What. (are the things under the City?)

tystefy · January 4, 2018, 4:40pm

Literally a couple minutes ago, this snippet appeared on my sidebar:

What are the things under the City?

                  In no particular order, these are said to be: the first Four Cities; the Masters' summer homes; the hatcheries of the Rubbery Men; and a number of gigantic sleeping beasts which are drugged every year to prevent them awakening and destroying the Neath. These are sometimes referred to as the 'stone pigs', but that's probably some sort of mistranslation.

What.

I. Have. NEVER. Seen this snippet before, and I’ve been playing for three years at least!

This is so much lore! So much spoiler! So wow! Very amaze!

This is an OUTRAGE!.. well, no. Not very anger-inducing… but It is something! I already know all of these things through my years of playing Fallen London AND Sunless Sea, only to have them casually mentioned in my peripheral vision years later! What?!

optimatum · January 4, 2018, 7:09pm

Yeah, that snippet’s been around a while.

A lot of the sidebar snippets are like that, really - rumors about the Correspondence especially. Mostly nonsense, snippets adjacent to fact, and a grain of the truth.

turbosnowy · January 4, 2018, 7:42pm

Yeah pretty sure I’ve seen that before. Read about the sleeping creatures and put it down to fever dreams and misinformation for which Fallen London seems rife. Until of course I found out that the Stone Pigs actually are there and drugged and asleep and would destroy the Neath if they woke up. This revelation caused turbosnowy to briefly raise an eyebrow before turning to the sports section to check on the shroomhopping fixtures that afternoon. Always worth a flutter…

tystefy · January 4, 2018, 10:03pm

We need an Exceptional Story where we house-sit for The Masters.

Yes. ALL OF THEM. AT ONCE.

It’s what they would do, right?

optimatum · January 5, 2018, 4:33am

Well they live in the Bazaar, so it’s only one house. Does an eldritch space crab need to be house-sat? Only time will tell.

odinall-father · January 6, 2018, 7:56am

Now that would be a strange baby-sitting job…
(Turns out 95% of the Lacre is the remains of the Bazaar’s previous nannies.)

anchovies · January 6, 2018, 5:46pm

The winds are wild, the lacre deep, the snarling stones awake from sleep…

catherineraymond · January 6, 2018, 5:55pm

[quote=Tystefy]We need an Exceptional Story where we house-sit for The Masters.

Yes. ALL OF THEM. AT ONCE.

It’s what they would do, right?[/quote]

Cleaning up after one of the Masters’ wild house parties would be…interesting. Kind of like working a party for Mr. Wines, but much more so.

amalgamate · January 6, 2018, 6:23pm

That snippet’s been around for ages. I remember it from the like five years ago.

Also, the second part of it - about the masters summer homes - is not supported by anything else yet and so could be false.