Vavakx Nonexus
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3/23/2016
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I have been wondering about what theories other delicious friends have used to explain some unusual things about the Neath and, particularly, themselves.
To start off, I usually assume that the dangerous benefit from the Voracious Glove comes in the form of you throwing it at your opponent and hoping it bites of his index finger.
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Professor Strix
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3/23/2016
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You can change clothes, weapons and companions wherever you are (even in dreams, or in prison). My headcanon is that you always have everything with you, the things you equip are just the ones that are active at the moment. It's funny to think of your character as having a huge trunk of clothes on wheels and always being followed at a distance by all his/her/their pets.
Or, better yet, your character wrapped in lots of layers of clothes, like Superman.
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TheThirdPolice
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4/12/2016
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Clearly each candle stub takes ten minutes to — hm, no, that's odd, they seem to be growing. *Shuts door to wax vats and steps away slowly.*
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Grenem
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3/23/2016
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You know your soul? if you sold it to a devil and found it again, it very well could be someone else's- there are even blank souls, left behind from early deaths and unborn individuals. Devils want interesting people to be constantly duplicating their souls and selling the old copies.
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Vavakx Nonexus
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3/24/2016
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I have recently noticed that only foxfire candle stubs are available as items, but not the full candles. I now assume that stubs are a measurement unit for foxfire candles, and you don't recieve 100 stubs, but 10 full candles.
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th8827
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4/9/2016
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So, are Pentecost Apes immune to the negative effects of having foreign souls in their bodies?
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Blaine Davidson
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5/2/2016
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I know that all the Masters have high pitched voices but I simply cannot hear it.
They are doomed to forever have deep throaty rumbles coming from under those hoods.
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The Master
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5/2/2016
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Blaine Davidson wrote:
I know that all the Masters have high pitched voices but I simply cannot hear it.
They are doomed to forever have deep throaty rumbles coming from under those hoods.
Same, I just can't imagine high pitched voices coming from them, it just sounds silly, which was intended, I guess, it's even harder to imagine high pitched whispers.
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M. Cinder
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5/2/2016
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I can see Mr. Pages with the high-pitched voice. The others (excluding Wines, I suppose) just sound like petulant wolves.
Professor Strix wrote:
You can change clothes, weapons and companions wherever you are (even in dreams, or in prison). My headcanon is that you always have everything with you, the things you equip are just the ones that are active at the moment. It's funny to think of your character as having a huge trunk of clothes on wheels and always being followed at a distance by all his/her/their pets.
Or, better yet, your character wrapped in lots of layers of clothes, like Superman.
My theory is that those bits are just you actually recounting tales to your friends, and remembering that you were actually wearing different clothing than what you described earlier.
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The Absurd Rogue
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5/4/2016
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Since I first reached 8 nightmares and went insane, I just imagined that the moment the menace hit maximum, my character just immediately sat down wherever they were and started screaming really loudly until I got back from A State of Confusion, however long that took. God, that would be a bad thing to do in the Shuttered Palace.
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Clifton Royston
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5/6/2016
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The Absurd Rogue wrote:
Since I first reached 8 nightmares and went insane, I just imagined that the moment the menace hit maximum, my character just immediately sat down wherever they were and started screaming really loudly until I got back from A State of Confusion, however long that took. God, that would be a bad thing to do in the Shuttered Palace.
Probably an even worse place is Deep in the Cellars under the Palace... which is where I just went insane this evening. Fortunately, there seems to have been some good-spirited casual passerby who thoughtfully dragged me out of there and returned me to my lodgings before my senses returned. It's just like being the hero of an H.P. Lovecraft story, you can go raving mad and somehow no horrors eat you and more prosaically nobody rolls you for your wallet and jewelry.
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Pyrodinium
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4/13/2016
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I think that the large numbers of robbed drunks due to the "Rob a drunk" storylet in Spite caused other players to go undercover in "Foiling footpads" for the Velocipede squad in Ladybones Road.
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Diptych
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5/2/2016
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No worries! And, I don't recall anything to suggest that traditional bibles are actually proscribed - God's Editors' concern seems to be that Surface bibles might be completely inaccessible to the younger generation of Londoners, with their references to sunlight and oxen and gardens of cucumbers and other phenomena that Neathizens have never, and may never, see.
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Baron Leichtsinn
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4/11/2016
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The struggling artist from city vices only keeps coming by, because he really needs his regular beating.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
4/11/2016
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Vavakx Nonexus wrote:
Bertrand Leonidas Poole wrote:
Ah yes, but how long of a candle in inches is a 10 stub candle, you reckon?
Of that, I have no idea, and will allow others to finish this thought.
I'd guess 10 inches or 10 centimeters- inches makes an 11 stub candle a slightly used foot-long candle, while centimeters makes for more reasonable estimates.
Of course, they're probably not a unit of length but volume, anyways. (Candles exist in 3 dimensions, after all, and we have no evidence of widths being standardized, as if they all came off the same assembly line.) if we assume each stub has a volume of about 1/22th of a liter, it makes a full candle pretty big- reasonable- and makes a full mourning candle worth, i believe, equivalent to around 23 normal candles, making them a luxury item- also reasonable.
Now, we could assume stubs are smaller, and it would make sense.
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Grenem
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4/12/2016
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Bertrand Leonidas Poole wrote:
Why do people use mourning candles? I bet most wouldn't use them if they knew where they came from.
Pretty sure they smell good. why this would be the case is in question, but that's part of it. I think they also have other useful effects.
I suppose it's also possible that they're cheap, or that foxfire smells no matter how hard the candlemakers try to hide it, or that they melt slower.
I'm sure they have their reasons, and the knowledge of their sources does seem to be common knowledge. I mean, encouraging its purchase makes your scandal go up.
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Bertrand Leonidas Poole
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4/12/2016
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Mustn't allow them to develop a taste for such candles. That might lead to the more zee-faring variety of Peckishness.
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Bertrand Leonidas Poole
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5/2/2016
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Well, that's a good thing! Have bibles filled with things that are unfamiliar to them! Not good to have their minds so closed and not broadened, not knowing about the strange wide amazing world up there.
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Diptych
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5/2/2016
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D'you know, I agree. If we're not learning something new from any given text, what's the use of it? Obviously, there's always going to be some deviation in the text when it's adapted - every translator is a traitor, and all that - but I'd sooner swing toward adhering to the original text and providing informative annotations than toward a complete rewrite.
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th8827
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5/2/2016
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My headcanon is that I use all of the residences that I don't live in (besides the Townhouse) as makeshift warehouses, with the goods evenly distributed between them. That way, I always have a few crates of wine or candles lying around whatever part of the city I am at, but may need extra time (multiple actions) to arrange for massive quantities to be moved.
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Grenem
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3/28/2016
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
Cecil wrote:
It's explicitly mentioned in Sunless Sea what happens if you get someone else's soul shoved up in you. You die a terrible death. I think your body starts to decay or it's something similar to Animescence where your soul catches fire and burns you from the inside out? A SS person can chime in with that maybe.
On the other hand, one of your Officer cured her Animescience, er, Animescence by casting out her soul and shoving in a Judgement's Egg. Which is still soul replacement. I don't think replacing your soul cast Animescence though, given how so many people on the Elder Continent had it.
I assumed that there still are incompatible souls- just that your soul isn't the only one that can fit in your body. still, i could be delusional.
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Grenem
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3/23/2016
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Vavakx Nonexus wrote:
Grenem wrote:
You know your soul? if you sold it to a devil and found it again, it very well could be someone else's- there are even blank souls, left behind from early deaths and unborn individuals. Devils want interesting people to be constantly duplicating their souls and selling the old copies.
...I've never thought about that...
Wait, but if you find it in a Bundle of Oddities, it is heavily implied it is from the C.V.R.(I'm unsure whether they're called that or not. I have never personally involved myself with them). Would that mean that they are secretly working for the Embassy!? QUICK, BRING SEVERAL PENCILS! THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW!!
[OOC: I seem to have marked your comment as an accepted answer. I hope it doesn't close the entire discussion or something similar, and only makes the reply hard to read.]
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Personally, I always thought that the devils didn't care much about the C. V. R. Souls don't fade on death- they persist. If they lose a soul, unless it gets eaten, it will simply continue to gather experiences. of course, you have to keep it from going bad, but other than that... there's nothing to keep a soul from being claimed again and again.
I don't think the Sheperds, whatever their internal name is, are deliberately helping them, but it is a convenient excuse to let a soul reappear for reuse, should that be needed.
That said, I would not be surprised if the devils seek the source of false dawn.
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Erika
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3/24/2016
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It's explicitly mentioned in Sunless Sea what happens if you get someone else's soul shoved up in you. You die a terrible death. I think your body starts to decay or it's something similar to Animescence where your soul catches fire and burns you from the inside out? A SS person can chime in with that maybe.
Also worth bringing up the nbstar theory;
warning: based off spoilers[spoiler]1. There are beings that exist between Judgements>Dragons>Bazaar
2. There's two sets of physics in the neath, as shown in the LoN destiny, the physics the Judgements enforce, and what's beneath that
3. the Neathbow's effects also warp reality in the same way as the Judgement's lights
4. there are things we've dubbed nbstars that pump out some, if not all, of the neathbow
And nbstars stands for non-binary stars.[/spoiler]
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Talkes
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3/24/2016
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Professor Strix wrote:
You can change clothes, weapons and companions wherever you are (even in dreams, or in prison). My headcanon is that you always have everything with you, the things you equip are just the ones that are active at the moment. It's funny to think of your character as having a huge trunk of clothes on wheels and always being followed at a distance by all his/her/their pets.
Or, better yet, your character wrapped in lots of layers of clothes, like Superman.
Or you could employ your Scuttering Squad to carry all the stuff around. Makes sence why their cancellation clause is so punishing.
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Baron Leichtsinn
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4/9/2016
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Professor Strix wrote:
(...) having a huge trunk of clothes on wheels and always being followed at a distance by all his/her/their pets.
Or, better yet, your character wrapped in lots of layers of clothes, like Superman.
Is there another way of travelling? I certainly did not spend all that strong-backed labour to be carrying my own weight. What works for expeditions in the forgotten quarter, works for all the streets of Fallen London. I recommend the extensive use of a poking-device in crowded neighborhoods.
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