The struggling artist from city vices only keeps coming by, because he really needs his regular beating.
Of that, I have no idea, and will allow others to finish this thought.[/quote]
I’d guess 10 inches or 10 centimeters- inches makes an 11 stub candle a slightly used foot-long candle, while centimeters makes for more reasonable estimates.
Of course, they’re probably not a unit of length but volume, anyways. (Candles exist in 3 dimensions, after all, and we have no evidence of widths being standardized, as if they all came off the same assembly line.) if we assume each stub has a volume of about 1/22th of a liter, it makes a full candle pretty big- reasonable- and makes a full mourning candle worth, i believe, equivalent to around 23 normal candles, making them a luxury item- also reasonable.
Now, we could assume stubs are smaller, and it would make sense.
Why do people use mourning candles? I bet most wouldn’t use them if they knew where they came from.
Pretty sure they smell good. why this would be the case is in question, but that’s part of it. I think they also have other useful effects.
I suppose it’s also possible that they’re cheap, or that foxfire smells no matter how hard the candlemakers try to hide it, or that they melt slower.
I’m sure they have their reasons, and the knowledge of their sources does seem to be common knowledge. I mean, encouraging its purchase makes your scandal go up.
Now, I worry certain individuals might be unknowingly commuting anthropophagy if they don’t know.
Oh my goodness. I must cover my dolls’ ears!
But I should also suggest this fact to the Maestra when she returns from her visit to the Royal Bentham. I’m certain she’ll find it most interesting.
I wonder if Mourning Candles are extra tasty to snuffers. Do they have a ranking in which type of candles they like the best?
Mustn’t allow them to develop a taste for such candles. That might lead to the more zee-faring variety of Peckishness.
Pretty sure they smell good. why this would be the case is in question, but that’s part of it. I think they also have other useful effects.
I suppose it’s also possible that they’re cheap, or that foxfire smells no matter how hard the candlemakers try to hide it, or that they melt slower.
I’m sure they have their reasons, and the knowledge of their sources does seem to be common knowledge. I mean, encouraging its purchase makes your scandal go up.[/quote]
If I remember the card correctly, they actually smell like lilac.
Another question for our most exceptional little community, why does the message for your weekly payment quote what seems to be the Neath’s version of the Bible?
Of that, I have no idea, and will allow others to finish this thought.[/quote]
I’d guess 10 inches or 10 centimeters- inches makes an 11 stub candle a slightly used foot-long candle, while centimeters makes for more reasonable estimates.
Of course, they’re probably not a unit of length but volume, anyways. (Candles exist in 3 dimensions, after all, and we have no evidence of widths being standardized, as if they all came off the same assembly line.) if we assume each stub has a volume of about 1/22th of a liter, it makes a full candle pretty big- reasonable- and makes a full mourning candle worth, i believe, equivalent to around 23 normal candles, making them a luxury item- also reasonable.
Now, we could assume stubs are smaller, and it would make sense.[/quote]
The thing is, items ingame are not strictly based on quantity - sometimes, they use a large number as a stand-in for high quality goods instead. A good bottle of wine could be Broken Giant, or perhaps abstracted as 150x Greyfields 1844.
Clearly each candle stub takes ten minutes to — hm, no, that’s odd, they seem to be growing. Shuts door to wax vats and steps away slowly.
I always assumed that the quantity of items is less linked to their actual quantity, but to their price. As in, 100x Candle Stub equals to as much candle can be sold for the same price as the wax of 100 candle stubs, 150x Greyfields equals to as much wine costs the same as 150x the price of a bottle of Greyfields and so on. Even then, it is a bit abstract, as you can’t be realistically expect to hoard 500 bottles of wine (plus all the other items) in a smoky flophouse, unless those bottles are very tiny.
I think that the large numbers of robbed drunks due to the “Rob a drunk” storylet in Spite caused other players to go undercover in “Foiling footpads” for the Velocipede squad in Ladybones Road.
The Neath may be propulated with exceptionally strange, depraved, and subterranean Victorians perhaps, but we are still Victorians. The socially proper pieties and proprieties must be observed, particularly in the workplace. Business as usual, with alterations.
Absolutely - Britons are known for their love of sects, and Fallen Londoners no less so. If anything, there aren’t more recitations of Bible verses about the virtue of toil - though I dare say the prodigious output of St Cyriac’s Illuminated College and their revised editions outpaces the average Londoner’s capacity for memorisation.
Do you reckon there are heroic Brits and Americans from the surface who bring proper bibles down with them to the Neath?
Er, sorry, Sir Fred, seemed to have misclicked the down button there.
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No worries! And, I don’t recall anything to suggest that traditional bibles are actually proscribed - God’s Editors’ concern seems to be that Surface bibles might be completely inaccessible to the younger generation of Londoners, with their references to sunlight and oxen and gardens of cucumbers and other phenomena that Neathizens have never, and may never, see.
Well, that’s a good thing! Have bibles filled with things that are unfamiliar to them! Not good to have their minds so closed and not broadened, not knowing about the strange wide amazing world up there.
D’you know, I agree. If we’re not learning something new from any given text, what’s the use of it? Obviously, there’s always going to be some deviation in the text when it’s adapted - every translator is a traitor, and all that - but I’d sooner swing toward adhering to the original text and providing informative annotations than toward a complete rewrite.