Celebrate the Feast of the Exceptional Rose!
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This content is only available during Feast of the Exceptional Rose!
For the history of this holiday see Feast of the Exceptional Rose (historical) |
| A player-created Guide is available for this content: Feast of the Rose (Guide) |
| Spoiler warning! This page contains details about Fallen London Actions. |
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Game Instructions: Send rose-gifts as signs of affection and scorn. Later in the Feast, you can trade your rose-gifts for Masquing, and trade Masquing for special companions!
Find other players to trade rose-gifts with here on the forums.
Or join other players in the Failbetter Games Discord, here.
Unlocked with 
London's Season: The Feast of the Exceptional Rose is 1-2 (World Quality, now locked)
Options:
Watch passers-by
- Spoiler
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 10 || 7 - very chancy (42%) || 9 - chancy (54%) || 11 - modest (66%) || 12 - very modest (72%) || 14 - low-risk (84%) || 16 - straightforward (96%) || 17 - straightforward (100%)Success
Neathly glories
[The Airs of London change…] (random)
You've gained 4 x Inkling of Identity
Rare Success
Not always subtle
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
- You've gained 8 x Inkling of Identity
Failure
Predators and prey
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
- You've gained 1 x Inkling of Identity
Visit the Perfumed Pleasure Garden!
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Making Waves 2
Success
Your hackney-carriage awaits
You have moved to a new area: Mrs Plenty's Carnival
You've gained 2 x Carnival Ticket
Making Waves is dropping… (-3 CP)
Redirects to: The Perfumed Pleasure Garden
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Observe the spires of the Bazaar
- Spoiler Unlocked with
The Airs of London 90+
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
A ruddy nimbus
Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 6 x Appalling Secret- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
Failure
Nothing
- Watchful is increasing…
Purchase a Mask of the Rose
- Spoiler Unlocked with
80 x Moon-Pearl
Locked with 1 x Mask of the Rose
Success
Your mystique is assured
You now have 1 x Mask of the Rose
You've lost 80 x Moon-Pearl
Sending Non-Fate Gifts
(your friend can exchange these for Masquing, but only up to 30)
Send a Custom-Engraved Skull
- Spoiler Unlocked with
200 x Inkling of Identity
When Sent
Respice post te, hominem te esse memento, memento mori - nam mors indecepta There's a ghoulish fashion amongst the well-heeled for unearthing the Prelapsarian dead and putting them on display. It's rare to see permanent death in the Neath, after all. […] You could add words of your own, […] to fill the head of the recipient.
- You've lost 200 x Inkling of Identity
Your friend will receive:
[Your name] has sent you a Custom-Engraved Skull – a considered and morbid gift, perhaps indicating that you should commit their message to memory.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend's name] has accepted your gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something dead! [Your name] has sent you a token of undoubted interest! Check your inventory.
- You've gained 1 x A Custom-Engraved Skull
Send someone an Antediluvian Ushabti
- Spoiler Unlocked with
20 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
When Sent
I repeat to you the good deeds which my own heart did for me from within the serpent-coil […]The Nile Kings were entombed with these […] so that they would have labourers after death. […] That night you dream of an overgrown garden. […] The Ushabti is at your side. A heavy crown rests on your head. […] The dream lingers after waking.
You've lost 20 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you an Antediluvian Ushabti. It is an antiquarian gift. A funeral figurine of the Nile Kings, its polished jade sheen obscures its wide, staring eyes.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] has accepted your wonderful gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something extraordinary! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undying love! Check your inventory.
You've gained 1 x An Antediluvian Ushabti
Send an Illicit Volume of Unexpectedly Racy Fungal-Themed Poetry
- Spoiler Unlocked with
100 x Romantic Notion
When Sent
Secret and safe Perhaps an inscription inside the cover – something intimate; something pointed. Thick brown paper, double wrapped. An entire ball of string, tied into knots that would give a zailor palpitations. There – proofed against all but the nosiest of postmen.
- You've lost 100 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you an Illicit Volume of Unexpectedly Racy Fungal-Themed Poetry. Are they sending you a message? Or trying to get you arrested?
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] has accepted your wonderful gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Your friend will receive:
Something extraordinary! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undying love! Check your inventory.
- You've gained 1 x Illicit Volume of Unexpectedly Racy Fungal-Themed Poetry
Send someone a Singed Playing Card
- Spoiler Unlocked with
500 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
When Sent
A slim envelope "I would abandon even the Marvellous for you". "Love is not a game." "Fate is our plaything." "Be discarded." A message of a hundred ambiguities.
You've lost 500 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you a playing-card crisped in a candle-flame. What does it mean?
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How delicious.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
How charming! [Friend Name] must hold you in high regard. Check your inventory
- You've gained 1 x Singed Playing Card
Send a Tiny Kettle of Pickled Liars' Tongues
- Spoiler Unlocked with
50 x Intriguing Snippet
When Sent
Without number You've never heard of anyone actually eating the things. How many silver kettles sit, you wonder, in the dust at the back of forgotten cupboards?
You've lost 50 x Intriguing Snippet
Your friend will receive:
[Friend] has sent you a Tiny Silver Kettle of Pickled Liars' Tongues. How...delicious? Possibly.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [Player] by returning the favour.
You've gained 1 x Tiny Silver Kettle of Pickled Liar's Tongues
Send a Lemurian's Mask
- Spoiler Unlocked with
50 x Intriguing Snippet
When Sent
Hallowtide The mask of Hallowmas, worn by the midnight confessor and the masquerader. A mask out of season. To wear them during the Feast is to make a deliberate statement. What omen do you wish your intended to divine?
- You've lost 50 x Intriguing Snippet
Your friend will receive:
[Your name] has sent you a Lemurian's Mask. A Hallowmas Mask, worn fashionably, or spitefully, out of season. Become the ghost at the feast!
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [your name] by returning the favour.
You've gained 1 x Lemurian's Mask
Send a Glass of Teeth
- Spoiler Unlocked with
500 x Cryptic Clue
When Sent
Tightly wrapped You don't want it rattling in the post.
You've lost 500 x Cryptic Clue
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you a Glass of Teeth. Read that how you will.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [Friend Name] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Glass of Teeth
Send an Unblemished Exile's Rose
- Spoiler Unlocked with
200 x Inkling of Identity
When Sent
A rose without thorns The flower pressed to the paper, its petals flattened like ink. Velvet to the touch and wet with unstolen nectar, the Exile's Rose is redolent of dark promises made at midnight. London's veterans returned from the war on Hell wearing them on their breasts.
- You've lost 200 x Inkling of Identity
Your friend will receive:
[Your name] has sent you an Unblemished Exile's Rose, an untarnished flower of Hell. Do they flatter you with its dark beauty? Or mean to suggest you should take a trip there?
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [your name] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Unblemished Exile's Rose
Send a Buttered Chess-Piece
- Spoiler Unlocked with
200 x Inkling of Identity
When Sent
Suitably anointed Butter is the aristocracy of dairy-goods. Cheese, its wicked demi-monde.
- You've lost 200 x Inkling of Identity
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you a Buttered Chess-Piece - a gift opaque, perhaps, to the most determined and insightful analysis.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend name] has accepted your wonderful gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something extraordinary! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undying love! Check your inventory.
You've gained 1 x Buttered Chess-Piece
Send a Pink-Painted Cat
- Spoiler Unlocked with
200 x Appalling Secret
When Sent
A stream of protests You've paid a fair price, but the cat professes to regret the arrangement. The colour of the paint is unexpectedly strident. The quality of your payment is inferior. The box to which it must submit smells unsuitably of peppermints. You are relieved to abandon it at the post-office.
- You've lost 200 x Appalling Secret
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you a Pink-Painted Cat. One hopes this bedraggled wisp of fur has been well-paid. Its dudgeon glows like a storm-cloud.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [Friend Name] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Pink-Painted Cat
Send a Decanter of Lachrymose Chartreuse
- Spoiler Unlocked with
200 x Amanita Sherry
When Sent
Of imbibing The liquid is the colour of jaundiced emeralds. It tastes of pickled sweetness, earthy roots, and macerated cloves. The terroir is of dark waves lapping against cold stone. The aroma is redolent of peat. Much like St Stalactite, this chartreuse plummets from a high place to a lower one.
You've lost 200 x Amanita Sherry
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you a Decanter of Lachrymose Chartreuse – a tart and ascetic gift, that lubricates the vocal chords for diverse vocalisations.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] has accepted your unique gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something green! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undoubted interest! Check your inventory.
You've gained 1 x A Decanter of Lachrymose Chartreuse
Send a Metaphysically Educated Rattus Faber
- Spoiler Unlocked with
40 x Scraps of Incendiary Gossip
When Sent
"Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee!" She leaps eagerly into the box and nestles herself into the padding, as if settling down for a nap […] It is only when you hand the parcel over at the post office that she begins reciting – with impressive projection. The postmistress blushes furiously.
- You've lost 40 x Scraps of Incendiary Gossip
Your friend will receive:
[Friend Name] has sent you a Metaphysically Educated Rattus Faber. The value of such a gift depends on whether you judge a rat's nasal tones to improve or diminish 'The Good Morrow'.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] has accepted your wonderful gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Your friend will receive:
Something squeakily loquacious! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undoubted interest! Check your inventory.
You've gained 1 x Metaphysically Educated Rattus Faber
Send a Lovingly Be-Ribboned Kitten (No Panther)
- Spoiler Action Cost:
Unlocked with
1 x Parabolan Kitten, 
200 x Surface-Silk Scrap
Locked with
A Panther's Progress
When Sent
Uncooperative
You've lost 200 x Surface-Silk Scrap
You've lost 1 x Parabolan Kitten
Your friend will receive:
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Lovingly Be-Ribboned Kitten
Send a Lovingly Be-Ribboned Kitten (Panther)
- Spoiler Unlocked with 1 x Parabolan Panther, 200 x Surface-Silk Scrap
Locked with Parabolan Kitten
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- You've lost 200 x Surface-Silk Scrap
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Lovingly Be-Ribboned Kitten
Sending Fate Gifts
(your friend can exchange these for Masquing, without a cap)
Send a Hamper of Heart-Cuts (5 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Hamper of Heart-Cuts
Send a Watchful Doll (5 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Watchful Doll
Send a Rose-Bearing Maggot (5 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Rose-Bearing Maggot
Send a Starveling Stole (10 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Starveling Stole
Send a Box of Potentials (10 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Box of Potentials
Send a Key-to-Heart Dagger (10 FATE)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Feast of the Exceptional Rose Season:, 
Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 1
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Key-to-Heart Dagger
Send a Promissory Note for Intimate Favours (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Promissory Note for Intimate Favours
Send a Liberalian Mask (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Liberalian's Mask
Chivalrously Murder Someone's Rival (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Chivalrous Murder of a Rival
Send Terrifying Candies (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Box of Terrifying Candies
Send a Hand of Glory (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Hand of Glory
Send a Tear-Drowned Collection of Incomprehensible Love-Poems (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Tear-Drowned Collection of Incomprehensible Love-Poems
Send a Mouthless Amber Mask (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Mouthless Amber Mask
Send a Heartwood Hearse (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x A Heartwood Hearse
Send a Blemmigan Pedant (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Blemmigan Pedant
Send a Lupercalian Mask (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Lupercalian Mask
Arrange a Explosion of Neath-Colours on the Stroke of Midnight (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Explosion of Neath-Colours on the Stroke of Midnight
Send a Tanned Mask (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Tanned Mask
Send a Gold-Spiked Rosary (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Golden Spiked Rosary
Send a One Way Ticket on the 12:15 to Hell (50 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x A One Way Ticket on the 12:15 to Hell
Send a Well-Song (50 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Well-Song
Send a Luxuriantly Coiffed Sorrow-Spider (50 FATE)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Arachnologist 1
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Luxuriantly Coiffed Sorrow-Spider
Send a Set of Martyr's Bones (50 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
You've gained 1 x Set of Martyr's Bones
Begin Past Exceptional Stories
Begin 'A Little Pandemonium' (45 FATE)
- Spoiler Locked with
The First London Spectacle
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- An occurrence! Your 'The First London Spectacle' Quality is now (?)!
Begin 'For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest' (45 FATE)
- Spoiler Locked with
The March of the Saints
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
An occurrence! Your 'The March of the Saints' Quality is now (?)!
