History VideoGame / FallenLondon

* MadnessMantra: Several. Most notable are "All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well shall be well SHALL BE WELL SHALL BE WELL," which is related to [[spoiler: the Mister Eaten storyline]], and "THESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUN!"

-->''Shelter from the drizzle under a bright shop-awning. Letters wrapped around a horse-head amulet. 'Gone now, and won't be seen again. Hunted by devils in the Forgotten Quarter. Nasty business.'''

-->"Devils are feasting on human flesh in the Veilgarden! The tomb-colonists are to return home en masse! Cats are toxic! Cheese is made from spiders!"\\

-->''My point is that the Court wishes to be entertained with original compositions. Your early works impressed the Empress, and she doesn't even like mushrooms. So, get to it, would you? We can't wait to see what you come up with.''

-->"[[ShamingTheMob Are we barbarians? Are we]] ''[[ShamingTheMob foreigners]]''?"
-->You hear murmurs of discontent about these 'Benthic Ladies' and their struggle for power. If it goes on like this, they say, women will be ''voting''...

-->[[spoiler: "King Twelve, they say, was wounded in the thigh. He was robbed of what will be. You may bring him a candle or a heart. Or you may fly; you may fly."]]
-->[[spoiler: "Here he once stood, on the border between [[DreamLand Parabola]] and the [[SpaceIsMagic Wilderness]], to look out across his wounded realm."]]

-->''It's hard to know zenze from zuperzti- Argh! '''sense from superstition''' when it comes to zailors.''

--> "There is no sound on this earth or below it like the sound of a priest with a fishhook in his earlobe."

-->'You have to stop. You know what I mean. We're on to you, glimshine.'

-->It's that beast from your dreams! No, no it isn't. It looks d--ned similar though.

-->The University has a secret. Well, probably it has thousands. That business with the registrar and the cake, for instance.

-->The Neath's annual snowfall has been studied. The learned men of the Department of Chiropterochronometry have attempted to incorporate it into their theories of bat rotation. The microscope that was used still exists. It can be seen in the Museum of Mistakes to this very day. The brass is horribly corroded, but the lenses are essentially intact.

-->Yes, yes, your account at the Embassy will be credited with these fine souls. Now, run along and gather up some more. He he he.

--> The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! It'll eat anything, ''but it won't eat that!''

--->"The Court doesn't seem persuaded that the heroes of the future will be engineers, technologists and other middle-class types. But the business of raising London back to a glorious future on the surface has more than a few optimists openly weeping. University professors debate the plausibility of your vision.
--->"The youth of the city, many of whom have never seen the surface, are inspired by your conception. There is a rush to apply for places at the university's technical departments. Goggles are worn over top hats. The price of brass doubles overnight."

-->Orthos' men want you to share your work. Well, of course. Sharing academic information is nothing less than your duty. Those rifles they're holding don't come into it.

-->The Exceptional Hat has never been observed to consume the brains of its wearers.

-->'''''Perusing a Page of Examples''' has been reset. A conclusion, or a new beginning?''
-->'''''Watchful''' is increasing...''

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: A Cardsharp Monkey is one of the companions gained from an ambition. [[spoiler:However, if you have cause to incite his vengeance, he will not hesitate to cost you an awful lot of either time or money. Protip: Do not anger the monkey.]]

* AHomeownerIsYou: You can buy houses at Penstock's Land Agency in the Bazaar: the more expensive ones allow you to hold more opportunity cards in your hand.

** Five actual weapons come the closest to being an Infinity+1 Sword (in term of main stats). The Waxwail Knife (+20 Dangerous) outstrips the Profession-bound items and even Fate-locked weapons, and can only be obtained through the game of [[PlayerVersusPlayer Knife-and-Candle]], which has been temporarily disabled and might not be returning. The four others are the two Mayoral weapons: Feducci's Lance (Replica) (+20 Dangerous) and Private Debating Lessons with the Jovial Contrarian (+20 Persuasive), which can only be obtained for free during the Hallowmas when that mayor was incumbent, or bought for 40 Fate in subsequent ones; and two 40 Renown items: the Infernal Vinification Apparatus (+10 Watchful) and What Might Be A Thunderbolt (+10 Shadowy, with the additional caveat of having to be redeemed at the very hard to reach Mind of the Long-Dead God).

* MindRape: [[spoiler: The mysterious red honey, properly named Gaoler's Honey, works much the same as Prisoner's Honey - except that it transports the taster to the dreams of ''other people'' and allows them to rummage through their victims' minds. This is not in the least pleasant for the victims.]]

** The Possessed Goldfish reduces your Bizarre, Dreaded and Respectable by 4 each, and the Weasel of Social Discomfiture, Viric Lizard and Forty-Nine-Voiced Warbler reduce Respectable, Bizarre and Dreaded by 12, respectively. Their only use is to negate any BDR bonuses you might get from your tattoos, spouse, ship and club, so you can access certain buyers in the Bone Market which require one of these three stats to be zero, as well as certain Hinterland cards that need the same.

** The Change Points needed to raise any attribute from level X-1 to level X equals to X, meaning that you'll need increasingly more CP to increase your stats until that attribute reaches 70, after which every level will only require 70 CP, but there's a trade-off in that the four training professions will no longer grant 250 CP each week if the corresponding attribute is higher than 70. And once an attribute reaches 200, the ''only'' way to increase it is to spend Notability, which is grossly inefficient.

* EmergencyEnergyTank: Consuming a Magnificent Feast (which can only be obtained once per year, through the Advent Calendar on 25th December) completely wipes your Wounds and Nightmares, and fully restores your actions.

* MoneySink: The Firkin of Hesperidean Cider, which costs 180000 Echoes, and Your Very Own Hellworm, which costs 200000 Hinterland Scrip and comes with a saddle that costs a further 200000 Hinterland Scrip, serve as big-ticket items for very advanced players to work towards (for the record, the most expensive item excluding these two is the Overgoat, which costs 11712.8 Echoes, and can be upgraded to the Übergoat if you have two).

** Want a Majestic Pleasure Yacht without having to shell out 20 Fate? Then be prepared for a completely luck-based gamble where 'the odds are strongly against you'. You might get lucky and succeed on the first try, or run into a string of bad rolls, each of which will cost, among others, a very costly Comprehensive Bribe, whose ''only'' reliable source is the Bazaar Side-streets where you can buy one for the exorbitant price of 300 x Romantic Notion, 30 x Vision of the Surface, and 6 x Touching Love Story. According to some players on the Failbetter forums, it is better to work some extra real-life hours and use the wage to buy the 20 Fate and skip the gambling altogether, instead of spending time in the game to grind for Bribes (which you won't need any if you choose to pay Fate).

* StuckItems: If you have a Destiny, ship, Constant Companion or club, you are never able to unequip them unless if you get rid of them.

* VendorTrash:
** When you complete the tutorial and escape from New Newgate Prison, you start equipped with a Pair of Leg Irons and a Pair of Iron Manacles, both of which provide no stats and should be sold for Echoes as soon as possible.
** A Headful of Picaresque Tales and A Blue and Shining Stone (which can be obtained from a rare opportunity card) have no uses outside of being sold to the Bazaar, and in fact should be sold as soon as possible since the card (which is very lucrative at 12.5 EPA) can't be drawn again before the item is sold.
** Among the items that can be redeemed from the Relickers for 3200 Certifiable Scraps, the Breath of the Void, Rumourmonger's Network and the Veils-Velvet Scrap have but one use: for Invisible Eminences to gain the London's Marrow quality (however, doing this doesn't consume the items and they can be safely sold after you've got the quality). The only 3200-Scrap item that averts this trope is the Reported Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell, which is necessary to upgrade a Guest Room in the Brass Embassy to a Sanctum if Penstock's Wicket is not open or you don't want to sell your soul. This leads to conversations between stars, velvet spun from the fur of Mr Veils and an entire intelligence network being sold for money because they were simply useless to you.
** Except for the very first short story, written when Making Your Name (which doesn't count since it isn't an actual item), the Celebrated Short Story (which provides an alternate way to advance from Journalist to Author) and Classic Short Story (which is one of the possible sacrifices to obtain St Cerise's Candle when Seeking the Name), all short stories only have one use: to be sold for Echoes.
** Other items which are also only good for selling and nothing else include the Starstone Demark, Queer Soul, Coruscating Soul, Devilbone Dice and Sealed Copies of the Crimson Book.

* FishingMinigame: The Fruits of the Zee Festival event lets you fish for "strange catches" that you can give to the Hooded Lady at the festival in exchange for unique/valuable items at the Wreckers' Cove. Getting the biggest catches to trade for the best cove items requires high Quirks, an assortment of Map items, and the RandomNumberGod's favor.

* GargleBlaster: Amanita Sherry and Muscaria Brandy, two types of alcohol considered to be Infernal instead of Wines items. You might drink them if you can't read labels, but if you aren't a devil you aren't likely to survive to drink a second time.

** In general, the most expensive Bazaar items are usually not the best ones in each slot, but getting them is straightforward and anything that outclasses them is either event-, Profession-bound or Fate-locked, or requires a lot of time to grind for 40 Renown or completing an Ambition. In particular, the Scuttering Squad can also be obtained by trading in the Rat of Glory you can get every year for Sacksmas. Their only downsides are that you might get a rare conflict card if you also have a Midnight Matriarch, and [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts they don't "sell" for nearly as much as you paid for them]] (because of a stiff cancellation clause in their contract). The exception to this is the Overgoat, whose Watchful bonus is second only to its upgraded version (the Übergoat), but which is exorbitantly expensive enough to count as an InfinityPlusOneSword.

** The best transport items are the Ratwork Velocipede (acquired at the beginning of the Spinning of the Wheels premium story, which costs 25 Fate), A Winged and Taloned Steed Formerly Mr Veils (one of the possible rewards of finishing Ambition: Bag a Legend!), the Weasel-Infested Velocipede and Thoroughly Cowed Pony (event-locked, costs 30 Fate) and the Most Humbling Expression of Her Majesty's Esteem (+8 Persuasive, the 40 Renown: Society item).

** The Courteous Assistant, Ebullient Undertaker and July, each of whom requires you to save up 12 Memories of Tales from Exceptional Stories, increase Mithridacy, Monstrous Anatomy and Kataleptic Toxicology by 2 (most items that do provide bonuses to advanced stats only increase them by 1), only matched by your returned loved one (+2 Kataleptic Toxicology, a possible reward of Ambition: Nemesis) and the Portable Fingerking Moot (+2 Mithridacy, a Hallowmass 2020 companion).

* MultipleEndings: While the details are unknown due to [[DoNotSpoilThisEnding the creators advising players to not spoil them]], Seeking Mr Eaten's Name has three endings depending on whether you Grieve, Hate, or complete an optional branch that lets you ask about Salt instead.

* NoItemUseForYou: If you're on a heist or Flash Lay, in a party, Flute Street, or in any location not marked on the map of London (except the Temple Club, the Breakwater House or your study), you cannot use any items.

* BadassMoustache: Some of the constables, it seems.
-->"Now that's odd. When you find your way back to the Stuttering Fence's place, there's no one there. Except a number of inconspicuously placed Constables, invisible to the untrained eye. You, however, recognise them instantly by the strength of their moustaches."

* BrickJoke: Early on in the Light Fingers! Ambition, you're led to believe it will be about stealing a "diamond the size of a cow" from Mr. Fires. Much later on, when it becomes clear it won't be what you're going after, your character remarks that, "there probably won't be a diamond at the end of this" when boarding [[spoiler:a zeppelin for the roof of the Neath]]. Later ''still'', when [[spoiler:Mr. Fires]] offers to bribe you to get what they want (which happens to be what you're supposed to protect), they offer a diamond, and your character directly asks "is it the size of a cow?" [[spoiler:It isn't, but it is [[ImmortalityInducer not a normal diamond at all]].]] Though if you trick Mr. Fires to protect it, and [[spoiler:thus let the Hybrid escape and be free, in subsequent months of you getting the Rewards of Ambition your character might wonder how much it's grown, perhaps even to the size of a cow]].

** In the later stages of the Heart's Desire Ambition, [[spoiler:Mr. Pages does everything it can to make you lose focus, such as turning off gas and water to your house, dumping fertilizer on your lawn, and informing you that a ''railway'' is being constructed where it's standing.]] The problem with this, however, is that to reach this point in the story you have to have bought a five-card lodging, making their actions highly improbable for a number of reasons: A Suite at the Royal Bethlehem is run by the Revolutionary, anti-Master Manager, A Sanctum at the Brass Embassy is headed by the Devils, and A Spire-Emporium of the Bazaar is managed by the Masters, [[spoiler:which would mean that Pages would be driving a railway ''through his own home too''.]]

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The Light Fingers! Ambition is initially presented as being a heist story, about stealing an enormous diamond from Mr. Fires, but it turns out partway through that it is actually about [[spoiler:saving Clara from her unwanted pregnancy]].

*** For Ambition: Light Fingers, there are two pairs of mutually exclusive equipment. Firstly, whether you choose to seek out the assistance of [[spoiler: the Fingerkings or the cats of London, you can be rewarded with either the Tatterskin Shawl or the Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary]]. Additionally, [[spoiler: whether you choose to send the baby to the roof or to Mr. Fires will determine whether you are rewarded with a False-Star of your Own or a Kitten-Sized Diamond, Liberated from the Mountain]].

** Deconstructed with Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name. Every action you take on that path slowly ruins you. Any character who realizes you're Seeking the Name will ''beg'' you to stop. You gain absolutely nothing in return, and if you make it to the end and refuse to turn back at the last chance, [[spoiler:you can never play the game on that account ever again]].

* {{Santabomination}}: Mr Sacks, aka "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Crimson Beast of Winter]]", is a hooded, faceless, only vaguely HumanoidAbomination who appears every December. He doesn't give people gifts; the people of London are instead supposed to give gifts to him. He accepts anything from abstract things like your "best regards", to fine wines, to parts of your body... or even ''you'', if you're foolish enough not to have anything else to offer. But something of yours WILL end up in his sack. And unlike Santa, he doesn't just appear on the Christmas eve. No, Mr. Sacks visits you on each of the twelve days before Christmas. And he expects a gift with each visit. In the SpinOff game ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'', your captain may be called upon to perform three deliveries for Mr. Sacks. Refusing him is [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse implied to be bad]] for your long-term well-being. Accepting is [[MortonsFork likewise likely to be bad]] for you short-term. Accepting and taking too long with it is likely to be the worst (and last) idea you'll ever have.

* PlayEveryDay: For some storylets, it's 'play every week', since Time the Healer (which comes at the beginning of each week) is the only way to remove Irrigo (allowing you to enter the Cave of the Nadir again) and Marsh-Mired in Dreams of Sustenance (allowing Seekers of the Name to gain a point of SMEN from the black opportunity cards).

** Averted near the end of the Light Fingers Ambition, where you're given the choice of accepting Mr. Fires's deal or not. Choosing to accept it comes with an explicit disclaimer that it actually doesn't lock you out of going against it later.

* SchrodingersQuestion:
** When you journey across the Unterzee, you don't have to actually ''choose'' your destination until you reach it. Interestingly enough, this means you can set off on a long zee voyage from London to...London.
** If you're in the Labyrinth of Tigers' breeding program, one of the ways to prepare your creature is to tame it, but none of the texts specifies which of the beasts you discipline (it's always "your beast", "monster", etc.). You then choose which one you have prepared when it's time to breed, which means it's possible to breed a beast before actually capturing it.

** Once you get to the Hinterlands, there are options for building various statues at each station. And every last station lets you build a statue of yourself with a good enough excuse, no matter how inappropriate. Nothing but the time investment to get each excuse covered is in the way of you lining the way to Hell with effigies of yourself performing various feats, just to turn the GHR into your own rail-based {{Egopolis}}.

* SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice: Nikolas & Sons Instant Ablution Absolution (a stain remover so good it even removes stains on your reputation) is advertised as able to remove "GRIME, BLOOD, SWEAT, NIGHT-SOIL, DEVIL-SPIT, BLOOD, MASTER'S MARKS, CORRESPONDENCE SCORCH, BLOOD". Knowing the kind of person that tends to need these things, it has to be said they know [[ProfessionalKiller their]] [[PhantomThief customers]] rather well.

** The Viscountess of the Viric Jungle's mayoral tenure over London ended with one of these. It appears to have started as an attempt to gather more armaments for the Cats' war against the Fingerkings by [[spoiler:ransacking the dreams of the Stone Pigs, the Bazaar's symbiotic "propulsion"]], after she found the Fingerkings doing so successfully. The attempt was ''disastrous'', giving Londoners everywhere highly specific nightmares of being trapped under sand, causing a ridiculous mess in the Viric Jungle (her own supposed domain) by carving a giant chunk of sandy wasteland into it, and did ''something'' we're not told about that forced her to go into hiding, lest the Masters [[DeadlyEuphemisms "extend their felicitations to her in person"]], and had the Bazaar authorities cancel mayoral elections for the foreseeable future "to prevent further Tragedy". It can also be inferred this screwed up her war efforts considerably.

* DeadEndRoom: The Avid Horizon, climax of the Seeking Mr Eaten's Name story. Once you reach it, your ship will be destroyed, and you have a last chance to turn back and be teleported to London. If you choose to knock instead, you're stuck. [[spoiler:[[FinalDeath Forever.]]]]

** NotSoHarmlessVillain: That being said, Jack is also known to occasionally [[LudicrousGibs hack a victim to chunks]], and even despite the Bazaar's curious relationship with death [[FinalDeath there's no coming back from that]].

** [[spoiler:Seeking Mr Eaten's Name]] is effectively a long line of buttons that, should you press them, will make you repeatedly commit social, financial, spiritual and literal suicide over and over and over... [[spoiler:[[FinalDeath until there's nothing left of you.]]]]

** The items that are sold for 3 Memories of Tales, despite requiring real money, are some of the weakest ones in the game, and easily outmatched by those that are much more readily available elsewhere in the Bazaar.

* BritainIsOnlyLondon: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]: The city was the only part of Britain to be taken down to the Neath (except for a few Kentish suburbs, which form the Southern Archipelago), and the rest remained on the Surface. It's uncertain how much the rest of the British Isles (let alone the entire British Empire) still recognize the government's control, as the game doesn't describe the situation on the Surface in that much detail.

** The cap for the four main qualities is 200 (raised to more in June 2020), though it's possible, albeit somewhat difficult, to raise them to 215 with Notability, as Notability itself is capped at 15. In practice, attribute losses inflicted by such things as the Cave of the Nadir make it ''exceedingly'' difficult to stay there.

** Cosmogone is a colour heavily associated with Parabola, and it's the tint of a Glassman's spectacles.

* ContinuingIsPainful: Typically, DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist and only lasts as long as it takes for you to lower your Wounds quality. However, if you're Seeking Mr Eaten's Name around [[HalloweenEpisode Hallowmas]], [[spoiler: you can potentially wind up as the quarry in a Devil's hunting party. If you fail to escape them, your wounds and nightmares are instantly maxed out [[http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Evade_them! and you lose all your money and any hell-related items of value]]]]. Ouch.

** The Fluke-Core, which requires drawing a specific card in the Cave of the Nadir six times and sells to the Bazaar for less than the buying cost of 25 Diaries of the Dead that are needed to obtain the Fluke-Core in the first place. Its only use is to exchange 7 Fluke-Cores for St Cerise's Candle as part of Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (where you can choose to sacrifice a few other, more accessible items instead). The only real reason for spending a lot of time trying to grind a Fluke-Core is to show it on your mantelpiece.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: The cost of the Noman in Penstock's Wicket increases once every few days, from 3 The Taste of Lacre, 1 x Skyglass Knife, 1 x Nodule of Deep Amber, 3 x Hard-Earned Lesson and 3 x Sudden Insight initially to 15 The Taste of Lacre, 1 x Skyglass Knife, 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber, 3 x Hard-Earned Lesson, 3 x Sudden Insight, Melancholy 3, Hedonist 3, Magnanimous 3 and Forceful 3 at the end of January, which reflects how most players tend to buy Nomen just before the Wicket closes.

* BonusDungeon: The Upper River is among the last places that become accessible to a player: though you ''only'' need 175 Persuasive to unlock the Railway storyline, you can't actually get Railway Steel and lay tracks until you reach 200 Watchful and have finished 40 experiments in the Laboratory. None of the Ambitions requires you to reach the Upper River; in fact, content in the Upper River is tuned for players who have already completed their Ambition: challenges with a Broad difficulty level above 200 are commonplace, and 40 Renown and Ambition rewards can be put to use in more ways than just as stat providers.

* CashGate: You need to (or are able to) spend a certain amount of goods in order to open access to the Forgotten Quarter, Wolfstack Docks, the Flit, the Shuttered Palace, the Labyrinth of Tigers, the University and Mahogany Hall. In addition, visiting any location across the Unterzee (other than Polythreme and Apis Meet) requires a ship, and every time you go to Doubt Street you'll be charged 200 Silk Scraps before you become an editor of newspapers. Finally, there's the Hinterlands; none of the territories West of London can be accessed if you don't make some ''significant'' investments in order for the railway to actually reach the place; food and railway steel must be provided at every turn.

* CityOfSpies: While London partially does qualify, what qualifies the most is more of a District of Spies: Wilmot's End. If you want to play the Great Game directly, this is your place, and just about everyone you will meet between the cracked statues and old hedges is a spy for someone, be it a foreign power, the British Empire, a shadowy organization, or just themselves. There's also a few missionaries hiding in the bushes, who seem to be doing [[NoodleIncident something else entirely that the spies themselves prefer not to talk about]], and the occasional journalist to stumble into at the worst moments.

** Although most of the best pieces of clothing are readily available in the Bazaar, three exceptions exist in the form of Ambition rewards: the Tatterskin Shawl (+2 BDR), The Robe of Mr Cards (+11 Persuasive) and The Bloodied Travelling-Coat of Mr Cups (+11 Shadowy). Similarly, most high-end pairs of boots are either purchasable or only require 25 Renown, except The Place Where they Bury the Bodies (+10 Shadowy, the 40 Renown: Constables item).

* DeathIsCheap: Subverted: death in the Neath is more of a mild inconvenience than anything else. One storylet has you kill a journalist for being too interested in reporting certain things. "...He'll get better, obviously, but it'll serve as a lesson."However, dying in the Neath does prevent you from ever returning to the surface, unless you can get your hands on [[ImmortalityInducer Hesperidean Cider]]. [[spoiler: An advanced point in the old version of Seeking Mr Eaten's Name story allowed players to try to return to the surface, but since they must have killed themselves several times already to get to that point, you can guess the result.]] In the [[PlayerVersusPlayer Game of Knife-And-Candle]], being ambushed and murdered by another player is only a minor inconvenience...unless you were carrying Knife-And-Candle-specific equipment, which they can swipe from your corpse.

* DeathIsCheap: Subverted: death in the Neath is more of a mild inconvenience than anything else, although it does make it impossible to return to the surface. One storylet has you kill a journalist for being too interested in reporting certain things. "...He'll get better, obviously, but it'll serve as a lesson." Dying in the Neath also prevents you from ever returning to the surface, unless you can get your hands on [[ImmortalityInducer Hesperidean Cider]]. [[spoiler: An advanced point in the old version of Seeking Mr Eaten's Name story allowed players to try to return to the surface, but since they must have killed themselves several times already to get to that point, you can guess the result.]] In the [[PlayerVersusPlayer Game of Knife-And-Candle]], being ambushed and murdered by another player is only a minor inconvenience...unless you were carrying Knife-And-Candle-specific equipment, which they can swipe from your corpse.

** The end of the Orphanage segment of the Light Fingers ambition. [[spoiler: You can release all of the prisoners, but the Orphanage will remain functioning and kidnap more orphans. Or you can burn it down, with all of the prisoners still inside.]]

** [[http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Reginald~Hubris?fromEchoId=2733611 One storylet]] has a whole bunch of these condensed into a single paragraph.

** The various sigils of the Correspondence can affect the things they interact with in strange and mysterious ways, but the most common way is by setting them on fire. This is why the safest way to store such sigils is on huge plaques of lead; regular paper just burns. However it also means that whenever a steady source of heat and light is required, a few Correspondence sigils in the right place are the way to go. [[spoilers:The Discordance has the opposite effect, freezing anything it touches, but so far no practical application has been found for its extreme cold.]]