One player has, in fact, managed to become the first Hesperidean When used in the game, it unlocks some extra content and heals all your wounds, and can be used an unlimited number of times, even when already dead or, in other words, you'll never have to worry about your Wounds or deal with the Boatman again, except when you want to.
It can also shared with any number of other players without losing it, making it a social Cool Toy. It is apparently tasty enough to be used as an initial bribe, but the main reason no one really complains about it is because Mutersalt, a compound that paralyzes the vocal chords for some time when ingested, is the starring condiment. Otherwise it's just a sausage made of mashed rats. Improvised Weapon : Presumably to avoid using actual weapons you might not have, your character seems to have a tendency towards these in the Dangerous challenges.
Thrown bricks, potted plants, coal buckets, a ten-pound cross "God will understand" I Need a Freaking Drink : There are a handful of alcohol-related ways for players to reduce their Nightmares. Laudanum trades nightmares for wounds and an annoying addiction quality for PoSI. Spiced wine at the Carnival can either reduce nightmares if you're lucky, reduce nightmares and wounds if you're very lucky, or raise scandal if you're unlucky.
Greyfields First Sporing reduces nightmares with no drawbacks, but requires a luck roll on an opportunity card to obtain, often making it Too Awesome to Use. Infinity -1 Sword : In general, the most expensive Bazaar items are usually not the best ones in each slot, but getting them is straightforward and anything that outclasses them is either event-, Profession-bound or Fate-locked, or requires a lot of time to grind for 40 Renown or completing an Ambition.
In particular, the Scuttering Squad can also be obtained by trading in the Rat of Glory you can get every year for Sacksmas. Their only downsides are that you might get a rare conflict card if you also have a Midnight Matriarch, and they don't "sell" for nearly as much as you paid for them because of a stiff cancellation clause in their contract.
The Iron Republic Journal is a weapon that gives a total of 2 BDR, and is obtainable by buying an Iron Republic Safe-Conduct which costs 3 Marks of Credit Page and only requires some time accumulating Counting the Days , then zailing there with your ship and completing the carousel once.
This will likely need some luck and require you to spend a few Cartography items to raise your Strange Catch quality when going fishing, and is available only during the Fruits of the Zee Festival, but anything better than these items in these slots will require you to spend real money. Choosing a tier 1 Profession costs 5 Favours for a particular faction; advancing to tier 2 requires 2 Notability Journalists can also spend 5 Favours: Bohemians and an Exceptional Short Story if they want to advance before becoming a PoSI ; advancing to tier 3 requires 5 Notability and passing a stat challenge.
None of this is particularly costly or time-consuming; in exchange, the tier 1 and 2 Profession items are often very good by the time you can obtain them if not best-in-slot , while the tier 3 ones can only be outclassed by the Mayoral weapons which cost 40 Fate each if you haven't gotten them during the Hallowmass when that Mayor was incumbent, and even then they remain best-in-slot for one of the two associated stats and the rewards of finishing an Ambition, and are the only items in the game that provide bonuses to advanced stats alongside said rewards.
That being said, you can only have one Profession and one Profession item by extension at a time. It's obtained by breeding two Overgoats together.
However, SMEN is an incredibly self-destructive and unrewarding storyline and attempting it solely with the idea of optimisation with brings you no end of misery. Downplayed with the four Ministers of the Court of the Wakeful Eye, who are companions that grant a bonus of 10 to a given attribute making them the best-in-slot item for all attributes except Watchful.
Reaching the Court of the Wakeful Eye requires you to follow the Dilmun Club and Labyrinth of Tigers storylines, which do not require a lot of grinding, and the first Minister you can recruit is essentially free, so there's not much effort required if you only need one of them the Minister of War is the sole Minister who is not tied with anyone else as the best Dangerous companion except the Fate-locked Laconic Prodigy.
Recruiting more of them specifically the Minister of Culture or the Minister of Enigmas as an alternative to grinding 40 Renown for the Tomb-Colonies or Criminals , on the other hand, is very expensive and requires a large number of actions to rack up Tribute for the Court per Minister. All of the free Destinies available only increase a given stat by 5.
The best home comfort item is the Shrine to Saint Joshua, exclusive to Midnighters a tier 3 profession. For non-Midnighters, the best ones in terms of attributes are the Oneiric Key, Gleaming Buttons and Beatific Stone, all of which give 8 points to an attribute and require 40 Renown for respectively the Bohemians, Revolutionaries and Church.
Either that or shelling out 20 Fate. The second-best ship, the Zubmarine, is almost as bad: no gambling is involved, but the upfront cost is much higher 7 Bejewelled Lenses, 20 Whirring Contraptions and 20 Strong-Backed Labour. However, there are some caveats. One, you need to have an Orphanage rather than a Salon in your Handsome Townhouse. Two, you need to progress the Orphanage to level fifteen , which has been theorized to take well over a thousand echoes and dozens of actions.
Third, you then need to get lucky on the Airs of London to even have the option to recruit her. The Scuttering Squad an Infinity -1 Sword by themselves could become this in the Hallowmass festival by upgrading to the either the Scuttering Scoundrels same stats as the Laconic Prodigy above or the Scuttering Palace Guard same bonuses but trading Shadowy for Persuasive. Except unlike the Prodigy, they aren't or at least weren't at the time Fate-locked.
Insistent Terminology : Don't call him "Smiles. Interface Spoiler : Played straight with certain opportunity cards. They'll have several options, and a number of them will be locked and will visibly tie in with plots much further down the road than you can currently access. Carefully averted with certain choices, for example beast breeding in the Labyrinth of Tigers and acquiring Mr Eaten's Calling Card.
All possible options are marked as luck challenges, but one is the "correct" choice to advance the plot, and it will have the same result whether you "succeed" or "fail" at the luck roll.
Or, alternatively, the Clay Man was in love with her, and she was just off seeking excitement. It didn't end well. The opportunity card "A deviless' Serenade" has you help her write a song to her beloved, a Rubbery Man. Another opportunity card involves a tomb-colonist gentleman commissioning love poetry with which to woo a human young lady. Mind you, tomb-colonists are technically human under the bandages, but it's still basically treated as this trope.
Invented Individual : At the end-game, in Balmoral, you can make up cover identities, giving it various traits, nuances, witnesses and depth. With some more investment, you can even start placing such an identity in events both past and present, giving it even more value for either inserting yourself into various places you'd be otherwise unwelcome in, or selling it off to factions that could make use of it.
Istanbul Not Constantinople : A lot of places in London had their names changed after the city fell. Item Crafting : It is possible to convert a number of low-level items into a smaller number of higher-level items in the same category known as up-converting. Usually it is only possible with low-to-mid level items Primordial Shrieks can be converted to Maniac's Prayers, then Maniac's Prayers to Correspondence Plaques, then to Aeolian Screams, but only up to Storm-Threnodies, which cannot be up-converted to Night-Whispers , except with Wines and Mysteries, but only in special cases the Portly Sommelier for the former, and the Truthbreaker Turbine in the University for the latter.
The Bazaar Side-streets is full of 'shops' technically storylets which allows you to exchange a number of lesser items for a single more expensive item that is needed to construct even greater items most of which fill the six POSI-exclusive slots that simply cannot be obtained at the Bazaar. It Amused Me : The player's motives for why they do things are rarely delved into, leaving this open as a possible explanation.
Jerkass : Any character with a high Heartless score, generally. Jigsaw Puzzle Plot : And oh boy are there lots of pieces. Jungle Japes : Losing your mind results in you going to the Mirror-Marches, a beautiful and hot tropical island populated with perfect mirrors through the surface.
Here, you can chase parrots, converse with tigers oh my , and explore the ruins. Karma Houdini : In-universe, among the options for operas you can write as your Grand Finale before getting banished from the court , you can write a particularly heavy-handed love story with an absolutely horrendous one of these, that gets to ruin the protagonist's life twice over and gets off scot-free just for the shock value. The audience hates it so much they hunt you down with soldiers. Like Mass Effect , however, the qualities are not mutually-exclusive, which means there's nothing stopping you from, for example, being Magnanimous in some situations and Ruthless in others, though you may still find storylets in which the two qualities conflict.
Entering the House of Chimes requires the player to claim some "exceptional" quality; one option involves having high Austere and Hedonist. Knife Nut : Jack-of-Smiles, London's premier half-immortal mass murderer, favours those. It's not so bad if he just cuts your throat, as death isn't permanent in London, but he's still dangerous - if he slices you into chunks, you're not going to come back.
In fact, Jack 'is' the knives. He's 'in' the knives. If you pick up one of his knives, you're going to become Jack. King of the Homeless : The Topsy King. Kill 'Em All : A possible ending to The Cheesemonger storyline is to kill Alice, her daughter , and their little dog, too.
By way of dynamite, that is. Kleptomaniac Hero : Even beyond shadowy business, your common reward for completing a task is whatever can be pocketed in the aftermath. Knowledge Broker : Trading in the "Mysteries," "Influence," and "Rumour" item branches pretty much makes you one. Secrets in Fallen London are a commodity just like echoes, jade, and glim. Though it's never explained how your character keeps track of all that information with only 19th century technology , or how many secrets a single person can reasonably acquire, especially when they frequent the same sources over and over.
Lack of Empathy : The Heartless Quirk measures this. Lampshade Hanging : The repeated use of certain art for different characters is occasionally lampshaded: If you ask Mr Wines to employ your maiden aunt, it will remark that 'She could almost be a sister to the delicious Mrs Gebrandt.
Gebrandt and your maiden aunt use the same character art. Similarly, the Inhabiter of Wolves shares character art with the Eater of Chains It's that beast from your dreams! No, no it isn't. It looks d—ned similar though. In God's name, why? Proceed at your own risk. You can find out more about our spoiler policy here.
Before it came to the Neath, the Bazaar, also known as the Courier , was a messenger of the stars. A long, long time ago, in a galaxy that's most likely our own, the Bazaar and the Sun got together and had some really weird rock offspring including Stone. The Sun then fell in love with a different star , and to add insult to injury, sent the Bazaar who's the Sun's messenger by the way to give the other star a love letter.
This other star, unfortunately, rejected the Sun in her reply, which the Bazaar feared would cause the Sun to die of grief. The Bazaar begged Storm for extra time to deliver the rejection notice. So it has seven cities' time - ordered by the space dragons like Storm - to find seven cities' worth of love stories to boil down into the Ultimate Love and prevent the Sun from drowning in its own tears.
We used to think that the Bazaar was collecting love stories to prove to the Judgements that love between links of the Great Chain the Sun is above her on this Chain is permissible, but upon careful inspection of a certain forbidden play , this is a misconception.
Before coming to the Neath, the Bazaar made a deal with a dozen or so Curators. These Curators were unwelcome amongst their kind, so they joined the Bazaar to escape poverty. The touch of the corked flask provokes weeping. Consume it, and be fatally consumed by melancholy. Every Christmas the Bazaar floods London with its unique form of snow, called lacre. Before buying a new City , the Bazaar drowns all previous citizens in lacre [31] [32] [33] along with the old one.
Inspecting lacre under a powerful enough magnifying glass will reveal flakes reminiscent of the Correspondence , as opposed to the hexagonal flakes of the Surface. Quality lacre can be hard to come by, but the Urchins are known for peddling it, [1] and lacre is a crucial ingredient in the creation of a Noman.
The Bazaar's tears are a distilled form of lacre, [40] and they are liquid sadness: touching the cork of the bottle will induce weeping, and if drunk, the liquid will consume the drinker with melancholy. Under the Bazaar lies the Sundered Sea , which serves as its lacre-vats.
They're, oh, I don't entirely understand, still. But they're how the Bazaar travels between stars. Did you know they did that? And they sleep. The Bazaar's thrusters, which it once used to travel through space, are conjecturally known as the Stone Pigs. Devils interested. Valuable trade opportunity lost. Fancy rocks aren't the only gems Stones is interested in; one must only look up to the gems of the roof, to the false-stars: the moon-misers.
Using a lock that could only be opened with a special song from a Drownie , Stones managed to trap a moon-miser within a heavy iron box. Then it tasked two Unfinished Men , Jasper and Frank, with supervising the box at all costs, adding even more moving parts to this mysterious scheme. Using the moon-milk produced by the miser, Mr Stones sought to bribe an exiled captain from Hell to start a war with London and raze it to the ground.
All of this, it turns out, played out because Mr Stones tires of life in the Fifth City, and hopes to expedite its destruction. The Box is just one of many means to this end.
And we all have a song in our hearts. But not in any of the more dubious activities in the district of Spite! The mere suggestion is slander! Duplicitous and impatient, Mr Veils is best known for its enjoyment of hunts and songs, and is in charge of trade in clothing and fabrics.
This Master may or may not be responsible for a certain betrayal of which we will not speak. Veils assumes another, more malevolent identity as well, which is probably the only known case of a Master actually using its wings. Like a respectable lady's petticoats and skirts, there are still more layers to this Master.
The Vake is but one of its alter egos, the many different masks it has worn across cities [] [] - and sometime after the fall of London, this one took over. Veils' identity as a Master To the hungry and the sharp! Though it can't be bothered with water. Entertainment, music and the business of the ladies of the evening are also its domain.
There's supposed to be some sort of dispute about dreams. Mr Wines , known for entertaining guests at huge revels, is in charge of the trade in all things drinkable, including medicine and excluding water. Plenty's Carnival. A hunched figure. Every year, this Crimson Beast of Winter brings his terrible sack, demanding gifts to fill the void. And now you hear a high-pitched, faintly peevish voice: 'What will you put in my sack? It is also known as the Crimson Beast of Winter.
It is - er, they are in fact other figures of note: at first Mr Wines, then various Nomen and one showman emulating the other Masters. Mr Sacks carries around a huge bag, which it uses to collect gifts from the citizenry over the course of the holiday.
It's Christmas, only in reverse. And more ghastly, because sometimes, Mr Sacks will collect people. Is it, in fact, one of the Masters of the Bazaar? Is it Mr Iron or Mr Pages trading under another name? Or is it a bold rascal pretending to be an unknown Master? We do know that it runs the House of Chimes. Mr Chimes was known as the Khan of Drums during the time of the Fourth City ; [3] it seems to be a role played by many Masters. The Crimson Book contains the most 'savage tales of love and loss' and has 'passed through fire and flood'.
This indicates that the Crimson Book may have been written long before the Fifth City ; perhaps it is still being added to today?
Masters' Blood has many unusual and unique properties that separate it from normal blood. It is a far deeper red, is cold to the touch, and contains a song: 'an unending fading ring like black space struck with a fingernail. Little is known about Veils-Velvet aside from this quote, which would explain why this fabric is so incredibly valuable. A symbol of power that once belonged to a king.
The Scepter of Mr Wines is as heavy as lead, covered in frost and talon-marks, and is topped with a jewel from a faraway land. One rhyme concerns eleven pilgrims who travelled from a cold and windy waste. It enumerates each of the reasons the pilgrims were unwelcome in their homeland. Based on two controversial sources, one called On the Origins and Descent of the Masters and another called A Rhyming Revelry , we may reveal the following information.
The Masters belong to a species native to the High Wilderness called Curators. These oversized space-bats hunt in the space between stars , often alone.
On occasion, a group of Curators may band together to boast of their hoards and trade deals, and may fight amongst themselves for supremacy. Curator chiefs are described as "victorious, merciless pedlar-magnates. In the grand scheme of things, the Masters of the Bazaar weren't Masters at all. Rather, they were a group of misfit criminals who joined forces with the Bazaar to escape "misfortune, failure, and fruitlessness. A Rhyming Revelry provides hints about the crimes of the Masters, though which crimes correspond to what bat are based on conjecture and guesswork.
Although certain elements of the story and its endings are closely guarded secrets, there is still a lot of publicly available background information that some may prefer to learn on their own. Turn back now. A good question, but not a wise one. Consumed long ago when the Third City fell. Now a reclusive shadow of its former self.
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