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ffs

If this goes against a rule or something, I'll take this down.

If you have to ask what the point of it is, don't do it.

It's an intriguing story, like all of Fallen London. It's about the journey, not the end result. If you can accept that, be free and make your story a tragedy rather than a comedy.

There's a purpose to what I do. A throwaway isn't as rewarding with each truth revealed.

I'm not sure how much of the balance of the game is simply off, due to it being a new mechanic, and how much was due to the scum team not really putting in a bunch of work day 1 to figure out how the mechanics worked and how to best use them. BlackHeartCabal, for instance, decided to corrupt a post of his that wasn't full of quotes for him to pour into later. Nor did he ever use the Rain of Corruption ability. I'm not sure if he forgot about it or thought for some reason that was flabort's ability. Either way, I expected a few town to die starting day 3 when I was doing my test runs of the system, where the reality in this game was that only a few posts ever got past lightly corrupted.

Claiming Flowing River effectively ended my game, putting me between the choice of either not claiming and losing sooner, or claiming and being unable to operate as scum without raising an alarm. Deus and Jack were perfectly able to nullify my kills before I could pull them off, since pouring happens simultaneously and posts only kill at day start. I also couldn't quote en masse and create a feasible excuse. My last plan to force a joint with TDS was discarded after I realized that Deus and Jack could nullify my kill in one night.

I am a Flowing River. Never lied about that.
Shorten.

It's a cat.

Doesn't use a simple system for negative rolls.

An island that is actually just a sleeping Tarrasque?