Snado
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8/17/2016
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well, i have quite fond of them. i dont know what they were. the word "Fungal" just makes it more "weird" and "bizzarely mysterious".
they first appeared when your lodgings was invaded by rats and you can protect these crackers as one of the options. they appeared out of nowhere in the text so i though they were just a comedic placeholder.
later when i got my white raven at the bazaar. i got a card that lets me give something to my raven. i forgot what option it is (its a luck check) and the text says i was giving the raven these fungal crackers, and my raven likes it.
so, storywise, what are these fungal crackers?. will they appear sometime again later in the story?. and also, WHO is this Mr. Murgatroyd that makes this fungal crackers?.
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Chris Gardiner
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If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
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Chris Gardiner
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8/18/2016
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When we did a search for 'Murgatroyd' in our content management system a while ago, his name popped up everywhere. Cash and I were like "My God - how deep does this go?"
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Barse
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8/18/2016
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Murgatroyd is the fragile fungal thread holding the whole precarious construction of London society together.
edited by Barselaar on 8/18/2016
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phryne
Posts: 1351
8/18/2016
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Chris, maybe Mr Murgatroyd is actually running Failbetter and Alexis simply never told you? 
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suinicide
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8/18/2016
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Introducing the new master. Mr Murgatroyd. Domain: he just bought all your houses, so stop asking questions.
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absimiliard
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8/18/2016
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Chris Gardiner wrote:
Cash and I were like "My God - how deep does this go?"
It's turtles all the way down Chris. Whenever one, wonderingly, asks how deep something goes that's just always the answer. (Well, either "turtles all the way down" or "42", I do sometimes confuse my Answers)
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phryne
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8/18/2016
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Mr Murgatroyd has his own sidebar snippet, too:
Murgatroyd is one of the Neath's more successful entrepreneurs. London shop-shelves are stacked with his fungal tea, his fungal crackers, his fungal beer.
I'm looking forward to learning more about him!
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
8/18/2016
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I find myself wondering if he might be another Utterpersonage. (now that we've met one) I'm definitely feeling like there ought to be at least some connection to the Uttershroom.
edited by absimiliard on 8/18/2016
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Morkan Kassington
Posts: 261
8/17/2016
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Infinity Simulacrum wrote:
I think it's just another generic brand like Cotterel & Hathersage, Leadbeater & Stainrod, Trump & Fotheringay, and so on.
There's a Mr Murgatroyd's Teahouse in Port Carnelian, so maybe that's a base of operations or somesuch.
As for the crackers themselves... I'm fairly certain they're self-descriptory. They're crackers made out of fungus, just like half of all the other food in the Neath.
Leadbeater shows up personally on a opportunity card and also a heist, and his behaviors hint at him being a drownies cultist that actively try to makes more drownies. He and his brand are not irrelevant background.
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Snado
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8/18/2016
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phryne wrote:
Mr Murgatroyd has his own sidebar snippet, too:
Murgatroyd is one of the Neath's more successful entrepreneurs. London shop-shelves are stacked with his fungal tea, his fungal crackers, his fungal beer.
I'm looking forward to learning more about him!
never seen that snippet. that should explain a bit. that was the answer i was expecting. he seems to have a thing for fungus.
yeah, im looking foward to learn more about him. especially how he looks like (provided he doesnt use a recycled character art).
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BlabberingMat
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8/17/2016
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I wonder how they are made...my assumption is by drying the mushrooms and making flour out of them.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
8/26/2016
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Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Dear God. Don't tell me that Murgatroyd's Fungal Crackers are...people!
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BlabberingMat
Posts: 385
8/26/2016
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Dear God. Don't tell me that Murgatroyd's Fungal Crackers are...people!
Worse...they are Ruberries!
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Isaac Zienfried
Posts: 364
7/10/2017
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Teaspoon wrote:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Sunless Skies! Sunless Skies!
(please let this be Sunless Skies, I will love it forever)
Pretty sure Murgatroyd's has been mentioned to be a faction in Skies.
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John Moose
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8/20/2016
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"His vision of a united world... well, it was unprecedented. I wanted... *needed* to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teaching to our world, *today*. And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the comestibles that nourish them."
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BlabberingMat
Posts: 385
8/20/2016
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New theory: Mr. Murgatroyd is actually Mr. Chimes. Similarly to taking care of Exceptional Friends, Mr. Chimes uses the alias of Mr. Murgatroyd to take care of the people!
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"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”
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Morucant
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8/25/2016
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Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
*I oh so enjoy it when these people act coy. They know how to keep us hungry.*
Sometimes, one must wonder if these things start as throw-away jokes, and then they decide to give actual plot to these people.
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suinicide
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7/10/2017
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Come, this is, after all, a historical horror fantasy game! I could believe anything. I could even believe that Murgatroyd is going to topple the Traitor Empress and rule London himself.
The traitor empress fell long ago, and has been replaced by a fungal replica.
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Passionario
Posts: 777
7/15/2017
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'Murgatroyd' is an anagram for 'drug may rot'. He's been trying to warn us about that honey-well all the time, but did we listen?
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Catherine Raymond
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7/10/2017
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suinicide wrote:
Catherine Raymond wrote:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Come, this is, after all, a historical horror fantasy game! I could believe anything. I could even believe that Murgatroyd is going to topple the Traitor Empress and rule London himself.
The traitor empress fell long ago, and has been replaced by a fungal replica.
Then I was right! I simply got the timing all wrong. ;-)
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Henry 0th
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7/15/2017
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I found another connection. The card for restoring a thousand souls mentions that it is in his place. I guess this could an another explain of the ostentatious philanthropy that was popular amongst the super rich at the time. Maybe he sold his soul to kick-start his business and is trying to get it back?
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Amalgamate
Posts: 435
8/25/2016
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BlabberingMat wrote:
I wonder what joke made Alexis write SMEN...really bad April's Fools?
My guess: "All shall be WELL and all manner of things shall be WELL"
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
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8/25/2016
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Ambition: Enigma was flat-out stated to be a joke in an interview, and then it showed up later, as we know!
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Morkan Kassington
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8/22/2016
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My theory: he just happens to be good at food business like the Big Mac.
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Odin, All-father
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7/10/2017
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Isaac Zienfried wrote:
Teaspoon wrote:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Sunless Skies! Sunless Skies!
(please let this be Sunless Skies, I will love it forever)
Pretty sure Murgatroyd's has been mentioned to be a faction in Skies.
A tycoon or other wildly successful Empress allied industrial leader if my memory serves me correctly (I'm gonna have fun bringing him down with my Tacketies).
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GoingFTL
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7/10/2017
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Odin, All-father wrote:
Isaac Zienfried wrote:
Teaspoon wrote:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Sunless Skies! Sunless Skies!
(please let this be Sunless Skies, I will love it forever)
Pretty sure Murgatroyd's has been mentioned to be a faction in Skies.
A tycoon or other wildly successful Empress allied industrial leader if my memory serves me correctly (I'm gonna have fun bringing him down with my Tacketies).
Murgatroyd's Thermal Skysuits... well, he's present in Sunless Skies. Has to have gone beyond fungus, though.
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Optimatum
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7/10/2017
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I'm pretty sure that Murgatroyd products are made out of the more mundane, non-purple and non-sentient varieties of neathy fungus.
A pity.
edited by Optimatum on 7/10/2017
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BlabberingMat
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7/10/2017
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Oh,look, this old thread! I have to admit, I completely forgot about this!I am excited to see Murgatroyd in Skies. Might even do hima favour or two!
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"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!
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Catherine Raymond
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Chris Gardiner wrote:
If I told you about our plans for Murgatroyd's you would not believe me.
Come, this is, after all, a historical horror fantasy game! I could believe anything. I could even believe that Murgatroyd is going to topple the Traitor Empress and rule London himself.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
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al2o3cr
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8/20/2016
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I can just imagine the banner now:
"A cloaked messenger from the High Wilderness appears at the gates of the cracker factory. Find out what happens next in the new story, 'Heavens to Murgatroyd', coming soon"
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A Dimness
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Snado wrote:
im not POSI. so i cant get a boat. but if i have, i should visit that place in port carnelian.
can you list at least one example from the brands you mentioned ?
Mr Murgatroyd's tea house appears in Sunless Sea. I haven't yet taken my turn as governor of port Carnelian so I can't vouch for it being present in Fallen London. Trump & Fotheringay makes an "esteemed meat pie" as seen in the Fallen London comic.
Morkan Kassington wrote:
Infinity Simulacrum wrote:
I think it's just another generic brand like Cotterel & Hathersage, Leadbeater & Stainrod, Trump & Fotheringay, and so on.
There's a Mr Murgatroyd's Teahouse in Port Carnelian, so maybe that's a base of operations or somesuch.
As for the crackers themselves... I'm fairly certain they're self-descriptory. They're crackers made out of fungus, just like half of all the other food in the Neath.
Leadbeater shows up personally on a opportunity card and also a heist, and his behaviors hint at him being a drownies cultist that actively try to makes more drownies. He and his brand are not irrelevant background.
Nit-picking aside, you get the point, right?
edited by Infinity Simulacrum on 8/17/2016
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absimiliard
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8/17/2016
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I have always been under the impression that the fungal crackers are the equivalent of hardtack, or ship's biscuit. Can't recall why, probably came from SS.
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absimiliard
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8/18/2016
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Try me! (I want to believe)
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Snado
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8/18/2016
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i never this thread is getting this many replies.
now i want these fungal crackers to be as "popular" as rubbery lumps.
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