Joscelin
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10/26/2018
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I really liked this. I certainly should have known better than to help the Revolutionaries, given what I know their end goal to be, but this story did a good job of leading me down that road. I'd stand by every choice my character made, but I think I'll replay it when I can and just try to keep things fun without becoming ominous.
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Zane Darmond
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10/26/2018
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I haven't been around too long (since July), but this is my favorite Exceptional Story yet. Both the relaxed opening act in which you simply wander the spectacle making conversation and the climax were enthralling in their own ways. I ended up siding with the revolutionaries, though I think their statement could have been made with a little less overt rudeness. I felt terrible for the minister, seeing the state he was left in at the end of things.
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Israfel
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10/26/2018
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The Curious Watcher wrote:
Does anyone have an echo to the Autumn Room from the Calendar Code? I'm curious about what it stated about November now that she is finally introduced.
So how many other Calendar Council members are still in hiding? September, October, and December?
Here is the echo itself (No further context, as it is fate-locked) :
[spoiler]https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Adimarch/9255184[/spoiler]
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Adimarch - Yearning, Burning.
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Raihan
Posts: 41
10/26/2018
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I accidentally chose the same option twice and missed out on a particular part of the parade.
Does anyone have an echo for the part just before the final choice regarding the Purple-clad Revolutionary? Namely the choice regarding observing the parade (as opposed to asking the Revolutionary why the parade-goers know her)?
edited by Raihan on 10/26/2018
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Raihan
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10/26/2018
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I should also add that I loved this story, the build-up, the choices, everything. This Season has been stellar in general.
So many pawns of the system! I sided with the Revolutionaries all the way, Closest to them that I am, and was happy to do so for the most part, despite my resistance towards the actual Liberation of Night. The choice of the effigy was pitch-perfect; it figures that the Minister behind the Specials' depredations is a self-important nervous wreck. It's always that sort you have to watch out for.
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10/26/2018
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Raihan wrote:
So many pawns of the system!
Black or white, if you're on a chess board you're somebody's pawn. Only way to be truly free is to play your own game.
"What I am is: bored. I've lived through so many revolutions you see, it's all so familiar to me. The wild eyes and the zealous ardor, the irresponsibility & the clatter- the noise of it all! From the drum rolls on the way to the guillotines to the sacking of the temples of byzantium, so much *noise* and anarchy- and in the end it's all so... disappointing."
edited by Isaac Gates on 10/26/2018
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Greg M
Posts: 197
10/27/2018
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I very much enjoyed this story! I loved the fact that it all took place on one night and almost completely in one overall location, which is very difficult to do from a writing standpoint. It's a nice changeup from October's Magicians and September's For All the Saints, although those were very good and brilliant, respectively.
This is also the first FL story where I've gotten a thrill just from the reveal of the identity of a character.
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Blaine Davidson
Posts: 388
10/27/2018
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I probably would have been more amicable to the Minister if he compensated me upfront with anything. I also found him very rude, constantly reminding me that I was not officially apart of anything.
Well if I'm not officially with you, I have no loyalties now do I?
That being said, I wish there was an option to turn the fireworks in after repeatedly called a "dog" by the Revolutionaries. Am I being petty?
Probably.
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DeserterKalak
Posts: 94
10/27/2018
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So I'm confused by the Disturbance at the Gate. The presence of the dog seems to suggest that they're just bohemians, rather than revolutionaries, and therefore I'm inclined to let them in. But am I reading too much into it? Is she just a bohemian revolutionary?
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Raihan
Posts: 41
10/27/2018
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DeserterKalak wrote:
But am I reading too much into it? Is she just a bohemian revolutionary?
I am fairly certain that the parade includes Bohemians, Aristocrats (namely the Skeptic) and either the eldest son or both the parents of the family we meet. Possibly some devils too, given what happens at the end.
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Barse
Posts: 706
10/27/2018
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This was super fun! I don't know if I'm projecting because I knew going in that this was by a new writer, but it really did feel like a breath of fresh air. The first half of the story did a fantastic job creating an atmosphere and sense of place, letting you hang out with the attendees and explore the Spectacle, taking actions that were unrelated to your purpose and allowing you to enjoy the event. It really did a great job of evoking (at least my personal experience of) the real social warmness of a bonfire in a field on a chilly night.
[spoiler] Then the fact that these incidental social interactions actually did matter, giving you little clues into the identities of the masked revolutionaries, allowing you piece the backstory of the Lost Cell together for yourself, was extremely rewarding. Being able to watch a dog tear around a picnic was endearing and fun; for that same dog to then come back at an unexpected juncture and put a whole new spin on the masked intruders (and likewise for the child, deviless, etc.) was a delight!
Plus, I've wanted to meet November ever since I learned of the Calendar Council (possibly only because November is my birth month, but shh), so to finally meet her and find out she's such an interesting character was great. I very much hope November returns in the future.[/spoiler]
This story was well-paced, obviously extremely considered in its plotting, and managed to present an authentic and enjoyable Neathy Bonfire Night Spectacle while balancing some extremely significant lore on its tail end. (If I had just one gripe: a four-action epilogue, really? I thought I was nearly done than had to wait about an hour to actually finish, grumble grumble.) I hope Jack comes back to write another story!
edited by Barse on 10/28/2018
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folklore364
Posts: 136
10/27/2018
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Very interesting story. Really liked it overall, and didn't expect the masked people overall. It did re-cement desires to make sure the revolutionaries never succeed overall. Out of curiosity can someone link me the echo of who the effigy is? I stopped it from being assembled.
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0bsidian Fire
Posts: 117
10/28/2018
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This was a great ES. I liked how it lulled you into a false sense of "oh, I guess this is just a meh ES about bonfires held by the Ministry" only to become much more serious and exciting and end with a zing of lore. I will say that I am an anti-Revolutionary at heart and man... was I glad I stuck with that all the way though. I definetly had a good chuckle at the Minister telling me I was far too useful to stick behind a desk at the end.
[spoiler]Hoo boy. Lilac is November. No wonder she wanted that infusion of Irrigo. The way this turns how I regard her on it's head is very interesting. It also makes me very, very glad that I haven't sold the location of the Nadir yet. I've yet to come across and ES that causes me to change how I think about characters this much in a while.[/spoiler]
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10/28/2018
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November isn't Lilac anymore than she's the Celebrated Artist's model, they just recycled the art for both.
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0bsidian Fire
Posts: 117
10/28/2018
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About November's real identity.
[spoiler]The text specifically calls her the Purple-Clad Revolutionary and one of the masked parader/revolutionaries asks the Purple-Clad Revolutionary if she remembers them and she tells all the revolutionaries that she does, all the time in fact. To top it all off, November's book in the Calendar Council is blank, like the person it was about was forgotten. And then Novembers specifically mentions she will remember you in her note at the end...
Remembering things is mentioned too often for me to think it's a coincidence. Combine it with the specific color November wears and I find it's easier to assume she is Lilac then that she isn'.[/spoiler]
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silurica
Posts: 210
10/28/2018
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Purple, or a certain neathy color with similar shade, isn't exclusive to one character. It shouldn't be.
[spoiler]I interpreted the blank book in the Calendar Code as an indication November has been absent for a while. It would fit with how November has apparently lost herself to irrigo in this story, and the event here initiated by the lost cell of revolutionaries seem to have been set up to jog her memory.[/spoiler]
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 Leonard West, the Scarlet Informant
 Chizuru Nishiooji, the Rueful Ex-Diplomat
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Raihan
Posts: 41
10/28/2018
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0bsidian Fire wrote:
About November's real identity.
[spoiler]The text specifically calls her the Purple-Clad Revolutionary and one of the masked parader/revolutionaries asks the Purple-Clad Revolutionary if she remembers them and she tells all the revolutionaries that she does, all the time in fact. To top it all off, November's book in the Calendar Council is blank, like the person it was about was forgotten. And then Novembers specifically mentions she will remember you in her note at the end...
Remembering things is mentioned too often for me to think it's a coincidence. Combine it with the specific color November wears and I find it's easier to assume she is Lilac then that she isn'.[/spoiler]
In light of the spoiler which I did not come across, would you happen to have a echo of this?
Thanks either way.
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Diptych
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10/28/2018
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I'm not saying there's no resemblance, but I don't think they're actually the same person.
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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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Raihan
Posts: 41
10/28/2018
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I just realized that no in-game portrait showed up for me in the story. Huh.
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10/28/2018
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The word remember shows up a whole lot when dealing with November, but y'know what word doesn't? Forgot. Lilac's defining characteristic is that she's saturated with irrigo and anyone who looks at her immediately forgets about it- and yet curiously everyone in the storylet manages to recall her presence & activities throughout. Besides which, her mannerisms and dialogue are nothing like Lilac's- and Lilac was never described as having stars painted on her fingernails. Oh and lest we forget: *Lilac is in love with The Bazaar*, her turning out to be a revolutionary makes less than no sense.
It's a neat theory, but it really doesn't hold water.
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