VioletBandit
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10/18/2017
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I'm taking a break right now to wait for actions, but I'm playing the Last Constable route on my main and journaling it. Is anyone doing the same with the Cheery Man? I'd really like to hear his way of telling the tale.
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Violet Bandit, my main account. Extraordinary Mind and player of the Marvellous.
Dauntless Damsel, my alt. Shattering Force and Vake hunter.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
10/18/2017
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Yes please, I'm stuck at work and I can't freaking take this! :P
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Sallow
Posts: 46
10/18/2017
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I picked the first storylet from Preparing for a Lethal Gambit and found out that I need to grind a heist. I can't devote myself to this, as I'm currently putting nearly all of my APs into my preparations for the Noman. (I'm sooo behind schedule!)
Oh, well... I guess I'll have to wait until February! :P
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Pnakotic
Posts: 266
10/18/2017
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I've been super excited playing this, but I seem to have hit a new content boundary of sorts:
https://flic.kr/p/Csmx3f
In the aftermath, no one seems sure of what to do. Not even the storylet seems to know.
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J. Ward Dunn, Glassman
Book of All Hours 9:99: Journey's end in lover's meeting. Progress is ascendancy.
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menaulon
Posts: 112
10/18/2017
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Well, the tragedy part wasn't a joke. I don't think I like that the luck mechanic is used to choose the end result. Makes the ending ring a bit hollow to me, although that might be part of the point.
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Menaulon
Open to social actions, but would prefer to be betrayed in the search for Photographer.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
10/18/2017
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Wait so is the outcome based on pure luck or can you influence it at all?
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Kaigen
Posts: 530
10/18/2017
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There is a stage where you can rig things to benefit your side, but the game warns you this is likely to upset your partner. I haven't decided whether I want to take that option yet.
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Just a simple doctor with a chess habit. Publisher of The Flit Dispatch.
"One must remember that the impossible is, alas, always possible."
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menaulon
Posts: 112
10/18/2017
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Kaigen wrote:
There is a stage where you can rig things to benefit your side, but the game warns you this is likely to upset your partner. I haven't decided whether I want to take that option yet.
Just a warning, even rigging doesn't guarantee their victory.
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Menaulon
Open to social actions, but would prefer to be betrayed in the search for Photographer.
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MidnightVoyager
Posts: 858
10/18/2017
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Man, I'm not generally EVER a fan of anything where you have to expend a lot of effort and still the result is based on luck. People are talking about having to go around carousels. That's a lot of stuff to do for a coin flip in the end.
I WAS considering resetting because so many criminal-related things seem to check for friendship with the Cheery Man, but if the end result is luck? Maybe I'll just deal with it.
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Midnight Voyager - A blood-cousin to predators. Collector of beasts. Affably mad.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
10/18/2017
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Yikes, sounds like I may have to reset this over and over based on the results of the luck check. Good thing I have a bunch of fate squirreled away.
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Actually nevermind. I ain't paying money for the privilege of being spat on by the writers multiple times This was just too much.
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Dudebro Pyro
Posts: 757
10/18/2017
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I wonder whether the Last Constable got a buff now. Does anyone know yet? Because if not, it would actually be in-character for me to side with the Cheery Man instead purely for the mechanical benefits. I've always regretted my initial choice, but now that there's new content I have no way of knowing if this imbalance is still present.
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Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar
Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them.
For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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Brin
Posts: 53
10/18/2017
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I'm so depressed now, and haven't spotted where you can reset the story yet. I saw there was a way to doctor the odds, but I didn't want to upset her and wanted to do things honestly...but it's hard to accept what happened. I would have been willing to grind for weeks to make sure there would be a good outcome (not unlike weddings), ensuring both she thought there was no foul play afoot, and that the game went in her favor. I didn't even fully understand what was about to happen until we were there, and I realized the odds were severely against her. Not even increasingly, just bad from the start.
It's oddly comforting to know I'm not the only one mildly stressed about this.
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It's odd, the turns fate takes. I chased my spouses' killer to the Neath, and in the process I found my spouse again. It's peculiar, avenging the death of a loved one, when you have tea with them every afternoon.
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Spitfire Youngster
Posts: 32
10/18/2017
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While I understand it was a story of a father and his daughter, with you only as an observer, I still wish there was an option for some desperate intervention, or even rather unsportsmanlike retaliation if the dice didn't favour you, but you still wanted to see the other side dead.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Spitfire%20Youngster
Professional troublemaker, not a single regret since [REDACTED]
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Wilhelm Klossner
Posts: 35
10/18/2017
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menaulon wrote:
Well, the tragedy part wasn't a joke. I don't think I like that the luck mechanic is used to choose the end result. Makes the ending ring a bit hollow to me, although that might be part of the point.
Wait a second. The end result depends on luck? And if you don't like it you have to pay Fate in order to reset the story? Is that correct? That's pretty shameless, I have to admit.
And it seems that none of these characters will be expanded upon in the future, considering the random nature of the outcome.
I've been waiting for so long... What a bitter disappointment.
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Big Scary Mouse β Gone NORTH
Wilhelm Klossner
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Plynkes
Posts: 631
10/18/2017
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So I assume that if the Cheery Man cops it then his card will no longer appear?
Think I'll pass on this one and keep the card if that's the case, just like with the Cheesemonger. I'd rather have a steady source of favours than the denouement to a story that I can't even remember anything about.
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"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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Kharsirr Lynx
Posts: 318
10/18/2017
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I am not sure if you even can reset the story after the tragic finale.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
10/18/2017
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If you have either of them as Companions, do you lose them if things don't go your way?
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Wilhelm Klossner
Posts: 35
10/18/2017
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Kharsirr Lynx wrote:
I am not sure if you even can reset the story after the tragic finale.
That kind of narrative design is completely unacceptable in my eyes. Deeply unsatisfying and frustrating.
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Big Scary Mouse β Gone NORTH
Wilhelm Klossner
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Aberrant Eremite
Posts: 362
10/18/2017
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Tanith is journaling the Cheery Man's side.
[Edit: apparently I was wrong and you CAN lose your Feast companion!]
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Hieronymus Drake: Gentleman scholar, big-game hunter, scar-faced aristocrat. Remarkably sane, all things considered.
Tanith Wyrmwood: Longshanks cat-burglar; Bohemian author; now, perhaps, something more. Bubbly, expressive, and affectionate. Itβs not only still waters that run deep.
Telemachia Lee: Gentle lady by birth, brawling Docker by choice. Good company in the drunk tank.
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Lady Karnstein
Posts: 278
10/18/2017
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I haven't played it yet, but I really, really don't like the sound of the end of this story being a pure luck check at all. It renders my decisions pretty meaningless, and that seems poor for the game. And I don't like the idea of having to pay real money for a second shot. It's one thing if my actions did not have the anticipated result needing to repay, but pure rng seems crappy. I am not one to complain, I try to stay positive on content, and I confess I haven't seen it yet but this really makes me question if I even want to play it, which seems a bad thing.
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Lady Caroline Karnstein, The Moral Hedonist (Description)
Infamous writer, artist, and courtesan. Unrepentant Invert. Hesperidean.
Paramount Presence, Correspondent, Nocturnal. Poet Laureate of the Neath, Ambassador to Arbor
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