Major Squiggles
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2/11/2015
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I started the game and got out of the prison. So far simple enough I suppose. I want to be watchful and I was told Ladybones road is a good place to practice. Done! I can't remember what button I managed to press but I manage to accidentally stumble my way to the opportunity and storylet page. I guess this is just how the story tab is going to be from now on. So just scanning some of the options I have I'm starting to get confused again. This opportunity deck thing, it says I have 6 cards waiting. From what I understand that means it's like a 6 card deck and drawing one is a random event. Storylets are events that are basically what it says on the label. I can barely understand where I am now so I figure I'll go with the storylets. The obvious choice for me was to find lodgings. Don't want to get caught by the constables for vagrancy. I don't know what that means but it sounds bad. I click go and it's nice enough to show you the story and give you choices before it consumes your action. It seems like you can preview storylets and only when you've committed to something does it take your action. I don't know what secrets are but I already made a post asking about all the confusing rent nonsense. Now of course the problems continue after choosing to learn secrets to pay rent. I click the go button and success! I learned the secrets, paid the rent, and now I've got a home. That's 1 action but that's ok. There's plenty more. Onwards! Decipher graffiti, listen to gossip, last constable, no maybe not now. I mean I got my new room I want to explore what that all does for me now. I think you're supposed to get more story stuff right? I can travel between my lodgings and ladybones road so let's see what that does. I'll just click perhaps not since I don't really feel like doing these things now and my opportunity deck and travel button seem to have disappeared. "Find somewhere to live!". Wait what? I just did that. Well crap it took my action and didn't save. That's fine 1 point isn't much anyways. Click, click, back. WTF it took another point but it still didn't give me my lodgings? I keep trying, I've refreshed the page but it isn't working. It's taking my points, and hell I even get to keep the experience for doing it but I just want a place to live. Is there going to be a penalty if I can't get my lodgings in time? I want to do other things but it seems like progression is just...bugged. What gives?
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dov
Posts: 2580
2/11/2015
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I've decided to check this out, so I've created a new character.
After escaping from New Newgate prison, you get a mandatory storylet (no other option available yet - not even to travel) which gives you a Magnificent Diamond and explicitly tells you "Sell your Magnificent Diamond at the Bazaar to raise funds!", and "Click the Bazaar tab to visit the Bazaar, where you can sell your possessions and buy wonderful things.".
Then you are moved properly to your location of choice (e.g. Ladybones Road) and can see the available storylets and opportunity card deck. Indeed, if you click Travel, your Lodgings is an option, which might be a bug. Travel does not consume actions.
Now there's the storylet called "Find somewhere to live!", which is unlocked by the "Homeless!" quality (which should have probably blocked access to the Lodgings). This storylet is Universal and iwll appear anywhere in London as long as you're Homeless. As a tutorial, it gives you 4 options to get what you need to get this Lodgings - each option corresponding to one of the 4 main character attributes, and to one of the 4 starting areas in London:
- Charm your way - required Persuasive, and directs you to Veilgarden to increase it
- Steal Whispered Secrets - requires Shadowy, and directs you to Spite
- Learn Whispered Secrets - requires Watchful, and directs you to Ladybones Road
- Earn Rostygold - requires Dangerous, and directs you to Watchmakers' Hill
Choosing to Learn Whispered Secrets (as you say you did) increases Watchful., moves you to Ladybones Road (if you weren't there already), and presents you with several storylets which can help you learn secrets. I think this is where you got confused. At this point you've learned no secrets yet and didn't pay rent. The "Learn Whispered Secrets" option simply put you on the path to get them. Choosing one of the options now available (e.g. Decipher graffiti") and succeeding the challenge gets you a reward, which includes "You now have 5 x Whispered Secret ".
Choosing an action on a storylet costs an action (unless otherwise specified). So choosing to "Learn Whispered Secrets" costs an action (it does increases you Watchful quality). And choosing to "Decipher graffiti" costs an action, etc.
Once you've played enough storylets in Ladybones Road to collect 15 Whispered Secrets, then the "Find somewhere to live!" storylet has new options in it: The "Learn" and "Steal" options are replaces by a "Rent a room" option, which indicates the 15 Whispered Secrets prerequisite. Choosing that option you get an explicit message that "You've lost 15 x Whispered Secret (new total 0)", and that you've moved into your new Lodgings.
I hope this makes things clearer.
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A B Nile
Posts: 414
2/11/2015
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I beg you to stop with the giant walls of text. I stared at the OP for so long I began to see Correspondence sigils behind it.
Fortunately more patient people than I seem to have been able to answer your question!
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Fairweather
Posts: 86
2/11/2015
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I think Fallen London can be a bit confusing at first. There's all these different cards, qualities, items and locations, and the writing's always keeps to the FL style, so it might not be terribly clear from a game perspective what's happening. The key is, when the card is new to you, to read carefully both before and after you click. You'll soon start to get accustomed to the different cards, and how the general gameplay works. It sounds like you just missed the fine print, so to speak.
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Diptych
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2/11/2015
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I'm not quite sure I understand the problem you're describing. Are you saying that you've unlocked your Lodgings - that, when you click on the Travel button, your Lodgings are a valid destination appearing at the top-right of the map - but the "Find somewhere to live" story is still appearing, and still deducting Secrets from your inventory when you use it? Do you think you could post a screenshot of the option you're playing and the result you're getting?
edited by Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook on 2/11/2015
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Diptych
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2/11/2015
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Honestly, this is just a simple misunderstanding. It's a tutorial of sorts, meant to show you how to travel to different areas and how to earn items (in this case, Secrets.) It gives you a quest - earn 15 Secrets to pay rent - and then sends you to an area where you can carry out that quest. Once you've earned 15 Secrets, you trade them in for your Lodgings and the quest is complete.
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Vine
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2/11/2015
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Also, if you look in the Myself tab, you'll find that there are whispered secrets in your inventory.
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