circe
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5/23/2013
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Well I suppose it isn't a killer but I didn't realise that after driving the Repentant Forger away (that painting - I had to know!) with the knowledge that I could strike up a friendship again in New Newgate it ended up costing me Fate.
I hadn't heard anywhere about the cost so it was slightly painful to use what I was saving for another option.
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Adding no Suppers without prior arrangement, with only 5 Free Evenings a week and being a Patron I can't accept them all.
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
5/26/2013
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The worse thing that could have happened: My work blocked fallenlondon.storynexus.com !!!
Oh, the humanity! I'll have to find a work around. Or maybe ask for some sort of mobile device for my birthday.
I guess that' not an in-game problem. It certainly nothing FBG can do anything about. Unless they want to change the ip address again.
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Finvara
Posts: 430
5/26/2013
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Technically this is a failure you experienced. So it belongs in the thread.
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Cookoo
Posts: 59
5/28/2013
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This happened in my earlier days, but while studying the correspondence stones, I ended up losing it in a game of chess with a deviless. I reckoned I only had a low risk of failure, but managed to fail anyway. Unlike many failures, it wasn't one I could easily rectify, or one I could simply try again, till an unexpected opportunity later involving using what was a lot of Muscaria Brandy, particularly for someone who had only just started making a name for himself, turned up. Typically, it then turned out that I really had no more use for the stones, meaning I wasted a lot of energy trying to retrieve them. It would probably have been more useful to just sell it to her.
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Flipz
Posts: 177
5/29/2013
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My biggest failure was taking a three-week break from FL during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose. It seems I could have gained quite a lot of FL lore, especially if I had just completed a few more storylines before the Festival had ended...
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Playersideblog
Posts: 397
5/29/2013
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Nigel Overstreet wrote:
The worse thing that could have happened: My work blocked fallenlondon.storynexus.com !!!
My goodness. How much time have you been logging?
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
Posts: 1372
5/31/2013
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For the SECOND time, I have mis-tapped on my little tablet and started the Affair of the Box over for Fate. Grrr.
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Finvara
Posts: 430
5/31/2013
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Oh ouch. That's really painful. All Sympathy for the accidental expenditure of a great deal of fate.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
Posts: 1372
5/31/2013
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Fortunately it's only 10. But THEN the RNG had me lose two hunt-duels in a row where I had higher stats--just now 130 to 100--and I'm thinking about shutting down for the day, because, sheesh!
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Flyte
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Posts: 671
5/31/2013
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Rough. Have you considered keeping your Fate in boxes? You'd need an alt and all your Nex would be turned into Fate, but it might save you a fourth Affair. Which actually sounds kind of scandalous.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
Posts: 1372
5/31/2013
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Heh. Scandal holds no terror for me!
That's a neat thought but I don't think it's necessary, this is the only thing I'm regularly clicking near that costs Fate without a confirmation screen (though, FBG, it would be really great if all Fate expenditures required one!). If I mess up again I may shut the barn door that way, though.
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
6/1/2013
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an_ocelot wrote:
Fortunately it's only 10. But THEN the RNG had me lose two hunt-duels in a row where I had higher stats--just now 130 to 100--and I'm thinking about shutting down for the day, because, sheesh!
Considering having a score of 300 only gives you an 80% chance of victory, I think 30 points is a pretty slim margin. Most K&C battles are about as predictable as a coin flip. The +1 given by the various medals is hardly even worth equipping, but you might need it for something else someday!
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Nigel Overstreet
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6/1/2013
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Playersideblog wrote:
My goodness. How much time have you been logging?
About once an hour, but I've been doing it since October and no one seemed to notice or care yet.
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Loon
Posts: 379
6/6/2013
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I seem to have misplaced my soul. On the first try! It's with my alt, though, and I don't think he really needs it.
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My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers.
My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Finvara
Posts: 430
6/28/2013
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Woohoo! I successfully got all four eyeless skull opportunity cards in my hand! Wait...this isn't the celebration thread...where am I? Nooo!
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darkbloom
Posts: 15
6/29/2013
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Was trying to earn rostygold in Watchmaker's Hill for my Gang of Hoodlums. Failed twice with Hard-Earned Lessons in a row (10 wasted actions & plenty of Wounds). So awful.
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
7/5/2013
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I used a mood card, the little bookshop, to raise my watchful by +30 and go on an expedition to the temple of utmost wind, the temple that costs fate to go to. It made the buccaneering approach straightforward 100%. So I thought I wouldn't need much more supplies than the minimum. I took 39 supplies, then proceeded to fail three 100% straightforward tasks in a row. My rival caught up to me right as my progress hit 29, and I didn't have enough supplies to confront them. Meaning I lost the treasure and all my supplies and action investments were for naught.
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Flyte
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Posts: 671
7/5/2013
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That's rather rough. Are you sure it was 100%, though? When I used a mood before the difficulty hike, I had Watchful 232 and I think the success chance was 92%. It would be much lower now. In any case, ouch.
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Finvara
Posts: 430
7/5/2013
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maybe not my greatest failure, but using up my favorable circumstances to discover that I needed to somehow raise my connection with the revolutionary firebrand or have 15 fate on hand, and thus actually losing my favorable circumstances with no gain, that hurt.
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
7/5/2013
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I was at 232 as well. I remember it as being 100%, but my memory isn't that great and 93% makes more sense in light of all the failures. So it was probably that.
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