TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
11/2/2017
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Having zailed further across the Unterzee than any other*, only one worthy voyage was left to me: The River.
Not as exciting as the last mission: I just found an uncapped Wounds source in a place you can't die and clicked the same button many times. And it looks like Failbetter patched this, since today I was sent to the boatman long before reaching my goal of 77.
Continuing the worst tradition of all time, I missed the October Exceptional Story unlock to do this stupid failed stunt.
(The mantelpiece item is the ghost of a long-dead bug, just seemed appropriate to include at this moment when I am perhaps the weirdest profile in all fallen London.)
*Believe not the slanderous "evidence" from a thousand Admiralty vessels who claim I spent a year zailing in circles.
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Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens
Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
11/2/2017
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why do I congratulate you
does it not encourage you to do other absurd stunts?
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
11/3/2017
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It's either this or Seeking, so I'd say you're doing me a favour.
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Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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annalibertas
Posts: 161
11/3/2017
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Absurdly high wounds would be a nice place to hide an Easter Egg, but I'm assuming you didn't find anything?
Either way, congratulations on being so impressively dead 
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Julliah%20Randolph
Alt, will accept all social actions whenever I log on
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phryne
Posts: 1351
11/3/2017
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I mean, I don't want to rain on your parade, but... I did this once:
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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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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
11/3/2017
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Yeah, I think I saw you in the Achievements thread when I was deciding whether to do this mad thing. I'm pretty upset about getting kicked out before even getting a record, let alone the nice Eaten number of 77, but hey, zombie high five.
EDIT: @Anna, yeah, nothing so far. I haven't started the long climb back to the living yet, but as you can see I'm not the first to do something like this.
edited by TheThirdPolice on 11/3/2017
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And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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phryne
Posts: 1351
11/3/2017
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Btw, did you use the Iron Republic or another method? It would be really sad if it was no longer possible to raise menaces infinitely in the IR...
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Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
11/3/2017
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I used the "examine the machine" option in the Trial and Error exceptional story.
Failbetter explains why I died: "The storylet you were playing wasn't Must urgency, just a normal storylet which happened to link back on itself. As such, doing basically anything other than playing a branch would cause you to fall out of the storylet and run into the Wounds Must autofire; I can't tell exactly how it happened, but using an item or hitting Perhaps Not are fairly likely causes."
I think someone invited me to a wedding and I poked around my inventory looking for a nonexistent invitation item.
But now that I sent them an email about it, the Wounds quality for that storylet has been capped.
I know falling on the sword of my own stupidity is kind of the point of these stunts to begin with, but the @$#@ ES unlock system makes it so much worse.
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Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
11/3/2017
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TheThirdPolice wrote:
I think someone invited me to a wedding and I poked around my inventory looking for a nonexistent invitation item.
Glad to have helped :P
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I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
11/3/2017
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You better save me a slice of cake for when I wander out of the grave a month from now!
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And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
11/3/2017
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TheThirdPolice wrote:
You better save me a slice of cake for when I wander out of the grave a month from now!
Depending on how precise your tastes are, there might be a new wedding you can go to a month from now.
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I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
11/14/2017
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I'm aliiiiive
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Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
11/14/2017
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our condolences
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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Slyblue
Posts: 224
11/14/2017
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Welcome back to the world of the probably-living!
Scandal 77 when?
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"For hearts of truest mettle, absence doth join and Time doth settle."
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Bitty
Posts: 234
11/14/2017
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lol how long did it take you to come back? since you posted this?
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
11/15/2017
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Yep, I've been hanging out with the Boatman several times a day since then.
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Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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