Fallen London: Hello, Delicious Playgrounders

[Grif]

So. I just registered. Going under Grifen.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Eldan, I think this is the best social message I've received yet. Though I was at work, I busted out a small laugh.

(To all others, it's a request to help them with Scandal.)

"Dear Sir

As a person of excellent reputation, I am sure that you can, with some certainty, ascertain that I spent the last evening having dinner with you and your lovely spouse and was not, in fact, spending time at Mrs. Plenty's Carneval, demonstrating a variety of Oriental and Presbyterian dances to an intoxicated crowd, while in a state of déshabillé. I am sure you understand.

Yours, Dr. Blake"

(Also, adding Grif to the opening post.)

[Wookieetank]

Just got myself to the Forgotten Quarter, score!

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Just got myself to the Forgotten Quarter, score!

Oooh, have fun with the expeditions!

[Luzahn]

The Quarter is probably my favorite area. Have fun, and avoid the devil-hunts.

By the way, are most people primarily Watchful? I've noticed it popping up a lot.

[Eldan]

It seems to be (at least to me) the stat with the most content. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I rarely even particularly focused on it and still ended up 170/150/130/150 or so before I started simply grinding stats. Dangerous, especially, doesn't seem to have much to do.

[Hydranova]

Well, seeing as Persuasive (69) and Shadowy (44) are going to take a while to grind up as I get distracted, I've decided to invest some of my monetary efforts into saving up for a permit at the Bazaar. I wonder which'll come first, becoming A Person of Importance or getting a room in the Bazaar.

And is there any method as to how the titles after your name are given (the "Such and such is a blank and blank gendertitle" things)? I thought they were stat-based, but then I saw that I wound up with four of them.

[Luzahn]

After 100 your two strongest stats get two adjectives each.

[Pseudo_Nym]

After 100 your two strongest stats get two adjectives each.

Huh. I saw the further along people had four adjectives, but I figured passed 100 every stat would get one, rather than two for two. I wonder why they felt two adjectives were needed.

My stats (unmodified) are 35/34/33/36. Today marks the one week anniversery of my descent to the Neath.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Damn, the weekly storylet's skill challenge takes five actions a piece, but you get four echoes on each success.

And I should've remembered to equip my Ancient Hunting Rifle since without it I do have a 19% chance to fail.

[Pseudo_Nym]

I've been robbing drunks whenever I need money. 'An anonymous wretch' seems to average 50 primordial shrieks (worth one echo) per action. Sometimes more.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Really? I do desperately need to increase my Shadow (it's at 19 while my other stats are in their 30s and Watchful is in the 40s), so I'll do that.

[Luzahn]

With the idea that most people have a high Watchful score simply because it has the most content, I would be curious as to which skills, from a roleplaying standpoint, most represent their characters.

Personally, I go for Watchful / Dangerous. A sort of Indiana Jones-esque archetype.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Damn, the weekly storylet's skill challenge takes five actions a piece, but you get four echoes on each success.

And I should've remembered to equip my Ancient Hunting Rifle since without it I do have a 19% chance to fail.

Far as I can tell, it's not very money-efficient. I've seen people line up reward cycles that give you 1.3~ echoes per action. (Usually it's "do things to prep, then cash it in with a big reward at the end".)

BTW, robbing drunks in Spite changes your Airs of London quality, which can be beneficial for certain things (like running an Orphanage, very Airs-dependent).

As for the stats which befit my character, that'd likely be Watchful and Shadowy. I came to the Neath for vengeance, and stayed for what lies in shadows, the secrets to be uncovered.

[Eldan]

That's only for people with really high stats, though. I guess for low-stat players, it might not be bad.

That said, it's perfectly possible to grind for 1.4 or even 1.5 echoes per action as a significant person. Currently, for really high persuasive, there's dancing at the Carneval that produces three 50 pence items for 1 action.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

That's only for people with really high stats, though. I guess for low-stat players, it might not be bad.

That said, it's perfectly possible to grind for 1.4 or even 1.5 echoes per action as a significant person. Currently, for really high persuasive, there's dancing at the Carneval that produces three 50 pence items for 1 action.

Does that count in Scandal gain, though? Because you'll have to make sure that you have an alibi to reduce your Scandal. And that costs actions, which takes epa (actually, I like "PPA", "pence per action" too) down.

[Eldan]

A success produces no scandal if scandal is already over 3. I just failed a few times because 158 isn't quite enough persuasive.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

A success produces no scandal if scandal is already over 3. I just failed a few times because 158 isn't quite enough persuasive.

Huh! That's good to know! (I almost capped out on Persuasive, so I should be fine.)

*dance dance dance*

[Eldan]

And if you fail, I owe you a dinner that totally had nothing to do with dancing.

[Luzahn]

I've just stumbled across a very interesting Bundle of Oddities result. Perhaps it would be appreciated by others with Revolutionary sentiment?

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London Street Signs

Forbidden goods! There's a manifesto of sorts, too, crudely printed... "This is not our city. Our city has departed. This is its crouching corpse. This is the shell accreted round it. We are overwritten by the Masters. They will forget us down into the ground. They will make of us lacre. The streets are dead, but let us remember them. Chalk their old names high! Let them be remembered in flame!"

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Ah, the bit about the lacre, you mean? I'd heard of that...

Oh, the Revolutionaries. I sympathize with your sentiment. Not necessarily so much with your methodology.

[Eldan]

Okay, as someone who never got into Lacre much, what are they talking about? Is Lacre Soylent Green?

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Okay, as someone who never got into Lacre much, what are they talking about? Is Lacre Soylent Green?

Apparently so, from what I've heard.

Some speculation on the official forums.

Also, thanks to all of your delicious gifts, I am at 12 Masquing (having previously redeemed 3 Masquing for the attention of the Pirate-Poet). Now, I wonder whom I should gain as my next compatriot?

(By the by, I ought to give some of the delicious newcomers their Rose-gifts. If I've overlooked you, please do tell me!)

[Varen_Tai]

(By the by, I ought to give some of the delicious newcomers their Rose-gifts. If I've overlooked you, please do tell me!)

I've already got a gift or two from you, but I *am* interested to know what you will do with the story tidbit I sent ya last week.

The game is afoot!

[Eldan]

The Ghostly Presence is fun, I just got that. And I don't think that I'll ever get to 40 with random rare successes, so the nice companions are probably out.

It's a bit sad, really. They are all quite flavourful, but I can't use companions who give less than +8 on a stat.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

I've already got a gift or two from you, but I *am* interested to know what you will do with the story tidbit I sent ya last week.

The game is afoot!

Indeed! Curious, most curious indeed. I daresay, I believe I got the most curious reply when I showed it to the lady in lilac...

The Ghostly Presence is fun, I just got that. And I don't think that I'll ever get to 40 with random rare successes, so the nice companions are probably out.

It's a bit sad, really. They are all quite flavourful, but I can't use companions who give less than +8 on a stat.

Yeah; I'm just planning on acquiring a coterie of Neathly personages. I'm well-past the stat boosts given by them. My Scuttering Squad and Laconic Prodigy cover everything but Persuasive, and my Salt Weasel covers that.

[Eldan]

I have a Scuttering Squad, too, and an Appreciation society for the rest.

But yeah. I'm mostly just a collector, too.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

I used to have an Appreciation Society...

...then they left me when I started my intensive publications on the Correspondence. Hmph. Waffling piffles!

[Luzahn]

Apparently so, from what I've heard.

Some speculation on the official forums.

Hmm, I wasn't quite thinking that Lacre is people!, I had initially assumed we were going the Body Snatchers route. The first bit makes more sense though, given the context.

"You see? This is why I support the Revolutionaries. Half of them might be dangerously mad bombers or socialists, but they're all we've got. And I wouldn't put any faith in the Devils. From what my Falcon has passed on, they've been working with the Bazaar since at least the Fourth City's fall. They know what awaits us.

Of course, this is also why I have the Zubmarine. I hear some Fourth City survivors are set up in the East. That might be helpful."

[Hiro Protagonest]

I chose to be closest to the constables when the option came up (I only have connection 2 with The Great Game, so I felt I didn't have enough to say I was closest to them), but after getting the "Cities that fell" card that said that the masters did pull the other four cities down too, I've decided to go for the overthrowing the masters route. Still prefer to support the constables over the criminals, although I do quite a few "repossessions" they wouldn't approve of.