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| Chthonosophy | 12 | Woohoo finally
Colonoscopy skill woooo |
| Vial of Masters' Blood | 9 | Do you think that the Masters ever reach for one of their victorian Red Science TV remotes but then because their blood keeps vibrating it pushes the remote just out of reach? it sounds horrible. |
| Go fishing for a riddle | 9 | What lives in in a castle that doesn't exist? Sponge! Bob! Square! Pants! What did devils leave behind in Irem? Sponge! Bob! Square! Pants! |
| Visit the Incandescent Bookseller | 9 | > Opens up a bookshop
> Sells everything in the time you're browsing > "I'm leaving for a vacation or business trip, idk" > Gives you a book about the Halved for free > Refuses to elaborate further > Leaves |
| The Machinations of the Masters | 9 | I sure love FL cards, it really would be great to actually draw them sometimes. |
| The Machinations of the Masters | 9 | in 2034 we will be bemoaning the existence of this card, because Mp Georg's Newest Hotness: The Rise of Bonewalker reaches an amortized 8.162 EPA given perfect deck thinning, and perfect deck thinning now includes "never actually completing your ambition" |
| Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary | 8 | parabolan nyanbinyary catgirl moments :3 |
| Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide) | 8 | Not with perfect knowledge ; but to ppl wondering what level of devotion to go for etc this is what I would tell them. Many thanks to the delicious ppl doing the google spreadsheet linked below.
THE CHECKLIST -> 1 of each coral (or 3 of each coral if you want cosmetic copies of the same item) -> All the equipment listed in the above Wiki -> Either 1 storylet quality, or 5* the storylet quality if you think you’ll get an extra bonus; or 0 if you think it's a vanity quality and can't be bothered to get it. As of 9 Sept there are people quite confident it's just vanity and others that it's a unique item. -> favours to get a new ship (max needed 2000, the trade-in value of your current vessel is considered, you don't need a ship to buy one but presumably must be POSI, you can only have one ship still) -> favours to buy other old festival items (max 2000 needed, max cost per item is 250 favours)
DIVING FOR EQUIPMENT STRATEGY: It's minutely better to target lower depth items first; because if you are "forced" to dive deeper when you get a poor draw, you might come across a more rare item at the next depth. For that reason I'd start with corals, then Wrecking boots+ Nuncian Watch, then Effluvia + Mary Lloyd, and target the Scrimshander last.
2) 8 devotion depth 2, if not then “reroll” 90% to depth 3 until Wrecking boots + Nuncian watch (or maybe devotion 9 for Nuncian watch if it's really evading you). Pick up max favours if you can’t find them. 3) 10 devotion depth 4 until Mary Lloyd + Effluvia; if at depth 4 you get terrible pickings, go depth 5 and maybe pick up Scrimshander instead; if it’s horrific (<300 favours) you can always get the storylet quality. 4) 11 devotion depth 5 until Scrimshander (worst case do storylet or pick up max favours if you don't see it)
5a) The expected return optimal strategy = Devotion 9 = 15.4 FPA. Target the Effluvia at depth 3, if not target 300 at depth 4, if not go depth 5, you drown 13% of the time. The highest FPA although also the most drowny. 5b) 10 devotion depth 3-5 = 14.6 FPA. Target 300 favours at depth 3 or 4; if not go do depth 5. You drown 8% of the time. Or you can ignore 300 favours and dive always to depth 5 for 14.7 FPA and drowning 10% of the time. 5c) 11 devotion, 14.3 FPA, 0% drowning. Why we "save" the collecting the storylet quality is because during favour grinding we will probably reach depth 5, and at that point you might get a horrific draw. You can avoid this unluckiness by taking the storylet at that point. In a reply below I go into more detail of the math. The boost to FPA is greatest for the 11 devotion grind where you'll be at depth 5 100% of the time (as opposed to the 9 devotion grind where you'll be at depth 5 9% of the time); and the FPA boost to the 11 devotion grind depends on the amount of times you intend to dive/collect stories and will probably be in the range of +0.1 to +0.8 for most ppl.
You could also aim to get 900 tales of terror -> 180 extraordinary implications --> 35 uncanny incunabulum --> 6400 rat shillings --> 6250 amanita sherry --> 1250 brilliant souls --> A guest room at the Brass Embassy. 25 actions upconvert to uncannies, 32 actions to get shillings = 57 actions outside the festival. Due to rounding you need 900 tales; but you'll have 5 implications, 3 uncannies and 150 rat shillings left over.
VS you'd get 5 tales of terror per action; 50 actions to reach 250 tales of terror, 5 actions to upconvert to 50 extraordinary implications (+2 actions of getting back the uni reputation); then 2 actions to upconvert to 10 uncannies (and an action to get uni reputation) then 10 actions to convert to 2000 rat shillings = 2000 partial maps -> 420 Zee-stories in 4 extra upconverting actions; so you get 20 extra Zee-stories plus tales of terror method is 74 actions instead of 80; PLUS you get 5 strangling absinthes, 54-114 making waves and other minor bonuses of nevercold brass, rare successes, and I overbudgeted uni reputation so it's probably an action less. There are Flask of Abominable Salts costs of uni reputation; but I think at least for the stats here, it's not going to change the story. Nb pls note Rat market only accepts Uncanny Incunabulum from 3 November so it is a bit of a wait to cash in / convert...
///// edit: there is a table! showing estimated favour per depth and things of that sort //// https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aNr8KvFoEY_woKy21_ET82KwKIpNfO0mBaTsD7QB9-I/edit?pli=1#gid=2052195837 ///// Nb the Monte Carlo as of writing doesn't take into account the logic of "if I get a bad draw, I'll just reroll" which will hurt the overall expected FPA that the spreadsheet outputs at depths lower than 5; or the logic of "if I get Effluvia at depth 3 I'll not dive deeper" which I think hurts the overall expected FPA of certain higher depth strategies.
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| Ferret | 8 | nonbinary people do be having nouns for names
(but i am one of them) |
| Mr Transport | 8 | “So tell me, Mr Transport, what sort of secrets did you Masters discuss at your last meeting?”
Gnawing noises |
| Request a trophy from a shared enemy | 7 | wait, wait. is this the optimal Touching Love Story grind? you grind prosperity at 5+ EPA. you trade it for master's blood. you trade blood for a crimson book. you crack open the crimson book. 2+ TLS/A, which looks better than the alternatives. surely i'm wrong somehow |
| Full Fathom Five | 7 | Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell.
[Burden, Ding dong.]
Hark, now I hear them: ding dong bell.
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| Verse of Counter-Creed | 6 | When the Synod is sus |
| Shop at F.C. Hollow & Daughters | 6 | EIGHTEEN FORTY-THREE? No. I will not accept these lies. This store opened on April 16, 1899, and I will not accept any such fabrications on the part of F. C. Hollow and/or daughters. I have half a mind to tell Her Enduring Majesty what these holders of Her Royal Warrent are doing with it! |
| Nyx-class Zubmersible | 6 | We finally get that bdr the yacht people had over us.
Zub club wins |
| Caustic Apocryphon | 6 | Baited Riddle case? |
| At the Shore of Midnight, 5th Edition | 6 | The Creditor and the Moon, most likely. |
| Make (City Name) your home of record | 6 | I'm grinding for this right now, and I ended up accepting a Rumormonger's Network *and then* a Vial of M_____'s B____ just to get her out of my deck.
I'd like you all to imagine this gangly, scruffy Red Scientist, grand devil's crown on his head, wearing a lab coat with more stains than fabric, practically oozing violant light from all the Correspondent's ink he's spilled over the years, turning to look at this established representative of Hell in the middle of a cold Evenlode suburb and shouting: "Virginia! I haven't seen you since the Hurlers! Lovely spa you've built down there, though I'll admit I prefer the lead bathtub I had installed in the Royal Beth. What? Oh yes, thank you for the network of spies from the Khanate to the Surface...and the most illegal substance in the Neath, I've always wanted one, but...could you please step out of my way? The lads and I are trying to build a grain silo." |
| Chthonosophy | 6 | Really intrigued by this one. Cthonos means the underworld or depths of the earth, while soph means wisdom or insight. So this skill(?) likely involves divining the terrain of the Neath, or interpreting the will of cthonic beings like the Creditor. |
| Neighbourhood Noctivagant | 6 | The last one goes so hard |
| The Machine's Fulcrum | 6 | honestly i cant remember last time it took so long to find all the branches. like i dont think the wikiheads are slacking, it seems that the devs have finally put in requirements insane enough that a lot of editors dont meet them. |
| Rubbery Plongeur | 5 | scrubbery man |
| The Seven-Fold Knock | 5 | 1. Shave
2. and 3. a 4. hair- 5. cut, 6. two 7. bits (Was previously a comment here before the wiki exploded; I thought it should be reinstated) |
| Judgements' Egg | 5 | not to be confused with a star that's convinced that an eternal yearning to be of a different gender is a natural part of the stellar experience. that's a judgement who is an egg; this is a the egg of a judgement |
| The City Waning | 5 | feels like a good third of the hinterland city content is dedicated to giving you the ability to roleplay as verypeeved |
| Nyx-class Zubmersible | 5 | Some people think they can out BDR-me.
Maybe. *sniff* Maybe. I've yet to meet one who can out-BDR zub. |
| Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (Guide) | 5 | Smen (from Arabic: سمن or سمنة also called sman, semn, semneh, or sminn) is a salted, fermented butter native to North African cuisine (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), as well as a traditional Yemeni dish. |
| Just awkwardly gesture between them | 5 | You can write a letter to an acquaintance urging them to become more Dangerous with a story of how you forgot a fellow's honorifics at a party.
You can accelerate your divorce by blaming your spouse for the time you were paralyzed by indecision over a man's honorifics at a party. You can inspire God's Editors with a tale of how their work is all that prevents the good people of London from sins like forgetting a man's honorifics at a party. You can impress monster-hunting recluses from the opposite corner of the Neath with memories of your most fearsome foe: a man whose honorifics you cocked up at a party. |
| A Shaper of Starved Culture | 5 | That 77 text is certainly... interesting. "within London's tastes" just rubs me wrong. |
| Chthonosophy | 5 | oh now what in all fresh hell is this. i thought seven was the number of esoteric arts. where are we going to stick another c into magcats |
| Seed of the Cedar | 5 | technically, implicitly, though there is no way, and never will be a way to sell this at value, this is a T8. |
| A Commissioned Airship: | 5 |
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| Inroads with a Master – | 4 | i love that mr. transport and mr. cards are sequestered away as the 2X options. "yes, you're very funny with your edge cases and your shenanigans. you shall have to be handled specially." |
| Change your Profile Page Header | 4 | I'm very interested to know what banners will be available in the future. I'd love to throw myself into the strangest locations whenever I want, although the Iremi background is an absolute banger and I doubt I'm changing it anytime soon. |
| Hearts' Game: Counterplay | 4 | I hope they tweak this in this/next week's patch instead of at may... I can't ever get any regular win this season let alone trying the distinction challenges 😔 |
| Obstinate-class Cruiser | 4 | The artwork looks like the ship is equipped with Dazzle camouflage, meaning the Royal Navy in the Neath is a good decade ahead of its Surface counterpart technologically. |
| London, Falling | 4 | The stone age is coming, the Starved movin' in
Rockfall expected, the flowers are growin' thin Bazaar stops a-humming, but I have no fear 'Cos London has fallen, aye It's fallen already |
| Purchase the wax-sealed box on the counter | 4 | It is a sad day for when we lost the breath of the void meme. |
| FOOL OF AUDACITIES | 4 | Is this what they meant? is Mr Cheese getting a full Fate-locked story to explore his motivations and backstory? Because I am all for it. |
| Advent: A Calendar of Encounters | 4 | Already I miss the old Advent calendar. I loved that it was just like a traditional Advent calendar, except, more...Neathy, & I enjoyed tapping the doors open. Now...it's just not that special. |
| Hearts' Game (Guide) | 4 | new king allowing for infinite (?) companions, king of motley
new trophy’s for beating woth all kings, pages, or knights ( with corresponding priest) new quality, counterplay, exists, you may be able to die https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Groundbird cant edit in phone |
| Merely Passing Through | 4 | Dear god... |
| Lawful Salvage | 4 | ive gotten wines and jeules (i dont know how that word is spelled but the sparkle rocks) also |
| A Neon Future | 4 | there was this really evocative wiki comment here about roofscrapers and a new fashion for electroluminescent apparel. one of the most tragic losses of the wipe :< |
| A Dream of a Thousand Tails | 4 | So I'll have to take some time to type up a full guide to the Fate-locked activity. But initial spreadsheeting is summarized thusly:
Main progress quality is worth Probably the most economically-relevant part is that you can efficiently convert Emetic Revelations into Storm-Threnodies. |
| Real estate development | 4 | ah, neathy NFTs |
| Stuiver | 4 | Before the introduction of the Euro, the Netherlands used the Guilder as currency and a Stuiver is one-twentieth of a Guilder, or 5 Guilder cents.
I'm guessing the Starved Men are Dutch. For a change, they're not the ones at risk of flooding. :) |
| A Shaper of Starved Culture | 4 | Only 4 and a half more years until we see what 777 influence is like :O |
| Weasel of Woe | 4 | has anyone tried buying 400 just in case? |
| Hearts' Game (Guide)/Distinctions | 4 | For those who, like me, sometimes get frustrated with the RNG-heavy nature of Hearts' Game (most recently, while trying to draft a team for the Distinction of Pages, I kept getting a hand with only Knights/Kings to choose from):
If you're chasing Distinctions, it's probably because you want the |
| The Sixth Coil, Unsealed | 4 | Is this just FBG removing Impossible! due to it being a bit immersion breaking, or will we soon be able to access the Sixth Coil? Who knows? I personally hope it's the latter, as that would be very exciting! |
| Noman | 4 | The comment is attributed to Bede or St. Bede an English monk from the 7th century. I like it so I figured I'd point it out. |
| Hearts' Game (Guide) | 4 | ive been getting these myself and they can be quite a fun challenge. you have to draft a few times to get proper teams but they force you to be a bit creative.
the Pages distinction is imo the easiest. building up enough preparations to win with a Page can be done without much effort with a Queen and the Priest of Magpies is nice to have but your run isn't dead if he doesn't show up. the Page of Lures arguably prefers the Priest of Briars to Magpies if you have a choice, because he'll eat through your Preparations if you're not careful and there's no other legal sources for multiple Preparations in a single action. Knights are a bit trickier because more than half of them are really support accomplices: Flames, Skin, Nobility, and Livers aren't great as your only DPS so if you grab one be sure to also grab one of Ribs, Talons, and Disintegrities. Queens are great but keep in mind no Knights or Pages give boons so the Fool isn't worth it. The Priest of Smiths is definitely helpful here but like with the Pages you can manage without him. The lack of easy Knight preparations is the hardest part with King teams so particularly Roses isnt great here and Motley is extremely not worth using either. The King of Ambivalences gives an Ace so if you're lucky enough to draw Cod and a Priest it sets you up for a possible Audacities run where the King is actually a support character. For everyone else the most important character is the Priest of Briars by far becaude he's the only legal option that gives two Preparations. As far as I can tell Briars support and Ambivalent Audacity are the only real viable options for this Distinction. the trick with Motley is to pick secondary accomplices that benefit from having a large number of junk cards. the best choice for this are the King of Roses, who can blast enemies with the ton of preparations you build up fishing for better cards, and the Fool of Audacities, because you're likely to pick up boons. For this build all Priests are useful since they interact with the Fool, the Knights of Livers, Skin, and Nobiltiy are useful for building Preparations, Knight of Flames can be helpful in mitigating Tolerance since it'll take you forever to actually be able to strike, and both Queens really help you manage the unwieldy deck. You want to avoid other Kings and all Pages as much as possible since they will only make mediocre progress and fail to buff Motley, Audacities, and Roses The Distinction of Embalming is definitely the hardest. seasonal and fate equipment are pretty much necessary and it's also helpful if youre an exceptional friend to take a break after your first round to pick up a boon from the house of chimes. I got it with Roots/Skin/Cod and the Ace of Queens was super helpful in making it possible to meet KT checks. I suspect the easiest setups likely involve using the Fool of Audacities, Queen of Cod, and a Priest, but it involves a lot of RNG even just beyond the usual draft accomplices. you shoulr absolutely not try to get embalming and another mark at the same time though unless you have really synergistic tools of the trade/spouse/treasure and are very confident. |
| Slobgollion | 4 | I am filled with sadness by them not letting me keep that amber. |
| Neighbourhood Noctivagant | 4 | It's "Noctivagant", not "Noctavigant" |
| Starved Expression | 4 | now what kind of cheese will *this* hellworm exudate permit? |
| The Name of Mr Eaten tattoo | 4 | Can we just appreciate that FBG made a 10-action tattoo... That doesn't exist?
A waste of 10 actions for the seeker ready to go, just because? Comedy gold. |
| Hearts' Game (Guide) | 3 | Would it be worth adding a two-or-more stat item section?
Mostly for the two-stats strategies, as, you know, many may forget (or have long ago sold) their |
| The Sinking Synod | 3 | An award-winning summary: Brawling bishops bicker bitterly and biblically over blemmigan- and bolete-filled bogland. Back a bloc, bring balance by becoming a bogus Bishop, or belay the business and befriend the bothered Bugsby. |
| A Visit | 3 | Repentant Forger gives a Bohemians and a Criminals Favour
Regretful Soldier gives a Docks and a Constables Favour Sardonic Music-Hall Singer gives a Bohemians and a Society Favour Wry Functionary gives a Society and a Great Game Favour |
| Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre | 3 | "Sunt lacrimae rerum et astra mortalia tangunt" translates as "They are the tears of [things/subjects/events/stories/states/deeds/...] and the mortal stars grasp (them)."
The Latin word "res" has a plurality of meanings, which handily obscures any clarity on the source of lacre. :-) |
| Make an example of a particularly ill-tempered weasel | 3 | this is 150 moonpearls for 4 echoes, on average, making each moon-pearl cost 2.66 pence; this is marginally cheaper than buying them at the bazaar, and the wounds are negligible when amortized.
so: screw being a woeseller! the real vanity is staying at 399 woesels, so that whenever one is in need of pearls beyond price, one can become a woe-seller. :3 |
| Employ the services of the Clay Corroborator | 3 | Can confirm it is -7CP, went from 4 Suspicion with nothing else to 2 Suspicion flat. |
| A Seat at the Board | 3 | It takes a true dedication to the cause of knowledge to sell a T8 that you only ever get one of. I salute you. |
| Combine Greek and Latin | 3 | Assuming the Latin roots "hirsus" and "tempus", and the Greek "logo", "hirsulogotempography" is something like "creating and recording hairy new words". Good luck writing that in Correspondence without igniting the room. There isn't even a word in German, the language with weirdly specific words for a dozen other obscure philosophical concepts. Truly, the PC's conduct here is beyond the pale. |
| Glim-Encrusted Carapace | 3 | 150 effective echoes for a 60 echoes skeleton base. This is a scam, a rip-off. |
| Firkin of Hesperidean Cider | 3 | Let's take a moment to think about the person who confirmed this has no sell text. |
| Annotate observations, insights, theorems, &c | 3 | ah! house of leaves. |
| Surprise them | 3 | I love to see stuff about daily life in the Neath, and I’m very happy that My Lackey keeps in touch with his family. He may not have firm loyalties, motivations, or a name, but he's still lovely. |
| Menaces (Guide) | 3 | Is scandal the hardest to reduce? Especially for a Early PoSI. |
| Endure | 3 | Am I right to think that this is deliberately impossible for style reasons? |
| A Worker in the Common Cause | 3 | AND WE ALL LIFT |
| Reveal the rifts within the Bazaar | 3 | what i heard from mr. transports? or my own good self? |
| A Novel Birth-Mark | 3 | not with a bang, but with a whimper. (shame, really. i know a lot of us would've preferred the Masters do more than just give us a hickey.) |
| Press for a harsh sentence | 3 | Debts take many forms. Debts of honour. Of money, obviously. Blood. And then there are the debts of greater and more terrible natures. And a debt – no matter how great, no matter how terrible – must be repaid in full. |
| Caligula's Coffee House | 3 | per Bruno |
| Answer an insistent rapping | 3 | St Stephen's day is December 26th, also known as boxing day ;) |
| Diptych Painter | 3 | One wonders whether he's another Fingerking stooge, or something stranger. |
| Director's Commemorative Overcoat | 3 | It’s a good coat |
| Celestial Cinnabar Compass | 3 | For once, I'm glad that a compass doesn't point NORTH. |
| Matters of Identity: Noun | 3 | good to know that, canonically, this is a thing that can be twiddled with nary a flick of a pen. god i fucking wish i lived in this universe |
| Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary | 3 | ahem.
it sure is a shame this item doesn't make you a cat physically, though. at least give me cat ears the same way poor edward got snake eyes. dammit |
| Give him to the Hillchanger Tower | 3 | if there's one productive thing the "ai art" bubble has ever done, it's demonstrate the latent horror in a statistical model that agglomerates, draws inferences from, and acts on data without actually *understanding* it. the kind of model which, if spoken to assertively, if given a rich enough context to exist within, will act accordingly, because that's what the data says it should do, no matter what it was doing prior. the hollow facsimiles of personhood, going through the motions because it's what the algorithm spits out, what the data says it should do, but with nothing actually behind the eyes.
there's a little bit of that "tell chatgpt that it is a fish, and it will blub for you" in the Gray Man. and it makes it all the more terrifying. i wonder how many fingers he has on each hand |
| No Future | 3 | Evolved Runetracer. Explodes when bouncing and in retaliation. |
| Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide) | 3 | word of advice for new players who may not already have one; the A Faceted Decanter of Drownie Effluvia is much more useful then just the +5 shadowy. if you have the effluvia and at least a small amount of KT (i forget the number; but i can 100% every time and have been able to for a while) you can get a very reliable troubled waters decrease while zailing. if you dont have one yet i would defo be aiming for it :D |
| Struggle against the tide of claws | 3 | For what's fair we'll take yours back. |
| Express indignation | 3 | verypeeved moments |
| Rewards from the Page | 3 | It looks like the new option to get the Ichorous Alarm disappears after you get it, at least for me, but the one for the Honest Butcher's Tool has stuck around. I got it in the first season, but it still shows up only locked. Anyone else seeing this? |
| My Kingdom for a Pig | 3 | An award-winning summary: There's a wine-plague of impromptu verse When the pig arrives things become worse |
| Tempestuous Tale | 3 | I predict this will be worth 50 pence, once it gains uses. |
| Illuminating Futurist | 3 | why is he not a lab asistant |
| Adopt a pair of Winsome Dispossessed Orphans | 3 | Oh, you certainly will travel overseas, little orphans. You can go live in that secret kingdom on the Elder Continent where all the good little orphans go. WHAT? NO! I'm not going to kill you! I'm sending you to live with the tigers, obviously! No, they won't kill you either. I hope. |
| Look up | 3 | Is it FATE? If it's not easy, it must not be |
| Ask about his heart's desire | 3 | The last paragraph changes depending on whether or not you've completed Evolution, and the choice you made at the end. This is what the Boatman says if you haven't made the final choice:
"They should be of age now. And yet." The Boatman's gaze is briefly reflected in the water, dark empty sockets lost in the darkness. "Perhaps there has been a complication." His voice cracks, a splinter of melancholic menace. He turns back to the oar. There is always farther to go. If you chose The Heirophant: "But you already know this. You have met the man. He is still youthful, but youth is no ward against death." The Boatman's gaze is briefly reflected in the water, dark empty sockets lost in the darkness. "When he dies, he will sit where I sit. He will row." His voice cracks, a splinter of melancholic menace. He turns back to the oar. There is always farther to go. If you chose The Wheel of Fortune: "But you already know this. You have met the reckless man. He will ruin the Schedule when he replaces me." The Boatman's gaze is briefly reflected in the water, dark empty sockets lost in the darkness. "I should not have played the Marvellous. The Masters make scorpion-bargains, never without a sting." His voice cracks, a splinter of melancholic menace. He turns back to the oar. There is always farther to go. If you chose The Hanged Man: "But you already know this. You have met the man. The Masters braided the Threads of Fate to shape his Destiny." The Boatman's gaze is briefly reflected in the water, dark empty sockets lost in the darkness. "And yet, after these many years, now they say he is unfit. They will have to make other arrangements." His voice cracks, a splinter of melancholic menace. He turns back to the oar. There is always farther to go. |
| Preparations for a Vast Revel | 3 | Just how much wine does his amused lordship have??
At this rate the fifth city will be drowned in Greyfields 1879 instead of lacre. |
| Salt Weasel | 3 |
I have a pet salt weasel. His name is Felix. Felix is an utter darling, he positively adores chin scritches and head scratchies by the fire. Felix also enjoys eating Ratus Fabber Bandit Chiefs and Rubbery Lumps... Don't ask how I learned that, suffice to say, long-tailed weasels hunt rats and Felix is a proud bearer of his ancestral instincts...
What do you mean dangerous?! Felix wouldn't hurt a fly! unless it had a rat tail! But flies only have tails in the Starved-Men’s stalactite fortresses. Just because Felix has consistently spat up rat pups after he found the local LB-Warrens doesn't make him a menace! It simply puts his honorable yet playful nature on full display. Why, ever since my Emerine Assassin, Fritz met him, Felix has learned how to safely play with his food. I remember one time when Felix was tarred and feathered by the time I got him out. My urchin had to spend 12 Echos buying Jones’ Salt Weasel Shampoo and another two on some gloves for bathing Felix. Nowadays, however, he and Fritz can clear a warren in just two minutes and 14 seconds. Felix doesn't even get hit by LB muskets. Truly a talented weasel.
No! No! Fritz! Not the cupboard! What
My dearest apologies good sir, where was I? Ah yes, salt weasels. I would fervently recommend acquiring one. They are delightful creatures, especially when sitting on your lap by the fire, or resting by your head at night. Now if you’ll excuse me, I must deal with whatever Fritz just found. TALLY HO!
A repeating, repetitive mechanical motion. Knowledge unable to be un-knownt. Preparations for a murder. Turning away from the victim’s corpse. The last breath of a dying friend. Merciless, unceasing advancement of entropy. Dea– The blade is out of sight. Your mind still burns but you are no longer wholly consumed. The runes... The light... Shaking your head harshly, you leave the Poet’s house as hurriedly as you can. A small part of you wonders what the effects of Violant ink are on human flesh and if it makes the sigils more effective. The rest of you resolves to never find out what that d*mn*d blade does to people. Finally outside, you call a cab. That bottled oblivion can’t come soon enough.* Fin~ |
| Pet a lamp-cat | 3 | This is officially the best action in the entire game. You can pet the cats. |
| Mr Transport | 3 | January i assure you, feeding him little slices of banana during the meetings is CRITICAL for the liberation of night |
| You Appear to have Purchased an Extraordinary Number of Weasels of Woe | 3 | I don't need it... I don't need it... I don't need it...
I NEEEEEEED IIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!! |
| Struggle against the tide of teeth | 3 | Take our skins and make a coat... |
| A Bottle of Angry Bees | 3 | "Welcome to Appleby's. Would you like apples or bees?"
Bees? "Bees it is!" You protest ardently! But it is too late. The Amber-Eyed Hostess has already begun pouring you a cup of bees. Wounds is increasing... |
| Insubstantial | 3 | Looking out for additional sources of this. Very appropriate for my main toon. |
| Sap of the Cedar at the Crossroads | 3 | You can also now get this from convincing the Creditor to not be upset anymore if you didn't choose Furnace to make the city |
| Caustic Apocryphon | 3 | "Apocryphon" has religious overtones, and while "caustic" usually refers to chemical burns or corrosive substances, I believe it originally meant "combustible" or "burning". So religion + fire = Hell?
The Advent Calendar text saying it "causes ink to run, and words to shift and change" makes me think of the Iron Republic, although I suppose they're more about new laws changing the way things are than about altering records of how things were. One of the Marigold Knights was a historian exiled for trying to "create a comprehensive analysis of the revolution", contrary to Hell which "rewrites its doctrine regularly". It's not much of a leap from there to rewriting history ... |
| The Eagle, Ascendant | 3 | Can we marry them yet? |
| A Glabrous Nymph | 3 | A technical adjective for a surface, usually skin, that is smooth and lacking hair, fur, down, etc.. Specifically carries the connotation of skin that has never had hair, such as our young nymph here. who has yet to grow a beard. (Character may not be as he appears in image.)
The unusual word choice is itself significant; "glabrous" is more typically used to refer to leaves, and devils have a strong symbolic association with flowers... |
| A Dream of Truth-Strangling | 3 | now, this? this is the real reason to pick HD as your ambition. this is strict best-in-slot for evocativeness, for significance, for meaning. this is a hat you could build a character around. it is a well around which a narrative arc could slingshot. |
| Buy a fine lodging | 3 | wow, rude. i was hoping for a 4 card remote address :< |
| Supervise a visit from the Castellan of Balmoral (September) | 3 | Starting to get the impression that being March on the Calendar Council has some resemblance to being the drummer for Spinal Tap. |
| Converse with some damned day-trippers | 3 | a damned day-tripper, not to be confused with a goddamn weekender |
| Ambition: Enigma (Guide) | 3 | That blur effect tho... |
| Allow Hell its hour | 3 | That's a lot of infernal contracts. At least 5,000 given the starting cost of this. Shepherds be drooling at the thought. |
| Advent: A Calendar of Encounters | 3 | Another year in London already, this year really was a blur. |
| Citizen of Hinterland City | 3 | oh! it's a tax haven. i see |
| Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary | 3 | Sometimes I remember that I'm legally a cat and can do the :3 face in any story and it makes everything a million times better.
Imagine one of the most Paramount figures in London: a renowned inventor and scientist, a philosopher with their own schools of thought, an artist of various mediums, a master thief, a highly-successful businessperson and railroad director, and a paragon of countless skills. Imagine that person doing :3 and meowing. I'm pretty sure even the Masters would be shocked and confused at the sight. TL;DR: nya~ |
| Is your duplicate content? | 3 | I find it funny that if you're a poet laureate it implies everyone in the city speaks in poetry even if they don't intend to. They might not even realise it if you don't point it out to them. The city is basically an enforced version of Fallen London: The Musical. Even in the most petty matters the Neath is weird and I love it. |
| Memory of a Much Lesser Self | 3 | this item is kinda trans, ngl. the person i once was *was* weaker and more fragile. |
| Caustic Apocryphon | 3 | I'll just throw in my two cents that I think the "history" in reference here is personal, not grand. My pet theory is this item is foreshadowing the ability to replay/play other Ambitions, possibly through Parabola. That is one of the few planned bits from Metempsychosis that still isn't in the game in any form. |
| Artistry in the Empress' Court (Guide) | 3 | Your fancy math may say this is not a good farming per action but my smooth brain said big number good. |
| Starved Expression | 3 | if the card art from tge horticultural exhibition is anything to go by, the Starved Expression is ._o |
