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** The burring you alive scene is revisited in a dream inflicted upon you by Edward later... if you happen to be Silverer it will go especially badly for him as you use your superior knowledge of Parabola to burst out of the grave and strangle him with a local plant. He has to be rescued by the Fingerking he made a deal with.

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** The burring burying you alive scene is revisited in a dream inflicted upon you by Edward later... if you happen to be Silverer it will go especially badly for him as you use your superior knowledge of Parabola to burst out of the grave and strangle him with a local plant. He has to be rescued by the Fingerking he made a deal with.

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** The burring you alive scene is revisited in a dream inflicted upon you by Edward later... if you happen to be Silverer it will go especially badly for him as you use your superior knowledge of Parabola to burst out of the grave and strangle him with a local plant. He has to be rescued by the Fingerking he made a deal with.



!!Ambition: Nemesis



!!Ambition: Nemesis
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** And then there's the final bounty of four million Echoes that started the whole mess. Not even the Bazaar itself and all its Masters can deny you your just reward, for they are bound by their own laws and promises and the fact you might go after them next. And it turns out... the Bazaar doesn't have it. No one could claim it, so slowly it was spent, and they ''never'' had that much because Veils, arrogant as he was, kept jacking up the prize on his own head to get better prey never thinking that he might get killed. The [[GodzillaThreshold Tragedy Procedures]] need to be called to determine what to do next. And the Bazaar ''almost'' has to liquidate the entire city and everyone in it, along with everyone in its service, just to get you paid; something that has never happened only came close '''five''' cities ago. The alternate solution? They just give you literally everything Veils had. All its properties, all its industries, all its deeds, everything is yours. And everywhere you go, what was owed to Veils? It's owed to you. And you proceed to run it all better than it ever could... and it's ''still'' not enough, so the Bazaar signs you up for a few additionals; wherever it has any influence at all, you will be owed, and you will be paid.

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** And then there's the final bounty of four million Echoes that started the whole mess. Not even the Bazaar itself and all its Masters can deny you your just reward, for they are bound by their own laws and promises and the fact you might go after them next. And it turns out... the Bazaar doesn't have it. No one could claim it, so slowly it was spent, and they ''never'' had that much because Veils, arrogant as he was, kept jacking up the prize on his own head to get better prey never thinking that he might get killed. The [[GodzillaThreshold Tragedy Procedures]] need to be called to determine what to do next. And the Bazaar ''almost'' has to liquidate the entire city and everyone in it, along with everyone in its service, just to get you paid; something that has never happened and only came close '''five''' cities ago. The alternate solution? They just give you literally everything Veils had. All its properties, all its industries, all its deeds, everything is yours. And everywhere you go, what was owed to Veils? It's owed to you. And you proceed to run it all better than it ever could... and it's ''still'' not enough, so the Bazaar signs you up for a few additionals; wherever it has any influence at all, you will be owed, and you will be paid. Really puts the Wealth Ambitions of VideoGame/SunlessSea and VideoGame/SunlessSkies to shame, doesn't it?
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* A somewhat darker achievement: in the storylet "Immortalize Jack-of-Smiles in Another Penny Dreadful!", you are asked to write a RippedFromTheHeadlines slasher novel about the Jack-of-Smiles SerialKiller. Writing a suitably gruesome tale not only gets you renowned among your readers, but also leads to a present of twelve bottled souls left at your doorstep, along with a small card.
--> [[WowingCthulhu Best Regards - Jack]]
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* During the founding of the church in Burrow-Infra-Mump, you will have to negotiate with the Drummer-in-the-Depths, a former prince of Hell currently sealed under the hill said church resides on. When he demands his due respect, your options are to either accept and play his drums... or ask the Submerged Rector to play instead, if you were able to recruit him to the mission. As a [[NoIndoorVoice notoriously loud individual]], the Rector leaves quite an impression
--> He [the Rector] gives you a sheepish smile. "I do hope he's alright." The Drummer remains where it is, huddled and silent behind the glass. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Occasionally, he twitches.]]
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* There are various quality levels that track the number of times a particular action was completed, with the flavor text changing as specific levels are reached. For the particularly dedicated, there exists a final level of 777, usually accompanied by the flavor text congratulating you at the apparent expertise you now have in said action.
--> '''''A Hunter of Zee-Beasts 777''''': "Who rules the waters? At last there is an answer. The horrors of the zee cower from your hull's creeping shadow."
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* For those [[PetTheDog kind]] or [[RecruitedFromTheGutter sleazy]] enough to turn your Handsome Townhouse into an orphanage, there is one particular option that requires several hundred echoes and many many opportunity cards worth of effort to obtain before you even have the option to recruit her for a little bit of Fate. That would be the Laconic Prodigy. Her story goes a little something like this: Her parents were killed by the Vake, and so she ended out in the street. Afterwards, she was approached and recruited by the Sisterhood, i.e. the people who hunt the Vake and indeed will help a player who is trying to Bag A Legend. However, she didn't like the convent, so she escaped. Note that the Sisterhood convent is out in the middle of the ''Unterzee''. Afterwards she bounced between urchin gangs until she ended up at your orphanage by pure chance. This little girl, who has quite the spiffy hat, is basically a smaller version of ''you''. She's more stealthy than the most experienced of the Duchess's cats, she's more watchful than a Hound of Heaven, and she's more dangerous than a FULLY GROWN TIGRESS. She's basically a Scuttering Squad, but ''better''. When you recruit her, she only joins you under the (heavily haggled) idea that when you and her introduce yourselves to someone, she gets to say that you are ''her'' assistant.
* All players gaining a notable profession undergo a crowning moment of awesome with a different achievement for each. Even some of their lesser, every-day jobs can be notable.
** For the Crooked Cross, their moment comes in convincing a virtuous priest to destroy a golden cross.
-->"You put the cross in the Curate's hands so he can feel the weight of the gold. At first, he looks at you as if you were mad, but your questions are reasonable. After all, is God measured in right angles? Isn't a wooden cross as good as a golden one? Think of the good works that the money could be put to. The poor it could feed. The children it could clothe.

-->When the priest takes a hammer to the cross, he does so with the certainty of a saint."
** For the Midnighter, their moment comes when they track down a Queen in the Great Game, stealing her earliest childhood memento, which involved burning down the orphanage she grew up in, and delivering it to the Detective who was tasked with discovering the perpetrator of the arson / multiple-homicide of said orphanage. The Midnighter shows that ''no one'' is safe from the manipulations of the ministrator of St Jousha.
-->"[[TemptingFate She has no enemies. Her system is perfect. She has beaten the Game]], and she is bored."

-->"When tedium threatens she looks upon it, remembers how close she came to losing everything, and returns to her safe, sensible habits. [[OhCrap Why does the box feel so light]]?"
** For the Licentiate, they track down another Licentiate through his noble origins and murder him in the middle of a masked ball without anyone noticing. They find a scrap of leather with aliases written on and cross his name.
-->It's never too early to get started.
** For the Monster-Hunter, you set to zee, bait an anglerfish-like monster so huge its lure glows like a sun, and it raises a mountain of water upon rising from the depths. You jump in, you kill it in its own turf, you haul it back to your home and eat it ''raw''. This feat turns your eyes the same color as the beast, a deep Peligin, and it leaves you with a snapped bone quickly turned into a harpoon and hungering for more blood to spill. It's implied the whole feat turns you into a minor HumanoidAbomination.
*** Hierarchs of the Hunt can take a particular job to head down into St. Cyriac's Church and hunt down a falsehood. Not some bizarre monster with that name, an ''actual'' counter-factual idea. And with the right ritualization of the Hunt, and with your unique abilities, you corner it among the bookshelves and ''slaughter'' it. YouCannotKillAnIdea? When you're a Hierarch of the Hunt, you ''can''.
** For the Correspondent, the editorial that starts their new career is essentially them deconstructing the ''theory of gravity.'' They take the considerable public uproar - including death threats - in stride and set out to further critique and deconstruct (sometimes literally) other institutions of society, law, and reality itself.
*** Epistolants get the chance to do a very basic, yet very commendable work: They get mailed a Mirrorcatch Box full of actual sunlight and are simply told to "translate". And with clever operation to avoid the addictive burning, they manage to pull proper Correspondence, then proper meaning and a transcript, out of what was once ''just'' sunlight.
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* The player [=NiteBrite=] deciding to sell their [[BraggingRightsReward Hesperidean]] [[ImmortalityInducer Cider]] to see if seven Ubergoats were the key to obtaining the elusive Heptagoat... and ''succeeding''.
* Player bjorntfh became the first person to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/4p1bl3/the_first_person_has_completed_smen_spoilers/ complete]] the Mr. Eaten storyline. [[PyrrhicVictory Even if they did]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog brick their account in the process.]]
* Fallen London fan and artist Sevenix, who has posted multiple SugarWiki/AwesomeArt on the Failbetter discord, released '''[[https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPVkFXBfsA8_t6xwbI01bf9uEol4_0JpdjgP6ZUrcOwiRKV9d6Sz6MbOfN-tZuaw?key=WWJsLU5rU28zNlVFbnh3ZG1iaFRkcTRQZDBCeHhn 200]]''' fanmade Location Cards. Completely free with no credit needed, amazing.
* The Summer Festival of 2022, which involved renovating a mansion the size of The Shuttered Palace into a museum, involved 32,000,000 units of collective player contributions. Players funded the whole damn thing ''in less than three days''.
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* For those [[PetTheDog kind]] or [[RecruitedFromTheGutter sleazy]] enough to turn your Handsome Townhouse into an orphanage, there is one particular option that requires several hundred echoes and many many opportunity cards worth of effort to obtain before you even have the option to recruit her for a little bit of Fate. That would be the Laconic Prodigy. Her story goes a little something like this: Her parents were killed by the Vake, and so she ended out in the street. Afterwards, she was approached and recruited by the Sisterhood, i.e. the people who hunt the Vake and indeed will help a player who is trying to Bag A Legend. However, she didn't like the convent, so she escaped. Note that the Sisterhood convent is out in the middle of the ''Unterzee''. Afterwards she bounced between urchin gangs until she ended up at your orphanage by pure chance. This little girl, who has quite the spiffy hat, is basically a smaller version of ''you''. She's more stealthy than the most experienced of the Duchess's cats, she's more watchful than a Hound of Heaven, and she's more dangerous than a FULLY GROWN TIGRESS. She's basically a Scuttering Squad, but ''better''. When you recruit her, she only joins you under the (heavily haggled) idea that when you and her introduce yourselves to someone, she gets to say that you are ''her'' assistant.
* All players gaining a notable profession undergo a crowning moment of awesome with a different achievement for each. Even some of their lesser, every-day jobs can be notable.
** For the Crooked Cross, their moment comes in convincing a virtuous priest to destroy a golden cross.
-->"You put the cross in the Curate's hands so he can feel the weight of the gold. At first, he looks at you as if you were mad, but your questions are reasonable. After all, is God measured in right angles? Isn't a wooden cross as good as a golden one? Think of the good works that the money could be put to. The poor it could feed. The children it could clothe.

-->When the priest takes a hammer to the cross, he does so with the certainty of a saint."
** For the Midnighter, their moment comes when they track down a Queen in the Great Game, stealing her earliest childhood memento, which involved burning down the orphanage she grew up in, and delivering it to the Detective who was tasked with discovering the perpetrator of the arson / multiple-homicide of said orphanage. The Midnighter shows that ''no one'' is safe from the manipulations of the ministrator of St Jousha.
-->"[[TemptingFate She has no enemies. Her system is perfect. She has beaten the Game]], and she is bored."

-->"When tedium threatens she looks upon it, remembers how close she came to losing everything, and returns to her safe, sensible habits. [[OhCrap Why does the box feel so light]]?"
** For the Licentiate, they track down another Licentiate through his noble origins and murder him in the middle of a masked ball without anyone noticing. They find a scrap of leather with aliases written on and cross his name.
-->It's never too early to get started.
** For the Monster-Hunter, you set to zee, bait an anglerfish-like monster so huge its lure glows like a sun, and it raises a mountain of water upon rising from the depths. You jump in, you kill it in its own turf, you haul it back to your home and eat it ''raw''. This feat turns your eyes the same color as the beast, a deep Peligin, and it leaves you with a snapped bone quickly turned into a harpoon and hungering for more blood to spill. It's implied the whole feat turns you into a minor HumanoidAbomination.
*** Hierarchs of the Hunt can take a particular job to head down into St. Cyriac's Church and hunt down a falsehood. Not some bizarre monster with that name, an ''actual'' counter-factual idea. And with the right ritualization of the Hunt, and with your unique abilities, you corner it among the bookshelves and ''slaughter'' it. YouCannotKillAnIdea? When you're a Hierarch of the Hunt, you ''can''.
** For the Correspondent, the editorial that starts their new career is essentially them deconstructing the ''theory of gravity.'' They take the considerable public uproar - including death threats - in stride and set out to further critique and deconstruct (sometimes literally) other institutions of society, law, and reality itself.
*** Epistolants get the chance to do a very basic, yet very commendable work: They get mailed a Mirrorcatch Box full of actual sunlight and are simply told to "translate". And with clever operation to avoid the addictive burning, they manage to pull proper Correspondence, then proper meaning and a transcript, out of what was once ''just'' sunlight.
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* The player [=NiteBrite=] deciding to sell their [[BraggingRightsReward Hesperidean]] [[ImmortalityInducer Cider]] to see if seven Ubergoats were the key to obtaining the elusive Heptagoat... and ''succeeding''.
* Player bjorntfh became the first person to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/4p1bl3/the_first_person_has_completed_smen_spoilers/ complete]] the Mr. Eaten storyline. [[PyrrhicVictory Even if they did]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog brick their account in the process.]]
* Fallen London fan and artist Sevenix, who has posted multiple SugarWiki/AwesomeArt on the Failbetter discord, released '''[[https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPVkFXBfsA8_t6xwbI01bf9uEol4_0JpdjgP6ZUrcOwiRKV9d6Sz6MbOfN-tZuaw?key=WWJsLU5rU28zNlVFbnh3ZG1iaFRkcTRQZDBCeHhn 200]]''' fanmade Location Cards. Completely free with no credit needed, amazing.
* The Summer Festival of 2022, which involved renovating a mansion the size of The Shuttered Palace into a museum, involved 32,000,000 units of collective player contributions. Players funded the whole damn thing ''in less than three days''.
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* For those [[PetTheDog kind]] or [[RecruitedFromTheGutter sleazy]] enough to turn your Handsome Townhouse into an orphanage, there is one particular option that requires several hundred echoes and many many opportunity cards worth of effort to obtain before you even have the option to recruit her for a little bit of Fate. That would be the Laconic Prodigy. Her story goes a little something like this: Her parents were killed by the Vake, and so she ended out in the street. Afterwards, she was approached and recruited by the Sisterhood, i.e. the people who hunt the Vake and indeed will help a player who is trying to Bag A Legend. However, she didn't like the convent, so she escaped. Note that the Sisterhood convent is out in the middle of the ''Unterzee''. Afterwards she bounced between urchin gangs until she ended up at your orphanage by pure chance. This little girl, who has quite the spiffy hat, is basically a smaller version of ''you''. She's more stealthy than the most experienced of the Duchess's cats, she's more watchful than a Hound of Heaven, and she's more dangerous than a FULLY GROWN TIGRESS. She's basically a Scuttering Squad, but ''better''. When you recruit her, she only joins you under the (heavily haggled) idea that when you and her introduce yourselves to someone, she gets to say that you are ''her'' assistant.
* All players gaining a notable profession undergo a crowning moment of awesome with a different achievement for each. Even some of their lesser, every-day jobs can be notable.
** For the Crooked Cross, their moment comes in convincing a virtuous priest to destroy a golden cross.
-->"You put the cross in the Curate's hands so he can feel the weight of the gold. At first, he looks at you as if you were mad, but your questions are reasonable. After all, is God measured in right angles? Isn't a wooden cross as good as a golden one? Think of the good works that the money could be put to. The poor it could feed. The children it could clothe.

-->When the priest takes a hammer to the cross, he does so with the certainty of a saint."
** For the Midnighter, their moment comes when they track down a Queen in the Great Game, stealing her earliest childhood memento, which involved burning down the orphanage she grew up in, and delivering it to the Detective who was tasked with discovering the perpetrator of the arson / multiple-homicide of said orphanage. The Midnighter shows that ''no one'' is safe from the manipulations of the ministrator of St Jousha.
-->"[[TemptingFate She has no enemies. Her system is perfect. She has beaten the Game]], and she is bored."

-->"When tedium threatens she looks upon it, remembers how close she came to losing everything, and returns to her safe, sensible habits. [[OhCrap Why does the box feel so light]]?"
** For the Licentiate, they track down another Licentiate through his noble origins and murder him in the middle of a masked ball without anyone noticing. They find a scrap of leather with aliases written on and cross his name.
-->It's never too early to get started.
** For the Monster-Hunter, you set to zee, bait an anglerfish-like monster so huge its lure glows like a sun, and it raises a mountain of water upon rising from the depths. You jump in, you kill it in its own turf, you haul it back to your home and eat it ''raw''. This feat turns your eyes the same color as the beast, a deep Peligin, and it leaves you with a snapped bone quickly turned into a harpoon and hungering for more blood to spill. It's implied the whole feat turns you into a minor HumanoidAbomination.
*** Hierarchs of the Hunt can take a particular job to head down into St. Cyriac's Church and hunt down a falsehood. Not some bizarre monster with that name, an ''actual'' counter-factual idea. And with the right ritualization of the Hunt, and with your unique abilities, you corner it among the bookshelves and ''slaughter'' it. YouCannotKillAnIdea? When you're a Hierarch of the Hunt, you ''can''.
** For the Correspondent, the editorial that starts their new career is essentially them deconstructing the ''theory of gravity.'' They take the considerable public uproar - including death threats - in stride and set out to further critique and deconstruct (sometimes literally) other institutions of society, law, and reality itself.
*** Epistolants get the chance to do a very basic, yet very commendable work: They get mailed a Mirrorcatch Box full of actual sunlight and are simply told to "translate". And with clever operation to avoid the addictive burning, they manage to pull proper Correspondence, then proper meaning and a transcript, out of what was once ''just'' sunlight.
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*** Hierarchs of the Hunt can take a particular job to head down into St. Cyriac's Church and hunt down a falsehood. Not some bizarre monster with that name, an ''actual'' counter-factual idea. And with the right ritualization of the Hunt, and with your unique abilities, you corner it among the bookshelves and ''slaughter'' it. YouCannotKillAnIdea? When you're a Hierarch of the Hunt, you ''can''.
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* The Summer Festival of 2022, which involved renovating a mansion the size of The Shuttered Palace into a museum, involved 32,000,000 units of collective player contributions. Players funded the whole damn thing ''in less than three days''.
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* Fallen London fan and artist Sevenix, who has posted multiple SugarWiki/AwesomeArt on the Failbetter discord decided to be go UpToEleven by releasing '''[[https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPVkFXBfsA8_t6xwbI01bf9uEol4_0JpdjgP6ZUrcOwiRKV9d6Sz6MbOfN-tZuaw?key=WWJsLU5rU28zNlVFbnh3ZG1iaFRkcTRQZDBCeHhn 200]]''' fanmade Location Cards. Completely free with no credit needed, amazing.

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* Fallen London fan and artist Sevenix, who has posted multiple SugarWiki/AwesomeArt on the Failbetter discord decided to be go UpToEleven by releasing discord, released '''[[https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPVkFXBfsA8_t6xwbI01bf9uEol4_0JpdjgP6ZUrcOwiRKV9d6Sz6MbOfN-tZuaw?key=WWJsLU5rU28zNlVFbnh3ZG1iaFRkcTRQZDBCeHhn 200]]''' fanmade Location Cards. Completely free with no credit needed, amazing.
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*** At culmination the Manager releases his own greatest nightmare - Nothing-After-Death. He himself can barely breath in it's presence, while you sic your dreams on it. Fire Sermon sears away everything insignificant in it, leaving only fear - and the fear can be fought. The Chess argue that while their makers are gone they, their strategies and principles endure, humiliating it into defeat. The Dead boast that they actually persist, daring it to prove them wrong and then making it one of their own. And Storm simply tells that you're still alive, then bitch-slaps it with a lightning.

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*** At the culmination the Manager releases his own greatest nightmare - Nothing-After-Death. He himself can barely breath in it's presence, while you sic your dreams on it. Fire Sermon sears away everything insignificant in it, leaving only fear - and the fear can be fought. The Chess argue that that, while their makers are gone gone, they, their strategies and principles endure, humiliating it into defeat. The Dead boast naturally object, boasting that they actually persist, daring it to prove them wrong and then smothering it with their bandages and making it one of their own. And Storm effectively bitch-slaps it with a lightning and simply tells that you're still alive, then bitch-slaps it with a lightning.alive (and thus, the question is irrelevant).

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