Advent Calendar 2015

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December 1 to the 25th, FBG will release an access code every day. Little trinkets and toys will be given out with the codes.

Visit the Fallen London Advent Calendar or the Twitter and Facebook pages for the newest access codes! This is simply an archive of the story snippets which accompany each code.

December 1st

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/42500advpaperdoor

The Bazaar rations and licenses Christmas cards. Wisely! They are perilous and subversive harbingers of a peculiar tradition. But hush: here are additional cards, escaped through the Paper Door.

Result:

This has given you seven Potential Christmas Cards. Send them before Christmas, from your lodgings!

•  You now have 7 x Potential Christmas Card

December 2nd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/63326advblessuseveryone

A thump from overhead. A curse. An urchin has slipped on a frosty roof! They arrest their descent with their fingernails, but their knotted sock slips from their belt. It lands at your feet.

Result:

Who can resist a good sock? Oh-ho! And what's this inside?

•  You've gained 1 x Magnificent Diamond

December 3rd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/09257advdevilishsecrets

The invitation promised a relaxed gathering of friends, but the evening is disturbed by an interloping devil who complains loudly about the lack of sulphur in the mulled wine. Regrettably, you both pull a seat up to the fireplace at the same time.

Result:

The devil spends all evening staring into the flames and telling maudlin stories of the Iron Republic. You make your excuses by ten.

•  You've gained 7 x Appalling Secret

December 4th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/92007advdeepandcrisp

As you pass the exiles in their nooses at Hangman's Arch, one rolls his eyes and wheezes.

Result:

"Like spores," he says, "from never." He strains to sign at the ceiling... or the Surface. Something primordial tugs at the coat-tails of your memory.

•  You've gained 1 x Primaeval Hint

December 5th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/57124advbucketofcat

A sprinkling of lacre's come early this year. Your doorstep is rank with fishy-smelling white goo. Happy Christmas-to-come.

Result:

Ah, lacre. The Neath's answer to snow. Lacre-men always seem watchful. Lacre-capped roofs tingle with sinister phosphorescence. Lacre dissolves in water only reluctantly, like a guest who hopes to find space in your box-room.

[Use this in your inventory to learn more about lacre or acquire a Destiny.]

•  You now have 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

December 6th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/44696advrubberycellar

Clanging and scraping noises from below jar you from sleep. To your groggy ears it sounds like pickaxes working clumsily at some hidden seam. However, the fluting, babbling sound is unmistakable. Rubbery Men in the cellar!

Result:

Discovered, they flee! The corridor is narrow - rubbery flesh squeezes past you in the dark. They have abandoned their tools, along with whatever they were excavating from behind your cellar wall.

•  You've gained 1 x Unearthly Fossil
•  You've gained 1 x Crate of Expedition Supplies (up to 100)

December 7th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/30913ghostofratmaspast

A sound, downstairs at midnight. A burglar…?

Result:

Someone has left… something in the centre of your parlour. Was it a gift? Or did you disturb them at their midnight work?

•  You've gained 1 x Rat of Glory

December 8th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/66726advalloftheliving

Some tomb-colonists enjoy the full lease of life that the Neath gives them. This one, though, grouses about the decline in grammar, public morals, millinery, chess, the quality of cheese.

Result:

"Here, take this. Perhaps I can at least find a satisfactory opponent on the River."

[The Amulet will preserve you from death, once.]

•  You've gained 1 x Horsehead Amulet

December 9th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/11110advirrigoandlime

You start awake suddenly. Something unexpected has happened. The room is scented with lavender and seawater. You are unharmed and untouched. But your vision is tinged with irrigo - the colour of forgetfulness. But it's already fading. And what's this?

Result:

Someone's written on your mirror. "Thank you. I won't forget. x." You've begun to erase it by the time you realise it's written in reverse on the other side of the mirror... Over the course of the next day it fades like steam.

•  Your 'Irrigo' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x Favour in High Places

December 10th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/43387advnodanblink

One for sorrow, two for joy. Three for Paris, four for Troy. Five for Athens, six for Thebes and seven... hush. Not yet.

Result:

Seven bats perch on the roof of your house. This is, perhaps, a good omen.

•  You've gained 7 x Sudden Insight
•  You've gained 7 x Confident Smile

December 11th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/18621advcheerygift

Three gentlemen - scarred and bruised - knock at your front door. Shoulder to shoulder, their thick coats make them seem like one wide figure. They hand you a battered, gift-wrapped parcel. One of them adjusts the bow, before they all stomp away.

Result:

A gift from the Cheery Man. A token of appreciation, or a threat?

•  You've gained 1 x Book of Hidden Bodies

December 12th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/62852advguanatic

A smiling woman in an unfamiliar uniform, with eyes like moon-pearls, raps at your door. "Drink deep!" she says, handing you a steaming mug.

Result:

That steam! Inhale it and feel your synapses snap and your sinuses crackle.

[Drinking Darkdrop Coffee will refresh ten actions. Find it in your inventory.]

•  You've gained 1 x Darkdrop Coffee

December 13th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/11862advmidshipman

You're enjoying wassail punch at the Rusty Tramp when the Giggling Midshipman sits at your table. His ship has just arrived back from the Khanate, and he is full of mirth and egg-hot. He tells you the usual zailor's lies, and gossips about a Bespectacled Visitor that bought passage back to London.

Result:

His stories of the tooth-tide are far-fetched. However, his speculation on the Bespectacled Visitor's sleeping habits - or rather lack of them - is intriguing.

•  You've gained 1 x Dubious Testimony
•  You've gained 6 x Zee-Ztory

December 14th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/39451advholynight

"Catch!" the Igneous Correspondent shouts. He tosses something in a glittering arc and is gone, with the Ministry of Public Decency in flapping pursuit.

Result:

A soul! A pale, still soul, watching you from inside its bottle with an unusual degree of tranquillity.

•  You've gained 1 x Silent Soul

December 15th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/30171midnightmatriarchy

A delivery! The postman goes masked. How wise of her.

Result:

The box bears this warning: THE DUCHESS IS THIRSTY.

•  You've gained 1 x A Boxed Cat?

December 16th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/38831advwarningnote

You return from a cold walk past the crypt at St. Dunstan's to find a note pinned to your door. 'Hide the candles! Cover up in scarlet! Avoid plum pudding!'

Result:

The handwriting is familiar, though shaky. Is it yours?

•  You've gained 1 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
•  You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
•  You've gained 5 x Foxfire Candle Stub

December 17th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/60120advanima

Carol-singers raise their voices bravely against the rumbling of hackney-carriages... but there's another rumbling. Thunder!

Result:

The singers disperse, screaming in terror, as a bolt of apocyanic lightning shatters a flower-pot on a balcony. Above you on the roof, you glimpse an urchin peering: a liver-mark sprawls across half his face. Something remains in the shards of the pot.

•  You've gained 1 x Storm-Threnody

December 18th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/14731advbasidiomycota

Something is germinating on your hat-stand. Blue-green sporocarps sprout from the crown; filaments obtrude themselves from the inner lining. How festive!

Result:

The hat attracts luminous beetles. They flutter impertinently about your lodgings. Alight on your tea cups. Congregate hopefully by your biscuit tin.

•  You've gained 1 x Sporing Bonnet
•  You've gained 100 x Phosphorescent Scarab
•  Nightmares is dropping… (-2 CP)

December 19th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/38664adreamofasunderedsea

What is this place? A sky of fire and names, a sea of pale tears?

Result:

This dream is over. Perhaps something remained.

[This has raised your Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre quality. You'll be able to trade it for rewards in January.]

•  You've gained 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre

December 20th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/17366advwarmandbright

The crossword of the Unexpurgated Gazette is especially challenging tonight. But wait! Of course! That's -

Result:

As you solve the clue, the paper flares with a clean white flame. You curse and drop its burning halves to the floor! The crossword is gone. But the answer remains in your mind, crouched like a scorpion.

•  You've gained 1 x Searing Enigma

December 21st

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/18372advinheritance

A knock on the door announces a grey solicitor, half his face covered by a thick scarf. Without a word he passes you a letter and a package - an inheritance.

Result:

You skim the letter: '...and so it was her last wish that you have this, to remember her.' You don't recognise the signature, but the diamond brooch is familiar. When you look at it, you taste cigar smoke and plums.

•  You've gained 1 x Ostentatious Diamond
•  You've gained 1 x Vision of the Surface
•  You've gained 1 x Mourning Candle

December 22nd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/69538advaleatoria

A parcel wrapped in seven colours of silk. The card reads A PEACE OFFERING.

Result:

"We've had our differences. But this is Christmas. Best wishes, the Fallen London Probably Random Number Algorithm"

•  You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die

December 23rd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/48492advstravinksyinastrop

Why do you sleep so deeply tonight? What is it that's drunk your dreams?

Result:

Translucent goo on your pillow. A curious throbbing in your ear. Something has profited from your nightmares. Your sleep is clear and clean. Hurrah?

•  Your 'Nightmares' Quality has gone!

December 24th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/29321exceptionalfeet

Ahahaha... Excuse me. We do beg your pardon. 'Ho ho ho.'

Result:

"Do you recall how we came to that place? And they sang of their lightnings and shapeful disgrace? And we tilted our vanes and ennobled our spires. They welcomed us then and commingled all choirs. And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns, and still waits the Sun."

•  You've gained 1 x Meticulously Altered Stocking

December 25th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/98567magnificentfeast

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 2016!

Result:

Meet, drink, and be many, for tomorrow They may dine.

•  You've gained 1 x Magnificent Feast