Returning after a long absence - Where is SMEN?

Fallen London
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I took a long break from the Neath, but returned after Sunless Sea came along.

I left while SMEN, working on S/S/C step, apparently after losing my soul for the 5th time. I recovered my soul, but have yet to draw the card I need to lose it for the next trip around the merry-go-round.

Am I needing to be in possession of certain objects in order to be eligible to draw the card? Or was the SMEN line changed? Or have I just been unlucky not seeing it in over 3 weeks?
edited by Zee! on 1/24/2015

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Alas, while you were on a break, SMEN went on a break as well. Currently there is no way to progress it, but the powers that be have stated that it will return in the future, subtly but irrevocably changed.

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SMEN is currently disabled pending some reworking of the more troublesome spots. The most recent addition was apparently bugged to hell and back and caused some people to lose a huge amount of progress for absolutely no gain, so they took the story down for a while to fix that and some other problems. I believe the last word on it was that it should be up “soon, but not that soon”.

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Curse ye! Your title made me think Seeking was coming back and I got all excited.

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I left shortly after K&C came back - when the Waxwail Knife had appeared and was presumably connected to continuing the SMEN storyline. I can understand disabling the latest content they’d added, but I’m surprised they disabled it even as far back to the S/S/C step. :( Well, guess I’ll work on something else since neither my Ambition nor SMEN is going anywhere.

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[color=#009900]This isn’t quite accurate. I had been running it as a personal out-of-hours project because it lost us money to do commercially. Consequently, it was explicitly unsupported, no customer service, abandon hope all ye who enter here. It became apparent that wasn’t a workable approach, so I put it on indefinite hiatus. [/color]
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[color=#009900]I still hope to bring it back, but it has to be de-fanged to be commercial content, we’ve had other priorities the last year, and it’s been harder to find time now the company’s grown. Maybe this year.[/color]
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[color=#009900]More (much more) here: http://www.failbettergames.com/seeking-mr-eatens-name/[/color]

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Much thanks for the reply kind Tiger Sir. :)

I’ve been reading some of your posts and understand that Fallen London (and StoryNexus) have been going through some troubles during my absence. I regret in some ways not being there through it - not that I alone could have helped keep the books in the black, but that I was one among the many people who had to step back from FL and SN. I do burn out even of exceptional games like this, but I’m glad that Sunless Sea brought me back because it underscored just how much I enjoy the writing and stylistic elements that go into your world. I recently dragged 3 other friends into it - mostly by incessantly describing how many quirky and fun things it involves.

I enjoy finding out that there is so much more to explore in this world … I was delighted to visit places in Sunless Sea that overlapped with my Zee-faring in Fallen London, and also discover so much more lore about the world.

But every time I pass through Void’s Approach I know … I know there is something that aches in me to know more about the mysteries of the Drowned Man.
edited by Zee! on 1/24/2015

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I’ve adjusted the post title to hopefully be a little less confusing to future forum browsers.