Teaspoon
Posts: 866
10/17/2016
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Question - I'm going to Winking Island in three days, tops. Is the cash-in something I'd have to get rid of?
Cos otherwise I'm just going to leave the story alone until I'm back.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
10/17/2016
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You'd better wait.
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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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Diptych
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10/17/2016
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Worth noting: "as above, so below" is, in real-world mysticism, known as the Principle (or Doctrine, or Law; mystics are notoriously inconsistent) of Correspondence.
(Personally, I'm holding off until The Calendar Code is available to replay, 'cause I wasn't happy with my outcome.)
edited by Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook on 10/17/2016
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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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Morucant
Posts: 184
10/18/2016
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Mr. Sails wrote:
Some perhaps obvious thoughts:
[spoiler] The month January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of time (also god of beginnings, gates, transitions, doorways, passages, and endings according to wiki). January was wearing a two-faced mask showing two expressions, and the perhaps most impactful room on her was the timey-wimey one with clocks, so the logical assumption here is that the "masters" of the Calendar Council takes names after Roman gods and their respective abstract fields of interest. This creates an antithesis to the Masters, who take names seemingly after concrete things.
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edited by Cantankerous Captain on 10/17/2016
Unless it is that there's a Roman God of 10, I find that unlikely. We get our names for the last three months- including December, the month the leader of the Calendar Council chose for a name- from Latin numbers rather than Roman Gods and Emperors like the others. If there's some strange thing to be noted with months, it's actually that there were originally only 10 in Rome. The Treachery of Clocks?
Anyway, back into the zone where I reside staring at the journals of people who've played Exceptional Stories since I did not.
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Morucant, who was once called Scholar of the Name.
Good for Chess, Sparring, Caligula's, and perhaps Midnighter lectures at Orphanages.
Uilx-Magnus, who truly loved...to Hate.
October is as unpredictable as wildfire and twice as dangerous. Don't ask his real name.
He has seen Hallowmas, now he will stay silent no more.
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
10/18/2016
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Mr. Sails, RandomWalker, everyone...
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edited by Anne Auclair on 10/17/2016
That's one interpretation (and a well-sourced one).
[spoiler]I took it to mean that her domain is academia. Her philosophy of liberation extends to the quite abstract, and she seems to have a thing for exhaustive research and documentation, be that of recruitment techniques, recruits, or the museum itself.[/spoiler]
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phryne
Posts: 1347
10/18/2016
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Which three items or qualities do you need to see the storylet? Because I'm not seeing it, and I fear it's due to me hanging The Chimney-Pot Wars shortly before the end to keep my Urchin gangs....
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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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suinicide
Posts: 2409
10/18/2016
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You need to finish chimney pot wars, and you need to give away all three items.
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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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phryne
Posts: 1347
10/18/2016
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suinicide wrote:
You need to finish chimney pot wars Too bad, I'm not prepared to do that! No trade-in for me then...
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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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Blaine Davidson
Posts: 388
10/18/2016
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I finally broke down and gave up my beloved one-of-a-kind items for scraps and snippets of lore. Certainly a nice treat after a round of the Fidgeting Writer ended fruitless.
It was lovely, as was the Boatman's story. It makes me all the more excited for the next.
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
10/18/2016
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phryne wrote:
Too bad, I'm not prepared to do that! No trade-in for me then...
You could do like I do with Court of Cats and finish it, then re-buy it and hang it a second time. That should let you see the turn-in and get to keep your beloved urchin companions. (who are, admittedly, pretty cool)
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Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
10/18/2016
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PSGarak wrote:
Anne Auclair wrote:
Mr. Sails, RandomWalker, everyone...
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edited by Anne Auclair on 10/17/2016
That's one interpretation (and a well-sourced one).
One interpretation?
[spoiler]January's book is explicitly about recruitment in an academic setting, with actual academic's playing merely a supporting role. Pure research is more May and September's interest, at least judging from their respective books, which are fairly academic.
Anyway, January is trying to recruit the player into the Revolutionary movement and her words should be treated with appropriate skepticism.[/spoiler]
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RandomWalker
Posts: 948
10/18/2016
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Mr. Sails, RandomWalker, everyone...
[spoiler]You do realize that January is the Council member who's purview is the recruitment of new members by appeals to their abilities and better natures?
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An Encyclopedia of Recruitment Techniques wrote:
This is not a true textbook. It presents key concepts from a multitude of different subjects, but only in summary. The bulk of the text dwells on methods to radicalise students of that discipline; lines of argument which lead the listener to feelings of dissatisfaction and righteous outrage.
She's literally going by the book. Her book.
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I get who January is. I was more delighted with the wordplay than her sales pitch. Posthumously literally means 'after burial' (or at least that's what the Latin origin means). Considering the orphanage storyline for the Light Fingers ambition, I felt that that was a wonderful way of hinting at the sinister things that can happen if you don't have a man-eating plant on your side.
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Rudiger
Posts: 49
10/18/2016
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I've completed the story and received the book...but I can't see it anywhere in my inventory. Is this a glitch?
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
10/18/2016
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Rudiger wrote:
I've completed the story and received the book...but I can't see it anywhere in my inventory. Is this a glitch?
Check the Rumour category. It is a Intriguer's Compendium.
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I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Rudiger
Posts: 49
10/18/2016
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
Rudiger wrote:
I've completed the story and received the book...but I can't see it anywhere in my inventory. Is this a glitch?
Check the Rumour category. It is a Intriguer's Compendium.
Ah, thanks Estelle 
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
10/18/2016
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From this: "A vast web of chains sway from the ceiling. [...] Gilded orbs sprout from thin metal poles attached to the disc."
From something interesting in Zubmariner: "Welcome, Trespasser, to the House of Rods and Chains."
Similar enough that it might be intentional. Also:
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Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
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PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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Scienceandponies
Posts: 247
10/18/2016
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Krysin wrote:
But-but I don't want to give up An Account of the Souls Aboard Hell's Triremes...
But, IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!
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Lamia Lawless
Posts: 604
10/22/2016
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Did someone catch the name of the book she gives you? I assumed it would be in the echo but it wasn't, so I forgot. Something stingue or something.
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xKiv
Posts: 846
10/22/2016
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Lamia Lawless wrote:
Did someone catch the name of the book she gives you? I assumed it would be in the echo but it wasn't, so I forgot. Something stingue or something.
Liber Stinguendi. It was in the storylet intro text, which most people don't echo. (I make copypasta files of everything I see during fate stories).
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https://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/xKiv - a witchful, percussive, dangermous and shadowry scholar of coexplodence, hopsidirean, and walker of fallen kitties.
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Lamia Lawless
Posts: 604
10/22/2016
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Thanks!
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