Abbreviations and Terms (Guide)

Fallen London has developed some fanspeak terms, which might confuse you on the community forums or in the IRC (Internet Relay Chat - a chat room for Fallen London enthusiasts. You can use a web client to connect, if you like). An attempt to list them shall be below:

Qualities

BDR

Bizarre, Dreaded, Respectable. Refers to the combined number when adding the Bizarre, Dreaded and Respectable stats together. Having high BDR is crucial to gaining Notability (see Bizarre, Dreaded, Respectable (Guide)).

CP

Change points, marking progress toward increasing the level of a quality. Could be considered experience.

MW

Making Waves, a quality related to Notability. Also needed for a few other things, such as crafting a Night on the Town at the Bazaar Sidestreets.

Nota

Notability.

SiC

Someone Is Coming, a quality gradually raised up to 4 on various cards, resulting in A Gift from the Capering Relicker

PoSI

A Person of Some Importance -, a quality required for some high-level storylets. Has both advantages and disadvantages, the reduction in efficiency of menace reducers such as Laudanum being a significant drawback, especially at low levels (for a guide consult A Person of Some Importance (Guide).

PP

Paramount Presence, the highest level of PoSI (see above). Unlocks a few specific things but is mostly a vanity quality.

PtPT

Short for Putting the Pieces Together. Typically refers to the Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre quality (mostly gained from the seasonal events at Christmas) but is occasionally used for Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies.

SotC

A Scholar of the Correspondence, a quality required for entering the University and of importance when dealing with the Masters or the Bazaar, or choosing Correspondent as a profession.

Basic Stats, Highway Stats

Dangerous, Persuasive, Shadowy, and Watchful, the four primary stats.

Advanced Statistics

Special skills that become available in the late game:

• KT: Kataleptic Toxicology
• AotRS: Artisan of the Red Science
• MA: Monstrous Anatomy
• SA: Shapeling Arts
• PoC: A Player of Chess
• SotD: Steward of the Discordance
• Mith: Mithridacy

Sometimes you can see abbreviation MAGCATS which stands for first letters from skills in order:

1. Mithridacy
2. Anatomy, Monstrous
3. Glasswork
4. Chess, A Player of
5. Artisan of the Red Science
6. Toxicology, Kataleptic
7. Shapeling Arts

It is a bit outdated, as it does not list Steward of the Discordance or Zeefaring, two stats released after it was coined

Content & Stories

FL

Fallen London, the game. Was called Echo Bazaar (EB) at its inception.

SS (SSea, SSkies)

Sunless Seas or Sunless Skies, other games set in the same universe.

FB/FBG

Failbetter Games, the developers of Fallen London.

EF

Exceptional Friend(ship), a paid subscription to Fallen London granting quality of life features, extra locations, and the monthly Exceptional Story.

MYN

Refers to the Making Your Name storylines

• A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets
• A Name Scrawled in Blood
• A Name Signed with a Flourish
• A Name Whispered in Darkness

SFiG (or USFiG)

Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold, a fate-locked storyline of some lore interest.

SMEN

Seeking Mr Eaten's Name, an incredibly menacing and damaging storyline. Was put on hiatus in... November/December 2013, due to problems with its punishing nature, bugginess, and interactions with fate-locked content. Was revived in June 2016, slightly tamed. A guide can be found here.

Ambitions

• BaL - Bag a Legend!
• HD - Heart's Desire!
• LF - Light Fingers!

Getting things

EPA

Echoes per action, an estimate of the cash value of doing something. Some of the best options are listed here.

PPA

Pence per action, an estimate of the cash value of doing something.

SPA

Scrip per action, an estimate of the Scrip value of doing something. Some of the best options are listed here

Carousel

A repeatable loop of actions, resulting in one large payout.

Retired

K&C

Knife & Candle, a mischievously murderous game where you stab other players. It was revealed to have been canceled in a patch note on the 13th of April 2021.

MYE

Meeting Your End, also know as Metempsychosis, was a potential story that would have allowed players to retire a character and starting a new one. It was a common source of discussion among the community, and was controversial. It was delayed once, until Failbetter Game finally announced on April 12th 2021 that it was cancelled.

Miscellany

The following terms are not really directly related to the gameplay or storytelling in this game, but are acronyms or abbreviations that are often used by people who have experience in the technical designs of games.

RNG

Short for "random number generator", a common tool in the software-design of digital games; these are colloquially 'digital dice'. The game uses RNGs for many things, such as in the challenge rolls and random-changing of Airs qualities. (For better or worse, the utterance of this abbreviation is usually accompanied with complaints about luck-dependent elements in the gameplay.)

BiS

Short for "Best in slot", expression often used together with some item and stat denoting it's best one in the given slot.

CC

Calling Card, used to invite another player to become an Acquaintance, which is required for many (but not all) other social actions.

T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8

Item tiers, based on sell price in the Bazaar. See Items (Guide) for more details.

Items

A number of specific items get talked about enough (mostly in the context of how to acquire a lot of them, or occasionally how to acquire them at all) that they have their own abbreviations:

Abbreviation	Full name
CD	Compromising Document
CD	Crackling Device
EI	Extraordinary Implication
JoI	Journal of Infamy
KC, KhanCoin	Assortment of Khaganian Coinage
MoDS	Memory of Distant Shores
MoL	Memory of Light
NW	Night-Whisper
RS	Rat-Shilling
TLS	Touching Love Story
ToT	Tale of Terror!!
UI	Uncanny Incunabulum