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St Davy Jone's Candle [443 AJE — TRIP COMPLETE!]

TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 6/18/2016	I previously sailed north a decent distance, but surely Mr Eaten would be 77 leagues north of London. I do wish I had brought some navigational aid besides the For-My-Own-Good Compass. Should I keep going? Many thanks to Charlotte de Witte for her assistance during preparations. (No, of course I don't see any such candle. But I feel reassured that I'm Nearly There this time.) edited by TheThirdPolice on 5/16/2017 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 6/25/2016	A pleasant symmetry of the perfect 100.0. & 10.0. Still no Easter Eggs at this last "reasonable" number of significance, so I'm guessing there are none here on out either. BUT STILL WE ZAIL ON. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/15/2017	What is this? The ice sublimates, turning to steam for the first time in this timeless place. It took the full revolution of a Judgement before the Bazaar tracked me down, but at long last its servant has found me. That is no sunken island beneath me — its stone snout opens, and the flash of magma blinds my dark-accustomed eyes. Suddenly, I remember. I remember libraries and lead plaques. Brush strokes capturing bristles and motors. Weak points plotted and alchemies imbibed. My long preparations have left even this shell of my body with defenses and plans. Come then, beast that sunk Knossos and opened a path to Ilium. Do your masters remember the taste of surprise? "Sklekto-selemach Talus'g——" A mirror opens in the boiling sea. Mewling interrupts the incantation. Magma shot through with thick, white sorrow engulfs my form. The boiling subsides. Black, lumpen hills of cooled tephra drift in the waters. One of them has the barest remnant of a face. Six kittens step onto the broken ice and shake themselves off. A short distance to the north, confusion replaces a dead god's anticipation. ================= ================= ================= It is over! Thank you to everyone who read along. My expedition ended at Approaching Journey's End 443, or approximately 20,950 change points. Along the way, I gathered over 3,800 pages of each type of research, and earned something like 30 Dangerous to reach the stat cap. Thank you to Vavkx Nonexus and Bunnyapocalips, who both just sent me Parabolan Kittens and inspired this final twist. I hope you understand that, in the twisted mind of a Seeker, using your gift to destroy all my dreams and end myself is a top compliment. Additional thanks to Charlotte de Witte for helping me gather second chances long, long ago; and to Sebastian Olmen for providing some of the backstory to this expedition. Once I am back in London I shall contact them to see if they are even aware of this expedition! -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 7/27/2016	I've been playing a bit less often, but I still have no truck for lazy captains! -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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NiteBrite Posts: 1019 6/19/2016	I love that people are pursing these wild dreams. 77 approaching journe's end, 77 irrigo, 50 nightmares, tons of fab diamonds, etc. The adventurous spirit of this community is truly admirable. I hope to see some of these wild easter egg hunts pay off one day, but even if they don't the journey is exciting enough on its own. Props to you TheThirdPolice. This is the type of content I like to see when I visit the forums :-) -- 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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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 10/5/2016	storms I have seen uncountable the crew around me are changed I see them now as shadows but most are dark that waves are not Now, I am holding a bat. I am sitting in a pair of hands. It knows the salt winds that Olmen built, stone by stone. I try to see its wings but even here in (my cabin?) the zee commands my vision. The bat's presence here alone is a secret of appalling significance. Olmen's descendant wants me to turn back. For this, I could be convinced— - – — My belly groans and I remember the terrible importance of echoes, the taste of moths. THE CHANT I HEAR WHERE ONCE WAS SLEEP: TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY AND SEVEN -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 2/6/2017	It does not close my eyes. The zubmarine's lamp rotted from the mirrors outward. It does not need the light; my blood navigates. The sudden darkness is an impossibility. Glim falls, shattering into fragments in the air. I scream from the pain in my head. Over us, a cyclone of bats, crushing the air with the secrets only they can hear. I deny them as I have denied them all! -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 3/15/2017	Becalmed for weeks. A moment of clarity. Take stock. Slowly, I collect the knowledge to evade the ever stranger monsters. But they learn faster than I do. I can evade two more, perhaps three. I am down to the final scraps of Olmen's charts. If my navigation is true, the final marks will let me pass the Grinning Reefs. After that, I am blind. A human bone. (I count my limbs. Not my own.) Not even marrow left. I must fish for supper before the wind returns and I start to eat the ship. A fish bites the line immediately. No, a— "Get on with it." I bite down, and the whirlwind once again drives me forward. edited by TheThirdPolice on 3/15/2017 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 10/13/2016	Sebastian Olmen wrote: "My friend. While I am glad my grandmother's maps are of use I caution against this madness. There are better secrets in the Neath that will do less damage to your eyes." The bat's fur is the color of cinnamon, the paper is poorly made and flecked with splinters of pine. Memories of shoreline bring me three steps back toward my soul. I cannot imagine what lies past that border. Was there another sea? A sacred river? I am mumbling the secrets as something struggles under my tight fingers. "a cousin visits a fluke and the circus acrobats were seen to slip past the blockade and Benthic is producing artificial lacre and" None of it means anything to me. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/15/2017	The true cost of the expedition: If any fellow Exceptional Friends follow in my footsteps — the correct move is to contact Failbetter in advance. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Harlocke Posts: 506 6/19/2016	It would be cool if high qualities like this had little Easter eggs. Even if they were nothing useful, merely an acknowledgement at how far you've progressed. For example, imagine if Approaching Journey's End 50 let you dock at a distant lightship where the captain asks what the hell you're doing in the middle of bl--dy nowhere. -- I welcome social actions, and can visit your salon as an author. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Harlocke
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 7/18/2016	Captain's Log, Day ?? Approaching Journey's End 176 Partial Maps Remaining 113 A few minutes ago I reached the unheard-of calms of 7.4 Troubled Waters. A short series of miserable hands later, I end the day at an unusually furious 10.8. The rare decision to embark in piratery may also cause delay if Her Majesty's Navy shows up, as Time the Healer will need to reduce my Suspicion. But I shouldn't look forward to Time the Healer: You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (new total 6 - There is desperation) You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (new total 7 - There is furious desire) You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (new total 8 - There is a consuming passion) You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (new total 9 - There is only hunger) You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (new total 10 - THERE IS A VOID) -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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John Moose Posts: 276 6/18/2016	Clearly your destination appears at Approaching 777.
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 4/21/2017	One final note in a shaking scrawl, "My friend, Please-" I don't read the rest. I tear the note apart and throw it away. Phrases catch on the wind, 'so much-', 'a price-' something about a sister (or is it a brother) swept away unread. When I see the next bat coming I don't even let it land, a flung stone sends it plummeting into the waves like lead. The book it was carrying is swept away, photos washing up on the shore, unrecognisable.† Dark days are here. Now out of maps, any time I experience the Fury of the Unterzee, there is the risk of the Black Three: the perfect villainy of cards which will force a coin flip that could end my quest. I still have enough zee ztories for one more evasion, and am nearly at another. Once I have used them up, there will be four Fury cards that can align to cause the coin flip. No matter. Onwards! †Written by Sebastian Olmen. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 6/18/2016	Your support has rocketed my progress to 79 already, somehow. And no, there's nothing new. Incidentally, anyone with a Clipper or a Yacht should be able to zail forever. That sounded incredibly boring, and zubmarines are much cooler anyway, so there is an abrupt end in my future. It's actually quite a neat little tactical minigame this way, moving up and down the Fury border to get rid of bad cards. Rough calculations suggest I'll "sink" after hitting 133, but a lot could change before then. edited by TheThirdPolice on 6/18/2016 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Saklad Posts: 528 6/20/2016	You’re all insane. As that is pretty much the point, carry on. -- Saklad5, a man of many talents
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Kylestien Posts: 749 6/19/2016	NiteBrite wrote: I love that people are pursing these wild dreams. 77 approaching journe's end, 77 irrigo, 50 nightmares, tons of fab diamonds, etc. The adventurous spirit of this community is truly admirable. I hope to see some of these wild easter egg hunts pay off one day, but even if they don't the journey is exciting enough on its own. Props to you TheThirdPolice. This is the type of content I like to see when I visit the forums :-) I seek to get 77 Marks Of Credit. It's be nice if that Easter Egg Hunt paid off, but I'm not even sure what you would get for it. I might make a thread for it myself. -- I will accept all actions, though I hold the right to refuse for my own reasons. However, if you explain WHY you send me a harmful action like Loitering or Dantes,And I feel the reason good, I will consider it more. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Kylestien Persuasive patron. You want a lesson, send me a message asking for one.
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The Master Posts: 804 6/18/2016	John Moose wrote: Clearly your destination appears at Approaching 777. This, I also heard you get to zail to the surface if you get to 7777 and then you can get your "advancing the Liberation of Night" quality above 50. -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath. No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these. He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/17/2016	What is this sorcery! If I furl my zails and still my engines for a mere infinity of years, my ztore of ztories will never diminish. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/5/2016	Witold Gombrowicz is taking over for a few days. The following quotes are from his book Diary, Vol. I. Enormous, anonymous waters. We sail on. The doctor made fun of me when I lost the chess game to the fumbler, whom he introduced to me as Goldberg, the master of Santa Fe. He said: —You lost out of fear. I said: I could give him the rook and win. But my and his words are like silence before a shout. We sail on toward . . . We head for . . . and I now see clearly that the faces, conversations, movements are loaded. They are defeated. Frozen in a pitiless leading of something to . . . An unpredictable tension crouches in the smallest movement. We sail on. Yet this madness, this despair, this horror are inaccessible because they don't exist and because they are not, they are in a way that is impossible to refute. We sail on. We sail on the water, as if from another planet as night begins to steam in from all sides, our field of vision begins to narrow and we in it. Yet we sail on and in us grows without respite . . . what? . . . what? . . . We sail on. edited by TheThirdPolice on 12/5/2016 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/6/2016	Next day Whatever we do, whatever we say, whatever we devote ourselves to, we sail and sail. While I write this, we also sail. The faces are terrifying because they are smiling. Terrifying movements because they are full of calmness and marvelous bliss. We sail. The ship trembles, the machine works, the rustling billows of water at shipside, sprays and dregs, we sail on, plunging deeper, ever deeper into . . . reaching . . . Words are no help because while I am saying this, we sail on! -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/7/2016	Next Day We sail. We've sailed all through the night and even now we sail! -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/8/2016	Thank you, my friends, thank you. This is the final missive from Gombrowicz before I return to my usual updates: Next Day We sail. The complete helplessness in the face of pathos, the incapacity to get at this power, which happens in us with a constant straining and tightening. Our uneventfulness, the most common uneventfulness, explodes like a bomb, like a thunderbolt, but beyond us. The explosion is unattainable for us, cursed in commonness. A moment ago, I met a Paraguayan at the bow and I said yes, I said, ha, I said! Good day. He, on the other hand, answered, ha, he answered, yes, he answered, O merciful God, he answered (sailing all the while): Nice weather! edited by TheThirdPolice on 12/8/2016 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/10/2016	Sebastian Olmen wrote: The next bat carries a book. The Dangers of the North: a weighty if highly inaccurate tome that the note indicates would still help you plot a better course than your northward one. Even in my narrowing ocean this lure is a drop of spittle. He only sends it to conceal his new sabotage. The bats' veins run marble-pale, each moonish bite sends me among columns and Calvaries. My navigation is not impaired. I ate the maps long ago and my tendons remember them. They do not need my sight, so I dance in a cedar-scented midnight and laugh and laugh and laugh as the soldier's spear breaks skin. Supplies Dwindle! Memories Fade! My Destination Wails At My Approach! -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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absimiliard Posts: 759 6/19/2016	When I was going to Nightmares 50 (shoulda kept on till 77, bad me) I found it was also a very tactical game. Wound management in particular is problematic in the Mirror Marches, and eventually -- if you are seeking to increase your Nightmares -- you will find there are cards that you simply cannot play because of wounds. For me it happened somewhere around the 30's. Fascinating that zailing forever is also a mini-game within a game. -- "Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend. Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Gonen Posts: 817 6/18/2016	Of course no new event at destination 77. It only unlocks at Troubled Waters 77. -- The Ashen Anesthesiologist - Paramount Londoner Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness. The long journey to eccentricity: On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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Barse Posts: 706 7/27/2016	Good God! Become the eternal sailor, never again set foot on land. -- The Scorched Sailor, up for most social actions and RP. Not as scary as he looks.
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 6/19/2016	Much appreciation for the icons of Absimiliard's Folly and NiteBrite's Well, and encouragement for the other Seekers of alternative paths. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Emain Ablach Posts: 348 7/4/2016	I do as well. A true explorer ! I hope you'll find something (even if that something is implemented only because you tried that, hahaha) -- Went NORTH. Got salted. Never came back. We won't remember him. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Emain%20Ablach
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 7/4/2016	My earlier estimate (death at 133) is now way off as my strategy improved. (Or else I can't do math — nah, I'll stick with the first story.) Now at 136 and only 2/3 of the way through my Partial Maps, which will be the limiting resource. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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absimiliard Posts: 759 6/25/2016	I can not +1 that enough TheThirdPolice! -- "Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend. Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/6/2017	Peers at the murmuring figures through a very powerful telescope. Hello there! I am moving to a different continent tomorrow. It's been taking up a bit of time, as you can imagine, but I promise I will cross the ocean much faster in real life than I do here. Once I'm semi-settled I can probably push myself into a fatal current pretty quickly. My delay may also be related to a sorrow at my impending doom and the end of a long saga. A couple answers for the curious: — If I remember my planning from long ago, this is trivial (though still time-consuming) to achieve with a Clipper or Yacht. I chose the Zub because I wanted a challenge: at some point, I will be set all the way back to AJE 5 against my will. — East is for salt and the peaceful. I zail NORTH, to dread and desire. edited by TheThirdPolice on 5/6/2017 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Mr. Sails Posts: 37 5/16/2017	Ah, so this is the confused blue vessel I've seen circling around Gaider's Mourn for Salt knows how long. Glad to see you finally found your way back to Wolfstack. It can be tough to navigate the Mutton Island/Hunter's Keep/Gaider's Mourn triangle after all. edited by Cantankerous Captain on 5/16/2017
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/13/2017	My body has reshaped. My mind has crystallized into a structure of pain and longing. Yet still I resist the Drownies' call! APPROACHING JOURNEY'S END: 443 POSSIBLE REPRIEVES: 0.7 STORMS SURVIVED DEFENSELESS: 12 LUCKY ESCAPES: 1 Well, the glory lasted another 35 actions before I ended up in an even worse spot than before. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/12/2017	I started today's voyaging immediately after posting the explanation above. Six actions in, the nightmare scenario occurred: (That last one is the correct image for Hardship and Want.) The Helvetica Scenario (two game-ending cards in hand, leaving me no choice but to play the third) has already forced me to climb to Troubled Waters 10.6. Even if I succeed at one of these luck challenges, I will only drop to 10.1, still at the Fury's mercy. The Helvetica Scenario will remain, and depending on the draw I may need to attempt a second luck challenge immediately. It is too early in the morning to face drowning. I will leave you all (and myself) in suspense a little longer. edited by TheThirdPolice on 5/12/2017 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 12/18/2016	Abandon all physical form and ascend to true Zailordom. -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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phryne Posts: 1351 7/27/2016	Well, you need AJE 777 to break the game, obviously. Duh. -- 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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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 7/4/2016	I salute 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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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 7/27/2016	You're a madman. I love it. Go forth, Captain TheThirdPolice! You are a pioneer of adventure and zailing amongst insignificant zailors and zee beasts! -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 7/19/2016	TheThirdPolice wrote: Captain's Log, Day ?? Approaching Journey's End 176 Partial Maps Remaining 113 Damn, keep up the good work, mate! Almost there... -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 7/20/2016	Troubled Waters sunk down to 6.5!? I'd be less surprised if Sinning Jenny herself welcomed me back to London wearing a mayor's sash. As if anything so exciting would ever happen back home. edited by TheThirdPolice on 7/20/2016 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 6/18/2016	I was going to say that's impossible, and then I started to plan it. So now that might be my next voyage. But it would mean giving up my zubmarine for a clipper, which is painful in aesthetics and gameplay. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 6/18/2016	This is fascinating! -- 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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Harlocke Posts: 506 6/18/2016	Quite the voyage! Do any new destinations or cards at all appear at such high levels? And yes, you should keep going. -- I welcome social actions, and can visit your salon as an author. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Harlocke
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Gonen Posts: 817 6/19/2016	Ben wrote: wait.... 77 Irrigo? how? What do you mean how? How did you not?! [spoiler] Kidding. I was puzzled by this for a long time, until told there was a Fate locked repeatable option at Feast of the Rose, with Lilac. Passionario (a player) payed a lot of fate to repeat this, and gain this awesome, ridiculous achievement. [/spoiler] edited by Gonen on 6/19/2016 -- The Ashen Anesthesiologist - Paramount Londoner Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness. The long journey to eccentricity: On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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Gonen Posts: 817 6/25/2016	TheThirdPolice wrote: A pleasant symmetry of the perfect 100.0. & 10.0. Still no Easter Eggs at this last "reasonable" number of significance, so I'm guessing there are none here on out either. BUT STILL WE ZAIL ON. Of course there is! You just need to go further. -- The Ashen Anesthesiologist - Paramount Londoner Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness. The long journey to eccentricity: On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot) Posts: 1372 7/27/2016	I salute this wonderful, ridiculous quest! -- 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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Fadewalker Posts: 136 7/27/2016	Wonderful! Ridiculous obsession. That is quite SMEN. I can't but imagine a correspondence sigil will be originated after you get 777: a story between a seeker captain and the deep water, "hurtling forever towards the north", maybe. Even Mr Eaten now and then has encountered something unsuspected. -- A fervent supporter of the Council and the Masters.
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Passionario Posts: 777 7/28/2016	Nearly there! Just a little bit further... -- Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 7/29/2016	TheThirdPolice wrote: I've been playing a bit less often, but I still have no truck for lazy captains! I salute you, brave, famous, crazy zailor! Wonder if FBG will add an event as you reached this far; we do have Zailing Difficulty now! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Estelle Knoht Posts: 1751 4/3/2017	Steadfast is dropping... -- Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady. I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/12/2017	A large portion of this expedition's strategy involves deciding when to move between Troubled Waters 8–9 (Lashing Waves) and Troubled Waters 10 (Fury of the Unterzee). Certain cards are only available in one or the other, which means that crossing the border in either direction can empty your hand of dangerous cards and allow extra redraws. (This is the only way to discard cards in the Unterzee.) However, Fury is much more dangerous. I am counting successful round trips to Fury as "Storms" now. Each visit risks a capsize. The Stone Pigs Cough & Hardship and Want (Second image is out of date on the wiki.) For the entire year I've been zailing, I have had no way to bypass these cards. They are a 50% luck challenge, and if I fail, I am reduced all the way to Approaching Journey's End 5. Once in a blue moon, I draw both of these cards at once, and am forced to choose whichever cards show up in the third slot. This can spiral into very long stays in Fury and waste a lot of resources. Let's call this the Helvetica Scenario. Meet my personal Scylla and Charybdis: A Blank Space on the Charts & What Are Those? These are the two Fury cards I prepared for before leaving. You can avoid the 50% luck challenge and turn them into a rather nice escape (-5 Troubled Water points) by expending, respectively, Partial Maps and Zee Ztories. These have battered me about many times, so I have run out of both resources. They are now just as dangerous as the cards above, and contribute to the Helvetica Scenario. If I ever draw any 3 Helvetica cards at once (max hand size is 3 at zee), I must attempt a 50% luck challenge. Success will be tallied as a Lucky Escape. There is, however, a glimmer of hope that I had not accounted for before setting zail. A Wily Zailor This card grants +8 Approaching Journey's End (the best per action available), +4 Troubled Waters (A fairly worrisome chunk, but decent in terms of AJE:TW ratio), and +1 Zee Ztory. Every 20 times I use this card, I gain enough ztories to recover a "possible reprieve" — the ability to escape a Helvetica Scenario if one of the cards is What Are Those? -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Anchovies Posts: 421 5/12/2017	By Salt, what a journey! I'm continually impressed by your dedication, and occasionally I remember that you're doing this IN A ZUBMARINE and am impressed EVEN MORE. When you're forced to choose a luck challenge, I vote that you go with The Stone Pigs Cough because the Zee could always use some more islands. Your volcanoes will blot out the sun! Or they would if we could see the bloody sun from here... edit: when the waters are troubled, I say "What Are Those?" is the best choice. You'll at least put on a good show before the zee-beast swallows you, and every time I hear the card's title I'm reminded of that meme with the shoes. edited by Anchovies on 5/12/2017 -- Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him. —Sir Arthur C Clarke Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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Saklad Posts: 528 5/16/2017	Perhaps people more generous than I could donate some Fate to recompense you for the missed Exceptional Stories? I imagine Failbetter can’t make exceptions like this, for fear of the precedent it would set. They could, however, commemorate this with a special quality. Come on, whoever is reading this thread, you know you want to… edited by Saklad5 on 5/16/2017 -- Saklad5, a man of many talents
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 7/28/2016	Barselaar wrote: Good God! Become the eternal sailor, never again set foot on land. Couldn't have said it better myself. (EDIT: That link autoscrolls to the wrong place for me. Search for TheThirdPolice to find my post.) edited by TheThirdPolice on 7/28/2016 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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phryne Posts: 1351 12/8/2016	Awesome. This Witold Gombrowicz would've loved Sunless Sea, I'm sure... Seriously, thanks for the pointer. Gotta have a look at those Diaries of his, sounds like some amazing literature. -- 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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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/8/2016	This passage is an outlier in the book. Most of it is his thoughts on literature, art, society, generally tearing apart the nonsense ways people talk about them and imbue them with false importance. His novel Pornografia (the only one I've read) is excellent if you like disturbing Eastern European literature. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Sam Stephens Posts: 73 12/7/2016	Godspeed, captain. -- Hello, delicious friends! I can be found here: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sam%20Stephens I'm open to all non-menacing social actions. I particularly enjoy a good mystery. I'm also a Corespondent who can teach at your Orphanage.
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Fadewalker Posts: 136 12/7/2016	Wonderful journey. Your destiny is among wind and waves, towards no wind and no waves. Please continue, to the end of whatever beyond. (I am sorry that I want to click the thumb-ups but misclicked one thumb down on your magnificent zailing, my apologies!) -- A fervent supporter of the Council and the Masters.
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 12/10/2016	I ztill zail. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Elaina Schill Posts: 191 3/16/2017	Good God, you must be mad! Though one must admit, there has to be a certain madness in the minds of those who pioneer such wild ideas. -- Main, Phiri Ulfur, the Cunning Shadow. Their heart belongs to a Pirate-Poet across the Zee. Alt Vermillion Liminate, the Tragic Scholar. Alt #2,Lady Jacqueline Blackwood, the Savage Beauty. Alt #3, Veracity Taylor, the Dame of the Docks. The Dogged Seeker, self explanatory. I will accept any social actions on Fallen London(unless its a box of live rats. I already got rid of the d---ned things once and am not eager to repeat the endeavor).
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Madison Everett Posts: 9 5/3/2017	Are you still alive ThirdPolice? Has the Zee taken you at last? -- Madison Everett. One who dares to learn the secrets of the gods. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Madison%20Everett?fromEcho=0
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The Master Posts: 804 6/25/2016	Gonen wrote: TheThirdPolice wrote: A pleasant symmetry of the perfect 100.0. & 10.0. Still no Easter Eggs at this last "reasonable" number of significance, so I'm guessing there are none here on out either. BUT STILL WE ZAIL ON. Of course there is! You just need to go further. If it's not 7, it's 77, if it's not 77 it's 777, if its not 777 it is 7777 if it's not 7777, it is 77777, if it isn't77777 it is 777777, and when you return, there will be no law or light to look at comrade. edited by The Master on 6/25/2016 -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath. No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these. He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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ExceptionallyDelicious Posts: 188 7/27/2016	This is astounding! By all means, sail on and may your perseverance be rewarded. -- Any and all social actions are appreciated, and most will be reciprocated. DavidJ, a self reflection (main): http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/DavidJ Damien Erebus, a broken man and aspiring spymaster: http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Damien%20Erebus
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Kittenpox Posts: 869 6/19/2016	Impressive! -- 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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KestrelGirl Posts: 138 6/18/2016	Oh... woah. Keep going! -- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/KestrelGirl The Sociable Academic/KestrelGirl, an inescapable, sagacious, irresistible and breathtaking Lady of Some Importance. (Also add: terrifying, lethal, and perhaps midnight.) Proud owner of the Neathy Informer, a newspaper dedicated to the truth. Help me out with my FL/SS lore wiki, The Fifth City! http://www.thefifthcity.wikia.com
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Ben Posts: 657 6/19/2016	wait.... 77 Irrigo? how? -- The wind has no destination. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/IcountFrom0
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Shadowcthuhlu Posts: 1557 7/27/2016	You got passed the 177 mark! -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Dirae%20Erinyes. Closed to calling cards, but open for all other social action. I also love to roleplay.
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absimiliard Posts: 759 7/27/2016	!!!! -- "Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend. Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Dean Lee Posts: 133 7/27/2016	I salute you, fellow sailor! -- A list of credentials A Business Card Research progress: 77 volumes of cryptopaleontoligy 77 volumes of Prelapsarian archeology 77 volumes of theosophistry.
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 5/3/2017	Madison Everett wrote: Are you still alive ThirdPolice? Has the Zee taken you at last? Checking the Zailor's signature seems that the Zee didn't manage to grasp him! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Madison Everett Posts: 9 5/5/2017	Skinnyman wrote: Madison Everett wrote: Are you still alive ThirdPolice? Has the Zee taken you at last? Checking the Zailor's signature seems that the Zee didn't manage to grasp him! Does he often go silent for long periods of time? How did he even get that far? How is it even possible?! -- Madison Everett. One who dares to learn the secrets of the gods. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Madison%20Everett?fromEcho=0
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 5/5/2017	Madison Everett wrote: Does he often go silent for long periods of time? How did he even get that far? How is it even possible?! As you can see, he logged on the forums yesterday, but the posts here are pretty rare. This can be done with a Zub, lot of resources and a lot of patience! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Saklad Posts: 528 5/5/2017	I imagine this is what happens if you are very persistent when trying to go East the direct way. -- Saklad5, a man of many talents
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/10/2017	Tree boughs crack and fall into the zee without a ripple. There is no air here, only a succulent vacuum that keeps my mind clear and my eyes pungent with pressure and rust. I do not remember where my zubmarine went, or who sent this rowboat. I open my hands — curved and wide as a qalupalik's rib, fingerless — and let the oars sink into the last open water. I strove so hard, once, forcing my way underneath the waves. This time will be easier. I slip down, down, and down. Then north once more, sliding through my doom, listening to a prison of ice above me groan as it fights the zee beneath it. APPROACHING JOURNEY'S END: 439 POSSIBLE REPRIEVES: 0.5 STORMS SURVIVED DEFENSELESS: 1 LUCKY ESCAPES: 0 edited by TheThirdPolice on 5/10/2017 -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Teaspoon Posts: 866 4/21/2017	All hail the British tar! -- Truth lies at the bottom of a well. https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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Alysian Posts: 57 3/17/2017	TheThirdPolice... You are among the truest of Fallen London's inspirations. -- Alysian, gone North, grieved, gone. Alybye, A Midnighter available for children's parties. No appointment necessary.
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 12/10/2016	TheThirdPolice wrote: I ztill zail. You'll always do! Always! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 12/10/2016	Great adventure, delicious zailor! You shall always remain in our memory! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Skinnyman Posts: 2133 10/13/2016	Speechless! Just amazing! -- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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Vincent Asmund Posts: 314 5/16/2017	I tip my hat to you, delicious friend. -- Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory. Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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TheThirdPolice Posts: 609 5/17/2017	Yes, I already have 114 Fate for reasons I don't recall, leaving 291 to go. I had hoped the exceptionality would get me leverage with Failbetter, but my Diplomacy check only got me the latest season. (I'll pass on their advice again for any Don Quixotes out there — it's easier for them to do this in advance.) When I last had land legs a year ago, the gift option had been disabled due to mobile bugs. If it has since returned, donations are very welcome and people know where to find me from my signature. -- Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens Lover of Flawed Souls And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Optimatum Posts: 3666 5/15/2017	Congratulations and condolences! edited by Optimatum on 5/15/2017 -- 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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Harlocke Posts: 506 5/15/2017	Congratulations on your historic voyage! Bards will zing of your doomed yet noble adventure. -- I welcome social actions, and can visit your salon as an author. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Harlocke
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dov Posts: 2580 5/12/2017	Thanks. Wiki updated. -- 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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