C) How does one change the aunt's profession? I don't recall such an option on the card (but I certainly could have missed it).

Sounds like a case for support@failbettergames.com !

The bug about saving text to my journal was annoying, but the fix to the really annoying 'if the title starts with a quote then you'll have to type it out yourself' thing was welcome.

wow...it's been hard for me to figure out what to say because i honestly don't know how I feel about the story. On the one hand it was well done, well written, fun to play, etc. Everyone who worked on it did a fine job and there's very little fault I can find with anything.

But from an RPing standpoint......that really really sucked. I don't think I've ever loved an exceptional story so much going in and hated it so much by the end. Even the ending of the Last Dog Society didn't make my character as miserable as this ending did.

You see, he was a Young Stag and loved it. The Neath has pretty much wrung all the joy out of his life but one of the few things that still made him happy was goofing around with his friends playing idiotic pranks and just having a good time. And the whole "Once a Stag, always a Stag" saying made him happy because everyone he's ever cared about in the Neath has used, betrayed or abandoned him...so knowing there was a place he would always belong was a comfort to him. True, that Patriarch guy seemed to be up to no good, but my character was certain he could stop whatever nefarious deed he had planned and then everyone could go back to throwing custard and running around without pants and dangling Chuffy upside down over balconies and important stuff like that.

[spoiler]Now his beloved club has been revealed to be rotten to the core and apparently churns out vile horrible people by the score. True, his immediate circle of friends doesn't seem that bad yet, but if the sheer amount of monsters present at that feast was any indication, they'll certainly end up that way.

So now he has to quit the club because how can he ever have any fun with those horrible people ever again? Which means he's lost one of the few places he felt he belonged...as well as his precious Clarence.

He's also got some nice mental trauma from the Patriarch's horrible fate...this spot was the only place I had a beef with the actual writing, because my character would never stand idly by and let a man, even a bad one, be carried screaming off to be butchered. Never in a million years. He would have at least TRIED to save him. So I felt like the writing forced me to act out of character at the end, but that was the only spot. And he did manage to save his horrid little protege. Who promptly returned the favor by...abandoning him.

You guys are merciless :P I don't think I've ever RPed a character who has been so utterly destroyed by a game the way Fallen London has destroyed this poor fellow. Usually, when bad things happen to my character in a game, I at least get a sense of having accomplished some good, or gotten some sort of satisfaction out of my sacrifice. Not here. This is just...unrelenting horror and misery. [/spoiler]

I know it sounds like I'm being critical, but I'm actually not. Like I said, the writing is top-notch and I have nothing but respect and appreciation for the game and the people behind it but.....wow. When I started I had no idea my character would be taken down so viciously and completely by this world. While I'm disappointed...I'm also deeply impressed. The writers definitely have my (admittedly somewhat grudging) respect :P

I think the time may have come to check this character into the Royal Beth permanently and then either start over with an amoral character or try my luck with another game.
edited by Kukapetal on 4/1/2016
edited by Kukapetal on 4/1/2016

You see, he was a Young Stag and loved it.