MisterArendt
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11/11/2013
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Hi everyone, Paul here.
We've been thinking about creating some new Fallen London merchandise in time for Christmas, and as usual, we need your help. The question is what (if anything) you would you buy for yourself or a loved one, if it was available?
The sort of merchandising we're considering falls into these categories:
Big, bold clothing
Rubbery Man T-shirts, a Weasel across your chest, a sorrow spider on your back, that kind of thing.
Subtle and or meta clothing
Our starting ideas for this include Velocipede Squad or Department of Menace Eradication caps, shirts adorned with the Correspondence (hand-wash only, use very cold water), A Dante's Grill apron, the Knife-and-Candle symbol and the Highway Quality icons. Ideas welcome!
Esoterica
Delicious Coffee mugs, Veilgarden shopping bags, glim-proof golfing umbrellas.The possibilities are, well not endless, but considerable.
Art prints and greeting cards
Send your friends Starveling Cat Christmas cards or get a high quality map of the city for your parlour wall.
...But these are just starting ideas. What do you think, folks?
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Alexis Kennedy
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The Incorrigible Raconteur
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Alexis Kennedy
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11/11/2013
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Blackleaf wrote:
funding all of this
Maybe one of this.  And we wouldn't commit to a KS yet. This outpouring of enthusiasm is amazing, and if all our players were like you guys we'd do it tomorrow. But most casual players probably won't buy stuff, and we're a games company not a tentacle lamp company - we'd love to do that (**** it, I'd buy a tentacle lamp) but we'd risk making something shoddy or too expensive. Physical things are hard, that's why I do words.
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Theus
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11/11/2013
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Thinking further on my original idea of commodity items that people would buy anyway, so you may as well take a cut for making them slightly awesome:
Notebooks. Give them a sweet cover labeled "Blackmail Material", "Touching Love Story", "Collated Research", "Journal of Infamy", etc.
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Spacemarine9
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If you buy a Mr Eaten plushie, you will open the package to find nothing. The nothing will spread out and devour you, your home, your family. Every year, their memory will fade until nothing remains of you.
Also you'll get melted wax on your clothes.
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CameoAppearance
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Or a bottled soul replica?
Ooh. Official bottled souls would be fantastic. (I'm already trying to make some unofficial ones for cosplay purposes, but that's beside the point.) While I'm on the subject, a Shepherd's Timepiece and Spirifer's Fork replica?
The tentacle lamp would be pretty rad too.
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The Incorrigible Raconteur
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11/11/2013
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Dilmun Club lapel pin please. I'll return later to add more, but seriously you might as well do what you like and then ask me for my card details because I love this game so much I will buy anything.
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Blackleaf
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Any chance for a Fallen London guidebook/lorebook or artbook?
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Alexis Kennedy
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11/11/2013
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Paul: hi everyone, we were wonder-
Everyone: PLUSHIES!!
We had a suspicion that might happen, so I looked at some numbers and it's hard to see covering our costs. That suggests a Kickstarter, so we'd know up front whether we had the cash to do it - but of course we don't want to do another Kickstarter before we have something to show from SS.
And with only four weeks left to go before international posting for Christmas, that really means something print-on-demand already. So keep the ideas coming! some of them may end up in a 2014 KS. But for Christmas, it's got to be stuff we could deliver on in the next four weeks.
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mayexist
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11/11/2013
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Spacemarine9 wrote:
If you buy a Mr Eaten plushie, you will open the package to find nothing. The nothing will spread out and devour you, your home, your family. Every year, their memory will fade until nothing remains of you.
Also you'll get melted wax on your clothes.
gross
Another option: You won't get anything, but Alexis will use the address to come by and set your house on fire.
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Spacemarine9
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mayexist wrote:
Spacemarine9 wrote:
If you buy a Mr Eaten plushie, you will open the package to find nothing. The nothing will spread out and devour you, your home, your family. Every year, their memory will fade until nothing remains of you.
Also you'll get melted wax on your clothes.
gross
Another option: You won't get anything, but Alexis will use the address to come by and set your house on fire.
Incidentally this is exactly how you get the sixth candle; Saint Fireman's Candle.
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Gabrilla Gala
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11/12/2013
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How about boxes/packages of Stolen Correspondence/Cryptic Clues/Whispered Secrets etc.? Each one contains all sorts of things: whole letters, handwritten notes, pieces of notes, scrawled doggerel, stuff stained beyond recognition, scorched attempts at Correspondence sigils, plus stamps and letterheads unique to the Neath. Maybe even replicas of small Neath-specific objects. A red-smeared Iron Token? A scrap of a Black Ribbon? Keys? First City Coins? Flyers and pamphlets? All of them torn/scratched/battered and generally used-looking, like a player character's collection slipped through some sort of crack in reality. I would love to have something like that to play with, though I do think they might be fiddly to produce.
Failing that, pins. Pins are good. And I would do such things for a Correspondence Stone paperweight, you have no idea. Chalk up another yea for subtle clothing and esoterica as well.
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Diptych
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11/12/2013
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I've been looking at the options provided by printing companies and at some of FL's art, and I'm going to just think out loud about my personal preferences for a bit!
First of all, as I mentioned earlier, black/dark tees with nice big bold colourful images are a favourite. White/pale tees don't suit me.
I'm not really a cap sort of guy. I have several top hats, homburgs, bowlers - no baseball caps. Somehow I don't think this will surprise anyone.
In the immortal words of Bill Oddie, "you know I'm a fool for badges!" Some of the ideas nominated above - like the Dilmun Club and Revolutionary symbols - strike me as better suiting a cast metal pin than a printed badge (which would be amazing, don't get me wrong!) but there's still plenty of FL art that would fit badge format nicely. In fact, it seems the perfect venue for an Exceptional Hat - especially the variant used on the Masters' documents, stamped in wax.
More esoteric options - cufflinks, journals, gadget cases - would be suitably dapper, but I don't know how generally popular they'd be. And they don't necessarily show off the brand as well as tees and badges do - I'm more likely to notice a fellow Fallen Londoner if they've got a Rubbery Man on their lapel than if it's on their keychain.
Art-wise... well, naturally, Rubbery Men look great, stand out colour-wise, and meet the public's need for tentacl'd critters. What else is iconic for Fallen London? Correspondence Sigils, perhaps - especially if we're told what that particular sigil means, so when someone asks "what's that symbol on your shirt mean", we can say "an unrequited passion for an impossibly distant, long-dead star." What else? Rattus faber are cute as hell, but I probably wouldn't get anything ratty because my wife has rodent-phobia. And I wouldn't get anything sorrow-spidery because I have spider-phobia!
Otherwise... well, I shall keep pondering!
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Riley37
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11/27/2013
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Hm. I like the Correspondence much more as a sequence of sigils, on the shirt, than a single character, on the hoodie. So I got the shirt, though I don't need more shirts and DO need another hoodie.
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Hex
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11/14/2013
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Well since my beloved tentacle wrapped lamp doesn't seem to be a viable option (sobsobsob) I like small pretty things and the occasional Shiny. That may sound vague but that's usually the kind of thing that catches my eye.
I would also spend an afternoon with the boatman for a gorgeous art nouveau style tarot deck filled with FL artwork, it would certainly make a wonderful addition to my collection (well it will be a collection when I get another one....)
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babelfishwars
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Good quality playing cards.
And yes, fully aware not soon. Next Christmas?
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Dr. Hieronymous Alloy
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11/15/2013
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Coffee mugs that come with in-game Darkdrop Coffee.
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Laluzi
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11/21/2013
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Hey, it'd keep the coffee warm.
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Petr Götz
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11/21/2013
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Maybe this was already suggested before - but if a F.F.Gerbrandt's Tincture of Vigour beer mug or F.F.Gerbrandt's Superior Laudanum whisky glasses would be offered, I would come and pick them up in person .
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Sara Hysaro
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11/12/2013
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A Correspondence Stone would be awesome, whether as a key chain or a replica. Whenever I talk about the game with some friends who haven't played I generally mention the Correspondence. It makes a nice hook without spoiling late game content, and they just look neat.
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KatarinaNavane
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11/12/2013
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Actually I would really like a shirt with the old login page's tentacle lamppost on it. Or one done up like an old timey travel poster.
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Karaeir
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11/12/2013
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As my lovely rubbery plushies are for now dismissed my vote goes for Dilmun Club badges, caps and maybe a scarf, if possible (I love scarves). The best would be, I think, the Correspondence scarf. Warms a cold wind blowing in your face to a pleasant temperature. Side effects include burnt necks and making everyone around you bleed from their eyes.
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babelfishwars
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Hey, if we're doing DREAM merchandise ... I need a new bag.
Not a tote bag - I discard them in places I hope people will find them and use them, as EVERY book event gives them out. But a nice bag I'd actually use. Like a red leather cross-shoulder satchel, with an image branded (is that the term?) on. A TENTACLE LAMP IMAGE. Or something correspondancey.
(Tentacle lamp.)
Or a cross shoulder canvas thing, with similar image. Something simple and atmospheric, rather than cartoony, so could be worth with being a serious-real adult outfits, as well as everyday I dress like a teenage boy outfits.
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Spacemarine9
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If more casual players were like me, there'd be a lot more rats on circulation that's for sure.
Maybe you should stick to d--n and bl--t to avoid angering the swear robot.
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Spacemarine9
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In a hypothetical magic perfect world where I could feasibly actually buy some of this stuff;
I'd probably go for the more subtle/meta sorta stuff. When you say a shirt with a Correspondence sigil on, does that just mean a tshirt or something more along the lines of a polo shirt? I don't really wear tshirts much :v
Art prints or a lore book would be nice too! Maybe something along the lines of pins/buttons would be neat, if those are feasible.
joke suggestion; multicoloured novelty candles which scream when you light them, perfect for the Seeker in your life.
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CameoAppearance
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Lady Red wrote:
A T-shirt that had a Fallen London take on the traditional university or sports style design would be fun (obviously the sport being K&C!).
The Benthic cricket team, perhaps?
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Karaeir
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Subtle/meta clothing is my favourite, but the idea came to me (I'm not very serious on that): Rubbery plushies! In green top hats, green suits and with those big, sad, yellow eyes...
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Spacemarine9
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I would probably rob a bank or seven to buy as many of those as possible.
Which reminds me that I meant to suggest a clutch of mini rat-plushies, perfect for sending to your friends, as a second not-quite-joke suggestion.
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Blackleaf
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You know what else? This may sound strange but item themed boxes!
One whould be Mystery themed and contain a bunch of secrets, extrodinary implications and maybe Incanubulum and tales of terrors. (( As in just small notebooks. They could contain cryptic mysteries or riddles that whould give access codes. I love access codes. ))
An infernal one containing a brass ring, some souls, a replica bottle of the devilish brandy.
A rag collection one perhaps? Nah that seems a bit useless. Whould be neat though.
Mourning candles and patent scrutinizers for luminousity.
Elder items aswell,Maybe academic simmilar to mysteries,Cartography as promo for sunless sea and wild words! Maybe even some delicious prisoner honey with some love fragments following with it. (( Replica wine bottles could be fun. Im just rambling ideas at this rate. ))
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But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!)
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CameoAppearance
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If you make plushies of sorrow-spiders and/or cats you should ship them in Pass the Cat boxes.
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mayexist
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Keychains in the shape of iron knife tokens. Or in the shape of correspondence sigils. Never loose your keys again, just follow the smell of burning things!
Merchandise that would be printable in time for Christmas:
- Jar labels for various honeys and wines
- Marriage certificates
- Text posters in this style (Postertext.com): 
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Riley37
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There's things which would be just for the person who buys it, and there's things which the person could wear which would a) amuse fellow FL players who get the reference and b) perhaps inspire others to ask "What's that?" and perhaps then try FL. Plushies are good for the former. Accessories are good for the latter - the Menace Elimination cap, the Dilmun Club pin, as others have suggested. Top hats are expensive to make, but they're also perhaps the most iconic Victorian thing to wear. Oh - and Neathglass goggles; if you have to wear one thing to communicate "I am trying to be steampunk", start with goggles. Canes are also high-end and ueber-Victorian. You could post a "if you prepay, we'll have one made" offer for a Bejewelled Cane, at various levels of crazy expensive.
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Riley37
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If there are companies which will print an image on the sort of bottles used by bicyclists (the kind which fit a holder on the frame), then a Velocipede Squad item which would actually go on one's bicycle would be awesome, and would be high visibility to others. Stickers for the frame? Brass gears are also iconic for steampunk, but I can't imagine you cutting a deal with Shimano.
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Riley37
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Horse-head cravat stickpins. I can easily see those as an in-universe item, creatable as merchandise. My favorite game-reference item is a polo shirt with a logo for Aperture Laboratories; those who get the reference are highly amused, and those who don't ask me when I worked for a high-tech company.
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Curious Foreigner
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Sadly every page whould look different.
One whould be colorless, the other all buildings are colored yellow, One simply whouldnt exist and another censored 99% of the picture.
Would that be a bad thing? It just adds authenticity, in my opinion.Maybe it could have a small map of the Republic in each corner, but it's different on every page. Or it could contain excerpts from local lawbooks.
Or maybe it could be like "Where's Waldo", but instead it's named "Spot the one-time prince of Hell".
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You people calling for plushies are missing the most important plushie of all: the exceptional hat.
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Blackleaf
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Also a bifurcated owl. They are basicly immobile so it could either be a plastic statue or a plushie.
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Same goes for Sparring,Loitering,Suppers and Games of chess! Sure I'll accept them occasionaly but I wont help you grind them most of the time.
But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!)
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The Incorrigible Raconteur wrote:
...Have you considered selling a rat and a stamped envelope, and then retiring on the inevitable riches that will bring you from a certain person?
It doubles as Rat Sending Simulator 2k13 merchandise!
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Blackleaf
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Alright here's some more ideas:
Prisoner mask replica
Bat,Rat,Cat,Overgoad,Exceptional hat,Raven and more kinds of plushy.
Replica of tinkure of vigor/Hesperidean cider. Preferebly with actual drinkable content.
Copy of slowcakes book. (( With the names of pledgers added to it! OH GOD MAKE THIS HAPPEN!! ))
Various Nikolas item replicas.
Collection of Ambers.
Real world replica of Fallen london cameos.
Various lore releated items. Perhaps access code bonuses on some items? EDIT: The starveling cat the starveling cat! A nice replica but one you still shouldn't pat!
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But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!)
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Blackleaf
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Some seeking the name merchandise could be fun. Maybe Parabola releated to. Id buy a real life replica of an eyeless skull or exceptional hat too.
The "Connection raising" items from Nikolas could be fun to have real world replicas of or atleast maybe pins with themes of them or something. I dont know really.
Art is always welcome. The bazaar,the unterzee,the marshes or the forgotten quarter. Anything whould be alright.
(( The most ideal thing whould be a flask of hisperidean cider that contains an acess code for cider at the bottom of the bottle. Id buy that. ))(( Plushy's of the ingame pets could be something hillarious. Id buy an overgoad or alternativly a rubberyman if thats avaible. ))
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Same goes for Sparring,Loitering,Suppers and Games of chess! Sure I'll accept them occasionaly but I wont help you grind them most of the time.
But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!)
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Blackleaf
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Karaeir wrote:
Subtle/meta clothing is my favourite, but the idea came to me (I'm not very serious on that): Rubbery plushies! In green top hats, green suits and with those big, sad, yellow eyes...
My excact idea! A rubbery man plushy and maybe an exceptional hat plushy.
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But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!)
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Anstruther Barron
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11/11/2013
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The opportunity card deck from the kickstarter would be awesome, I don't know if they were Tarot style or playing cards. i think I would prefer a playing card version. Prints are cool as well
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Theus
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My personal holiday budget is already spoken for, but I would most nudge others to purchase for me a FL plushy. So many options there. Reprehensible lizards to rattus faber to tigers in hats.
Other options: items for viral use, like Pens "advertising" Clathermont's Tattoo Parlor (or Mahogany Hall, Dept of Menace Eradication official stationary), with the FL address. People always need pens, and people always leave them places, or have them stolen by clients.
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MisterArendt wrote:
Hi everyone, Paul here.
OOOH RARE SIGHTING!
MisterArendt wrote:
The question is what (if anything) you would you buy for yourself or a loved one, if it was available?
I love no one but myself. (Christmas only extends to near family and closest friends, none of which play FL. The fools.)
MisterArendt wrote:
The sort of merchandising we're considering falls into these categories:
Big, bold clothing
Rubbery Man T-shirts, a Weasel across your chest, a sorrow spider on your back, that kind of thing.
I might do a fitted T. But not a generic boy-fit t. Also - probably only one, as I possess 400 t.shirts and am banned from buying any more (part of arrangement in learning to dress like an adult with fashion capable friend was agreeing not to buy any more t.shirts. I am sorrow.). Thus I'd rather 'accessories' (hat? scarf? SCARF!) or non-garment things, as easier to justify.
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Subtle and or meta clothing
Our starting ideas for this include Velocipede Squad or Department of Menace Eradication caps, shirts adorned with the Correspondence (hand-wash only, use very cold water), A Dante's Grill apron, the Knife-and-Candle symbol and the Highway Quality icons. Ideas welcome!
More interesting, as more likely to be something other than just an addition to the tower of t.shirts.
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Esoterica
Delicious Coffee mugs, Veilgarden shopping bags, glim-proof golfing umbrellas.The possibilities are, well not endless, but considerable.
Mugs, YES! Maybe even jewelery. If good quality. Which renders less likely, I guess.
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Art prints and greeting cards
Send your friends Starveling Cat Christmas cards or get a high quality map of the city for your parlour wall.
...But these are just starting ideas. What do you think, folks?
Again - sending things is unlikely to be useful (except tentacle lamp because TENTACLE LAMP) because I don't know many of the right kind of geek. However, if it were weird but non-specific enough that non-players would appreciate (without being obvious advertising, so can appreciate out of context as a card and nothing more), yes. So more scenes than characters.
Hmm. I can't seem to un-blue my words.
Plushies. I try to resist as I pretend I'm not soft and fluffy. However ... as soon as storynexus is back online I'll have a look at my pets and see which appeals most. I'd probably opt for a creepier one ... as a tiger would just seem like a tiger in a hat, rather than THE tiger. (And a plush Alexis would be a little strange.)
Edit: Looked. Tried to think which might work. Rubbery hound might just look like a drooling ordinary hound. (My Cthulhu Moomin suffers a little from this.) Tomb lion might work. Midnight Matriarch? If a hat could be done well, well, a hat. But ... I suspect it'll just look cartoonish and cheap.
Moth might make a nice wall thingy, rather than a plushie.
But bearing in mind Alexis' update: MUGS AND MUG-LIKES. Muggins.
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Clothing is nice, but my preference runs to accessories. I would really, really love to see an iron-on patch so I can cart my Fallen London love around on my luggage when I travel. Either a logo patch or some of the meta-quality patches you mentioned as shirt ideas. A mug would be great, too.
Also, I second everything Blackleaf mentioned in the post directly above this one.
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aceinit wrote:
Clothing is nice, but my preference runs to accessories. I would really, really love to see an iron-on patch so I can cart my Fallen London love around on my luggage when I travel. Either a logo patch or some of the meta-quality patches you mentioned as shirt ideas. A mug would be great, too.
Also, I second everything Blackleaf mentioned.
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Thanks!  Another suggestion: Knife and candle releated merchandise. That whould be pretty awesome to get a knife and candle hoodie or a fake weapon and such. The medals too.
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I would definitely buy a correspondence t-shirt, and agree with Blackleaf that a lorebook would be awesome
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Spacemarine9 wrote:
joke suggestion; multicoloured novelty candles which scream when you light them, perfect for the Seeker in your life.
I'd actually buy these. You are still my favourite genius.
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Brass Rings seem like the most obvious pick for actual jewelry. And maybe horsehead amulets.
I can't wear rings. (Bulgy knuckles/ can't wear jewelery not easy to remove as gets in way of punching people.) No making stuff I can't wear. Necklaces yes. Yeeeeeees. But a horsehead might be too normal.
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Full scale replica of the box of intrigue please? Or a bottled soul replica?
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But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!)
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Lady Red wrote:
I would love to be able to buy a really gorgeous poster of the city to frame.
Map ... maybe. TENTACLE LAMP YEAH.
I mean. Not that I have a tentacle thing. No. It's just a REALLY NICE PICTURE.
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Subtle and/or meta clothing is my favourite; my preference is for stuff that's as close to Things From The Game World as feasible. While I have no need for a new apron or a cap I give my thumbs-up to the Dante's Grill apron and the Velocipede Squad/Department of Menace Eradication hats. I'm quite tickled by the idea of wearing a Correspondence shirt. That's the article of clothing I'm most likely to buy.
You can throw a vote from me on the plushie pile. Especially sorrow-spider or Rattus Faber plushies, or other in-game pets. I personally would love plush versions of some of the weirder pets, like a Rose-Bearing Maggot or an Ocular Toadbeast. Exceptional Hats (or their relatives, Extraordinary or Unfinished Hats) would probably be a tad expensive to make as actual hats, but they'd make great plushies.
The Knife-and-Candle medallions seem like a good choice for defictionalization. I likely wouldn't buy one for myself because I'm more of a 'stab your friends for fun and profit' K&C player than one who's particularly invested in becoming the Murder Monarch of London, but I'd buy 'em for a couple of my friends.
Brass Rings seem like the most obvious pick for actual jewelry. And maybe horsehead amulets.
I would buy an artbook/lorebook/Visitors' Guide to the Fifth City so hard, assuming I had the money.
Spacemarine9 wrote:
joke suggestion; multicoloured novelty candles which scream when you light them, perfect for the Seeker in your life.
Seeker candles actually sound like a pretty good idea. Minus the screaming.
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OMG, do want.
I would definitely buy a mug. And I love the idea of a scarf. T-shirts would rock - with a fitted option for girls, preferably, as I'm not a fan of big and baggy. A T-shirt that had a Fallen London take on the traditional university or sports style design would be fun (obviously the sport being K&C!).
I would love to be able to buy a really gorgeous poster of the city to frame.
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Eric Carlson wrote:
... or mugs featuring the Correspondence, professions or Airs of the Forgotten Quarter.
I can picture it now: a mug for your own Office Space environment that says "Professional Murderer (paid weekly in diamonds)"
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Blackleaf wrote:
To be honest who whouldnt want a rubbery plushy or a rattus or a tiger in a hat. Id buy the tiger in the hat. Just to Cut,drown,hang and reinact seeking mr eatens name on that bastard of a- ... Oh sorry must be the marshmired dreams getting to me. Ignore what i said. Please dont murder me Mr.Tiger. Anyway whould be great if you could show us just what we should fill in with ideas. Different posters? Designs for T-Shirts? A thread dedicated to each type of merchandise could be useful.
You're missing the point, though - making plushies isn't a venture they can afford to do right now. They don't have the resources for it, as much as we all like soft squishy things. And I personally think it says a lot about FBG's integrity that they don't want to run a kickstarter for every little thing, especially not in rapid succession. I mean, yeah, part of it's basic mathematics, but it's also saying 'Look, you guys just funded us for this - we don't want to ask you for backing again until we've got something to show for that.' That aside...
Personally, I like merch but generally can't obtain it, due to lack of a credit card/online purchasing. I'm more of the type who would buy Nex over merch if I could - but when it does come to merchandise, I prefer trinkets over clothing. I'm a little self-conscious about clothes, and the problem with having blatant references to Fallen London on a shirt is that most people wouldn't get it. Non-obvious references, though, I'd be more likely to buy - like a Correspondence symbol.
Now, the things I carry around in my own time? Like many others, I like plushies (there is a foot-tall Alex Mercer plush standing guard over my desk as I type) and figurines, but I recognize that really isn't feasible at this point. Things I would buy, if I could - posters, mouse pads, et cetera. Flavor-wise, I'd like to see Rubbery Men, Mr Eaten, and other things connected to the Masters. And the tentacle lamppost. You absolutely cannot go wrong with the tentacle lamppost.
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mayexist
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Having fun with ideas for mugs:
- Temperature-sensitive mugs with correspondence sigils that only show up when heated
- Mugs with a little figurine inside,
except instead of adorable little animals we'd be drowning and drinking Mr Eaten.
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Oh, most definitely. There are an immense number of possible curios but I feel some simple finery would be a good start.
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While I share the general enthusiasm for plush rubberies and the like - and that's saying something; I'm not usually one for figurines and such! - in terms of practical Christmas releases...
I for one would jump at big, bold clothing featuring Paul's delightful art. A black tee with a Rubbery Man on it would be right up my alley. If the scarf ideas folks mentioned were at all possible, too - well, I love scarves! I certainly wouldn't say no to, for instance, a tote bag proclaiming itself to contain salacious and esoteric materials seized by the Ministry of Public Decency, or bearing the arms of Benthic College. A map of the city would certainly be interesting, but I'm not sure quite where I'd put it - though I'd be all over it if it contributed to my locale-tracking project.
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Spacemarine9 wrote:
mayexist wrote:
Spacemarine9 wrote:
If you buy a Mr Eaten plushie, you will open the package to find nothing. The nothing will spread out and devour you, your home, your family. Every year, their memory will fade until nothing remains of you.
Also you'll get melted wax on your clothes.
gross
Another option: You won't get anything, but Alexis will use the address to come by and set your house on fire.
Incidentally this is exactly how you get the sixth candle; Saint Fireman's Candle.
...You probably mean Saint FireSTARTER XD
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I'd love something Mr Eaten related. Or maybe a Correspondence pin. I love the idea of Knife and Candle sports parody stuff and I'd definitely buy some subtle/meta things.
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I'm all for the subtle clothing.
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Stationery. Letterhead. Could be sold digitally, and printed at the buyer's home. The hand-written letter is iconic for Victorian storytelling. A Fallen London return address, that could be crossed out, with my real return address "scrawled" underneath?
If I had a girlfriend who dressed Gothic, I would totally buy a choker for her with a Fallen London icon (maybe a Starveling Cat?). But like MC Frontalot, I can't even talk with goth girls.
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Another vote for subtle and/or meta. It's much more fun to have somebody's eyes light up and say "You, too?" than to walk around wearing an obvious label. Has the FB team looked into printing bandanas? I got one as a gift with an engraving of the Crystal Palace, and I'm very fond of it. A Failbetter bandana would be wonderful; people who don't wear such can easily use them as wall-hangings. I'd also buy a Fallen London choker, if it were suitably subtle.
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Not sure if it's been discounted as an idea, but someone on page 1 mentioned a replica bottled soul - I think those would be great.
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I would definitely wear some of the subtle clothing ideas. Maybe a rubbery shirt too. I wanted a stone tentacle key IRL badly enough to make myself one. It's carved from soapstone.
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
In the immortal words of Bill Oddie, "you know I'm a fool for badges!" Some of the ideas nominated above - like the Dilmun Club and Revolutionary symbols - strike me as better suiting a cast metal pin than a printed badge (which would be amazing, don't get me wrong!) but there's still plenty of FL art that would fit badge format nicely. In fact, it seems the perfect venue for an Exceptional Hat - especially the variant used on the Masters' documents, stamped in wax.
More esoteric options - cufflinks, journals, gadget cases - would be suitably dapper, but I don't know how generally popular they'd be. And they don't necessarily show off the brand as well as tees and badges do - I'm more likely to notice a fellow Fallen Londoner if they've got a Rubbery Man on their lapel than if it's on their keychain.
I don't get badges. I seem to get loads at book conventions, and there's sometimes a scrum over getting one of each kinds which utterly baffles me ... do people actually wear them? I tend to give mine away or leave them in hotel rooms. They make holes in stuff ... and they just make me feel more childish than I already do. If I'm wearing clothes which won't look odd with badges on, it's because I'm going minimum effort, where even attaching a badge is more dressing than I'm willing to do.
The only place I might add them is to my scruffy day bag - and even then I suspect they'd catch on things and annoy.
(Note, no judgement on people who do like them - just wondering aloud how popular they'd be, given they're normally free advertising things, and I rarely see them beyond the event they're given out at.) Something more sophisticated, that's nice in its own right without a person having to play FL to appreciate it would be more ... something to spend money on rather than impulse thing.
Guess the question about merchandise is: is it to show off the brand (personally uninteresting to me, sorry FB), or is it nice stuff for people who like FB to appreciate, even if only the only 'gets' it (more my kinda thing).
I'm socially anti-social. Recognising someone else as a FL player is not going to make me any more or less likely to approach them, and I don't necessarily want to give people an opening to talk to me when they couldn't have thought of one otherwise. (Yes, yes, I'm Grumplestiltskin.).
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Hmm. You know what, I'm not a fan of merchandise as I'm not a fan of brands on my apparel, but there's something I'd enjoy - if you produced something, ANY kind of thing, containing some kind or cryptic clue about one of the Neath's mysteries *_*
It could be a phrase hidden in a picture on a T-shirt, a crypted poem in a box of correspondence, a set of coordinates in a plushie label... Yep, THAT I'd definitely dig ^^
(Actually, I remember an old tabletop game doing something like that - you could compete for a prize if you sent the correct hidden sentence - you could find it on the gameboard, concealed by the border decorations).
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Snowskeeper
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Something relating to the Royal Bethlehem, and specifically to the Manager. =)
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Just got the card to vote on an item, I chose the tincture of vigor mug, because it's awesome (though it would be cool if the mug colour matched the bottle colour) but it was a difficult choice between that or the Correspondence keyring, so I thought I'd chime in here and voice support for that item too
Also, I love the idea of keys! A battered key to the Tower of Sparrows! A gleaming, blistered brass key to the Western Tower! A slick, oily key to the Bazaar... Any of these things (with an appropriate little tag attached saying where it led) would be very at home on my keyring.
Edit again: Also ALL the support for travel posters, t-shirts with the tentacle lantern on them (or the Exceptional Hat, or any of the other iconic FL art), or ANY of the gorgeous background location images made into posters/t-shirts (I would love the Flit, personally)
AND oh my gosh, nice, largeish printed cards of the artwork! (either in tarot/playing card form or just as a deck of oddities to gaze at) would be amazing! (Though obviously not before Christmas) Or an art book!
Disclaimer, while I would love all of these things, I can only actually afford to spend around $20US, and the shipping would need to be very reasonable since I live in New Zealand :p BUT if there is merchandise that falls within that price range I will certainly be buying it! ♥ *crosses fingers for the mug*
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Found this thread a little late ... but still:
How about a Mirror Marshes shirt with mirror writing you can only really read while standing in front of a mirror? 
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Dear Failbetter,
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Alianne Black wrote:
babelfishwars wrote:
Hey, if we're doing DREAM merchandise ... I need a new bag.
Not a tote bag - I discard them in places I hope people will find them and use them, as EVERY book event gives them out. But a nice bag I'd actually use. Like a red leather cross-shoulder satchel, with an image branded (is that the term?) on. A TENTACLE LAMP IMAGE. Or something correspondancey.
(Tentacle lamp.)
Or a cross shoulder canvas thing, with similar image. Something simple and atmospheric, rather than cartoony, so could be worth with being a serious-real adult outfits, as well as everyday I dress like a teenage boy outfits.
Keep in mind that it's possible to emboss any logo you want onto something leathery with some careful cutting of acrylic, a clamp, and a hair dryer.
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would totally wear the correspondence hoodie, as long as it's zipper front, insteaad of over-the-head. Though my first vote is still for tentacle lamppost tshirt. And I'm with dragonridingsorceress, "unisex" tshirts are always huge and look terrible on me, I would really hope ladies cut might be available.
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Chiming in to say that I'd love to buy everyone's ideas!
Though what am I most likely to spend money on for a 2014 Fallen Merchandise Kickstarter? Plush toys, particularly of a Rubbery Man, and clothing accessories (scarves, ties, buttons, and pins). A Correspondence pattern for the scarves, ties and pins appeals to me best since it can easily blend into a formal work environment.
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I'd want a Correspondence coffee mug, personally.
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Any word on when the merch might be available? I need to suggest Christmas present ideas to herself, and it's between Fallen London and Welcome to Night Vale gear!
I'd like to see Dilmun Club, CVR and Seeking the Name gear, if possible.
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Some Dilmun lapel badges would be rather nifty.
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