Professor Strix
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8/2/2016
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To any non-Bag-a-Legenders out there, here is the echo about April. I'm precisely at that point of the ambition, now I'm focused into becoming dreaded enough to demand a meeting with her. "You've neither the time nor the temperament to mollycoddle anarchists." is an apt description of my character.
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The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds.
"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Pnakotic
Posts: 266
8/2/2016
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Revolutionary Behavior and Life
March, June, November
"What is the late November doing
With the disturbance of the spring
And creatures of the summer heat"
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J. Ward Dunn, Glassman
Book of All Hours 9:99: Journey's end in lover's meeting. Progress is ascendancy.
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Fadewalker
Posts: 136
8/2/2016
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Pnakotic wrote:
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edited by Pnakotic on 8/2/2016
I'd admit most of my speculations are nothing more than speculations, but I'm afraid that I disagree with you here. And here are several tiny spoilers:
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1. The March is his self-claimed rival for Mr Wines, though it may or may not be the case since he is "playing the fool".
2. Mr Wines has a peculiar vulnerability to music, yes, however, not only Mr Wines. It is a feature probably shared by all of the Masters. That is something related to their origin. Mr Pages swings with music in Foreign Office content and has a weakness of sounds in a certain future of LoN. And even Mr Veils acts weirdly to choir in some content...maybe also from Foreign Office, as I recall?
3. Most of the Masters are cunning. But Mr Wines is extremely tricky. He is apparently innocent and is an amiable friend of us all, but it is him who will bring down the sixth city and this would **** most of us without mercy. He covers something for Mr Veils with a certain drink, they talk as if they are close friends on official Twitter, but he also secretly colludes with Mr Veils's mortal enemies. The subtlest among all, I think. [/spoiler]
(EDIT: Hide the spoilers. Almost never remembered.)
(EDIT: Add the third one.)
edited by Fadewalker on 8/2/2016
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Lamia Lawless
Posts: 604
8/2/2016
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Katistrophe wrote:
Hm, I'm probably misunderstanding you, but... doesn't that mean the Masters would have known about the uselessness of manufactured love stories before the time they tried to manufacture some themselves? Well, at least I read the manufactured situation as having started relatively recently, while it seems to me the dislike of Egypt was a thing that went on for longer?
(Not that it'd have kept my character from investigating it. The reason he's not marching up to the culprit in this one is he feels he needs additional evidence. No idea how he's going to get it...)
Okay, so it seems like I got two different bits of lore mixed up.
[spoiler]This bit about the Gracious Widow and her false love story, and the part about how Amarna was a trick used to lure and trap the Bazaar so that it couldn't capture more cities.
I guess I could still speculate that the Duchess's story was faked to lure the Bazaar to the false capital, but then the epilogue to The Calendar Code casts doubt on that idea. (This is the letter you get when you give the papyrus to the one-eyed Bengal.) It's from the Duchess, and she says she was motivated by love to do something she regretted.
So it would make more sense that she ended up staying with the Cantigaster in spite of the murder attempt, in spite of not loving him as much as the scribe. She mentions 'the simple companionship of a soulmate' as opposed to love that's like a storm, so maybe the Cantigaster is her soulmate, but she loved the scribe in that passionate, destructive way?
I still don't know how Aten's daughters managed to lure the Bazaar to them without a manufactured love story, though. Maybe it was a true love story being used as bait? I suppose it can be both true and bait.
As for the Widow's story, perhaps false rumors of a love that doesn't exist don't count as a manufactured love story if the people responsible for the rumors were mistaken. Or spreading them without the intention to give them to the Bazaar.[/spoiler]
edited by Lamia Lawless on 8/2/2016
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Anne Auclair
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8/2/2016
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Review time! This was a really good story. A little short, but there was a lot to chew on, so its brief length worked in its favor. I liked how it was about the Calendar Council without any of the Calendar Council members taking the stage. Sometimes information about a subject is best conveyed through the setup and background, as opposed to the mission itself (in this case, a battle between Mr Pages and the Duchess that only involved the Calendar Council because they happened to possess the contested document). There is a lot of potential for this sort of setup going forward – say in providing information about the Neath’s three major artistic schools (and the fourth branch of dropouts/nonconformists who refuse to have anything to do with said schools).
This story did leave quite a few unanswered questions though.
1. Why does Mr. Pages allow the Agendums of Ascent Library to operate despite knowing that it is an Anarchist front? And why did he try to seize the document in such a roundabout way (bribing the player) instead of outright seizing it earlier? (The code would have been no barrier, Pages could have just had his goons tear the walls down.) The Library having powerful patrons would explain this - so who are those patrons?
2. Why does the Calendar Council continue to operate said library despite Mr. Pages’ awareness of its true purpose?
3. Who were the patrons frequenting said library? I doubt it was the Council members. So, who were they and what do they get up to?
Hopefully these questions will be answered in the future. I’d like it if the Agendums of Ascent were to become a recurring part of London’s background, like the Museum of Mistakes, the Dilmun Club, Joy from the Hill, and so forth.
I really enjoyed all of the Season of Revolutions stories, though for different reasons. The Bomb Plot’s tension and pathos did the most to draw me in emotionally. I had the most good, old fashioned fun with the Chimney Pot Wars. And I found the Calendar Code the most intellectually engaging. I’m looking forward to the item trade in.
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PJ
Posts: 210
8/2/2016
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Where are you people getting the idea that the Widow's love story was manufactured?
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
8/2/2016
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Its probably from silver tree, the prequel to FL.
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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Lamia Lawless
Posts: 604
8/3/2016
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I linked to saint-arthur, so you'd have to ask saint-arthur.
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PJ
Posts: 210
8/3/2016
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I played The Silver Tree. If you try to spirit her out of the city before the invading army arrives, she turns around and goes back for William. It certainly doesn't seem fake.
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Passionario
Posts: 777
8/3/2016
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Anne Auclair wrote:
One doesn't have to bend to attribute malevolence to Sinning Jenny. One has to bend to not do so.
That's what the papyrus is about.
[spoiler]The woman described therein is Jenny. The poisoned betrothed one is London. THE ANCIENTS WERE TRYING TO WARN US!
Cardinal of Conspiracy is increasing...[/spoiler]
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Passion: Profile, Appearance
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FireOfUnknownOrigin
Posts: 12
8/4/2016
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[spoiler]You've gained 1 x Horizon Revelation (new total 2).
You have heard an ancient confession. [/spoiler]
This can only end well for all involved.
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Rhysdux
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8/7/2016
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Did anyone give the papyrus to the one-eyed mog?
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
8/7/2016
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Rhysdux wrote:
Did anyone give the papyrus to the one-eyed mog?
I did.
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PJ
Posts: 210
8/11/2016
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And the conclusion, after giving it to the mog: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Peter~James?fromEchoId=9225375
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Reaeh
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8/12/2016
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What are the stories in Seasons of Revolutions? I've completed the Chimney Pot Wars and the Brass Embassy one, but the urchin story doesn't seem to be tied to revolutions...
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
8/12/2016
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Well, there are the Fisher-Kings rebelling against Storm.
[spoiler]And apparently succeeding, if you give them the "gift from the roof".[/spoiler]
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The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds.
"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
8/12/2016
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Professor Strix wrote:
Well, there are the Fisher-Kings rebelling against Storm.
[spoiler]And apparently succeeding, if you give them the "gift from the roof".[/spoiler]
And in a larger sense the urchins are dramatically disrupting the peace of London. A revolution can also be "a sudden, complete or marked change in something." Among other things, the usual authorities were revealed to be fairly powerless to contain them.
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BlabberingMat
Posts: 385
8/13/2016
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When we can expect items trade-in storylet? Since this is my first completed season, I am afraid that I will somehow miss it XD. Paranoid, I know
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Main-Always Drunk Slav
"To see a world in a grain of sand, and Heaven in wild flowers.
To hold an infinity in palm of hand and Eternity in an hour”
Finally, I am Crooked Cross! Feel free to send invitations for Salon!
As of June 5th, 1895, I am London's newest Legendary Charisma!
The current progress in Mega Soul Grind: 53727/1 639 121 Souls
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
8/14/2016
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The first item trade in was made a part of the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, wasn't it? Perhaps the current one will be incorporated within the Fruits of the Zee festival.
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
8/14/2016
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Anne Auclair wrote:
The first item trade in was made a part of the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, wasn't it? Perhaps the current one will be incorporated within the Fruits of the Zee festival.
I don't think so . . .
If you remember, the first item trade-in was the 'special meal/dinner party' story, while the second was the 'trip with the boatman' story. I can't remember either touching on any festival themes, or deliberately being linked to a festival . . . plus, if that were the schedule, it'd mean some trade-ins would be deliberately set back or moved forward, where they fall on months without festivals (which I can't see FBG doing on purpose, as it's not really fair on paying subscribers).
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