working on St. Arthur's. I just brought my other account back from Port Carnelian in the hopes of betraying them. I flipped a death by water card. What's this? There's an option unlocked with no SMEN. What possibly could happen if I play this? I wondered. Duh. It gave me a point of SMEN. ... and now I'm going to be freed from the name ... and I can't betray myself. I'm a dope. Edit: Actually, having gone through A Bad End, it turns out I already had a point of Freed. I forgot that I started the storyline back when I was naive. So I guess I was going to be disappointed anyhow. GAH. In any case, anyone looking to be betrayed? edited by Pumpkinhead on 2/1/2017 -- McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!) Amanda Albright is a spoiler now, like she always wanted.
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Dima Lazarev Posts: 172 3/22/2018	Dima Lazarev wrote: I shared dream of skies untainted with Mr. Sacks and lost a level of Persuasive. Being Paramount Presence, I won’t be able to restore it any time soon. Restored everything to 215 and then several days later accidentally looked in a wrong mirror. FML. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Dima Lazarev
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Koh Kai Ying Posts: 110 6/9/2016	I joined the game solely to act as a social action sink for my friend, then she went inactive when I came back. Boo! -- Illyria K is your friend!! More active nowadays. Eager for any social actions including Loitering!
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Slyblue Posts: 224 6/5/2017	Vincent Asmund wrote: Sixth time. Ouch... Straight from TvTropes: "According to some players on the Failbetter forums, it is better to work some extra real-life hours and use the wage to buy the 20 Fate and skip the gambling altogether, instead of spending time in the game to grind for Bribes." Still, perhaps the RNG will bless you in some other gamble. Someday. Hopefully, soon. -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 7/15/2017	I...I need a hug. I've been waiting for the Unsigned Message for ages. I had a Mood waiting in my hand, just for that card. I failed to rob the Bazaar--But fear not! I equipped my Nightmare-reducing gear. That's good. So, when I finally draw the card (Right after almost going insane), I switch my gear so I can equip the mood... And accidentally unequip the Nightmare-reducing ones. So now I'm insane, equipped with a useless mood that will definitely go to waste, and pretty sure the Unsigned Message won't be there when I come back. I think I'm going to cry. -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 1/1/2017	Siankan wrote: Second, the Nadir has been found, and I'm back out looking for more skulls. As an unfortunate side effect, all but one of my hand slots are filled with skull cards. At this point, the RNG decides to be nice to me and send me the dusty bookshop card - which means I either waste it on seeking curios, or I get no more opportunity cards until I get that ray-drenched cinder - Mr. Sacks included. I chose Sacks in the end. Naturally, then, about fifteen minutes into the watchful mood, my father calls me to tell me he needs my help. So much for that. Dude. I was about to comment something similar happening to me--Though I didn't have nearly as much...good...luck as you. To be fair, it was 6 AM, after celebrating the arrival of another beautiful year, and my brain thought it was a perfectly good idea to use the Mood card...and then go to sleep. Not only that, but I apparently used it on my characters' highest stat? Trying to get some Velocipede Squad things done, even though most of them are "low risk" at best. Yes I used it on the same guy that got his soul stolen by mistake. No, I swear, I'm not doing this on purpose just to show up here. It hurts. -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 12/19/2016	Skinnyman wrote: You can't know you enemy well until you see it's full potential! My thought on this is that you did well; you know what they capable of. Haha, that's certainly -one- way to think about it! Now, if these infernal beings would just take Mademoiselle's soul...She's been offering it on a silver plate for months. months Siankan wrote: In other words, ouch, that hurts - but it does bring with it some serious roleplaying gold. Your character now has an even stronger motivation for hating devils and the soul trade, and should you perhaps regain this mislaid soul one day, it will be a sweet, sweet victory. Wanna hear something even better, in terms of roleplaying gold? I made the same mistake (Thinking I was playing as Mademoiselle, the pro-devil one, instead of Maxwell), and the guy ended up being Closest To the Devils for ages. When I realized this, I rushed to take the option to sever his ties with Hell, effectively making him break into the Embassy to save a soul. No wonder the devils hate him enough to make an exception and actually take his soul, eh? Ah, you guys really make me feel better. Who knows, maybe he'll find his soul in a bundle of oddities one day, and I'll assume the AD just tossed the bottle over his shoulder after the deed was done. Pumpkinhead wrote: I find myself here yet again, lamenting my woes... I have been partaking in foolish activities, grinding secrets to be drowned. In the last week of grinding and drowning, I have sacrificed ~4000 appalling secrets, and in return, have increased SMEN by...1. Which was my free TtH point. The total is up to ~4800 appalling secrets and about two weeks wasted. Ouch...I feel you. They really weren't kidding when they said SMEN was unforgiving...I tanked my Seeker's watchful for a chance to get 1 point of SMEN annnd failed. Badly. Lost my sole Mourning candle, Watchful went from 70 to 40, and got exactly nothing. orz -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 7/2/2016	Oh dear...And here I was, beating myself because I wasted 3 points of free, freshly earned Fate by accidentally clicking on "Restock your deck". My condolences to everyone in this thread, man. -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Slyblue Posts: 224 8/11/2019	Accidentally got my Fasting and Meditating to a Foolish End up to 70K, instead of 60K. I-I thought the number was the key... -- The Smiling Devil • The Curt Licentiate • The Keen-Eyed Captain "For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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