Advent Calendar 2016

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From December 1st 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, Tumblr 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/29703advpaperdoor

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!

[From 9th December until Christmas Day, you will receive new Christmas cards each week via Time, the Healer.]

•  You now have 7 x Potential Christmas Card

December 2nd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/26535advboletale

Someone has planted a huge bolegus mushroom in the centre of Big King Square. It is draped in tinsel. A star wobbles on top.

Result:

It's reassuring to see traditions endure, even deep under the earth. Perhaps you'll dream of stars, and fir-trees, and snow. Proper snow.

• Nightmares is dropping… (-5 CP)
•  You've gained 5 x Vision of the Surface

December 3rd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/19096advcheerygift

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 4th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/33829advwarmandbright

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 5th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/83279advgoesonforever

At the back of the Blind Helmsman, a Frostbitten Midshipman shivers by the fire. She says she travelled with a Merchant Venturer to a frozen Northern door. For a mulled cider, she'll tell you what was behind it.

Result:

The High Wilderness! An unblemished frontier of endless night, awash with potential. The Merchant Venturer is out there, plying the wind-roads of the void. Where one has gone, may others follow?

•  You've gained 1 x Sky-Story

December 6th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/41967advoncemoreforgory

A solemn procession of rattus faber dignitaries delivers a black leather cylinder with a hinged lid, like a map-case. Inside, a sable-furred venge-rat floats in a bottle of formaldehyde. The lead dignitary smoothes her whiskers and begins to read from a letter.

Result:

"Honoured Foe - it was I who sunk my teeth into your instep that day at the Increate Vaults. I have long admired the taste of your flesh and the brio of your reflexive kick. I hope that on damp nights you may have limped, and recalled me. No doubt you have been bitten by other rats in your time, but I flatter myself I bit with particular savagery. I have asked that my corpse be commended to you on the occasion of my death - " Is this a case of mistaken identity? Perhaps best not to say, if it is.

•  You've gained 1 x Venge-Rat Corpse

December 7th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/86160ghostofratmaspast

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/95538advbucketofcat

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 9th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/65249advaleatoria

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 10th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/95268advguanatic

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 11th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/32308advtranshumanticlibation

Curious remnants of previous cities occur around London. This one has occurred in your wall. What is it?

Result:

Behind a loose stone in your pantry wall, someone has left an earthenware bottle. The contents are translucent white; the smell is eye-watering, but heady. Your vision swims briefly. A plain of golden green, the sun rolling in the sky...

•  You've gained 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise

December 12th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/55232advsilent

The Shivering Relicker is doing brisk business tonight on Moloch Street. But where's Pinnock? 'Take these,' she pleads. 'I'll pay you.'

Result:

'Merry Christmas. Just - keep them away from requiems. Carols. Wells. Lacre.'

•  You've gained 20 x Certifiable Scrap
•  You've gained 100 x Primordial Shriek

December 13th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/78074advholynight

"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 14th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/89793advlacreball

Something cold thuds against your back. A snowball! A gang of urchins giggles mischievously behind you. They're preparing a second volley; take cover!

Result:

You hunker down behind a wall, and answer with a salvo of your own. During a gap in hostilities, a Gap-Toothed Ragamuffin hands you a rat, by way of a peace offering. "Yer all right, for a longshanks."

•  You've gained 1 x Rat on a String
•  You've gained 3 x Dubious Testimony
•  You've gained 1 x Sworn Statement

December 15th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/92245advrubberycellar

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 16th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/80755advmidshipman

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 17th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/64283advirrigoandlime

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 18th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/23846advcuriouscandle

You wake, suddenly, in the night. There's something on the outside of your bedroom windowsill: a candle, burning brightly behind the glass.

Result:

The season is rife with old customs. When you wake in the morning, the candle has burned down. Only a smear of wax remains, and the memory of its flame, fierce on the glass.

•  You've gained 1 x Direful Reflection
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)

December 19th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/44155advwarningnote

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 20th

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/28528advamber

A furtive rustling on the roof! What is that curious sound? Like a toy balloon trapped in a trombone.

Result:

A pop, a rattle, a thud! Something drops down the chimney to lie glowing in your fireplace.

•  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber

December 21st

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/35352advpopgoes

A crash of plates announces an interloper in your pantry. It's scarred. It's patchy. It has less than the customary number of ears. But there is a calm wisdom in its little eyes.

Result:

And oho! Look at the wicked thing it's killed.

•  You've gained 1 x Araby Fighting-Weasel
•  You've gained 1 x Baptised Rattus Faber Corpse

December 22nd

Access Code: http://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/23190adreamofasunderedsea

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 23rd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/26433advcovertchristmas

Rustling from above! Something thumps across your ceiling, and your chimney coughs a cloud of ash. Who's on your roof?

Result:

By the time you've clambered onto your roof, it's empty. But tucked into the chimney is a wrapped bundle, perhaps the loot stashed by some fleeing burglar. You'll consider it an early present.

•  You've gained 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
•  You've gained 1 x Partial Map
•  You've gained 100 x Foxfire Candle Stub
•  You've gained 1 x Solacefruit

December 24th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/36756exceptionalfeet

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/40073magnificentfeast

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 2017!

Result:

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

•  You've gained 1 x Magnificent Feast