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Fallen London: Shower Thoughts

Azothi Posts: 586 12/31/2018	A thread for the tiny epiphanies one has or has previously had about Fallen London and the Sunless universe. To cite the description of r/Showerthoughts, shower thoughts are r/Showerthoughts wrote: those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar. "Showerthought" is a loose term that applies to the types of thoughts you might have while carrying out a routine task like showering, driving, or daydreaming. At their best, Showerthoughts are universally relatable and find the amusing/interesting within the mundane. Please be respectful of others' submissions. Rudeness is unacceptable. For example, Of course the Notability grind is one of the most soul-crushing and frustrating endeavors in all of Fallen London - it's sponsored by none other than Hell itself. Remember, be respectful and have fun! -- Azoth I, the Emissary of Cardinals - A Paramount Presence (not currently accepting new Proteges) Away to where the Chain cannot bind us. Hesperidean.
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Siegron Posts: 65 12/31/2018	If a tree falls over in Parabola and no one is around, does it exist? -- Kid Nullman, the winsome and cheerful arch-agent of the Game. Forget. Them. Not. Victor Waxwail, hiding under an irrigo-stained wing of family intrigue. Always welcoming of roleplay invites!
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 12/31/2018	If one were to knock on wood for luck seven times, would it bring bad luck in the Neath and/or terrify others? -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Vega Posts: 150 1/10/2019	I'm on Polythreme now. The game mechanics are a bit frustrating and limiting. However, that fits thematically with the place. Polythreme is supposed to feel barren and rather dull compared to all the other Zee locations. After all, there are only Clay Men and clothes-colonies that don't really have their own agency and purpose apart from the King of a Hundred Hearts. The game experience supports this atmosphere to a tee. One may be vexed by the game mechanics of Polythreme, but one is meant to be vexed. If not much happens there lore-wise, it makes sense that not much can happen there game-wise too. So, I'm vexed, but I also can't help but respect in-game Polythreme for what it is. -- The Jaunty Mystic, Taranlei, roams the streets of London, interviewing fellow citizens. Member of the Sanguine Ribbon Society and the Temple Club (happy to send invites). Accepting all Acquaintances, lethal duels, social interactions, and opportunities for casual roleplay. The Shifty Spectre has departed on the final voyage. "I have gone down, down, my love..."
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Tystefy Posts: 450 2/16/2019	If Hell had a single casualty during the War of '68, everyone would've known what the devils really are. -- Will sometimes return to post absurdity.
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 3/10/2019	Do Rattus Faber that wear suit sometimes wear suits made from human skin like we wear Rattus Faber suits? -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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The Stranger Man Posts: 21 1/9/2019	Who is London's Ambassador to Hell? What did he do to deserve being posted to literal hell? edited by The Stranger Man on 1/9/2019 -- When the strange things come a-knocking, hire someone Stranger.
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JaneAnkhVeos Posts: 132 3/6/2020	More Calendar Council. (Minor spoilers.) [spoiler]We have April in March. We have May in April. The Ambitions triggered the Treachery of Clocks. * I can’t help but imagine that meetings of the Council start with October setting up a mirror-Skype for July * Getting the Gleaming Buttons (Renown 40) has already been heart-melting enough for me. Then I recalled Heart’s Desire… “They were made for me by… someone who was once very special to me.” And now he gives them to us. [feelings.exe have encountered an irresolvable problem and must quit] [/spoiler] -- \|\| the Nocturnal Nostalgist, pawnbroker of dreams and memories \|\|
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Fadewalker Posts: 136 3/15/2019	So many souls have burnt their names with Salt in Frostfound. The traveller is always returning. The time is no time. The time is fire. The time is a wheel. The way we pronounce Salt is a result of time, and for a wheel the true name of Salt must be, "alts". Yes. -- A fervent supporter of the Council and the Masters.
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Rasvarmo Posts: 54 3/16/2019	Considering all the machinations of the heavens, the phrase "you must be yanking my chain" has a much more sinister connotation in London. -- Rasvarmo - a lady of distinction and ambition. Open to social exchanges. "No records. No writings. Words can be treacherous. If a story is important, it will be remembered."
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 12/31/2018	Soulless Showerthoughts: What if a Soul that was thrown into the Lacre was mine? Can I use Lacre as Soul then or someone else's Soul like a Pentecost Ape? -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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JaneAnkhVeos Posts: 132 8/7/2019	(divided because of the spoiler tag limit) 3. What if your Aunt is an incomprehensible eldritch being who is everyone’s Aunt? 4. Concerning the Manager (well, seems like I’m doomed to always come to this topic eventually): [spoiler]• "These lost whose dreams I card" (the last exchange of diamonds, if I’m not mistaken); • The option to give him your dreams in Heart’s Desire; What does he gather these dreams for? (How is another question, but here in the Neath it's not a big deal, I guess.) And whom for – himself or the Council (considering that they plan to use literal extracted memories/feelings as weapons in Sunless Skies)?[/spoiler] -- \|\| the Nocturnal Nostalgist, pawnbroker of dreams and memories \|\|
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misericordius Posts: 12 5/20/2019	TheFungalOne wrote: What did the First, Second and Third Cities call the Masters? "Mr" is an english convention, and the Fourth City called them "Khans". Maybe in the Second City they were called Pharaohs (Pharaoh of Wines, Pharaoh of Spices etc).[/spoiler] I doubt the title would be Pharaoh, as that's a bit high up the social ladder; the equivalent would be to call the Masters "King Apples" or "King Wines", and so on. Some quick Googling suggests a likely title might be "imy-r", which means "overseer" or, more literally, "in whom is the word". The associated hieroglyphic includes a mouth, which seems to tie in with the whole Mr. Eaten thing. -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/misericordius Murder, breakfast, and other games
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thefantodayhtml Posts: 23 8/6/2019	Honeyaddict wrote: And considering the they're printed/etched onto Lead Plates, what'd happen you inscribed a lead musket ball with small Correspondence? Would a hit cause the target to ignite? In Sunless Skies, there is a gun which uses Correspondence inscribed rocks as a devastatingly effective incendiary device (it deals over twice as much damage as any other gun, period). There isn't any evidence of it catching things on fire, but given that that is also true of a gun that fires superheated debris, it may just be that things in the High Wilderness are naturally flame-resistant.
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misericordius Posts: 12 2/16/2019	We all know the devils are the agents of Hell, but what if the rubbery men are in fact the secret agents of Heaven? -- https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/misericordius Murder, breakfast, and other games
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Jolanda Swan Posts: 1783 2/16/2019	Οοοh. I could believe that, with their hymns and so on. But... we do know a bit of their true provenance, and their Heaven is such only in a very literal sense. -- 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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Azothi Posts: 586 2/16/2019	misericordius wrote: We all know the devils are the agents of Hell, but what if the rubbery men are in fact the secret agents of Heaven? As is befitting of the Judeo-Abrahamic mythology from which they're derived, though, the devils of Hell are not quite so different from the merciless Heavens. -- Azoth I, the Emissary of Cardinals - A Paramount Presence (not currently accepting new Proteges) Away to where the Chain cannot bind us. Hesperidean.
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Dudebro Pyro Posts: 755 2/16/2019	Vega wrote: The game experience supports this atmosphere to a tee. One may be vexed by the game mechanics of Polythreme, but one is meant to be vexed. If not much happens there lore-wise, it makes sense that not much can happen there game-wise too. So, I'm vexed, but I also can't help but respect in-game Polythreme for what it is. This is on point. During normal gameplay, I'll happily inflict great pain and loss upon my character, if it fits by current metagame goals; often even without pausing to consider the consequences, in cases where it becomes routine (for example, during the early stage of Seeking while playing through the UP cards every week: yes, yes, I just clicked on an action that apparently made me eat my own teeth, done that before and will do it again, now let's scarf down some formless lumps and then time for archeology!). Polythreme is the one exception to this: I, the player, experience all the frustration a normal character trying to achieve anything while there would feel, and share my own character's intense dislike (perhaps, even, burning hatret) of being there. It is the one place I avoid like the plague, not because of some mechanical out-of-universe reason, but solely because of what the place is, and without any effort whatsoever on my part to roleplay. I'd never thought of it that way before; you just vastly raised my respect of the place. (Still not going there, though.) edited by Dudebro Pyro on 2/16/2019 -- Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them. For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 5/11/2019	How does a Blind Person receive the "punishment" one receives while reading the Correspondence? Normally one's eyes would begin to tear and their hair lights ablaze. Would for a blind person reading it in a Braille Form (tracing the outlines and "reading" it that way) the effect be any different? Setting their arm hair ablaze for example or burning their fingers. -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Catherine Raymond Posts: 2518 5/12/2019	Honeyaddict wrote: How does a Blind Person receive the "punishment" one receives while reading the Correspondence? Normally one's eyes would begin to tear and their hair lights ablaze. Would for a blind person reading it in a Braille Form (tracing the outlines and "reading" it that way) the effect be any different? Setting their arm hair ablaze for example or burning their fingers. If it were possible to render the Correspondence in braille, or simply in a raised for able to be read by touch, the substance on which the symbols were written would start to burn if you wrote more than 6 characters of it. -- 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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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 5/13/2019	Catherine Raymond wrote: If it were possible to render the Correspondence in braille, or simply in a raised for able to be read by touch, the substance on which the symbols were written would start to burn if you wrote more than 6 characters of it. Well, as far as I understood it, Correspondence Plaques are made of Lead Plaques with the Correspondence engraved... Quite a dangerous thing to play with if you think about it. And considering the they're printed/etched onto Lead Plates, what'd happen you inscribed a lead musket ball with small Correspondence? Would a hit cause the target to ignite? -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Elaina Schill Posts: 191 3/15/2019	Where do all the weasels and bats given to the Boatman go? Do the people in the Royal Bethlehem know why they're there? Will the Merry Gentleman ever leave me alone so I stop feeling bad for being impolite and not greeting him? Do things in Parabola dream of the real world? If a bat falls down a well and no one's around to hear it, does it really die? -- Main, Phiri Ulfur, the Cunning Shadow. Their heart belongs to a Pirate-Poet across the Zee. Alt Vermillion Liminate, the Tragic Scholar. Alt #2,Lady Jacqueline Blackwood, the Savage Beauty. Alt #3, Veracity Taylor, the Dame of the Docks. The Dogged Seeker, self explanatory. I will accept any social actions on Fallen London(unless its a box of live rats. I already got rid of the d---ned things once and am not eager to repeat the endeavor).
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Professor Wensleydale of Hardwick Posts: 208 3/16/2019	To seek, one must [spoiler] give up their own name. Therefore, the Name is that of all those who sought it. [/spoiler] -- Sir Wensleydale of Hardwick- Monochromatic Myrmidon, Newspaper Editor, Legendary Charisma. Mr Netae- SEEKING MR EATEN'S NAME Aaron Wimbleton- Private Detective. Some Medical Experience.
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TheFungalOne Posts: 18 3/16/2019	What did the First, Second and Third Cities call the Masters? "Mr" is an english convention, and the Fourth City called them "Khans". Maybe in the Second City they were called Pharaohs (Pharaoh of Wines, Pharaoh of Spices etc). That would mean (SMEN spoiler) [spoiler]Mr Eaten might not have even been called Mr Candles, since the english language didn't even exist during the time of the first two cities.[/spoiler] -- The Fungal One
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JaneAnkhVeos Posts: 132 8/7/2019	1. The Calendar Council is almost obviously inspired by "The man who was Thursday" – so... [spoiler]could December be someone like Sunday (Universe/Nature/God)? What if (s)he stands against the Judgements because they are his/her failed experiment or unruly children? Or is (s)he a Judgement him-/herself? After all, it is hinted that the relationship is personal...[/spoiler] 2. Is that crowd of all kinds of weird animals actually live with you in a single room (with the exception of the Premises at the Bazaar)? Or do they occupy all the lodgings you have a key to, but no longer need? Or is this the reason you had to move in the first place? . edited by JaneAnkhVeos on 8/13/2019 -- \|\| the Nocturnal Nostalgist, pawnbroker of dreams and memories \|\|
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Jack Capulet Posts: 8 5/20/2019	If only SOME of the rats are sapient, does that also apply to the cats?
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JaneAnkhVeos Posts: 132 8/10/2019	5. What would it be like to use a book/posy/scrutinizer as an actual weapon? -- \|\| the Nocturnal Nostalgist, pawnbroker of dreams and memories \|\|
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Honeyaddict Posts: 501 8/10/2019	JaneAnkhVeos wrote: 5. What would it be like to use a book/posy/scrutinizer as an actual weapon? Book as a blunt weapon or if you have an amazing technique, the papers as throwable razorblades. Posy, the pollen will make the opponent sneeze themselves to death (or just add in a couple of poisonous plants eg: aconite/monkshood and make them eat the bouquet ) Scrutinizer... shard luck I guess and if you're not lucky, I mean shards can still cut and if you have a lightsource, you can burn your opponents albeit slowly! -- Honeyaddict, Scarlet Saint, Paramount Presence pleasure to meet you. Has some ideas the Masters won't approve of like some items and establishing a Colony in Parabola. I will accept most social interactions (not duping). I do enjoy role playing as well. Have some possibly still active codes!
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Catherine Raymond Posts: 2518 3/8/2020	Honeyaddict wrote: If one were brave enough to milk an Overgoat/Übergoat/Heptagoat, could one even safely drink it? Or if one managed to kill one, would their skin/hide make a good suit? One could milk an Hepta/Uber/Overgoat only if it was female. I hadn't imagined that; I always thought of them as male for some reason. And properly tanned goatskin can be very nice; it's supposedly both soft and durable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatskin_(material) -- 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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