Weekly Questions, Beginning 28/08/2017

Splendid, thank you all for the great advice! I will give it a try straightaway. I had a feeling that my Primordial Shrieks-gathering method couldn’t really be it, EPA-wise.
And while Affair of the Box IS indeed my money grind of choice, it is currently too slow for me regarding Plaques - I am eager to get ahead with Scholar of the Correspondence, and that eats up Plaques faster that the Affair of the Box can give them to me in the short run.

If they accept (and they don’t have to), they are treated to the most gruesome text in all Fallen London (and that includes Jack-of-Smiles and Seeking) as they slowly eat and enjoy all parts of the head.

It really should come with a warning.[/quote]

Oh dear. And there’s no option for the sender to realise that the head is not fresh anymore and needs to be thrown away… At least I warned my recipient.

Do they get the same rewards as a regular dinner though?

No.

You can see the various results here.

Thank you! I couldn’t find that page in the wiki. Maybe I should keep my hands off my stash of Baptist heads then. Oo-er.

If they accept (and they don’t have to), they are treated to the most gruesome text in all Fallen London (and that includes Jack-of-Smiles and Seeking) as they slowly eat and enjoy all parts of the head.

It really should come with a warning.[/quote]

I don’t suppose you have a link to an echo? Since K&C is shuttered, I don’t know of any other way to see it.

If I’m understanding you right, you don’t need K&C to get counterfeit heads - you just need to have your plant be below level 19, then one of the cards allows you to harvest its fruits.

[quote=Daedalus_Falk][quote=dov]If they accept (and they don’t have to), they are treated to the most gruesome text in all Fallen London (and that includes Jack-of-Smiles and Seeking) as they slowly eat and enjoy all parts of the head.

It really should come with a warning.[/quote]

I don’t suppose you have a link to an echo? Since K&C is shuttered, I don’t know of any other way to see it.[/quote]
You were warned :-)

enjoy.

[quote=dov][quote=Daedalus_Falk][quote=dov]If they accept (and they don’t have to), they are treated to the most gruesome text in all Fallen London (and that includes Jack-of-Smiles and Seeking) as they slowly eat and enjoy all parts of the head.

It really should come with a warning.[/quote]

I don’t suppose you have a link to an echo? Since K&C is shuttered, I don’t know of any other way to see it.[/quote]
You were warned :-)

enjoy.[/quote]

Thanks!

Unaccountably peckish is rising…

The thing about fruits is the plants want them to be eaten, at least insofar as to spread the seeds.

What, I wonder, naturally eats human heads?

Ambition: Enigma question.

I have no idea what is tiger talking about. Should i read &quotThe Aleph&quot by Borges?

PM sent.

what doesn’t? every scavenger strong or smart enough to crack the dome of the skull would be all over these brains in a hot second, and for those who can’t open the skull, the eyes are still a delicacy. (and they taste or feel nothing like brussels besides, @failbetter that’s just culinary defamation. Eyes are more like Lindt Lindor candies made of flesh-fat instead of chocolate.)

I’m more curious as to why the fruits take shape of john the baptist’s head specifically. do these plant actually understand references to other works and decided severed head would be amusing and relevant in this particular shape? did these plants actually read the bible? or at least seen the movie adaptation?

it feels like it’s something meant for humans rather than animals, so the real question is who naturally eats human heads?

I always got the impression that the fruits just look like a random european dude and people just started calling them heads of John the Baptist for some reason. Remember that the real John would look rather middle eastern, not like a white guy.

yeah, but i’m assuming the plants didn’t know john personally so if they would do it on purpose, they’d probably have based it off the most popular depictions. actually, it looks a lot like the head in the seville cathedral museum. almost twins, really

My Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold is 54. Is story ended? What can i do except waiting for Skin of the Bazaar card?
edited by Waterpls on 9/3/2017

Is there any way to cancel a chess match if it isn’t your turn? My partner hasn’t been online in a month, leaving me in a lurch and unable to play with others. I’ve contacted support, but I have yet to hear back from them - how long do they normally take to reply to tickets?

Yes, you can cancel a chess game from your Lodgings in the Watchfulness storylet.

Yes, you can cancel a chess game from your Lodgings in the Watchfulness storylet.[/quote]

I thought so too, but…

Yes, you can cancel a chess game from your Lodgings in the Watchfulness storylet.[/quote]

I thought so too, but…[/quote]
Yes, that’s an issue with all multi-step social actions. You can cancel, but not if the match/sparring/whatever has reached its final step. That’s the stage in which one of the participants (usually the one who initiated the activity to begin with) needs to just play the action which concludes the match and applies the results/rewards/penalties to both players.

Presumably it’s so that people don’t realize they’ve already lost and cancel/withdraw before the results are applied.

However, this has two problems:

[ul][li]1. As you’ve noticed, if one player just doesn’t respond anymore, both are stuck in this match.[/li][li]2. It’s possible to know where you stand in the match even before that final step, so this doesn’t &quotprotect&quot against all abuse anyway.[/li][/ul]This would have been solved (or at least greatly mitigated) if it was possible to engage multiple other players simultaneously.

For now, you have no alternative but to await FBG support to manually free you. They are usually very responsive, but there’s a high variance (i.e. they might respond within the same day, or it might take weeks). If it’s been a while, I suggest that you send them a followup email to query about it.


edited by dov on 9/3/2017

Whoa, that’s terrible. Are there seriously people who’d rather use up an action for abandoning the match (and lose not only the already invested actions but a permanent chess partner, too) rather than use up that very same action for conceding?

When the Liberation comes, they won’t be numbered among the comrades.