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BeNarwhal
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*scurries off to copypasta Jacob's OP*
Fallen London, available on Android/iOS or at fallenlondon.com, is a free text-based comedy/horror choose-your-own-adventure/RPG by Failbetter Games, set in the same world as their Sunless Sea. One night in the 1860s, London was stolen by bats - yes, bats - and transported miles belowground to the Neath, a vast subterranean cavern with its own ecosystem, continents, saltwater ocean...and monsters. Now it is 1894 and life goes on much as it always has, with a few small changes. Death is less permanent. Hell is next door, and smiling devils ride through the streets of London in brass carriages. Poets and bohemians slip into the fog of a new drug that lets them literally escape into dreams. Vast shadowy powers - the Palace, the Parliament, the Church, the Anarchists, the nations of the Surface, and other, stranger things - wage clandestine wars for control of the city.
Into this steps a nameless, faceless stranger. SPOILER ALERT IT'S YOU
M2Tm0oc.png
You choose your name, cameo picture, gender (or no gender), preferred title of address (Sir, Madam, my Lord, my Lady, Citizen, etc) and decide whether you are more sneaky, fighty, intelligent, or persuasive. Then the game turns you loose on the city of London and says good luck.
RaJsMDB.png
What do you do? Well, at first, you just try to survive and make your way in the world. As you play, you'll uncover, and make choices about, your character's backstory, their motivations, and their goals for the future. Some characters might want to achieve artistic success, becoming the most well-regarded poet or playwright of the day. Others might want to go into the Church, or politics. You can become a professor, a policeman, a champion prize fighter, or a private eye. You'll probably end up being a couple of those things anyway. And as you advance in whatever your chosen field is, you'll begin learning the hidden truths of the setting, about what's really going on, and decide what you're going to do about it.
The game is 99% text, and there's a lot of it - something like 2 million words - and it's terrific, atmospheric stuff. A few sentences at a time, it paints an evocative picture of a strange, beautiful, terrifying world that lives on in the memory as vividly as if you'd experienced it in 4K max graphics.
Oh! And you don't have to do it all alone. You can interact with other players through notes and cards, enlisting their help in tough problems, sending gifts, tending to each other's wounds, or just sitting down to a nice game of chess. If you play, let me know, and I'll add you to the list!
FORUM/FALLEN LONDON
A Kobold's Kobold - akoboldskobold
amateurhour - amateurhour
Arch - Dr_Bugs
BeNarwhal - BeNarwhal
Blameless Cleric - Blameless Cleric
Bogart - Daemonomania
BSOB - Bsob
Calica - Clara Macintyre
Casual Eddy - casualeddy
cB557 - cB557
Chanus - Eduardo (it's actually "Chanus", apparently. Weirdo.)
credeiki - credeiki
Darkewolfe - Konenut
Delmain - Delmain
desc - desc
Dread Pirate Arbuthnot - Requine
Elki - Elki
Elldren - Elldren
firewaterword - firewaterword
Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud - fuzzycumulonimbo
Gooey - gooeygooeygooey
Hahnsoo1 - Hahnsoo
Haphazard - Haphazard79
Havelock2. 0 - Havelock the Gentleman Thief
kedinik - kedinik
knitdan - Joe Cusick
Jacobkosh - Jacobkosh
Ludious - Ludious
Mayabird - Mayabird
Mazzyx - Mazzyxpa
milski - Garcher
Mortious - Mortious
MrMister - Mr^2
Oats - Phos
OnTheLastCastle - OnTheLastCastle
Orphane - Orphane
P10 - Peeten
PantsB - PantsB
Podly - frank_reynolds
Ringo - Iri Hayes
ronya - Lady Roayn
SniperGuy - SniperGuy210
So It Goes - Sigmund, Esquire
visiblehowl - vh
YamiNoSenshi - YamiNoSenshi
Zampanov - Zampanov
During the month of December, remember to check the advent calendar every day for goodies!
Also I am aware of the broken images and spoilers in this OP. This some second-hand shit, you can't expect perfection, okay?
Fallen London, available on Android/iOS or at fallenlondon.com, is a free text-based comedy/horror choose-your-own-adventure/RPG by Failbetter Games, set in the same world as their Sunless Sea. One night in the 1860s, London was stolen by bats - yes, bats - and transported miles belowground to the Neath, a vast subterranean cavern with its own ecosystem, continents, saltwater ocean...and monsters. Now it is 1894 and life goes on much as it always has, with a few small changes. Death is less permanent. Hell is next door, and smiling devils ride through the streets of London in brass carriages. Poets and bohemians slip into the fog of a new drug that lets them literally escape into dreams. Vast shadowy powers - the Palace, the Parliament, the Church, the Anarchists, the nations of the Surface, and other, stranger things - wage clandestine wars for control of the city.
Into this steps a nameless, faceless stranger. SPOILER ALERT IT'S YOU
M2Tm0oc.png
You choose your name, cameo picture, gender (or no gender), preferred title of address (Sir, Madam, my Lord, my Lady, Citizen, etc) and decide whether you are more sneaky, fighty, intelligent, or persuasive. Then the game turns you loose on the city of London and says good luck.
RaJsMDB.png
What do you do? Well, at first, you just try to survive and make your way in the world. As you play, you'll uncover, and make choices about, your character's backstory, their motivations, and their goals for the future. Some characters might want to achieve artistic success, becoming the most well-regarded poet or playwright of the day. Others might want to go into the Church, or politics. You can become a professor, a policeman, a champion prize fighter, or a private eye. You'll probably end up being a couple of those things anyway. And as you advance in whatever your chosen field is, you'll begin learning the hidden truths of the setting, about what's really going on, and decide what you're going to do about it.
The game is 99% text, and there's a lot of it - something like 2 million words - and it's terrific, atmospheric stuff. A few sentences at a time, it paints an evocative picture of a strange, beautiful, terrifying world that lives on in the memory as vividly as if you'd experienced it in 4K max graphics.
Oh! And you don't have to do it all alone. You can interact with other players through notes and cards, enlisting their help in tough problems, sending gifts, tending to each other's wounds, or just sitting down to a nice game of chess. If you play, let me know, and I'll add you to the list!
FORUM/FALLEN LONDON
A Kobold's Kobold - akoboldskobold
amateurhour - amateurhour
Arch - Dr_Bugs
BeNarwhal - BeNarwhal
Blameless Cleric - Blameless Cleric
Bogart - Daemonomania
BSOB - Bsob
Calica - Clara Macintyre
Casual Eddy - casualeddy
cB557 - cB557
Chanus - Eduardo (it's actually "Chanus", apparently. Weirdo.)
credeiki - credeiki
Darkewolfe - Konenut
Delmain - Delmain
desc - desc
Dread Pirate Arbuthnot - Requine
Elki - Elki
Elldren - Elldren
firewaterword - firewaterword
Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud - fuzzycumulonimbo
Gooey - gooeygooeygooey
Hahnsoo1 - Hahnsoo
Haphazard - Haphazard79
Havelock2. 0 - Havelock the Gentleman Thief
kedinik - kedinik
knitdan - Joe Cusick
Jacobkosh - Jacobkosh
Ludious - Ludious
Mayabird - Mayabird
Mazzyx - Mazzyxpa
milski - Garcher
Mortious - Mortious
MrMister - Mr^2
Oats - Phos
OnTheLastCastle - OnTheLastCastle
Orphane - Orphane
P10 - Peeten
PantsB - PantsB
Podly - frank_reynolds
Ringo - Iri Hayes
ronya - Lady Roayn
SniperGuy - SniperGuy210
So It Goes - Sigmund, Esquire
visiblehowl - vh
YamiNoSenshi - YamiNoSenshi
Zampanov - Zampanov
During the month of December, remember to check the advent calendar every day for goodies!
Also I am aware of the broken images and spoilers in this OP. This some second-hand shit, you can't expect perfection, okay?
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you are one of the few who understand the importance of getting the thread back in operation like a Formula 1 pit crew and fixing the OP in post-production
good job
next time
*whooooooooooooooosh* *MEEEOOOOWWWRRRRRR*
I can stop whenever I want
*watches energy bar timer tick down*
Reports of a man with a rifle or similar wandering the streets aiming at cars got five armed police patrols scrambled.
When they met the man it turned out to be bicycle handlebars that he was carrying. No police case was created, says the entirely unnecessary conclusion.
A car drove on red, right around the corner from me. The reason the light was red was because the light rail was coming. The light rail managed to brake enough that it didn't fling the car through the storefront of the local spar, which was fortunate for me because then I'd have to walk a couple minutes longer to buy my eggs.
better to keep the wheels rolling
HMM
HMM INDEED
it is hilariously wrong a lot
this reimagining of ariel came up for "disconcerting" and
i
i disagree
and to think I named the next Byzantine Emperor after you
*sharpens knife*
another day, another brutal infant murder...
mhmm
mhmm
https://en.lichess.org/WDzc10E4
The prison rots with time. No one plays LoL or STO anymore!!
I ate it!
I am wondering about doing that or waiting until it is out on Blu-ray.
I am down in the future for sure but am half-working right now!
I'm literally wearing a punk Ariel t-shirt right now
she has piercings and a side shave and a full sleeve tattoo of sebastian
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
yes I just did this and it was fantastic. you can get a month for free so get on it that show is magic.
Creating a real and important-looking OP is the finest example of narcissism - y'all ain't here for the first post, y'all are here for the next 3990ish.
hmm
You can but for some reason you can't just do it online, you've gotta do it through like a roku or some other device like that
also the same whiskey
it is tasty
:-) I had a piece of pumpkin pie with my wife and we satisfied an annual Christmas tradition.
s-should i try to combine them
I have to feed Nargirl first, but then yes
Yes I can
Yeah I think I signed up w/ google play but I can watch stuff online on my pc and laptop so it's all good.
I have also been watching the leftovers and man that show is fucked.
You announced the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to some shepherds?
I used the kettle to make lemon ginger tea
I added whiskey and honey
this is my winter drink