The FIdgeting Writer and Unreliable Glimpses

Fallen London
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I’ve just started the Case of the Fidgeting Writer (and can’t any further at the moment due to low stats,) but was confused by something. The description of the &quotGlimpse of Something Larger&quot mentions a Jade Bird, although the prior description has a red bird. Is this an error, or have I just not gotten far enough to understand?

I just was about to send in a bug report and hesitated due to thinking perhaps it’s not a contradiction, just me not knowing enough about the matter instead. Since it seems odd that someone else more conversant with the lore wouldn’t have reported an error before me.

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Huh! In every other reference I can remember to the Bird-Snake-Cat trio the bird is red or cinnabar, if the color is mentioned at all. (And looking at that storylet again, it seems like a reference – ‘a mottled man, a bird of cinnabar, another with snakes instead of hands.’) It’d be an odd mistake, since ‘jade’ for ‘red’ isn’t exactly a typo, but perhaps there’s something to it that hasn’t been revealed yet.

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Well, thanks for confirming that it isn’t something simply known to every other player except me. Typo report sent, so I guess we’ll find out if it changes.