It’s well past the time when I would have expected an opportunity to acquire another confession on this weekday. Did the Mayor notice that confessions were being tossed into an incinerator, and decided to interfere, forcing someone at Failbetter Games to write up a new storylet?
Not only that, but somebody’s moved all my companions around…
I just picked up my confession for the day, same as last week. Last one tomorrow.
Yep, mine came at last. Don’t like the rearrangement of my companions, though. Did I miss something?
All the equippable categories seem to be alphabetical now. Good change in my view - much less time trying to figure out where am item I want to equip is!
Perhaps–but it should happened next week! Making it tough to keep track of which I’ve upgraded and which I still need to upgrade this time around–
Also the old way was kind of a history of what order stuff came in–
edited by Tay1or on 11/5/2018
Hmm, I prefer them being categorized by addition to the game (presuming that’s how it was organized before). I can appreciate them being alphabetical, but I wish you had the option of choosing.
According to the friendly code wizard, items being rearranged is an unintended result of some back-end changes and will be fixed (hopefully) soon.
Oh–that’s good! I really preferred the old order.
Yep, item reordering was an unintended side-effect of a gory (but necessary) update that we deployed earlier today. I’ll deploy a fix tomorrow, so tell your Abecedary Aardvarks etc. to enjoy their brief and unearned prominence.
Social actions no longer falsely report zero actions remaining so thank you for that.
I did notice, however, that items are leaving ‘ghost’ icons with Quantity 0 on the Possessions tab, and not showing new items until browser refresh.
I noticed it while converting up the Fidgeting Writer items.
edited by Shalinoth on 11/5/2018
She certainly wears a lot of makeup, this I grant. As for being old… well, that’s for spoiler tags. I will say, however, that few of London’s citizens were around when the Duchess was in her late twenties. The Masters. The landlord of everyone’s favorite hotel. Perhaps a few others. Not the Widow. And certainly not you.[/quote]
I meant physically.[/quote]
Ah. You mean that she appears to be a young-ish woman? That makes rather more sense.
[quote=Siankan]snip
Ah. You mean that she appears to be a young-ish woman? That makes rather more sense.[/quote]Young-ish, ancient, what’s the difference?
Want to pop here and say that the story from this event was more that I thought we will get! As a dream-lord, I adored this intro and can’t wait for the continuation of this story! This adds to the 77 mogs and two new exquisite felines!
Well done, FBG, well done!
She certainly wears a lot of makeup, this I grant. As for being old… well, that’s for spoiler tags. I will say, however, that few of London’s citizens were around when the Duchess was in her late twenties. The Masters. The landlord of everyone’s favorite hotel. Perhaps a few others. Not the Widow. And certainly not you.[/quote]
I meant physically.[/quote]
Thanks. I have not advanced as far in this game as you, but allow me some remarks.
- In this strange world, where physical age does not make sense, the concepts of old and young are more likely a characteristic of the soul. One can be born already old and one may die still young.
- There is some lore and there is an avatar, and all this together creates a character. If something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then undoubtedly it is … a cat. Simply it is well disguised. But inside it is white and fluffy.
- When you hide under the mask who are you? The mask or the one who is inside. And if it goes on for so long?
It is likely that a year later I change my mind because I’ll know much more. But for me here and now the duchess appears in the image of "an old lady with cats". By the way, in our real world, this role can be played in twenty, there would be a desire.
Well, if you want to know about souls, you’ll want to call up the Devils. However, we are talking about very real, very literal age. The Duchess was born
roughly 3,200 years ago, give or take a few decades.
Of course, you are precisely right in implying that the Duchess is much more than just an old lady with cats. Not that belies the fact that she is, in fact, an old lady with cats, of course.
edited by Siankan on 11/5/2018
I’ve liked this Hallowmas! The Mayor taking the Lady’s Progress was a bit of a curve ball, but ah well.
The companions are phenomenal, though unique portraits would spice things up. Where’s the bow on the August Feline? :)
Love love love the Rosers story! I’m waiting with bated breath for more.
I appreciated that grinding for confessions wasn’t a part of it this year. I admit, I have mixed feelings about grinding and Christmas.
I love the stories with the Mayor more and more. Mysterious character. Every interaction with him seems to speak new volumes.
Well, I made an alt to see if I vould get those much needed Violence confessions for myself and a friend. I got 5 Confessions of Guile in a row… I’m starting to think RNG for this Hallowmas is a bit… Off.
None the less I really like this Hallowmas, even if it lacks the ability to grind for new confession!
Cheers!
edited by Honeyaddict on 11/6/2018
@ Honeyaddict
It was the same last year – there was a shortage of one particular type of confession. But honestly, you should put this in the thread for the worst disappointments!
We should establish a Club together.
edited by Jeremiah Oathes on 11/6/2018
6th[/quote]
I really hope Failbetter will simply let us choose our last confession. It could be a rather hectic day otherwise.[/quote]
The festival ends on the 7th, at noon UK time, so Wednesday morning of that timezone is the last opportunity.