Here’s this week’s thread for quick Fallen London questions!
The Bazaar’s conveniently located for Hell, and Hell’s envoys keep stalls and warehouses here. Which is great if you want to buy brass, obsidian, sulphur, hydrogen, devilbone or any of Hell’s other well-known exports…
So, where do I buy sulphur and hydrogen? (Not that I’ve any particular acidic uses in mind.) I’ve just realized that unlike brass, devilbone, and obsidian, I don’t seem to have any at hand…
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A good question! Perhaps the airships have hydrogen envelopes, so if you have one of those you implicitly also have the appropriate corresponding hydrogen supply…
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What we have here is the classic question of any video game economy: do the things we can buy and sell represent the sum of the things that actually exist within the fictional universe, or are they merely a functional cross-section?
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Silly me, I’d forgotten about airships! That certainly speaks to a solid representation for hydrogen. But sulphur… I’d expect a bustling trade in decorative crystals at the least, and surely some culinary or textilic applications out of Hell to round out the Infernal trade goods. Perhaps Sulphuric Skulls?
Or reagents for your Laboratory, or materials for eg vulcanizing rubber for your Velocipede.
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I’m going to assume that the Masters can claim the purchase of some imports before they’re available to the citizenry of London. Mr Fires has already purchased the next decade of hydrogen and sulfur production.
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Hello! I almost finished laying tracks, the only station left is the Marigold. My question is: is it worth not finising the line so i can have 2 board meetings instead of 1? I use them for 4x share dividents and 2x train in parabola every week.
From a storyline perspective, you gotta see this through. You’re gonna put the band back together.
From a mechanical perspective, Marigold ain’t all that much but it does give an irreplaceable piece of Red Science gear. But it’s also needed to build Tracklayer City. I don’t know what your baseline EPA is right now but I suspect Tracklayer City is a whole lot better.
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Now I’m realizing that I don’t know when sulfur matches were invented to make lighting the cities million candles and gas lamps more convenient….hm wikipedia says the first successful match was 1826 with prototypes of variously more impractical styles going back a good way earlier so thats likely a popular sulfur product by the time of the game!
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When they call them ‘lucifers’, they use the term advisedly!
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