Absintheuse
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9/28/2016
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Delicious friends! We have heard whisperings of Hallowmas and so we wanted to let you know a few things, ahead of our official announcement.
Firstly, those currently preparing for Hallowmas, know that it will again focus on Confessions, but function entirely different from previous years.
And secondly, we will be making an official announcement about the festival after 11th October, so keep an eye out around then.
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The Feast of Masks will take place from 24th October until the 7th November. But be aware, this festival of confessions and betrayal is unlike the ones that have come before it, and you may find that not everything will be revealed at once.
New for Hallowmas 1894
The Hallowmas of 1894 will include some new features, such as:
- new confessions from prominent Fallen London characters
- an entirely new way to trade confessions
- certain companions will be involved
Fallen London is a city of a thousand stories, and gathering secrets will attract certain powerful entities of the Neath. Will you honour the trust of those who confess?
Confessions at the Feast of Masks
Don your mask and collect confessions. Then it’ll be your choice to trade them to friends, factions, or other prominent people of the Neath.
At the end of the festival, Mr. Huffam will still be about looking to interview festival-goers. While the Spirit of Hallowmas is absent this year, you will still discover a Hallowmas epilogue and special epithet.
Destinies
The ability to acquire or change your destiny will be the same as previous years. This can only be done at certain times of the year, so be sure to take advantage of the chance!
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Absintheuse
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10/18/2016
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The Feast of Masks will take place from 24th October until the 7th November. But be aware, this festival of confessions and betrayal is unlike the ones that have come before it, and you may find that not everything will be revealed at once.
New for Hallowmas 1894
The Hallowmas of 1894 will include some new features, such as:
- new confessions from prominent Fallen London characters
- an entirely new way to trade confessions
- certain companions will be involved
Fallen London is a city of a thousand stories, and gathering secrets will attract certain powerful entities of the Neath. Will you honour the trust of those who confess?
Confessions at the Feast of Masks
Don your mask and collect confessions. Then it’ll be your choice to trade them to friends, factions, or other prominent people of the Neath.
At the end of the festival, Mr. Huffam will still be about looking to interview festival-goers. While the Spirit of Hallowmas is absent this year, you will still discover a Hallowmas epilogue and special epithet.
Destinies
The ability to acquire or change your destiny will be the same as previous years. This can only be done at certain times of the year, so be sure to take advantage of the chance!
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Gonen
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10/18/2016
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Absintheuse wrote:
Robin Alexander wrote:
I'm guessing it may be about time for someone to compile lists like last year, of who's willing to be betrayed and the like, as that was rather useful last year.
Don't bother, the mechanics are far different from last year and spreadsheeting will not be necessary
Well, now.
Every mechanics you'll invent, we will find a way to spreadsheet it.
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
10/21/2016
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Oh no, the Hallowmas nostalgia is starting to kick in. Even if there’s no mechanical reason to do so, I loved Hallowmas as the season of mass networking between players.
I am sorely tempted to set up shop and take over Caligula’s Coffee for a Hallowmas party for me and 300 of my closest friends. It would be totally unrelated to anything official or any specific game mechanic, just a big mixer party for folks to meet each other. Aaaa someone talk me out of this, talk me down from the ledge of wild parties and endless inboxes full of kind messages from new friends. I am ~this close~ to throwing a huge coffee party and I know I shouldn’t. But my longing…
[spoiler]oh no, my will to resist is fading. oh no oh noooooooooooooo h e l p [/spoiler]
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Estelle Knoht
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10/25/2016
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John Savage wrote:
It's OK.... I am still grinding other stories, so I am yet lost as to what to do with the confessions I already have.
For example, I have no idea if I should collect many of one confession, or confessions from many different folks.
It's a busy week for me, I hope I can figure this out!
Credit: Darkroot
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Grenem
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10/21/2016
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Skinnyman wrote:
Wasn't around last year's Hallowmas, but this thread got me hyped for this year's!
In the meantime, can someone post a small brief what was with the networking, social actions and sheets? 
Cheers!
Short summary?
Everyone could request confessions from other people. this required 3 actions and that that person had not given a confession to them yet. A POSI could use two types of confessions indefinitely, while a non-POSI had easier options that could only get 6 confessions.
If Someone asked for a confession from you, you could decline (a bit rude, but...) or accept. You needed a certain level of menace to get and to accept confession requests (3 in each associated menace)- and without that level of menace, you'd get told you didn't have the required stats. Accepting a confession would cure menaces (-10 cp in each associated menace), and give you 1 spirit of hallowmas.
A POSI could turn in a confession properly for 4 spirit, or betray and get more material rewards, but only two spirit. People left unbetrayed could be betrayed next year, or the secret buried again.
{there was also a less obvious non-betrayal that only gave 2 spirit, but that doesn't matter.}
So Nitebrite set up this massive networking thread so everyone could ask everyone else for confessions much more easily, and everyone was deliberately grinding menaces and doing this en-masse. This makes no sense from a narative perspective, and it wasn't exactly the most fun way to do things, so it's not a suprise they changed it.
{There were also a few standardized events, but the big thing was this. also: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Visitors_at_Hallowmas and (this hub page has last year's newly added npc confessions.[1]) http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Hallowmas}
At the end of the season, you would get rewards from mr. huffman, who's writing up the hallowmas edition. it'll open a new option on one's public.
[1]{Throughout the last week or so of the season, you could ask six npcs for a confession (one a day, IIRC)- mostly ones from sunless sea, though there was an interesting one from the bishop of southwark. then, once all six had been released, you could keep or betray their trust. Betrayal would give 5 echoes and 2 spirit of hallowmas, while keeping the secret would give 2.5 echoes and 4 spirit of hallowmas. Hopefully there'll be something like that in the new one, the lore was neat!}
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NiteBrite
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10/2/2016
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Thousands is a bit of an exaggeration. We had a little over 300 participants, and contacts lists don't even break until you hit 1400. But yeah that tech could use some upgrading to handle decently sized lists of contacts in the literal thousands one day. That's the dream.
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
10/1/2016
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Hallowmas is coming and that means NPC confessions! Usually Sunless Sea promotional characters, but perhaps more.
It'd be fun if we could suggest who we would like to see show up for Hallowmas next year, similar to how we can suggest Mayoral candidates. There's all kinds of fave characters out there whose confessions I'd love to hear for sure.
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sosisqua
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10/17/2016
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Soooooo?
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lazy%20Citizen is LOITERING with everyone.
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Arandia
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9/29/2016
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Last year's was my first Hallowmas in the Neath and I very much enjoyed it - I wasn't even aware that we really "broke" the holiday by confessing so much. Anyway, I am so looking forward to this Hallowmas and hope they have come up with some great new mechanics.
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Horace Glendower, a Seeker: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Horace%20Glendower
Looking for plant battles!
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Arandia
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10/22/2016
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Grenem wrote:
Short summary?
Now that you have written it all down, it sounds so difficult - but it was such great fun, I loved it! I am definitely looking forward to seeing what new mechanics FBG has come up with, but a part of me will always miss last year's spreadsheets.
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Horace Glendower, a Seeker: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Horace%20Glendower
Looking for plant battles!
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Grenem
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10/22/2016
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Arandia wrote:
Grenem wrote:
Short summary?
Now that you have written it all down, it sounds so difficult - but it was such great fun, I loved it! I am definitely looking forward to seeing what new mechanics FBG has come up with, but a part of me will always miss last year's spreadsheets.
To be clear- when I say "wasn't the most fun way to do things", I mean in comparison to other possible alternatives, not that it had a negative fun level. And yeah, it was fun- didn't change that if you did a perfect balance of sending and receiving you had to spend 300 actions sending requests, 100+{time to grind two menaces back to 3}*100 actions, and then spend another 100 actions turning them all in, if you wanted to get the top rewards. It was a more action-intensive event than, say, the feast of the rose, in other words.
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Blaine Davidson
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10/22/2016
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NiteBrite wrote:
I am ~this close~ to throwing a huge coffee party and I know I shouldn’t. But my longing…
So how does one become one of the lucky 300 and obtain such an invitation...?
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Estelle Knoht
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10/2/2016
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malthaussen wrote:
@Robin Alexander: yes, it went smoothly, but I don't think FBG expected (or intended) so many people to get over 1000 points. Since they didn't even have any special rewards for more than 500.
I don't think it is the fact that many people got top prizes and more the fact that it is a narrative collapse where swarms of people dancing around the Bazaar, wearing scandalous clothing and actively clawing themselves with Starveling Cats, all for the sake of good money.
Also, many people's friend list exploded with thousands of people they don't normally talk to, which probably put a strain on the server a little. Guilty as charged.
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The Angry Pirate
Posts: 30
10/25/2016
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Has anyone tried out the SMEN option on the visitors card yet?
Also its nice to finally see the Drownies quality being used for something.
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Catherine Raymond
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10/21/2016
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Gonen wrote:
Absintheuse wrote:
Robin Alexander wrote:
I'm guessing it may be about time for someone to compile lists like last year, of who's willing to be betrayed and the like, as that was rather useful last year.
Don't bother, the mechanics are far different from last year and spreadsheeting will not be necessary
Well, now.
Every mechanics you'll invent, we will find a way to spreadsheet it.
; )
Gonen is probably right, but I'm wild with curiosity to see how you could devise a TOTALLY different mechanic...
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dov
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10/25/2016
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It can be a bit confusing, but there are two types of confessions at play here:
Item-like confessions:
There are 7 total, of which 4 are already available (from Jenny, the Widow, the Kashmiri Princess, and the Illuminated Gentleman), and 3 are to become available on October 31st (from Lettice, Feducci, and the Captivating Princess).
We've received 3 such confessions (at random), and more opportunities to get a few should open at some yet unknown times during the holiday.
These are the confessions we can trade, use to enhance companions, or trade for Favours.
You can see these confessions in your inventory's curiosity section.
Quality-like confessions:
These are available once a day (and then are gone). So far we've had the Magician yesterday, and the Surgeon today.
There's no use in the game yet for these. But presumably, after the holiday when Mr Huffam makes his rounds, some rewards might be available based on the number of such confessions collected (that is, we'll be rewarded for playing daily and getting each of these qualities).
You can see these confessions in your Myself tab, under the Story section.
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Prospero Rune
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10/22/2016
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For me, the spreadsheets were a great way to make acquaintances I otherwise might not have made. I am on pins and needles waiting for the official announcement for this year's event.
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Alice Tintin-An Extraordinary Mind.
Claude Frollo-A Shattering Force.
Drake Maijstral-An Invisible Eminence.
Aardent Lore (Gone North).
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Myrto
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10/23/2016
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Yes, it was some work, and I was looking forward to being more organized this year with my invitations/betrayals/secrets. I really enjoyed the teamwork of the holiday, and, while I didn't reach 500 spirit with any of my characters, I really had fun with the level I reached. I also made contact with a lot of players, which was a really cool side effect of Nitebrite's massive effort.
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Edith Alpha Doyle, social climber with grand ambitions; Correspondent who would be happy to assist you in whatever way she can.
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
9/30/2016
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It will be interesting to see what mischief the Mayor gets up to during this rather tricksy holiday.
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Optimatum
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9/30/2016
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Given an option briefly appeared a while back needing Sinning Jenny's Confession, I'd say she's certainly going to make an appearance.
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Saevitia
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9/30/2016
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I'm rather looking forward to this, given I'm not very fond of highly social activities. Also because it might be my character's last celebration before going NORTH. (Seems to be the only way to get away from people!  )
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Optimatum
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9/30/2016
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For past years, the only big one was having a Starveling Cat.
Anne Auclair wrote:
Optimatum wrote:
Given an option briefly appeared a while back needing Sinning Jenny's Confession, I'd say she's certainly going to make an appearance.
What was the option? How far back was this? Because I never saw it?
edited by Anne Auclair on 9/30/2016
Here you go. It was a month or so ago.and appeared under Matters of the Heart, of all places. The first unlock was not having Sinning Jenny's Confession; the second was "Proposing an Exchange with" someone.
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Vavakx Nonexus
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9/28/2016
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Time to dust off all the hallowmas masks and the starveling cats, I presume.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
9/29/2016
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They were probably a bit upset with us for breaking the holiday last year. I'll be interested in how the mechanic changes, but tentatively the famous Soup-Place-Where-Food-is-Prepared will do a land-office business again this year.
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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.
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Mr Sables
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9/29/2016
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malthaussen wrote:
They were probably a bit upset with us for breaking the holiday last year. I'll be interested in how the mechanic changes, but tentatively the famous Soup-Place-Where-Food-is-Prepared will do a land-office business again this year.
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How did we break it?
I thought it went pretty smoothly? The teamwork was pretty admirable, too.
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Diptych
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10/1/2016
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There was an official suggestions thread, over here.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Sara Hysaro
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10/18/2016
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While I am a little sad about the Betrayers' Club not being needed anymore (I'll keep an eye out just in case), I'm definitely excited to see what's in store for the new Hallowmas.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
10/18/2016
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I'm feeling nostalgic, now, since it was just this time last year I started in FL. A year later, 100 actions a day, and there is still a ton of content I have not explored.
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edited by malthaussen on 10/18/2016
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narcomanic
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10/18/2016
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I'm both excited and a tad apprehensive of my first Hallowmas. And though things seem to be changing for this year, I might as well ask: I've heard rumours it would be useful to have your soul when celebrating Hallowmas, is this true? Should I focus on gathering as many bundles of oddities as I can?
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genesis
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10/23/2016
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Almost certainly around midday GMT, as the vast majority of content in the past.
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Sara Hysaro
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10/24/2016
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Probably about noon or so (12-2pm, I think). Can't say with absolute certainty since I'm generally asleep when events go active, but that's usually when they seem to crop up.
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Leonard of Quirm
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10/24/2016
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I suppose the biggest thing I'm excited for is the more lore oriented "confessions", as opposed to desperately scrounging around on the forums before the good gentleman Mr Huffam turns the corner on my street.
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Skinnyman
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10/25/2016
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Really lovely, but I am disappointed by the fact that this festival uses Notability at it's full extent, but the option to give a point of Notability isn't fixed yet!
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MadmanAtW
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10/23/2016
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I wound up meeting, on another forum, someone who I turned out to have connected with during last year's Hallowmas. I'll kinda miss the spreadsheet, yeah, but I'm totally ok with it being less work.
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Tofan Bogdan
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10/26/2016
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New confessions.
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dov
Posts: 2580
10/25/2016
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Thanks for the table, Darkroot and Estelle. Nicely done!
Also, I haven't seen it mentioned yet in this thread:
Today's temporary conversion option can be found in Watchmaker's Hill. You can find there a storylet to convert the Soft-Hearted Widow's confession into either the Kashmiri Princess's or the Illuminated Gentleman's.
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MidnightVoyager
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10/25/2016
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Felicity Anne Stratford wrote:
Catherine Raymond wrote:
I thought the doctor *was* the free confession. And what about the magician? I haven't found him yet.
Same here, although I have heard that the magician was on a card.
The magician was a storylet yesterday, just like the doctor is today.
And while they are free confessions, they aren't ones people can upgrade companions with which is probably what people are after.
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