Koenig
Posts: 466
2/16/2015
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A simple question for a not so simple audience; How did you come across Fallen London? Was it by pure chance? Were you actively looking for it? Were you invited by a friend? Was Google in a good mood? Or was it something else entirely? Simply put, I want to know what it was that lead you to this game and community.
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Koenig
Posts: 466
2/16/2015
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I was introduced to Fallen London by an episode of Extra Credits (A web series based on game development) focusing on non combat game-play. Had it not been for them, I probably would have never even heard of Echo Bazaar before.
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
2/16/2015
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A friend started playing it first. She didn't explicitly tell me about it, but we were chatting over AIM and she started making comments that led me to believe that she was playing some sort of text adventure games - one of those old ones where you manually entered the text. Naturally I started making ridiculous suggestions for what she should try until she revealed that it wasn't that sort of game. XD I asked for a link once she told me it was on a website, and have been playing ever since.
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Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome.
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Lady Eris
Posts: 162
2/16/2015
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I read Erin Morganstern's 'The Night Circus' and absolutely loved it. So when I saw, at the back of the book, 'Continue the story' or something like that (I can't remember the exact wording) and a link to the game, I investigated.
The Night Circus game was so perfectly evocative of the book and so beautifully done. There were links in the Night Circus to Fallen London, so eventually, once I'd played through the Night Circus, I thought, 'I might as well try that...', and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Lady Eris Psmith, Society darling, devoted wife. Dangerous when crossed. Accepts most social invitations. Distributor of Parabolan Kittens. Welcomes new acquaintances, especially those who write 'in character'.
William Templeton, Viscount Manningham, newcomer, gentleman, all-round good egg - accepting absolutely all invitations.
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
2/16/2015
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It was... coming up on five years ago, now. My friends were abuzz with this browser game that had this fantastic setting and, most amazing of all, recognised nonbinary gender options. I signed up, found that it was right up my alley, and, well, I'm still here. And, incidentally, the the setting's only gotten fantasticer, and the recognition of nonbinary gender options more sophisticated.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Rackenhammer
Posts: 354
2/16/2015
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I came here from that same episode of EC! Though I watched it a little later...
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Mathieu Psmith: The Bard of Lost Children, loving husband, and a fixture of the artistic set. Can never resist making a show of things...
Irene Psmith: Adopted Daughter of Mathieu. Specializes in Information, Acquisitions, and the Acquisition of Information.
Vaughan Montblanc: Once a frontiersman of Western Canada, he now practices medicine in London. His discretion may be absolutely trusted.
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bitterhorn
Posts: 61
2/16/2015
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I was harangued into trying it by a friend with whom I used to write for/administrate a MUD who quite correctly surmised that FL "Had [me] Written All Over It". Of course, they were entirely correct.
This person is currently very much enjoying the fact that they've figured out Ambition: E_____ and I haven't yet. BUT I AM STILL BUSY SOAKING UP ATMOSPHERE
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Marsh(-)mark(ed) thurifer, bookkeeper, &c. of Blackfen-on-Zee; Bazaarine aesthete, unnatural historian, thing-about-town.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/bitterhorn
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
2/16/2015
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A friend told me about The Night Circus game and from there I found Fallen London.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
2/19/2015
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Fairweather, the book is wonderful! (Actually, I listened to it as an audio book) The story is so rich ... that's the best word for it "rich." It is definitely art, not a light-read throw-away novel.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Lady%20Sapho%20L%20Byron
Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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Lady Eris
Posts: 162
2/19/2015
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It seems to evoke strong opinions - I don't know many people who are lukewarm about it. But I adored it - I loved everything about it. It's an exquisite book.
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Lady Eris Psmith, Society darling, devoted wife. Dangerous when crossed. Accepts most social invitations. Distributor of Parabolan Kittens. Welcomes new acquaintances, especially those who write 'in character'.
William Templeton, Viscount Manningham, newcomer, gentleman, all-round good egg - accepting absolutely all invitations.
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Reshemin
Posts: 226
2/19/2015
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I read an article about it somewhere (might have been RockPaperShotgun) somewhen around the end of 2010 I think. Decided it sounded like interesting and my kind of game, went and checked it out... only to find you had to have FB or Twitter account to play it. Said 'B____r OFF' and a couple alike things, left the page and wrote it off.
Until around early 2012, I stumbled (might also have been on RPS) across the information they had finally implemented logging in by Email. Had nothing better to do, so decided I might go take a looksee now. Have not left since.
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Fredward
Posts: 28
2/19/2015
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Dragon Age Inquisition. I heard about The Last Court from there, enjoyed it enough to try Fallen London. Tried that for a while but forgot about it and then eventually heard about Sunless Sea which has sucked me in a whole lot more successfully than I was expecting tbh.
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Johnny Felix
Posts: 180
2/25/2015
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I was brought here by Felicia Day, who recommended the game on her YouTube-channel, back in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOF9d3TqYqw
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Deanscig
Posts: 72
2/28/2015
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I was brought to Fallen London by Dragon Age. I tried the last court and I loved it so I decided to look up Failbetter Games and I found something called Fallen London and decided to try it and have since become addicted to it.
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dismallyOriented
Posts: 215
3/7/2015
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About a year ago, I was browsing TV Tropes when I saw FL listed under a page--I forget which. (The Topsy King was being used as an example.) The title looked intriguing, so I clicked the link and got slam dunked face first into a pile of lore. Signed up a day later and haven't looked back since.
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fortluna
Posts: 306
4/25/2015
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Saw this post, right in the middle of exam week. Ended up gibbering in my room about cats going through mirrors and fog in alleys.
Yeah, I didn't do amazing that year.
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