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The Feast of the Exceptional Rose is here!

Hannah Flynn Administrator Posts: 491 2/9/2016	Friends, lovers, spouses: the Feast of the Exceptional Rose is here! Love is kind, except when it's cruel. During the Feast, Fallen Londoners exchange surprising gifts. Kind gifts, cruel gifts, and those that are both. LOVE GIFTS Send and receive gifts from other players! Rewards from the Feast can be won by increasing your Masquing, through participating in the revels and the exchange of gifts. Use your Masquing quality to unlock special companions, only available during this festival! Make friends for the exchange of gifts on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit or right here in this thread. END YOUR INCONVENIENT ENTANGLEMENTS! The Glowering Judge looms in his bench. The Auditors from the Ministry sit stiffly in the gallery. This Feast of the Exceptional Rose, we're introducing player divorce. Has your spouse been too long gone? Are you too distressed by their unaccountable peckishness? Has love simply faded? The divorce courts will hear your plight; and, if they are satisfied, will end your marriage, so that you may seek out new love stories. The Glowering Judge is a Prelapsarian fixture of Her Majesty's divorce courts. The Ministry of Public Decency have ordered that they witness these cases - although, of course, the Auditors have absolutely no bearing on his final judgements. If you wish to divorce your partner, look for the option to seek a divorce on the Attend to Matters of the Heart card in your Lodgings. SKIN-BOUND MEMORIES! Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour! The place to come for a singing mermaid or a message encoded onto your scalp. A unique story involving the Neath’s famed tattooists, the Clathermont Family is available for the duration of the Feast. Find the Clathermonts in Ladybones Road when you have A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets at 4 or higher. As part of the Feast, continue this story from the same area by playing News at Clathermont’s from 15th February. There is a little something new available for those who’ve already experienced the Clathermont story, and those whose Nomen are yet living. THE LADY IN LILAC She examines you carefully. Her eyes swim with glints like violet wine... The engimatic Lady in Lilac returns to London at festival-time. On the 15th February we will be releasing the Lady in Lilac card into your opportunity deck, allowing you to trade in your gifts for Masquing. From the 15th, you’ll also be able to turn in your Masquing for special companions on the Encounters at the Feast card. The Feast will end on the 22nd February. The Lady in Lilac and Encounters at the Feast will remain available until the 26th, after which your remaining Masquing will be converted to Making Waves when Time, the Healer visits. -- Wields the news canon, aboard the hype train.
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navchaa Posts: 561 2/16/2016	Yes exactly. Even though the three cards are ubiquitous frequency, they don't show up at the right times to make it work out within the magic week. I won't be as fussed if it's all free to play stuff, but when fate and real money are involved, things change. This after all only happens once a year. (And of course I will cease the complaining once the RNG smiles on me again.) /goes off to gnash teeth -- Paramount Presence (London's Marrow 2, London's Nerves 2, London’s Sinew 3, London’s Blood 3) and mercenary Notary Married to Myrto :: Exchanging Surprise Packages with anyone interested :: Exchanging cat boxes with Kitty Rambunctious http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/navchaa
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Kolanowski Posts: 148 2/9/2016	Of course the Feast starts right as I get sent to the Tomb-Colonies (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ -- Kazimierz Kolanowski, gentleman, scholar, humble servant of the Maw. Chaotic Evil. Open to all social actions & accepting almost all requests. Might sell you to Satan for a single corn chip.
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Hobnail Posts: 179 2/20/2016	My my MY, after RELUCTANTLY parting with Mizz de Witte's lovely Well-Song I had 80 masquing to spend and doing so revealed the identity of the Irresistable Lady! What a SOUND WOMAN, I think this may be love! We've so much in common! Cigars! Money! Cuisine! We've certainly been running into eachother quite a bit as of late... -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hobnail
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dov Posts: 2580 2/26/2016	merusdraconis wrote: I find the mechanics of the Feast (mandatory social actions and card drawing) so repellent that it sucks the fun out of the rest of the game Indeed there are cards, but I wouldn't say there are "mandatory" social actions. You can participate in Feast activities playing solo. At a minimum, you can see this as two weeks in which you get a new Ubiquitous Frequency card which usually pays out 2.5 - 5 echoes (and some masquing, which you can trade for unique companions or for Stolen Kisses). Even without social actions, the Feast is a very profitable holiday. -- Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how. (Most social actions are welcome. Please no requests to Loiter Suspiciously and no investigations of the Affluent Photographer)
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Parelle Posts: 1084 2/22/2016	Any idea what's the masquing to making waves conversion rate? -- 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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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 2/15/2016	Interestingly, an invitation for a twilit stroll in the Forbidden Quarter can reach someone in the Iron Republic . . . -- 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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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 2/11/2016	(reminder that there's also a thread in the Singing Mandrake for people looking for gift exchanges: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic21737-feast-of-the-exceptional-rose--gift-exchange.aspx ) -- 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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Erika Posts: 528 2/9/2016	Some important information about Fate Gifts If Non-Fate Gifts are declined then nothing is returned. If a Fate Gift is declined, then the sender of the gift gets the gift back. There is currently a bug where if you press the enter key when inputting a contact, the gift goes to your highlighted contact, which is often the account at the top of your contacts list. I've seen this happen before, and it results in accidental gifts of fate. If you want to safe guard against this, my account name is just the number 8, which is listed before most other contacts. I can decline your gifts to get your fate back if you send me a message in game or via the forums (or we can trade, if you want), I won't accept any unsolicited fate gifts until I can confirm they're for me. A Guide to the Feast of the Exceptional Rose? Why there's one here! Want to get married this Feast? Desperate singles in your area tonight! Trading lots of Feast Gifts? Just post here~ Want to trade Fate Gifts? There's a thread for that too. Trading Feast Gifts with me? If anyone is in DIRE need of Feast Gifts, send a Pink Cat (preferably) my way and I shall gift you back. Otherwise I'm not interested in casual exchanges if you've got a lot of them going on. I will return as many gifts as I have supplies. Within the first night I have recieved 50 Gifts. I will try to return everything, but look at me as a last resort maybe. The Starveling Café? This Feast of the Rose the Starveling Café is sending out Starveling Cats, which are pet-able items (but not equipable). The way it works is you pick a recipient, pick a cat, tell the Café why in the name of Salt would you want to send someone else a Starveling Cat, and that's it! edited by Cecil on 2/11/2016 -- Where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Going on a fate expedition? I'm collecting data! Help me? "Bottles of Oblivion" drunk in the name of content: 57 Catboxes (send more!) opened in the name of science: 1093 Fancy a friend?
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th8827 Posts: 823 2/16/2016	I have been constantly flipping cards since yesterday, and so far, 1 Lilac (used it to start the Tattoo quest) and 0 Encounters at the Feast... (T_T) <-That's me crying -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Kukapetal Posts: 1449 2/15/2016	Schmidt wrote: Out of curiosity, Robin, are there new options this year? Or have the same crowd of lovelies returned? There was nobody new on the card I drew, sadly.
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Lady Strange Posts: 95 2/9/2016	My alt wants to divorce his spouse, but is unable to do so as she's a deactivated player. May I know how to go about divorcing a deactivated player? Thanks in advance. -- My main, Lady Strange (https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Lady%20Strange), in the process of stockpiling various items for various purposes, one task at a time. Regrettably not accepting challenges for the Tournament of Lilies. My Alt, Lord George Mowbray (https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Lord%20George%20Mowbray), younger son of an impoverished Marquess, proud owner of an Übergoat, ploddingly grinding for cider and other things.
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Mr Sables Posts: 597 2/9/2016	Lady Strange wrote: My alt wants to divorce his spouse, but is unable to do so as she's a deactivated player. May I know how to go about divorcing a deactivated player? Thanks in advance. I have the same problem . . . I think it'll be automatically done at some point? They said somewhere else that players with deactivated spouses will be free of them early this week; it's possible the divorce option is for active players, while deactivated players will have theirs removed for them at some point? * * * On a different note, is it possible to change one's destiny during this festival?
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Mr Sables Posts: 597 2/22/2016	an_ocelot wrote: (Lilac's pinned now too! Sorry to make another post but since I can't edit . . . ) Ah, that's absolutely fantastic news! I'm so glad FBG listens to its players; that took a lot of stress away, and allowed me to use my remaining masquing
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Julius de Poisson Posts: 35 2/17/2016	Happy to trade gifts this feast - I have a large supply of extremely patient (and well-paid) cats. -- Zee captain, adventurer, collector. A friend to the Rubbery. Vive la révolution! All social actions welcome. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Julius%20de%20Poisson
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Anne Auclair Posts: 2215 2/27/2016	This was my first Feast and I'd just like to say that I absolutely loved it. I had a simply wonderful time. Companion wise I did alright, but not as well as I could have. I just found my Explosion of Neath-Colours on the Stroke of Midnight way too cool to trade in, even if it doesn't actually do anything useful. I think the writers are selling themselves short with the Lady in Lilac conversation, I think it worked very well. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Anne%20Auclair
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Kolanowski Posts: 148 2/10/2016	I'd like to take a moment to say that I'm thinking of getting this tattooed on my back. [spoiler][/spoiler] -- Kazimierz Kolanowski, gentleman, scholar, humble servant of the Maw. Chaotic Evil. Open to all social actions & accepting almost all requests. Might sell you to Satan for a single corn chip.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 2/22/2016	(Lilac's pinned now too! Sorry to make another post but since I can't edit . . . ) -- 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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Mr Sables Posts: 597 2/27/2016	merusdraconis wrote: dov wrote: Indeed there are cards, but I wouldn't say there are "mandatory" social actions. You can participate in Feast activities playing solo. At a minimum, you can see this as two weeks in which you get a new Ubiquitous Frequency card which usually pays out 2.5 - 5 echoes (and some masquing, which you can trade for unique companions or for Stolen Kisses). Let me tell you, that card might say it's Ubiquitous but I saw it once this year and got nothing from it. I drew about 50 cards before I once again got the sense that Fallen London was having a party and no-one invited my character, and wandered off. Changing to a remote lodging, then going to a location like the Labyrinth, should have narrowed down your deck enough that you get the 'Feast' card a lot more often . . . I'm not sure why it didn't come up for you, but it came up plenty for myself, enough I was able to get quite a good amount of masquing from that alone. It may just have been bad luck for you.Edit: very anti-social players could probably even use an alt to send gifts back and forth, making the 'mandatory' socialisation a moot point, too edited by RobinMask on 2/27/2016
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The Duke of Waltham Posts: 150 2/29/2016	This was my first Feast of the Exceptional Rose, and it was certainly an interesting experience, but I really wanted to enjoy it more. Unfortunately, the timing was very inconvenient for me: I've been busy lately, and I've also finally shown signs of fatigue after seven months of close involvement with the game (and a couple of negative experiences with certain stories), so I wasn't in much of a mood to play. And it all seems to have ended so fast, which is a pity. When one logs in often and has the game in one's mind a lot, time seems to dilate and everything appears to last longer. (Upon looking at the earliest entries of my journal for the first time, I marvelled at how closely together all those milestones and new stories were packed, which until then I had thought occupied ten or fifteen days rather than three.) When one has other things to worry about, however, one barely logs in often enough not to lose the weekly payment, and just a couple of times of thinking "not now, I'll find a better time to properly read up about the Feast (and its deadlines)" are enough to push one beyond those unknown deadlines. In the end I saw about half of the feast, though I only got to play through a small portion of the available branches. I did exchange some gifts at one point, and I converted them to masquing (all of 21 points), but I never got to trade them for a companion so I have no idea what that's like. This doesn't bother me much (perhaps because I don't know what I'm missing), and I enjoyed certain other seasonal experiences, but there is something that really stings: I've missed the opportunity to visit Clathermont's. I meant to advance Millicent's story there and, although I think I can still do so anyway, that way I'll miss the intermediate step that I could find during the festival. Actually, I can't remember: how big is the damage? Can someone inform me about my options? Do I have to wait another year to see what happens with that story? -- The Duke of Waltham welcomes requests for assistance from those troubled by menaces, and His Grace's townhouse is always open to visitors who will not attempt to steal the silverware or extract support for yet another ill-advised scheme concerning photographers. H. Cartwright, secretary.
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Parelle Posts: 1084 2/29/2016	I can't answer the question about Millicent as I'm shakier on her mechanics, but in short, that opportunity only comes once a year. That said, here's a bit on the companions: All companions were obtainable on the An Encounter at the Feast card. This, along with the Lady in Lilac was pinned in all London locations from last Monday until Friday. Your masquing could have been spent to get almost all the free companions as they cost between 3-7 (or 10, I don't remember) a piece. Your earned masquing should have been converted to Making Waves now but if you had any gifts you did not use this year they will remain in your inventory. -- 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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Theus Posts: 311 2/18/2016	Kharsirr Lynx wrote: If I remember correctly, they said I will not be able to receive third tattoo this year, but will be rewarded with soimething different. Am I right? How and when will/is this option available? Look for the parlor in the forgotten quarter. There should be a branch that's unlocked by having two tattoos. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hefty~Harrison
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Jeremy Avalon Posts: 345 2/20/2016	You need to pay her exactly what he paid you, plus a Blackmail Material. -- How we must glow; yes, I bet we look like snow.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 2/22/2016	I am SO GLAD An Encounter at the Feast is now a storylet! Thank you! -- 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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lady ciel Posts: 2548 2/26/2016	Millicent's Parlour will disappear around noon GMT today according to information I have seen elsewhere. Edit - so you have around an hour and a half. edited by reveurciel on 2/26/2016 -- 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. storynexus name - reveurciel
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merusdraconis Posts: 52 2/26/2016	I think this is my fourth year in a row of ducking out of Fallen London during the Feast of the Rose; I'll basically never meet the Captivating Princess but at this point it's almost a role-playing choice. I find the mechanics of the Feast (mandatory social actions and card drawing) so repellent that it sucks the fun out of the rest of the game, which I fully recognise is irrational. And I have no excuse for why I keep ducking Fruits of the Zee, which has much more of the kind of content I'm interested in.
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Diptych Administrator Posts: 3493 2/9/2016	Màiread wrote: Glorious! May you all receive as many jars of teeth as you desire. Unless there are new ones this year (BARBED WIT! BARBED WIT!), I've got all the companions I want, so no gifts please! ... Excellent work all round, Failbetter team! Much the same boat - unless there's new companions, I've no need of gifts. And thoroughly hear hear for Failbetter! -- 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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Grenem Posts: 2067 2/9/2016	Kukapetal wrote: Out of curiosity, if they do add any new companions this year, when would we find out about it? On the 15th, when we can start accquiring them? Or do they announce it earlier? Generally you don't discover until you can aquire them. I expect at least 1 new companion will manifest, as usual, but i could be mistaken. -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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Gerald Edgerton Posts: 127 2/9/2016	I've been looking forward to this almost since I started playing! This will be my first Feast. Lately I've been having a hard time in meatspace and not using my turns every day, but I check my e-mails fastidiously and will log on to attend to social obligations. I like to post on the forum in my own voice, but to conduct in-game business in character. I'm a friend of the bazaar and always have Nights on the Town available, and I'm interested in making friends. No worries if you don't feel like writing me a unique message (although I love them), but I would like to know if a social action is time-sensitive or will harm me, etc. I don't mind menace exposure as long as you warn me in advance; I'm very good at menace reduction so I would simply come prepared. Not interested in K&C yet for RP reasons. My (so far, only) character (named the same as my alias on these forums) is desperate to meet the Stiff-Backed Young Lady. I believe the soft cap on Masquing will require a fate-locked gift to meet her. I am open to going into my pocket for this, although I believe the Fate would need to be spent by somebody else. I have only just begun building my Masquing, and would be grateful for any gifts to get me to 30. I will be more than happy to reciprocate; if you have preferences, let me know, or I'll happily improvise a gift in kind. Edit: If there is no less clunky option than gifting 100 Fate to somebody so they can raise my Masquing other than at their own expense, I'm happy to take that approach. I'm open to recommendations or ideas from and in all directions. edited by Gerald Edgerton on 2/9/2016
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Jeremy Avalon Posts: 345 2/9/2016	metasynthie wrote: Jeremy Avalon wrote: I just did that action, but it worked normally for me. Do you remember what your Masquing was at? Just 2. -- How we must glow; yes, I bet we look like snow.
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Rupho Schartenhauer Posts: 787 2/9/2016	Gerald Edgerton wrote: Edit: If there is no less clunky option than gifting 100 Fate to somebody so they can raise my Masquing other than at their own expense, I'm happy to take that approach. I'm open to recommendations or ideas from and in all directions. Of course there's a less clunky approach! Look in this thread for someone to exchange Fate gifts with. -- 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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Riftare Posts: 37 2/9/2016	My apologies if this has already been addressed here, but in Hannah's original post on this thread, she mentioned that there is a story in Ladybones Road involving the Clathermonts. I can't seem to find it. Am I missing something, or is it not active yet? I know I ask this at the risk of sounding a fool, but if there is new content only available during the Feast, I surely do not wish to miss it!
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 2/9/2016	I've put a thread in the Singing Mandrake for people wanting gifts, so we can ask questions about the Feast and discuss it here without things getting clogged up. -- 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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malthaussen Posts: 1060 2/15/2016	Ah, had my first visit with the Lady in Lilac. Although my Masquing was low because of a recent encounter with a certain Princess. I'd better party harder! -- Mal -- "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. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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genesis Posts: 924 2/15/2016	The important question is whether there is a Heptagoat tattoo! -- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/mikey_thinkin Keeping track of incomplete content and loose ends in Fallen London
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 2/15/2016	genesis wrote: The important question is whether there is a Heptagoat tattoo! I don't see a heptagoat option listed on the hover text for skinbound memory, and at a price tag of 50 fate to reset and not having a noman this year (so I'd lose the tattoo), I don't really want to reset my tattoos just to confirm what can be seen on the hover text. -- 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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The Glass Boffin Posts: 51 2/15/2016	I must say, the Wheel of Affection grind has done WONDERS for my Persuasive quality. I am finally a Legendary Charisma!!! -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Glass~Boffin
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 2/16/2016	Lilac is pretty fickle. Historically FBG has provided an access code to give people a storylet chance to obtain her card toward the end of the feast for those who've been especially unlucky to use, so hopefully that will return this year. I recall both Lilac and the Encounter at the Feast cards lasting for some time after the Feast as well, so don't fret too much if you don't manage to get all your stuff in before the Feast formally ends - there's probably still a chance to at least Encounter your intended companion, and possibly more chances to trade stuff in. I forget when Masquing converted to Making Waves last year, unfortunately. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Ginger Cat Posts: 1 2/16/2016	Hello. This is my first Feast of Rose. I would like to exchange some free gifts to which I need friends. Please feel free to add me to contacts and I'll do my beast to return gifts. -- from Cat with Love =^.^=
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Parelle Posts: 1084 2/16/2016	Sounds like the RNG hates us all - I just got the Encounters card once after having seen Lilac five time yesterday. I actually was coming to check that the Encounters was still working when I drew it! But, like TeslaWalket and at least another person on the forum, I can't get my second Tattoo. (my Recent Visit to Millicent has not reset) edited by Parelle on 2/16/2016 -- 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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Remedan Posts: 61 2/16/2016	I've also been pretty unlucky lately. I failed a 50% challenge 10 times in a row earlier today. And I haven't seen Lilac once. -- My Neathly Alter Ego -- Still trying to make some sense of it all.
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dov Posts: 2580 2/16/2016	Robin Mask wrote: having the "Encounters" card so insanely rare The "An Encounter at the Feast" card has Frequent frequency at the moment, as does "The Lady in Lilac", so you should see them more often than any specific regular card (on average, that is). (And "The Feast of the Rose" card is with Ubiquitous Frequency, so you should see it a lot.) If I remember correctly from past years, the cards' frequency will increase as the Feast gets nearer to its end. -- Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how. (Most social actions are welcome. Please no requests to Loiter Suspiciously and no investigations of the Affluent Photographer)
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Grenem Posts: 2067 2/16/2016	Odexios wrote: Any suggestion on must-have companions, storywise? I don't really care about stats, for now. Letty, the mercy, for fate, will add a new option on a salon, as will the diplomat, i believe. (The diplomate's hallowmas option is availible regardless of whether you have him or not, iirc.) Otherwise, the only reasons are RP or stats. (Statwise, You should get the high-masqueing non-fate companions, because they compete with many second-best in stat options that cost far more to aquire. +7 to a stat is nothing to expell germs in the general direction of, after all.) -- Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters. On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning. Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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th8827 Posts: 823 2/16/2016	Juno wrote: Just to be clear, does the The Lady in Lilac card appear everywhere? I seem to recall reading some text that says she avoids some places like Ladybones Road, but I can't be sure. Some areas have cards associated with them that you only draw at that location. If you want fewer cards competing with Lilac and the Encounter at the Feast, Labyrinth of Tigers is the best place to flip cards, to reduce deck clutter, since it does not have unique cards... unless you are also after a region's unique cards. Logically, she would avoid Ladybone Road, because of Clathermont, but I don't know for sure. I also suggest keeping the Feast of the Rose card in your hand if you do not need it for Masquing, to keep it out of the draw pool. If you are sub-20 Masquing, use it all you need. edited by th8827 on 2/17/2016 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/th8827 Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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MidnightVoyager Posts: 858 2/17/2016	So if we have two tattoos and reset our tattoos, would we have to wait til next year to get the second one again? (Speaking of which, I'd kill for a Flint-related one. Losing the stains on my soul was worth commemorating!) edited by MidnightVoyager on 2/17/2016 -- Midnight Voyager - A blood-cousin to predators. Collector of beasts. Affably mad.
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Juno Posts: 63 2/17/2016	th8827 wrote: I also suggest keeping the Feast of the Rose card in your hand if you do not need it for Masquing, to keep it out of the draw pool. If you are sub-20 Masquing, use it all you need. Sound advice, thank you. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Etheridge An author by trade, available for talks both public and private.
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Optimatum Posts: 3666 2/17/2016	Lilac does appear in Ladybones Road with the same frequency as in other locations. KShep wrote: Am I correct in thinking that I won't be able to get the Academic if I don't have any Fate gifts? I don't think I'll be able to acquire any, since I have no Fate to exchange with someone... Should I just go ahead and start getting the other companions? If you get any Fate it is actually possible to give yourself a Fate-locked gift. Sending any Fate gift to another player and having them decline will place it directly into your inventory! (Though this doesn't work for non-Fate gifts or canceling the offer yourself.) MidnightVoyager wrote: So if we have two tattoos and reset our tattoos, would we have to wait til next year to get the second one again? Apparently not: Valiant wrote: For those who were wondering: if you pay fate to reset two tattoos, you can get another two right away (for 102 actions, that is). edited by Optimatum on 2/17/2016* -- 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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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 2/9/2016	Darkroot, you can easily get 20 just from the card, I did it last year! -- 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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Mr Sables Posts: 597 2/16/2016	navchaa wrote: Yes exactly. Even though the three cards are ubiquitous frequency, they don't show up at the right times to make it work out within the magic week. I won't be as fussed if it's all free to play stuff, but when fate and real money are involved, things change. This after all only happens once a year. (And of course I will cease the complaining once the RNG smiles on me again.) /goes off to gnash teeth Yeah, I fully agree . . . I think - next year - it might be worth to make either the Encounters a fixed storylet/location (like the tattoo parlour), or to have the option to have repeatable play from it (when it does appear) much like how Lilac can be played over and over to get your masquing up . . . having the "Encounters" card so insanely rare, but then have it vanish each time you purchase a companion, kind of gives an element of panic and not in the good way, because actual money has been spent and is at risk. That being said, I think they both gain in frequency as the feast goes on? If so, it's possible we'll all get a chance to use all the masquing accumulated Here's hoping I don't have a pile of teeth in my character's closet until next year . . .
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Claremont Posts: 4 2/16/2016	My first Feast and my first dip into the forums. Very happy to give and receive gifts this year. Please do get in touch if you would like to do so.
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Master_Gardener Posts: 3 2/11/2016	Charlotte_de_Witte wrote: Master_Gardener wrote: Also, I would love to pursue the Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour line, but I do not see the Clathermonts in Ladybones Road. How do I raise my A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets to 4? In Ladybones Road you will need to have completed the case to find the Missing Comtessa. Once that's done the Clathermont's story will appear If you've not reached the Comtessa case yet just keep doing the other Making Your Name cases with the Honey Addled Detective. - Think it goes Finding the Detective, then tracking down the Absconding Devil, then Comtessa- (I can't remember, but I think you can leave the Poet case for later) I already have Acquaintance: the Honey-Addled Detective 1; A Finder of Heiresses 2; Evidence in the Case of the Absconding Devil 7; Entwined in the Intrigues of the Clathermont Family 9 and I still don't see anything in Ladybones Lane. What else do I need? I'm very confused right now.
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Master_Gardener Posts: 3 2/11/2016	Master_Gardener wrote: Charlotte_de_Witte wrote: Master_Gardener wrote: Also, I would love to pursue the Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour line, but I do not see the Clathermonts in Ladybones Road. How do I raise my A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets to 4? In Ladybones Road you will need to have completed the case to find the Missing Comtessa. Once that's done the Clathermont's story will appear If you've not reached the Comtessa case yet just keep doing the other Making Your Name cases with the Honey Addled Detective. - Think it goes Finding the Detective, then tracking down the Absconding Devil, then Comtessa- (I can't remember, but I think you can leave the Poet case for later) I already have Acquaintance: the Honey-Addled Detective 1; A Finder of Heiresses 2; Evidence in the Case of the Absconding Devil 7; Entwined in the Intrigues of the Clathermont Family 9 and I still don't see anything in Ladybones Lane. What else do I need? I'm very confused right now. And I just checked, I have A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets 7 - Immortal in Horizon Glyphs. So the mystery continues...
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 2/12/2016	They made this post earlier: Optimatum wrote: Gonen wrote: If someone tries this year the option to send a Fate locked gift and have the recipient decline it in order for the sender to have that said gift back - please verify. I believe the mechanics have not been changed, but.. you know... money. Be advised - as said before, canceling the Fate gift by the sender does not recover it. Verified as still working. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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dov Posts: 2580 2/12/2016	Ah, thanks for the confirmation. Must have missed it among all the Feast-related messages... -- Want a sip of Hesperidean Cider? Send me a request in-game. Here's an_ocelot's guide how. (Most social actions are welcome. Please no requests to Loiter Suspiciously and no investigations of the Affluent Photographer)
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Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514 2/12/2016	Lilac isn't here yet; I would check the Forgotten Quarter on or after the 15th. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome. Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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