Commiseration: Our most painful failures

Tell that to the Rubbery Man.

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-…

I only wanted to kill that damn demonic goat. 70% chance. Three failures in a row.

I hate that goat.

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

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

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

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!

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.

I had the nadir of Nadir runs (11 irrigo and nothing to show for it), got a single digit amount of souls per action from UB 6 times in a row, exploded 5 weasels, and gave my most precious dream to Schlomo (&quotspoiler-free&quot, my derriere).
Not a good day.

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.

&quotThat’s hilarious&quot I said. &quotWho could possibly die from being shot in the hand?&quot

And then I took a Velocipede Squad to the knee
edited by Slyblue on 8/29/2017

Don’t you hate that little, snide comment about “this challenge is old territory for you!” Yes, but – still dead.

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 &quotpublic humiliation&quot 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

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 &quotCome to the assistance of Dr F______&quot 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

[quote=dariuseng]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 &quotCome to the assistance of Dr F______&quot 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[/quote]

I came here to say I accidentally threw the Amanuensis on his oily little ear, but this… is something else. I feel your pain.

That would be precisely the thing, and I am so very, very sorry.

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.
:(

My painful failure was that I got 7 consecutive fortunate results on the &quotSteam Boldly&quot 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.

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