Adelaide deBusschet
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11/30/2017
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I was going to write a letter to a fellow Londoner when I accidentally scrolled down too fast and signed my resignation letter to the rat-catcher profession. This was a day before my payment. I cannot express what I'm feeling right now through anything that isn't a facepalm. Does anyone else have similar stories of misclicking you've had in Fallen London?
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Adelaide%20deBusschet
Adelaide deBusschet, a lady of high society.
Feel free to send me any sort of social invites, excluding cats in boxes.
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Diptych
Administrator
Posts: 3493
12/1/2017
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I accidentally resigned from being a Correspondent once. And just this week I spent seven Criminals favours on a useless stat boost because I thought it was the "gain a favour" option.
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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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PSGarak
Posts: 834
11/30/2017
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Adelaide deBusschet wrote:
I was going to write a letter to a fellow Londoner when I accidentally scrolled down too fast and signed my resignation letter to the rat-catcher profession. This was a day before my payment. I cannot express what I'm feeling right now through anything that isn't a facepalm. Does anyone else have similar stories of misclicking you've had in Fallen London?
I have good news, you can still get your ratcatcher's payout!
You get an Earnest of Payment as long as you have a profession. You keep it if you drop your profession, and acquire a new one. Your professional payment is based only on your current profession and having an Earnest of Payment. So you can pick up one of the training professions now, and as long as you draw the Docks card within the next week (lol RNG) you'll be able to get your rats.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/PSGarak
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Ginneon Thursday
Posts: 265
12/1/2017
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Ooph I just accidentally threw the Amanuensis out on his oily ear...two days after reaching my final 15 Notability for Paramount Presence. It could have been so much more devastating.
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Ginneon Thursday: Revelrous Professor of Benthic
Departments of Mycoenology, Lepidoptery
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Vincent Asmund
Posts: 314
12/2/2017
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Gathered 250 Tribute. Sailed to the Court of the Wakeful Eye to get access to another Minister (it requires 240 Tribute) Accidentally clicked on another option and lost 20 Tribute, now I have to sail all the way back to London and come back again.
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Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory.
Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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Shaerys
Posts: 65
12/1/2017
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I accidentally sold the location of the Cave of the Nadir due to some reordering of options on the Urchins card (probably I hit the favour cap and the selling op had moved up to the top). I wasn't intending to sell the secret ever, and ended up selling to the urchins of all folks, one of the lowest payout factions. Plus it changed my 'closest to' in one fell swoop. That was brutal day. A further irony is that I usually have the Cave of the Nadir Protection Stylish script running, but I happened to be travelling and using a tablet at the time which didn't have the protection installed. Ugh. Sometimes finger click-memory is faster than the eye, that is for sure.
edited by Shaerys on 12/1/2017
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Courier's Footprint, pleased to offer introductory Correspondence instruction to Orphans, Urchins, Waifs, Scamps, and other Tatterdemalions.
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Bitty
Posts: 234
11/30/2017
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While doing the Mr Pages book quest I meant to let the guy keep the book but the app screwed up and I beat him up for it instead literally rip
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gronostaj
Posts: 403
12/1/2017
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Accidentally selling my beloved plant to that horticulturistic villain..... a tragedy.
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Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones.
Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
12/1/2017
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lost all my notability on a misclick 
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
11/30/2017
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Ouch! That's a nasty bit of misfortune! The worst misclick I've had is in the AoTB, resulting in picking up unwanted CPs for A Turncoat (which is pretty mild, all thing considered). Nevertheless, I have noticed how dangerously positioned Chose a new Profession is. Really, somebody should slip in a confirm-this-choice button for this action.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Lady%20Sapho%20L%20Byron
Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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Gallmarch
Posts: 111
12/1/2017
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Kaijyuu wrote:
I downloaded that one extension that prevents misclicks entirely so I didn't waste favors on stat boosts.
Yep, I strongly recommend the Opportunity Protector (for opportunity cards) and Option Protector (for storylet options) user styles. Between them I've got a desktop Fallen London experience that's so idiot-proof that using my phone is positively nerve-wracking by comparison.
For the sake of completeness for anyone new to these: they're not stand-alone extensions but user styles, so they require a style manager: either Stylus (Chrome, Firefox) or Stylish (Chrome, Firefox). I prefer Stylus but both work.
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My profile: https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Gallmarch
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An Individual
Posts: 589
12/1/2017
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I’ve accidentally misclicked and traded all my notability for a minor stat boost multiple times. And back when I was doing The Affairs of the Bod grind misclicks forced me to deal with being a Turncoat probably about once a month.
However, my worst misclick was from the early days of the return of Seeking when an attempt to scroll the screen on my tablet result in a click and I accidentally cut my Watchful in half (from 200 to 100) for a single point of Seeking. One should not Seek when one is not fully awake.
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The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away.
Goat Farming or Cider Brewing? This browser extension may help.
Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting.
Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint.
Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road.
Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
12/1/2017
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ochrasy wrote:
it wasn't exactly a misclick, but I once deleted my chracter. thankfully FB is awesome and got it back in no time.
That's the one thing I dread--deleting my character (with years worth of history and items that aren't available any more). Good to know FB is sympathetic about such things.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
12/6/2017
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turbosnowy wrote:
Spent favours on stat boosts rather than reknown - facepalm level 5.
Chose wrong option on Box Affair multiple times when tired gaining turncoat points - facepalm level 7.
Now paranoid one more misclick will lock me out of the carousel for ever, FOR EVER! EVEERRRRRRRRRR.. *sounds of sobs in distance*
You can't get locked out of the AotB ... if your Turncoat gets too high you need to spend resources to get it back to zero. It's not cheap (but it's not unreasonably expensive either) ... and technically you can continue the carousel even with a too-high Turncoat, but it is not nearly as profitable.
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Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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Daisy MacRae
Posts: 19
12/7/2017
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I've accidentally gotten rid of my plant twice now. (I fare almost this badly with plants IRL.)
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The Disquisitive Writer. Correspondent. Dawnburnt. Slightly Mad.
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Greg M
Posts: 197
12/16/2017
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Oh God, that poor orphan. The one whose parents are still around? And where you can tell him where they are, but caution them? And NOT turn them into the constables for hanging?
Well… some day the now-actual-bona-fide-orphan is going to come for the guy who murdered his parents, and when the guy says "No really! I meant to click on a different option!" the orphan will lay me out.
That's my worst misclick. The other one that comes to mind is not necessarily a misclick, but an "I don't spoil many things, but I should have checked the wiki to see if there was any chance the missing heiress had gone off with the Clay Man voluntarily before I smashed her to bits." I'm still annoyed at FL for not having a third option, "TALK TO THE HEIRESS HERSELF" or at least "ASK THE CLAY MAN QUESTIONS BEFORE MAKING A FINAL DECISION." It's not like the Clay Man's not going to do anything to you!
Anyway, sorry, Orphan. Sorry, Clay Man and Abducted Heiress. Maybe someone has some crazy glue?
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http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/GregM
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
12/16/2017
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I have always appreciated the idea that sometimes you just don't have the right information to make an informed decision, but have to make one anyway.
It's the sort of storytelling that lends a certain realism to tales about...well, statues come to life and London underground.
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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turbosnowy
Posts: 33
12/6/2017
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Aha, that I did not know - many thanks for the information and may your socks forever be wholesome.
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mate888
Posts: 5
12/6/2017
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First time I died was due to a misclick at Ms. Plenty's. It was a nice mix of panic and amusement.
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Màiread
Posts: 385
12/1/2017
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Most of my misclicks aren't from misreading, but rather from the game hanging on my mobile browser - I've lost mood cards that way, become a turncoat and upconverted instead of side converted items (the worst was losing my first mood the day before I was ready to max my sotc, fortunately I drew another a few days later). I also live in constant fear of accidentally wasting fate on a deck refresh since drawing cards on my mobile often involves lag & repeated tapping to pull the card. Playing any option with a 'cheap' fate choice (menace reduction etc ) makes me so stressed!
The extensions are great but I really wish there was a way to lock one or more opp cards within the game itself or (or like, just make moods undiscardable) and especially a 'turn off fate spending for now' button (maybe spend 5 actions to temporarily gain a quality like 'subject to the whims of fortune' which you 'mustn't have' in order to play fate locked choices) - I almost never play the game on a computer and it would be lovely not to play in a permanent state of mild anxiety. I realise this might reduce people's spontaneous fate purchases so there would be a lot to consider, but I would absolutely love it if they did include such an option.
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Peggy the Nowoman lived to see the Feast. Thank you for the memories, Snow Lady.
I'm happy to accept most social actions except for lethal sparring and loitering suspiciously. Please challenge my plant! Currently not accepting calling cards.
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ochrasy
Posts: 169
12/1/2017
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it wasn't exactly a misclick, but I once deleted my chracter. thankfully FB is awesome and got it back in no time.
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Ochrasy. Monster-Hunter. Dangerous and Watchful, favors the Constables.
Robitaille. Persuasive and Shadowy, fond of the Devils.
Herr Horst. Seeker of Revenge.
Open to all social actions on all accounts. Preferably, send any MW-providing actions to Ochrasy.
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Lorelai
Posts: 59
12/4/2017
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Accidentally discarded a mood card I was saving, because the cards lagged and registered the click twice. -_-;
edited by Mythlore on 12/4/2017
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turbosnowy
Posts: 33
12/5/2017
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Spent favours on stat boosts rather than reknown - facepalm level 5.
Chose wrong option on Box Affair multiple times when tired gaining turncoat points - facepalm level 7.
Now paranoid one more misclick will lock me out of the carousel for ever, FOR EVER! EVEERRRRRRRRRR.. *sounds of sobs in distance*
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trajing
Posts: 24
11/30/2017
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I once accidentally purchased a Starstone Demark with scraps when I meant to pick the 20-scrap chance option. Lost a good portion of the scraps I was trying to grind.
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Adam Sanzelwicky - http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Adam%20Sanzelwicky
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Aberrant Eremite
Posts: 362
12/1/2017
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I don't even want to know how many mood cards I've accidentally discarded.
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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. It’s 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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Tyrconnell
Posts: 271
12/1/2017
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I've definitely spent favours on stats I've already maxed when intending to get another favour.
I've also accidentally done the bidding of Mr Wines instead of confessing to F. F. Gebrandt, locking myself out of the most convenient source of Greyfields '68.
And I've discarded opportunity cards that I intended to save more often than I'd like to admit, but that's not a matter of reading. But I only realized the existence of the "A commotion above!" card, since it looks the same as a relicker card that I regularly discard. I may have accidentally tossed it unknowingly a time or two.
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Tyrconnell, a gentleman and doctor of diverse interests and multifarious proclivities
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
12/1/2017
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I downloaded that one extension that prevents misclicks entirely so I didn't waste favors on stat boosts.
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Be of good cheer. Our contacts have assured us that your sins are forgiven.
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