“May I?” he asks, and he holds out a paw, his claws beckoning. He kisses the back of your hand. A second greeting follows – a waft of perfume, musky and floral at once.
The Rattus faber do not have a king, but the self-declared Prince of All Rats has the manners, bearing, and ambition to rule – and a personal interest in your acquaintance. Will you help the Fifth City to accept his claim? Will you pledge your own self to his cause? His coronation grows closer by the day, and with it, the crown he so desires…
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Memories of a Tale from each story to spend on exclusive companions and items
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I’m like 5 actions in, this is already promising to be a wild ride. I’m clipping this action because it’s one of the most Fallen London of all time. Next time someone asks what Fallen London is like, this is what you should show them by way of explanation.
We have been friends with rats. Enemies with rats. Sent rats through the post office, live and dead. Manifested the holiday of Ratmas that even now still see some celebration. Collected a worrying number of employees, associates, and rat shaped candles. And now, in culmination of the fondness for all these rats, at long last: Yes, you can marry the rat.
So I am very happily married and am deeply disturbed by delusional declarations of love from a complete stranger who knows me only by reputation, so OF COURSE I declined his proposal. Only to then be REQUIRED to join an anarchist’s plot against him, on the grounds that he is already my enemy – despite having assured me that this was not the case, and my own belief in his sincerity and general lack of animosity towards him. I don’t THINK it should necessarily be mandatory to either marry or destroy everyone who seeks to marry you.
huh I also declined his proposal but was not forced to side with the anarchorat (though I ultimately chose to, I dislike being conned into deals with devils) – did you also refuse to be his advisor?
Yep. In response, he stiffly and awkwardly left, and almost immediately, on the street outside I was accosted by the Anarchorat – who demanded my assistance in destroying him. And literally the only option on the storylet that was enabled was the one to agree to help her plot against him. So I did.
Ah I see. Well, kinda awkward, but if you’ve refused to help the prince rat out at all, the only way to engage with the plot left would be to work with the anarchorat even if it was a little tonally weird. Unless you actually want to just be able to opt out the story entirely…
I mean we’re not talking about a regular marriage proposal here, this is a royal marriage proposal. Those have different rules. I’m like 70% sure that rejecting one actually is legally equivalent to a public insult and declaration of allegiance to one or more rival states.
Some of us remember an ES where you could choose a particular course and end up going home early with the upcoming sea voyage almost entirely cancelled (Tauroktonos maybe?)
I enjoyed this ES, the rivalry and the background on the crown. I would love to have more interaction with the story though, often felt like a one-way street just click-to-the-next-stop.
