#neathyposting

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Oh hey

Apocalyptic event

Community comes together to fight back

and ultimately wins (at least for now).

Did Tumblr just do an Estival event?

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Man FL is such a hotbed of echolalia. All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. Do you recall when we came to that place and we spoke of our lightnings and shapeful disgrace/we tilted our vanes and ennobled our spires they welcomed us them and commingled all choirs. The winds are wild the lacre deep the snarling stones awake from sleep/the Fifth's tales may exalt the suns but never hope to halt what comes. A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely. The Presbyterate. Parabola. Traveler Returning. The Starveling Cat poems. THESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTH-

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Most unrealistic part of Fallen London is that making art and talking to people are the same stat.

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The FLPC in general has a ridiculous amount of access to places, but I find it especially hilarious that they can just walk into the Evenlode and start volunteering as a lawyer. It seems like in theory, a random Urchin could save up for a train ticket and play public defender for a day. Meanwhile, Cop HQ can't stop robbers from beating up old men. What a good legal system the Hinterlands have!

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I love how Fallen London occasionally mentions deep lore so casually. Like, this is just the text for mass-upconverting Maniac's Prayers, and it reveals that the Correspondence comes from outer space, a hint to lore than was highly secret at the time this text was written. The thing is, one can most easily notice what deep lore this is retrospectively, after learning the whole truth about the Correspondence - otherwise, it just looks like another random neathy mystery. Actually, a lot of Old Fallen London thrives on this kind of dropping random hints to the mysteries and leaving the player to put it all together themself - the sidebar snippets, the word NORTH recurring in the dream storylines, all the mentions of "Parabola" in places like the dream cards and the Nadir, the trivia about the previous cities... Telling the story like that makes the player feel the neathy weirdness.

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Thoughts on the Church 40 Renown item scene

Out of all the good things about this scene, one of my favorite is that it's not the player character getting something from the Church - it's them getting something from being the sort of person who invests so much of themself in the Church. I like it when Fallen London does religious stuff in a sincere way, to counterbalance stuff like God's Editors. Similar with the Church in the Wild and the Last Duchess.

Also (rot13, lore spoilers) vf "Yvsr vf gur zvenpyr guebhtu juvpu gur Tbq'f jbex erpbtavmrf vgfrys" sberfunqbjvat nobhg Fgbar?

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I gotta say, I'm really enjoying the dragon event, especially fighting it in Parabola. First, I always the British/European history motifs (see also the Last Duchess), and then the text for standing against it where it talks about you stepping into an ancient tradition is just perfection. It feels like a love letter to the whole Monster-Hunter profession, to the people who step up and fight the horrors so people don't have to be afraid. (antimemetics divison spoilers)

You are not alone. A horde is with you, the same heroism reflected thousandfold in blade and plate.

I didn't know Fallen London was a magical girl show /very positive

Anyway, everyone back in London keep dreaming - we in Parabola need you!

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What people don't realize is that Goncharov wasn't the first movie written entirely in the Discordance.