Exceptional Story for June: Infernal Vice
"Welcome, fair Londoners, to this corner of Spite
Where the coffee is hot and the dangers are slight!
With the exception of a recent attack by a snuffer,
But since the victim had no face, we don’t know if he suffered."
What links a railway disaster at zee, a devil with many faces all the same, and the advent of the worst poet to ever commit violence to the English language? Unravel an infernal web of corporate malpractice and poetic malfeasance to unmask a conspiracy striking at the heart of London’s public works. Will you achieve justice for its victims, restitution for the dead, or even just compensation for risking life and limb listening to this benighted poetry? Remember, the devil is always in the details.
- Writing: Harry Tuffs
- Editing and QA: James Chew
- Art: Paul Arendt
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(pointing at the screen, at first like Leonardo DiCaprio, then like Wayne Knight) We’re doing William McGonagall’s ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’! This is William McGonagall’s ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’!
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I was just rereading The Wee Free Men, and I thought that might be the reference!
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The accomplishment text I got for my last choice in this story is one of my favorite things I’ve ever achieved in Fallen London, I have to say. I regret nothing.
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HARRY TUFFS //drops everything else
We all chose that last option, didn’t we? Of course we all did.
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You know, I remember a time in Fallen London where the narration treated it as a given you couldn’t out-box goat demons. Between the repeatable goat demon boxing event and now this, feels like every single Londoner has levelled up over time. Soon folks will be knifing them in alleys like a certain retired Rubbery Men option.
The Bishop of Southwark published an instructive pamphlet on the subject - outlining goat-demons’ common weak points, breathing exercises for resisting excessive heat and scratchy hair, and so on.
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My first reaction to the final choice was frustration a lethal solution wasn’t available despite having been very ruthless throughout the entire storyline (which otherwise is definitely my favourite ES this year, so far).
My second reaction was yes, THAT choice completely made up for it.
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I wasn’t 100% sure, upon reaching the last option, which one was being referred to (and also there were a few moments earlier that I thought were the last option, but no) but I’m 100% sure now, having chosen it, that I chose it. As it were. And I’m glad I did.
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