#Ambition: Light Fingers

[szilverer]

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

[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

[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]

[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:

[anonymousllama]

oops

[szilverer]

to my ilk

[shazzbaa]

"You sit with Clara and the Hybrid in the great domed tent, talking animatedly of your wildest stories of the Zee. The Hybrid gurgles and claps along, hanging onto every word."

THIS IS A REAL THING YOU CAN DO. IT DOES NOT ADVANCE THE STORY IN ANY WAY. YOU CAN JUST GO IN AND TELL ZEE STORIES TO UR KIDDO!!!

you gotta understand SAM IS A ZAILOR AT HEART, after his one disastrous outing he fell in love with the zee and all its exhilarating danger and is just out there constantly. Right after Hephaesta ended up in Parabola he'd actually sent another friend a letter, offering to treat them to Dante's in exchange for letting him practice telling zee stories on them (since him talking abt the zee tends to be less in the Exciting Tales of his Adventures way and more in the Infodumping About Zailing way...) BUT THEN THIS OPTION????? 🥺 I CANT HANDLE IT..... PUTTING HIS PRACTICE TO WORK ON THE MOST IMPORTANT AUDIENCE............

[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]

I'll do anything for thee, don't ignore me. This is more than a sick love story.

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I drew Emery and his stalker again.

Okay so I found a tiktok user named glitzieguts who did some art of their OCs with this base and thought; "Oh that looks cool! I wanna do that!" and here we are.

Poor Edward's main method of solving problems for himself seems to be kidnapping. However, from what I understand he never kidnaps the player beyond burying them alive (and that's before the moon milk). Now this is most likely for very practical reasons, I can see that gameplay getting irritating fast.

However, for fan work it's acceptable! And I can definitely have fun with a potential AU scenario where Edward kidnaps Emery and keeps her as sort of a treasured doll. Hence the chains and rope.

OG Base, by cm_Yanggg on Twitter

[the-avaricious-meddler]

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