Is there any benefit (other than role playing) in refusing absolution?
Wow, that was indeed epic. Well done. My echoes start here (with an interruption for Hallowmas).
Here are direct links to the final three bits of lore:
At the end, I asked about the Mountain ; here’s the Thief of Faces; and here’s the Bishop.
I don’t believe so, but note there is no benefit to choosing absolution other than the effects of your specific choice. If you don’t have any quirks you want to adjust it’s probably best to just wipe your menaces.
How does one… [spoiler]become a statue?
Edit: I’m in the Garden and have a Griswine, but don’t see any particular place to quaff it.
Edit edit: …in the Vineyard, I mean.[/spoiler]
edited by Dr Strangeyoung on 12/2/2015
Hmm. Rereading the thread… It looks as if the way to be a statue involves joining your deputy in said state? I talked my deputy out of it, but thought I’d be able to choose independently. Oh well! Can anyone confirm/deny?
Has anyone tried awakening a statue with something really expensive? I’ve only used the usual Greyfields wines…
Thought about it… Whether the snuffer won’t be upset if awaken with Tears of Bazaar.
But then I thought again.
My character is not prone to that kind of self destruction, just to try long shot things. I am no Nitebrite.
I used strangling willow absinthe and didn’t notice any change. But I suppose attacking the person who shoved it in your face is a fair reaction.
An application of Black Wings Absinthe resulted in neither a more nor a less Vake-ish aspect to the awoken, from my experiments.
That’s really strange. It would seem to defeat the whole purpose of having different levels of “Intoxicating”…
Presumably at some point there may be a story that requires a higher level of Intoxicating – say 6, at which point you’d need a rather expensive item. Intoxicating is nice because it means “just have some kind of wines item” at a low level like the one needed for Flint, but that’s not the only use; the new qualities-of-items seems like a system that they’re going to use for quite a few things.
The easiest way to think of these “select an item with a quality” storylets is that they add an “this OR that” requirement into Fallen London without needing to have a ton of identical branches. Before Intoxicating, every time you woke a statue you’d have to have 12 different branches on the storylet, called “Pour the statue a sip of Greyfields 1879” and “Pour the statue a sip of Greyfields 1882” and “Pour the statue a sip of Morelways 1872” and so on and so forth. It’s a shortcut to avoid that tedium, but also allow flexibility, so you don’t locked out of options while far away from the Bazaar, as would’ve been common if it only accepted 1879.
For the Bishop’s final offer …
Does anyone know (or can anyone confirm) if removing the Stains on your Soul will ruin your quest for the Name, or if you can do so safely once you’re past that stage of Seeking?
edited by Asclepius Unbound on 12/3/2015
About the Huz and the bleeding forest -
When I hit 8 x little comforts, the option to trade these comforts with The Huz popped up. Which was nice! I’m just wondering if any other hidden opportunities will reveal themselves if I linger in the bleeding forest, manipulating the various expedition qualities.
I’ve had a lovely time here, but if there’s nothing else to see, I think I’m finally ready to move on.
I’ve encountered what may be a bug but before I report it I just wanted to ask about it here.
After you go back to Apis Meet after the Grey Vineyard, did you encounter an automatic storylet called “The Gracious: Was All Well?”, which removes your “All Shall Be Well” quality? If so, at what point did you encounter it? When you first arrived back at Apis Meet or at the end of the first day or when you left Apis Meet or some other time?
I encountered it when I tried using a second chance. And every time I used a second chance and "perhaps not"ed out of the branch it would fire over and over and set the Tree of One Day to the morning
Hey everyone, this is my first post to the forum. I don’t know if anybody can help me at all but I’m really upset and I thought I would try seeing if anyone here has any ideas before I send a tear-filled email to the Failbetter team.
I just finished Flint. And on the very last Storylet, asking the Bishop for absolution, when I made my choice, my Internet connection went out for a little bit. That page was stuck in a "loading" loop. I tried visiting some other websites in different tabs and nothing was loading. I disconnected and reconnected to the Internet, and now I can load other pages… but the Fallen London tab never displayed the result of that final storylet. When it finished loading, it showed the normal header and sidebar of the Fallen London site, but the middle section, where the storylet and the options and everything are, was completely blank. Opening a new tab and loading Fallen London, it loads correctly… but talking to the Bishop is not available. I’ve already done that and completed the story so it’s not an option anymore. I just never got to read the results of that last storylet.
I really want to read that final piece of Flint. I understand why there’s a prohibition against posting fate-locked content. But I’m left pretty stuck. I have no idea how I could possibly regain that storylet and experience the conclusion.
Does anybody have any idea of how I might fix this? A way to read something you’ve done but weren’t able to record in your journal? Any method at all to see what I missed? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I haven’t completed Flint myself but you should be able to find someone who echoed the conversation with the Bishop. Just look back in this thread for someone who chose the same ending as you and see if they echoed it or maybe someone can PM you the text.
Having previously travelled with other Deputies, playing this story as Juniper with Silas as her Deputy was… completely hilarious. Silas, you old dog.
Oh, definitely. Silas was awesomely hilarious and I hope he features in more stories in the future.
PM sent to improbableone.
At the end of the story…
I chose to know more about the Thief-of-Faces, and I don’t regret my choice, but I am also insanely curious about the Mountain of Light. Did anyone record the storylet about the Mountain in his/her journal ?
I need to know, I need to know, before it consumes me…
Damn, I wish I already knew Silas. You get the Acquaintance somewhere during Sackmas, right ?