Longtail
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10/6/2017
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They say it was born from the unkept vows of the Neath's many kings. Supposedly its eyes were stolen from a tiger, and its tongue from a snake. Does it really dine on the hands of master cracksmen?
Greetings everyone, and welcome to the first Mr Hexed item giveaway. From the 13th to the 26th, I'll be sending 210 first city coins to a randomly chosen person. Only those who sign up for it here (or send an in-game message to the appropriate person asking to sign up) will be eligible. If you somehow get picked every single time, that's like getting 68250 pence for nothing. Accepting them costs no actions, so there's no reason to not sign up!
If you think this is a fun idea, please contribute. I'm actually in rather desperate need of a social partner who could send me requests to rob the Museum of Mistakes. I did, er, possibly obtain over 2,000 coins by sending requests from an alternate account before I knew that was an incredibly bad thing to do. But now I'm a reformed criminal, and as a reformed criminal I swear to only ever burglarize responsibly. Farming coins through other means is possible but extremely slow, effectively killing future giveaways without your help. Which is a shame, since the next giveaway will be done entirely in character. No, you won't be speaking with Mr Hexed. It'll be his ratty companion, Longtail, who greets you next. He's a rat who loves to tell tales - and some of them are even true! Through him, you could put the pieces together on just who Mr Hexed might be. That is, if a few of you could spare several thousand cryptic clues. If you wish to help, send your robbery requests to Mr Hexed here. Huge credit will constantly be given to those who help most!
Winners:
1) Lionel Anchovies
2) Percie
3) Ginneon Thursday
4) Kylestien
5) Leonine Veteran
6) Kylestien
7) Lionel Anchovies
8) Adam Sanzelwicky
9) vinceren
10) Optimatum
11) javelin4201
12) Optimatum
13) Lady Sapho L Byron
edited by Longtail on 10/25/2017
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
10/6/2017
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I fear I cannot help you with the Museum of Mistakes, but this post is far too delightful and intriguing not to respond to. Sign me up!
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Lady%20Sapho%20L%20Byron
Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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Longtail
Posts: 10
10/25/2017
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And that concludes the first Mr Hexed item giveaway. There won't be a second unless I scrounge up another 19 robbery requests for the museum of mistakes. That's not too much so I'll, uh, probably just send myself those requests (my own arbitrary code of gameplay ethics be damned!). Anyway, we have winners:
1) Lionel Anchovies
2) Percie
3) Ginneon Thursday
4) Kylestien
5) Leonine Veteran
6) Kylestien
7) Lionel Anchovies
8) Adam Sanzelwicky
9) vinceren
10) Optimatum
11) javelin4201
12) Optimatum
13) Lady Sapho L Byron
Clearly Lionel Anchovies, Kylestien, and Optimatum are all cheaters since they won too much. There's no better justice than mob justice, so do what you may to punish the cheats (please don't actually do that).
I also got some robbery requests. 13,000 props to the people who generously sent those and as a result proved themselves to be superior to everyone else (sending myself 27 requests is a bit of a stretch, so you can probably thank these people for keeping the giveaway alive):
Leonine Veteran (John Moose) - 7 requests
hellaGummy - 1 request
The next giveaway is April 13, 2018. People who registered for this giveaway won't automatically be registered for the next, mainly because I don't trust you guys to still be active on Fallen London in 6 months. If you already registered here I'll just send a message asking you to confirm you're alive. If you're alive or otherwise capable of responding, you're in. So watch out for that, I guess.
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Anchovies
Posts: 421
10/7/2017
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Teaspoon wrote:
The simple solution is to just off-load some coins when you have more than 76.
I'm at the content limit in Heart's Desire, but I can access the Museum /use the Master options because I only have thirty of the things (I keep using them for ready cash.) Bloody heck, this is possible? I had thought otherwise. Amazing! I'd love to help with some museum robberies. My profile is linked in my signature, and also right here.
They can't keep the past locked up forever! Let there be a Liberation of Coins!
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
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Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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Longtail
Posts: 10
10/7/2017
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I'm pleasantly surprised at how positive people are about the giveaway. I was honestly afraid there'd be no interest, and that nobody would volunteer to be a social partner. Yet here we are, and already several people want to help. Anyway, those who would like to send robbery requests can send them to Mr Hexed here. I can't receive requests while I'm already hunting for coins, but I'll try to keep myself available for requests as much as possible.
Reminder to everyone that you should explicitly sign up for the giveaway. I can't imagine why someone would go through the effort of posting a reply without wanting free goodies, but then again I can't imagine a lot of things. If your forum name is different from your Fallen London name, then it'd be helpful to give that too.
The current list of entrees is: Lady Sapho Byron, DavidJ (for ExceptionallyDelicious), Optimatum, TeslaWalker, Lionel Anchovies (for Anchovies), Saklad5, Kylestien, John Moose, Mycroft Tennyson, and Ginneon Thursday.
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Longtail
Posts: 10
10/12/2017
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We're one day away from the giveaway. People who haven't signed up yet can still sign up any time during the giveaway. Lurkers who don't want to create a forum account to sign up can also send an in-game message here. The current list of entrees is: Lady Sapho Byron, DavidJ (for ExceptionallyDelicious), Optimatum, TeslaWalker, Lionel Anchovies (for Anchovies), Saklad5, Kylestien, John Moose, Mycroft Tennyson, Ginneon Thursday, and Percie. If you're not in that list, then you're not signed up.
So far I've gotten exactly one request to rob the museum. For anyone still interested in sending requests, the easiest way to do this is to send many requests at once. Once they're sent, I can slowly accept and complete them one at a time without you having to lift a finger. Each time a request is accepted, 400 cryptic clues are removed from your inventory. The quickest way I know of for farming cryptic clues is through using Interview the Department of _______ staff to build up 'Investigating...', and then cashing the 'Investigating...' in at Raid a Message-Drop. Each giveaway needs at least 91 requests, or 36,400 total cryptic clues. Sadly, requests can only be sent by people very early in the Heart's Desire ambition. If you really, really want to help out but don't qualify in-game, you can always create a new alt with the sole purpose of sending in requests. That would only be an incredible pain in the neck, so I imagine lots of people would love to do that. Unless told to keep your request donations anonymous, I will be posting your name and total contributions on the next giveaway.
In other news, I accidentally marked the first post as an 'accepted answer' and gave it a light green background. Is there any way to undo that? Green isn't exactly the most... fitting color for one like Mr Hexed.
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John Moose
Posts: 276
10/18/2017
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George sits in his study, a large pile of coins covering his desk. A cat is having great fun dropping as much on the floor as it can. The floor is covered with books from the more esoteric of London's foremost theosophists, as well as a thin volume labelled "ON THE TRUE NAMES OF THE MASTERS". None of these have offered any explanation as to the identity of Mr Hexed, nor to its willingness to part with First City coins.
This present will keep George up for nights to come.
He considers buying a safe for the coins, as well as a guard dog for nocturnal visitors.
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Longtail
Posts: 10
10/19/2017
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We're just over halfway through the giveaway. You can see the list of winners so far in the first post.
The current list of entrees is: Lady Sapho Byron, DavidJ (for ExceptionallyDelicious), Optimatum, TeslaWalker, Lionel Anchovies (for Anchovies), Saklad5, Kylestien, Leonine Veteran (for John Moose), Mycroft Tennyson, Ginneon Thursday, percie, Adam Sanzelwicky (for trajing), and vinceren.
vinceren wrote:
Count me in! I'm vinceren, with Nemesis alt vindicta.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/vinceren
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/vindicta
Sorry, but I'd rather only have one account per person in the giveaway. Not that it's very hard for people to lie to me and completely circumvent that. I assume you'd rather submit your main (vinceren), but let me know if you want to swap out for vindicta.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
10/6/2017
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A giveaway? Sign me up!
Longtail wrote:
I did, er, possibly obtain over 2,000 coins by sending requests from an alternate account before I knew that was an incredibly bad thing to do.
It's not, unless something's changed recently. Quite a few players use alts for social actions like menace cures, second chances sources, and even profitable actions like The Neath's Mysteries. Sure, Failbetter wouldn't be happy if you had twenty alts working together to constantly rob the Museum of Mistakes and funnel money to your main, but using alts in moderation is generally fine.
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Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
 Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
10/6/2017
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The simple solution is to just off-load some coins when you have more than 76.
I'm at the content limit in Heart's Desire, but I can access the Museum /use the Master options because I only have thirty of the things (I keep using them for ready cash.)
So sure, I'll send along a request if you post your Profile.
edited by Teaspoon on 10/6/2017
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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Saklad
Posts: 528
10/6/2017
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I’d be happy to get First-City Coins, though I’m probably not going the most worthy recipient. I like to amass 2000 of each item, insofar as you can do so without dedicated grinding, so I have around 600 First City Coins lying around.
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Saklad5, a man of many talents
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