Corven said:
I came into this thread to recommend this exact game. If any game has horror, mysticism, and atmosphere it is Fallen London,
On the upside I wasn't sufficiently Northbound when I did my destiny to be up to the candles (I'm merely Marsh-Mired in Dreams of Sustenance), so my destiny is to consume Stone and bear the Light of the Mountain. At least until I need to change it to TORMENT for a candle.
I am however tattooed with my own Name.
May your experiences with Mr Candles be far less terrible than my own, by which I mean may they be non-existent except as Mr Sacks.
How far along in Fallen London are you, anyways?
Corven said:
just don't let your nightmares get to 8 you wouldn't like what happens when it does.
You mean Parabola? Or the Royal Bethlehem? Or perhaps you prefer the other names for those places used when you reach such a state? It's too bad the chapter on Parabola from the good Doctor's book is missing.
Most of this is directed to people less experienced with the game than you obviously are.
Nightmares is interesting in that regard.
Wounds, Scandal, Suspicion, a certain Popular Song, and Turncoat each have their own separate "penalty boxes" (the boat on the river, the tomb colonies, new newgate, the concert, and the traitor's feast). Irrigo and Nightmares are different.
Irrigo has penalties that get worse non-linearly, but no penalty area. The more irrigo you have the larger the penalty you pay per point to be rid of it.
Nightmares has two separate "penalty boxes", and costs you a lot to return from -- the State of Confusion and the Mirror-Marshes (you get the Marshes if you have any Memories of Light). Returning from the State of Confusion costs all of your dream qualities unless you have honeyed laudanum to spare, while the Mirror-Marshes cost only one kind of dream quality and a Memory of Light but you can't avoid that loss.
I've not had to deal with the State of Confusion since getting it (I have plenty of Memories of Light, and get a bit cautious when the cheery man comes calling), but does that particular sort of visit to the Royal Bethlehem cost Stormy Eyed as well? It's a quality gained through dreams, but it's not actually a dream quality.
Speaking of dreams, all the others feel woefully incomplete compared to What the Thunder Said (and with the Northbound path being in stasis, Death By Water is otherwise uninteresting and weirdly rare). But that could be because I'm building towards my second visit to the Mind of a Long Dead God and I've never had Is Someone There? over about 8 (it seems like those cards never come).
