strangeness purveyor

I made A House of Many Doors, an RPG about unlikely cities and weird gods and conjoined crows. Follow the official tumblr at pixeltrickery.tumblr.com

[failbettergames]

Something’s bothering you. Like everything is wrong, somehow. Wrong body, wrong place, wrong time. As if it wasn’t bad enough being you, now you feel like it’s wrong to be you.

This month’s Exceptional Story in Fallen London is called Every Good Boy Deserves Fun. It’s by Harry Tuffs.

Enjoy.

[shazzbaa]

DEATH AND TAX EVASION WAS SUCH A GOOD ES FOR SAM....... I got so invested in heckin Christian Rat Church so heres a bunch of church rats............... more specifics notes under the cut:

the rat church is dealing with a schism, so early on there's a chance to break up a fight and THIS IS JUST A RLY FUNNY MENTAL IMAGE TO ME.... SAM JUST GOES IN THERE AND STARTS PICKING UP RATS

A thing that's come up a few times in chats and rp with friends is that in order to not constantly feel crazy when verses he knows by heart change slightly in every edition, Samuel's kept his own Bible from the surface to refer to. With the rats specifically taking issue with St. Cyriac's edits, I really want to believe Sam got a moment to share older versions of these verses with the Layrat, before all the verses on death were changed to exclude rats....

IF YOU'RE CONNECTED TO FINGERKINGS then in Cheese Heaven the fingerkings specifically notice you're not a rat and only rats are supposed to be there -- instead of helping you leave, they just politely warn you that you'd better escape soon or else they'll have to turn you into a rat. RULES ARE RULES!! Thanks so much guys. I'm still losing my mind abt how much cheese heaven scrambled sam's brain.... just rly thought he was a rat for a bit there......

ALSO I HAVENT STOPPED THINKING ABT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE LAYRAT PRAYING FOR YOU. I compared this ES early on to another ES I played a while back, All The Saints, where the Intrepid Deacon is sort of looking to you during a crisis of faith, and Sam worked hard to keep him un-tempted. But... for this one, Samuel was less sure, and uncertainly encouraged the Layrat to be willing to question what he grew up with, and to follow his heart on these strange new ratty religious ideas. But... this little rat was the one to keep faith and help him when Sam nearly forgot himself... I DONT KNOW MAN. IVE GOT EMOTIONS ABT RAT FAITH.

[shazzbaa]

Extremely enjoyed the Memories of Mozart ES. Samuel is NOT enjoying his, new "hat,"

The final scuffle is a great excuse for Sam to have memories of eating his own eye lose an eye, so ive just been thinking about sam with an eyepatch since i played this,

(extra scribble & thoughts under the cut)

initial scribbles of eyepatch sam when I was first going "what if........ he lost an eye to the spider-council........." and then everyone in my friend chat said he was very handsome with the eyepatch which is obviously the highest priority in character decisions. One friend described the missing eye being right under his unrelated bashed-open-his-head-on-a-coffin-lid scar as "misleadingly badass" which also delights me

For my non-Flondon friends and followers, here's the ""new hat"" Samuel got from playing this story in which you're being impersonated by a colony of spiders, if you pick the choice that lets an unsettlingly ambiguous trading of memories happen:

He could almost certainly use Shapeling Arts to make, if not a fully functioning eye, at least a replacement of some variety, but I kind of love the idea that having one Completely Missing is the most grounding evidence that he is in fact a human who was attacked by sorrow-spiders, and maybe he needs that right now..........

[torabdos]

Can you tell I enjoyed the ES a lot

[torabdos]

Can you tell I enjoyed the ES a lot

[shazzbaa]

"You sit with Clara and the Hybrid in the great domed tent, talking animatedly of your wildest stories of the Zee. The Hybrid gurgles and claps along, hanging onto every word."

THIS IS A REAL THING YOU CAN DO. IT DOES NOT ADVANCE THE STORY IN ANY WAY. YOU CAN JUST GO IN AND TELL ZEE STORIES TO UR KIDDO!!!

you gotta understand SAM IS A ZAILOR AT HEART, after his one disastrous outing he fell in love with the zee and all its exhilarating danger and is just out there constantly. Right after Hephaesta ended up in Parabola he'd actually sent another friend a letter, offering to treat them to Dante's in exchange for letting him practice telling zee stories on them (since him talking abt the zee tends to be less in the Exciting Tales of his Adventures way and more in the Infodumping About Zailing way...) BUT THEN THIS OPTION????? 🥺 I CANT HANDLE IT..... PUTTING HIS PRACTICE TO WORK ON THE MOST IMPORTANT AUDIENCE............

[shazzbaa]

Your star has never guided you wrong.

I'm so emotionally compromised by child, you guys... I wasn't even expecting to be able to still see and pick out which one is my kid on the cavern roof, MUCH LESS how bright and special it is.... The fact that Sam can, in a weird way, spend time with his child at zee, looking up to the false-stars to guide him, rEALLY DID ME IN.......

Anyway more liveblogging and feelings under the cut,

[No hints or info about other post-ambition tie-ins in tags/replies/etc please! I like stumbling upon things myself]

so like immediately after finishing the ambition we were obviously all emotionally compromised, but also, we were already thinking about this --

WE DIDNT KNOW. SO LIKE TWO WEEKS LATER,

IM NEVER GOING TO BE OVER THIS

And then I had to deal with these feelings by drawing this picture. ANYWAY THANKS FALLEN LONDON FOR MAKING THIS THE PERFECT AMBITION FOR SAMUEL IN EVERY WAY.

[shazzbaa]

“How’s Samuel's ambition going in Fallen London, Shazz?” well I’m so glad you asked, its gOING GREAT,

[No spoilers or coy hinting for Light Fingers in the tags/replies/reblogs please!! if I am missing some poor edward detail that i dont know yet DONT TELL ME, IM STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND IM SO INVESTED IN THIS RIDICULOUS AMBITION LMAO]

the guy in the weird tragedy mask is Poor Edward -- he's the one who buried Sam alive before!! anyway due to a complicated series of events Sam smashed a bottle in his face that happened to be full of love potion and uh,,,, IT TOOK EFFECT,,,,,, Poor Edward is fully aware the love potion is causing this but he's making that Samuel's problem. im obsessed with him.

[bigger-rat]

please play A House of Many Doors

[skelicopter]

Steam :: A House of Many Doors :: V2.0 Update + Changelog

The long-awaited 2.0 patch finally polishes the game to a mirror sheen. See below for the changelog!

The v2.0 update for A House of Many Doors is now live! Featuring extensive bug-fixes and polish

[whippoor-wont]

hello everyone I made the dangerous mistake of revisiting the extremely indie niche game (A House of Many Doors) that was very precious to me when it first came out (smash cut to 100 hrs of gameplay and a new oc later)

my supremely lucky and unlucky captain Curse keeps getting Maimed and left in an alley or what have you and dragged back to their kinetopede by their surprisingly loyal crew. I don't think there is a major questline i've gotten through without maiming this guy i swear

[hypotheticalpeople]

guy who conceives of every doorway he walks through as entering something and never exiting and he constantly feels like he is proceeding deeper and wishing he could get back to the start

[toastshark]

Your obscure blorbos and fandoms that only have like 2 fanarts, if at all. That might be so unknown they don’t even really exist on the internet. Give them to me. I’ll draw them for you. Our obscure fandom blorbos can hang out together <3

[praise-suns-and-chill]

There are exactly to fanarts that exist of Morbazar from A House of many Doors xD Please, I would ask you to make it three

[toastshark]

I gotchu :]

played around with filters for fun and liked the vibe of one so you’re getting two versions. Which technically makes it four now!

[howtodigatrench]

You'd like niche?

Alrighty, I would like to request Morbazar, from A House of many Doors, in "Golden Lair"

(Btw it is genuinely hell to look up A House of many Doors art, for reference, it's the guy-and-gal with a clock instead of a face)

ive only recently discovered steam community screenshots but its had my back 2 for 2 for highly specific reference photos

[frankencain]

A House of Many Doors: Favourite Locations

[fashionablyfyrdraaca]

I got this GORGEOUS work done of my A House of Many Doors oc Ash Featherswallow and her wife, Genevieve Caul by the talented @mooreaux​

I’m super happy with how it came out!! If you’re looking for an artist to tackle your OCS, I would really recommend them! :D

[howtodigatrench]

You'd like niche?

Alrighty, I would like to request Morbazar, from A House of many Doors, in "Golden Lair"

(Btw it is genuinely hell to look up A House of many Doors art, for reference, it's the guy-and-gal with a clock instead of a face)

ive only recently discovered steam community screenshots but its had my back 2 for 2 for highly specific reference photos