#Ambition: Light Fingers

[shazzbaa]

NIGHTMARES IS INCREASING...

Samuel is dealing with the horrors just fine! hes fine. just needs a lil laudanum to take the edge off. Just a little, tiny, several bottles of laudanum,

wheezes and collapses HI HELLO I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED..... THIS!!!!.... I don't know what possessed me to make this out of pixels but im v pleased with how it came out!!

[Everyone has been extremely cool abt this!! but just to be sure: no Fallen London spoilers/suggestions/hints in tags, replies, etc. please! I'm still in the middle of some of the stories referenced here and I'm excited to discover it all for myself! ]

Nightmare sources referenced here:

A small, velvet-lined box from Light Fingers

The coiling spire bit from Light Fingers

Poor Edward from Light Fingers

I Shot the Albatross from the southern wind zee dreams

and of course, the Comtessa

At some point during Light Fingers I finally grabbed some laudanum to help with nightmares before some zee trip or other, and discovered that once you're Important, taking laudanum gives you "A Less Than Laudable Laudanum Habit" and that the initial, normal result is locked once your habit gets over level three. Naturally, I HAD TO KNOW.... WHAT HAPPENED AT OTHER LEVELS.....

I'd also decided to finally do the rest of the Watchful MYN at University, which I'd already heard about from several friends as a place where you are constantly going insane from the mundane stress of just, like, uncooperative witnesses while trying to solve a murder. The timing ended up perfect -- Samuel just coming back from the horrors of the Orphanage in Light Fingers and Trying To Be Normal And Hold Down A Normal Job For A Bit, and maybe just a lil laudanum to keep it together for class, and when withdrawal is ratcheting up everything, some annoyances like "can't find info for your murder investigation" might just tip you over the edge,

hilariously he hit level 8 on the laudanum habit -- helpfully labelled "a wretched slave to the hellish stuff" and the point where it stops working altogether -- IMMEDIATELY before running into a step of light fingers where you have to get rid of all your nightmares before you can proceed. HAHA OOPS.

ANYWAY HE STILL HAS IT BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT, IT TAKES A REALLY REALLY LONG TIME, TO KICK A LAUDANUM HABIT...... i, uh, dont recommend giving urself a laudanum addiction but narratively im having a great time lmao

[szilverer]

tonight i bring flumblr a meme. tomorrow? who knows...

[theunluckiestdevil]

me: maybe i should post some of the art that's been accumulating of my characters-

brain: wrong. post Red Flags Poor Edward

No spoilers in the notes please!

[thevioletscout]

Yeah this is basically that dinner in a nutshell.

So there's this moment from a show called The Mighty Boosh that's been pretty viral recently, and it felt fitting for our favorite masked weirdo and my well-intentioned thief. (Ironically my friend did his own comic of our FL characters with a different scene from the same show)

Anyway shout out to the waiter who has to do their job while these two are having this strange conversation.

(Used a stock photo, figurosity, and my own hands as the base for this comic)

[the-avaricious-meddler]

AMBITION: LIGHT FINGERS

Poor Edward only under the cut:

[bizarrebazaar13]

“Acoustic #3” by the Goo Goo Dolls / The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz / Archive 81, season 1 episode 9, "An Implosion of an Idea" / “To Be Alone” by Hozier / unknown tumblr post / Fallen London

on Vela’s experience with Light Fingers

[hells-dear-heart]

there’s so much context to this

[world-of-advice]

[anannoyanceofjackofsmiles]

So recently I started a project to make @thevioletscout 's FL OC, Emery Ender, as a little handmade plush-doll for Christmas.

Well before this I talked about how that doesn't seem out of the ordinary for Poor Edward to do, considering his other... Gifts.

But recently my blunders so far in messing up the sewing has turned the idea of his concerning creepy gifts to the PC utterly hilarious.

[metamorphic-stranger]

SPOILERS FOR LIGHT FINGERS

The ending of Light Fingers if you feed an orange-apple to the Hybrid:

[irrigo-lenses]

Ezra, at the fallen hardware store, shovelling glim into his pockets:

[shazzbaa]

(audio from portal 2!) This is how that dream conversation went right????? au where everythings the same but poor edward is from the west country,

ANYWAY LMAO HI I've been learning animation just to make this!! FOR SOME REASON!!! IT TOOK TWO WEEKS TO ANIMATE. this quote was my IMMEDIATE thought as soon as Poor Edward said "I've had to make ALL the sacrifices for this marriage!" so i just needed to bring it into being outside of my brain. tbh IM PRETTY PROUD OF IT...... anyway sweet dreams samuel!!

[video transcript] [Poor Edward, from below, gesturing with exasperation]: I've done nothing but sacrifice to get us here! And what have you sacrificed? [Cut to Samuel, feeling around him to figure out that he's in a coffin, panicking as the sides start closing in] Poor Edward: Nothing. Zero. [/end transcript]

additional notes:

thren and I both did the riot rather than burning down the orphanage, so instead of burn scars, Edward got his hands broken. He might have new skin but making a fist is still a lil lopsided,

one of the friends in our flondon group has been making an impassioned case for Edward favouring regency-era looks and I must admit ive adopted this into my belief system, so thats leaked into his outfit here. i havent been keeping sam's outfit historically accurate tho so i dont know why i think this is something i need to clarify

this animation was done in Krita, which is a free open-source program that was pretty easy to get the hang of -- Jesse J Jones and Animate with Dermot had tutorials that helped me a lot if anyone else wants to try it!

[anonymousllama]

oops

[theunluckiestdevil]

no Light Fingers spoilers in the notes please!

i spent ALL DAY ON THIS after taking about 12 hours to process what happened on the pier. just, wow. Dr. Müller said yes, of course, they knew they'd be going along with Poor Edward's demands the second someone's life was at stake. and you didn't even give them the ring Eddie!!! smh. do you even know how proposals are supposed to go. additional babbling copypasted from discord under the cut

To put it bluntly, Tomas is upset. Shocking. I know. They went into the docks meeting suspicious of whatever nonsense Ed was gonna pull, and paranoid because of the location. Honestly, they were probably pretty close to how they usually act at Zee, just tunnel visioned in on what needs to be done so they can get out of there, especially since they had to go down a pier (terrible spot Eddie! they hate the Zee!!!). They were not, however, expecting Poor Edward to drag another person into this. And they are so. ANGRY. AT HIM. AT THEMSELF, FOR BEING FOOLISH ENOUGH TO ALMOST PITY HIM THE LAST FEW DAYS. SHAKES POOR EDWARD. YOU'RE INFURIATING. YOU WERE SO CLOSE. THEY WERE THINKING THEMSELF INTO CIRCLES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF YOU WERE WORTHY OF THE SYMPATHY THEY FELT. FEEL. THEY DON'T KNOW ANYMORE. and there he goes shooting himself in the foot on that front, by bringing Hephaesta into the mix.

Tomas didn't hesitate before saying yes. The second they saw that another life was at stake, they knew they were going to go along with Poor Edward's demands. And they are very pointedly avoiding thinking about it, instead throwing themself into helping Hephaesta. They feel so stupid for not noticing her disappearance, and quite a bit guilty, so it's the least they can do. And a bit more selfishly, to keep themself from thinking about who they've promised themself to.

[thevioletscout]

For Christmas, I put together a Fallen London/Light Fingers themed gift box for my friend @anannoyanceofjackofsmiles. So I figured I'd show everyone here what I put together since I think you guys might get a kick out of it.

While out shopping for craft supplies I picked up a "decorative mushroom" (a mushroom ornament) and a "handful of echoes." (chocolate coins)

Stained some paper with tea and wrote two notes. One from myself and one from Poor Edward. Please excuse my poor handwriting, calligraphy is not one of my skills.

Two polymer clay hearts in a jar, based off one of the gifts Poor Edward sends the player.

Fun fact, this was going to actually be a snow globe, but the jar's lid doesn't contain the water, and I was advised against mailing anything liquid regardless. Soooo I'm just sending two sculpted hearts to my friend. Thankfully he gets it.

And then I had some leftover red clay, so I made a necklace of Poor Edward's mask, along with a coffin box made out of cardboard, duct tape, and black paint to hold it. The mask looks a little scuffed I'll admit, sculpting is also not one of my talents.

Finally, it all gets packed into a box I stole from my old workplace with some paper to keep everything safe, and it gets sent to my beloved friend.

By the time this post goes up he'll have already gotten the gift, so if you're seeing this it means he liked it!

[the-avaricious-meddler]

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