[color=#0066ff]From today, Londoners will have the choice of four members’ clubs to grace with their presence. Joining the Young Stags and Parthenaeum are:[/color]
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[color=#0066ff]Sophia’s[/color]
[color=#0066ff]The club’s Long Parlour is a place for knitting, tea, political argument, and showing off the head of one’s latest kill.[/color]
[color=#0066ff]A club for the monster-hunter who finds London’s other offerings soporific.[/color]
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[color=#0066ff]The Clay Tailor[/color]
[color=#0066ff]The most singular and the most fashionable club in London. [/color]
[color=#0066ff]Put on your richest, finest and best in the hope of being seen by those who love to be seen.[/color]
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[color=#0066ff]Pursue joining or changing your club in the Bazaar side-streets![/color]
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[color=#0066ff]We’ve also taken this opportunity to address a few places in the game where we feel the stories were a bit imbalanced around gender.[/color]
[color=#0066ff]These are:[/color]
[color=#0066ff]A few specific text tweaks describing what women can be allowed to do in London, which really don’t line up with the rest of the story or our intent[/color][/li][li][color=#0066ff]Replacing the profession name "Glassman" with "Silverer." This comes after much internal debate; we did discuss Glazier as well, but settled on this as being more specifically mirror-y. Also it’s cooler.[/color][/li][li][color=#0066ff]Unlocking the promised Clubs, which among other balance elements, are designed to partly offset the rather masculine tone of the current ones[/color][/li][li][color=#0066ff]Unlocking an extra branch on each of the extant club cards, for anyone who really loves their current club and wants to keep it. Something for everyone![/color]
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[color=#0066ff]Plus: An exclusive invite to the Temple Club[/color]
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[/color][color=#0066ff]In an unprecedented move, the clandestine and obscure Temple Club has opened its doors to the public.[/color]
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[/color][color=#0066ff]As an extra quarantine/state of everything treat for all players, please enjoy three invites to the Temple Club, on us. [/color]
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[color=#0066ff](This vanishingly exclusive club was previously only available by invitation from players who had backed Fallen London: The Silver Tree on Kickstarter.)[/color] edited by h4nchan on 6/17/2020
If you have a club, you can leave it from the Write Letters storylet in Social Engagements (next to Lodgings).
It looks like joining the new clubs follows the same flow as joining the old clubs: It begins by drawing a card. I just drew the one for Sophia’s, and will be updating the Wiki as I’m able. N.B. the requirements for the card (currently) do not require being clubless.
Do you consider joining the storylets though? Now there will be 3 always-present golden-border storylets “stuck” at Bazaar streets. Perhaps, they can be merged or moved somewhere?
If you have a club, you can leave it from the Write Letters storylet in Social Engagements (next to Lodgings).
It looks like joining the new clubs follows the same flow as joining the old clubs: It begins by drawing a card. I just drew the one for Sophia’s, and will be updating the Wiki as I’m able. N.B. the requirements for the card (currently) do not require being clubless.[/quote]
Looks the same to me for the Tailor. Is FBG allowing multiple club memberships?
The actions that let you join the club are locked with A Member In Good Standing. Playing the card unlocks a storylet in the Bazaar side-streets, that storylet lets you join the club (with extra steps for the Stags). While already clubbed, you can still play the first step but are locked out of the last one.
Good stuff. The old clubs always were a bit rubbish in RP terms. Thanks a lot.
Not ecstatic about "Silverer", but never mind. At least it isn’t "Glazier", which is a real job in the real world. Mr Iron would approve of it, though. edited by imeja on 6/17/2020
[quote=imeja]Good stuff. The old clubs always were a bit rubbish in RP terms. Thanks a lot.
Not ecstatic about "Silverer", but never mind. At least it isn’t "Glazier", which is a real job in the real world. Mr Iron would approve of it, though. edited by imeja on 6/17/2020[/quote]
Huh. I do not have anything that could be considered "steps." In the Clay Tailor storylet I have the "perhaps somewhere less demanding", which erases the connected quality, and "Suggest accepting with your Barrel with Leather Shoulder-straps", which gives a nice flavour text, but does not open any other actions. Is it a bug then that I do not have another step (as I am a Stag) or did I misunderstand something?
Joining the stags takes extra steps is what that refers to. You’re only seeing those two options because you already have a club. If you want to switch you need to first go to social activities, from there write letters and resign from your current club.
The new Clubs are pretty awesome. I also like how they’re distinctly Fallen London. The old clubs seem like holdovers from before the Fall. Which, there’s a place for that, and that’s one of the things that makes London what it is. But I’m happy to see institutions with Neathy roots achieve similar cachet (at least among some circles). They both feel like natural and essential parts of the setting.
Plus the Clay Tailor really speaks to me in a way that the Parth did not (even though I strongly preferred it over the Stags). I don’t really care about fashion usually, but fashion as a tool for causing people to doubt their beliefs? Fashion as a tool for subversion? I am on board with this with my whole heart and someone else’s soul.