Advent: A Calendar of Encounters
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Christmas time: when fireplaces crackle, lacre piles on street corners […]. All good reasons to hide […] away until the New Year. But […] good fortune is a resource one makes for oneself. The […] season is replete with bounties; all you need to do is remain open […].
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Unlocked with 
Days of Advent is present (World Quality, currently unlocked), 
London's Season: Christmas is present (World Quality, currently locked)
Locked with 
Opening the Doors 25, 
New Account Content Filter (hidden)
Storylet appears in 
Fallen London
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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Grab a spare consignment of Christmas cards
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is present (World Quality, currently unlocked)
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
Investigate a hubbub
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 2 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 1
Success
Like hot cakes
- 2: It pays to keep a sharp edge, even when the season is merry. (Sets Opening the Doors to 2)
You've gained 1 x Completely Unassuming Palaeontological Accessory- With Days of Advent exactly 2:
You've gained 250 x Bone Fragments
Greet a neighbour
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 3 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 2
Success
Revelatory
- 3: Baubles, tinsel, glass, lacework. (Sets Opening the Doors to 3)
You've gained 1 x Mountain-sherd- With Days of Advent exactly 3:
You've gained 5 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Answer a solicitous whisper
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 4 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 3
Success
The genuine article?
- 4: Some gifts cannot be unopened. (Sets Opening the Doors to 4)
You've gained 1 x Mr Sacks' Surplus Sack- With Days of Advent exactly 4:
You've gained 5 x Tale of Terror!!
Accept a free sample
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 5 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 4
Success
Revolutionary!
Success Instructions: Drinking Darkdrop Coffee will refresh ten actions. Find it in your inventory.
- 5: Mulled wine, long-steeping tea, hot chocolate... nog. Inquire not on the sourcing of the eggs. (Sets Opening the Doors to 5)
You've gained 1 x Darkdrop Coffee- With Days of Advent exactly 5:
You've gained 25 x Inkling of Identity
Wander through a local graveyard
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 6 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 5
Success
Incongruous
- 6: Candles on gravestones, candles at the doors of disused columbaria, candles on dinner tables and windowsills. (Sets Opening the Doors to 6)
You've gained 1 x Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures- With Days of Advent exactly 6:
You've gained 5 x Dubious Testimony
Investigate a troubling noise
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 7 (World Quality, currently unlocked), 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
Scoop up a pail of lacre
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 8 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 7
Success
Keep away from bare skin
Success Instructions: Use this in your inventory to learn more about lacre, or to acquire a Destiny.
- 8: It piles on stoops, it weighs on eaves, it swirls in the air. (Sets Opening the Doors to 8)
You've gained 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow- With Days of Advent exactly 8:
You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
Retrieve an unexpected package
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 9 (World Quality, currently unlocked), 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
Claim an unattended 'tree'
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 10 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 9
Success
Draped in silver and gold
- 10: Tinsel and baubles and spores, glittering in the parlour. (Sets Opening the Doors to 10)
You've gained 1 x Murgatroyd's Patented Fungal Christmas 'Tree'- With Days of Advent exactly 10:
You've gained 5 x Vision of the Surface
Uncover a dusty mirror
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 11 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 10
Success
Uncomfortable traditions
- 11: Some acts cannot be undone. (Sets Opening the Doors to 11)
You've gained 1 x Blood Oath
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)- With Days of Advent exactly 11:
You've gained 1 x Glass Gazette
Savour the goodwill of the season
- Spoiler Unlocked with Days of Advent is 12 (World Quality, currently unlocked), 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
Tolerate your Aunt
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 13 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 12
Success
Tea-time heirlooms
- 13: Gingerbread and pudding and scones and trifle and brioche and... (Sets Opening the Doors to 13)
You've gained 1 x Plate of Scandalously Buttered Scones- With Days of Advent exactly 13:
You've gained 1 x Vienna Opening
Dream of sunless depths
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 14 (World Quality, currently unlocked), Opening the Doors exactly 13
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.
- 14: Do you recall— do you recall— do you recall— (Sets Opening the Doors to 14)
- You've gained 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre
- With Days of Advent exactly 14:
- You've gained 5 x Tale of Terror!!
Lend your ear to tall tales
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 15 (World Quality, currently 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
Dodge a belligerent old codger
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 16 (World Quality, currently locked), Opening the Doors exactly 15
Success
Confectionary
- 16: Some are joyless; some just lonely. The Fifth City throws up many walls. (Sets Opening the Doors to 16)
You've gained 1 x Bag of Station VIII 'Humbugs'- With Days of Advent exactly 16:
You've gained 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
Greet a familiar face
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 17 (World Quality, currently locked), Opening the Doors exactly 16
Success
Surplus
- 17: Oh— oh— listen to the wind. (Sets Opening the Doors to 17)
You've gained 20 x Certifiable Scrap
You've gained 100 x Primordial Shriek- With Days of Advent exactly 17:
- You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
Open a rigid parcel
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 18 (World Quality, currently locked), Opening the Doors exactly 17
Success
Not sinister at all
- 18: Some bodies cannot be reburied. (Sets Opening the Doors to 18)
- You've gained 1 x Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre
You've gained 3 x Human Arm- With Days of Advent exactly 18:
- You've gained 250 x Bone Fragments
Greet a grumbling passer-by
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent 19, Opening the Doors exactly 18
Success
Second chances
Success Instructions: The Amulet will preserve you from death, once.
- 19: An ancient second chance, humming in your palm. (Sets Opening the Doors to 19)
You've gained 1 x Horsehead Amulet- With Days of Advent exactly 19:
- You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
Collect a pile of laundry
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 20 (World Quality, currently locked), Opening the Doors exactly 19
Success
Standing to attention
- 20: Crimson and gold, standing watch over the empire... (Sets Opening the Doors to 20)
You've gained 1 x Discarded Warden's Garb- With Days of Advent exactly 20:
You've gained 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Catch a flying tin
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 21 (World Quality, currently locked), Opening the Doors exactly 20
Success
Enthusiastic marketing
- 21: Peppermint and licorice and ginger and sultanas and mandarins and... (Sets Opening the Doors to 21)
You've gained 1 x Tin of Murgatroyd's Jellied Mushroom Cakes- With Days of Advent exactly 21:
You've gained 1 x Sworn Statement
Clean out your fireplace
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 22 (World Quality, currently locked), Opening the Doors exactly 21
Success
Insult to injury
Ouch – it appears you have burned your hand. (Activates the Living story A Wound Heals; this message is not displayed.)- 22: Some names cannot be unlisted. (Sets Opening the Doors to 22)
- You've gained 1 x Mark of Disdain
Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)- With Days of Advent exactly 22:
You've gained 5 x Correspondence Plaque
Become accessory to a crime
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Days of Advent is 23 (World Quality, currently 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, currently 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, currently 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 2026!
- 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
