Kylestien
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10/9/2014
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(This is a work in progress. Any advice on this would be welcome and considered.)
Greetings Fallen Londoners!
I have decided it might be fun to do something a little... random.
I am given to understand that the Give a Gift card has a option to spend 10 Echoes to give a friend a random gift. That gift as far as I know, can range from harmful or otherwise useless, to things that The Masters Of The Bazzar would envy.
So i have arranged a little game in the vein of Pass The Cat, except with less cats and more random.
Players will post their profile on this thread so people can add them to their contacts and send gifts. When you receive a gift that is sent, you must accept it. No matter what it is
A few rules:
Due to the nature of the game being random,10 Echo gifts are preferred.
You may send any of the other gifts if you so desire. However, if you send a Box of Rats, living or dead, you MUST clarify which it is in the message. Since people HAVE to accept the gift no matter what it is, it's not like they will refuse.
If you send A Box Of Live Rats, it would be Polite, though strictly optional, to offer a social action to heal wounds. Do not send a poison action. That would be ungentlemanly.
This is optional, but feel free to add a interesting story to any package. If it's a not random package, add something related to what it is. if it is a random package, write a rnadom story or one that fits to anything, and hope it provides a hilarious or creepy or whatever effect.
This is also optional, but it might be polite, if you have the means, to send something back in return. However, do not feel obligated too.
If anything particularly funny happens, share it. you don't need to, but it could be a good laugh.
My profile to start us off: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Kylestien
edited by Kylestien on 10/9/2014
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I will accept all actions, though I hold the right to refuse for my own reasons. However, if you explain WHY you send me a harmful action like Loitering or Dantes,And I feel the reason good, I will consider it more. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Kylestien
Persuasive patron. You want a lesson, send me a message asking for one.
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The Irreverent Burglar
Posts: 21
10/9/2014
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Ain't any chance you've seen a box, have you? Not saying that I lost one or nothing. Just thought a sensible, well-connected cove like yourself might know to keep an eye out for these sort of things. If you found one, of course, which I ain't saying you did, you might not want to go waving it about in public if you catch my meaning. Some of those nobby sorts can get right protective over that which ain't theirs.
((You should now be in possession of a box of potentially stolen goods. Surely nothing distressing can come of this.))
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Ami Miljkovich
Posts: 98
10/11/2014
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Zero: A game! How fun! I'm a bit tight on Echoes at the moment, but I do have plenty of rat corpses to go around... Wait! You, with the bat! You have money; you could send something a bit fancier.
Soran: Look, Zero, I enjoy acts of magnanimity as much as the next person, but I'm much too busy for such frivolous-
Zero: 'Busy'?! Busy with what? Bloody spats with ex-lovers? Poking through ruins for stolen glim? Dousing yourself in forget-me light for no particular reason?
Soran: ...
Zero: Yeah, that's what I thought. You're not doing anything important. Send something.
Soran: *Sigh* Very well; I'll play your silly games. Someone here will be receiving something shortly.
Zero: And I'll work on sending out those rats! Dead ones, I mean; not the mercenary kind. Well, maybe they were mercenaries once when they were alive, but the point is that they almost certainly wont gnaw the recipient's face off the moment they open the package.
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The Secret-Hungry Bat ~ "I have my bats and my works, and endless secrets and pleasures at my disposal; what need have I of a soul?"
The Dangerously-Charming Fox ~ "Let's go stab each other and then get drunk together! That's what friends do around here, right?"
The Ever-Scheming Magpie ~ "All I'm after is a fresh start... And maybe a little profit on the side..."
The Blood-Thirsty Moth ~ "This floor isn't red enough. I need to fix that. Come closer."
Meet the families.
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Daykeeper
Posts: 17
11/18/2014
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One claims to have been drunk. One says he doesn't remember. One, however, remembered that I was the one complaining about forbidden packages, and made sure that I'd receive yet another that'd escaped the Ministry of Public Decency. I'm grateful for one's intoxicated mindfulness and sarcastic generosity.
Sorry, did I say one? I meant Zero...
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Ragabrash
Posts: 29
10/15/2014
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Surprise box sent to gentleman in the well tailored suit and expensive riding boots(to be received in his quite comfortable rooms in the Royal Beth) who is momentarily short of petty cash.
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Ami Miljkovich
Posts: 98
11/5/2014
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Cairn: I suppose I could muster up something for this little gift-giving game every now and then. Should be fun.
Soran: ... What's your angle?
Cairn: My dear, you wound me. Do you really think I'm so lacking in magnanimity that I have to have an "angle" here?
Soran: Yes, actually. Also, if you call me "dear" again, my next gift is going to be a box of Scuttering Squad mercs delivered directly to your doorstep.
Zero: I am so sorry about those two, delicious friends. They're just working out some, ah, unresolved issues. It won't happen again, I'm sure. Right, guys?
Soran: *Glares* ... Right.
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The Secret-Hungry Bat ~ "I have my bats and my works, and endless secrets and pleasures at my disposal; what need have I of a soul?"
The Dangerously-Charming Fox ~ "Let's go stab each other and then get drunk together! That's what friends do around here, right?"
The Ever-Scheming Magpie ~ "All I'm after is a fresh start... And maybe a little profit on the side..."
The Blood-Thirsty Moth ~ "This floor isn't red enough. I need to fix that. Come closer."
Meet the families.
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Seno
Posts: 77
8/8/2015
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Svirdilu wrote:
Seno wrote:
Thank you Stocke for the Muscaria brandy. I won't be drinking it but I will sell it. Seno wrote:
Stocke... perhaps send someone else that box next time. I don't like sorrow spiders.
Come, Seno, you must take some bad with the good.
Aethrys, you appear to be out of reach of gift-sending. Once you return to parts of the Neath with proper postage, I would be glad to send you a package the next time a card shows itself.
I mean I have to accept them for this game but if they send me the starveling cat, the starveling cat, I will send it back and they better have some rats.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Katrina450
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Eru Illuvatar
Posts: 65
8/2/2015
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Lemexis wrote:
Thank you, Seno. I do enjoy a few seditious readings every once in a while.
And thank you, Eru Illuvatar, for that delicious brandy.
edited by Lemexis on 7/31/2015
It can't have been that delicious, what with sending it right back! *hic* Honestly, what rumours have everyone been spreading about me, brandy seems to be all I receive lately. Not that it's unwelcome. *hic*
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Eru Illuvatar
Posts: 65
8/3/2015
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Sir Joseph, thank you for finally sending a gift not meant for consumption - although, if the Masters come knocking...
As A side note, I rather think we should thank Kylestein for starting such a magnificent game. Who's up for a thank you bombardment of gifts?
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KestrelGirl
Posts: 138
8/30/2015
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Thanks to Lemexis for the Cryptic Clue and Compromising Documents!
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The Sociable Academic/KestrelGirl, an inescapable, sagacious, irresistible and breathtaking Lady of Some Importance. (Also add: terrifying, lethal, and perhaps midnight.)
Proud owner of the Neathy Informer, a newspaper dedicated to the truth.
Help me out with my FL/SS lore wiki, The Fifth City! http://www.thefifthcity.wikia.com
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navchaa
Posts: 561
10/23/2015
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How wonderful! Thank you, Libris. I had a wonderful evening curled up by the fireside reading a huge pile of stolen correspondence (196 pieces of them! how you outdid yourself). I'll save the touching love story for tomorrow night.
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Married to Myrto :: Exchanging Surprise Packages with anyone interested :: Exchanging cat boxes with Kitty Rambunctious
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delphinus
Posts: 22
12/26/2015
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Catcliffe, my friend, while the gift itself is much appreciated, I was hoping to avoid attracting the ire of the Ministry of Public Decency for a few days.
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Dante Schafer
Posts: 10
4/7/2016
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Received gift from Anna Libertas...
*Opens gift*
There is a label: TO MY DARLINGEST ODIO ON THE OCCASION OF YOUR ELEVEN THOUSANDTH SOUL. GO TO HELL.
Thanks for the brandy... for some reason, I can't seem to give a gift : |
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Samael Mills
Posts: 9
4/18/2016
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Sounds a crazy phaeton ride -- I'll give it a wave! And as I'm not too strapped for Echoes, if a particular person feels like explaining how to send a gift card (I haven't had time to play for a couple of months), I too can send one in return if someone is lacking a box of joy.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
8/13/2016
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My character suinicide is currently sitting on a very large amount of money. Suinicide is also going north, and can't use it. Since I want the tattoo before I go north, and have several months between then and now, I'm going to be sending surprise packages out to the first three people who want them, as well as cats to the first person who wants that, just constantly until I go north. (Which may be sooner than February, if I find out I am ineligible for the tattoo)
(Sorry if this is the wrong thread, I didn't think this was big enough to warrant its own thread)
The suprise package list:
The mirthless colonist
The master
Teaspoon
Current cat reciever:
Vavakx Nonexus
edited by suinicide on 8/13/2016
edited by suinicide on 8/13/2016
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A gentleman seeking the liberation of knowledge, with a penchant for violence.
RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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A Dimness
Posts: 613
8/13/2016
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suinicide wrote:
My character suinicide is currently sitting on a very large amount of money. Suinicide is also going north, and can't use it. Since I want the tattoo before I go north, and have several months between then and now, I'm going to be sending surprise packages out to the first three people who want them, as well as cats to the first person who wants that, just constantly until I go north. (Which may be sooner than February, if I find out I am ineligible for the tattoo)
(Sorry if this is the wrong thread, I didn't think this was big enough to warrant its own thread)
edited by suinicide on 8/13/2016
I've been completely spamming Vavakxnonexux with surprise packages for the past week or so and I do find myself lacking in BAWKSES, METAL BAWKSES! THE COWARDS, THE FOOLS! *Asthma* of my own. I would appreciate a handful, Suinicide.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/The~Mirthless~Colonist~
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The Master
Posts: 804
8/13/2016
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suinicide wrote:
My character suinicide is currently sitting on a very large amount of money. Suinicide is also going north, and can't use it. Since I want the tattoo before I go north, and have several months between then and now, I'm going to be sending surprise packages out to the first three people who want them, as well as cats to the first person who wants that, just constantly until I go north. (Which may be sooner than February, if I find out I am ineligible for the tattoo)
(Sorry if this is the wrong thread, I didn't think this was big enough to warrant its own thread)
edited by suinicide on 8/13/2016
Well, I can accept  .
edit: now I feel bad for being greedy, but I need to get my scholar of the correspondence back up eventually.
edited by The Master on 8/13/2016
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A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath.
No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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Elaina Schill
Posts: 191
4/7/2017
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Box sent to phantom de sa fille!
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Main, Phiri Ulfur, the Cunning Shadow. Their heart belongs to a Pirate-Poet across the Zee.
Alt Vermillion Liminate, the Tragic Scholar.
Alt #2,Lady Jacqueline Blackwood, the Savage Beauty.
Alt #3, Veracity Taylor, the Dame of the Docks.
The Dogged Seeker, self explanatory.
I will accept any social actions on Fallen London(unless its a box of live rats. I already got rid of the d---ned things once and am not eager to repeat the endeavor).
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Ami Miljkovich
Posts: 98
11/6/2014
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Cairn: I recently had a box of lovely wines delivered through a hole in my wall. I haven't much had the means to buy decent wines these last few years, so this is quite a welcome gift. I've given out my own gift to pass that goodwill on.
Soran: Hmph. What did you give them, a box of adders?
Zero: Hey! What did we agree to about the arguing?
Soran: That... Thing is evil, Zero. This isn't going to end anywhere good.
Cairn: And still you insist on breaking my heart by continually assuming the worst of me... *Sigh* But I'm sure my recipient with love their gift, and that's all that matters here, whether you can let bygones be bygones or not.
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The Secret-Hungry Bat ~ "I have my bats and my works, and endless secrets and pleasures at my disposal; what need have I of a soul?"
The Dangerously-Charming Fox ~ "Let's go stab each other and then get drunk together! That's what friends do around here, right?"
The Ever-Scheming Magpie ~ "All I'm after is a fresh start... And maybe a little profit on the side..."
The Blood-Thirsty Moth ~ "This floor isn't red enough. I need to fix that. Come closer."
Meet the families.
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Ami Miljkovich
Posts: 98
10/15/2014
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Zero: Ooh, I got a dead rat!
Soran: "A" dead rat? As in one? Don't you have thousands of those already?
Zero: Yes, but this wasn't just any rat; it was a venge-rat. Exactly the sort of rat you wouldn't want to meet in a dark pantry at night. It's quite a trophy. Also, it was stuffed with diamonds, which is a pretty good bonus.
Soran: ... I may have made a mistake in coming here with you.
Zero: So, didn't you get something?
Soran: Yes, actually. A rather... Unpleasant cat came to my door earlier today. I had to shoo it off with a shovel after it jumped inside and tried to eat Cecil. But it left a box of wines on my doorstep, including some quite high-end ones; Strangling Willow Absinthe and a bottle of Broken Giant 1844. Very curious.
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The Secret-Hungry Bat ~ "I have my bats and my works, and endless secrets and pleasures at my disposal; what need have I of a soul?"
The Dangerously-Charming Fox ~ "Let's go stab each other and then get drunk together! That's what friends do around here, right?"
The Ever-Scheming Magpie ~ "All I'm after is a fresh start... And maybe a little profit on the side..."
The Blood-Thirsty Moth ~ "This floor isn't red enough. I need to fix that. Come closer."
Meet the families.
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Ami Miljkovich
Posts: 98
10/13/2014
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Aoditor wrote:
My, my. Your Raven certainly have a sense of humor, Soran. I'll be sure to shares it with my ventral acquaintances next we meet.
Soran: Now I must admit to a morbid sort of curiosity; what did my dear, devious Umbra choose as your gift?
Zero: Heh. I wouldn't be surprised if that black-feathered fiendling of yours just stashed the money for himself and delivered an empty box. I'm really not sure what other outcome you expected.
Soran: I don't recall anyone soliciting your opinion on the matter, Mr. Hunt.
Zero: Oh, there's no need to solicit; my opinions are always available. And by the way... Didn't you have another package to send?
Soran: ... Perhaps, yes. And didn't you have some rats to send?
Zero: Well... Yes, but the postal system is hard, okay? I'm trying, honest!
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The Secret-Hungry Bat ~ "I have my bats and my works, and endless secrets and pleasures at my disposal; what need have I of a soul?"
The Dangerously-Charming Fox ~ "Let's go stab each other and then get drunk together! That's what friends do around here, right?"
The Ever-Scheming Magpie ~ "All I'm after is a fresh start... And maybe a little profit on the side..."
The Blood-Thirsty Moth ~ "This floor isn't red enough. I need to fix that. Come closer."
Meet the families.
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Asclepius Unbound
Posts: 389
12/21/2014
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Did ... did someone send me a Christmas card from the Bazaar???
Edit: Having checked around, a friend was responsible, not this thread. Whew. That would have been tough to live up to.
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doctor wolfram
Posts: 61
1/9/2015
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Optimatum wrote:
Catcliffe wrote:
Optimatum wrote:
I would be interested in receiving packages. I have already sent one out.
I got 2 venge-rat corpses and 7 ostentatious diamonds; thank you!
I likewise got two venge-rat corpses, along with a baptised rattus faber corpse, an extraordinary implication, and some abominable salts. I'm sure I can find some good use for them.
No offence, but I am never accepting a healing invitation from you.
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doctor wolfram
Posts: 61
1/9/2015
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Kylestien, your gift of gems is en-route now.
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Tektotherriggen
Posts: 19
3/11/2015
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Thank you, Catcliffe! Two old street signs and a proscribed book!
Ahem, I meant to say Constable, I was given two fine reproductions of street signs, for 'umble folks such as myself as can't afford genuine antiques. And this? An example of what a forbidden anarchist treatise might look like, so's I can recognise the real thing in future, and not be seduced by its vicious lies against the Masters!
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Phew, think I got away with it...
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Hargate
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3/18/2015
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Tektotherriggen wrote:
Thank you for passing on that ... gift, Hargate! That guy must have been really drunk to not notice he'd dropped 18 solid lead correspondence plaques. Did he have any help with that intoxication, by any chance?
If I did, and I assure you I did not, it might have gone something along the lines of making him feel comfortable in the Singing Mandrake, finding him some ladies of the night, getting some Morelways into him, and then stabbing him in the back as he's making his way home. All hypothetical, of course.
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Tektotherriggen
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3/23/2015
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Dear Hargate
My apologies for not responding to your gift earlier. I'm afraid I was little dead for a while, and was also busy competing at the 'shroom hopping. In fact, I found this box on the course, and I thought you might like it. Even though "finding" it meant tripping over it, spraining my ankle and losing that race, I still would not dream of profiting myself from this stroke of good luck. Please accept its contents with my blessings.
The fact that it is covered in foul-smelling mud, is half-full of swamp water, and that I saw a large sorrow-spider peering out of that hole in the corner, has nothing to do with my generosity.
Best,
Tektotherriggen
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Tektotherriggen
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3/28/2015
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Dear Velleity,
I found this crate dangling from a rope in the middle of a Spite street. Some Fisher-Kings had clearly hooked it off the top of a carriage. The urchins themselves had lost all sense of camaraderie, and were scrapping on a nearby roof. Were they fighting over who would get to keep an extremely valuable haul? Or fighting over who would have to drag this junk to the river to dump it? I suppose you'll find out...
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Tektotherriggen
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4/6/2015
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Thank you very much for the mixed case of wines, Velleity!
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Tektotherriggen
Posts: 19
4/10/2015
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Ms Hawke,
I stole this box, and am giving it to you.
I want to go to prison, see? There's a guy I need to meet, deals I need to do. And you can't just stroll in the front door of New Newgate - you have to be taken there. And to be taken there, you need to be a criminal, and to be a criminal, you need to commit crimes. So here's a crime for you.
If the constables turn up, point them my way please.
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Amberley Hawke
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4/11/2015
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Tektotherriggen wrote:
Ms Hawke,
I stole this box, and am giving it to you.
I want to go to prison, see? There's a guy I need to meet, deals I need to do. And you can't just stroll in the front door of New Newgate - you have to be taken there. And to be taken there, you need to be a criminal, and to be a criminal, you need to commit crimes. So here's a crime for you.
If the constables turn up, point them my way please.
How could I not assist in such a plan? The constables have been notified, and should be arriving at your lodgings shortly. May your imprisonment be profitable and short.
As to the contents of your gift; did you run out of wines already, that you had to go and steal some?
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Tektotherriggen
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4/11/2015
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Amberley Hawke wrote:
As to the contents of your gift; did you run out of wines already, that you had to go and steal some?
Wines? I gave you the wines? So what have I been drinking? I... I think I need an apothecary.
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murdstone
Posts: 14
6/13/2015
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Ah to receive unknown packages from a mysterious personages, and open them! What could be better? Perhaps dropping one off? Please include me in this delightful pass time.
It doesn't appear that Sir Joseph has had the pleasure yet so as I am currently visiting Square of Lofty Words I think I'll send something off.
My Fallen London profile is: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/dan654wer
Happy to participate in other exchanges. I read somewhere else that making waves could be hard to accumulate and I'm not yet needing them.
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