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| From Page | Likes | Comment |
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| Chthonosophy | 26 | Woohoo finally
Colonoscopy skill woooo |
| Rubbery Plongeur | 18 | scrubbery man |
| Powder of Renewal | 18 | gender euphoria, extracted and refined. |
| Agents (Guide) | 18 | I bet you my last ha penny we'll be hatching an agent one day |
| A Seat at the Board | 17 | It takes a true dedication to the cause of knowledge to sell a T8 that you only ever get one of. I salute you. |
| Memory of a Much Lesser Self | 17 | this item is kinda trans, ngl. the person i once was *was* weaker and more fragile. |
| Ferret | 17 | nonbinary people do be having nouns for names
(but i am one of them) |
| An Absence | 16 | |
| Unthinkable Hope | 15 | if you're considering it? if there's that brief glimmer of unthinkable hope? it really doesn't take the fall of a city for things to be possible. there's plenty of easy and immediate steps you can do to feel it all out; conveniently, for one, you're already on (the wiki for) a browser game where one can set one's gender entirely at will. from there onwards, sometimes there are hoops that may arise that you shall have to jump through, but that's tractable. and by god i swear, it is worth it. entirely worth it. |
| Vial of Masters' Blood | 15 | 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. |
| Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary | 15 | parabolan nyanbinyary catgirl moments :3 |
| Judgements' Egg | 14 | 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 |
| Go fishing for a riddle | 14 | 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! |
| Russet Brachiator | 13 | wait, holy shit. this is a grappling hook which firmly catches on air. it allows you to do grapple swinging shenanigans off of ad-hoc invisible walls. i'm pretty sure that, with two of these and enough determination, you could basically just *fly* |
| The Machinations of the Masters | 13 | I sure love FL cards, it really would be great to actually draw them sometimes. |
| The Machinations of the Masters | 13 | 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" |
| Mr Transport | 13 | “So tell me, Mr Transport, what sort of secrets did you Masters discuss at your last meeting?”
Gnawing noises |
| Agents (Guide) | 13 | I love watching how much everyone works together to get every new piece of content on the wiki as fast as possible |
| Russet Brachiator | 13 | fur anchor |
| Anticandle | 12 | Ronnie Corbett: "There you are, anticandles."
Ronnie Barker: "No, antique 'andles! 'Andles what's antique!" |
| Acquire some 'Unthinkable Hope' | 12 | A quick reminder in mod mode, as this and related pages have repeatedly attracted bad faith commentors.
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| The Seven-Fold Knock | 12 | 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) |
| Make (City Name) your home of record | 12 | 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." |
| Deathless Chieftain | 12 | She call me Mr. Boombastic Tell me fantastic Touch me on my back She says I'm Mr. Ro-Ro-mantic Call me fantastic Touch me on my back She says I'm Mr. Ro-Ro-mantic
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| The Black Book of Hearts | 11 | For what you have to go through (and spend!) to get this, it should really be a little better. +2 Kaleptic toxicology would be nice. |
| Acquire some 'Unthinkable Hope' | 11 | nothing cracks an egg like the Fall of a city |
| Preparations for a Vast Revel | 11 | Just how much wine does his amused lordship have??
At this rate the fifth city will be drowned in Greyfields 1879 instead of lacre. |
| Stuiver | 11 | 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. :) |
| Neighbourhood Noctivagant | 11 | The last one goes so hard |
| Shop at F.C. Hollow & Daughters | 11 | 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! |
| A Shaper of Starved Culture | 11 | That 77 text is certainly... interesting. "within London's tastes" just rubs me wrong. |
| A Neon Future | 11 | 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 :< |
| Resinous Pyrophone | 11 | ocarina of slime |
| Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary | 11 | 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~ |
| Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre | 10 | "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. :-) |
| Offer to share the final moments of your Noman | 10 | if it wasn't for the quirk system being essentially defunct, this would be the perfect spot to put a massive Melancholy increase. because, like. yeah. |
| WE WILL HAVE SILENCE | 10 | Everyone knows you have to be quiet in libraries, and you just HAD to go and make a ruckus and disturb everyone else! Try being polite next time. |
| Visit the Incandescent Bookseller | 10 | > 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 Robe of Mr Cards | 10 | this option is the most trans of all the ambitions, honestly.
"transgender, or transhuman?" yes. but really, there's a really palpable versimilitude to this sort of slow, plodding, piecemeal transformation into a greater and better-fitting self. the prosthetics that function as a temporary relief for all the things that haven't grown in properly yet. the timeline, where one can notice hints of changes but one still isn't quite where one wants to be; but also, the way one's endocrine system is the first to respond to these changes. and the gentle guidance through cultural experiences that one missed out on through the circumstances of one's birth. also, the way the bargain provides both all the resources to pursue social transition immediately (while still leaving the option to don one's baggiest hoodie and humanmode) and all the resources to begin the process of pursuing physical transition feels really, really nice. a wrinkle in the ointment that also feels all too real, though, is the exact way in which others go out of their way to pay lip service to the concept of respecting one's identity, and superficially go through the motions, while not actually putting in the work to be respectful in practice. the way one needs to go just as much out of one's way to get invited to the masters' conclaves as any other londoner is rather telling, and there's a lot of parallels i can draw to my own experiences. finally, as someone very very nonbinary, i'm taking every little insinuation about curatorial anatomy and absolutely, wholeheartedly rolling with it. my gender now |
| The Sixth Coil (historical) | 10 | Who wrote this, Irem? |
| A Visit | 10 | 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 |
| Chthonosophy | 10 | 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. |
| Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide) | 10 | 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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| Starveling Cat | 10 | I had a moody cat once. This is like her, blown just slightly out of proportion. I miss her so, and lowkey cheer at everything this cat does. |
| Just awkwardly gesture between them | 10 | 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 Worker in the Common Cause | 10 | AND WE ALL LIFT |
| A Shaper of Starved Culture | 10 | Only 4 and a half more years until we see what 777 influence is like :O |
| Corresponding Sounder | 10 | not to be confused with the act of Correspondence Sounding, where one applies a star's-tongue to the wrong hole of one's unmentionables in pursuit of hedonism |
| Play Chess with the Boatman | 10 | Due to that I have a mental image that the boatman punches you in the face if you lose |
| Offer to share the final moments of your Noman | 10 | Any year now we're going to get an option to upgrade your Noman at Hollowmas. And soon after, a special option if you take your Noman down to Penstock's Wicket after a full year. |
| Deconstructive Lens | 9 | Another item that will likely be related to an upcoming story, similar to the Caustic Apocryphon from last year and the Baited Riddle from 2022. It's fun that they're adding these little hints every Christmas now. |
| Panoptical Skull | 9 | Utility of the item aside, I do appreciate how this extends the theme of Zenith being the opposite of the Nadir. What's the opposite of a skull with no eyes? Yeah, keep going... |
| Purchase the wax-sealed box on the counter | 9 | It is a sad day for when we lost the breath of the void meme. |
| Artistry in the Empress' Court (Guide) | 9 | Your fancy math may say this is not a good farming per action but my smooth brain said big number good. |
| Hearts' Game (Guide)/Distinctions | 9 | 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 |
| A Bottle of Angry Bees | 9 | "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... |
| Moonlit | 9 |
it's lunacy. that's the joke. god, fucking, dammit. |
| An Empire of Hands on Deck | 9 | monke |
| Unthinkable Hope | 9 | A quick reminder in mod mode, as this and related pages have repeatedly attracted bad faith commentors.
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| Obstinate-class Cruiser | 8 | 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. |
| Mr Transport | 8 | January i assure you, feeding him little slices of banana during the meetings is CRITICAL for the liberation of night |
| Chthonosophy | 8 | 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 |
| A Severed Thread | 8 | okay, so. metanarrative analysis time. for this quality to actually land as it should, even for non-vanguard players, the story whose ending gets ruined needs to be very firmly post-Irem. otherwise, you could take this deal with no consequences by just doing the other story first. (i mean, you probably could anyway, unless said story is also a repeatable carousel. but it's not ideal if someone can do that accidentally)
irem isn't *that* late in the gameplay progression, ever since evolution was downtuned a bit, but it's still not particularly early. either the content boundary would need to be pushed a good ways ahead, in order to statistically guarantee it, or it would need to directly depend on having completed Evolution. both seem rather far in the future |
| Admiralty Order of Distinguished Merit | 8 | It is depicting the Dawn Machine, d__n it. |
| The City Waning | 8 | feels like a good third of the hinterland city content is dedicated to giving you the ability to roleplay as verypeeved |
| A Trading Post at Zenith: False Lights and False-Stars | 8 | Oh, I thought we might get to dip stuff like the Parabola-Linen Frock to match the Nadir’s item upgrades, but a new skull is cool! |
| A Novel Birth-Mark | 8 | 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.) |
| The Name of Mr Eaten tattoo | 8 | 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. |
| Caustic Apocryphon | 8 | Baited Riddle case? |
| Seed of the Cedar | 8 | technically, implicitly, though there is no way, and never will be a way to sell this at value, this is a T8. |
| Purchase an amount of Hellworm-Riding Boot Polish | 8 | The shopkeeper says this is a wise choice. What other item acquisition tells you how wise it is? Clearly this should be the goal of all FL players. |
| The Bounties of the Coil | 8 | there's so much focus on the sixth coil finally opening, the splendour, the riches, the return of Nicator to take his rightful throne, etcetera.
so let me put my prediction on the table. either the coil opens and, in a massive anticlimax, it turns out there's absolutely nothing there... or something goes wrong, as is Estival tradition, and despite everything the coil remains firmly sealed. the narrative is laying it on too thick for any of this to be played straight. |
| A Final Choice of Allegiance | 8 | Mechanically, there is no difference whatsoever, since neither reward has a use. That being said, the whole storyline left me kinda frustrated: everyone is treating the Bazaar as if they were a child. Or a harmless housewife. They are not: massive populations depend on them. We've already seen that forcing them to work with incomplete information has horrible consequences, and their b----y feelings can't be more important than all the lives at stake. |
| Full Fathom Five | 8 | 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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| The Tower | 8 | Even the lowest spot on the Wheel is preferable to the awful emptiness in which it turns. |
| Cave of the Nadir (Guide) | 8 | To whoever made this guide, man I truly, deeply, love you from the bottom of my heart. |
| Nyx-class Zubmersible | 8 | We finally get that bdr the yacht people had over us.
Zub club wins |
| Give him to the Hillchanger Tower | 8 | 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 |
| Shabti-Box | 8 | The Second City is heavily implied if not outright confirmed to be Amarna, briefly the capital of ancient Egypt under Akhenaten. The item description is a prostration formula, the opening subservient remarks to the pharaoh. The source we have for this comes from the Amarna letters. See Quotations and phrases. |
| Much-Needed Gap | 8 | me, with a deep, gnawing yearning to purchase several different fashion-adjacent fanny packs.
the humble clothing and accessories retailer: |
| Ecclesiastes 1:2 | 8 | "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." |
| Verse of Counter-Creed | 8 | When the Synod is sus |
| Inroads with a Master – | 8 | 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." |
| The Hanged Man | 8 | gender was a limiting part of myself. in its sacrifice, i flourish |
| Obscure some of your bones | 7 | finally... hips that *do* lie |
| Firkin of Hesperidean Cider | 7 | Let's take a moment to think about the person who confirmed this has no sell text. |
| The Sixth Coil (historical) | 7 | She went into the Black Castle, with all the sacrifices required, to check if a clue was hidden there during the Body Tournament. May you always be remembered. |
| Unjustifiable Necktie | 7 | "And from that moment on — we rode together. The rest of your Equipment was still *Respectable* back then. But we took care of that soon enough." |
| Director's Commemorative Overcoat | 7 | It’s a good coat |
| "For the memory of London." | 7 | At least something was saved in the end. |
| Neathproofed Items | 7 | :3 |
| A Paramount Presence (Guide) | 7 | Finally made it! |
| A Hunter of Zee-Beasts | 7 | I do think the level descriptions are kind of funny for my character specifically, who only goes out “hunting” during some world events.
My name is synonymous with death, there are protesters at the docks… I’ve killed maybe 2 beasts. I mostly help out whales and talk to flukes. |
| Starved Expression | 7 | now what kind of cheese will *this* hellworm exudate permit? |
| Nyx-class Zubmersible | 7 | Some people think they can out BDR-me.
Maybe. *sniff* Maybe. I've yet to meet one who can out-BDR zub. |
| Partially Boneless | 7 | can i get uhhhhhhhh 🅱️oneless FL🅱️C |
| Memories of Mozart | 7 | Season of Irrigo |
| Coruscating Soul | 7 | i genuinely appreciate failbetter's efficiency with assets, honestly. there's some who might diss it, but the jank adds to the aesthetic of it all to me. would the hellworm really be a hellworm if it didn't use the image of that one hellworm-drawn ship from sunless sea? |
| Zenith | 7 | Just look at it! It's so good! I really hope it's going to be available for use on profiles. |
| Deconstructive Lens | 7 | "[...]Salt. A sudden breeze blows into your eyes, whittling the statue down to just a small pile at your feet. Only the binoculars remain as they were, untouched and untransmuted.
"You pick them up and look to the East. Past the Deconstruction, where the known zee ends and the legends begin. Somewhere, in the deepest distance, a light flickers. You hear the splashing of a distant wake, getting closer. But it is gone as fast as any other passing fancy. The memory is already fading as you leave." |
| Purchase the wax-sealed box on the counter | 7 | Posted on Jan 15 2022 at 5:41 am
It's monstrously time consuming to get all the materials needed to buy this. In comparison you are likely to have found many Breath Of The Voids before even becoming A Person Of Some Importance.
The only other (non GCO) way to get this is trading in 3200 scraps, which is a steep cost, requiring the equivalent of 128 Urchin favours. Are you thinking of a Night-Whisper perhaps?
No I said what I meant. You can't get many of these items realistically before become a POSI.
Nor can you get Breath of a Void before becoming a person of Some importance, excluding purposeful refusing... Nor will you *ever* be at Moulin before being a person of some importance.
Yes you can. Get 3200 scraps and trade them with the Shivering Relicker. You could do this multiple times before any other source is available. The POINT was that you have a source for this that doesn't cost a whole bunch of INCREDIBLY OBSCURE and difficult to obtain materials. Scrap is common and since the only reason to get something like this intentionally is to have one of everything for your collection, you would ALREADY HAVE one of these LONG ago. The railroad is so hellish to break into at all that you are almost certainly a Paramount Presence before even getting to Jericho. I was one before getting to Ealing. It took so long that I HAVE bought more than one of these before reaching Ealing because I got that much scrap. It's not like there's anything else to do with scrap but buy one of the 3200 scrap goodies.
Scrap may be convenient if you already have a lot of it accumulated, but actively grinding it out would take much longer than getting a Breath this way. Outside of grinding Urchin favours via Affair of the Box, the main way to get Certifiable Scraps is through lodgings cards, but they are so inefficient that many players won't use those actions - even more so, now that lodgings can be lent out to remove their cards. Personally, as someone who's played the game for several years and who actually played most lodging cards, despite their inefficiency, I had nowhere near enough Scrap to get a Breath from the Relicker by the time I reached Moulin. I think you may be overestimating how common it is.
Small addition: there are like seven or so cards that give Urchin favors for 1 action, the Affair is not the only repeatable source. FWIW, I didn't find the Railroad terrible to break into. I have been playing for close to a year. During that time, I have developed my Railroad up to Station VIII finished my Ambition (which only took so long because I waited until December to get an expensive Lodging) have gotten a 5 card-lodging (this makes grinding scraps easier) the Ambition also required me to get an Intriguer's Compendium, which requires 680 Scraps. I think I purposefully grinded like 150 of those via favors and cards? Took me probably a month, not all of which I was farming. Still, 5 scraps per day sounds more than realistic. With this calculation, you could probably get 3200 within 640 days (21 month-ish). I should also note my Urchin Renown was barely levelled. If you level that, it will slow you down I am on my way to becoming a Paramount Presence and will probably get at least my second Innard within the month. I think it is very possible to finish the Railroad within one and a half years or so, OR use roughly that time for the 3200 scraps. However! It may have been different back in the day, with less efficient grinds for basically everything. We all enjoy the game in different ways, and none is less valid than the other :)
If your a paramount presence before Ealing, you have been playing this game since before 2020(Probably even 2019), and grinds have changed so much that playing lodging cards feels like burning an action with no point. Personal experience for myself as someone who played from January 2020, I reached 3200 scrap sometime after I reached Moulin... so I could cash in for the Veils-Velvet Scrap. And that wasn't a passive grind. (Also it is 384 urchin favours and 128 actions to cash it in for all the scrap). Also you need 200 Watchful for BotV for scrap (While yes modified), if you have 200 watchful and getting a T8 (or even more than one) while refusing to increase to person of importance, you are 100% purposely stalling for no reason.
I also disagree with the initial comment. As a player who began the journey over a year ago and have avoided grinding any one particular resource i got at that moment 800 plus scraps - anywhere near the void requirements. However when you play this game as intended and venture into each avenue of Fallen London, if you follow the golden mini stories to their ends you discover sources (also thanks to this wiki ;-) of many expensive items to upconvert them later. As for the railway, i got to hurlers within a year without much focusing only on the railway. Made a few skeletons in the bone market for bessemer steel, played university, went somewhere new and the progress was pleasingly paced for me to discover the story of each station and to do another skeleton or brawl in the docks for coins. All in all, if you play your cards well (wink,wink) you can enjoy Fallen London without much of grinding.
as someone who done both grinds, farming the items for this option takes less than a week for an endgame character, while farming scraps takes at least a month. this is a no-brainer
Also weighing in: currently, the only reason you need a Breath of the Void is for an option in London's Marrow. There are four major 3200-scrap items needed for that option: Breath of the Void, the Rumourmonger's Network, Veils-Velvet Scrap, and the Reported Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell. Each also has at least one alternative way to get the item. Rumourmonger requires identity-crafting (not too bad), Reported Location can be gotten a LOT of ways actually (probably because it has several alternative uses), Void's option is here, and the Velvet's option is Discordant Studies (with uses in an ambition and in SMEN). Why on EARTH would you spend scraps on any of the other 3 when the Velvet's alternative is so costly?
You need Breath of the Void for a piece of Discordant Studies.
This is one of the worst FL takes I've ever heard in my life. I'm not going to lie, I typed a far lengthier comment beforehand and accidentally closed the tab, so I'm going to summarize my findings. Getting a BOTV with scrap takes a bit over 500 actions using cards, and around 5200 without. 3 of these items can be obtained through ratket, making them around 80 actions apiece, crafting a cart hoard takes around 80-90 actions or less with hephaesta, and the surmise takes about as long. This comes out to around 340 actions. Sure, these materials are obscure, but they're actually remarkably easy to obtain. 3 ratket, 2 lab. "The railroad is so hellish to break into at all that you are almost certainly a Paramount Presence before even getting to Jericho. I was one before getting to Ealing." Is one of the most nonsensical things I have ever heard. Using generous estimates, PP takes ~7000 actions to achieve (a little over 2k for wealth, a little over double that for ubergoat, marriage and influence for the last 2), WITHOUT counting any actions used to gain notability. Starting the RW takes 7 society favours, 200e worth of scrip, or is potentially free depending on ambition, and getting to jericho assuming ~5bsi/action will take <500. Considering that there is a 1-2 week delay between getting to ealing and getting to jericho, this is completely reasonable. Someone else mentioned it took them a year and a half to complete the railroad. (to be clear: i am not trying to flex, merely trying to ensure accurate estimations of these things can be made) I started my railroad on March 16, 2022, and completed my final meeting on July 4th 2022. This is 110 days, less than 4 months. I was already done with my ambition, and was able to focus almost all of my actions (exceptional stories are too fun to pass up on, though) on getting through the railway and enjoying the stories at each location. I didn't rush anything, or do any insanely efficient things- hell, I stopped at the impossible block to go grind an IE. And even given that, it took me less than four months. In conclusion, L+ratio.
I will also note that 3/5 can also be obtained reasonably easy through Cover Identities, if you don't want to wait for the rat market to 1/16 pick the right one. Since cartographer's hoards are reasonably easy to obtain through the lab even for non-LF players, that leaves the Coruscating Soul as the hardest piece to obtain, requiring either 1/16 Rat Market or a large variety of souls.
yeah totally, when I was getting my BOTV for [redacted] I didn't get anything from RM. coruscating from museum of souls, edicts and cart hoard from lab, LC from clay highwayman heist, and surmise from nonspecific academic. There are several extremely valid choices for all of these. |
| 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 |
| Parabolan Parable | 7 | This is the story of a cat named Stanley. |
| Discordant Studies (Storylet) | 7 | Posted on May 4 2021 at 3:03 am
Where can I get help? I guess I can't even say where I'm stuck at.
Discord
Tried to figure out how this discord stuff works before. Not going through that nightmare again. Give me a real answer if you have one.
I meant a software. Discord is a name of a messenger app, and there's a channel dedicated to Fallen London there. Program itself: https://discord.com/ Invititation: https://discord.gg/tsRQrTNRj9 Once logged in go to #fallen-london and say something along the lines "I'm a newbie, need help with Steward beyond spoilers".
This is very "Hu's On First." |
| The Sixth Coil (Guide) | 7 | A summary of Sixth Coil exploration from Oldest Man on the FBG Discord, copying over to hopefully be written into the guide properly at some point:
Rough Outline of how the sixth coil works ESTIVAL GUIDE / SIXTH COIL GUIDE
Each floor is associated with a main stat Each floor has a burden that you can pick up, they appear to show up almost instantly, but maybe some sorta rng involved? unknown for now Picking up a burden makes all checks harder; with endgame stats, 3 burdens is still 100%able or close to, 4 burdens is around 70-80% Each "movement" action you take will increase "coiling ever deeper" Each action you take will progress "mapping the labyrinth", THIS CAPS AT 40 AND IS THE "REWARD" QUALITY (along with burdens) You will randomly have a chance to get an option to go "up" or "down" floors, we're pretty sure that the floors loop, so going down floor 4 should lead to floor 1
Rewards Mapping x 2 MoL For each Burden 2 x Mapping 50p item 10 x Mapping x 2p item 40 x Mapping renown This gives each mapping a max value of 7.4 echos if you pick up all 4 burdens This gives a maximum value of 296 echos over 45 actions (40 exploring, 1 enter, 4 cashout) of 6.57 epa, good luck actually achieving this though, due to rng, and the fact that burden 4 checks can't be 100%ed
if your first up/down action was an "up" action, don't take any "down" actions for the rest of the run You want to dip when coiling+mapping = 40 |
| Deathless Chieftain | 7 | C H O E S E |
| Offer a body that is you and is not | 7 | ooh, another way for my flpc to splinter off part of themself and then drive that part towards permanent death or ontological transformation, while keeping *one* of them to remain a playable character. i'm developing quite a collection of Mes that are not Me |
| Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (Guide) | 7 | 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. |
| Purchase an amount of Hellworm-Riding Boot Polish | 7 | DON'T WORRY! FOR OUR [No Money Back Guaranttee] THIS IS [One Purchase] YOU WILL [Regret] FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! |
| Your False-Star | 7 | I love him |
| A Final Choice of Allegiance | 7 | I wasn't sure if the implications of this aside from making the Bazaar sad or not. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it didn't already know this stuff. |
| Queer Soul | 7 | Me |
| Oenophilic Oppression | 7 | Shut up, digestive system. You were the worst skill in Disco Elysium anyhow. |
| The Rat Market (Guide)/Calculators | 7 | The Rat Market prices have 3 stages, progressively decreasing as more items are sold. Below are outlined the prices and amounts these prices will last, for all three tiers and a special case:
These results are replicable through the use of the above calculators. But for the sake of brevity, I have chosen to outline them here. Paramount Note: The total bonus of 346 |
| Chthonosophy | 7 |
represents anything that was newly added from the previous breakpoint
Firmament Chapter 4: 6+5[edit]
FEAST OF THE ROSE 2025: 5+5[edit]
HALLOWMAS 2024: 5+5[edit]
SUMMER 2024, The Sixth Coil (August 16th): 5+4[edit]
SUMMER 2024, The Sixth Coil (August 1st): 5+3[edit]
Firmament Chapter 2: 5+2[edit]
Firmament Chapter 1: 2+1[edit]
FEAST OF THE ROSE 2024: 0+1[edit]
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| Preparations for a Vast Revel | 7 | One day.... one day we'll vanquish it. I'm putting my bets on 2025 -- er, 1899 (5). |
| The Machine's Fulcrum | 7 | 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. |
| The Grey Cardinal | 7 | this card art is such a kitty of all time. so glad to see them added to the fbg feline repertoire |
| Your False-Star | 7 | wanna visit him someday :3c |
| Director's Commemorative Overcoat | 7 | Director's Commemorative Overgoat
(if only. if only) |
| A Neon Future | 7 | it's fun how, unlike other cyberpunk cities where the gloom and darkness that make the neon advertisements really pop is a product of inexplicably-perpetual rainy weather, in fallen berlin it comes entirely naturally as a product of being underground |
| Noman | 7 | 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. |
| Starved Expression | 6 | if the card art from tge horticultural exhibition is anything to go by, the Starved Expression is ._o |
| Combine Greek and Latin | 6 | 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. |
| Ask about his heart's desire | 6 | 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. |
| An Interloper in the Library | 6 | Congrats to Noonstar for being the first to get 777! |
| Hearts' Game (Guide) | 6 | 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 |
| Matters of Identity: Noun | 6 | 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 |
| Buttered Chess-Piece | 6 | how does the butter stay on when i send this through the mail? |
| Go fishing for a riddle | 6 | This list is taken from a compilation by Sacchi on Discord, supplemented with other discussions on there and elsewhere:
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| Unburdened | 6 | "What can be, unburdened by what has been." |
| Breath of the Void | 6 | roxygen |
| Leviathan-Leather Valise | 6 | At last... at long last...
Zeefaring 18 is within my grasp. Without giving up my destiny, without giving up my love, without relying on the fickle whims of the House of Chimes. Gaider's Mourn shall tremble. |
| An Investigative Journalist: | 6 | The fact I've hit the cap and still have more clues to find is simultaneously very amusing, and actively hurtful to my motivation to locate more. |
| Purchase a Breath of the Void | 6 | It's monstrously time consuming to get all the materials needed to buy this. In comparison you are likely to have found many Breath Of The Voids before even becoming A Person Of Some Importance. |
| The Robe of Mr Cards | 6 | this needs more tie-ins |
| Try to hold it all in your mind at once | 6 | a hotdog is a kind of taco. an uncrustable is a calzone, and so is ravioli. a bagel dog is a kind of sushi |
| A Dream of Truth-Strangling | 6 | 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. |
| A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders | 6 | i don't know how many other games there are that are bold enough to directly ask the player "which of these choices do you want to have had happened". to ask not of what the player-character wants in a circumstance, but what the player themself wants, in a situation where the character has no agency over the outcome.
i get why it's uncommon. estsblishing an equivalence relation between the player's choices and their character's choices can do a lot for immersion. but i also really really appreciate that this isn't even the first time failbetter has done this sort of thing |
| Temptation's Presence | 6 | Best quality description ever. |
| Nevercold Brass Sliver | 6 | notably: sliver, not silver. it's a thin shard of metal, not an alloy of brass and argentum. despite my brain continually reading it as the latter |
| A Palatial Holiday Home in the Arctic Circle | 6 | If you came here because you're in that moment and -really- thinking about it... it's not as glamorous and constant as Power, but it's cozy. I don't regret mine. |
| Sausage About Which No One Complains | 6 | Made with mutersalt. It paralyses the vocal cords. |
| No Future | 6 | Evolved Runetracer. Explodes when bouncing and in retaliation. |
| Chiropteran Claws | 6 | respectable, huh? |
| Salt Weasel | 6 |
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~ |
| Key of Dreams | 6 | odysseus's signature item |
| Diptych Painter | 6 | One wonders whether he's another Fingerking stooge, or something stranger. |
| A Worker in the Common Cause | 6 | Though each of us may die, we together shall live. |
| Interpret the movements of your goldfish | 6 | 'And this was the promise made to the earth, which ached so desperately to be otherwise, and this is how the light betrayed it. Not all twins are born so.'
Does this refer to the Curator and the Moon, and the promise made to it/them by the Sun, which was broken? |
| Reckless | 6 | They know us so well. |
| Hinterland Prosperity | 6 | y'know what simple change would fix most of my narrative gripes with the TLC? if this was "Hinterland Gratitude", and efficiency was renamed Reputation or something. no mechanical changes, just flavor. but then it would feel less like my FLPC is the Privileged City-Empowerer by whose beneficience this city prospers and falls, and more like the mutually-beneficial reciprocity-driven thing that the rest of the flavor text keeps insisting is actually taking place. it'd feel a lot more like the city *is* bigger than just me, if the social currency i was dealing in was "how grateful are citygoers for my work as a small piece of the whole" and not "How Well The Entire Hinterland Is Doing" |
| Temptation's Presence | 6 | POV: you see Mr Pages |
| Commune with the Creditor | 6 | [[Amazed at thi5 amazing transformation? You too can]] HAVE A [[Communion]] WITH [[Unintelligble Laughter]] SOON I'LL EVEN SURPASS THAT DAMNED [[Clown Around Town!]] |
| Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary | 6 | 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 |
| Cephalopod Satchel | 6 | So this is basically living luggage, right? |
| The Sixth Coil (historical) | 6 | "I see. So what I am gathering is that Tiger Keeper is a fursona that was passed from AK to Luke" - Sans Cipher, Kolo-man of culture, 3/8 11:47 UTC https://discord.com/channels/606151996663267338/770266641762091079/1269260416513605732 |
| Allow yourself to be caught | 6 | That's not supposed to bend that way... Neither is that... Or those... *dies* |
| Flammier | 6 | Holy Bible, New International Version
“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! |
| The Minister of Enigmas | 6 | enby tiger ^w^ |
| A Tasting Flight of Targeted Toxins | 6 | neathy chemotherapy. expertly crafted to only kill the parts of you that are holding you back |
| Offer a wisp of affection | 6 | He’s a married man, FLPC! You can’t keep flirting with previously engaged eldritch gods and expect to get away with it! We already have one Fluke attacking London, we don’t need another! |
| Zenith | 6 | Zenith doesn't believe in commerce, apparently. |
| Half Past the Hour | 6 | I got gender so mysterious and indistinct not even impossible books know what it is |
| Bait the ushabti | 6 | At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of Parabola, localized entirely within this box!? |
| A Severed Thread | 6 | But you have no one to blame but yourself. You were warned, after all. |
| Nowhere to go but up | 6 | in a sense, this is an indictment of the quality of service offered by the masters. you can play the marvellous, win, and not *actually* get yourself your heart's desire. and then you can take the matter into your own hands and do what a lovely pile of spacebats never could. |
| You Appear to have Purchased an Extraordinary Number of Weasels of Woe | 6 | I don't need it... I don't need it... I don't need it...
I NEEEEEEED IIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!! |
| Your False-Star | 6 | I was on the brink of sinking. tw6, came twice. Pulled me back from death's door. Thank you my dear child! |
| Slobgollion | 6 | I am filled with sadness by them not letting me keep that amber. |
| A Trading Post at Zenith: False Lights and False-Stars | 6 | no violant frock for me, then. aw. i was almost hoping i could build a collection |
| At the Shore of Midnight, 5th Edition | 6 | The Creditor and the Moon, most likely. |
| Inerrant | 5 |
represents anything that was newly added from the previous breakpoint
CHRISTMAS 2024 (Dec 2nd, 2024): +8[edit]
HALLOWMAS 2024: +7[edit]
FRUITS OF THE ZEE 2024, Week 2 (Sept 12th, 2024): +6[edit]
Hearts' Game Season Change, Sept 3rd, 2024: +6[edit]
SUMMER 2024, The Sixth Coil (August 13th): +6[edit]
SUMMER 2024, The Sixth Coil (August 1st): +5[edit]
Firmament Chapter 2: +4[edit]
Firmament Chapter 1: +3[edit]
WHITSUN 2024: +2[edit]
Luggage Added (April 16th, 2024, I think): +1[edit]
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| A Dream of a Thousand Tails | 5 | 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. |
| Notability | 5 | COLOUR PLATE!!! |
| Memory of a Shadow in Varchas | 5 | this is like the one item i want to have a use. i thought irem would bring one but now i have like 10 of these from provenancing artifacts. idk if converting them into oneiric pearls would bee too powerful. but i cant think of anything else. |
| Eliminate pests | 5 | I'm not up to figuring out how to incorporate this, but with a Rose-Bearing Maggot, you get additional text on a success: "Your Rose-Bearing Maggot looks on from a safe distance, as mournful as a maggot can be." https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Cubane/36265618 |
| Mark of Acceptance | 5 | can this item be blacklisted from the combo-skill-check calculator? it keeps saying this-and-the-Mask is optimal even though it's super impossible |
| Struggle against the tide of claws | 5 | For what's fair we'll take yours back. |
| Salt-Veined | 5 | Old soul. Where are you going, old soul? |
| Tatterskin Shawl | 5 | I like to imagine that when you're not wearing this you look like a fucking horrifying skinless man with exposed musculature. |
| Celestial Cinnabar Compass | 5 | For once, I'm glad that a compass doesn't point NORTH. |
| Horatio, Finest of His Lineage | 5 | Wich is equivalent to a year and 3 months
Was it worth it?
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| The Sixth Coil (Location) | 5 | i hope this is a permanently unlocked activity because holy heck is it a lot to take in |
| Steward of the Discordance | 5 | Interestingly, if you remove the R from discordance, you have Disco dance.
'The breaking of laws which govern sequences of organised movement' ? |
| Language of Laces | 5 | Posted on Mar 14 2022 at 8:21 pm
"nice shoelaces." "thanks, I stole them from the Traitor Empress" |
| Sap of the Cedar at the Crossroads | 5 | Very funny that the only current use of this item is to sell it in order to buy ham. |
| June 22nd, 2023 | 5 | Due to all of the comments vanishing during the great server kapoot of July, I just wanted to put something here that I said originally.
There really wasn't anything else like finding this on the day Irem released. Seeing "You are home." on June 22nd, 2023 in our time genuinely just made me sit there and smile. Thanks for that, Failbetter. Irem will continue being an absolute treat. |
| Caustic Apocryphon | 5 | 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. |
| Unaccountably Peckish | 5 | Posted on Mar 19 2022 at 9:07 am
it's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. put in the work, put in the hours and take what’s ours
I change the game, so what's my motherfuckin' name? (That is the question.)
Dwayne "The Eaten" Johnson |
| Present yourself as his friend | 5 | this is possibly the most british action in the game. "he's trying to capture me! but he said something polite; i simply must reply. oh dear" |
| Descend (Nemesis) | 5 | Looks like the books for all of the ambitions end with something having your face - miser, vake, regent - but not nemesis!
I suspect it means taking revenge on the bazaar itself. Where did all that black honey come from? |
| Heptagoat | 5 | Who spent years and years of their life on this thing |
| Bone Market Exhaustion | 5 | mfs be dropping a thaumounclear bomb of a skeleton that singlehandedly pops the paleontology bubble for the foreseeable future |
| Fallen London Timeline | 5 | Happy fifteenth anniverthday, Fallen London! Here's to another fifteenth yeareons! |
| Neighbourhood Noctivagant | 5 | It's "Noctivagant", not "Noctavigant" |
| Pair of Defenestrating Boots | 5 | The best kind of boots |
| A Silent Nod of Acknowledgement from Mr Hearts | 5 | >///////> |
| Make a terrible deal | 5 | You can't possibly need Silken Warp this badly. You will regret this choice. |
| Tin of Murgatroyd's Jellied Mushroom Cakes | 5 | this item makes me viscerally uncomfortable. of all the horrors of the neath, this is the one which does it for me. dining on human flesh and developing a hunger for self-destruction? fine with me! spiders which eat eyeballs, and wasps which nest in them? what fun! getting hollowed out, insides replaced with wax, and being turned wholly into an imperfect simulacrum, almost a parody of what one once was, with any continuity of the self only vaguely in the most abstract sense maintained by sigils and treacheries? sure, why not!
but eating mold? *fuzzy* mold, and a thick layer of it *covering* a biscuit? now that's unthinkable. that's several steps too far. hell, i'm okay with that one de gustibus guy who eats power drills and concepts. but mold is too much. shame, because deck refreshes are useful :< |
| Hook him up to all the meters and stand well out of the way | 5 | WE CAN FINALLY REST EASY THAT WE MURDERED HIM, ALL WE NEED TO DO, IS DO IT ENOUGH TO KILL HIM PERMENANTLY |
| What does it make of your double? | 5 | "You (and therefore your double) are ambitious, busy, always aspiring to one thing and then another."
.....fair, yeah. touché |
| Tatterskin Shawl | 5 | How comes? Did it use to give an advanced skill, while Lyon didn't? |
| Reveal a scarred truth to the Regal Confessor | 5 | How interesting! |
| London, Falling | 5 | 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 |
| Airs of the Air | 5 | hmm
yes the air here is made out of air |
| Reveal a worshipful truth to the Smiling Jester | 5 | The success title is a snippet of a Shabti spell. The full text reads:
The illuminated one, the Osiris [title(s) and name of the owner], born to [mother or father’s name] justified, he says: O, this ushabti, if one counts the Osiris, [title(s) and name again], born to [parent’s name again] justified, to do all the works that are to be done there in the realm of the dead - now indeed obstacles are implanted therewith - as a man at this duties, ‘here I am’ you shall say when you are counted off at any time to serve there, to cultivate the fields, to irrigate the river banks, to ferry the sand of the west to the east and vice-versa; ‘here I am,’ you shall say. |
| Perhaps you're not hungry, exactly. | 5 | Well duh you're not hungry. The proper term is thirsty. |
| A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders | 5 | my favourite TMBG cover band! |
| Caustic Apocryphon | 5 | "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 ... |
| Merely Passing Through | 5 | Dear god... |
| Offer the Naturalist's greatest shame (Malleability) | 5 | Posted on May 3 2023 at 11:18 pm
I'll take notes uwu
his greatest shame... |
| The Black Book of Hearts | 5 | Being exactly one point worse than the Honest Butcher's Tool feels like a bit of a slap in the face. |
| Money-Making/Lategame | 5 | Crackling Devices are no longer sellable in the Rat Market, and will not return there, per FBG. That whole part needs to be removed. |
| Examine its contents 26 | 5 | no. this is not in accordance with the laws of the universe |
| Laboratory Services from a Visionary Student | 5 | this student is nonbinary! good for them. |
| Change your Profile Page Header | 5 | 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. |
| The Moon | 5 | enough to make my systems blow. welcome to the new age, to the new age |
| Situate yourself within the greater whole | 5 | Monster-Hunter-Monster-Hunter. |
| Vial of Masters' Blood | 5 | I bit Mr Fires (semi-consensually) several times but didn't get enough of this to fill a bottle. Sad face. Tasted so rich, though. So, so rich.
Anyway, consuming something higher up the chain (however temporarily) is actually vegan, so this is one of the most ethical foodstuffs! |
| To Make a Moth | 5 | The entire process seems to cost about 73,250 Stuivers at least, not including the other items mentioned. That's the equivalent of 3,662.5 echoes. They really weren't kidding about the cost. |
| Burn your scrip in (a fire) | 5 | please do note:  Magisterial Lager
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| Grant January the right | 5 | January confirmed to be canonically Jewish |
| Insubstantial | 5 | Looking out for additional sources of this. Very appropriate for my main toon. |
| A Private Tattoo of your Noman, Inscribed in Gant | 5 |  Tatterskin Shawl
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| A Palatial Holiday Home in the Arctic Circle | 5 | Secret Steamed Hams ending. |
| Sit at the edge of the jetty | 5 | Sitting, at the edge, of the jetty Like the Blue Prophets once said |
| Give it the infant | 5 | i saw mr. transport vent. this was the only justified and proportionate response |
| Timeless Gown | 5 | I want this irl |
| Memorious Goldfish | 5 | Getting this li'l guy just so that I can name it "Funes." |
| Enjoy some quiet hours with your personal library | 5 | aw, i wanted acknowledgement of my seven iron republic journals |
| Stop and look through | 5 | You’re telling me the library is in, you could say, The Woods? And these woods are in… Wintertime? HAVE WE FINALLY FOUND THE WOODS IN WINTER? |
| Pilgrim's Sandals | 5 | and i would walk five hundred miles, and i would walk five hundred more |
| Attempt to force your way into the Sixth Coil | 5 | Worth it |
| Drown a Memory of Moonlight | 5 | friendship ENDED with the moon can you imagine how the creditor would respond to this |
| Heptagoat | 5 | 163979.2 echoes for the 14 overgoats required and 7 fate for the ubergoats |
| Inconvenienced by Your Aunt (Story) | 5 | So success on all cards now gives actions, correct? |
| Play with your weasels (purchased) | 5 | I can think of no greater achievment in all of Fallen London than teaching a group of 400 weasels to successfully mime "William Caxton's 1285 edition of 'Le Morte d'Arthur'". |
| The Sixth Coil, Unsealed | 5 | 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! |
| The Stacks | 5 | A prison for the isn't, sitting hinged within a schism of half-reflected architecture, dark unending prisms. Part objective, part conjecture, partnered with tradition, where the paperwork is worshipped and the rituals are written. |
| Spiralhügel | 5 | god, there's something about the intersection of neathy metaphysics with modern day technology and lived experience that just hits in such a tantalizing and *enthralling* way. there is a very definite possibility that it'd overstay its welcome were there more of it, but, on a deep and visceral level, these littke glimpses slake a thirst i didn't know i had. it's such a good payoff. |
| The Cladery Heart | 5 | Come, Nerevar. Friend or traitor, come. Come and look upon the Heart. |
| A Metamorphosed Moth-Self | 5 | does this count as a vanity? it ought to. |
| Troubled Times Recur | 5 | A Pleasure to see you, Cassie. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised a lassie like you hang out with the Tracklayers. |
| Key of Dreams | 5 | i highly encourage everyone to consult the Key of Dreams Grinding Guide |
| Aurochs-Fur Coat | 5 | If any stores sell an article of clothing as an Aurochs-Fur Coat I will buy it instantly |
| Advent: A Calendar of Encounters | 5 | 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. |
| Board her! | 5 | it's so wild that this is a thing my flpc can canonically just do, now. i know as a whitsun item this grappling hook is unlikely to get any other tie-ins but holy fuck |
| St Erzulie's Candle | 5 | Mr Eaten mandated waifu? |
| A Midnighter's Legacy | 5 | After what happened with the Cheesemonger, you must have learned that the Game cannot be stopped. You can no longer see an alternative.
Perhaps this is why your only two choices here are in how precisely to break her spirit to match yours. |
| Drowned Sibling-Selves | 5 | What a delightfully ominous thing to count |
| Fatten your magpie on the tallow of intrigue | 5 | Fead her intrigue and teach her extortion! |
| A Commissioned Airship: | 5 |
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| Obscure some of your bones | 5 | Oh my. |
| Exceedingly Unfortunate Yet Again | 5 | aw hell yeah you get the glim again now? if that's accurate i have a reason to actually try for the vanity now! |
| Counterfeit Head of John the Baptist | 5 | For anyone wondering, this appears to be a reference to the scandal surrounding the play 'Salome' by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley as 'the climax': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climax_(illustration) |
| The Walls are Wrong | 5 | Don't you have something better to do than to gaslight people who are ALREADY having nightmares from all the disturbing weird shit down here? |
| Look into the stars | 5 | So uhh... anyone's done the EPA on this? |
| Citizen of Hinterland City | 5 | oh! it's a tax haven. i see |
| Ambition: Enigma (Guide) | 5 | That blur effect tho... |
| Stand up, holler, and sing an extended series of boisterous songs | 5 | I don't know why I find this so hilarious. You're so outlandish even the Boatman goes, "okay, that's it, enough of you" and kicks you back to the mortal realm. Just the sheer audacity of it is incredible. |
| A Woeseller | 5 | I have achieved Weaseller 1 and 2…
I suppose I have no choice now but to try to get Woeseller. |
| The 6000 BC Grunting Vintner | 5 | To think…we could have had a scene where the FLPC snorts an unknown powder with His Amused Lordship. A shame to think we were so close. |
| The Rat Market, in Eclipse | 5 | the rats of the seventh city have very strong opinions on IDEs |
| Weasel of Woe | 5 | I can fail challenges easier. Best companion, now I can royally screw up *exactly* when I want to |
| The Cladery Heart | 5 | someday... |
| The Rubbery Murders | 5 | Unfortunately, the wiki has a hardcoded limit of 250 characters when using story text. Because of this, I can't put the story in full on the wiki.
I can, however, share here the document that I used as reference to put the story on the wiki. This document was made by Hitguy as they played through the story once after its deletion, with permission from FBG. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yyC0PXCfDxnLfWmiD0lzuTsRHlfMn3HBsDmLCdgUn4I/edit?usp=sharing I will also share here the email exchanged between FBG and Hitguy, for posterity: https://files.catbox.moe/r05inv.png |
| An Invitation to Linger | 5 | i just wanna appreciate fail better
this was pretty nice |
| The Ennui of Victory | 5 | flpcs when there's no 777s left to grind (they have done everything they can do at least seven hundred and seventy seven times) |
| The Russet Spindlewolf is Gone | 5 | skill issue on the flpc's part, honestly. manhood and use of it/its need not be mutually exclusive, and the flpc *just* got corrected on this matter by the spindlewolf |
| A Complete Set of Preserved Internal Organs | 5 | it hurts |
| Ratwork Mechanism | 5 | They're most likely meant to be 12.5 Echo items, given that the only current source gives 4 of these in place of exactly 50 Echoes. |
| Memory of a Much Greater Self | 5 | though this may look unimpressive, it's technically Shared BiS for mithridacy, if one considers the Mark of Acceptance to be +2 mith but -1 to whatever skill-granting destiny you would've gotten otherwise |
| Gleaming Buttons | 5 | When the hurlyburly's done, and the battle's lost and won. And the places that you know, seem like fantasy. |
- ↑ This is a repeat of Riddle 56, which might indicate it is a bug.
