Flyte
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An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: Enigma' Quality is now 1!
Please don't share the answer liberally or trivially: do by all means share clues. The Enigma Ambition is real. I've put it on my mantelpiece; here's how it appears on my profile:
I'm going to respect the request not to just share the answer, but will say the following things:
- Finding it takes more than one step;
- I would not have done so without a discovery shared by LordPaido on IRC;
- The moments between my last surmise and actually acquiring the quality were of unalloyed excellence, and I wouldn't want to spoil them for anyone.
I'll try to answer questions helpfully, so long as I can do so without detracting from the potential fun.
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Alexis Kennedy
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Oh, excellent! Well done, folks. This has made my evening. Thanks for respecting the request in the solution.
I'm mindful of how frustrating people found a previous treasure hunt, so I've scattered quite a number of precursor clues (nearly sixty, in fact, although most of them are identical) to make it a slightly less binary experience, and allow future generations to stumble on it. Apologies for any frustration: but this is not, and will never be, an essential part of the game, or even of Mr Eaten. (EDIT: there is a little bit of content in the Ambition, but don't count on many updates, either.)
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Alexis Kennedy
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1/10/2014
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There are worse places, although also better places, than a meta thread about meta content could go than a Fight Club quoteversation.
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Chris Gardiner
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
Does anyone else have any thoughts about unintended consequences if I do this?
There's the risk that once you institute the First Rule of Enigma, you'll turn out to be Brad Pitt. There's precedent*.
* That time you turned out to be Brad Pitt.
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Alexis Kennedy
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The way this thread's gone saddens me, but with hindsight I totally understand why. By the standards of an ARG this is a trivial puzzle - but by the standards of a CRPG or an MMO or indeed FL it's unusually hard. The customary and accepted response of people to a puzzle in a game is to google it after a few minutes of faffing about, and make frustrated posts on forums when the answer doesn't show up. I'm not sneering! That's just how it is.
Ambition: Enigma is a throwaway bit of fun - I need my side projects to stay sane now Mr Eaten is Official Failbetter Content, but A:E will always be much tinier and much less serious than Mr Eaten was. I'd like to see people happen across the clues and follow through, to whatever elements I add later. I'd like a friendly conspiracy of silence about it.
As it is, what I think we'll see is people coming here via Google, we'll get a twenty-page constantly necro'd thread of 'please PM me', and people will go busting in without solving the puzzle or knowing the background and be disappointed because it's just, like, taken all their stuff and given them some arty rambling and some content they don't understand.
I am inclined to
1/ lock this thread.
2/ open a new thread with a policy ('the first rule of Enigma is that we don't talk about Enigma... it's meta, it's optional, it gives no rewards') and link to an_ocelot's doc in its current form
3/ moderate people asking about it and point them politely to that policy
(4/ replace the link if an_ocelot goes mad with power or gets bored of being a doc maintainer)
This is a little higher-maintenance than I'd planned, but we're about to hire a community manager and I prefer it to the current situation.
Does anyone else have any thoughts about unintended consequences if I do this?
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I admire Flyte's ability to stay coherent instead of just flailingly gesturing towards his mantelpiece like I'm doing at the moment.
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I...wha...buhwha? I am so confused. o_o Granted I'm not usually good at solving mysteries anyway, but I really have no idea what's going on here. If there were any hints, I never noticed them apparently. I presume that something more complicated than access codes are involved this time? Although if a clay man alt can get it maybe it is an access code...hm.
(EmilyStAubert no longer works for Failbetter? That's unfortunate, I quite enjoyed her writing. I hope she's doing well.)
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Alexis Kennedy
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deadcrystal wrote:
If it's any consolation Alexis, I went out today and got two pairs of books, by Borges and Calvino, brought about solely as a route from Enigma, and some utterly gorgeous quotes.
Cool! I think you posted, earlier, that I'd aroused interest: and that was a secondary motive in all this. Once an English teacher, always an English teacher. :-) And Borges in particular is to interactive narrative what Aristotle is to science, but much more readable. Hyperbole much? Possibly. But the number of ways in which he anticipates games and interactive stories are doing, in form or content or technique or theme - without ever doing anything strictly non-linear - is astonishing.
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deadcrystal
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Yeah no kidding. I got to the point of looking into hermetic mysticism via free association from Borges comments on the aleph being a man pointing to both heaven and earth, to "As above, so below"
Look it seemed logical at the time!
But that was not the way to go.
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capn_nap
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where is mankriks wife
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Diptych
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe she is a past Failbetter staff member! Hence also having the Key of Dreams, which is a developer-only item.
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Guy Scrum
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Does anyone have a clue as to where a clue might be? Or would a clue to a clue be too much of a clue in itself?
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Flyte
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PMs sent. I'd advise anyone who wants to figure it out themselves to stay away from IRC, at least for the time being. In my opinion, not everyone has been restrained in their hints, and as a result some of those who've reached the answer have found little satisfaction in it.
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mayexist
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"Playing this will remove all your Rostygold, Whispered Secrets, Sulky Bats, Reprehensible Lizards and Confident Smiles. It will also place you in a condition not immediately susceptible to return."
Alexis, you gave me that lizard. Please don't take it from me.
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Nathanael S. Wells
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Did we just...achieve CHIM, in Fallen London?
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Alexis Kennedy
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Hey, you created me. I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!
Chris Gardiner wrote:
Alexis Kennedy wrote:
Does anyone else have any thoughts about unintended consequences if I do this?
There's the risk that once you institute the First Rule of Enigma, you'll turn out to be Brad Pitt. There's precedent*.
* That time you turned out to be Brad Pitt.
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Lumyire
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1/9/2014
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Harlequin wrote:
No idea why you people spoiled it so hard in this topic, short of giving them the whole answer you couldn't spoil it harder...
Well, I think you'd be relieved to hear that there ARE people who still doesn't get it, despite the "couldn't spoil it harder"-ness
Does this require any googling/reading books?
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Arthur_Pendlebrook
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This ambition does not require nor give searing enigmas. It is simply an enigma.
EDIT: BTW, can one raise their Ambitions Enigma from 2 to 3? If there is a way, does anyone mind sending me a PM concerning how it is done?
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the_Wanderer
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1/5/2014
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Don't play for a weekend and arrive late to the tea party. If anyone can assist with getting Enigma 1, I seem to be entering increasingly obscure references in hopes for getting the correct access code
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MidnightVoyager
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Ambition: Enigma can be used on Clay Men to escape the Place of Little Screaming.
Side effects: You can't seem to get a normal ambition. You can't get to the Nex page. (You better believe I was gonna become a member of the House of Chimes as DISOBEDIENT. I'd LOVE to do that.)
(EDIT: I can get home, I was snowbound, I am dumb)
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Theus
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The moderation has the potential to be the biggest wild card.
You, Alexis, have earned a bit of a cult of personality from your forum interactions. People like "talking to the tiger" because you're "the guy" and wield the power around these parts but also because you have genuine human interactions. I know it's part of your mid/long-term plans to diminish in this capacity, and there will ostensibly be in place a barrier between you and us.
In practice, the purpose of the community manager is to enable clear communication, but people are not solely rational. To be clear, I'm not saying this is the wrong move.
If you produce a thread with the need to be moderated at the same time as you introduce a new person, there is the danger of first impressions being weighted towards having to redirect, edit, and ultimately adjust poster behavior, which could leave a sour taste with some.
It may ultimately be better to remove this thread for some period of time (driving a few stragglers to an_ocelot or other non-official sources until the fervor dies down). Once the community manager has been established and the community adjusts to the new state of "the relationship" it would be a better time to start a new thread that would require moderation.
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Lady Red
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
'the first rule of Enigma is that we don't talk about Enigma... it's meta, it's optional
My only concern about this is that half the fun of certain parts of the game, like SMEN and puzzles like the Mirrorcatch box and Enigma etc etc, is talking about them. And if you don't allow people to talk about them on the forum, they'll just take their chat and their buzz elsewhere - leaving the forum less active and less useful (and leaving you, as the game creators, less in control of how how things like spoilers are/aren't handled).
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Zephyr15
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A word of advice for those of you who haven't solved it yet, the access code has actually been posted on these very forums, by a very significant individual indeed! Also, worry not, as much as we like mirrors, we do not need to type anything backwards.
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Flyte
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Sent, Karaeir. Actually, this should be enough to put people on the right track: ask Alexis's avatar.
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Inky Petrel
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Well, I'm completely stupid. I've got a hint (thank you Flyte!) and googling led me to a thing that matched the wording in the hint...and now I'm stuck. (I looked at the profile as Flyte suggested above, but all it does it taunt me with the "passion" destiny that nobody knows how to get :p). I looked in what I thought might be a related bit of London as well, but saw nothing new there. clearly I'm missing something obvious. I can't do cryptic crosswords either. *shrugs* nevermind. kudos to those smarter than me. (Edit: looked in a very slightly different bit and found a relevant thing...aaaand it told me nothing helpful at all. Or, maybe it did, but I don't get it.)
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deadcrystal
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I'd say what this whole escapade has done so far is convince me to find and read the works of a number of authors I had not even heard of before now.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
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Belia, she once worked for FBG.
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Fhoenix
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It is another an access code. I am calling it.
Ah, why must such exciting things happen at 3 a.m.? I hate time zones.
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deadcrystal
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If it's any consolation Alexis, I went out today and got two pairs of books, by Borges and Calvino, brought about solely as a route from Enigma, and some utterly gorgeous quotes.
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Dawson
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an_ocelot wrote:
I understand that a more hint-through version is on its way, and I am also very happy to help people with hints in PM.
That was going to by my so-called "guide" (really just a more user-friendly tour of the clues that I'd rarified and obfuscated significantly).
I'd started writing it over an_ocelot's original document some time yesterday when I realized the doc had been posted to the forums. It seemed to me (and a few others) both appropriate and somewhat urgent to do something about it, since the doc came from the IRC channel to begin with and had at that point been expanded well beyond an_ocelot's original bare-bones to include nearly all of the text of the clues within and outside of EB. That seemed like much more of a spoiler now that the initial puzzle's been solved, than when people were master-sleuthing it on IRC before. But it didn't seem fair to leave people completely hanging either, since others had already clearly profited from the doc and latecomers were at something of a disadvantage, having missed out on the starting frenzy. I anticipated a lot of grumbling if some jerk like myself just deleted the whole doc without a word. Regardless, the link was just hanging out there, it was late and I was feeling internet-justicey so there it is.
While I'm reasonably satisfied with the resulting guide, I'm inclined not to upload it after all now, in light of the current conversation. If you, Alexis, are fine with just an_ocelot's clue-list then that seems better to me anyway. The only reason I did anything to anything was on account of it not sitting right with me, having so much already-worked-out information just dumped onto the forum—trivially, as it were.
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Sara Hysaro
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I've found two clues, one on the wiki and one through an access code. Haven't found the Ambition yet, though.
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Trenloco
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Where is the wiki clue ?
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RandomWalker
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Okay, can anyone tell me where I should go looking for clues. Bonus question: is there any gating that I should be aware of? Am I wasting my time looking with a POSI 1 but not POSI 2 character? Am I wasting time looking with a starting alt?
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Laluzi
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Man, I want to contribute to this lovely guessing game on the IRC (Cocytus is the pioneer of this truthfinding, for certain), but I feel so out of my depth. 
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Mikhailovsky
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1/4/2014
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Likewise. A clue to the clue, or at least a place to start the search?
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Curses
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I'm 100% lost. I certainly love scavenger hunts, but I simply cannot stand access codes or any other quirky game mechanic. I would love a PM to get me started, or at least any confirmation that it's a storylet or not.
Blah more mirror-catching for Curses, it looks like.
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Inky Petrel
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Erik, if you seem to be stuck in the mud, just keep trying the options, the exit will come to you.
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Lady Red
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I think the problem with this thread is that it is serving both people who are searching for the first step and also people who have found it and want to talk about what the initial content contains. Maybe two separate threads might be an idea? Or more judicious use of spoiler cuts?
For anyone new to the thread, I suggest just sticking to the first page - it contains all the clues you need to get started.
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Guy Scrum
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To reiterate what streetfelineblue said, handing out the access code would go against the spirit of the content. Hints are ok though.
To get started, visit the tiger keeper. He'll tell you about a map, and you need to figure out what he's referring to. From there you'll need to be clever and piece together some obscure references. It helps if you're familiar with a certain 20th century South American author, although it's not strictly necessary.
I should also note that the enigma ambition so far has no in-game benefits. The storylets it gives are the lowest pence-per-action in the entire game, and you have to give up a possibly substantial portion of your wealth to even use them. It doesn't give much in the way of in-game lore, either. It does tell you about the game design process, and musings on interactive fiction in general. It is very meta. It is not necessary to play the game.
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Erik Vimes
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So any news on the 2->3 front?
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Ark the Wise
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I thought I found one clue, then I found another via an access code, but I'm not having and luck putting two and two. I'd meant to be in bed an hour ago but this is proving quite the distraction. Could I solicit the barest pointer?
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There is no special hidden trick to go from 1 to 2. Just wander around London until you find what you seek.
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Alexis Kennedy
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an_ocelot wrote:
If you're okay with a list of bare clues, and indeed _that_ list of bare clues.
It has the big advantage of being already there and taking zero additional effort. :-)
I will probably lay a few more starting breadcrumbs, anyway, because there are specific issues around finding the route in.
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I was thinking of changing my .sig to invite people to PM me for hints; would that still be acceptable?)
Sure! I don't mind consenting adults sharing hints or indeed telling each other the answer. This isn't Cicada: I just want to provide some polite, low-effort protective measures to prevent players from accidentally trampling on their own fun. One of the IRC participants sent me (with, he assures, the permission of other participants) a summary of what happened on the IRC, and it reads as a dozen people having great fun and then five dozen people getting frustrated, trying to bang in solutions at random with the heel of their hands, and coming away dissatisfied when they succeed. That's a bit of a shame.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
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Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Ahem.
/mad with power
If you're okay with a list of bare clues, and indeed _that_ list of bare clues, that's fine by me. Honestly I was figuring a hint-through that leads up to those clues (and stops there) would be more welcomed than what I did, which I really started very quickly just so people coming into IRC didn't have to keep replying to "what are the clues?!?!" However, I was trying to keep from asking you all for a ruling on it or any forthcoming hint-through.
Personally, as a player, I think I'd prefer a hint-through document that also includes links to those clues, but again, I recognize that doing that on your current plan would imply endorsement and that is something rightly to be avoided.
(Edit: between this post and my last, I was thinking of changing my .sig to invite people to PM me for hints; would that still be acceptable?)
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Proto Omega
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Oh, dear. At this point I'm so confused that I'm not sure which way is up! I found Alexis' avatar, and got the info there, but I have no idea where to go next. Could someone PM me with a teensy weensy clue? D: Please?
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presidentevil133
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So the access code is a Borges reference, right? Can someone, at least, PM me the relevant volume to check out?
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Slightly more advanced: if there's a trick to escaping from a certain silent state, an intimation of the same WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. THIS IS GRATITUDE.
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Slightly more advanced: if there's a trick to escaping from a certain silent state, an intimation of the same WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. THIS IS GRATITUDE.
ARE YOU WEAK? YOU SHOULD NOT BE WEAK.
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Evariste S. Crumbledon wrote:
Ewan C. wrote:
Slightly more advanced: if there's a trick to escaping from a certain silent state, an intimation of the same WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. THIS IS GRATITUDE.
ARE YOU WEAK? YOU SHOULD NOT BE WEAK.
I AM NO LONGER WEAK. BUT I REMAIN GRATEFUL.
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Evariste S. Crumbledon
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Anybody got to 3 yet?
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Picking up Ambition: Enigma when you don't have an Ambition yet apparently prevents you from choosing another one. I hope that's a bug and not intentional.
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Joanna wrote:
Can someone send me the code (or a big hint) for starting the ambition?
I found the cluesin game and on the IRC but am drawing a complete blank. Clearly I am terrible at croswords and things like that...
My profile: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/NLDE84
Hints, all right. The straight code, would be a little* against the ambition's creator explicit requests, as mentioned n the OP's post.
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Myke Harryson
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1/5/2014
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The process is somewhat similar Wells, mostly at the request of Alexis.
Speaking of which, Alexis: I just complete the two parts for leaving the Enigma 1 area, and I want to say that (as a fellow game designer), you have a lot more self-awareness than most and I applaud you for it.
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Curses
Posts: 32
1/5/2014
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"Welcome. Nothing here exists. An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: Enigma' Quality is now 1!"
Absolutely lovely. I was over thinking it, many thanks to Zephyr and Aximillo for the delicious hints.
Now let's see how little we all exist, shall we?
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
Posts: 1372
1/5/2014
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Hah hah hah, it's an access code, I went to prison for nothing . . .
Clearly I should have kept to my prior plan and slept on it.
(Found it. GAH. Go ahead and laugh, y'all.)
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merusdraconis
Posts: 52
1/5/2014
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I suspect that Enigma is intended to be a replacement for SMEN for the highly-committed; those dedicated fools pouring over every scrap of information in-game and out. For those scraping the very edges for secrets, their reward is the very last dregs of content, things shuffled away into forgotten places, experiments that didn't quite work, that sort of thing.
I'm expecting things to get even more esoteric from here on out. Which I guess serves as a warning.
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Arthur_Pendlebrook
Posts: 53
1/5/2014
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Can anyone send me a PM about a hint on where to start please? I'm a bit lost already and I haven't the foggiest idea where to look and I have looked. If anyone doesn't mind a small hint would be appreciated!
EDIT: Nevermind, the IRC gave me a starting hint and I've figured it out! Then again, perhaps I should have got it sooner considering the content of the Labyrinth of Tigers with later progress in it. Oh well, at least I figured it out. Certainly was quite invigorating! Now to figure out how to advance in it...
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
Posts: 1372
1/5/2014
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Is the continuation a branch or a new storylet?
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mayexist
Posts: 132
1/5/2014
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an_ocelot wrote:
Is the continuation a branch or a new storylet?
It's a storylet at the same place where you can meet MONSIEUR PLEAT'S MESMERIC GAZE.
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
1/4/2014
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Well, for starters, I don't have the Enigma. But some clues can be found in the very beginning of your adventure. Your very first act, so to say.
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ashdenej
Posts: 66
1/4/2014
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Well! I can confirm that the IRC was definitely overthinking it significantly for a long time. Whew. That was a bunch of fun - thank you, Alexis. Looking forwards to further updates.
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Laluzi
Posts: 456
1/4/2014
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...Oh, wow. We were massively overthinking things.
I don't think I'll be going to the place, though. Not yet.
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Lady Red
Posts: 517
1/4/2014
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Well, that was fun! Enigma 2 now 
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mayexist
Posts: 132
1/4/2014
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Alexis, stop breaking the fourth wall. (#recycledIRChumor)
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Urthdigger
Posts: 939
1/4/2014
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MidnightVoyager wrote:
So I hope one of you lunatics is going to try to enter the House of Chimes with this ambition, because I'd love to see the result of that.
I believe we need to get the ambition to 10 first.
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Myke Harryson
Posts: 309
1/4/2014
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I'd love to join in the fun if someone could PM me a starting point that I can follow *waits hopefully*
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Apollo~Fireweaver
50,000 souls - 12/31/14
3,000,000 souls 10/25/16 - 100% of goal
Connection to Hell: 15
22 souls, Connection to Hell 611, 10,000,000 brass - 1/16/17
1/7/19 - The G.O.A.T. Heptagoat is born admist a storm of Engimas
1/31/19 - The G.O.A.T. is taught the Seven-Fold knock over a snifter of Cider after my voyage NORTH
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Inky Petrel
Posts: 370
1/4/2014
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Aww man, I go away for a few hours and something interesting happens. Can someone please PM me a not-too-tricky clue to where I might start looking?
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Anstruther Barron
Posts: 92
1/4/2014
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deadcrystal wrote:
I'd say what this whole escapade has done so far is convince me to find and read the works of a number of authors I had not even heard of before now.
Same deadcrystal
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Curious Foreigner
Posts: 210
1/5/2014
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I think I got tunnel vision. All I see are clues for what I think my last clue leads to, but they are so flimsy that I could just as well be wrong.
Very frustrating, but it could hardly be called an enigma otherwise.
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Ember
Posts: 52
1/5/2014
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Well I found one clue quite independently. I am almost certain I know what map is being referred to in said clue, but I have no idea what to do with that map besides stare at it helplessly.
edited by Ember on 1/5/2014
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
1/4/2014
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Aaargh, I can't help but think I'm massively overthinking this, much like the Mirrorbox of last year. At least I managed to solve that, in the end... here I've got no clue. Well, I have lots of clues, I just can't put them all together! Here's to another few hours of thinking and altogether too many busted access codes and 404 errors.
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Fhoenix
Posts: 602
1/4/2014
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Well the wiki clue was amusing at least. The hivemind still has no idea what this all means.
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Belia
Posts: 46
1/4/2014
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As I googled the Enigma Ambition, it spat out this interesting little mantlepiece. Judging from the content of her journal, this lady probably have not played in a long time, but she has Ambition: Enigma at 5. Could it be that the Enigma Ambition was something that has always been there?
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Belia
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I should make less uneducated guesses and go look for clues. Thank you all for your answers!
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Laluzi
Posts: 456
1/4/2014
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No. Flyte is not a Seeker.
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Laluzi
Posts: 456
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Hah, wow, this is pretty awesome. Congratulations, Flyte! I see that I've woken up to no small excitement.
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Antur
Posts: 23
1/4/2014
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Woah,amazing. Time to go mad searching for it . Before i start though : Is it Fate locked in any way ?
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ashdenej
Posts: 66
1/4/2014
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That user also has the Key of Dreams, which is the developer key that allows one to edit Storynexus worlds. They worked on the game!
E: Pipped twice.
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Fhoenix
Posts: 602
1/4/2014
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That's a dev account. Only FB has Key of Dreams.
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