You can go to Hell if you’d like of course, but the traditional route is by train—death in the neath is far too messy a business for the devils to get involved in
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In fact, selling your soul prevents you from following the Road that leads to your permanent elimination…
My worst mistake: nonchalantly selling my soul to devils before starting to Seek.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go back to grinding Bundles of Oddities looking for my soul. The Hunger burns…
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If it’s any consolation, you can’t actually get rid of devilish advances with a success on that card. Even if you succeed, you will still draw it again. And again, and again. Devils are very persistent…
To dismiss the devils with your soul intact, you need another card which is only available during the Feast of the Rose.
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And just this morning, One’s Public unexpectedly brought me
Something Unexpected…
A Stain or seven would look good on it, don’t you think?
I’ll let you judge if it was a lucky or an unlucky turn of events.
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Lucky, unlucky, such terms are arbitrary. It was quite unlikely, however. Still, you now have your soul with which to do what you wish.
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I accidentally bought a corusating soul with scraps
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Just like normally, some of the text might not make sense, but that’s it, I don’t have my soul and died several times, nothing different happens
not more so bad luck than extreme improbability, but my alt one-shot the 30% check for the yacht. To this extreme fortune my body decided to mutter, “holy frickin’–”, get up from my splayed position, tumble onto my back, get back up again, then spider-walk all over the bed like a b___dy animal and get up on my knees whooping over RNG’s dead body.
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I recently checked the wiki for “A mysterious gentleman”, to see if it was actually succeedable, as I failed the 40 percent task 16 times in a row.
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Welp, I accidently sold my Cartographer’s Hoard at the Rat Market. Guess it’ll be back to the Lab grind for me.
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my condolences. Maybe you can check to see if you have enough Cartography items to just quickly make one at the Docks!
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I did, I don’t.
It’s nothing tragic, I doubt I’ll need to have one anytime soon.
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It might be useful up on the roof sometime soon, you never know.
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“Soon” in this case not being in the next two weeks.
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After my cooldown from my first glimpse of Anathema, it only took me two runs for the rare Anathema card to show up.
But I didn’t have a key. And I wasn’t able to get one. Eventually my hand got filled with cards that would discard my hand and I was forced to leave behind my extra-special book of double-forbidden crimes and grab a regular book of boring forbidden regular crimes instead.
That was ten runs ago. I still haven’t drawn the card again.
Don’t me like me, kids. Steal early, and steal often. Make more noise in the library so you can pickpocket the guards.
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He did say he’s sorry a few days ago! 
Always! And always keep a key!
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I would never accept an apology from the RNGods out of heart, if it were up to me.
Then again, I did just pass six 70% checks, so I really shouldn’t complain.
On the topic of this thread, I’ll just say I once managed to fail 14 50% chances in a row when attempting to do something at court. I don’t remember specifically what, but I’ll also add a particularly nasty instance of bad luck too:
Classic Short Story. 80% chance. Failed Three Times in a row, costing me months of Trade Secrets to grind up again each time. On the fourth try, I just went all the way to 100% just to be sure.
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Just failed two out five 99% Dangerous challenges (Boar and Lacre).
I could’ve used Second Chances, sure. But I thought, “Nah, 99 % is safe enough.”
And after the first fail, I thought, “Well, surely that’s not gonna happen again.”
Only in Fallen London. 
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I don’t remember any really bad luck, but in terms of misclicks, it’s probably when I was trying to set up the Church in the Wild at Burrow-Infra-Mump. I decided to decorate it in the Neathy fashion, so I got my portfolios of souls, brass skull, amber, glim, and 3 verses of counter-creed and sailed back out to Burrow. Shortly after I got there, I drew A Jurisdictional Dispute, and decided that I could use some more scrip, so I sold one of my verses of counter-creed.
It was very recoverable and I just had to sail back to London to grind up another verse in the Sunken Embassy, but still. Whoops.
Also I’ve accidentally ended a Railway Board meeting early because I clicked the only action available to me, but that’s probably universal.