#mannat ahuja

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choose a (fake) exceptional story featuring one of my npcs to play!

The Art of Revolution (Xerxen)

Two For the Show (Zethys and Felipe)

Violet and Violant (Mannat)

The Unkindness of Ravens (Eris)

Voting ended onSep 30, 2025

summaries

The Art of Revolution: Decidedly revolutionary paintings have been springing up across London, almost all of them the work of one Rubbery Man. Is it vandalism or public art? Poignant and necessary, or inciting needless violence? Befriend the Rubbery Revolutionary and spread the ideals of the revolution. Infiltrate a cell of anti-monarchists and sabotage the cause. The choice is yours. Only one thing is certain: art, in the right hands, can be as powerful as any bomb. This story features: Rubberies, Revolutionaries, and Royals.

Two For the Show: The Inimitable Miss Zethys and the Incredible Mister Fey have returned to Mahogany Hall from their latest tour! Not everyone is celebrating, though, and when a member of their crew is murdered, it falls to you to take their place. Explore the intricacies of working backstage at Mahogany Hall, from props to politics and everything in between. Catch the saboteur before they can strike again. And remember! The show must always go on. This story features: Mahogany Hall, Bohemians, Rubberies, and the Wars of Illusion.

Violet and Violant: The Ambitious Cartographer has a bold new plan to map the Cave of the Nadir. All they need is a bathub’s worth of violant ink (don’t ask how they got it), a few weeks of leave from the University (don’t ask if it’s paid), and a new research assistant (don’t ask what happened to the last one). But the Cave of the Nadir is treacherous territory for even the most experienced adventurer, and there might be more to the Cartographer themself than what meets the eye. This story features: The Cave of the Nadir, Benthic College, and the Neathbow.

The Unkindness of Ravens: The Neath’s white ravens are known for their wisdom. So when one of them starts spouting riddles at you, it’s not entirely out of the ordinary. But the more you listen, the more you become convinced this raven has a particular message for you. Decoding it will take you from home waters to the farthest reaches of the zee, and back again. Where did the white ravens come from? Why did they seek you out? And just who is the “keeper of the light” they keep mentioning? This story features: the Zee, ravens, the Dawn Machine, and mild body horror.

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get jumpscared. tumbleweed for your ask game with any of your little guys you wanna answer for?

tumbleweed: what stats would they provide as an in-game companion? how would you acquire them?

I do not yet have art for Mannat sadly, and I know I’ve messed around on picrew with them but I can’t find any that I actually saved, so I’m using some stock art from the game for this one.

you encounter Mannat after leaving the cave of the nadir for the first time. they’re sitting outside the cave, surrounded by notes and sketches. you can choose to talk to them, and you find out that they’re trying to map the cave. you point out the obvious challenge with that- it’s famously very hard to remember anything about the cave of the nadir.

Mannat’s method is to bring lots of paper into the cave with them, and just write down and sketch as much of what they encounter as they can, then try to piece together those notes after they leave the cave. they’re a Benthic scholar and have been in academia pretty much their whole life, so taking notes on weird stuff is instinctual at this point. they have yet to go deep enough into the cave that they forget this instinct.

with sufficiently high lab prestige and connected: Benthic, you can help Mannat with their work. your expeditions become more risky as you continue the story, but they also unlock new experiments in your lab, which Mannat can help you with once you complete a certain number of expeditions and get them as a companion.

I’m envisioning Mannat’s mapmaking as sort of a living story; there’s no real end to it, and a world quality called “cartographer’s discoveries” or something like that pops up occasionally (like crate commotion or the admiralty ships full of explosives) unlocking short new stories with them and new routes to explore within the cave.

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the 11 secret ocs that live in my notes app, part 1

Mannat Ahuja, the Ambitious Cartographer. Benthic scholar who also serves as Alexandria’s usual navigator in both the zee and the air, and is trying to map the Cave of the Nadir.

Stephano D’Amore, the Jaded Marksman. Tomb-colonist, champion of Feducci’s fighting rings and sort of his ex (don’t worry about it), master of arms on the Orphean (Amelia’s ship) and master gunner of the Eurydice (Amelia and Alexandria’s airship).

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Fallen London: NPCs

Metis Rue: The Reclusive Wordsmith

Xerxen Thallos: The Rubbery Revolutionary

Mr. Phantasy: The Khan of Dreams

Elaina Banks: The Discreet Tailor

Mannat Ahuja: The Ambitious Cartographer

Stephano D’Amore: The Jaded Marksman

Zethys: The Inimitable Illusionist

Felipe Moreno Espinoza: The Dashing Conjurer

Desidario D’Amore: The Elusive Socialite

Harlequin: The Peligin-Eyed Carpenter

Benjamin: The Incandescent Explorer

Sofia: The Inscrutable Sailor

Sister Cecilia: The Luminous Pianist

Gianna Flynn: The Youthful Cannoneer

Eris Lovelace: The Laconic Dissident