I was a candle

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This is an archive of years of questions and answers about Fallen London lore and mechanics. New questions are unlikely to ever be answered.

TRAVELLER RETURNING

So, it’s been a while. Just dropping by to give you a quick status update, if you were curious. As of a few months ago, I’m no longer working at Failbetter (you might, or might not, recall this blog post from around that time). That said, I don’t have any plans to resume activity on this blog. I’ll leave the archives as they are, for any future information-seekers. Those 344 questions waiting for an answer in my ask box aren’t likely to ever be answered, though, and this is almost definitely going to be the last post you’ll see here.

I’ve got a shiny new website you can visit here, though there’s not that much there yet, or you can follow me on Twitter over here if you wanna. If you happen to have any leads on design work (freelance or permanent), especially of a narrative-adjacent sort, especially around a London-ish sort of area, drop me a line. Or if you just want to yell at me for crimes against web design or something.

All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. ok cya 🐀

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Merry Ratmas to all, and to all a good rat!

The 7th of December marks the unofficial Fallen London feast of Ratmas, when players collaborate to bombard us with rats on a string!

Not played during Ratmas before? A history and a primer.

It should be noted that the instigator of the first ever Ratmas, Spacemarine9, now works here, and is surely most deserving of rat gifts.

You can shower Spacemarine9 with rats at his new account, the cunningly-named Spacemarine10, in Fallen London.

Will the Rattening be so great that we are forced to hastily gain the quality Accepting No Further Rats? Up to you, delicious friends!

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Today’s Advent gift is here. It glows…

Riding Immortal on the Seeking Road

Or: Seeking, an Oral History / Dying Historic on the Seeking Road / I Went North And All I Got Was This [REDACTED] / Six Years, Seven Candles / Dehumanising Myself And Facing To Bloodshed: A Memoir / I’m a Candle, And So Can You!

I did it. I went the whole way NORTH. All of it.

This has been a long, long time in coming; I started playing this game six entire years ago, in 2010, and started Seeking in mid-2012; late August, I think, though the exact date has been lost to time. I figured, as someone who’s been around for most of the history of Seeking, it’d be cool to write up an account of everything that’s happened with this weird obscure punishing side-story which attracts a far bigger crowd than anyone would ever expect. Buckle up for about four years worth of Instances and Happenstances; I can’t promise it’ll be earthshattering, but hopefully it’ll be entertaining, or at least informative. There’s even an origin story or four.

You may also enjoy NiteBrite’s autobiography from a while ago, which covers a lot of similar ground.

(This is terribly long, and Tumblr has played merry hell with the formatting. Some of my images don’t seem to want to port over, too. If you want to read the original, it’s here. The formatting’s mangled there, too, but in a way that adds character. There is also a gif of a goat getting owned, so it’s objectively superior.)

#fallen london #seeking mr eaten's name #actually literally half the size of Seeking itself

Anonymous asked:

What caused Seeking to be removed in the first place?

http://www.failbettergames.com/seeking-mr-eatens-name/

Anonymous asked:

Thank you for the timely response in regards to Irons' warning about the Bazaar. As of today I've finished the Marvelous until more comes out about said Ambition. After buying the Sixth City, Mr. Pages kept staring at the mirror while he described where the card game will take place. Do you think future installments will have it in Irem/Parabola with mirror-serpents, or at Savior's Rocks/The Spider Council where they hunt through mirrors to fight the Lorn Flukes?

I’m fairly sure the final instalment will take place in Parabola. Same with Bag a Legend.

Anonymous asked:

is there a way to gain rubbery men's favors/ renown from flute street?

You can get Favours, though not particularly quickly.

Anonymous asked:

@anon worries about quirk hits from the tomb-colonies: Hedonist is harder to keep at high levels than Austere, so best to take a hit to the latter. The only way to go from Hedonist 10 to 12 you can't get locked out of is Flint, so much safer to lose Austere and raise that via the uncapped option in the Iron Republic.

This is so.

Anonymous asked:

Why is seeking (or the closest thing to it) in Sunless Sea so much more rewarding?

The lessons at the Chapel of Lights eat your Supplies and your Mirrors stat, give you loads of Terror and end with you getting your head chopped off, and they’re not even really Seeking, you’re just going and listening to a lecture about it.

Anonymous asked:

So, we need to chop our head two times and get Gawain's before getting Fortigan's? Or were the folks at the Chapel just particularly bored when you visited? /saw your forum post. Also, an egg?

You usually only need to get your head chopped off once. I just got unlucky.

Yes. An egg.

Anonymous asked:

I heard that having died at least once locks you out of certain content. Is that true at all?

No.

Anonymous asked:

Do you have anything supporting the Devils are bees theory other than they are often described with having a buzziny way of speaking and seem to like flowers?

Yes. The most obvious thing to point to is that you can decapitate a devil and a bee will fly out. There’s plenty of other stuff too, though; references to devils living in a hive in Parabola; Princes of Hell being giant chitinous bugmen; the Brimstone Convention being a huge buzzing mess; insect/hive/flower motifs being used fairly often in devil content.

Anonymous asked:

so the recent info subscribers got from talking to the Boatman implies Salt is supporting, if they're not outright the one behind, the movement for the Liberation of Night. Does this fit with any of the other parts of the lore concerning it?

I don’t think the boatman is referring to Salt, honestly.

Anonymous asked:

What have been some of your favorite storylines to play through?

Flint; Lost in Reflections; the University investigation (in... retrospect, really); The Twelve Days of Mr Sacks; Seeking, old and new.

Anonymous asked:

So, I would... um... LOVE to join everyone in sacrificing everything I know and love for SMEN, but I'm way behind the content train. I'm still trying to get my first point of notability. Anyways, I was wondering if grinding the tale of the fidgeting writer is a worthwhile time investment. You can farm infinite tales of terror from the vicar in your lodgings. So far, I've already traded it in for a brass ring (and got hellfarer? Destiny related?), and I usually make it that far.

The Fidgeting Writer is a pretty good source of income, but only if you run it all the way to the end and only if you get the items required from efficient sources (1 Tale of Terror per action is pretty low; you can get more from burglaries in the Flit). It’s okay as a source of some items, too, if you cash out before the end

Anonymous asked:

So, Parabola is pretty definitively not ruled by the Law of the Judgements, that's kind of its deal. Does it have its own analogue to Law that we know of, though? Like, from what we hypothetically know about the Liberation of Night, it's a lot, uh, darker than Parabola, despite both being free of the tyrrany of the Judgements. Is there any sort of established Lore Reason for this (Viric as the Law of Parabola?), or is it just nitpicking over details that should really just be handwaved?

Parabola is basically a separate dimension close to our own, close to but not subject to the rule of Judgements. It could be lawless without being lightless; or maybe it has its own concept of Law we’ve never really seen yet.

my queue stops for nothing, not even my own end

Anonymous asked:

What's the most exciting thing you've learned about Mr Eaten so far since Seeking returned?

I think it is perhaps that the reason for his betrayal was not “liked the Second City too much”, or at least, not just that, but there was something else going on too.

Anonymous asked:

If finishing SMEN makes your player character unplayable, can you create a new character on the same account (even if you have to start over from scratch), or can no more characters be created on that account?

You can get your email address unlinked from your character so you can start another one on the same account, I think.

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