Time, the Healer

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Spoiler warning! This page contains details about Fallen London Actions.

Activated in: Escape to Watchmaker's Hill, Escape to Spite, Escape to Veilgarden or Escape to Ladybones Road

This living story arrives in your Messages Tab approximately 1 week after activation and then reoccurs at the same frequency after that.

Memory fades; pain departs; rewards arrive!

Game Instructions: You have a Professional Payment waiting at your Lodgings; wounds and other hazards have faded, as has your reputation in the public eye. You may also have received Fleeting Recollections, which will allow you to to remove Irrigo, if you have any.

Unsorted

•  You now have 1 x An Earnest of Payment
•  You've gained 1 x Professional Perk (up to 4)
•  An occurrence! Your 'Free Evening' Quality is now 5!
•  A Connoisseur of Neathy Delights is dropping… (-1 CP) (if it's at least level 10)
•  You've lost 1 x Notability (if it's higher than your Making Waves level)
•  You now have [halved] (rounded to the nearest even number) Making Waves
• With Irrigo:
  •  Day by day, the fog lifts, the hypomnesic radiations dissipate. (You now have Fleeting Recollections.) (Sets Fleeting Recollections to 1)
•  You've lost 1 x Secret Miracles
•  Your 'Marsh-Mired in Dreams of Sustenance' Quality has gone!
• With A True Denizen of the Neath:
  •  You've gained 1 x A Consequence of your Ambition – (up to 4)
•  Your 'Recent Participant in a Starved Cultural Exchange' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'A Beneficence' Quality has gone!
•  You may now reconvene the Board of the Great Hellbound Railway. (Removes Delay until the Next Board Meeting)
•  You've lost 4 x Bone Market Exhaustion
•  Your 'Bureaucratic Advantage' Quality has gone!
•  You've lost 10 x Ravages of Parabolan Warfare
•  You now have 1 x Favourable Circumstance
•  Your 'Mired in Mail' Quality has gone!
•  Memory fades; Hell's touch on you diminishes. Another visit may be permitted (Removes A Visitor to Hell)
•  The Taimen turn their eyes towards other problems; expect fewer difficulties in the Khanate. (Decreases Taimen's Attention by - (TA * [ TA + 1] / 3) CP )

Old Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
CP Loss	-1	-2	-4	-7	-10	-14	-19	-24	-30	-37
New Level	0-1	1-2	2-3	2-4	2-4	4-5	3-5	4-5	5-6	5

•  A Victim of Frequent Betrayals is dropping… (-7 CP)
•  There are noises in the walls of Mrs Chapman's Boarding House. (Sets Whispers Behind Mrs Chapman's to 1)
• With Creditor's Quiescence exactly 1:
  •  Your 'Creditor's Quiescence' Quality has gone!
•  Merchants set their stalls out in Burgundy. The Market Day card has returned to the Burgundy deck. (Removes The Hebdomadal Market)
•  You've lost 1 x A Month of Sundays

Menaces

•  Wounds is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  Nightmares is dropping… (-1 CP)
•  Suspicion is dropping… (-1 CP)
•  Scandal is dropping… (-1 CP)
•  Plagued by a Popular Song is dropping… (-1 CP)
• With Unaccountably Peckish:
  •  You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (up to 10)
•  The effects of violant fade — you could brave Zenith's High Sancta once more. (Removes Violant Sights)

Moods

•  Your 'The Walls are Right' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Not to be Trifled With' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'The Walls are Wrong' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Wide-Eyed' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Sharpened' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Partially Boneless' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Radiant Bearing' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Hallow Vessel' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Wings of Change' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Hydrophobia' Quality has gone!

Festival-related changes

• Without London's Season: The Feast of the Exceptional Rose, Fruits of the Zee, or Christmas:
  •  Your 'A Possible Future:' Quality has gone!

FEAST OF THE ROSE-specific

• Without London's Season: The Feast of the Exceptional Rose:
  •  Your 'Masquing' Quality has gone!
  •  You've gained ( Burgeoning Romance/10) x Romantic Notion
  •  Your 'Burgeoning Romance' Quality has gone!

FRUITS OF THE ZEE-specific

• Without London's Season: Fruits of the Zee:
  •  Your 'Strange Catch' Quality has gone!

CHRISTMAS-specific

• With London's Season: Christmas:
  •  Your 'A Clear Path' Quality has gone!
  •  You now have 7 x Potential Christmas Card
• Otherwise:
  •  The way to your Lodgings is clear! (Sets A Clear Path to 1)
  •  You've gained ( Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow) x Direful Reflection
  •  You no longer have any of this: Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  •  You no longer have any of this: Potential Christmas Card
  •  You've lost (random, time-dependent) x Noman's Friend (the loss rate accelerates from week to week after CHRISTMAS, see table below. If the quality reaches 0 the player will force-draw Noman's End.)

Noman's Friend Loss 2026
Each Time, the Healer between...	...causes NF loss between:	Predicted Range (see formula below)
January 5 - 11	10 - 39	3 - 47
January 12 - 18	20 - 43	15 - 60
January 19 - 25	32 - 63	28 - 72
Jan 26 - Feb 1	45 - 75	40 - 84
February 2 - 8	58 - 80	52 - 97
February 9 - 15	71 - 97	64 - 109
February 16 - 22	83 - 115	76 - 121
February 22 +	102+	see formula below

Noman's Friend loss data currently falls between:

(1.75 × D) + 3 and (1.75 × D) + 37

"D" is how many days since Penstock's Wicket opened (eg: On 5th January, D=0, and on 6th February, D=32)

After a period of inactivity

If the player does not log in for a long period of time [exact unknown, about 2-3 months?], Time, the Healer stops triggering. If the player does not have The Inviting Shadows, then the following occurs:

•  An occurrence! Your 'The Inviting Shadows' Quality is now 1! (hidden)