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1/31/2016
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DT wrote:
I just picked up the Enforcer path, but I'm honestly not very keen on any of the professions for my character. Aliénor's a criminal, more specifically, a thief (her ambition is Light Fingers), so I want a profession that emphasizes Shadowy. Enforcer is the closest fit because of her criminal ties, but the other tiers in the progression don't really fit her: she wants to steal a person's shinies and valuables, not kill people. (Rupho's write up on the Licentiate is great, but it just doesn't fit my thief girl.) Trickster almost works because of her ties to the urchins, but being a Crooked Cross doesn't fit her personality at all, and she has absolutely no interest in getting any more deeply involved in the Great Game, so the Watcher path doesn't fit, either. And picking a profession path just for pure stat optimization isn't very appealing to me.
I guess I'm kinda frustrated that none of the professions seem all that conducive to building oneself her own criminal empire.
edited by DT on 1/28/2016
In your case, become an Agent. Acquisition is part of the Game. And if you miss killing, "Just Borrowing a Shovel" does NOT mean a lot of transplanted tree planting! Midnighters run the Intelligence Empire. That includes the Criminal Empires sometimes. truthseeker had a comment...and I forgot what it was. Damnit truth, you don't get to Irrigo ME to hide your secrets!
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Juno wrote:
I was disappointed when I realised, however, after months of having this profession, that there appeared to be no means to practice that profession. No snippets, no additional storylines, nothing at all to acknowledge your profession.
That's true for most professions though... I haven't yet had the chance to actually use my Revolting Disguise anywhere in-game. There are very few storylets with profession-specific snippets of lore implemented at this time (I think Midnighters and Correspondents are mentioned most often).
If looking for a mechanical option outside of Mr. Sacks, you'll be quite disappointed (oh, hint hint Failbetter, incorporate Professions as options in more stories sometimes. Not better options, just options.)
You need to post things off-game as here or other sites to RP a profession. And many of us do so .
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Rupho Schartenhauer
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1/31/2016
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Wrap your excellent minds around this, delicious fellow citizens:
- the Correspondent writes in violant ink
- the Midnighter has a shrine draped in irrigo
- the Crooked-Cross owns a cross lacquered in apocyan
- the Monster-Hunter's eyes turn peligin
- the Glassman has spectacles of cosmogone
- the Licentiate owns a list writ in gant
... so where is the profession that uses viric?
[turns on wild speculation mode]
Maybe it's the one that unlocks the Paramount Presence! And you need Closest to The Masters of the Bazaar to find it. Which you can only become with 77x Impossible Theorems and 7x Heptagoats...
Also, it would be the SEVENTH on this list, so maybe the missing profession is SEEKER! 
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Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
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1/31/2016
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Rupho Schartenhauer wrote:
Wrap your excellent minds around this, delicious fellow citizens:
- the Correspondent writes in violant ink
- the Midnighter has a shrine draped in irrigo
- the Crooked-Cross owns a cross lacquered in apocyan
- the Monster-Hunter's eyes turn peligin
- the Glassman has spectacles of cosmogone
- the Licentiate owns a list writ in gant
... so where is the profession that uses viric?
[turns on wild speculation mode]
Maybe it's the one that unlocks the Paramount Presence! And you need Closest to The Masters of the Bazaar to find it. Which you can only become with 77x Impossible Theorems and 7x Heptagoats...
Also, it would be the SEVENTH on this list, so maybe the missing profession is SEEKER!
truthseeker will neither confirm nor deny that reason is kept a secret from everybody else by the following Six professions. He gives you information on it from a Irrigo-laced pamphlet...
(the truthseeker telegraphs "Begin. We have a Code Seven, stop. Repeat, Code Seven, stop. End.")
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Nanako
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2/5/2016
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Glad to see this thread is still going strong.
And Rupho's concept of the licentate is excellent, that fits very well as a profession
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MidnightVoyager
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2/5/2016
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Nanako wrote:
Pyrodinium wrote:
Gameplay-wise I believe it isn't supposed to be "respectable", I think it's supposed to be "dreadful".
Everyone keeps siezing on that word, no that's not what i meant.
I mean that a spear isn't terrifying. Far less so than a really big gun.
But in the hands of a Monster-Hunter, it IS terrifying. Monster-Hunters are so terrifying that there's a whole gun out there that uses them as ammo. A gun whose purpose is to propel a monster-hunter to a monster so they can kill the hell out of it.
Guns are completely impersonal. Monster-hunters are deeply personal. They've consumed their prey to take on its traits. What's a gun got to do with that? It's man's way of hunting, not a monster's. The way the spear is described, it is not a weapon at all. It's the hunter's teeth, a part of their body that just happens to not be attached.
Have you ever seen the Monster-Hunter result for catching a plated seal? http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hilrall?fromEchoId=7207075
(I know things have moved on from hunter stuff, but that's the only one I have Opinions on that other people haven't done better. Ehe.)
OH, and another thing, the text from before that option: "The Monster-Hunter winnows the lesser terrors from the true." This beast is your harvest, and now comes the winnowing
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Rysiek
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2/5/2016
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Since an agent is the closest to a thief, is there something closer to a cop than a watcher then?
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rysiek
The incredible Warsovian. She certainly didn't steal your diamond necklace. That idea is RIDICULOUS...
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Maria~Konstantynopolska
The silesian vengeance seeker
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Agata~Grym
I apologize for any and all anachronisms. I am too lazy to check some facts if I am sure they are from the 1890s or sometimes think they are.
Oh, and by the way, I am not polish, I am GERMAN to clarify for heavens sake... tylko po polsku mowie. Um Himmelswillen...
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Rupho Schartenhauer
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2/5/2016
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Rysiek wrote:
Since an agent is the closest to a thief, is there something closer to a cop than a watcher then?
Since everyone can become a (part-time) cop through Working with the Velocipede Squad, it makes sense not to add it as an extra profession...
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Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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Nanako
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2/8/2016
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Aww yiss, i just became a correspondent. Today is looking up. 36% odds on the watchful check to get in is pretty painful, this was my fourth attempt (if you count second chances).
It's easy to curse this insane difficulty, but it does sort of make sense that a promotion is difficult to get. Though i certainly wouldn't have lamented the Unsigned Message card being so rare.
And i've never even rolled a positive result on the gift option of that card. perhaps i never will, is it still going to turn up now that i'm tier 3?
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http://community.failbettergames.com/topic25687-a-design-for-engines.aspx
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Màiread
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2/8/2016
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You'll still get the card and the gift option so long as you have one notability. The challenge is straightforward at Notability 9, but 6 or above will give you decent odds.
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