Hannah Flynn
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10/26/2015
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Hallowmas has come to Fallen London. The ancient confessional practices of the Feast of Masks are once again in vogue!
New for Hallowmas 1893
This year, all players have a new way to engage in the entirely safe tradition of confessions at Hallowmas.
For the first time, you can gather confessions from familiar Fallen London characters (and some who are visiting from Sunless Sea).
Every day until 31st October you'll find a new face in London at noon GMT, ready and willing to confess to you. Each will only be available for 48 hours.
Be warned: many of the Neath's great powers will be interested in the secrets you gather. Whether you honour the trust placed in you, or betray it altogether, is your decision.
Trust or betrayal?
Take confessions from your friends, and share your secrets in turn.
Until 2nd November you can gather confessions from other players, and confess your own errors.
After the 2nd of November, the masks come off and you will be able to choose whether to keep the confidences you've gathered, or betray them.
Participating will give you Spirit of Hallowmas, which you can trade in as the feast closes for rewards!
Look for the Confessions at the Feast of Masks card in your lodgings to begin!
A glimpse of a possible future...
This is the season of unexpected guests bringing portents.
Destinies give you a breathtaking insight into your possible future and the deepest mysteries of the Bazaar. You can only acquire or change them at certain times of year.
If you’re open to an unexpected guest, you'll need to attract attention. Begin with Attract a Visitor at Hallowmas, available throughout London.
When your Making Waves and Nightmares are 5 or more, Visitors at Hallowmas will become available.
Invite them in, and when you’re done, retire to your lodgings to dream...
The Spirit of Hallowmas
London loves a scandal! The more Spirit of Hallowmas you’ve accrued, the more column inches you’ll grab.
All of your Hallowmas exploits - confessing, taking confessions or acquiring a destiny - will grant you some Spirit.
Soon, Mr. Huffam will be about, looking to interview Hallowmas revellers for his Unexpurgated London Gazette.
What will your secrets warrant? An unattributed quote? Or the front page headline?
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yubsie
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11/3/2015
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I am pretty sure that by the time I finish accepting all these confessions, I will in fact be leading the revolution.
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Erika
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11/4/2015
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For anyone interested, I've reached 1000 Spirit.
(Since this image will eventually expire, if you're looking at this a few months from now and want to see, message me for the image)
Or you can view it on my profile which you can find via my signature.
It's important to note that I would not have been able to do this without the help of the Starveling Café and its patrons (I've sent out 74 unique cats so far! And I hope just one more person needs one for confessions...). I've also recieved a total of 267 confession requests, and I hope I can accept 200 of them by consigning closing. There's a few non-PoSI confessions in there, so if I'm lucky I might be able to accept 220 or something, so it's not like I'm reaching this solely on the backs of others.
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Cash DeCuir
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10/27/2015
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Hello, Hallowmas Revellers!
To clarify the wonderings that have gone on here and elsewhere, we're announcing the full Hallowmas schedule in full.
We began yesterday, on the 26th. As in years past, this first part of Hallowmas has the citizens of the Neath approaching each other for confessions. It also allows those souls who've held onto confessions for a year to re-address them; either burying them for good, or otherwise selling them off.
This phase will end on the 2nd of November. Starting from this point, you will decide what to do with the confessions you've gathered this year.
On the 9th, this festival reaches its conclusion. Players will no longer be able to decide what to do with the confessions they gathered this year. Likewise, the social invitations to confess will close. Be sure you've accepted all invitations to confess by this time; and make sure you've addressed what to do with all the accepted confessions you've gathered, too!
It is also on this date that Huffam will begin visiting Hallowmas revellers. Be sure to see him before the 16th.
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So, in summary:
26 Oct - Nov 2: Approach others for confessions.
2 Nov - 9 Nov: Decide what to do with confessions you've gathered.
9 Nov - 16 Nov: Visit with Huffam.
edited by Cash DeCuir on 10/27/2015
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Kaigen
Posts: 530
10/28/2015
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Can I just say that I really enjoy how this event has people using actions that are normally pointless to solve new problems?
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malthaussen
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10/28/2015
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I'm certainly enjoying poisoning total strangers!
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Hannah Flynn
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10/26/2015
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The Genial Magician stares at his reflection. His reflection stares at his hook-hand, and sneers.
The Genial Magician is reflecting on an old folly this Hallowmas. Visit him in the next 48 hours, for a confession of curiosity.
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
11/6/2015
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Its totally fine to buy secrets, it doesn't decrease their waves. And since burying gives trust 2 you can devour the trust 2 next year for the +6 spirit. Only betraying to the masters or society prevents this from happening.
I buried a lot of confessions last year myself, as I wanted scraps for an item I needed to purchase a 5 card lodgings (which I couldn't otherwise get at christmas due to my stained seeker soul). So bury away, its perfectly harmless 
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Kaigen
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11/3/2015
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Well, I picked a good time to royally botch a Heist. Got enough Suspicion to clear out the rest of my Confessions of Whimsy and avoided a trip to New Newgate in the process.
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Hannah Flynn
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10/26/2015
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It's the same as previous years. You can still accept confession invites after the 2nd, you just can't send new invites after the 2nd.
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Koenig
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10/28/2015
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Side note: I find it interesting how, now that I am devoting to something else and unable to quickly grind for wine materials; that a "A Presumptuous Little Opportunity" shows up so frequently. I swear that opportunity card has been imbued with a consciousness of its own that just so happens to be hell bent on driving me mad.
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Zareen Bakara
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11/4/2015
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Natalie H. wrote:
What are you using to build up menaces that quickly?
Duplicitous social actions like duping and poisoning are helpful in this regard. A thread has been set up in which people coordinate sending and receiving these actions: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic20921-hallowmas-idea-get-your-poison-here.aspx
The combination of poisoning, a starveling cat, and a sporing bonnet is especially quick. You must start off at 3 wounds (which you can acquire however you like, including via the starveling cat.)
[0 actions] Take off bonnet and put it back on: now at 1+1 nightmares.
[2 actions] Pet your cat twice: now at 2+1 nightmares, and you've also gained 2 CP of wounds.
[1 action] Accept a poisoning, for 10 CP of wounds (total 12).
With three actions, you have gained enough nightmares and wounds for one confession. Also, as you gain a total of 12 CP of wounds, but each confession only removes 10, you only need to accept 5 poisonings for every six confessions of pride. That's 2.83 actions to raise menaces per confession of pride.
In terms of whimsy, taking off and putting on a pirate's hat puts you at 1+1 suspicion. Two successes or one failure at "Reaping the Academic Benefits" in the Forgotten Quarter will bring that up to 2+1. Then one action to accept a Dupe request will take care of your scandal. That's three actions to raise enough menace for your confession of whimsy. If you fail "Reaping the Academic Benefits" frequently, this gets even quicker.
Overall, then, if you coordinate with others, Pride confessions are slightly quicker (assuming no failures at "Reaping the Academic Benefits"). However, I think that Whimsy is better overall, since each "Reaping the Academic Benefits" success will give you 15CP of Revolutionaries, Society, and Bohemian connections.
Edit: I took too long to explain this, whoops.
edited by Zareen Bakara on 11/4/2015
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Snotra
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11/6/2015
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I am trying to consign all confessions made to me, but the options lock, as if I have no confessions, when I know there is always one there. When I hear the next confession and try to consign it, there are two confessions to choose from. I choose one and then the option is 'locked' again. This is not a POSI thing as I am consigning confessions in the order they were made. My options seem to like keeping one in the barrel, as it were. Is anyone else experiencing this? I have had a different glitch this week, (which I reported, poor elves must be very busy though) so it would be handy to know if I should report this too.
Thank you NiteBrite and everyone else who organized us this Hallowmas. I think your work has wrought more than you know. I doubt the level of participation would have been anywhere near as high without all of your efforts; and with so many new connections having been made the fun shall no doubt continue, as people have found new friends to RP, or simply be social, with. Applause from this quarter.
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NiteBrite
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11/7/2015
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My advice is to follow your heart. If you want spirit, go for spirit. If you want masters, go for masters. Possibly, please respect the 'do not betray' list if at all possible. Betrayal out of the blue may offend some people, so be advised that is a risk you take, but you are free to take that risk if you so desire. The choices are yours and yours alone :-)
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
10/28/2015
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I wonder if we can do something with these NPC confessions beyond just listening to them - although I probably won't flaunt them even if I am really curious about their potential reactions to that.
Like, it'd be cool if suddenly all your crew in Sunless Sea start complaining how they confessed and got betrayed by a thousand people.
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Dr Cop
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10/28/2015
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NiteBrite wrote:
Koening, unless you use dupes or have a stockpile of blocking absinthe, it will use about 5 action to grind menace and one to accept. 120 a day for 5 days is 600 actions. Divide 600 by 6 and you get 100 confessions that you can accepting this way. You can be more efficient and use more actions than 120 a day and accept some more. Optimally you could accept 144 confessions in five days.
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If you wanted to get really OCD about it, it's possible to cut this down to 3 actions using confessions of pride. You'll need a sporing hat and unaccountably peckish between 2 and 6:
* 1 action: Accept a confession of pride
* 1 action: Convince a friend to poison you for ~10CP wounds (you'll need 3 wounds to start with, but that's fine; just don't let it drop down too low)
* 1 action: At the Duchess' salon, attend and speak of... terrible things for +4CP nightmares. Equip the sporing hat, and you're ready to accept another confession.
Attend and speak of... terrible things adds +1CP unaccountably peckish, and locks at Unaccountably Peckish 6, so you'll eventually need to eat some roasted chestnuts for 1 additional action. This should reduce unaccountably peckish enough for another few runs.
Rinse and repeat!
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Also worth pointing out: over at Mahogany Hall, you can 'Take to the stage, a strange hunger in your belly' (from Wednesday's show) for 4CP suspicion, 4CP scandal, and 4CP nightmares. But this requires you to grind up to 'tales of mahogany hall 10' first, so it's only really efficient if you have a high 'Tales of Mahogany Hall' quality to start with...
edited by uli on 10/28/2015
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Koenig
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10/28/2015
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You know...at times like this I wish Fallen London had a way to divide sent and received messages as well as tally them so that we could better keep track of our social actions. It would make it much easier to plan accordingly.
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The Speeth
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11/3/2015
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yubsie wrote:
I am pretty sure that by the time I finish accepting all these confessions, I will in fact be leading the revolution. oh dear. Please don't liberate anything if you can help it. Well, the Honey Prisoner, sure--but no states of eternal darkness, yeah?
Please?
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Sara Hysaro
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11/3/2015
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I've hit 101 Confessions! On top of the 128 Spirit I already have I should be hitting 500 Spirit. Considering that I only started out with around 40 from devouring last year's Confessions I'm feeling fairly accomplished.
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dov
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10/26/2015
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Hannah Flynn wrote:
Until 2nd November you can gather confessions from other players, and confess your own errors.
Hannah,
Can you please confirm whether accepting pending confession requests will still be possible after November 2nd?
(the current thinking is that, to maximize efficiency, one should only send confession requests for the first 5 days, and only then start accepting pending ones. If the mechanic has changed from past years, it would be a shame for many players to lock themselves out of actually accepting such requests on time).
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Estelle Knoht
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10/26/2015
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When I look at the list of social actions, I feel like being swept away by waves of despair or something like that.
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Grenem
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10/26/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
When I look at the list of social actions, I feel like being swept away by waves of despair or something like that.
You're a popular young lady. At least you're not nitebrite- I'm sure she's drowning in them now,since she's active on the forums and the top entry on a list of people to contact.
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Ian Hart
Posts: 437
10/26/2015
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Koenig wrote:
Since I already have a destiny and lack the discretional fate to spend on a new one, is there any reason to use the "Visitors at Hallowmas" Oportunity card?
(This one)
Based on the wiki, the bundle is just the right value to potentially get your soul back, so if you've lost it and would like to sell it again, that could be valuable.
I've heard sometime around now there is a fate locked option to sell your soul for very rare and valuable items.
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dov
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10/26/2015
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
Unless you just feel like collecting Tiny Cave Fish I don't see any reason to use it after you have a Destiny.
Which might be worthwhile. If De Gustibus returns, these tiny fish can be sold for a Magnificent Diamond each (worth 12.5 echoes).
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Nigel Overstreet
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10/27/2015
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Gonen wrote:
\Where did you get the 12th as a deadline date for anything (and not sooner, for example)?
From the Confessions at the Feast of Masks storylet:
"If you have gathered confessions, you can now choose to keep or betray them. These options will be available until the 12th of November."
Presumably, the ability to accept confession requests ends when your ability to do anything with those confessions ends.
After that, Hollowmas as we know it ends and Mr Huffman begins to ask about you for the Gazette.
Unless I'm very much mistaken.
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Scienceandponies
Posts: 247
10/27/2015
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Question:
I'm tempted to explore the Visitors at Hallowmas card, but I already got a destiny (a fate locked one no less) from the drowning feast. If I clicked through the various options for the flavor text, is there anything to pick on the Possible Futures card for someone who doesn't want to give up their current destiny, or would I essentially just be throwing those actions away?
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Scienceandponies
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10/27/2015
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Nigel Overstreet wrote:
You can't reset your Destiny without Fate.
There is an option on the card to get a random bundle that's useful if you're looking to get your Soul back.
You can also get a Tiny Cave Fish, which you can trade for a Magnificent Diamond at some point in the future.
Unless you're keen to do that, I'd save up your actions for sending and accepting Confessions.
Well I grabbed the tiny fish just because. I just finished my zubmarine two days ago, so I'm not really sure what I would even need magnificent diamonds for anymore. Doesn't hurt to have them in reserve though. If there's really nothing I can do with the Possible Futures page other than reset my destiny (which I really DON'T want to do) I guess I'll just buckle down and send out confession requests.
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Danko
Posts: 142
10/26/2015
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Yay! My first Hallowmas.
Two problems:
1) I have no idea what to do and I don't have much time to play at the moment.
2) I want to send as much confessions and acquire as much spirit as possible!
I've read that there's very limited time to send confessions so I'd be very thankful if anyone could point to me what exactly do I need to do to send them and get spirit. I have no idea what do I even click and time's wasting 
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Koenig
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10/26/2015
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So I take it is best to hold off accepting any invites until after it is no longer possible for people to them? Thus maximizing the actions that can be put towards confessions?
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Zareen Bakara
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10/26/2015
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It looks like, once non-POSIs reach Confessions 6, they can no longer send out invitations for confessions. So, from then on, they're entirely reliant on the initiative of others? Am I missing something?
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genesis
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10/26/2015
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dragonridingsorceress wrote:
Sorry for the repost, but since we've wandered over to a new page, I don't want it to get lost:
dragonridingsorceress wrote:
If I have a Destiny, but want a new one, do I have to use Fate to get the "Visitors at Hallowmas" card, and then again to reset my Destiny?
Visitors at Hallowmas is an Abundant card with no unlock requirements. So it will come regardless of whether you have a destiny. I have a destiny and am holding VaH card in my hand right now. Considering the card is Abundant, 10 Fate to expedite it is a bit hefty in my opinion....
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lady ciel
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10/26/2015
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Sorry I don't know the answer to your question DragonRidingSorceress I hope someone else can help.
Yes non-POSIs are capped at Confessions 6. I'm trying to decide whether it is worth starting my Non-POSI character on the road and hope to get the cards before the end of Hallowmas (their stats with gear are high enough but I was waiting until they had some more resources as becoming POSI is so expensive)
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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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Zareen Bakara
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10/26/2015
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lady ciel wrote:
Sorry I don't know the answer to your question DragonRidingSorceress I hope someone else can help.
Yes non-POSIs are capped at Confessions 6. I'm trying to decide whether it is worth starting my Non-POSI character on the road and hope to get the cards before the end of Hallowmas (their stats with gear are high enough but I was waiting until they had some more resources as becoming POSI is so expensive)
When I was reading up on Hallowmas before the event started, I was examining this from a POSI perspective: so I was thinking of how it's important for the first six requests they accept to be from non-POSIs. Then they can start accepting POSI requests. But, looking at it from the perspective of non-POSIs: for them only be able to have six requests accepted, total, over the course of a long festival... Doesn't that limit their participation quite severely?
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lady ciel
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10/26/2015
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There are other things - an opportunity card and getting a destiny (if you haven't got one) and they can always accept invitations. So it is just sending invitations that is capped but yes it does seem like non-POSIs can't participate as much as others. Especially as they are only available for the single menace confessions and those are only useful for any other player's first 6 confessions.
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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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Grenem
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10/26/2015
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Zareen Bakara wrote:
A follow-up on my question. The text under petty confessions reads: "If you have Confessions of 6 or more, this will have no benefits." So, supposing a non-POSI sends out lots of petty confession requests, but doesn't accept any for a few days. Then, a few days later, all the requests they sent are accepted, and they also accept plenty of requests that they were sent. Only the first six will have any effect for the non-POSI?
Ifi understand correctly, it'll still give trust, but no confession. it'll be useful in the next year, but not this one, as a result.
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lady ciel
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11/3/2015
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Only 7 more to accept. I'm out of actions but I should get there before the end of the day. Then I need to make sure that all Confessions I have received are safely disposed of ... I will not be betraying anyone even if they betray me. I haven't worked out how much Spirit I will have but I think I should reach 500 ... if some of my outstanding requests are accepted in time
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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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11/3/2015
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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Travers
Posts: 98
11/3/2015
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Despite the company that I must keep during this Hallowmas season, lecturing on the lesser aspects of the Correspondence has never provided me with so many stories to tell!
All in all, I must consider my Hallowmas to be a success. Out of the 122 proper invitations to confess that I received, I have but 12 left to answer. I've 64 unaccounted for requests but those will likely be answered anon.
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Schmidt
Posts: 114
10/31/2015
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I'm DAYS late, but Chook, I love the Homestar reference. Been a years since I visited them. A shame they petered out.
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I'll accept any actions, except loitering and Affluent Photographer (will accept dupes).
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
11/1/2015
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I actually managed to get Unaccountably Peckish 1 from my Library so I can use Wednesday at Mahogany Hall. Well at least until I lower my Tales to 14
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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.
storynexus name - reveurciel
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Maxwell_Hay
Posts: 11
11/2/2015
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I remember someone wondering if the doctor murdered March because his victim and March both loved coffee. In dealing with his confession, it talks about him confessing to murdering a member of the calendar council. Good guess whoever you are.
I'm also not sure how to go through with it. I want spirit and to keep his trust, but I also really like the revolutionaries....
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Maxwell~Hay
Maxwell Hay. Glassman, Vake Hunter, often out at Zee. Will take any offered actions, though loitering may be delayed if I'm low on waves or grinding Notabilty.
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
11/2/2015
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malthaussen wrote:
I kited my Nightmares up to the brink of insanity expecting to be asked to Confess Curiosity, and would you believe I got exactly ONE offer for that? (Non-POSI, so I don't get the "toothsome" confession offers). So now my Nightmares are too high to use the Starveling Cat to scratch me! Moral of the story: it may be a bad idea to list "all" for your Confession availability.
-- Mal
I'm sure there are some people out there who would be very happy to help you out with nightmares; I'll take a couple if you want.
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ciel
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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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
11/3/2015
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Probably the invitations, as they give you some spirit and will allow others to start converting the confessions to spirit themselves.
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Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
 Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
10/27/2015
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This thread title always makes me think of...
Hannah Flynn wrote:
The Genial Magician stares at his reflection. His reflection stares at his hook-hand, and sneers.
Brrrrrrrr.
And, regarding the most recent NPC confession...
[spoiler]The Haunted Doctor didn't kill March... did he? It was just some other Council member who was generous with coffee... right?[/spoiler]
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
10/27/2015
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Cash DeCuir wrote:
It is also on this date that Huffam will begin visiting Hallowmas revellers. Be sure to see him before the 16th. Can you confirm or deny if there will be any new Huffman content this year?
Or is 500 Spirit still the highest reward option?
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
10/27/2015
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Koening, unless you use dupes or have a stockpile of blocking absinthe, it will use about 5 action to grind menace and one to accept. 120 a day for 5 days is 600 actions. Divide 600 by 6 and you get 100 confessions that you can accepting this way. You can be more efficient and use more actions than 120 a day and accept some more. Optimally you could accept 144 confessions in five days.
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I AM currently accepting calling cards.
Stats loss counter: reset, irrigo equivalent: none
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Dr Cop
Posts: 38
10/28/2015
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I just clicked on the wrong message in my messages tab, was poisoned, and spent a bunch of actions playing chess with the boatman to recover.
... And then, within 3 actions of being revived, clicked the wrong option on my giggling mandrake, and ended up in the mirror marshes.
Bah humbug
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Koenig
Posts: 466
11/7/2015
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I suppose I will go half and half then. Thanks!
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
11/6/2015
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MadmanAtW wrote:
My dropdown shows no one, for Consigning Confessions, but I still have Confessions 5 as a quality. Not sure who the other five people are who I can't do anything with right now.
Wait... wow. Ok. I found those 5 confessions... I can Bury them and Flaunt them, but I cannot Gossip or Consign. Anyone know why that might be?
Non-POSI?
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pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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dov
Posts: 2580
11/7/2015
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Rupho Schartenhauer wrote:
This cannot be - or, if at all then only if you haven't yet devoured or betrayed their confessions from last year!
It can, and does, happen. Here's how:
In the first stage of Hallowmas, you can request and accept confessions, and also devour (or expose) older confessions from past years. This is determined by the Trust and Exposed By qualities.
- Alice can only request a confession from Bob if he had never confessed to her (meaning that neither his Trust nor his Exposed By qualities include Alice, at any level). If he accepts, Bob will have Trust:Alice(1), and Alice will get 1 x confession.
- Alice can only devour a request from Bob if his Trust quality includes Alice(2), meaning that he has confessed before, and she has kept it.
Then comes the second stage of Hallowmas. Now you can decide if to keep confessions or expose them.
Alice's drop down list will only include Bob if he has Trust:Alice(1). If she chooses Consign/Bury, Bob will have Trust:Alice(2), and Alice will lose 1 x confession.
*But*, if Alice does nothing with Bob's confession in stage 2 (for whatever reason), then Bob will still have Trust:Alice(1) for next year, but Alice's confession count will reset at the end of the holiday. So next year, Alice can't choose devour/expose a the first holiday stage (since Bob doesn't have Trust:Alice(2)). And in the second holiday phase, Alice will have more people as options in her drop down list than she has confessions from the new holiday season.
And when sending/requesting/receiving dozens (or hundreds) of confessions, it's hard to keep track of them all, even when keeping notes. This year, I've received a few message of people consigning/burying/gossiping my confessions, from people who I confessed to last year and definitely not this year (I have personal notes from the past holidays).
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Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how.
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
11/4/2015
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Natalie H. wrote:
Is there a topic where I can request to be poisoned/duped? Because that'd really help me right now.
Requests for poisonings and dupes http://community.failbettergames.com/topic20921-hallowmas-idea-get-your-poison-here.aspx
Also Starveling Cats http://community.failbettergames.com/topic20858-a-hallowmas-offer--lending-starveling-cats.aspx
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ciel
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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Zareen Bakara
Posts: 66
11/4/2015
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Phase Delta wrote:
I wonder could anyone tell me what would happen to any Confessions that you don't Consign or Bury before Hallowmas draws to a close? My contacts list was getting a bit unruly, so I (perhaps foolishly as this is my first Hallowmas) deleted quite a few of the contacts I had added throughout the event. I'm now stuck with 46 confessions (currently) and no eligible contacts to interact with when I try to Consign a Confession to the Bazaar.
Any advice as to how I can proceed from here?
Only so many messages show up in the messages tab, but, as far as I know, they're not actually deleted unless you choose to delete them. Ergo, if you delete the messages saying that you consigned confessions, the messages saying that you heard confessions should reappear. You can then check the names in those messages against your contact list.
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
11/5/2015
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It can definitely be devoured in the next year.
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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 Red
Posts: 517
11/5/2015
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Just think of it this way: if you keep the secrets this year (the consign/bury options only differ slightly in terms of rewards), then Hallowmas you will be able to choose whether to keep/betray those same secrets. If you betray the secrets this year, then you lose that opportunity.
I'm fairly sure, too, that betrayal cuts you off from social actions with those you betrayed next Hallowmas; at least, the people who I remember betraying me didn't show up on my invite list this year.
edited by Lady Red on 11/5/2015
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
11/6/2015
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Burying a Secret increases their Trust to 2 and gives them 2 CP of Making Waves.
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The Duke of Waltham
Posts: 150
11/4/2015
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Phew, done. I've accepted all confession requests, and suddenly I feel I can breathe again after all this rush. I can manage my own requests at a much more leisurely pace, provided that people actually accept them; I know we have another five days, and I'm sure most people will eventually come round to doing it, but I'm still a little anxious about it. Even if everyone accepts, my numbers don't allow me to bury or betray (after agreement, of course) more than 40 confessions before I fall below 500 Spirit of Hallowmas.
In the meantime, I suppose I can continue tinkering with my spreadsheet, which I've been refining for days and now has all sorts of nice little counters and indicators. (Example statistic: out of 123 incoming requests, 79 were for Whimsy, 30 for Pride and 14 for more trivial transgressions. Considering that I had signed up for "any type", this should be fairly random as a sample.)
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
11/4/2015
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The Duke of Waltham wrote:
Even if everyone accepts, my numbers don't allow me to bury or betray (after agreement, of course) more than 40 confessions before I fall below 500 Spirit of Hallowmas.
It would probably be best not to do any Betraying until you've already got your 500. 40 No replies seems like a possibility. Plenty of folks bit off more than they could chew.
Plus, if you betray folks, you can't eat thier Confessions next year for that sweet, sweet 6 points of Spirit for 1 action.
I found I was more conservative in my Confession sending than I thought. Looks like I'm going to have all weekend to leisurely build up Menaces with Last Hopes. Better that then madly scrambling to accept all Confessions Sunday night. I get the since I'm going to have to do a lot of consigning well into the evening.
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
11/4/2015
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Natalie H. wrote:
How has everyone finished confessions so fast? I can only manage ~10 a day.
100 actions a day. Average, say, 4 actions to build up the menace to accept the action and 1 to accept. That's 20 a day.
Some people, like me, had tooth surgery issues so stayed up for 48 hours due to the pain. That really helped my action total but really made my life kind of a nightmare.
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