Reminder: Don't try to excel too much with short stories. After a while, the cost to improve them outweighs the cost of selling the thing once you're done with it.
Reminder: Don't try to excel too much with short stories. After a while, the cost to improve them outweighs the cost of selling the thing once you're done with it.
You need 30 Potential for the Making Your Name story. I have awful luck.
Hey Yarrun, question about Heart's Desire if you can answer it with no spoilers. I'm just past the part where you need a "patent scrutinizer" (having taken the most convoluted but still pretty profitable route to obtaining it) and I went to talk to the Topsy King and he took my "On the Maladies of Goats". Am I gonna need that later on? There's an option to replace it in exchange for three Journals of Infamy, is it worth it?
So far I have managed not to piss off the monkey, unless he's sad that his part in my adventures has been replaced by my admiration society anyway.
Hey Yarrun, question about Heart's Desire if you can answer it with no spoilers. I'm just past the part where you need a "patent scrutinizer" (having taken the most convoluted but still pretty profitable route to obtaining it) and I went to talk to the Topsy King and he took my "On the Maladies of Goats". Am I gonna need that later on? There's an option to replace it in exchange for three Journals of Infamy, is it worth it?
So far I have managed not to piss off the monkey, unless he's sad that his part in my adventures has been replaced by my admiration society anyway.
Also, in the process of converting Memories of Light to Mourning Candles to Patent Scrutinizers I gained 4 Storm Threnodies. Which, as you can see, are my favorite item even though I've yet to find any situation to actually use them in.
Just won a duel to the death. The permanent death, even.
Because i mortally offended a drunken zailor, although if he'd stopped to listen I could've explained it wasn't what it looked like. Oh, well! Instead he got a hatchet to the head.
Also, I fought for the docks and routed the strikebreakers! Was really expecting that to remove my connections with the Masters or something, I must admit. I guess wearing a domino mask over my completely bandaged face actually did protect my identity.
So I bought some Fate because I've been having a good enough time with the game I figured they deserved it, and I did two storylines that both came down to a single Big Choice, and now that I've thought about it I kinda feel like I made the wrong choice both times? But maybe I'd feel that way whichever one I did, grass being greener on the other side and all.
On the other hand, as part of Making Your Name I successfully robbed the Brass Embassy, stealing hundreds of souls and pieces of nevercold among other things, so that's cool.
Also, congrats Alice. The prospect of studying the Correspondence (because I was just so curious about it from the little hints in Sunless Sea) is what got me on board FL in the first place, and even if it takes a lot of effort it's worth it.
Although I guess I haven't actually really advanced too far in that aspect since then, since I've been busy doing miscellaneous stuff in the quest to become a PoSI. (Just finished up another confidence trick on another spirifer, or possibly the same one who is just really unlucky, for instance.)
That's what shepherding us newbies along is all about, isn't it?
It helps, but they have changed things a bit since my glorious ascension to the upper echelons. For instance, I had no idea what Crystal meant by a Flying Bath the other day
And congrats for getting close to PoSIness. Let me tell you, it's like having a chariot pulled by two tigers instead of horses. And driven by a third tiger. You know how tigers are.
That was just her joking about the name (Flying - opposite of Fallen, Bath - a different city than London). And now I have killed it.
And thanks. My Persuasive and Watchful are both high enough, but my Dangerous and Shadowy are lagging behind at 71 and 60 respectively (with the right equipment, but it still counts!) Maybe I should just do nothing but Loiter Suspiciously with various folks and keep raising my Shadowy with that, but conning spirifers is good clean fun.
Keep an eye out for mood cards. They'll be the ones that have a super low stat requirement.
They'll bump you up by 30 for a single stat for one hour. That's how I got my Dangerous requirement back in the day.
Funnily enough, it's my shadowy that's lagging these days, with the other two being around 160 and it being around 140. Persuasive is still, as it should be, at a staggering 204.
Yeah, the two mood cards I got were a huge boon to my early advancement. Haven't drawn one in a while (since they are rare), but if I did I could just finish the first part of PoSI (Watchmaker's Hill) right away and then probably spend the rest of the hour hunting specimens for the Labyrinth of Tigers.
So, I've just reached the part in the University storyline where it's revealed that the Cantigaster was once human. So that's a thing.
Also, with the game stating that the Duchess is African, combined with her love of cats, I'm going out on a limb and assuming that she's an ancient Egyptian.
...Also I just realised that the Traitor Empress is Queen Victoria.
I'd advise anybody doing the University storyline to take careful note of what you learn about the Duchess. Likewise to anyone doing the Marvellous Ambition and the Royal Bethlehem Manager.
In the deepest matters of the Bazaar, always look to love. Always
"The Bazaar knew as much. It has its own motives, you understand. And its own... what is the word? Its own appetite. Yes. For lovers and for love. A need. So it saved my beloved, in a manner of speaking. There is always a cost that is known, and a cost that is not. The Empress knows this now." So, I'm finally getting to the crux of the Bazaar's agenda. It's collecting love. But why is the big question now.
Thanks for all the spoiler tags, since so far my interaction with the University has mostly been playing a bunch of cricket, because I decided to even out my stats as soon as I realized you need everything at 100 to be a PoSI.
Also, I'm so close to what I decided is my primary goal for some reason. 20 more bottles of brandy and a few more levels of Connected: Hell, that's all I need.
And sorta? The cosmology of the outside world is...complicated, to say the least. What I can say is that stars have the ability to impose laws and there's a reason why the Bazaar is hiding where no sunlight or starlight goes.
If you've played Sunless Sea, then you'll know that there is such a thing as an artificial sun, and things get pretty crazy whenever you get near it. That's probably relevant.
Anyway, the case is drawing to a close, but I have some things I wanna do first before accusing people of murdermurder. So, it's time for stuff I know and also speculation!
Known:
The Bazaar is a sentient being that hungers for love stories. Genuine love stories, mind you, it hates manufactured ones. It has a tendency to make deals involving love stories, as shown by the Duchess and the Cantigaster, and the Traitor Empress and the Consort. The Masters act as messengers of the Bazaar. Also, the Sun is involved somehow.
Speculation:
The Correspondence is the language of the Sun, and presumably the other stars. The stars are either gods, or godlike beings, hence why the Correspondence has a distinct tendency to warp reality. Or just set things on fire. Something happened to cause a falling out between the Bazaar and the stars, so it went somewhere that starlight can't reach. Judging from its obsession with love stories, maybe it fell in love with a star, and started neglecting its original role?
Huh. Never considered the correspondence being the language of the stars. Given what I know from both Fallen London and Sunless Sea, I'm going to go with 'quite possibly'.
I've been doing a bit of digging since you started the University quest. Enough that I can say your speculation's in the right direction.
I like that my character's experience of FL matches my own exactly, in that we both came to London to find out about the Correspondence but were quickly distracted by all the opportunities for hedonism and petty crime.
Also I really want the game to come back, I guess everyone who got into it via the app just crashed the server trying out the new exceptional story or something? It has monkeys, so that's understandable.
I was actually stalling on doing the new ES because there's an option that lets me skip having to do yet another Flash Lay (they're really pouring those on thick, aren't they?) if I have renown 5 with the Docks
I keep wanting to subscribe, because the amount of enjoyment I get out of this game is definitely worth $7 a month, but none of the Exceptional Stories have really grabbed me yet from their "hooks".
Maybe I'll just buy $7 worth of Fate a month and call it good.
(Also, I like Flash Lays--I've only done the one, in Veilgarden, but I like the format and it was a lot of fun. I guess having actual story content behind them could be irritating though.)
Taking some fate options are definitely helpful if you're really angling for the Correspondent profession. Surprisingly enough, despite Dangerous being the least relevant stat for both Marvellous players and Authors, you'll want to spend some of it on the Labyrinth's fate route.
Also, if you have no interest in the marriage options available to you once you hit PoSI, there is the incredibly, incredibly expensive option of taking a Rubbery consort, which I recommend if you ever want to make a big contribution to the game.
And if you have any questions about past Exceptional Stories (whether that's 'what were they about' or 'would you recommend buying them'), I'd be glad to put in my input.
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guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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Pffthahahaha.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Hahahahaha, finally. Blood, sweat, and tears there.
And so it goes.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Found you, card.
Also, with the game stating that the Duchess is African, combined with her love of cats, I'm going out on a limb and assuming that she's an ancient Egyptian.
...Also I just realised that the Traitor Empress is Queen Victoria.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
"The Bazaar knew as much. It has its own motives, you understand. And its own... what is the word? Its own appetite. Yes. For lovers and for love. A need. So it saved my beloved, in a manner of speaking. There is always a cost that is known, and a cost that is not. The Empress knows this now."
So, I'm finally getting to the crux of the Bazaar's agenda. It's collecting love. But why is the big question now.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
...The Sun is alive?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Known:
The Bazaar is a sentient being that hungers for love stories. Genuine love stories, mind you, it hates manufactured ones. It has a tendency to make deals involving love stories, as shown by the Duchess and the Cantigaster, and the Traitor Empress and the Consort. The Masters act as messengers of the Bazaar. Also, the Sun is involved somehow.
Speculation:
The Correspondence is the language of the Sun, and presumably the other stars. The stars are either gods, or godlike beings, hence why the Correspondence has a distinct tendency to warp reality. Or just set things on fire. Something happened to cause a falling out between the Bazaar and the stars, so it went somewhere that starlight can't reach. Judging from its obsession with love stories, maybe it fell in love with a star, and started neglecting its original role?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead