Owen Wulf
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10/4/2013
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A fine and good season for darkness and murk amidst the spires of this gloom festooned metropolis! I bring season tidings of a coming event, All Hallow's Eve. Or as those posh surface goers are so fond of calling, "Halloween".
I have re-purposed this old forum thread that we might ensure continuity and leave the rest of the forum uncluttered with more threads. Here we can speak of the trouble that decent citizens might get up to after the lamplights go out and curfews set in on this fabled night. Information on notorious individuals will be made available to those new to this oddity of our underground city.
Individuals of Note (be on the lookout!) - Do note that we may possibly encounter other outlandish characters this year!
The Larcenous Rubbery Man: A distasteful creature to look upon, but willing to reveal the dark secrets of its kind if you will so let it.
A Very Dour Special Constable: The Masters keep many agents and servants, but none are more public and loyal than the black-clad special constables. On special nights each year they may approach prominent citizens with important information.
A Genial Magician: A capable figure from amidst the war of the Shroud and the Glass, yet he has made pacts with forces beyond even his wiles.
The Bishop of Southwark: A boisterous and ranking clergyman, his strength of faith is matched only by his indomitable ambitions.
A Diabolic Diplomat: As Devils go he is dangerous and cunning, but this time he brings more than the risk of damnation.
The Haunted Doctor: Here is a gentleman in sombre clothing of good cut, but his past haunts him and his present troubles cloud his thoughts. Be wary, it is certain he is entwined with the Revolutionaries!
A Navy Liuetenant (the Presbyterate Adventuress?'): A brazen soldier from far off lands, she speaks of a lost bet and prophecies she believes hold no sway.
Interesting Qualities to Consider:
- An obscure quality, "Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies" can be garnered for use during this holiday in only a few ways of which I only know one (perhaps the only). Adept thieves might 'visit' the House of Cubit Square and during the Heist come across the Weeping Maid. She will gift this strange reflection at the cost of lost time.
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Alexis Kennedy
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10/23/2013
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And here is the kitten picture, because I don't see why they should get all the kitten pictures.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
10/23/2013
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Lady Red wrote:
the cards then seem to all but disappear from my hand once the fate option is introduced.
In answer to the implication, no, I haven't reduced the frequency of the card. In fact, I'd intended just to leave the card in the deck. I added the override branch in response to user feedback here https://twitter.com/indiewinter/status/393077396527534080 and elsewhere. This was a mistake, as changing this kind of thing in response to user feedback often is; because if I leave it, an indefinite number of people are vocally unhappy, and if I change things, an indefinite number of people are vocally unhappy, plus I've spent some time changing it.
I don't often post to explain or justify Nexy decisions, especially around seasonal content. Here's a meta-explanation as to why I don't, that I can link back to if need be. Everything in quotation marks is a quote from an email/tweet/bug report/FB post/forum post or similar.
It is hard to talk about people complaining without sounding grumpier than I mean it! So let me preface this by saying that the feedback we get is 90% enthusiasm and 10% dysthusiasm. Which is why I'm still doing this job.
But. Over the past four years I've seen every variety of complaint. If I lock all the content behind 'a permanent storylet [...] with a small Fate charge', I get a roar of protest. If I put most of the content behind the Nex branches, I get accused of two-tiering. If I put most of the content out in front, I get accused of giving poor value for money.
If I lock new content to seasonal events and make it permanently available, it's gone in a day and everyone complains there's not enough content. If I tie it to cards, people complain they never draw the cards. If I don't allow people to '[pay] to artificially induce luck', I get accused of 'rigging the odds' or 'being stingy with the cards'. If I set the card frequency high, I get accused of 'spamming the deck'. If I lock the content to some sort of pacing pattern, I get accused of being grindy. If I make the pattern something more complex, I get people mailing to complain it's needlessly complicated.
If I add all new content permanently, I get complaints that we don't do seasonal events. If I try to make seasonal events pay for themselves, I get accused of 'gouging'. If I extend the window seasonal events appear for, people who've seen all the content get grumpy at the deck being 'full of junk'. If I shorten it, people accuse us, again, of gouging them by making them pay for op deck refreshes.
And someone will always, always complain that Nex costs are too high. If we charge 50 Nex, that's outrageous, it shouldn't have been more than 20! If we charge 20, then it should have been 5. If we charge 5 Nex, then we should have given it away for free.
Bottom line: people don't like paying for content (which I understand! but we gotta eat) and any structure that requires people to pay for content will upset someone. (Giving content to people for free often upsets them too, but that's a whole other post.) So I end up making the call on what I think suits the content best, what experiments I'm interested in conducting, and what's going to cause least organisational hassle or bugs.
"But why don't you try xxxxx?" Well, I don't know what the xxxxx in the suggestion would be, but before you type it, I will say that there's a fair chance that it's because people complained last time we tried xxxxx 
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We're not going to stop doing seasonal events. They add life and vitality to the game, and they make us a bit of much-needed cash. And as I said up top, the enthusiasm is always in the majority.
And feel free to go on complaining, or even suggesting! The complaints and suggestions are, and remain, useful, and sometimes I outright make mistakes or change things. Sticks and stones and all that. But do bear in mind that generally, I'm not acting out of a deliberate desire to defraud or irritate, just to pay the bills.
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Zeedee
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10/22/2013
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/whereverididgo
Teeheheheheheheheeeee!
Hee.
I am inordinately pleased. Did you get yours, Owen?
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
10/31/2013
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This hasn't been said yet, so I'll say it: The artwork associated with the Destinies is stunning. The art associated with THE REVELATION is particularly beautiful, and totally unlike anything I've seen in Fallen London to date. Well done, FBG!
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
10/31/2013
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This thread definitely now has people in it (besides me) who know
- what I meant by 2:00
- what the thirteenth para- or anti- destiny is
- where you will eventually be able to find out more about Lorn-Flukes
so I won't spoil their fun.
I will add that the Passion destiny is at the thematic heart of the entire Fallen London mythos, and it can be found through Glimpse of the Future, without clever access codes or other metastrategies. It just has an extremely stringent precondition. Now I'm off to feed me kid. Over to you!
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bjorntfh
Posts: 216
11/1/2013
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Flidget wrote:
Owen Wulf wrote:
Very interesting. For some, I guess it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Of all the options I have reviewed, the Liberation of Night has to be the least pleasant. I may forgo that particular destiny altogether next year.
Personally I think the Parabola > Yourself/Fate-locked one was by far the darkest.
All of them do bring interesting implications to how we're going to roleplay our characters from here-on out, I think. It's a big, big thing to know your destiny, especially if yours gets rather grim.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there: that's the path I chose and it's, by far, the brightest and most empowering of all the endings; at least on a personal level. Perhaps for the Londoners (but their fate was sealed the moment the City was sold), and for everyone else, eventually, but you end up as Morpheus, god of dreams. Of all creation you alone are truly free. Yes, there was a price, but look at the gain? It's more than mere power, it's the possibility of True Freedom, aka License. February's machine starts the effect, but it also destroys those who use it by breaking everything in the Neath down by ending Natural Law. The Fingerkings, however, are separate and safe. Of all the endings I thought it best represented the Nietzschean Ubermensch, the one who has moved beyond all things, and thus is capable of controlling them.
Plus, I like the idea of people praying to me and leaving offerings to me. It's like the options to join the Masters, only without the limits of ties, or even the limits of rules, since time is different in the Marches, after all...
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
10/15/2013
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Spacemarine9 wrote:
Also I have to say Alexis this is one hell of a metagame you've got going on here. How'd you get Kelloggs on board?
with the recipe for Rubbery Lumps.
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Zeedee
Posts: 276
10/16/2013
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So...y'all robbing drunks and feeding offal to Drownies down by the Stolen River? 'Cause that's what I'm imagining half of you doing.
And Alexis sits back nodding his head while saying, "Just as planned."
Anyhoo, found the Fingerking icon earlier:[spoiler]http://images.echobazaar.failbettergames.com/icons/fingerking.png
Now I see why it's nicknamed a "Fingerking"! That itty bitty cutie is the size of a finger.
I hope we can be friends. Rather the alternative: it tunneling into my mind, pressing my consciousness shut, and wearing my skin. Let's be friends.[/spoiler]
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Flidget
Posts: 88
10/9/2013
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Be careful what you wish for or this will all just lead to us being terrorised by urchins in shabby costumes threatening to scratch-up our hansoms and egg our clay men unless we give them spore toffee.
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
10/23/2013
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And here I was just about to write a scathing reply about how we the devoted loyal fans never got a kitten picture, ending with me setting my computer on fire out of rage
I don't have to do that now so thanks. You sure know your userbase!
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SeriesFive
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10/31/2013
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I've finally made my choice and - naturally - chose The Name (having had the SMEN variant of the Rubbery Man as my last visitor).
Of course, being a foolish and rather scatterbrained Seeker, I then equipped my Destiny item, which apparently is the only one that gives a stats malus. Apparently I can't un-equip it now---oh well, serves me right I guess 
(Put it on my mantlepiece btw....)
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Zeedee
Posts: 276
10/30/2013
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From perusing the Echo Bazaar's recent tweets and facebook posts, we can match its prophetic story snippets with the 5 Possible Futures we've learned from this Hallowmas.
https://twitter.com/echobazaar or https://www.facebook.com/fallenlondon
[spoiler]The Taste of Blackest Brine
A POSSIBLE FUTURE: Down Among the Lorn-Flukes
"The nearest Fluke writhes all along its length, languorously, like a licentious mountain."
A Darkness in the Air
A POSSIBLE FUTURE: the Liberation of Night
"All gone. On the skin of the Bazaar, faint traces of fire fitfully shudder and crawl. They shed a feeble light for moments only"
The Chill of the Void
A POSSIBLE FUTURE: A Long Road
'"Our employer grows nervous," Hearts opines. "Like a maid on her wedding-day, hey?" (Or would opine, were he speaking in air...'
A Pricked Finger
A POSSIBLE FUTURE: the Castle of Forests
"A billion serpents - basilisks and pythons, adders and dragons -, scaled for war, wriggling in absurd multitudes."
A Blaze of Distant Light
A POSSIBLE FUTURE: September 21st, 1911
"Death is the final country! Once we have conquered the Mountain, we will conquer Death."
"The Wax-Wind still sleeps. The rain of souls has passed. We shamed the Presbyter, the Old God, the hirelings of the Bazaar - "
Hrm, I'm not sure about the last two. "A Long Road" and "September 21st, 1911" could be switched around.
Is September 21st the day the Bazaar abandons the Fifth City for the Sixth? Or, possibly, when It finishes with the Seventh City and rises to meet the Sun? That would explain why Mr Hearts is not speaking in the air; not much air in outer space. :P
The year 1911 is a mere 20 years away. That seems far too fast a pace for the progression of Falling Cities, which is why I think The Chill of the Void might be marked as "A Long Road". "September 21st, 1911" could be the day certain parties charge into the Mountain of Light.
(Update: I'm certain now. The snippets above are in the correct order.)[/spoiler]
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
10/24/2013
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It doesnt specify which October 24th! Check back in ten years.
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Flyte
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10/7/2013
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babelfishwars wrote:
Can we stab them anyway? No, we mustn't do that. It would bring brutal extortionists into disrepute.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
10/14/2013
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Happy oncoming Hallowmas, all. Lorn-Flukes have been mentioned in one place, but it's terribly easy to overlook and there's no treasure at the end of that particular hunt.
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Blessed
Posts: 46
10/6/2013
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The team is understandably excited about Sunless Sea. It represents a whole new frontier for them to imagine and populate.
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Diptych
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10/17/2013
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It wasn't a huge event - Rubbery Men would come and knock on your door and ask for... something. Presumably treats. I gave them a fish to eat, and they were happy and went away. My wife invited them in for a cuppa, and they were a bit confused but gave her a fish in return and then went away. Rather adorable, really! There were other options, but I don't know what they did. (I note the latest Kickstarter update mentions that this year's event will showcase some of Sunless Sea's characters, so it's a nice preview of upcoming story.)
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Alexander Feld
Posts: 348
11/1/2013
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I have taken the plunge into dark waters...
God have mercy on us all.
Oh, the myriad ways of Fate, that this is what I choose. I could have drunk from the cup of Eternity, I could have faced Judgement, I could have unleashed liberation by darkness, or even escaped behind the mirror. Yet I chose the candle. I always knew I would. All shall be well.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
10/23/2013
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Lady Red wrote:
I totally take your point, Alexis, that whatever you do someone will always complain. But we wouldn't complain if we didn't care
I know! and although no-one ever enjoys negative feedback, I do value and monitor it. I just wanted something to link to next time this sort of thing comes up, rather than biting my lip or responding in detail.
Trufact: I just sent a mailout to FL players who'd only played for a day or less before giving up, and said, hey, give us another try, here's a kitten picture, and we'd love to hear why you stopped playing. And to my delight, dozens of people replied, sometimes with really detailed smart feedback. I'm still working through the replies. But also, getting dozens of people explaining why they gave up on your game does get you down eventually. So I may be slightly less zen than usual just now. :-)
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Dolan
Posts: 296
10/31/2013
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A hint for those still wondering about 2:00 and Lorn Flukes:
[spoiler]2:00 is a timecode, not a time.[/spoiler]
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Anstruther Barron
Posts: 92
11/1/2013
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Quite a few of the destinies are becomings rather than endings.
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mayexist
Posts: 132
11/2/2013
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I found the missing Destiny on MidnightVoyager's Journal: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/MidnightVoyager
"The Instrument (Dangerous +5): It will end in war."
Looks like she got there from the Pricked Finger dream. Someone should hunt her down (figuratively) and ask for details/confirmation. Forum profile: http://community.failbettergames.com/viewprofile.aspx?UserID=152
(Also, keeping three dozen tabs open since the 31st has finally paid off.)
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
10/19/2014
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I do hope _ever_ so much that something horrid and loathsome will haunt us all this Hallowe'en.
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Rowan Dusang
Posts: 57
11/1/2013
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Flyte wrote:
Owen Wulf wrote:
Of all the options I have reviewed, the Liberation of Night has to be the least pleasant. On balance, it's arguably the most hopeful:
It is only hopeful if you consider apocalyptic genocide hopeful. Like cutting off your head to spite your body.
[spoiler]The worst snippet of new information we learn about the Bazaar is that it would eventually need to dispose of the Londoners to turn them in lacre, and make room for the 6th City. Eventually. Judging from the previous cities, there are remnants and survivors from each—even what looks to be large surviving settlements (see: The East). Perhaps the ending where you turn into a Master hints at the destruction of Earth, but even that would be in a more distant future I imagine, as two more cities still have yet to Fall.
The Liberation of Night turns the Neath into a Hieronymus Bosch land of apocalyptic horrors, where London burns and almost everyone is trapped and people have started turning into cannibalistic mutants. The Neath is supposed to be as large as the Continent, and a single deployment device did all that. It's made clear in the various endings that the Calendar Council intends to turn the device onto the Surface, then the Sun, then the Judgements, and pretty much destroy the Universe. Thanks, but no thanks. I'd go with the Bazaar any day.
Aside from which, there's another ending that destroys the Bazaar without a civilization-ending doomsday device. [/spoiler]
edited by Rowan Dusang on 11/1/2013
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Snowskeeper
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10/19/2014
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Very elegant, but I'd suggest adding a note that these individuals might not be who shows up this time around.
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Skathes
Posts: 27
10/19/2014
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this was an event before my time playing.... would like a PM of what was missed if possable. want to get caught up with things.
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Lady Taimi Felix
Posts: 202
10/20/2014
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Gillsing wrote:
And I don't know if The Taste of Blackest Brine (or the Rubbery visitor) will require a ship this year. It didn't last year, but the Fruits of the Zee festival equivalence did have that requirement, so it certainly seems like a possibility.
Did anyone get the Torment destiny from the Fruits of the Zee festival? I wondered if it was available since the SMEN content is on hiatus, but I was too busy chasing an elusive guinea pig projectile to remember to check.
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lady ciel
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10/20/2014
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One of the devs said in the Bag a Legend thread that he was working on Hallowmas content, so I don't think it has been cancelled. It will probably be ready in a few days - at least I think last year it started about a week before the end of October.
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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.
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Owen Wulf
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10/30/2014
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Good news all around, the fine folk at Failbetter have given us their first official confirmation that the Feast of Masks is soon upon us! Check out the link below and behold:
https://twitter.com/EchoBazaar/status/527472434912722944
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Sara Hysaro
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10/31/2014
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It's in your Lodgings.
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lady ciel
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11/1/2014
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Suspicion - when it goes to 0 put on a pirate hat, take it off. Go to the forgotten quarter and give public lectures until you get to 3.
Scandal - put on a pair of stockings, take them off, put them back on again and add a modish bonnet.
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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.
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Rackenhammer
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11/2/2014
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Yeah, the action toll has me on the fence about getting an Exceptional friendship for the holidays. I don't want to disappoint my requesters, but given that most who ask for confessions are using the POSI options...
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Irene Psmith: Adopted Daughter of Mathieu. Specializes in Information, Acquisitions, and the Acquisition of Information.
Vaughan Montblanc: Once a frontiersman of Western Canada, he now practices medicine in London. His discretion may be absolutely trusted.
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lady ciel
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11/2/2014
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The most action efficient are confessions of whimsy so, when available, that is what I request. But it still takes a lot of actions.
I've finally cleared my back log of requests and will try to send out some of my own today.
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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.
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lady ciel
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11/2/2014
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Hats and stockings, giving public lectures and a Starveling Cat are the easiest way to raise your menaces.
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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.
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Rackenhammer
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11/6/2014
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Until the 12th, I believe.
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Irene Psmith: Adopted Daughter of Mathieu. Specializes in Information, Acquisitions, and the Acquisition of Information.
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11/6/2014
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Rackenhammer wrote:
Until the 12th, I believe.
Great. That means a have six more days to dither about my Destiny.  
While the Correspondence has been a constant pursuit of mine, it has been a chase of knowledge for knowledge's sake. I have a nagging fear that a place of reflections and hidden dealings may be closer to to my heart than the trappings of power.
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11/2/2013
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mayexist wrote:
I found the missing Destiny on MidnightVoyager's Journal: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/MidnightVoyager
"The Instrument (Dangerous +5): It will end in war."
Looks like she got there from the Pricked Finger dream. Someone should hunt her down (figuratively) and ask for details/confirmation. Forum profile: http://community.failbettergames.com/viewprofile.aspx?UserID=152
(Also, keeping three dozen tabs open since the 31st has finally paid off.)
edited by mayexist on 11/2/2013
Oh. That's what I get for losing track of this thread. Hi.
I did in fact get that from the Bishop! I tried to echo it, but a connection snafu apparently made that not work.
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Spacemarine9
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11/7/2013
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There will probably be other opportunities to see the same Glimpses of the Future, so Alexis will probably never ever give up the deets.
~the destiny never happen~
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Snowskeeper
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10/19/2014
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Or we could just eat lots and lots of mushroom pie.
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Owen Wulf
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10/19/2014
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Snowskeeper wrote:
Or we could just eat lots and lots of mushroom pie.
That we could. I have tried re-buffing the original post to make it accommodating to new players. I am still working upon it but what do you think?
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Spacemarine9
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11/1/2013
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No that's not it you've gotten two different clues for two different things confused.
The 2:00 thing refers to the other place where you can see the Lorn-Flukes. Passion is a destiny with extremely strict quality requirements which echo the game's overarching themes or something, it's obtainable without any metagame finickery
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Spacemarine9
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11/1/2013
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The two things Alexis said in his post are not related, okay. He mentioned a thing about the Passion destiny and a thing about the Lorn-Flukes, but they weren't related.
If anything, I think "In the matters of the Bazaar, look to love, always" thing might be the theme of what we're after here. Tears of the Bazaar might be involved, even.
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Flidget
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10/31/2013
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Owen Wulf wrote:
Very interesting. For some, I guess it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Of all the options I have reviewed, the Liberation of Night has to be the least pleasant. I may forgo that particular destiny altogether next year.
Personally I think the Parabola > Yourself/Fate-locked one was by far the darkest.
All of them do bring interesting implications to how we're going to roleplay our characters from here-on out, I think. It's a big, big thing to know your destiny, especially if yours gets rather grim.
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lady ciel
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10/31/2013
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"off to feed me kid" points to Over/Ubergosts. I'm nowhere near that so over to those who are.
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Laluzi
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10/31/2013
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Nonsense. Everyone knows he only speaks in riddles. Or tongues.
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Owen Wulf
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11/1/2013
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I quite liked my choice in the Pricked Finger path for my main character Owen Wulf
[spoiler]Becoming the personal Huntsman of the Fingerkings sounds very prestigious, especially since I am Vake Hunter. However, I'm under no illusions as to the malevolence of such patrons, but they can't be that disagreeable if they asked me to drag a Master before them. The Bishop of Southwark was a fool to deal with them, but nevertheless I assisted him in getting his war with Hell started. Should be interesting to see what comes of it. As for myself, immortality and a position of importance are a fine enough reward. While becoming a God of Dreams (as Bjorntfh suggested above) sounds all well and good, I think I can be content with what I have. Also, +5 Danger is pretty nice.[/spoiler]
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Otaara
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11/1/2013
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I took the fate-locked option (The Sky) from the abyssal future, because if there's anything my character would do with beasts dark and bizarre beyond imagining, it'd be to redeem and in the process empower them. And then the text for choosing that option is perfect -- a confident, calculated act, and an intellectual one, at that, which puts into motion world-bursting change. Even if I hadn't paid to get it, I wouldn't change it for anything. *Totally* what my character is heading for, and like good writers, you crafted it so I couldn't have imagined my ending on my own, but now having glimpsed it, I can see how all the pieces set it up. <3 <3 <3
Also, there's so much in this thread that I only barely know anything about. Fingerkings? Rare and sinister candles? What one gets for figuring out the 2:00 thing? I need. . . some ice cream and a bunch more turns.
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Zeedee
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10/19/2013
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I totally meant to say "The Flit"; thanks for pointing that out! Anyway, it's mostly anecdotal evidence, but the Weeping Maid card seems to be a low frequency draw. For narrative purposes, she'll only appear at Mr Leadbeater's house. (Jeez, just imagine one constantly leaky Drownie maid moving from one gentleman's premises to another. Highly scandalous!)
Find a nook of the house to settle yourself into for a few days. I was Mr Leadbeater's unwelcome and unknown guest for 48 hours before I finally heard the maid's cries. In a way, this is sensible because she doesn't cry every minute of the day, and it does make me feel like a creep, but...um, what was I trying to say? Er, persevere as a shadowy parasite and eventually you'll hear her suffering? :P
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babelfishwars
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10/22/2013
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Endy wrote:
That being said it might be worth it to work on getting your Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies up prior to.
... I'm stuck sitting and pulling cards. I may not have bought enough helpful things to last there long enough to find the wench. Is it at a certain level of burglar's process, or do I just have to get lucky. (Am in mid-20s, but running out of cat-like, despite using a fate option.)
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MidnightVoyager
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10/16/2013
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If Alexis could chime in on this: I've heard some unfortunate things can happen to the soulless who have stains around this time of year. Is this still a danger if one is no longer properly Seeking?
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Sensible! I've died and gone mad, but I'm happy to hang on to my soul, come... well, yes, and high water too.
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Lady Red
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10/15/2013
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Seeking Mr Eaten's Name
Ocelot, I don't think the SMEN option advances the seeking, it's just a friendly stab in the eye as a dubious reward for those of us who've got that far, so to speak!
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Owen Wulf wrote:
That is a shame. I would have thought with all the elements of horror and mystery that is imbued in the setting that a Halloween themed event would come naturally. Pity, but I suppose the team is just busy building new content in Sunless Sea. Hopefully when they are done with that they can take time to expand Fallen London itself. Still waiting to hunt that Vake.
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Isn't it the complete opposite here? Valentine's and Christmas are deeply creepy. So Halloween, if it gets a mention at all, should be ... fluffy and nice?
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Richard
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10/6/2013
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
I'm not an expert, but I don't think it was a big thing in England.
It's still not a particularly big thing in England, at least compared to the US. There's a completely separate celebration called Bonfire Night on 5 November, and when I grew up in England I certainly thought that Bonfire Night was a much bigger deal than Halloween.
In Scotland, where I live now, there's still the tradition of guising for Halloween - which is like trick-or-treat, but without the extortion. Kids dress in costumes and get rewards for them. It's all very pleasant and charming, and not really macabre at all.
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Loon
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10/12/2013
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I like that idea. I'm just worried about getting stabbed only because I'm in another time zone...
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Lady Red
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10/14/2013
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Haha, I'm in the mirror marches already.
Spacemarine, if you mean the SMEN option, it's nothing too hideous, for a given value of hideous.
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10/24/2013
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The Visitors have begun to arrive. They'll be around for at least a week. There's more Hallowmas to come after them.
We'll be posting more information soon...
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10/25/2013
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Karaeir wrote:
It seems to be a little known fact, but there is another option for those with A Brazen Fate: An Infernal Agent - the Bishop gets replaced with A Diabolical Diplomat. And let me just say that of course I had to invite him. And I can't wait to see what happens next.
Confirming this. [spoiler] [/spoiler]
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10/25/2013
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. . . I just got a visit from a Honey-Addled Monkey, which has left me quite confused. I don't know any Honey-Addled Monkeys, my Ambition is vengeful in nature.
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10/25/2013
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Flidget have you got a Malevolent Monkey and were you at your lodgings? There is a location dependent card that gives a visit from the Honey-Addled Monkey.
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10/26/2013
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Still no sign of the card. Sigh. I wish the fate draw was cheaper.
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I've just double-checked - Diocesan Intrigue 6 does indeed mark the end of the story, but only characters who sided with the Bishop or the Devils get Brazen Fate or Hellfarer. The other options give different qualities, which don't correspond to any Hallowmas visitors.
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Zeedee
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Yes, the more I think about it, the more that seems to fit. I'll edit my previous post. I also instantly thought of the Dilmun Club, but goodness, that's quite a wait. I figured they might make me wait 2-3 years, not decades... Then again, there are probably far more interesting mysteries to unravel at the heart of the Mountain than a Garden; such mysteries might require decades of work.
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Spacemarine9
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10/30/2013
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Laluzi wrote:
Is there supposed to be anything on the email? Besides the text, I mean. There were a bunch of blank rectangles with links, but the links just brought me to Fallen London.
Did you have images enabled? Some email clients auto-disable all images from incoming emails and they need to be manually turned on (usually with a button at the top of the mail)
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was something for those who refused to admin a visitor.
Well, the Gates of Midnight option only appears if you already have a Possible Future selected; not that the requirement couldn't be removed, but there's nothing for people who have no visitor (yet). I've checked!
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Spacemarine9
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The Presbyterate Adventuress/the sword in the streets is the one you're after.
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
Does anyone got the "This is what you've been working towards" option from the Liberation of the Night? I am trying to work out whether to dash out some Fate.
I do! I'll send you a PM.
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Check out Esther's journal, gang - link in my signature; the relevant Destiny's equipped in her inventory.
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bjorntfh
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10/31/2013
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Has anyone chosen the Parabola Choice of Yourself? I'm REALLY tempted to go with it... but I also want the Bishop to conquer Hell...
Man. This is SUCH a hard choice: 4th Candle for SMEN, Conquer Hell as the Bishop's right hand woman, or make myself even more...
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crazyivan
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10/31/2013
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Addendum: The 'loot the place' ending for the Revolution is -amazing-, and exactly what I wanted for that character!
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friendshipranger
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10/31/2013
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I chose "your beloved." Echoed in my journal. It seemed like the only honorable option left. The Destiny I got is on the mantlepiece. Did anyone save the Princess? Also, could anyone be so kind as to let me take a peek at the "use it wisely..." option at the Mountain of Light?
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