So, apparently, FL is doing this...thing where, if you do three Exceptional Stories in a row, they unlock an extra storylet.
Doing the Pentecost Ape one, the Young Stags one and the one with the put-upon nanny unlocked a storylet with the Boatman. You either get to eavesdrop on the far side of the river or have a light conversation with the main man himself. I chose the latter option; it turns out that he apparently has ties to both the Judgments and the Revolutionaries.
I finally made it out to Hunter's Keep, and knowing what happens there in Sunless Sea makes all this tea-taking and such even more ominous than it would've been otherwise. (Also, it's amusing to me that everywhere is apparently equidistant from London, but I guess that's Alteration for you.)
I just got an email from Hannah Flynn about the "individual of mysterious and indistinct gender" -> "person" change and it made me smile a lot.
Thanks for getting in touch.
We accidentally over-tweaked this tweak. It will be 'person' in text to make the story text flow better, but it will still be '...of mysterious and indistinct gender' on your profile and mantelpiece.
Don't worry, we don't want to abandon the full description. We're proud to keep it! Look out for a correction and an additional update on our progress with Term of Address next week.
So that's annoying. If you have 5 Favours with both the Rubbery Men and the Tomb Colonists, you have a chance of drawing a non-discardable card that will lose you all favours with one side.
So that's annoying. If you have 5 Favours with both the Rubbery Men and the Tomb Colonists, you have a chance of drawing a non-discardable card that will lose you all favours with one side.
The concept has been around for a while. There's a card (or was a card; not sure if it's still there after the favours conversion) that forces you to choose between the docks and the gracious widow
not sure why they're making it more popular though.
Doing scientific voyages (gonna have to make it out to Polythreme eventually, but the RNG hates me when to comes to that map).
I got up to almost 11 Troubled Waters, and I like that one of the cards was "the crew is going mad with hunger" and it had the option "actually, no, that doesn't happen, because this is a yacht".
If you pull the Iceberg or Killing Wind cards, you can just go "Don't be silly, Zubmarines go underwater." The iceberg in particular has you looking around underneath it.
So that new opportunity card polling for "what should our next kickstarter be" is really exciting. Especially that option for "Sunless Sea, but In Space" which just sounds perfect.
I killed myself impaling myself on thorns, then tinctured myself to prevent a boat ride. Doing well so far, I'd say!
Oh, and a heads up: If you don't plan on The Great Work, you should get rid of all your Unaccountably Peckish if you have any. Or you're gonna be finding some rather interesting cards in your deck.
Oh, whenever I've gotten Unaccountably Peckish I've immediately gone for those chestnuts even though I knew the content wasn't there. And I stand by that decision.
(Meanwhile, getting the map to Polythreme continues to be a pain in the ass. Why does this have to be such a pain in the ass?)
'...and they say that the Neath would be brighter than the Surface, but for the mountain of glass and ash at the farthest south. That's where all the foxes went. Why do you think the candles are so-named?'
So I've been doing the Labyrinth of Tigers and, wow, the third coil is really dark. "No mirrors" indeed, even if that does have kind of a double meaning in the Neathy context.
(Also makes the timing on this whole thing damn inconvenient, since I gained Unaccountably Peckish when Time the Healer happened and if I wanna go fix it I have to spend like five actions--two back up to the first coil, one for rubbery lumps, and two back to the third coil--which is awful because I need those actions for pursuing Jack, dammit.)
There are currently 3 ways to get my SMEN from 3-5, which means I have to do two of them in any combination:
The rare success from Mr Pages. A Watchful check that is 100% at 184, and success or failure, will cut my Watchful in half. A SotC check that is 60% at 9, and success or failure, will cut my SotC in half.
It's interesting to see how many people started Seeking and have already bailed out, actually. The forums are littered with them.
Groovy. I just reached the point where it's time to pick up some more Fate anyway (so I can breed more beasts, plus I've been meaning to do the Gallery of Serpents now that I'm a Glassperson) so I'll do that.
Did enough symphonies to raise my SotC to 5, which also happened to be exactly enough symphonies to start the process of getting kicked out of court.
I'm pretty happy as a Glassperson, so I'll skip the symphony grind and just keep increasing it as my brand new sigil-covered kitty gives me the opportunity. (Besides, this lets me perform Tristam Bagley's last work. How could I pass on that chance?)
Also, I did everything I needed to get back in good standing at the university and uh...it begins to dawn on me that everything I just did may have been a colossal waste of time.
Now they rotate you like a clock-heart, flensing you like an orange. You are peeled in tidy sheets and pinned to the walls of the sanctuary, so that wisdoms may be safely there inscribed. The first wisdom is this: the Number. But you wake before the Name.
I still don't understand why London society cares so much about me having made so many faux pas in Polythreme that they're going to exile me to the tomb-colonies the second I get back, but whatever, I need these damn silks for bribes.
IJBM: To get Closest To: Criminals, you need to side with the Cheery Man against the Last Constable. Despite
A) That being a super early storyline, way before Closest To is a thing. B) No other Closest To being permanently locked in that way, including Closest To: Constables. C) Being able to be a criminal who couldn't give a flying fig about the Cheery Man.
So I finished the Jack-of-Smiles case in a way that I got instantly teleported back to London (I don't know why it cost fate to both destroy the knife shop and pursue the man in dreams but I ponied up because I had enough left and it seemed like a good use of it, although I'm still not sure why this teleported me to London). I had just enough time to tab over to the Bazaar and grab a Tincture of Vigour before being exiled to the Tomb-Colonies.
Also, the Mayoral campaign is apparently an event open to everyone, rather than an Exceptional Story as I'd assumed. The Contrarian's whole character is a Groucho Marx song, the Bishop of Southwark I could almost get behind if he wouldn't condemn my home or whatever, but having Sinning Jenny as the Mayor seems kind of fantastic. Screw you, Victorianism!
^ Literally the first thing I did. Hence my delight at being able to grab the Tincture before the mob chased me away.
On the one hand, Sinning Jenny is definitely the sort of person that I'd vote for in real life, since she seems to have a focus on taking care of the undertrodden. On the other hand, Brian Blessed in a priest's flock is, without argument, my favorite character in the fallen city. On the third, vestigial hand, forcing the Jovial Contrarian into a position where people will actually take umbrage when he flips his opinion would be funny.
Well, being in an official position of power would give him something in common with his boyfriend.
I really hope that now that I know his past there's an option to just taunt him about it. It's a terrible idea but I want to do it anyway to get him to leave me alone.
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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
All shall be well.
10 CP left!
ALL SHALL BE WELL, AND ALL SHALL BE WELL, AND ALL MANNER OF THING SHALL BE WELL.
Oh, and a heads up: If you don't plan on The Great Work, you should get rid of all your Unaccountably Peckish if you have any. Or you're gonna be finding some rather interesting cards in your deck.
(As an aside, it's no longer a leveled quality, even though it still counts as a menace. Everything relating to it either gives or takes 1.)
The rare success from Mr Pages.
A Watchful check that is 100% at 184, and success or failure, will cut my Watchful in half.
A SotC check that is 60% at 9, and success or failure, will cut my SotC in half.
It's interesting to see how many people started Seeking and have already bailed out, actually. The forums are littered with them.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Woo.
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
A) That being a super early storyline, way before Closest To is a thing.
B) No other Closest To being permanently locked in that way, including Closest To: Constables.
C) Being able to be a criminal who couldn't give a flying fig about the Cheery Man.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
"You've met a man with a bomb."
Even as someone who has steadily become a ruthless crime boss, I'm not sure abo...
"He intends to blow up the Brass Embassy"
...I'm listening.
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