History VideoGame / FallenLondon

* WhamEpisode: Silver Tree, another story nexus game. [[spoiler: You explore the First City, before it was taken to the Bazaar. It was the capital of the Mongols.]]

** It is possible, through opportunity cards, to acquire and care for your very own [[TheLittleShopOfHorrors Audrey Jr.]] / [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Audrey II,]] complete with later [[ManEatingPlant feeding requirements]].

* AnimalMotifs: The stats are all given an icon of a different animal: a bear for Dangerous, an owl for Watchful, a raccoon for Persuasive, and a cat for Shadowy.

** A storylet in Ladybones Road has you lay a false trail for a spy. If you fail, it's so convincing that a half-dozen more spies show up to follow up on it.

* ContestWinnerCameo: Eight backers of the Tales of Fallen London: The Silver Tree spinoff game's Kickstarter have been written into Fallen London or The Silver Tree as NPCs.

* ContestWinnerCameo: Eight backers of the Tales of Fallen London: The Silver Tree spinoff game's Kickstarter will be written into either Fallen London or The Silver Tree as an NPC.

** The only way out of the Light Fingers failure location mentioned above is death... [[spoiler: unless you've been diligently attending to the needs of a singular plant.]]

* {{Determinator}}: You, toward your Ambition. The Nemesis ambition has particularly strong shades of this, as it implies that your character chased the murderer all over the Surface before getting themself thrown in jail on purpose just to get into the Neath to follow them there.

* {{Determinator}}: You, toward your Ambition.

** To ''Film/BladeRunner'', in a challenge at Watchmaker Hill: "'Do you make up these questions? Or do they write them down for you?' With the grudging agreement of the Constables, you interview a series of Clay Men, asking them ever more intimate and revealing questions about their 'lives', their work, their intentions, their emotions. Tortoises. That sort of thing."

* EveryoneIsBi: All the [=NPCs=] are, and all characters potentially so - seduction storylets unlocked by upping your Persuasion are the same regardless of the sex of your character, and include people of both sexes as targets.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The developers include a little bit of this on purpose, counterbalanced with some carefully picked DeliberateValuesDissonance, to make the game more welcoming to players whose gender, race, and/or sexuality would have caused problems for them in the actual 19th century. The EveryoneIsBi thing is a good example; nobody in Fallen London appears to care what gender of person you prefer to take to bed. Also, the NPCs are more gender-balanced than in many games set in the present day or the future.

* HitPoints: Your wounds quality - which increases primarily from failing high level Dangerous challenges, but can also be increased in other ways - acts as a reverse hit points gauge. When it reaches eight, you die. [[DeathIsCheap This is not notably more inconvenient than any of the other possible failure states]]. And notably ''less'' annoying then the usual Nightmares failure state, which erases most of your progress in the reoccurring dreams storylines. yes, going temporarily insane is literally a FateWorseThanDeath.

* HitPoints: Your wounds quality - which increases primarily from failing high level Dangerous challenges, but can also be increased in other ways - acts as a reverse hit points gauge. When it reaches eight, you die. [[DeathIsCheap This is not notably more inconvenient than any of the other possible failure states]].

** The tomb-colonists aren't popular either. But they don't have it nearly as bad.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: During the storyline where the player investigates a murder at the University, the Duchess may reveal that [[spoiler:she bargained with the Bazaar after her husband was bitten by a serpent. He survived, but in the monstrous and agonising form of the Cantigaster. She theorises that a similar fate awaits the Empress and her Consort.]]