It is a card, and you should apologize to the rng for whatever you did because the rng seems to be nursing a nasty grudge.

Jillius wrote:

Just... let me get this straight:
There's only one (two, in a way) new NPC marriages and it's gated behind a 70 Fate wall?

To be fair, it's +2 BDR in a slot that previously only had a single BDR option, of 100 Fate for +3.
[...] it's not egregiously out of line with its predecessors.

Only in Fallen London can you say with a straight face, "I love you. Go to Hell."

dov wrote:

Optimatum wrote:

If the game let me marry both my Missionary and Firebrand, I would even leave my current spouse and letter from the Empress for them.

Oooh. That would be amazing!

But since the storylet to do so seems to be locked (and hidden) by having "Committed", it's likely that once you marry one you won't have the option to marry the other.

Definitely the case, sadly. C'mon Failbetter, how much do I have to pay you to unlock polyamory?

I understand that if you you send a fate item to another player and cancel it before they accept or decline, you lose the item. But if the recipient declines the invitation, the sender keeps the item.

Does this mechanic work the same for non-fate items?

Robin Alexander wrote:

I just want to ask if the Lady in Lilac will be pinned.

I have not found her once in the past two days.

Now, I know this may be the RNG hating me with a passion, but my fear is I'll have no chance to get the companions on my Encounters card before the festival ends.

Starting to get the feeling that all such cards will end up pinned stories. Making them cards offers a thrill for very active players and the joy of finding new things.
Some may not consider this fair, but I find it very attractive! Oki, I am active so I'll flip cards non stop, but if I log in once a day so I'll just use the story at the end being aware that everything is discovered.

TL;DR: If your buddy died, you can grab their weapon. If not, you can't.

Jolanda Swan wrote:

Thank you! So if I am guessing correctly, those married to him increase their BDR?

From what I can see on Valiant's profile, this version of the Firebrand has +2 Dreaded (and obviously +1 Committed), but he no longer has Persuasive +9 nor the Shadowy +6.

No idea about the equivalent for the Missionary.

(and no idea where the option is to marry them!)

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Does anybody know what happens when a gift is rejected? The text says "the event is cancelled" but do the resources spent go to waste or do you get them back?

• The resources spent to send the gift are gone either way..
• If this is a Fate gift, then the sender will get the actual gift themselves.
• If this is a non-Fate gift, no one gets the actual gift.

I got a bizarre tattoo--the Pen--but the site acted up when I tried to echo it, and I didn't even get to read the text. Does anyone have an echo of the text for when you get the Pen tattoo?

Anybody have a list of which gifts are equippable?

Absintheuse wrote:

SKIN-BOUND MEMORIES!

How better to prove your devotion than through permanent inked sentiments at Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour!

A unique story involving the Neath’s famed tattooists, the Clathermont Family is available for the duration of the Feast.

Find the Clathermonts in Ladybones Road when you have A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets at 4 or higher. As part of the Feast, continue this story from the same area by playing News at Clathermont’s from 12th February.

THE LADY IN LILAC

That winter, you saw the woman in the lilac dress everywhere...Did she approach you, or did you approach her, in the end? Certainly she looked you straight in the eye. "You are desired," she says. "Give me the proof of it, and I'll make arrangements."

The enigmatic Lady in Lilac returns to London during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose.

On the 12th February we will be releasing the Lady in Lilac card into your opportunity deck, allowing you to trade in your gifts for Masquing. From the 12th, you’ll also be able to turn in your Masquing for special companions on the Encounters at the Feast card.

The Feast will end on the 19th February. The Lady in Lilac and Encounters at the Feast will remain available until the 23rd, after which your remaining Masquing will be converted to Making Waves when Time, the Healer visits.

When does Millicent's Parlour open for business?

You can still set him as a companion and a spouse.

I have him as both as seen in my profile; so you can still claim the +9 Persuasive, +6 Shadowy, and +1 Dreaded.

It was a storylet in the Lodgings, having him Reforged in one's inventory.

If the game let me marry both my Missionary and Firebrand, I would even leave my current spouse and letter from the Empress for them.

There's not much to grind, though, other than free gifts. We know that there's probably going to be around 2 new free companions every year, and around 2 fate ones. This gives a ballpark for the free masquing target. You can then grind resources for gifts, and once the second week rolls around, you'll be ready to exchange them if needed, or you'll just have a bunch of extra tier 1-2 items if not. And of course Fate gifts need no grinding.

So on second thought you do have a point, although a better way to say it would be "useless" rather than "wasted" - as you can grind up resources even before the festival, and if you follow the strategy then the only feast interaction you'll be doing during week 1 will be getting your 20 card-based Masquing, which can be easily done within a day if you draw cards actively.

I disagree that week 1 is a waste--new players need that week to stockpile gifts. I do agree it's a waste if you've been here years, and a couple new companions is all you have to look forward to. So week 1 needs to be reworked to include something for mid-level and higher-level players to do.

How effective even is Dante’s inferno anyways?

But anyways, I’m gonna guess of the non-fate gifts; the decanter is the easiest to stockpile?
And if I’m correct then where would you say I’d find the best exchange of Amanita Sherries per action?

• Option image used
• Option title
• Option description text
• Exact requirements (e.g. what level or level range of Family and Law, etc)
• Do not include the actual results (Fate locked, as it required more than 30 Masquing)

An additional fact about the above: The wiki entry is incorrect. Correspond with an Incarcerate gives Dangerous +5 Dreaded +1 Shadowy +5, which is bloody annoying, as I bought it for its Persuasive for my lowbie alt.

I've got a feeling they changed it when they fixed the bug. I'm sure it had +5 Persuasive last night, just like the Wiki says.

Hi, I sort of got the Cheery Man killed, so I am being offered HIS heirloom. I don't see it listed in the wiki, & i don't know how to edit. So here is a screenshot:


Family & Law: 400
Favouring the Cheery Man
Masquing 40

Hope this helps.

I realize that discussing Enigma is frowned upon, but I have a mechanical question I'm not sure how else to answer: will the Enigma option at Millicent's occupy my tattoo slot? If so, does it give BDR?
edited by Daedalus_Falk on 2/13/2018

Jason5237 wrote:

Does this mechanic work the same for non-fate items?

No. IIRC, not all of the fate items do this either.

100 Tickets to the carnival. 100 Actions spent on decadence. Nothing save a few romantic notions and god knows how much Scandal. I'm running out of both tickets, ways to reduce scandal well, and patience.

Shadowcthuhlu wrote:

For the Devoted Intriguer I drew her card and played the first option. Link to journal below
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Dirae%20Erinyes?fromEchoId=13581544

She is such a sweetie. A murderious sweetie.

I will update with the second option next time.

I finally pulled the card. She is really sweet. I took the second option.

http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/The%20Forthright%20Thief?fromEchoId=13598885

all that's left is to see the third option.

Appointment with the Gentleman of the Marsh seems to be bugged the same way the Incarcerate was. It isn't possible to equip it. Have reported it, hopefully they'll fix that one too. Seems odd that it hasn't already been reported and dealt with at this late stage in the week. Nobody equipping their new companions, or this time is it just me, I wonder?

And...17 card later. No. The Feast of the Rose card shows, I discard it, it shows up in the very next three. Sigh...

Kylestien wrote:

...Yeah, never gonna happen.

A family can be a model, a jewel-thief, a Snuffer, a very expensive Rubbery Man, two mutually exclusive Revolutionaries, and several players. If Failbetter would only let it.

Do the new spouses have any opportunity cards?

I'm very close to getting the celebrated artist's model, so is it better to get something from the feast, or should I keep going for the model?

Does the Missionary have updated art too?

Does anyone know what the new Fate-locked companions will cost (assuming that 2 of the 4 new ones are Fate-locked)? Wasn't there just 2 new companions last year, Sister Lydia, who wasn't Fate-locked, and the Tempestuous Astronomer, which was?

Here's something I'm wondering about:

the Buttered Chess-Piece costs 200 Inklings of Identity and can be turned in for 2 Masquing
the Custom-Engraved Skull costs 200 Inklings of Identity and can be turned in for 1 Masquing

That can't be right.... right?

I can't speak to the pricey Fate-locked items, because I don't have any; those few I got I cashed in during the Feast in which I received them.

Just to confirm what the text seems to suggest - if I were to pay the 50 fate to rework my tattoos next year, I'd lose both and have to wait another year after that to get back to two, correct?