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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 1/29/2016	Since Failbetter Games has been more often giving credit for stories, I thought it might be worthwhile to collect them in one place for players. If you rather like an author's story, you might enjoy others by them, for example. Major credit to Jeremy for digging up authorial credits from Fallen London and Sunless Sea for me. Feel free to tell me others if you know them and I will add it to here. Fallen London Exceptional Stories: Lost In Reflections - Richard Cobbett & Alexis Kennedy The Last Dog Society - Rob Morgan Discernment - Emily Short Flint - Alexis Kennedy The Art of Murder - Gavin Inglis The Waltz that Moved the World - Cash DeCuir The Haunting at the Marsh-House - Chris Gardiner The Frequently Deceased - Emily Short The Seven Day Reign - Chris Gardiner The Pentecost Predicament - Richard Cobbett Five Minutes to Midday - Cash DeCuir Cut With Moonlight - Chris Gardiner The Chimney Pot Wars - Chris Gardiner The Calendar Code - Gavin Inglis Sunless Sea Islands: Empire of Hands - Richard Cobbett Nuncio - Emily Short Saviour's Rocks - Richard Cobbett Station III - Emily Short Visage - Emily Short Varchas - Meg Jayanth Pigmote Isle - Amal El-Mohtar Isle of Cats - Meg Jayanth By Author: Alexis Kennedy Lost in reflections Flint Richard Cobbett Lost in Reflections Empire of Hands Saviour's Rocks The Pentecost Predicament Emily Short Discernment The Frequently Deceased Nuncio Station III Visage Rob Morgan The Last Dog Society Gavin Inglis The Art of Murder The Calendar Code Cash DeCuir The Waltz that Moved the World Five Minutes to Midday Meg Jayanth Varchas Isle of Cats Amal El-Mohtar Pigmote Isle Chris Gardiner The Haunting at the Marsh-House The Seven Day Reign Cut With Moonlight The Chimney Pot Wars By Season: Heart's Blood Flint The Art of Murder the Waltz That Moved the World Family Ties The Frequently Deceased The Seven-Day Reign The Pentecost Predicament Revolutions Five Minutes to Midday The Chimney Pot Wars The Calendar Code edited by Mordaine Barimen on 7/28/2016 -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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Hannah Flynn Administrator Posts: 491 1/29/2016	This is such a lovely idea, thank you. Our writers will be preening all afternoon. But! For a lot of the game's content, this is a bit like tilting at windmills. Even when there's a lead writer, at least four other people will have made a profound contribution to the piece. In the case of older content, more and more of it is getting rewritten, restructured, or expanded, and little of the original remains. I'd like to ask that you limit this to Exceptional Friend stories and Sunless Sea islands only. Those are most personal to each writer. And, inspired by this thread, we'll be doing credits on each EF story now, so it's always clear who has contributed. -- Wields the news canon, aboard the hype train.
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Chris Gardiner Administrator Posts: 539 5/27/2016	It looks like you're listing the writer for each piece, so that would be me. I'm just always keen to make clear that practically every bit of content we create is worked on by at least four people. While the writer's voice might come across most strongly, everyone involved makes a significant contribution. No story gets written without being pitched to at least one other person, and incorporating their feedback. Editing isn't about fixing typos - it ensures clarity and continuity, and drastically improves the writing. Design feedback ensures that mechanics support and enhance the story. Testing not only fixes bugs, but looks at the whole player experience and tries to make it as smooth as possible. We take this stuff very seriously! Often, the changes are drastic. In Cut with Moonlight's case, for example, the visions of London Above (which are pretty central to the story!) weren't part of the original concept. They were introduced during the pitch meeting. Writers already get a lot of credit, while editors, QA, marketers and other contributors tend to go unsung. At FBG we want to ensure they get the kudos they deserve, too! Without them, our stories wouldn't be nearly as good. If there are any gaps in your list, let me know and I'll try and work out who was the relevant lead. Or if you have questions about our process, I'm happy to answer.
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 1/30/2016	Isle of Cats credit added, Nitebrite. But since Hannah asked me to limit to Sunless Sea Islands, I will hold off on crediting for officers unless Hannah clarifies differently. As an aside to other comments here, I agree that Cut With Moonlight was a very good story, and I have been keeping some Touched on my character on the off chance some new option opens up with it. (I was hoping for a Hallowmas opportunity, but no such luck.) -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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Hobnail Posts: 179 1/29/2016	Huzzah for accreditation! Emain Ablach wrote: I'm interested to know who wrote Cut With Moonlight. I can't seem to find the writer. I'm glad you mentioned the story because I've been so unable to find anything about it I started having doubts it existed! And I played the damn thing! I think?! It not available as an exceptional story, I do remember quite enjoying it. I think. Bloody irrigo. edited by Hobnail on 1/29/2016 edited by Hobnail on 1/29/2016 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hobnail
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Chris Gardiner Administrator Posts: 539 5/27/2016	Emain Ablach wrote: Still no info about Cut With Moonlight and its mysterious writer ? :s That was me. Although as with all our pieces, it was very collaborative. Alexis helped beat the story into shape, Olivia edited the &*%$ out of it, and Cash and Alice Bowman provided feedback on design and implementation.
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Rupho Schartenhauer Posts: 787 1/29/2016	The whole Iron Republic content in FL was written by Nigel Evans ("Goatdance")... ... and brilliantly so! edited by Rupho Schartenhauer on 1/29/2016 -- Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it. 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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Emain Ablach Posts: 348 1/29/2016	I'm interested to know who wrote Cut With Moonlight. I can't seem to find the writer. -- Went NORTH. Got salted. Never came back. We won't remember him. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Emain%20Ablach
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Guest 2/1/2016	Mordaine Barimen wrote: Isle of Cats credit added, Nitebrite. But since Hannah asked me to limit to Sunless Sea Islands, I will hold off on crediting for officers unless Hannah clarifies differently. As an aside to other comments here, I agree that Cut With Moonlight was a very good story, and I have been keeping some Touched on my character on the off chance some new option opens up with it. (I was hoping for a Hallowmas opportunity, but no such luck.) Okay, as long as I was not the only one doing this...
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 1/29/2016	Other SS Islands: Varchas - Meg Jayanth Pigmote Isle - Amal El-Mohtar Source: http://www.failbettergames.com/guest-islands/ -- Social Actions: send them to Kade Carrion (she/her; no Tournament of Lilies, please). an_ocelot has gone NORTH and cannot benefit from social actions! Possibly-Useful Things: Spreadsheets and hints and link collections, oh my.
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Emain Ablach Posts: 348 1/29/2016	Hobnail wrote: I'm glad you mentioned the story because I've been so unable to find anything about it I started having doubts it existed! And I played the damn thing! I think?! It not available as an exceptional story, I do remember quite enjoying it. I think. Bloody irrigo. I've had difficulties to find anything related to the EF stories as well. I don't know why but I thought there would be some kind of list of these stories, hahaha ; since there was none, this thread was a good opportunity to ask about it. It was a great story, very sensible, that's why I wanted to know if the writer created anything else. You certainly enjoyed it ! ;') -- Went NORTH. Got salted. Never came back. We won't remember him. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Emain%20Ablach
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Parelle Posts: 1084 1/29/2016	Cut with Moonlight was September's EF story, so perhaps it will be re-released soon. http://community.failbettergames.com/topic20436-septembers-exceptional-story-cut-with-moonlight.aspx -- Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous. pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog \| Useful Guidance and Explanations
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 2/5/2016	Thank you, Parelle. If Hannah or others from FBG see this and okay it, I would happily link the authors' nams to their own sites with other works. -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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Parelle Posts: 1084 2/4/2016	Emily Short's blog, in particular, is how I found Fallen London in the first place. I thought I had played more of her work, but I've only dabbled in (and not completed) some of her more traditional Interactive Fiction games. I do think First Draft of the Revolution might appeal to players of Fallen London though! https://emshort.wordpress.com/my-work/ -- Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous. pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog \| Useful Guidance and Explanations
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 1/29/2016	Meg also did the isle of cats according to her website. And Richard wrote some more stuff like specific officers if you look at his website. -- I AM currently accepting calling cards. Stats loss counter: reset, irrigo equivalent: none [00:34] <@ortab> NiteBrite's laugh is that of a condemned soul gazing into the abyss. Merciless Modiste avatar by Paul Arendt (based on an original image by Joe England) http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/TheBriteModiste
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 5/27/2016	Thanks for your response, Chris. I know that the stories are a collaborative effort, and Hannah emphasized that early in the topic. The germ of this topic came into being while trying to mentally sort Fate stories to help recommend new ones to people based on what other stories they had enjoyed (or disliked.) When author names started being included with ES releases, it seemed useful to start tracking this to assist in the matter, as well as give a place for a little cheering on for you guys. A little extra praise for the creative types helps keep the word mines running, after all. Noting the lead writer seemed a relatively useful metric for judging stories, and was also the only info we really had to go by. I'm not in contact with some insider, so I have to go by public info and things other fans tell me. I would love to be able to credit any of the main islands that had a lead writer of sufficient influence to kepp the work "theirs" instead of a collaborative effort, as well as the ES and proto-ES credits not listed above. And thank you for your time (and tasty words.) PS: Please give a thumbs up to whoever pitched the London Above visions, as they really added to the story in my estimation. (I still keep the Touched quality on my main in the hopes that it will tie in to something eventually.) -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 7/1/2016	Urchins now invading the list. -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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phryne Posts: 1348 8/31/2016	Hey, I just noticed that the Court of Cats (June 2015) is missing from your list! Have you asked Chris about it? I'd be very interested to know who was its (main) writer! -- Accounts: Bag a Legend • Light Fingers • Heart's Desire • Nemesis • no ambition Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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rahv7 Posts: 294 9/28/2016	The current Exceptional Story is still missing: "Where You and I Must Go", written by Cash DeCuir. Editing and QA: Killian McCabe, Olivia Wood, James Chew, and Chris Gardiner.Art by Paul Arendt. It's the first story of "The Season of Wrecks". -- It's possible people have forgotten that there is an actual devil in the actual Lord Mayor's office. A devil who is promising to look after people's souls. What is wrong with everybody? https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/rahv7
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 2/3/2016	Credit for The Haunting at the Marsh-House addded. -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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metasynthie Posts: 645 2/3/2016	I most definitely recommend googling some of these authors if you like their work, since several of them have written/designed/contributed to other games, short stories, narrative experiments, etc. Exercise motivators, too. And many are quite quite good. -- Positively antique http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/metasynthie
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Kittenpox Posts: 869 2/25/2016	This is a good thread. ^_^ -- Kittenpox Current [Fabulous Diamond] count: Twenty-Five (of 50). Halfway there! ^_^ Metaphysical Caprice: 11. - Currently: Returned to the Neath, and regaining my footing in this place. :-) NO PLANT BATTLES PLEASE.
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 4/2/2016	April's story added to the credits. Would people like me to indicate what stories are part of a season or no? -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 5/1/2016	Updated with the Pentacost Predicament and adding the Seasons of stories. If anyone has a suggestion to improve this, please feel free to speak up. -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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Mordaine Barimen Posts: 670 5/27/2016	Updated With new story/season -- I'm sorry, but due to policy clarifications, I will no longer be giving detailed mechanics advice on the forums. If you still need help, try the IRC channel.
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