Line #0 Fridge/FallenLondon


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4	* Many of your dealings with tomb-colonists depend on and raise your Dangerous score, including the Connection-dependent card involving them. Why is that? Well, how do you think someone would get sufficiently beat up, shot up, or cut up to become a tomb-colonist in the first place? Many of the tomb-colonists were brawlers, gunslingers, and duelists in their past life, that's how! Plus, once they're so badly maimed as to be outcasts from all polite society, they have far less reason to avoid risk and conflict, so they go on to learn still more Dangerous abilities. Some of the Tomb-Colonist elite - like the Mercies - have literally gone to Hell and back in search of adventure, risk death daily for fun, and drink poison like wine. They're already dead, so nothing can hurt them!
5	* Feducci is heavily implied to not be nearly as maimed as he pretends, and may not even be "qualified" for tomb-colonist status. No wonder he runs an organization of KilledOffForReal duelists - he's too good for anything to really hurt him. Not to mention that, if you DO kill him (you literally chop him up into fine hamburger, which is supposed to be permanently lethal) he will PERSONALLY VISIT YOU and give you the winnings for the fight. The dude isn't just ''Functionally'' Immortal, he is ''Literally'' Immortal.
6	** He's a [[spoiler:Presbyterate spy pretending to be a tomb-colonist. He lived for decades near the Mountain and absorbed so much vitality he's indeed immortal, like many people there]].
7	* If you are unlucky, it is possible for you to receive so much suspicion from eating spore-toffee at the Carnival to the point that you can get thrown in prison. You might first think that this is completely ridiculous. After all, it is entirely possible that you received your wounds from working with and helping out the constables! And how can eating sweets be considered a crime? Well, you DID escape from Newgate Prison at the very beginning of your story, and since it is the favored snack of the criminal classes, other people might decide to find out who you are after seeing you with a bag of them, thereby uncovering that you are in fact an escaped prisoner.
8	* There's a ''very'' good reason why Fallen London is [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory much more lenient about sexual preferences than the historical one]]: the Bazaar is using love stories to build a case to justify its relationship with the sun, and consequently, relationships that were forbidden before the Fall but allowed now are better for its purposes. No wonder [[Creator/OscarWilde the Epigrammatic Irishman's love life]] is of so much interest to the Masters.
9	* The text for the Order of the Wistful Rose, Second Class reads as such: "Whoso watereth seeds with their tears: salt shall be returned unto them. Whoso watereth seeds with another's blood: salt shall be returned unto them." Sounds like the typical pseudo-biblical prose from the other Order flavor texts, right? Well, "salty" is a term used in some competitive gaming circles to describe a SoreLoser, {{Scrub}}, or other bad sport. Getting to Wistful Rose Second-Class requires a winning streak of at least 3 Knife-and-Candle victories. You've probably [[StealthPun induced a bit of "salt" in your opponents]], to get that far.
10	* Remember that old mnemonic rhyme about coral snakes (which are deadly venomous) and milk snakes (which look like coral snakes but are harmless)? "Red against black, friend of Jack. Red against yellow, kills a fellow." Well, the icon for the Fingerkings has a snake with red against black ''and'' red against yellow, hinting that [[AmbiguouslyEvil they could go either way.]]
11	* In the log in page of the game, there is text stating "Forty years ago, London was stolen by bats". That's an odd thing to see if you are first playing the game but if you find out more about the history of the fifth city, London being stolen by bats is likely referring to how the Masters of the Bazaar (who are AlienSpaceBats both literally and in the sense of the trope) sunk London down to the Neath.
12	** It's somewhat buried in the text, but London was physically carried away by a huge swarm of bats during the Fall. While it does have a second meaning referring to Masters, it's intended to be taken at face value in-universe.
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15	* The absence of the Prince of Wales. Around the time London fell, he would've been twenty years old, and all the royal children that appear seem to be much younger than that (and judging by details like the wine vintages and the dating in VideoGame/SunlessSea, even the youngest of his "actual" siblings should be a grown woman by now, which raises more questions as to who those kids are). Also, historically Victoria blamed him for his father's fatal illness. What could've happened to him in ''this'' timeline?
16	* You may occasionally encounter the [[ArcWords North]]bound Parliamentarian, who seems jovial, if a bit odd; you will have the chance to help her pass a bill, or ask her questions about other places such as the Tomb Colonies. She's also a [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Seeker Of The Name]]. Given [[PressXToDie how much]] that quest costs seekers personally, and the harsh attitude of the Masters towards them and Mr. Eaten, how on earth did someone like that get elected? And if she started seeking ''after'' she was elected, what has she done with the power of her position, and what has she done to ''keep'' it? She's hardly subtle about her intentions. [[labelnote:the out-of-universe answer]] The Northbound Parliamentarian is [[RealPersonCameo based on the character of one of the backers]] of ''The Silver Tree'', way back when. She made it to her position despite being a Seeker because she has the same all-encompassing PlotArmor that your character does.[[/labelnote]]
17	** It's London. People exchanging pleasantries and insults with squids on the street and electing a deviless, a cat and a prostitute (not the same person) as a lord-mayor won't even give an eyeroll.
18	* In the Labyrinth of Tigers, you can breed monsters with a Wings-of-thunder bat. The bat, most likely Mr. Hearts, eats it instead, then gives birth to a snake- an adult cobra. Humans can barely give birth to a comparatively smaller baby, but Mr. Hearts gives birth to an entire adult snake, and possibly an egg, meaning he likely suffered major internal injuries from it. Except for the Hesperidean Cider he has, he would likely die of it.

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