Diptych
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Ghosts aren't scary. You know what's scary? Questions. And this is the spookiest thread of the week!
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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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Plynkes
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10/30/2017
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Someone stole your Tanah-Chook! Would you like us to round up a posse to find the rotter?
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Diptych
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11/1/2017
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"Gloam" is, as far as I can find, a variant of "gloom", as in darkness. I assume that gloam-foam is, thus, something that darkens the face - perhaps even some sort of anti-phosphorous, that throws the face into shadow when it might otherwise be lit! The Shadowy benefits of such a substance is obvious - concealing both one's presence (no reflections to give one away) and one's identity. The rather larger Watchful benefit is less clear. Perhaps gloam-foam has a chemical effect that heightens the senses; perhaps shadowing the eyes clarifies sight; perhaps it simply enables closer observation by concealing the observer.
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Anchovies
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10/30/2017
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Plynkes wrote:
Someone stole your Tanah-Chook! Would you like us to round up a posse to find the rotter? Tanah-Chook lies off the coast of Venderbight. Perhaps it detached itself from Sir Frederick's username in order to go NORTH.
But now how will people know that he's the namesake of a republic founded by third-city revolutionaries? The "Tanah-Chook" seems to have departed from his signature as well.
edited by Anchovies on 10/30/2017
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Meradine Heidenreich
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10/31/2017
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Well, the Tanah-Chook was certainly the *distinctive* part of the name. Why, Sir Fredericks are ten a penny, sir! I can think of at least three others!
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The Starveling kit
Gobbled up the bit
of cheese on my tray ..
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Diptych
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10/30/2017
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Spare the posse and spoil the rotter, as my oompah used to say... but, no, I've simply trimmed my name down to something a little easier to manage!
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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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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
10/30/2017
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Oooh ... how eerie! I do so love a good frisson!
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Kaigen
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11/1/2017
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Waterpls wrote:
Is there any point in Hallowmas upgared companions if i am not a collector? They are not best in slot and i have better fellows to boost my stats. If last year is anything to go by, having all the upgraded companions will unlock a better version of the third option on the "One's Public" card, but that's not particularly important if you generally put on a fine show instead.
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"One must remember that the impossible is, alas, always possible."
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TheThirdPolice
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11/1/2017
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
Here's a question: What does Gloam Foam (available from the Bazaar for 400 Echoes!) do, exactly? All I know is what the mouse-over text says--you're to put it on your face, but not let it touch your lips. Does anyone have any enlightenment for me about what it's purpose might be?
Gloam-Foam mouseover wrote:
Don't ask why.
HOW DARE YOU
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
11/2/2017
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Also, Jenny's Finishing School if you're willing to plonk down Fate on The Empress' Shadow.
And don't forget that you can pick your Connected pet.
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earthbourn
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11/2/2017
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That's a good point, I'm not doing anything major at the moment, so I might pop off to the colonies a few times.
I've actually been considering buying the Finishing School, so I'll shell out for that. I wasn't sure what favours you could get from that--is it any kind? Constables is giving me a lot of trouble too.
Thanks to you both!
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VioletBandit
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11/2/2017
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earthbourn wrote:
I've actually been considering buying the Finishing School, so I'll shell out for that. I wasn't sure what favours you could get from that--is it any kind?
Finishing School can give Tomb Colonies, Urchin, Church, Bohemian, Revolutionary, Docks, and Great Game Favours, plus Society if you've played The Frequently Deceased. In all cases, you have to complete a carousel and you have a 50% chance of getting a favour from the student you pick for the final examination. It also refills your deck when you return to London.
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Anchovies
Posts: 421
11/3/2017
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Set off for Hunter's Keep. If your nightmares reach 8 there, you're sent back to the start of the carousel with your nightmares set to 5.
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
—Sir Arthur C Clarke
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alekth
Posts: 80
11/3/2017
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Im sorry I feel like I ask questions too much lol
My seeking alt has just got to the point where they can well, start seeking but, what do I do now? I did the option in the Forgotten Quarter, got a Bad End and have my seeking up to 3 now, i've looked up some guides but i'm still a bit confused, some seem to say I have to wait a week for cards but others say I can raise my seeking by other means too? What do I do?
You can advance faster if you use resources, as outlined in the I'm a Candle guide. Appalling Secrets, mostly. If you have a lot of them and high Watchful this is doable for quite a few levels.
You'll come to the weekly point eventually though, unless you really want to spend a lot of resources. That one works best with a Starveling Cat and access to the Labyrinth of Tigers (1st Coil). In the Flit you go to the Cats and Bats storylet (must have advanced to that as well), pick cats and then the Starveling Cat. You'll get 3 Unaccountably Peckish (UP) each time you use it. Use it three times - you could use it less at lower levels, but it's not the best option.
Then you draw cards, and you can draw up to 9 different ones if you have 9 UP. Playing the Seeking option on them (the one that is available if you don't have Marsh-Mired) will give you a point in SMEN up to (Value of the UP card + 1). While you could, hence, rack up less UP and use lower cards while your SMEN is still low, the 7 to 9 cards are really the most non-crippling ones. Once you have your point in SMEN, you can't use this option for a week until Time, the healer takes Marsh-Mired from you. So when you've gotten your point, you go to the Labyrinth and get some refreshments, for -2 UP a go.
If you find yourself with a full hand of UP cards you don't want to use, you can use the Labyrinth as well, until you have UP low enough for them to disappear, then use the Starveling cat again, etc.
You can do this up to SMEN 28, when you can go for gaining Mr Eaten's Calling card for yourself, if you don't have it already.
http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Seeking_Mr_Eaten's_Name_(Guide) is a good resource for the whole process.
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Sara Hysaro
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11/3/2017
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Are you closest to a Faction? You can use Marks to get Favours, but only if you're closest to a particular faction.
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
11/3/2017
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Meradine Heidenreich wrote:
Yes, well, it clearly doesn't work that way, since I had the "spare" already when I drew the card this morning, and was only able to spend the "new" one. I assume that once the player has acquired all the items that need more than one mark, the card will no longer show options that allow a mark to be received but not spent.
I'm confused by your description of what happened, or you might be confused about how this works. Once per draw of Secrets & Spending, you can either acquire OR spend a Mark. If you had a spare Mark, and you drew the card this morning and spent a Mark, then the Mark that you spent was the "spare" one. You did not acquire a "new" mark unless you somehow drew Secrets & Spending twice.
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Cthonius
Posts: 362
11/4/2017
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So why haven't FBG released a Dilmun Club pin as merchandise?
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menaulon
Posts: 112
11/5/2017
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ExceptionallyDelicious wrote:
Which ambition has the most, if any, SMEN content? About make a seeker alt, and want to try and maximize the amount of content I can get with him. Are there any other choices I should be aware of with SMEN easter eggs in them?
Ambitions don't really have any real SMEN content to speak of. They are some distant second-hand connections, but you won't really miss out whichever one you pick. Nemesis has probably the smallest lore connections, but it's also the closest to SMEN in theme, with ideas of justice, sacrifice, and revenge being important to it. SMEN is self-contained in general, so you won't miss anything if you just focus on it.
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ExceptionallyDelicious
Posts: 188
11/5/2017
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menaulon wrote:
ExceptionallyDelicious wrote:
Which ambition has the most, if any, SMEN content? About make a seeker alt, and want to try and maximize the amount of content I can get with him. Are there any other choices I should be aware of with SMEN easter eggs in them?
Ambitions don't really have any real SMEN content to speak of. They are some distant second-hand connections, but you won't really miss out whichever one you pick. Nemesis has probably the smallest lore connections, but it's also the closest to SMEN in theme, with ideas of justice, sacrifice, and revenge being important to it. SMEN is self-contained in general, so you won't miss anything if you just focus on it.
Thank you for the response! I know that the content boundary of Heart's Desire has an Easter Egg-esque option, so I was wondering if there was anything along those lines.
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Damien Erebus, a broken man and aspiring spymaster: http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Damien%20Erebus
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
11/1/2017
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Caroline Augusta Baroness Aubrecker wrote:
suinicide wrote:
uncanny Incunabulum can be made by upgrading extraordinary implications.
Okay, I am stuck for a looooooooong time. Not only do I not have the necessary amount of extraordinary implications, also I need Connected Benethic 6 - and I do not have even 1.
Oh dear - so perhaps next year or so.
Nah. You just need some cash, specifically enough to endow a University fellowship, and a moderate supply of Abominable Salts. Voila! Benthic connections as high as 20, if you have the supplies.
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
11/1/2017
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Some of them are BiS for particular BDR stats, the weasel is the only way to get Plagued by a Popular Song from equipment, and the bat's -10 persuasive can be useful for precisely calibrating your stats.
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Monique Deja
Posts: 37
11/2/2017
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So, I indulged a few tigers a little too much while in Port Carnelian and have lost all my Imperial Legitimacy. I hastened back to the Foreign Office to regain it, and the carousel led me...nowhere. Do I actually need to spend fate to regain this?
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Sara Hysaro
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11/2/2017
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It'll probably end around noon.
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
11/2/2017
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
It'll probably end around noon.
Noon GMT, to clarify. Depending on where you live, that's between 4-7 a.m. in the States and 8-11 p.m. in Australia.
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Amalgamate
Posts: 435
11/2/2017
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Trips to the actual tomb colonies are also a option. A number of cards in the tomb colonies give favours, and of course getting there. Not particularly profitable, but doesn't cost anything but time. There's now three clothing items that give +1 scandal to help you get there.
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Social invitations of all kinds welcome, especially games of chess and deadly sparring!
Also happy to help with nightmares, send sips of Cider, and plant battle.
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
10/31/2017
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Caroline Augusta Baroness Aubrecker wrote:
suinicide wrote:
uncanny Incunabulum can be made by upgrading extraordinary implications.
Okay, I am stuck for a looooooooong time. Not only do I not have the necessary amount of extraordinary implications, also I need Connected Benethic 6 - and I do not have even 1.
Oh dear - so perhaps next year or so.
Once you get into the University, raising your Connected Benthic is easily done.
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Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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dov
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10/31/2017
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Lady Sapho Byron wrote:
Caroline Augusta Baroness Aubrecker wrote:
suinicide wrote:
uncanny Incunabulum can be made by upgrading extraordinary implications.
Okay, I am stuck for a looooooooong time. Not only do I not have the necessary amount of extraordinary implications, also I need Connected Benethic 6 - and I do not have even 1.
Oh dear - so perhaps next year or so.
Once you get into the University, raising your Connected Benthic is easily done.
Alternatively, when you have a ship (which you'll need eventually anyway to progress with the Ambition), you can easily get Uncanny Incunabulum on Mutton Island.
(you can also get the Incunabulum in the Cave of the Nadir, if you've opened the path there).
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Reused NPC
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10/31/2017
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Hang on...
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The lead performer in your work is passionate, capable, professional. And rather prone to Opinions. No one, besides yourself, is as invested in the outcome of your work.
This is different, right? Before, The Lead consisted of you, ah, indulging yourself with them, and as a result the creativity flows like Wines' finest. Now it's a... civil exchange of ideas. Did it change mechanically? Or is this just something that got caught up in the return to court reworks?
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Edmund Viric, a rather dreamy sort.
"I won't stay long, I shan't stay long! Tell me a secret."
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PSGarak
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10/31/2017
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Reused NPC wrote:
This is different, right? Before, The Lead consisted of you, ah, indulging yourself with them, and as a result the creativity flows like Wines' finest. Now it's a... civil exchange of ideas. Did it change mechanically? Or is this just something that got caught up in the return to court reworks?
This was noted. I remember reading a thread on the forums about this yesterday or the day before, and now I can't find it anymore. The change coincided with certain current events on the Surface, and the discussion got somewhat spirited.
Suffice it to say, yes the text is different, and I believe the mechanics are not.
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dov
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10/31/2017
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Reused NPC wrote:
double-take
Hang on...
The Lead wrote:
The lead performer in your work is passionate, capable, professional. And rather prone to Opinions. No one, besides yourself, is as invested in the outcome of your work.
This is different, right? Before, The Lead consisted of you, ah, indulging yourself with them, and as a result the creativity flows like Wines' finest. Now it's a... civil exchange of ideas. Did it change mechanically? Or is this just something that got caught up in the return to court reworks?
The mechanics are exactly the same (including the rare success).
This was changed since it didn't convey what FBG wanted it to, and (especially given recent events) made some people uncomfortable (which was not the intent of the option).
We've discussed it a bit in this thread..
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Catherine Raymond
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11/1/2017
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Here's a question: What does Gloam Foam (available from the Bazaar for 400 Echoes!) do, exactly? All I know is what the mouse-over text says--you're to put it on your face, but not let it touch your lips. Does anyone have any enlightenment for me about what it's purpose might be?
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Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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