Advent: A Calendar of Encounters
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Unlocked with 
Days of Advent is present (World Quality, now locked), 
London's Season: Christmas is present (World Quality, now locked)
Locked with 
Opening the Doors 25, 
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Storylet appears in 
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Options:
Sit back and relax
- Spoiler Action Cost: 0
Success
A cavalcade of gifts
Success Instructions: Welcome to the Fallen London Advent Calendar for [Current Year]! A new gift will become available every day, starting from the 1st December and concluding on Christmas Day. Check back in every day, or wait to claim them all at once. Claiming a gift on the day it first becomes available will be slightly more valuable. You can catch up on previous days' gifts at any time until this storylet closes on New Year's Day.
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2024 Advent Calendar
Grab a spare consignment of Christmas cards
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is present (World Quality, now locked)
Locked with Opening the Doors
Success
Season's greetings
Success Instructions: From 2nd December until Christmas Day, you will receive new Christmas cards each week via Time, the Healer.
1: Envelopes at your doorstep; heavy paper and colourful inks and lace ribbons. (Sets 
Opening the Doors to 1)
An occurrence! Your 'Potential Christmas Card' Quality is now 7!
With
Days of Advent exactly 1:
You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
Scoop up a pail of lacre
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 2 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 1
Success
Keep away from bare skin
Success Instructions: Use this in your inventory to learn more about lacre, or to acquire a Destiny.
- 2: It piles on stoops, it weighs on eaves, it swirls in the air. (Sets Opening the Doors to 2)
You've gained 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
With
Days of Advent exactly 2:
You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
Greet a grumbling passer-by
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent 3, Opening the Doors exactly 2
Success
Second chances
Success Instructions: The Amulet will preserve you from death, once.
- 3: An ancient second chance, humming in your palm. (Sets Opening the Doors to 3)
You've gained 1 x Horsehead Amulet
With
Days of Advent exactly 3:
- You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
Claim an unattended 'tree'
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 4 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 3
Success
Draped in silver and gold
- 4: Tinsel and baubles and spores, glittering in the parlour. (Sets Opening the Doors to 4)
You've gained 1 x Murgatroyd's Patented Fungal Christmas 'Tree'
With
Days of Advent exactly 4:
You've gained 5 x Vision of the Surface
Catch a flying tin
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 5 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 4
Success
Enthusiastic marketing
- 5: Peppermint and licorice and ginger and sultanas and mandarins and... (Sets Opening the Doors to 5)
You've gained 1 x Tin of Murgatroyd's Jellied Mushroom Cakes
With
Days of Advent exactly 5:
You've gained 1 x Sworn Statement
Clean out your fireplace
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 6 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 5
Success
Insult to injury
Ouch – it appears you have burned your hand. (Activates the Living story A Wound Heals; this message is not displayed.)- 6: Some names cannot be unlisted. (Sets Opening the Doors to 6)
- You've gained 1 x Mark of Disdain
Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
With
Days of Advent exactly 6:
You've gained 5 x Correspondence Plaque
Investigate a troubling noise
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 7 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 6
Success
Furred, wicked, dripping
- 7: Some wicks cannot be unlit. (Sets Opening the Doors to 7)
You've gained 1 x Rat of Glory
With
Days of Advent exactly 7:
You've gained 1 x Mourning Candle
Wander through a local graveyard
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 8 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 7
Success
Incongruous
- 8: Candles on gravestones, candles at the doors of disused columbaria, candles on dinner tables and windowsills. (Sets Opening the Doors to 8)
You've gained 1 x Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures
With
Days of Advent exactly 8:
You've gained 5 x Dubious Testimony
Retrieve an unexpected package
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 9 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 8
Success
Sumptuously wrapped
Success Instructions: 'We've had our differences. But this is Christmas. Best wishes, the Fallen London Probably Random Number Algorithm.'
- 9: Hold a box aloft; feel its weight; rattle its contents. What's inside? (Sets Opening the Doors to 9)
You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die
With
Days of Advent exactly 9:
You've gained 1 x Queer Soul
Lend your ear to tall tales
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 10 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 9
Success
Legends of a sunless sky
- 10: Cold, bitter wind through the streets; lacre swirling in eddies. "The Avid Horizon yawns," say the zailors. (Sets Opening the Doors to 10)
You've gained 1 x Sky-Story
With
Days of Advent exactly 10:
- You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
Claim a sooty bundle of rags
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 11 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 10
Success
Perfect disguises
- 11: A log crackling in the fireplace; pine tar and soot. (Sets Opening the Doors to 11)
You now have 1 x Inconspicuous Overalls- With Days of Advent exactly 11:
You've gained 1 x An Identity Uncovered!
Savour the goodwill of the season
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 12 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 11
Success
A proficient ratter
Success Instructions: This Boon will dissipate after two weeks.
A living story will begin soon. (Activates the Living story Dissipating Goodwill; this message is not displayed.)- 12: Cold hands; warm hearts. (Sets Opening the Doors to 12)
- An occurrence! Your 'Lingering Goodwill' Quality is now 1!
With
Days of Advent exactly 12:
You've gained 25 x Romantic Notion
Accept a free sample
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 13 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 12
Success
Revolutionary!
Success Instructions: Drinking Darkdrop Coffee will refresh ten actions. Find it in your inventory.
- 13: Mulled wine, long-steeping tea, hot chocolate... nog. Inquire not on the sourcing of the eggs. (Sets Opening the Doors to 13)
You've gained 1 x Darkdrop Coffee
With
Days of Advent exactly 13:
You've gained 25 x Inkling of Identity
Greet a neighbour
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 14 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 13
Success
Revelatory
- 14: Baubles, tinsel, glass, lacework. (Sets Opening the Doors to 14)
You've gained 1 x Mountain-sherd
With
Days of Advent exactly 20:
You've gained 5 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Meet some local urchins
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 15 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 14
Success
Taxes, paid in headwear
- 15: Children on the streets in vicious packs; schoolboys out of their classes becoming feral as urchins; all-out lacre warfare. (Sets Opening the Doors to 15)
You've gained 1 x Gant Bowler of Fiduciary Responsibility
With
Days of Advent exactly 15:
You've gained 1 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap
Dream of sunless depths
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 16 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 15
Success
Seasonal secrets
Success Instructions: This has raised your Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre quality. You'll be able to trade it for rewards in January.
- 16: Do you recall— do you recall— do you recall— (Sets Opening the Doors to 16)
- You've gained 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre
With
Days of Advent exactly 16:
You've gained 5 x Tale of Terror!!
Rush towards the sound of breaking glass
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 17 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 16
Success
Distortions
- 17: Some travels cannot be returned from. (Sets Opening the Doors to 17)
You've gained 1 x Deconstructive Lens
With
Days of Advent exactly 17:
You've gained 1 x Partial Map
Tolerate your Aunt
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 18 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 17
Success
Tea-time heirlooms
- 18: Gingerbread and pudding and scones and trifle and brioche and... (Sets Opening the Doors to 18)
You've gained 1 x Plate of Scandalously Buttered Scones- With Days of Advent exactly 18:
You've gained 1 x Vienna Opening
Become accessory to a crime
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 19 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 18
Success
Rare serenity
- 19: All is quiet; breath is held. (Sets Opening the Doors to 19)
You've gained 1 x Silent Soul
With
Days of Advent exactly 19:
You've gained 25 x Maniac's Prayer
Dodge a belligerent old codger
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 20 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 19
Success
Confectionary
- 20: Some are joyless; some just lonely. The Fifth City throws up many walls. (Sets Opening the Doors to 20)
You've gained 1 x Bag of Station VIII 'Humbugs'
With
Days of Advent exactly 20:
You've gained 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
Answer your front door
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 21 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 20
Success
Ominous
- 21: Some gifts cannot be unopened. (Sets Opening the Doors to 21)
You've gained 1 x Book of Hidden Bodies
With
Days of Advent exactly 21:
You've gained 1 x London Street Sign
Answer the door – again
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 22 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 21
Success
Coronation
- 22: Honeyed dreams and the milk of inhuman kindness. (Sets Opening the Doors to 22)
You've gained 1 x Apian Coronet
With
Days of Advent exactly 22:
You've gained 250 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Fight off a nightmare
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 23 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 22
Success
Uncomfortable traditions
- 23: A dream of a prayer to a fading memory, lost upon waking. (Sets Opening the Doors to 23)
You've gained 1 x Direful Reflection
Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
With
Days of Advent exactly 23:
- You've gained 1 x Mourning Candle
2023 Advent Calendar
Grab a spare consignment of Christmas cards
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is present (World Quality, now locked)
Locked with Opening the Doors
Success
Season's greetings
Success Instructions: From 2nd December until Christmas Day, you will receive new Christmas cards each week via Time, the Healer.
- 1: Envelopes at your doorstep; heavy paper and colourful inks and lace ribbons. (Sets Opening the Doors to 1)
- An occurrence! Your 'Potential Christmas Card' Quality is now 7!
With
Days of Advent exactly 1:
- You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
Claim a sooty bundle of rags
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 2 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 1
Success
Perfect disguises
- 2: A log crackling in the fireplace; pine tar and soot. (Sets Opening the Doors to 2)
- You now have 1 x Inconspicuous Overalls
With
Days of Advent exactly 2:
- You've gained 1 x An Identity Uncovered!
Open the sash window
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 3 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 2
Success
A tinge of the macabre
- 3: Gifts of jewelry and finery and ratwork, glinting in candlelight. (Sets Opening the Doors to 3)
You've gained 2 x Whirring Contraption
With
Days of Advent exactly 3:
- You've gained 5 x Tale of Terror!!
Scoop up a pail of lacre
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 4 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 3
Success
Keep away from bare skin
Success Instructions: Use this in your inventory to learn more about lacre, or to acquire a Destiny.
- 4: It piles on stoops, it weighs on eaves, it swirls in the air. (Sets Opening the Doors to 4)
- You've gained 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
With
Days of Advent exactly 4:
- You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
Tolerate your Aunt
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 5 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 4
Success
Tea-time heirlooms
- 5: Gingerbread and pudding and scones and trifle and brioche and... (Sets Opening the Doors to 5)
- You've gained 1 x Plate of Scandalously Buttered Scones
- With Days of Advent exactly 5:
- You've gained 1 x Vienna Opening
Catch an errant beast
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 6 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 5
Success
A proficient ratter
- 6: Uncharacteristic quiet; the rats in the walls with runty winter litters, small and silent. (Sets Opening the Doors to 6)
You've gained 1 x Araby Fighting-Weasel
You've gained 1 x Baptised Rattus Faber Corpse
With
Days of Advent exactly 6:
You've gained 5 x Venge-Rat Corpse
Investigate a troubling noise
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 7 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 6
Success
Furred, wicked, dripping
- 7: Some wicks cannot be unlit. (Sets Opening the Doors to 7)
- You've gained 1 x Rat of Glory
With
Days of Advent exactly 7:
- You've gained 1 x Mourning Candle
Pause on a late-night walk
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 8 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 7
Success
Ships in the night
- 8: No darker than the rest of the year - but it feels like it. (Sets Opening the Doors to 8)
You've gained 1 x Clandestine Candle
With
Days of Advent exactly 8:
You've gained 5 x Memory of Light
Retrieve an unexpected package
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 9 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 8
Success
Sumptuously wrapped
Success Instructions: 'We've had our differences. But this is Christmas. Best wishes, the Fallen London Probably Random Number Algorithm.'
- 9: Hold a box aloft; feel its weight; rattle its contents. What's inside? (Sets Opening the Doors to 9)
- You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die
With
Days of Advent exactly 9:
- You've gained 1 x Queer Soul
Wander through a local graveyard
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 10 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 9
Success
Incongruous
- 10: Candles on gravestones, candles at the doors of disused columbaria, candles on dinner tables and windowsills. (Sets Opening the Doors to 10)
- You've gained 1 x Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures
With
Days of Advent exactly 10:
- You've gained 5 x Dubious Testimony
Meet a Relicker, out of season
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 11 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 10
Success
An armful of... something
- 11: The Carol of the Wells. (Sets Opening the Doors to 11)
You've gained 20 x Certifiable Scrap
You've gained 100 x Primordial Shriek
With
Days of Advent exactly 11:
- You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
Greet the local urchins
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 12 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 11
Success
Taxes, paid in headwear
- 12: Children on the streets in vicious packs; schoolboys out of their classes becoming feral as urchins; all-out lacre warfare. (Sets Opening the Doors to 12)
- You've gained 1 x Gant Bowler of Fiduciary Responsibility
With
Days of Advent exactly 12:
- You've gained 1 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap
Check your post
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 13 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 12
Success
Antibiographica
- 13: Some books cannot be unread. (Sets Opening the Doors to 13)
You've gained 1 x Caustic Apocryphon- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP, up to level 6)
With
Days of Advent exactly 13:
- You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
Answer an insistent rapping
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 14 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 13
Success
How rude!
- 14: Ha. (Sets Opening the Doors to 14)
You've gained 1 x Pugilist's Hello
With
Days of Advent exactly 14:
- You've gained 5 x Palimpsest Scrap
Lend your ear to tall tales
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 15 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 14
Success
Legends of a sunless sky
- 15: Cold, bitter wind through the streets; lacre swirling in eddies. "The Avid Horizon yawns," say the zailors. (Sets Opening the Doors to 15)
- You've gained 1 x Sky-Story
With
Days of Advent exactly 15:
- You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
Savour the goodwill of the season
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 16 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 15
Success
A proficient ratter
Success Instructions: This Boon will dissipate after two weeks.
- A living story will begin soon. (Activates the Living story Dissipating Goodwill; this message is not displayed.)
- 16: Cold hands; warm hearts. (Sets Opening the Doors to 16)
- An occurrence! Your 'Lingering Goodwill' Quality is now 1!
With
Days of Advent exactly 16:
- You've gained 25 x Romantic Notion
Catch a flying tin
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 17 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 16
Success
Enthusiastic marketing
- 17: Peppermint and licorice and ginger and sultanas and mandarins and... (Sets Opening the Doors to 17)
- You've gained 1 x Tin of Murgatroyd's Jellied Mushroom Cakes
With
Days of Advent exactly 17:
- You've gained 1 x Sworn Statement
Dream of sunless depths
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 18 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 17
Success
Seasonal secrets
Success Instructions: This has raised your Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre quality. You'll be able to trade it for rewards in January.
- 18: Do you recall— do you recall— do you recall— (Sets Opening the Doors to 18)
- You've gained 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre
With
Days of Advent exactly 18:
- You've gained 5 x Tale of Terror!!
Clean out your fireplace
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 19 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 18
Success
Insult to injury
- Ouch – it appears you have burned your hand. (Activates the Living story A Wound Heals; this message is not displayed.)
- 19: Some names cannot be unlisted. (Sets Opening the Doors to 19)
- You've gained 1 x Mark of Disdain
- Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
With
Days of Advent exactly 19:
- You've gained 5 x Correspondence Plaque
Greet a neighbour
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 20 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 19
Success
Revelatory
- 20: Baubles, tinsel, glass, lacework. (Sets Opening the Doors to 20)
- You've gained 1 x Mountain-sherd
With
Days of Advent exactly 20:
- You've gained 5 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Accept a free sample
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 21 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 20
Success
Revolutionary!
Success Instructions: Drinking Darkdrop Coffee will refresh ten actions. Find it in your inventory.
- 21: Mulled wine, long-steeping tea, hot chocolate... nog. Inquire not on the sourcing of the eggs. (Sets Opening the Doors to 21)
- You've gained 1 x Darkdrop Coffee
With
Days of Advent exactly 21:
- You've gained 25 x Inkling of Identity
Answer the door – again
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 22 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 21
Success
Coronation
- 22: Honeyed dreams and the milk of inhuman kindness. (Sets Opening the Doors to 22)
- You've gained 1 x Apian Coronet
With
Days of Advent exactly 22:
- You've gained 250 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Become accessory to a crime
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 23 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 22
Success
Rare serenity
- 23: All is quiet; breath is held. (Sets Opening the Doors to 23)
- You've gained 1 x Silent Soul
With
Days of Advent exactly 23:
- You've gained 25 x Maniac's Prayer
Answer the door – carefully
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 24 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 23
Success
Ancient words
- 24: Ho. Ho. Ho. (Sets Opening the Doors to 24)
You've gained 1 x Meticulously Altered Stocking
With
Days of Advent exactly 24:
You've gained 1 x Touching Love Story
Feast!
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 25 (World Quality, now locked), Opening the Doors exactly 24
Success
Blessings of the season
Success Instructions: In Fallen London, it is Christmas. But wherever, whoever and whenever you are, Failbetter Games wishes you the best imaginable holiday of your dearest preference. We'll see you in 2024!
- 25: "What's today, my fine fellow?" (Sets Opening the Doors to 25)
You've gained 1 x Magnificent Feast
With
Days of Advent exactly 25:
You've gained 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
