Jack Blackstone
Posts: 124
5/20/2012
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A thread for the clay men of London. Can claymen die and meet the boatman? Can claywomen exsist? Can they have kids with humans? How much claymen live in london? will claymen go extinct if the king runs out of heart shards?
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http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com/Profile/Jack~Blackstone
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dismallyOriented
Posts: 215
10/3/2014
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Jenny Yang wrote:
This thread is very pertinent to me because I only just reached those Clay Man storylets. They're seriously heartbreaking... I'm not going to be able to go back to the rest of Fallen London happily. And I'm not sure if it would be compassionate to employ two Clay Men to bear my sedan or not.
edited by Jenny Yang on 10/2/2014
Real good metaphor for dealing with imperialism when you yourself benefit from the system. The Clay Men are so wonderful
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WormApotheote
Posts: 725
10/4/2014
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xKiv wrote:
An *antique* mystery wrapped in a *searing* enigma, thank you very much.
so its a trade secret?
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No, I don't pull the Eater of Names.
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ClearFavourite
Posts: 50
10/4/2014
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Jenny Yang wrote:
And I'm not sure if it would be compassionate to employ two Clay Men to bear my sedan or not.
Well, it can be compassionate, depends on how you deal with them. You can be really horrible to the two, or you can teach them how to read and write. And to be honest, carrying someone around every now and then is rather less taxing than constantly carrying crates in Wolfstack, and getting beaten up by dockers and society in general.
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John Moose
Posts: 276
3/12/2017
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From one playthrough of her story, her being female isn't really brought up, but it's made clear she's very, very special. If I had to take a guess I'd say that most clay men are
[spoiler] men because the King is a man, and they're just small fragments of him. The Poet is an oddity by being a free-willed clay man despite not being unfinished. (Also I feel like Loamsprach might actually be just whatever language they spoke in the first city, and thus why all clay men seem to speak it.) [/spoiler]
I don't think it's ever mentioned why she was born special, but for what it's worth, she does seem to be a female clay person.
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Jack Vaux-Harrowden
Posts: 245
5/21/2012
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Twoflower wrote:
Jack Vaux-Harrowden wrote:
You can't die if you play as a clay man in the Easter Egg. (I think. I know I played a clay man, and had my Wounds go well above 8 without any state change.)
Presumably this is because the Easter Egg is just that--a minigame, rather than a true extension of the game--and it's definite canon that dying results in your returning to life elsewhere, which would allow a Clay Man to escape into London proper.
I don't think this is necessarily reflective of any canon or deep secrets regarding Clay Men, though.
edited by Jack Vaux-Harrowden on 5/21/2012
You can play as a Clay Man? How do you do that?
Start a new account, and--
...huh. Has it been removed? I know that there used to be a small but incongruous dash near "May we ask whether you're a lady or a gentleman?" that, when clicked, sent you to the Clay Man character creation screen. But I can't seem to find it now.
http://blog.failbettergames.com/post/I-AM-CLAY.aspx The official comment on the matter.
Well, I can confirm that my Clay Man account still exists; I can also confirm that with "Wounds 9--The Spirit Has Departed!" I'm still around to INSULT THE FOREMAN and GROW TIRED OF CARRYING BOXES and USE CAPITAL LETTERS.
edited by Jack Vaux-Harrowden on 5/21/2012
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Gillsing
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9/28/2014
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Ben wrote:
... but the official comment is also gone. Ahh, there we go. They changed it to lower case. Very tricky. But Google finds all.
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