Mr. Secrets
Posts: 101
11/2/2016
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Ok, so having companion upgrades makes this Hallowmas awesome. I was around for the one last year and while that was exciting since it was my chance to gather a Destiny, one year later after joining Fallen London and I was going to almost ignore the season. This changed a lot of things and provided some awesome upgrade paths for some various companions including some really nice fluff for the transformations.
So that begs the question, which of these companions have you liked best? On my two accounts I have gathered 6, almost 7 of the 10 available companions. I loved seeing the Esoteric Accomplice become literally the early stages of Mr. Secrets, obsessed with the hidden lore of Fallen London. Of course I liked my Urchin becoming a Pirate, and how can you debate that "I have a tiara, do you have a tiara?" as one of the best item descriptions in the game.
But honestly, for me the Pious Henchmen is my favorite. I felt legitimately bad about making my Henchman Faustian after reading the Pious transformation fluff, so bravo FBG for hitting me in the feels.
Anyway, there is a poll, lets talk new companions. What did you all think?
PS: Writers of Fallen London if you happen to come across this, consider making an Urchin go around asking this question in game for fate the data might help you design next year's companions!
edited by ShroudedInLight on 11/7/2016
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Mr. Secrets - We Are In Our Ascendance. There Will Be Ten And Then All Shall Be Well And All Shall Be Well And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well.
The Straveling Solider - The Straveling Soldier, The Straveling Soldier hates and hates the beings Solar.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
11/2/2016
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The Pious Henchman was my favorite too. His transformation text is just so darn cute. In fact, his text is cute even before he transforms, when he's hinting around and finally just admits he wants you to share some of the confessions with him. It was nice to hear from the Devious Henchman at all, since he's a bit underdeveloped compared to the other human companions you can get at the Bazaar (since he lacks an opportunity card).
Second place goes to the Well-Scrubbed Urchin. After hearing a pair of backstabbing-themed confessions, he decides he's going to protect me from backstabbers? Since poor Fleshy has been back-stabbed by every bloodsucker in the city by now, the Urchin's ambitions come a bit too late, but were touching nonetheless.
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Eglantine-Fox
Posts: 872
11/2/2016
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Tigress comes first for me. Followed by the Skullduggerous Urchin, who I named "Young John" Silver for obvious reasons. But I like pretty much all of them a lot.
More urchins! More henchpeople! More creepy dolls! More squidfriends! This Hallowmas has been good to me.
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Eglantine Fox, the charming and androgynous Correspondent, teetering between hobbies of seduction and self-destruction.
Siobhan O'Malley, Irish patriot (or 'bl__dy Fenian' if you're impolite).
Isidore Day, an up-and-coming London gentleman. All allegations of wrongdoing are categorically denied.
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Lestaroth
Posts: 32
11/2/2016
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The Well-Scrubbed Urchin as an urchin changing for the better was quite interesting (his clean portrait still makes me grin for no special reason). He's rather clingy too.
That said, I'll join the Pious Henchman club as he is a honest, emotional and loyal (former?) bandit, but still very determined and dangerous. Did someone say "conspiracy?" He wins by a long shot.
(I also now have a Fabulous Accomplice -thanks again Horace Glendower for your help!- and I do enjoy her refinement, but... it may be too light for me to consider her a candidate for absolute favorite)
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
11/3/2016
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Can't beat a tiger with a tiara.
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
11/3/2016
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I had to keep distant from the game and the forum to finish some real life duties and I ended not coming back when things cleared up. But when I saw the Well-Scrubbed Urchin, I knew I needed one and here am I playing again. I laughed at his description, I'm sure the Professor will cling to him as much as he clings to her, and he gives some good boosts.
Second favourite is the Esoteric Accomplice. Gotta love her glasses.
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"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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Jermaine Vendredi
Posts: 588
11/3/2016
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Anyone else feel really bad about Mr Bubbles?
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Scienceandponies
Posts: 247
11/3/2016
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The Haunted Goldfish text was certainly amusing, but I think I have to give it to the Esoteric Accomplice, just because she's such a perfect fit for my character.
Should I pull it off, the Rubbery Campanologist will take the top spot, simply because I will have put in so much effort to (hopefully) get my Renown up in time to get the Bell Ringer. I'm grinding Notability like mad (threw down the exhorbitant fate cost to get the Boneless Consort to bump my BDR up to 30) in the hopes of trading for as many Illuminated gentlemen as possible to trade for favors.
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
11/3/2016
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...yeah, the Pious Henchman is pretty damn great. I liked both Accomplices a lot, too.
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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aegisaglow
Posts: 202
11/3/2016
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I hope to get a Faustian Henchman before all this is over, but I have to say I'm delighted with my Tigress.
"I have a tiara. Do you have a tiara?" indeed.
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Mx. Aglow. Glazier, hedonist, devil-teaser, Paramount Presence. Pursuing their Heart's Desire.
Ms. Lilian Leith. A lady of proper standing, which seems like an increasingly ludicrous thing to give a rat's ___ about. Known (to some) for her Light Fingers.
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dov
Posts: 2580
11/3/2016
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I agree that the description of the tigress is the most awesome ("do you have a tiara?"), but I really like the Esoteric Accomplice the best. Good text, good character development, and I really like the image.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
11/3/2016
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Jermaine Vendredi wrote:
Anyone else feel really bad about Mr Bubbles?
Yes, I do! (This despite the fact that I've flung a few goldfish to their deaths at the maw of Audrey the carnivorous plant from time to time. But that was a quick death, not a life of horror.) So much so, that neither of my characters is going to create a Haunted Goldfish though doing so would have been easy.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
11/3/2016
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I really want an Extravagantly Titled Tigress for my main. (My alt can't even afford an ordinary Tigress, alas.) Currently, my main has three augmented characters; the Well-Scrubbed Urchin; the Fabulous Accomplice; and the Pious Henchman. I hope she can manage to get the other 5 (no Goldfish, and I'm of two minds about the Rubbery upgrade), but she's short on Confessions and I don't feel like investing more Notability or any Fate to augment that. So I may settle for the three I have and the augmented Tigress. Not sure how many my alt will get--so far she's gotten only the Faustian Henchman, but she has more Confessions than my main.
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PJ
Posts: 210
11/3/2016
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I wouldn't have objected to feeding fish to that plant if the text for doing so didn't call him "Mr. Bubbles".
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An Individual
Posts: 589
11/4/2016
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Having completed the upgrades for all 10 companions, the one I found most entertaining was the Haunted Goldfish. Turns out the bar is pretty low for "things fish are not meant to know". The tiger with a tiara is a close second.
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Amsfield
Posts: 176
11/4/2016
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No love for the Weeping Doll? While I admit I myself voted for the eminently regal Tigress, I enjoy the imagery of a perpetually tormented doll with an intractable fixed smile it can't escape. The whole 'I have no mouth and I must scream thing'.
Hadn't thought about it like that before, and now suspect I may be an awful person.
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A devotee of pleasures intellectual and fleshy. Always fabulously masked.
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A hunter, a shooter and a fisher. Also a patriotic busy body. Mildly corrupted.
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A young firebrand of obviously criminal intent.
Venshik: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Venshik
Not a nice person.
Asmeria: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Asmeria
Quiet, thoughtful and possibly mad. Excellent listener though. Favours grey.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
11/4/2016
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Amsfield wrote:
No love for the Weeping Doll? While I admit I myself voted for the eminently regal Tigress, I enjoy the imagery of a perpetually tormented doll with an intractable fixed smile it can't escape. The whole 'I have no mouth and I must scream thing'.
Hadn't thought about it like that before, and now suspect I may be an awful person.
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Now that you bring up the Doll...
My main has a Watchful Doll, though I'm not sure why; I never liked it all that much, the spiteful jealous thing. But, as with the Goldfish, I can't bring myself to turn it into a being that forever weeps. So I'm foregoing a Weeping Doll also.
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Jermaine Vendredi
Posts: 588
11/4/2016
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PJ wrote:
I wouldn't have objected to feeding fish to that plant if the text for doing so didn't call him "Mr. Bubbles".
Yes, that was quite canny on the part of the writer. Went and turned the piscine entity from something served with chips into a person!
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"Many" Chin
Posts: 383
11/4/2016
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I just like the face on the fish. SHOCKING TRUTH!
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
11/4/2016
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I am really skeeved out by the Faustian Henchman actually - as someone who doesn't deal with Hell at all, I'm rather uncomfortable of having conspired in someone's errr, damnation.
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