I got twelve coins. Seems I was somewhat lucky, considering that I gave three or four joke-answers.
Anyway, I think I’ll take the cat, a queer soul and the Fragment of Tragedy Procedures. If I want to have a Judgement Egg, I get one in Sunless Sea ;).
I maintain that “Fingers, amongst other things” should be a correct answer for what do the fingerkings want. ;)
Damn, I really want to know what I actually answered now, because I’m not certain on a few. But either way, even assuming the worst, I can’t find 7 wrong answers in the list that would warrant my 13 coins: even the most pessimistic assumptions on what I wrote come up at 6 (including putting in “Wych”, which I’m not even sure I did, and completely messing up Mr. Sacks which I might have done but I’m not certain). An optimistic assumption says I should have 16-17 coins, more realistically maybe 15.
Maybe my lengthy explanation that the Bishop is hiding “Mr. Hearts, disguised as a Wings-of-Thunder bat from the Elder Continent” got filtered out early and never got read by a human, or triggered some “Wings-of-Thunder bat” filter designed to immediately weed out answers claiming it’s literally just the bat. Or maybe my explanation that snuffers need wax for sustenance, to replace the wax-wind etc. etc., also got lost due to being a bit too rambling. It feels a bit harsh and unfair, especially since I’m not the only one even in this thread who seems to have gotten penalized for not writing laconic, substanceless answers.
And certainly Wych Street bums me out, because I’d have expected FB to appreciate the extra length players went through to find the proper obscure street, especially since Aldwych literally did not exist before the Fall.
Any word on the Discord whether a softer ruling on Wych and the War of Illusions, and perhaps a second look at the longer and more rambling answers, might be considered?
I’m totally not sore that I missed out on the really cool sceptre and don’t even know why.
I’m gonna join in with the Wych Street complaints - investing time and research into figuring out the proper street only to be told that Elderwick was instead a street that wouldn’t even exist until ~40 years after the Fall in 1864 is highly unpleasant.
While I do understand the sentiment behind not requiring too much geographical knowledge, and do not mind Aldwych being marked as a correct answer, punishing players for actually putting in the research to figure out the time of the Fall and the streets that would have existed at the time just seems absurd to me.
There was a theory that Aldwych was the name of the area pre-fall, even though it wasn’t the name of a specific street. I never saw a source for that, but maybe that’s the answer?
I am shocked and a little disappointed that the Great Game has such a pedestrian goal, to be honest.
Considering the relatively long deadline for turning them in, am I right in assuming there may be ways to obtain more Regnant Coins in the future, especially with the holidays coming up? I got 10 coins this time around, and would rather not spend them now only to find out I could have gotten the Sceptre if I had waited.
Yeah, that was my guess. Drury Lane used to be called "Via de Aldwych", and the whole area between St Giles and where Drury Lane meets the Strand was known as "Aldwych Field". Wych Street was quite short and insignificant compared to its neighbours, but it was part of a much larger neighbourhood that’s had the name "Aldwych" attached to it for centuries.
edited by Sir Frederick on 8/16/2018
[quote=Daedalus_Falk]I am shocked and a little disappointed that the Great Game has such a pedestrian goal, to be honest.[/quote]Pedestrian? These coins apparently "underpin the laws of the universe". (I wonder how the Bazaar got them, though.)
Where’s that echo from? It’s quite… dramatic. Somewhere Fate-locked, or an Ambition?
Where’s that echo from? It’s quite… dramatic. Somewhere Fate-locked, or an Ambition?[/quote]
One of the Destinies, I believe.
Sounds like a Destiny to me. Judging from the text, it’s one of the revolutionary ones, the one where you take advantage of the dark for robbery.
Ah, makes sense then.
I got 12 coins (on my main, and 11 on my alt, oddly-- not sure how that happened, other than in the course of not making the sets of answers seem like copy-paste jobs I modified one answer slightly too much) so no Scepter for me. I already have an Egg and Fragment*, so I might skip those for multiples of other things, or just get one to sell. Or just get 12 cats.
*The Egg and Fragment would be a good pub name
edited by Tintinnabulum on 8/16/2018
I’m just grateful I got 9 Coins; so many of my answers were offbase, and I really wonder about the clues to some of them. The Great Game is played for the “secret currencies in the Bazaar’s vaults”? Really?
I got the cat and the judgement egg… but now I cannot find the egg in my inventory. I can sell it all right, so I guess it is there, but I cannot for the life of me locate it. In what category is it supposed to be?
Curiously enough, someone in the discussion thread actually did suggest the vaults as an answer, based on this snippet: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Fortune's_page . Most players though (including me, alas) thought it was something more abstract.
Not certain where the "secret currencies" came from, though… Perhaps we were supposed to extrapolate based on this snippet and on the Destiny incerteza quoted above?
[quote=Jolanda Swan]I got the cat and the judgement egg… but now I cannot find the egg in my inventory. I can sell it all right, so I guess it is there, but I cannot for the life of me locate it. In what category is it supposed to be?[/quote]Academic.
Nope, not there. I am on the beta site, though, so this might explain it. Time to sent a ticket. Thank you all!
…though a refresh forced it to show up. Just in case someone is having the same problems.
So, I’m a bit salty about all of this, so I hoping that I share this in a constructive matter.
My first problem is actually with the whole reward system. Mostly because by having exclusive rewards that can only be earned by exclusive currency. Which might be okay, if it wasn’t for four of the questions basically being unanswerable using current clues. Those questions were fine the first time, when fate was the only reward. They gave us fun little teasers for future content and help fuel are mad theories. But with the coins and all that, it’s turned what was mostly bragging rights and crazy theories into serious business. My lesser two complaints it that the specter is too expensive, especially with nobody getting more then 16 coins, and that I’m sad the coins are permanent items. I need more silly currency for my collection of surface coins and fake first city coins.