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Zarrg
Posts: 31
10/6/2016
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I need to read more carefully:
Ehh I am an idiot for not advancing scholar of the correspondence before the option to do it in the university passed, now I have to slog though the RNG in the forgotten quarter.
Hmm.. maybe this option will increase it faster.
(not reading the story text) Did it work, why is that text in a larger font?
Nothing.. why is persuasive decreasing? Hmm I seem to have gotten some Appalling secrets, But I can get that from practically everything in the forgotten quarteeee, EHHHH, AHHHHH.
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FOR ALL THAT IS GOOD, JUST TELL ME PLAIN AND SIMPLE HOW TO ESCAPE PLEASE!!!!!!!!
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genesis
Posts: 924
10/6/2016
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What?
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
10/6/2016
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You don't have to worry about SMEN - it's not going to hurt you unless you actively pursue it. That said, there's a card that will show up with an option to give up the search, and even if you don't choose that option you'll end up with an item that will let you quit at any time.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
10/6/2016
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If you have Scholar of the Correspondence, you'll get a black-bordered card soon called An Alphabet of Scars that lets you give up the Search.
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Zarrg
Posts: 31
10/6/2016
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Thanks, that's what I thought.
I guess the comments of some of the role-players ("I have touched the name and now cannot escape" etc) cast some foolish doubts in my mind.
Just to make sure, how clear is the option that allows you to abandon SMEN in the Alphabet of Scars card?
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Barse
Posts: 706
10/6/2016
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It's pretty clearly signposted with explanatory italicised text, I think (and it'll be the only option that the game doesn't tell you is a terrible idea).
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Zarrg
Posts: 31
10/6/2016
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Wait - is the escape option meant to increase SMEN?
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Barse
Posts: 706
10/6/2016
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Both options on An Alphabet of Scars link to this event: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/A_WARNING during which you just choose "This isn't for me", and you'll be free as a bird. Nothing to worry about.
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Zarrg
Posts: 31
10/6/2016
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I am 90% sure that I picked the escape option, I said something about the path being narrow but escape still being possible. SMEN increased to three however.
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edited by Zarrg on 10/6/2016
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Zarrg
Posts: 31
10/6/2016
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Reading the wiki suggests that this is meant to happen ... I think.
The fact that it is midnight and I should be asleep and various stresses in my actual life are not working in my favor.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
10/7/2016
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If it increased to 3, there should be an item in your inventory that lets you leave.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
10/7/2016
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Yes. The item in question is A Bad End, first in the Curiosities section. If you don't have it, check the Story section of your qualities to see if you do still in fact have the Seeking Mr Eaten's Name quality.
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Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
10/7/2016
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Zarrg wrote:
I am 90% sure that I picked the escape option, I said something about the path being narrow but escape still being possible. SMEN increased to three however.
edited by Zarrg on 10/6/2016
edited by Zarrg on 10/6/2016
If you have "A Bad End" in your inventory (it should be at or near the very beginning of the Curiosities section), you can use that to escape.
That said, you should be able to escape with the "Alphabet of Scars" card, even though it does increase SMEN to 3 first. I have allowed people to betray me and escaped multiple times (I now have the "Freed of the Name" quality at over 5 in consequence). My recollection is that once you do the "This is not for me" option, you immediately get taken to yet another screen that allows you to do the opt-out storylet (which is decorated with the same burning paper image that signifies the Searing Enigma). That storylet will finally zero out your SMEN quality.
Next time I'm betrayed and use the card to escape, I'll echo the text to my journal and post here with a link.
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Amalgamate
Posts: 435
10/7/2016
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FYI, you don't need to worry. While in-character the search is supposed to "suck you in", metagame-wise it's pretty easy to get out. You're not going to wake up and suddenly find your character destroyed or anything. Once you get the "a bad end" item, you can simply use it to leave at any time, and the card should appear before then. It's not some hidden secret one-time option that you might miss and accidentally destroy yourself.
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Diptych
Administrator
Posts: 3493
10/7/2016
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That said, I am now enchanted by the idea of someone, through a series of misclicks and misunderstandings, accidentally playing through the entire SMEN storyline.
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Passionario
Posts: 777
10/7/2016
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
That said, I am now enchanted by the idea of someone, through a series of misclicks and misunderstandings, accidentally playing through the entire SMEN storyline.
"A Starveling Cat walked across my keyboard 77 times while I was sleeping, and now I'm NORTH. Send help."
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Skinnyman
Posts: 2133
10/7/2016
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Passionario wrote:
Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
That said, I am now enchanted by the idea of someone, through a series of misclicks and misunderstandings, accidentally playing through the entire SMEN storyline.
"A Starveling Cat walked across my keyboard 77 times while I was sleeping, and now I'm NORTH. Send help."
125 SMEN? But then I saw who posted this and knew it's something normal. Stop changing you avatar this often and huge congratulations!
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Passionario
Posts: 777
10/7/2016
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(Disclaimer: I'm not actually NORTH, nor do I intend to stop at 125)
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
10/7/2016
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Passionario, desperately following that compass for his own good, trying to avoid going North so hard -- and still the Name pursues him relentlessly, drawing him, consuming him....
D__n! Very impressive. You make me want to return to the Mirror Marches to chase my own quixotic quest again.
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Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
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Zarrg
Posts: 31
10/7/2016
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I escaped, does the "freed from the name" quality actually have any effect?
Thank you.
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