Absintheuse
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10/26/2017
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Delicious friends, the Exceptional Story for November is here!
A new diocese has been proposed for London! Journey to Bugsby's Marsh where you'll quarrel with vicars, sermonise at deacons and frustrate nuns as you decide who'll be the new Bishop of Watchmaker's Hill.
The Sinking Synod is the third and final story in the Season of Sceptres, and was written by Gavin Inglis. This season, experience three stories that involve the use and abuse of power in an array of London professions. You can begin each from the Season of Sceptres card.
At the end of the season, players who have completed all three will go a step farther, unlocking bonus content involving the exiled Injurious Princess, and her plan to reclaim the throne of Vesture.
Editing and QA: James Chew and Caolain Porter.
Art by Paul Arendt.
EXCEPTIONAL FRIENDSHIP
In addition to a new, substantial, stand-alone story every month, Exceptional Friends enjoy:
- Access to the House of Chimes: an exclusive private member's club on the Stolen River, packed with content
- An expanded opportunity deck: of ten cards instead of six!
- A second candle: Twice the actions! 40 at once!
Finishing all three stories in the Season of Sceptres will make you eligible for an additional opportunity, to follow.
If you want to keep an Exceptional Story beyond the month it’s for, you must complete the related storylet in the current Season’s card throughout London. This will save it for you to return to another time.
edited by Absintheuse on 10/26/2017
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Daedalus_Falk
Posts: 234
10/26/2017
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This is the first ES to focus on the church, isn't it?
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For I was hungry, and you gave me rats. I was thirsty, and you gave me rats. I was naked, and you gave me rats. The rodents were gathered together, the cats slept in the Sun’s blindness, and the rats rose like the Moon, in the light at the edge of the cheese.
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Akernis
Posts: 255
10/26/2017
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As has been the case in the last several stories, the art is just gorgeous! Makes me all the more excited to play 
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Barse
Posts: 706
10/26/2017
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I haven't quite finished yet (RIP my actions) but it's been really cool to see how the Church as a whole functions in London - we often see Southwark and Fiacre out and about doing their own things, and God's Editors exist separately to those two again. It's interesting to get an overview of their work together and that of the wider Church, and a fun to way to give these important characters some depth & shared context.
While I'm not personally invested in the Church as a faction, I'm glad they've finally got a story focussed on them - plus, that artwork is gorgeous, and some of the conversation text made me laugh out loud!
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
10/26/2017
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Just waiting on new action points to finish.
I'm a bit indifferent to this story; I love the art, and the writing is a very fine quality, but I'm totally disinterested in the Church and these characters. I think - were this an interest of mine - it'd be one of the best stories to date; the mechanics are fun and quirky, it feels like your choice has a real impact, and the characters are given some depth and personality and reasons.
Personally? I'm more invested in this mysterious figure, and I can't wait to question him. Maybe the ending will change my opinion a bit more, but - so far - I'm skim-reading a lot, as I feel a bit 'meh'.
Excellent quality, but perhaps not for me.
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Jermaine Vendredi
Posts: 588
10/26/2017
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A new *diocese*, surely?
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Cthonius
Posts: 362
10/26/2017
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Already I love the bits with Southwark and Fiacre's, though while they add more depth to Fiacre's they don't much to Southwark. Either way I love any new content with Fiacre's and I can't believe people used to see him as sinister in his mystery. The interactions with the locals of the Hill were too amusing and characterizing. Pushing off the Synod proper till I've some more actions but this is shaping quickly into a great story.
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Cthonius, gone North. Gone.
Oneiropompus, a Scarlet Saint, eager to help make your dreams realities. Accepting all social requests for now.
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Tay1or
Posts: 163
10/26/2017
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Awesome--best story in many months! Interesting characters and story, good mechanics, I choose the man from the marsh in the end.
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
10/26/2017
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The ending made no sense to me?
I was given an option of what to do, but none were to side with the mysterious man . . . I thus chose to rule myself, in hopes that I could get rid of them from Watchmaker's Hill, thus sating said mysterious man, but still no mention of him or nothing to do with him? It said "this is almost certainly the end", but sign of an opportunity card?
What happened to him? :-S
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Tay1or
Posts: 163
10/26/2017
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Did you follow him and talk to him?
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
10/26/2017
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Tay1or wrote:
Did you follow him and talk to him?
Yup.
I had three options; ask him about himself, why he hates the church, and why the Hill.
I completed all three (have them on my journal). The only option left was to go forward to the final choice.
There I had four options, none of which involved him in the least :-S
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
10/26/2017
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What about the other times you could follow him?
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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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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
10/26/2017
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suinicide wrote:
What about the other times you could follow him?
Any time there was an option to follow him, I followed him.
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Barse
Posts: 706
10/26/2017
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Re. Marsh Man's wishes at the end:
[spoiler] He tells you that he wants the Church to leave him in peace, that he has no wish for a Church presence. While not explicitly mentioning him, the option "Let the new Diocese fail" seems to line up with his wishes best - I didn't choose it, but the text suggests that you bury the Church in enough bureaucracy that the Bugsby's Marsh project never goes ahead.[/spoiler]
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
10/26/2017
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Barse wrote:
Re. Marsh Man's wishes at the end:
[spoiler] He tells you that he wants the Church to leave him in peace, that he has no wish for a Church presence. While not explicitly mentioning him, the option "Let the new Diocese fail" seems to line up with his wishes best - I didn't choose it, but the text suggests that you bury the Church in enough bureaucracy that the Bugsby's Marsh project never goes ahead.[/spoiler]
Hmm, I suspected at much, bu that wasn't clear to me at all.
Oh well, I'll wait to see what rewards people get and what the journal entry says. A little annoyed by that, but it could just be me who faced that issue, in which case I may pay to replay at a later date . . . if it's not just me, though, I'll just suck it up as bad luck.
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Tay1or
Posts: 163
10/26/2017
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Yes, the first option with his picture is how you make that choice. I guess that it could be confusing since it doesn't actually mention him.
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Ludwig Von Wolfgang
Posts: 7
10/26/2017
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A very good and interesting story.
Although i do have to wonder the ethical problems of being both a crooked cross and a bishop  .
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Hattington
Posts: 210
10/26/2017
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Robin Alexander wrote:
The ending made no sense to me?
I was given an option of what to do, but none were to side with the mysterious man . . . I thus chose to rule myself, in hopes that I could get rid of them from Watchmaker's Hill, thus sating said mysterious man, but still no mention of him or nothing to do with him? It said "this is almost certainly the end", but sign of an opportunity card?
What happened to him? :-S
Same here and...same reaction, honestly. Out of all the ESes I've played this year, this one ended the most anticlimatically.
I just sort of, became Bishop? Except apparently I...probably won't? One little level of Renown: The Church hardly seems appropriate for a prospective Bishop. Is there a card enroute that will show Swamp Guy's reaction to the whole fiasco?
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Cthonius
Posts: 362
10/26/2017
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I wonder if becoming bishop unlocks a new term of address.
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Cthonius, gone North. Gone.
Oneiropompus, a Scarlet Saint, eager to help make your dreams realities. Accepting all social requests for now.
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Ludwig Von Wolfgang
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10/26/2017
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Cthonius wrote:
I wonder if becoming bishop unlocks a new term of address.
Yes it does.
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