Ambition: Enigma [OLD]

Fallen London
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[quote]An occurrence! Your ‘Ambition: Enigma’ Quality is now 1!

Please don’t share the answer liberally or trivially: do by all means share clues.[/quote]The Enigma Ambition is real. I’ve put it on my mantelpiece; here’s how it appears on my profile:

I’m going to respect the request not to just share the answer, but will say the following things:

[ul][li]Finding it takes more than one step;[/li]
[li]I would not have done so without a discovery shared by LordPaido on IRC;[/li]
[li]The moments between my last surmise and actually acquiring the quality were of unalloyed excellence, and I wouldn’t want to spoil them for anyone.[/li][/ul]I’ll try to answer questions helpfully, so long as I can do so without detracting from the potential fun.[li]
edited by Alexis on 1/13/2014

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Hah, wow, this is pretty awesome. Congratulations, Flyte! I see that I’ve woken up to no small excitement.

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Woah,amazing. Time to go mad searching for it . Before i start though : Is it Fate locked in any way ?[li]

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[quote=Antur]Is it Fate locked in any way?[/quote]No.

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Do any of the steps involve leaving the main London map (the map being the places you can quicktravel to)?

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It is another an access code. I am calling it.
Ah, why must such exciting things happen at 3 a.m.? I hate time zones.

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Stunning, Flyte. Congratulations.

I don’t think I want to change now, so: do you have the opportunity to back out once you’re clearly on the right path?

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Well, it looks like he has Enigma alongside Nemesis, so I don’t think changing is involved at all?

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Laluzi, duh, thank you–I didn’t actually look closely at the image, obviously. Hmm! Interesting.

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Is Enigma SMEN related?

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No. Flyte is not a Seeker.

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Yes, what Laluzi said – it’s filed as an Ambition, but doesn’t replace your existing one. And getting the quality doesn’t require Seeking Mr Eaten’s Name or any other SMEN content.

[quote=Saharan]Do any of the steps involve leaving the main London map (the map being the places you can quicktravel to)?[/quote]I’m pretty sure there’s no way to stumble on the quality, so I don’t think anyone would profit from travelling to unusual locations without a clear plan in mind. I’m not going to say whether or not such travelling is in fact necessary.
edited by Flyte on 1/4/2014

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I admire Flyte’s ability to stay coherent instead of just flailingly gesturing towards his mantelpiece like I’m doing at the moment.[li]

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[color=#009900]Oh, excellent! Well done, folks. This has made my evening. Thanks for respecting the request in the solution.[/color]
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[color=#009900]I’m mindful of how frustrating people found a previous treasure hunt, so I’ve scattered quite a number of precursor clues (nearly sixty, in fact, although most of them are identical) to make it a slightly less binary experience, and allow future generations to stumble on it. Apologies for any frustration: but this is not, and will never be, an essential part of the game, or even of Mr Eaten. (EDIT: there is a little bit of content in the Ambition, but don’t count on many updates, either.)[/color][li][/li][li]
edited by Alexis on 1/4/2014

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Well the wiki clue was amusing at least. The hivemind still has no idea what this all means.

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As I googled the Enigma Ambition, it spat out this interesting little mantlepiece. Judging from the content of her journal, this lady probably have not played in a long time, but she has Ambition: Enigma at 5. Could it be that the Enigma Ambition was something that has always been there?

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe she is a past Failbetter staff member! Hence also having the Key of Dreams, which is a developer-only item.

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Belia, she once worked for FBG.

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That user also has the Key of Dreams, which is the developer key that allows one to edit Storynexus worlds. They worked on the game!

E: Pipped twice.
edited by ashdenej on 1/4/2014

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That’s a dev account. Only FB has Key of Dreams.