 Diptych Administrator Posts: 3493
2/5/2018
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It's always Feast of the Exceptional Rose or Famine of the Exceptional Rose... but it is indeed the Feast, as well as all of Fallen London's usual antics of interest, so here's this week's thread for quick questions!
-- 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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 Daedalus_Falk Posts: 234
2/5/2018
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Should the Christmas Card option REALLY still be available? I mean, it's the next in-game season by now.
-- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Daedalus_Falk
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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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 Optimatum Posts: 3666
2/5/2018
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Not sure about the grindable items, but the best option on the Feast card is A lovers' tryst (Airs 0-25) -> Arrange to meet by the silver fountain. If you have enough Persuasive for the check, it's 2 Masquing and 5 echoes of items.
PSGarak wrote:
There is an option at Christmastime that consumes a Copy of your Patriotic Adventure. Were you to use this option, you would have to re-grind. You can also give An Ode to the Elder Continent to the Tiger-Keeper.
-- Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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 The Maltese Raven Posts: 22
2/5/2018
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Harry P. wrote:
I have a question. What are the most reliable and repeatable methods of 'grinding' Masquing Gifts? Or at least ways of grinding materials needed for giving said gifts? I am asking from both a POSI's perspective and a non-POSI's perspective.
This comes to my mind:
Glasses of Teeth, 1 Msq. (Cryptic Clues) - Unfinished Business, Spite Singed Playing Card, 1 Msq. (Prisoner's Honey) - Unfinished Business, Veilgarden; Life of the Mind, Shuttered Palace Buttered Chess-Piece, 2 Msq. (Inkl. of Identity) - Watch passers-by, Celebrate the Feast of the Exc. Rose!
-- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/The Maltese Raven
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 dov Posts: 2580
2/5/2018
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Jason5237 wrote:
Hi everyone - there are options on the Brass Embassy lodging opportunity card to acquire the Green-Eyed Devil and Quiet Deviless as companions via fate. Do you lose your Infernally Diplomatic Privilege in either case?
J- You won't lose your Sanctum by getting those as companions.
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 suinicide Posts: 2409
2/8/2018
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Professor Stark is absolutely poisonous and a touch could kill you.
-- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/sunnytime 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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 Siankan Posts: 1048
2/9/2018
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Yep. London forgets you easily. If you want a reputation, you have to make an impression while you still have their attention, and then keep making enough noise that you aren't going to lose it. Otherwise, everyone just starts following the honey-poet with the weasel.
-- Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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 Plynkes Posts: 631
2/11/2018
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The Maltese Raven wrote:
Where could i purchase a "Iron Republic Safe-Conduct" these days? I could have sworn it was an option on the "Devils" opportunty card. But i guess Renown: Hell 6 would not be enough for this endeavor anyway? I miss having Connected 50...
It's on the Secrets and Spending card, which you only get when your Counting the Days is high enough. You need 10 Renown Hell, 3 Mark of Credit Pages, a Brass Ring, and you also have to be a POSI.
Edit: Grrr, too slow!  edited by Plynkes on 2/11/2018
-- "Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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 Sara Hysaro Moderator Posts: 4514
2/6/2018
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I remember the Boneless Consort being in my lodgings, but my Cultured Attaché's divorce storylet is in the Bazaar Side-streets.
-- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome.
Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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 Henricus Posts: 38
2/8/2018
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Why shouldn't one shake Professor Stark's hand?
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 Tyrconnell Posts: 271
2/8/2018
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Being married to some NPCs can help you grind notability, but getting married to a player can get you notability.
There are unfortunate implications to grinding weddings and divorces...
-- Tyrconnell, a gentleman and doctor of diverse interests and multifarious proclivities
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 Jolanda Swan Posts: 1789
2/8/2018
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Not to mention I am not a Liberation of the Night person AT ALL.
-- Lover of all things beautiful, secret admirer of ugly truths, fond of the Parabola Sun... and always delighted to role play. http://fallenlondon.com/profile/Jolanda%20Swan
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 Amalgamate Posts: 435
2/9/2018
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There's a list at http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:A_Scholar_of_the_Correspondence .
I'm assuming you already have at least one point of it. To get past levels 1-2 to get SoTC 3, apparently there's an easy option in Mrs. Plenty's Carnival - Beneath the Neath. To get up to level 7, the easiest option is probably to seek curious and secrets in the forgotten quarter - there's one option there that increases SoTC, and overall it's profitable (though you do have to take time to decrease nightmares). To get up to level 10, there's a correspondence opera you can write in the Empress' court, 1 CP at a time. It's pretty slow but at least you're still gaining money while you do it instead of spending it, and you make progress toward poet laureate while you do it. Also, if you have a Corresponding Ocelot or Bifurcated Owl, their cards have SoTC-increasing options. To get from levels 11 to 21, the only option is to spend lots of correspondence plaques, aeolian screams, and extraordinary implications to play the "perhaps you can remember something useful" storylet at the university. This will require progressively higher levels of watchful and more and more correspondence plaques; you need 300 watchful to get to the full SoTC 21.
-- http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/amalgamate
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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 Harry P. Posts: 116
2/5/2018
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I have a question. What are the most reliable and repeatable methods of 'grinding' Masquing Gifts? Or at least ways of grinding materials needed for giving said gifts? I am asking from both a POSI's perspective and a non-POSI's perspective.
PS: For those wondering about my situation regarding my active, but non-responding friends, I have yet to receive a answer from them.
-- Harry P.: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/HarryP22h A Magnanimous Gentleman Author with a tendency for melancholic monologues. Elizabeth K. Broker: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Elizabeth%20K%20Broker A Socially-Awkward Dueling Trickster with a thirst for vengeance and a soft spot for urchins. If you are ever in need of any assistance, do not hesitate to ask either of them. The second one is still finicky, though.
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 Optimatum Posts: 3666
2/8/2018
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You could probably do it as is, but I would suggest improving your stats first. I don't actually know how much content is in Old Downy, but it's probably not worth a Mood, since increasing stats is easily doable. Simply obtain better Shadowy equipment, spend time on other Shadowy stories, cash in Favours with factions that give Shadowy boosts...
-- Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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 Skinnyman Posts: 2133
2/6/2018
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Jolanda Swan wrote:
Can you marry NPCs such as the Firebrand Reforged after the Feast, or do you have to make the decision during the season? We'll only find out after the Feast, but my guess is that they won't pull the stories related to them after it's over.
-- ESs items and quality requirements sheet. Please check if there are errors or if something is missing Achievement list if you're feeling bored! I am accepting Plant battles, Neath's Mysteries card, Starveling Cats and boxed cats. No suppers, no second chances gain and no need to cure my menaces!
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 Jolanda Swan Posts: 1789
2/6/2018
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Thank you! What about divorce though? I admit I was planning on using an NPC spouse purely to help with the notability grind (hey, marriages of convenience are a very Victorian thing!)and then ultimately divorcing them. Is that possible?
-- Lover of all things beautiful, secret admirer of ugly truths, fond of the Parabola Sun... and always delighted to role play. http://fallenlondon.com/profile/Jolanda%20Swan
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 Plynkes Posts: 631
2/6/2018
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Jolanda Swan wrote:
Thank you! What about divorce though? I admit I was planning on using an NPC spouse purely to help with the notability grind (hey, marriages of convenience are a very Victorian thing!)and then ultimately divorcing them. Is that possible?
That's a good question. The existing divorce option (which isn't a new thing) seems to be for player marriages. I have no idea how one gets rid of an NPC spouse.
-- "Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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 dov Posts: 2580
2/6/2018
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Plynkes wrote:
That's a good question. The existing divorce option (which isn't a new thing) seems to be for player marriages. I have no idea how one gets rid of an NPC spouse.
For all the previously available NPC spouses, there's a storylet in ones lodgings to allow a divorce, e.g. Separate from the Celebrated Artist's Model (and similarly for other NPC spouses, include Fate-locked ones).
No idea if this exists (and if so, how it looks) for the new Missionary/Firebrand spouses.
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 Aniline Posts: 144
2/8/2018
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Skinnyman wrote:
Henricus wrote:
suinicide wrote:
Professor Stark is absolutely poisonous and a touch could kill you.
Yes, but why? The result of an unfortunate scientific endeavour? Is she the Cantigaster in disguise? May I ask what are you talking about?  A sidebar snippet:
Why not shake hands with Stark?

Professor Stark is the co-founder of Wombwell & Stark's Travelling Menagerie. There's a reason she wears gloves, though. It's best not to shake her hand. (The gloves are for your safety, not hers.)
-- Melantha Prescott, the Suspicious Statistician. "3% failure chances crop up nine times out of ten." Francesca Ayers-Kernighan, bat-hunter, cat-whisperer
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 lady ciel Posts: 2548
2/8/2018
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Wombwell & Stark's Travelling Menagerie is something you encounter during Flint.
-- ciel
Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
storynexus name - reveurciel
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 Plynkes Posts: 631
2/8/2018
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The text of the letter appears in the message that tells you that you've received a letter. Sounds like someone accidentally hit send before typing anything, or some sort of bug.
-- "Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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 a Nice Friend Posts: 127
2/8/2018
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Gotcha. Thanks to my name, I think I appear at the top of a lot of contact lists, so I get a LOT of odd, accidental messages and social requests.
I just got back from almost two weeks of slow-boating (thanks to Seeking) and it's just a real mess.
-- Definitely a nice friend - http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/a%20nice%20friend
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 genesis Posts: 924
2/8/2018
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NPC marriages can boost your BDR, which is useful for grinding notability, but do not give any notability points. High level player marriages do not give BDR but do give out points of notability
-- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/mikey_thinkin
Keeping track of incomplete content and loose ends in Fallen London
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 Meradine Heidenreich Posts: 468
2/6/2018
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PSGarak wrote:
You just need one non-Futuristic book for God's Editors, and the Futuristic book if you intend to zail in a Zub.
It may be worth noting that it's perfectly fine to write the futuristic book *after* joining the editors, so you can have it on your shelves and still buy the zub.
-- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Meradine%20Heidenreich
The Starveling kit Gobbled up the bit of cheese on my tray .. "O Weh!"
No plant battles, please.
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 Kaigen Posts: 530
2/5/2018
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Optimatum wrote:
Not sure about the grindable items, but the best option on the Feast card is A lovers' tryst (Airs 0-25) -> Arrange to meet by the silver fountain. If you have enough Persuasive for the check, it's 2 Masquing and 5 echoes of items.
If you are Committed to a spouse, it's worth noting that dancing with them at the Masked Revel provides a potent Scandal and Nightmares cure. If you've a significant quantity of both menaces, it might outweigh the value of the lover's tryst.
-- Just a simple doctor with a chess habit. Publisher of The Flit Dispatch.
"One must remember that the impossible is, alas, always possible." -Jacques Derrida
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 The Maltese Raven Posts: 22
2/5/2018
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1) Is it useful to grind for more than one copy of each poem and novel in the Shuttered Palace (Gothic Romance, Patriotic Adventure etc.)?
2) Is there any good approach for getting a "Bejewelled Lens" before POSI status? I am stuck at getting glass instruments for "Heart's Desire".
-- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/The Maltese Raven
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 PSGarak Posts: 834
2/5/2018
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There is an option at Christmastime that consumes a Copy of your Patriotic Adventure. Were you to use this option, you would have to re-grind.
Although now that you can get yourself un-kicked from Court, you can re-grind lost books as needed. And there's actually no in-game reason to have all of them in the first place. You just need one non-Futuristic book for God's Editors, and the Futuristic book if you intend to zail in a Zub.
-- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/PSGarak
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 PSGarak Posts: 834
2/9/2018
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Amalgamate wrote:
There's a list at http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:A_Scholar_of_the_Correspondence .
I'm assuming you already have at least one point of it. To get past levels 1-2 to get SoTC 3, apparently there's an easy option in Mrs. Plenty's Carnival - Beneath the Neath. To get up to level 7, the easiest option is probably to seek curious and secrets in the forgotten quarter - there's one option there that increases SoTC, and overall it's profitable (though you do have to take time to decrease nightmares). To get up to level 10, there's a correspondence opera you can write in the Empress' court, 1 CP at a time. It's pretty slow but at least you're still gaining money while you do it instead of spending it, and you make progress toward poet laureate while you do it. Also, if you have a Corresponding Ocelot or Bifurcated Owl, their cards have SoTC-increasing options. To get from levels 11 to 21, the only option is to spend lots of correspondence plaques, aeolian screams, and extraordinary implications to play the "perhaps you can remember something useful" storylet at the university. This will require progressively higher levels of watchful and more and more correspondence plaques; you need 300 watchful to get to the full SoTC 21. It's often said that the only way to increase SotC past 10 is at the University, but that's not 100% true. You can actually get up to Scholar 15 by examining Pails of Snow. But, y'know... not for another ten months. So it's like 98% true.
-- http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/PSGarak
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 Tyrconnell Posts: 271
2/9/2018
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Time, the Healer visits weekly at almost exactly the same day and time (per account). It will halve your Making Waves. You can't opt out, and it's the major limit on just slowly picking up MW as you do other things. You're always on a timer.
You'll also lose Notability instead if TtH arrives and your Notability is higher than your MW, but that's usually a problem when you've got pretty high Notability.
-- Tyrconnell, a gentleman and doctor of diverse interests and multifarious proclivities
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 Optimatum Posts: 3666
2/8/2018
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The issue is that the faction items only allow quirk polishing when already at 12+. Getting from 10 to 12 is therefore the hard part. (Also, each option lowers another quirk by the same amount. That's why high-cap options like the Austere option in the Iron Republic which don't lower another quirk are so important.)
-- Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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 Catherine Raymond Posts: 2518
2/8/2018
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Henricus wrote:
Why shouldn't one shake Professor Stark's hand?
I've been wondering this myself for years now. Does anyone have an answer?
-- Cathy Raymond http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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 Harry P. Posts: 116
2/11/2018
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Plynkes wrote:
The Maltese Raven wrote:
Where could i purchase a "Iron Republic Safe-Conduct" these days? I could have sworn it was an option on the "Devils" opportunty card. But i guess Renown: Hell 6 would not be enough for this endeavor anyway? I miss having Connected 50...
It's on the Secrets and Spending card, which you only get when your Counting the Days is high enough. You need 10 Renown Hell, 3 Mark of Credit Pages, a Brass Ring, and you also have to be a POSI.
Edit: Grrr, too slow!  edited by Plynkes on 2/11/2018
However, if you meet all the requirements, you can go Chat with the Local Gossip at your Lodgings. There, you will find the option to obtain a Iron Republic Safe-Conduct without having to go through the entirety of the Counting The Days carousel, saving you some time and effort.
-- Harry P.: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/HarryP22h A Magnanimous Gentleman Author with a tendency for melancholic monologues. Elizabeth K. Broker: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Elizabeth%20K%20Broker A Socially-Awkward Dueling Trickster with a thirst for vengeance and a soft spot for urchins. If you are ever in need of any assistance, do not hesitate to ask either of them. The second one is still finicky, though.
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 suinicide Posts: 2409
2/12/2018
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Lilac is never here when you need her . (Which is to say you're unlucky)
-- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/sunnytime 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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 Dima Lazarev Posts: 172
2/13/2018
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Dima Lazarev wrote:
Optimatum wrote:
I have heard that removing your tattoos if you have two allows you to get both redone immediately, but take that with a grain of salt. Oh, this would be awesome. I mailed support asking for clarification, but this is probably against the rules, so I am not sure if they would be willing to help me. Well, I decided to try, and it allowed me to choose both first and second tattoos! So I now have all three, including the private one.
Thanks!
-- http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Dima Lazarev
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