Welcome, delicious friend! Welcome to the Echo Bazaar...

Orikaeshigitae

Where is the Bazaar?

The Bazaar is located at the heart of Fallen London, in the Neath, a cavern of impossible size, by the Unterzee, a tremendous saltwater lake. They say it's the skull of some defunct pagan god. That doesn't sound very likely. Although it would explain the dreams.

Thirty years ago, London was stolen. By who or what, nobody seems to know - and only revolutionaries and anarchists say 'stolen' any more. But a fantastic Bazaar has sprung up in the middle of Fallen London where anything can be bought or sold if you know what to ask for, Hell has established an embassy, and suddenly death doesn't seem to mean much...

Echo Bazaar is a browser game like Kingdom of Loathing, where you have a limited set of actions which replenish every so often, and a limited amount of total actions per day. However, the good bit about it (and what makes it different from other games like Mafia Wars) is that most of the time, you're using those actions not only to grind stats, but to find out more about the world. Echo Bazaar is filled with little 'storylets', similar to those books that Rank keeps making threads about, that drip-feed you a little more of the Neath. That's what makes it so addictive for me.

Check it out at http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com . No affiliate links, no trickery. Just a lot of cool lore and interesting things to find.

If you'd like to play a game of chess or perhaps spend an evening confiding your nightmares in me, my twitter username is @karlnp. Feel free to follow. Perhaps we'll make a day of shopping at the Bazaar.

To sign up, all you need to have is a Twitter or Facebook account. I know that seems shady, but you don't have to actually do anything with those - although you can retweet or post some element of trivia about the game to replenish your actions (once per day), it's not mandatory. You can play this game without ever posting to your twitter feed.

You start out in Newgate Prison, a Stranger of Indeterminate Past.. but Echo Bazaar's strength is allowing you to determine how you escape and who you were before your capture.

MKR

facebook already has enough of my datas

I guard them zealously now

Tommy2Hands

I love

kingdom of loathing

I wonder if anything new has gone on over there in the last two years

Lord Dave

Tommy2Hands wrote: »

I love

kingdom of loathing

I wonder if anything new has gone on over there in the last two years

yeah, lots

redfenix

Lord Dave wrote: »

Tommy2Hands wrote: »

I love

kingdom of loathing

I wonder if anything new has gone on over there in the last two years

yeah, lots

i was just thinking about that game

i quit after i ended up having like 3 farming alts
and then a friend took those, and botted them and made like stupid game money

i dunno

Orikaeshigitae

What happens when you die in Fallen London?

Death in the Fifth City isn't necessarily the end. If you're stabbed or shot, someone may come along and sew you back together soon enough. If you're drowned, you'll wake with a hangover. If you die of old age or disease, or if you're hacked to pieces, it's a more serious matter. But in any case, once you die and return to life down here, you'll never be permitted to return to the surface...unless you're one of the few who find a way to immortality.

Abracadaniel

This sounds neat ori. I will check it in the AM

Melding

I am worried i might go crazy in this game, my nightmares are getting close to 7.

Caveman Paws

Someone from here told me about this game many months ago, and today someone started following me on twitter. I forgot I even had a twitter account. The reason I have one is this game.

Orikaeshigitae

My nightmares are at 8, which ordinarily would drive me mad, but fortunately i have a goldfish.

Melding

oh cool, i have the goldfish too.

Orikaeshigitae

I've also developed a crippling laudanum habit. It helps, but gives me Wounds.

Melding

i don't even know what that is.

Mr. Mojo Risin

Been playing this for a couple of days and it is indeed really cool, I absolutely love the setting. Anyways I basically have a twitter just for this so I either need followers or to follow someone to do the social stuff so add Bogilvie to your twitter if you want.

Doobh

Alright, I'm enjoying this. Thanks for the recommend, Orik.

Grey Ghost

Oh man this game looks sweet

Druhim

this looks pretty rad
thanks for bringing this to our attention orik!

Mortal Sky

signed the fuck up

I like this game. Kinda like a CYOA meets KoL plus Victorian snazziness

Druhim

What I really like about this is that the mechanics are basically the same as many other browser/FB games, but instead of just making the mostly meaningless actions and accomplishments the only point of the game they've given the players a really creative, interesting, and well written story to explore as the point of going through the otherwise mostly meaningless actions.

iamthepieman

I have signed up for this. I am a shadowy person of indiscernible gender.

Harrier

Oh man, I'm playing this. This is so much fun. How can it be this much fun? It must be all the intrigue.

NotASenator

Oh, is this a facebook game?

Druhim

not really
you don't play it through FB, but you can sign in via FB or twitter and you control if and when it sends messages

but you play it on the game's site

Grey Ghost

NotASenator wrote: »

Oh, is this a facebook game?

You sign in using a Facebook or Twitter account, just so it has a way to recognize you, but it's played on its own site and won't post anything to your account if you tell it not to

edit: Jesus Christ, seven minutes?
That's what I get for leaving a tab open and doing other stuff

NotASenator

Ok, well Twitter I can do. I was excited because Orik has been going on about this and I don't have a facebook account.

skettios

ah man, you're going to make me start playing this again...

Irtehmongoose

I wonder if my account for this is still around, and if they added any more stuff to do.

TankHammer

I usually don't allow access to my accounts but this game seems particularly cool.

I signed up as Professor TankHammer but so far I'm more of a brutish thug. Earning money in this game is going to take forever, especially if I don't want to spam-up my Twitter feed.

SporkAndrew

Hey, this is a pretty neat way to tell a story and a bit more engaging than Kingdom of Loathing was.

Bookmarked.

M.D.

i think its a twitter game but I dont have that so trying to get it to work on the facebook thing now

edit - blah late reply

Irtehmongoose

Looks like my account is still active and they added more to ambitions, now to remember what the heck I was doing.

Doobh

I've been going the watchful route. Currently pursuing my lover's killer.

TankHammer

Anyone want to join me in a little spot of suspicious loitering?

Doobh

I need some chess, actually, to deal with my current onslaught of nightmares.

Indie Winter

oh this seems wicked cool

signing up now

Indie Winter

I have just landed near the Spire of All Christs

this is fucking fantastic

Orikaeshigitae

i find it interesting that the dreams apparently have no end

dammit, i'm gonna dream 'em and not go insane!

Orikaeshigitae

oh also don't listen to any well

dangerous things are said in wells

Snowbeat

Venn Dagram is hunting down his lover's killer with wit and charm and the occasional flash of a blade

Doobh

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

oh also don't listen to any well

dangerous things are said in wells

I am sorry, Orik

this warning came too late

Indie Winter

hey, anyone got some nice moody music to listen to while playing this? so far I have tracked down this little ditty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M7fbb02H20

and it fits like a glove