Plynkes
Posts: 631
10/30/2017
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Okay, I got booted from the palace and I'm confused. Despite my best efforts and paying some Fate, I am no closer to understanding what the point of that was. Just what is he up to, and what did he gain by having me create such a scandal?
If the answer is "keep playing, you find out later on" then fine, end of thread. But if not then does anybody have any inklings? It's all very confusing. I know there are a lot of these kind of cryptic shenanigans in Fallen London, but occasionally it might be nice to know just quite what the Hell is going on.
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
10/30/2017
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The Veteran Privy Councilor is an experienced London politician. If he were going to let you in on his game, it would be *highly* out of character.
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Saklad
Posts: 528
10/31/2017
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The Fate option needs to get retired.
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xKiv
Posts: 846
11/11/2017
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folklore364 wrote:
Its actually possible to get back into the court without going through the veteran privy counselor. An opportunity to do so may crop up during a governship stint, and i'll say no more unless so asked.
AFAIK, the only thing the veteran toilet counselor does is tell you that that's where you should go. There are no quality changes associated with playing that storylet that I noticed. So of course you can do it without him.
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folklore364
Posts: 136
11/11/2017
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xKiv wrote:
folklore364 wrote:
Its actually possible to get back into the court without going through the veteran privy counselor. An opportunity to do so may crop up during a governship stint, and i'll say no more unless so asked.
AFAIK, the only thing the veteran toilet counselor does is tell you that that's where you should go. There are no quality changes associated with playing that storylet that I noticed. So of course you can do it without him.
edited by xKiv on 11/11/2017
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A correspondent who hungers for knowledge. May have doomed london to war with Hell.
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dov
Posts: 2580
11/12/2017
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Caroline, your text (in your previous messages as well) is using a specific color, making it invisible unless highlighted (in Mobile Chrome, as well as in the desktop Chrome when trying to reply).
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dov
Posts: 2580
11/12/2017
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Caroline Augusta Baroness Aubrecker wrote:
dov wrote:
Caroline, your text (in your previous messages as well) is using a specific color, making it invisible unless highlighted (in Mobile Chrome, as well as in the desktop Chrome when trying to reply).
Is that better? I tried to change it – at my computer I see no difference – can you read it now?
Yes, looks fine for me now.
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Tystefy
Posts: 450
11/2/2017
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What's his game?
I think he likes balleri. ball... ball... what the heck is it called again?
*literally googles the word*
... Ballet... riiiiiight.
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Dudebro Pyro
Posts: 755
11/11/2017
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Is it just me, or does the whole banishment thing come right out of the blue? My character has done many things purely for profit - for instance, the entire Dangerous storyline, at least until you get to monster-breeding, is of little interest to a professor of the exotic and forbidden. (Didn't help that I put basically all Dangerous content off until I completed the Watchful progression and had already become a department head.) But I chalked it up to a diversion of the side, to raise some funds for research - all those Plaques don't come cheap, you know. The same can be said about other parts of the Persuasive storyline - the professor isn't really a social butterfly, and most endeavours (including writing so many novels) were more of a means to an end.
But then the banishment? There is simply no "end"! The VPC just tells you that he's not commissioning you, because "you must have your own reasons" (or whatever his wording was). Well, I didn't - I couldn't care less about court intrigue unless it resulted in direct profit for me; and whatever my opinion of the Empress, making her feelings hurt with an opera (or was it a ballet, I don't even remember) cannot achieve anything.
I ended up just mechanically pushing on through the story with the only goal being to get past that point. It made no sense for my character, but he had to do it anyway because otherwise I wouldn't get to new content.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
10/30/2017
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it's nice to know I wasn't the only one to remain completely baffled even after paying Fate to find out more :P
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Anchovies
Posts: 421
10/30/2017
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Honestly, I think it's just a plot contrivance to move from the empress's court to the Foreign Office. Maybe the Masters like to see the Empress get repeatedly outraged by radical opera, but that's about as far as it goes.
As an aside, that Fate option is awfully disappointing, especially compared to the adjacent non-Fate option.
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