Patrick Reding
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3/22/2012
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A continuation of Playing with Broken Toys!? Why was this not announced? I quiver with excitement!
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Patrick Reding
Posts: 440
3/22/2012
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And it seems I have to wait for more opportunity cards, and build my Eyes of Icarus, in order to continue. At least now I know the proper surname for the Albino Rat. Although it's quite odd that Alice (the Albino Rat, not that Alice...) refuses to help me learn more about her old friend.
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Urthdigger
Posts: 939
3/22/2012
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Concerning the new qualities, I found a most delicious bit of information: It would appear that delving into storylets that already concern those mysteries now adds to those qualities! For example, breeding new monsters (Which deals with death of a sort) and playing chess with the boatman both increase "The Gates of the Garden". I would imagine things such as the mirror marches and the war of illusions increase Fingerwork, and information on past cities now likely raises Fallen Cities. As for Eyes of Icarus, that is... the correspondence maybe? I truly have no idea in that regard.
Actually, that kinda makes sense in a way. Four of these new qualities... and four main qualities. The slow moving boat and the mysteries of death... the mirror marches and the field behind the glass... the tomb colonies and the former cities... but the eyes of icarus are once again an oddball out. Granted, Icarus DID escape from confinement, but as the quality itself says, "What does it mean?"
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Diptych
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3/22/2012
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Escape from confinement, as you say - and rebellion against humanity's constraints? Thwarted ambition, chastened hubris, the inventor entrapped by her own ingenuity?
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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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Urthdigger
Posts: 939
3/22/2012
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Well, I wouldn't be entirely sure on that last part. Icarus was not the inventor, that was Daedalus. In fact... I suppose it's fair to say Icarus didn't escape confinement either: He was too foolish, and did not listen to Daedalus, and flew too close to the sun. Though, this is also the EYES of Icarus, so what he saw may be important. He definitely observed Daedalus' invention, and that would fit with it connecting with the broken toys.
There's also the matter of the phrase "Icarus returning / longs for the deep places". Returning from where? And what deep places? Does it perhaps have to do with what's beneath the neath? Also, given the tenuous connection I'm giving it to the shadowy stat, the criminal underworld may be a thought.
For now though, let's take a step back and look at facts. What do we know that gives the Eyes of Icarus? Of the clandestine rendezvous options, it's given by urchins, revolutionaries, and the church. The latter seems out of place if we're connecting it to criminals, but they are a radical sect, and their gift is meant to help you think hard on your sins.
Then there are the time delayed options. The dream of a vineyard, the sun basks down with a red light as thick as honey, but instead of speaking the sun merely looks down in sorrow, waiting for the dreamers to speak. Perhaps it is ashamed of us? Then there is the enthusiastic admirer, who loves our work on mushrooms, and shows us how much more there is to learn. Not sure what to make of it, but the Neath itself has a lack of sunlight that is why folks down here are obsessed with mushrooms, which can still grow... hmm, that combine with the dream about sunlight, gives the possibility that the Eyes of Icarus may have to do with our ties to the surface? After all, Icarus is most known for flight, of trying to fly up to the sun. And what is the highest point in Fallen London? And where all of us newcomers entered from the surface? Why, none other than New Newgate, a connection to the fourth place of menace besides criminal activity... by jove, I wonder if I've cracked this wide open!
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DukeLawliet
Posts: 121
3/22/2012
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Hello! Im rather desperate to begin the "Playing with Broken Toys" storyline, but I'm honestly kind of freaking out. Im at Dangerous 49, but all my other qualities are over 100, and I'm worried I'll never get a card to start the storyline. Any ideas? Are the cards to start it location dependent at all?
P.S.-Daedelus was an inventor who invented enough to be imprisoned. The Watchmakrs daughter was an inventor who invented enough to ALMOST get imprisoned.
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