Mr. Mercutio
Posts: 133
7/9/2016
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Delicious friends, my friend Galatea is close to achieving her goal, foolish and terrible though it is. She is a cruel and capricious woman, and I do not understand her desire to destroy herself by going North, but I cannot stop her. I have pleaded with her to see reason, but all I have accomplished is influencing her to write the following letter, which she has asked me to share.
Darlings, I am moving beyond you all. This city never truly appreciated me, but then, when has it ever really appreciated anything? Mercutio tells me I am a fool, but all of you who think the Bazaar might yield your heart’s desire – you are the fools. The heart is destiny’s engine, and I am seizing it with both hands and taking what’s mine. No more broken promises, no more undelivered messages, no more, no more. At long last, I will know, I will see, and I will burn forever, bright and shining and done with you all.
But never let it be said that I am ungracious or without pity. Not Galatea LaChance. Let the end come in style, I say.
I have packed what few things I intend to take with me, and rest… is just fodder. It’s all yours. First come, first served! I am bundling all I have left into whatever boxes and bags lie about the place, and you can take them and claim whatever’s inside.
And for one lucky idiot, I am leaving a certain calling card. May you choke on it.
Bon chance, bon soir, my friends. The reckoning has been postponed far too long. I intend to open the door and welcome it in, gracious hostess to the last.
~ Galatea
So there you have it. I’ve looked through her home, and calculated that there will be 15 gift-boxes available when she’s done. She'll likely be heading North this evening, so it's first come first served.
Reply to this post if you want a gift package sent your way -- I'll be using up the remaining Fate on my alt's account to send out unexpected packages. I've already posted this on Tumblr as well, so the first 15 to ask between the forums and Tumblr will get them.
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edited by mr_mercutio on 7/9/2016
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Mr. Mercutio
Immortal. Rich. Only moderately insane.
 Want a taste of immortality? Reach out to me in-game to ask for a sip of Hesperidean Cider. Please follow Ocelot's guide to asking here.
New to our dark city? Send me a message in-game and I will respond when I can with a welcome gift!
I welcome most social actions, so feel free to send them to me. Just please don't ask me to Loiter Suspiciously or to help with the Affluent Photographer. I have disavowed all knowledge of her.
 Galatea LaChance
She has gone North, and none shall know what she found there.
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Mr. Mercutio
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7/10/2016
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Apologies to anyone who didn't get a package. I couldn't wait any longer. Now she has gone North, and none shall know what it is she found there.
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Mr. Mercutio
Immortal. Rich. Only moderately insane.
Want a taste of immortality? Reach out to me in-game to ask for a sip of Hesperidean Cider. Please follow Ocelot's guide to asking here.
New to our dark city? Send me a message in-game and I will respond when I can with a welcome gift!
I welcome most social actions, so feel free to send them to me. Just please don't ask me to Loiter Suspiciously or to help with the Affluent Photographer. I have disavowed all knowledge of her.
Galatea LaChance
She has gone North, and none shall know what she found there.
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Mr. Mercutio
Posts: 133
7/9/2016
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Okay! I'm cutting it off now. Between here and Tumblr, I have many requests. Here are the people I have listed for the forum:
Kylestien
Genesis
Barselaar
Dom Scorp
Vavakx Nonexus
Parelle
Blaine Davidson
Mairead
Catherine Raymond
Grenem
Hark DeGaul
Robin Alexander
Phryne
Sir Joseph Marlen
Mathaussen and Fitz, you both also commented but didn't say whether you wanted a package, so you're not on my list. If you had meant to say you did want one, please say so ASAP, and I'll add you. I've bought a tiny bit more Fate to send all these out, since I got some more requests on Tumblr already.
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Mr. Mercutio
Immortal. Rich. Only moderately insane.
Want a taste of immortality? Reach out to me in-game to ask for a sip of Hesperidean Cider. Please follow Ocelot's guide to asking here.
New to our dark city? Send me a message in-game and I will respond when I can with a welcome gift!
I welcome most social actions, so feel free to send them to me. Just please don't ask me to Loiter Suspiciously or to help with the Affluent Photographer. I have disavowed all knowledge of her.
Galatea LaChance
She has gone North, and none shall know what she found there.
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Hark DeGaul
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7/9/2016
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They came to me shortly after midnight, a trio of street signs and a tiny journal, slightly crisped by fire and discoloured by saltwater. I do not know what Galatea LaChance had thought she could gain from such items. Perhaps the trio of metal plaques, records of long forgotten names, were reminders of the importance of the Name she sought. Perhaps, before her quest consumed her, they held sentimental value. Certainly the three held monetary value. A ragged man in the Forgotten Quarter took them off my hands for a few echoes and a tale.
The book was something more peculiar. A diary. Its front page bore an adress that I can neither quite remember nor record, and as it twisted on it recounted the miserable tale of a once exemplary individual torn apart by obsession. Many times I have considered finishing what someone once began and casting the book upon a fire, or into the sea...
I keep it by my bed.
(Thank you very much! Street Signs are such a hard to come by commodity, and very welcome for Ambition: Light Fingers players like myself!)
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The Dawn-Eyed Optician: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hark%20DeGaul
That Vicar Who Ruined the Royal Wedding for Everyone (including himself): http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hebediah%20Fix
The Dreaded Relative: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Your%20Aunt
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Mr. Mercutio
Posts: 133
7/10/2016
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Okay, I have sent surprise packages to everyone who requested before the cut off, except for:
Dom Scorp
Vavakx Nonexus
Both of you are currently not in the city, and thus unavailable. I will be heading North at around 11pm Eastern Time tonight - about 2.5 hours from now. I will check again before I go to see if you're available, but my ship leaves then, and I won't be back.
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Mr. Mercutio
Immortal. Rich. Only moderately insane.
Want a taste of immortality? Reach out to me in-game to ask for a sip of Hesperidean Cider. Please follow Ocelot's guide to asking here.
New to our dark city? Send me a message in-game and I will respond when I can with a welcome gift!
I welcome most social actions, so feel free to send them to me. Just please don't ask me to Loiter Suspiciously or to help with the Affluent Photographer. I have disavowed all knowledge of her.
Galatea LaChance
She has gone North, and none shall know what she found there.
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phryne
Posts: 1351
7/10/2016
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Galatea LaChance wrote:
Whatever lies in the box, you’re welcome to it, darling. It could be jewels, it could be rats, it might be nothing, it might be your soul. I have collected rather a lot of junk over the years. I just truly do not care about any of it anymore. I’m done with this city. Do what you like with whatever you find, and enjoy it, petal. Enjoy whatever time you have left. A reckoning is due, and I’m going to welcome it in with style. Bon soir, bonne chance. The weight of the box gave me a pretty good idea of what I might be in for. Cautiously, I doused myself with water before opening the gift. And indeed: 18 Correspondence Plaques inscribed with fiery symbols were stacked neatly inside! Even dripping wet as I was my eyebrows started feeling uncomfortably hot - and I had barely glanced at the top plaque!
I decided that a closer study of these would have to wait until another day, when I'm a more accomplished Scholar. Soon! Soon I will know!
[Thank you, that brought me 1 CP closer to SotC 10!  ]
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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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Sir Joseph Marlen
Posts: 575
7/10/2016
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Goodnight, you crazy bastard. And flights of masters sing thee to thy rest. Any chance you'll tell us what their Question quality was?
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Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist
Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist
Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary
Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft
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Mr. Mercutio
Posts: 133
7/10/2016
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Shh. I'll never tell.
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Mr. Mercutio
Immortal. Rich. Only moderately insane.
Want a taste of immortality? Reach out to me in-game to ask for a sip of Hesperidean Cider. Please follow Ocelot's guide to asking here.
New to our dark city? Send me a message in-game and I will respond when I can with a welcome gift!
I welcome most social actions, so feel free to send them to me. Just please don't ask me to Loiter Suspiciously or to help with the Affluent Photographer. I have disavowed all knowledge of her.
Galatea LaChance
She has gone North, and none shall know what she found there.
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
7/9/2016
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Vavakx Nonexus wrote:
I have heard that 7 in the stat of progress is required to accept this card, so that's not happening anytime soon.
Probably for the best then.
Many people will be happy I can not accept such a thing now.
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"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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Barse
Posts: 706
7/9/2016
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If boxes are on offer, Barselaar would surely appreciate one! I need all the help I can get to recover from my own journey NORTH, which I barely survived.
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 The Scorched Sailor, up for most social actions and RP. Not as scary as he looks.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
7/10/2016
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A muffled knock at the door, as always. The postmen frequented your stoop with regularity, though the handwriting differed from your usual correspondent.
This package was light for its weight, and soundless when you picked it up. By now, you could hear the clink of diamonds and bottles by touch alone, but this...was not one you had seen in some time. A knife, a cut, and the brown paper was open.
A dozen, no, not quite - ten scraps of soft surface silk. The true silk, not the false spider spun found down here. You read the note again - how long had this laid in wait? Had this been a treasured gown, remembrances of a wedding past? Or a memento of someone now long gone? Well. You at least, will imagine and remember.
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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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absimiliard
Posts: 759
7/10/2016
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Something Forbidden! Six aged Street Signs and a single erotic poem -- one page's worth -- unedited, unexpurgated, un-stamped!
Thank you Galatea, it was perfect.
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"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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Sir Joseph Marlen
Posts: 575
7/10/2016
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A fine vintage of Broken Giant 1844, with a suitable year of absinthe and a reliable Greyfields sporing. It may have been odd that each bottle was fondly wrapped in silk, as if once meant for another more familiar individual, and the note left with them speaking of a coming doom was a slight disturbance to the usual London evening. Nonetheless, a fine selection of liquors indeed! A toast to our generous friend, and to all who Seek the Name!
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Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist
Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist
Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary
Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft
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Parelle
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7/9/2016
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I will accept a box. I have no need for a card (I'm not even sure one could be sent?)
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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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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
7/9/2016
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Mr. Mercutio wrote:
Delicious friends, my friend Galatea is close to achieving her goal, foolish and terrible though it is. She is a cruel and capricious woman, and I do not understand her desire to destroy herself by going North, but I cannot stop her. I have pleaded with her to see reason, but all I have accomplished is influencing her to write the following letter, which she has asked me to share.
Darlings, I am moving beyond you all. This city never truly appreciated me, but then, when has it ever really appreciated anything? Mercutio tells me I am a fool, but all of you who think the Bazaar might yield your heart’s desire – you are the fools. The heart is destiny’s engine, and I am seizing it with both hands and taking what’s mine. No more broken promises, no more undelivered messages, no more, no more. At long last, I will know, I will see, and I will burn forever, bright and shining and done with you all.
But never let it be said that I am ungracious or without pity. Not Galatea LaChance. Let the end come in style, I say.
I have packed what few things I intend to take with me, and rest… is just fodder. It’s all yours. First come, first served! I am bundling all I have left into whatever boxes and bags lie about the place, and you can take them and claim whatever’s inside.
And for one lucky idiot, I am leaving a certain calling card. May you choke on it.
Bon chance, bon soir, my friends. The reckoning has been postponed far too long. I intend to open the door and welcome it in, gracious hostess to the last.
~ Galatea
So there you have it. I’ve looked through her home, and calculated that there will be 15 gift-boxes available when she’s done. She'll likely be heading North this evening, so it's first come first served.
Reply to this post if you want a gift package sent your way -- I'll be using up the remaining Fate on my alt's account to send out unexpected packages. I've already posted this on Tumblr as well, so the first 15 to ask between the forums and Tumblr will get them.
edited by mr_mercutio on 7/9/2016
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I would be interested in a gift package. If I've asked too late, very well. If not, thank you for your generosity! Best of luck with Galatea's ...voyage.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
7/9/2016
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I do not need a box, though you are most kind to have her offer.
If it is possible to send a certain calling card to one who is not currently Seeking I would dearly love it; for when I do Seek. If an actual Seeker asks, or it is impossible, then I shall obtain my own in time.
But my character has a deep connection to the myth of Galatea, and it would mean much to my Abs if the person who brought them to Seek in the end by sending them a certain calling card was named Galatea.
Ever forward Galatea -- flank speed, and damn the torpedoes.
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"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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Sir Joseph Marlen
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7/9/2016
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I'd appreciate a box, no doubt, but if it's a card you're offering...well, I'd be more than happy to relieve the good Lady of her burden.
Going off phryne's counting (assuming I get a delivery in the first place), I'd be delivery #14 correct?
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Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist
Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist
Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary
Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
7/9/2016
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So, if we look for her tomorrow, we will find her a grave woman?
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"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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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
7/10/2016
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I am in the same boat with you, Robin, but I wasn't expecting a box, anyway. I now know that both sender and receiver have to be in London to post a box, which is odd, because it ought to just be sitting in my mailbox... sometimes, the mechanics are counter-intuitive.
While it would be ludicrous to wish Galatea "bonne chance" in return, I can always resort to Latin and offer "ave atque vale."
-- Mal
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"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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Mr. Mercutio
Posts: 133
7/10/2016
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Oh dear, I didn't realize the sender also still had to be in London for a package to be accepted. That is odd. Very sorry to those of you who have phantom packages sitting there forever.
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Mr. Mercutio
Immortal. Rich. Only moderately insane.
Want a taste of immortality? Reach out to me in-game to ask for a sip of Hesperidean Cider. Please follow Ocelot's guide to asking here.
New to our dark city? Send me a message in-game and I will respond when I can with a welcome gift!
I welcome most social actions, so feel free to send them to me. Just please don't ask me to Loiter Suspiciously or to help with the Affluent Photographer. I have disavowed all knowledge of her.
Galatea LaChance
She has gone North, and none shall know what she found there.
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genesis
Posts: 924
7/10/2016
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Thank you so much! Farewell, ill-advised voyager!
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/mikey_thinkin
Keeping track of incomplete content and loose ends in Fallen London
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