Diptych
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7/11/2017
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Who likes questions? I like questions. You know what I like even more? Answers! Here's this week's thread for both!
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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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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
7/13/2017
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If a Neathy child goes to zee, do they become a zee-urchin?
I'm sorry, I'll show myself out.
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BillyCosmos!
Posts: 30
7/15/2017
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If you light then soon extinguish St. Forthigan's candle, does that make it go all blackened forthigan?
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Overjoyed to finally have a decent secretary to take dictation. Even if it is a somewhat more mushroomy sort of secretary than one might be used to.
Dictated, thuroughly read.
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Anchovies
Posts: 421
7/15/2017
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What led to this candle-lit scene in a churchyard? I haven't the slightest memory of what card or storylet took me there.
BillyCosmos! wrote:
If you light then soon extinguish St. Forthigan's candle, does that make it go all blackened forthigan?
Your soul is stained now wrote:
'Get out!' she whispers. 'That's the worst thing I… Get out!'
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
—Sir Arthur C Clarke
Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
7/15/2017
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That was a location specific card "1000 foxfire candles wanted" I think? Its only drawn in the spite.
edited by suinicide on 7/15/2017
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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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Sara Hysaro
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7/14/2017
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I think it's just unfortunate luck - I've gotten that card recently.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
7/15/2017
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Sir Joseph Marlen wrote:
I'm doing a bit of research into The Calendar Code and the Season of Revolutions overall to make a post on the Council and their relation to a certain novel. So far I'm combing through echoed actions and forum posts, though I'm wondering if I should replay through The Calendar Code again to make it easier or get information the echoes don't carry. Which would make more sense to you?
The latter cost money and doesn't guarantee results, so just ask away and hope someone can answer you first? :P
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Pumpkinhead
Posts: 516
7/15/2017
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I'm with Suinicide on that one. It's been a long time since I've played the 1000 candles card, but that seems about right for what happens next.
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McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!)
Amanda Albright is a *spoiler* now, like she always wanted.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
7/15/2017
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Probably, yes.
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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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Amalgamate
Posts: 435
7/16/2017
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Teaspoon wrote:
I now have two mood cards.
I don't have that much Someone Is Coming, nor am I grinding SOTC at present. What shall I do with them?
You can use them for increasing renown. Get 7 favors in some faction where you've maxed out your renown with your current quality levels, and the mood then lets you get it just a little higher.
Not too exciting, but it's one of the few things where getting super-high stats gets you at least something.
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http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/amalgamate
Social invitations of all kinds welcome, especially games of chess and deadly sparring!
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
7/18/2017
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If Parabola is Is-Not, does it stay stable even after the Liberation of Night?
Or does it dissolve because without light, there's no light for reflections.
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Jeremy Avalon
Posts: 345
7/14/2017
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The card will eventually come back in your hand. And you are locked out of the Nadir if you want to keep that (although you can prolong the decay by making your Nadir trips short and leaving before your Irrigo reaches 6, which multiplies the stat penalty).
Other things that will damage Watchful include Seeking, one or two mid-level Dream cards, one of the Nightmares challenges in a state of some confusion, and the City Vices: Orthographic Infection card. See here for a more comprehensive list.
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How we must glow; yes, I bet we look like snow.
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Tay1or
Posts: 163
7/14/2017
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Thanks so much! Glad to know the card comes around again! I thought I was stuck on 205 forever! I'll study up on the other things to avoid--have a great weekend--Tay1or
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Katistrophe
Posts: 29
7/14/2017
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Has there been a quiet change to dreams preventing you from drawing, say, a What the Thunder Said card that also boosts Death By Water if you're over the content cap with Death By Water, or am I just having rotten luck?
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gronostaj
Posts: 403
7/11/2017
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is there any way to record snippets while on mobile? There's a pen-shaped icon that lets one record the text atop branch options for choosing an action, but it disappears when player is redirected to the text describing the result of a chosen action. is this a bug or a feature? ;P
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Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones.
Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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dov
Posts: 2580
7/11/2017
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DeserterKalak wrote:
For those that suffer from that odd condition of being convinced they are somehow inside The Mind of a Long-Dead God, what happens when their Wounds overcome them? Do they possess a peculiar resilience up until the moment they recover their faculties/return to London, or will they die and find themselves on the River?
You can build up Wounds as high as you want while inside the Mind. When returning to London you'll need to deal with them all.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
7/11/2017
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DeserterKalak wrote:
For those that suffer from that odd condition of being convinced they are somehow inside The Mind of a Long-Dead God, what happens when their Wounds overcome them? Do they possess a peculiar resilience up until the moment they recover their faculties/return to London, or will they die and find themselves on the River?
You only die when you return to London, not unlike how someone grievously wounded in the Iron Republic can leave the place and enjoy a full cruise before dying the moment they land on London.
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
7/11/2017
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When exiting the Mind, it's possible to chug a Tincture immediately and turn the boat trip into merely a bad hangover.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
7/11/2017
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It's based on your lodgings.
No, I can't confirm that, but it should be reasonably accurate, not that you want to raise your Stormy Eyed in there.
If you have Fate, breeding the Corresponding Ocelot will grant a card that give 1CP of SoTC up to 10.
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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SeveredJoke
Posts: 171
7/11/2017
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
If you have Fate, breeding the Corresponding Ocelot will grant a card that give 1CP of SoTC up to 10.
Aha! Back to the Labyrinth I go! Thank you.
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Annabelle McAllister - Nemesis
Marlon JD - Bag a Legend
Suzi Bapsthwaite - Light Fingers
Delilah Moreo - Heart's Desire
Alexei Totkinder - Nemesis
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
7/11/2017
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If your Wounds hit 8 you'll be thrown into a Must storylet, so you definitely can't use cards at that point. You also can't use items while inside of a Must Storylet, so you may want to immediately go into your inventory rather than let the general story tab load if you're at 8.
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Barse
Posts: 706
7/11/2017
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Suspicion is different because you're thrown into a storylet with options, so you have time to get out of it. The other menaces don't give the player options, just trigger a MUST that directly moves you, and so they're trickier to escape - you gotta reduce the menace before exiting the results screen of the action that raised that menace to 8.
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
7/12/2017
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Curious: What Bazaar purchasable item has the best buy price/sell price ratio? The best I found was the Bright Brass Skull (62.5 E purchase, 60 E sell).
This might be useful knowledge for those with lots of money and a high criminal record, as (with brass skulls) it's only a 4% loss of your held money instead of the 10% loss from the "ARRESTED!" event.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
7/12/2017
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Kaijyuu wrote:
Curious: What Bazaar purchasable item has the best buy price/sell price ratio?.
Pretty sure it's the Connected/Renown items in general: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Connection_Items
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Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous.
pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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Diptych
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7/13/2017
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I'm reminded of a quotation from William S. Burroughs...
Apocalypse wrote:
Consider an apocalyptic statement: ‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted’ Hassan i Sabbath. Not to be interpreted as an invitation to all manner of unrestrained and destructive behavior; that would be a minor episode, which would run its course. Everything is permitted because nothing is true. It is all make-believe, illusion, dream…. ART. When art leaves the frame and the written world leaves the page not merely the physical frame and page, but the frames and pages of assigned categories a basic disruption of reality occurs: the literal realization of art… Success will write APOCALYPSE across the sky.
The events we see in the Liberation of Night destiny appear to be, if a little more than a "minor episode", then perhaps a prelude to the true Liberation - a Land of Taking-What-You-Want that has yet to be developed into the complete revolutionary event that it might become.
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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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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
7/13/2017
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No.
A swamp, I imagine. From where the part-of-the-River-that-was-not-Stolen (well, surely the entire Thames didn't go underneath) flows into what is now a hole.
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Tintinnabulum
Posts: 61
7/13/2017
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Oh right, the river. Thanks, that makes sense. I was imagining a great big hole with a fence around it and a tastefully discreet NO TRESPASSING sign nearby.
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