#Irrigo

[geraldofallon]

Romance in the Neath: Queen of Inks

“I've been waiting for you, here in the inks of the undernight.”

“I love you. You imagined me. What else could I do but love you?”

“You'll never be alone again.”

[esteemed-excellency]

lamps by saturnineshades

[triskaideka-13]

(Be)Neath: Character Stats Roll-up

Beta testing is officially underway! 🚀

...after a week of tiny adjustments here and there, tonight it's finally time to meet up with the test team for the stats roll-up. 🎲

Always a mix of curiosity and a touch of "aha, what have we got here?"😄

Human 🎩

Tomb-Colonist ⚰️

Clay Man 🗿

Rat 🐀

Cavy 🐹

Rubbery 🦑

Devil 😈

Which one would YOU pick?🕯️

Oh, and YES, I DO love IRRIGO! Could you tell? 😅

Hopefully the boys will also appreciate the new tablecloth! 💜

I'm admittedly a tad nervous, but that's part of the challenge and fun, right?!

Truly, I can't wait to see those Investigators shape up!!!

P.S. - As a friendly reminder, if you and your friends are interested in trying out the game, you can always find the free 50-page booklet for "(Be)Neath" online at the Homebrewery (works best with Chrome) or as a PDF on Google Docs.

[mistergaslow]

So, is it too late to do this joke? I was looking at all of those Grimace Milkshake memes and realized that the bright purple drink seemed to be the same color as Irrigo, the Fallen London color of forgetfulness. Put two-and-two together and BOOM, Fallen London/Grimace Milkshake joke.

[krasman]

They're adorable, and they have my well-wishes.

Hallowmas is coming up, and that's as good as a reason to dress up my lovelies as I need. So here are Ophelia van Montague Eden and her girlfriend Liberty, a deviless, both FLPCs of mine.

Despite Hallowmas being about dressing up as someone else, I've based their outfits on their genuine connections to the Neath's greater powers. It's far from based on any Victorian fashion, but I'm going to ping @neathyfashioncoalition anyway

As for credits: The main art is by me, but I stole the background from the internet. The original artist isn't trackable, sadly. It's young enough to be AI-generated, but I can't say for certain.

[wasteroforange]

All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Having one OC for Fallen London was not enough for me. Neither was having two. Or three. INSTEAD, we've got a family of nine - seven adopted kids and their insane scientist parents. Seven. There's seven of something in the Neath...

[torturingpeople]

i've been thinking about how irrigo and violant work recently. so of course i had to make diagrams about it

i don't think the plaque is like a literal tangible thing like it is on your tooth or in your blood vessels, but it's more of a residue that either snaps the synapses immediately and makes it impossible to reconnect the memory or builds up over time on the synapse and makes it harder to access a memory

"with resistance" in this case refers to someone who uses or has been exposed to irrigo frequently over an extended period of time. it works in the same way as drug/antibiotic resistance does in the sense that your synapses grow more resilient to the effects of the plaque and don't just immediately break. think of it like going from dental floss to rope

i also think violant can provide resistance too - in this way it would more likely cancel out the effects of the plaque and it's like placing a casing over your synapse, but at the same time now you have both a violant casing (with violant being impossible to erase so the casing is there basically forever whether it's effective or not) and irrigo plaque on your synapses so it's not something you can do repeatedly without eventually damaging the synapse and doing something fucked up to your memory

there's also potential for the buildup of irrigo and violant causing toxic shock in the brain in the same way foreign objects do - it's only in a long-term sense and if left unchecked the body will start attacking itself and engaging an immune response to remove the buildup, which will in turn inevitably damage, weaken or break the synapse entirely

the way to treat violant+irrigo buildup is with exposure to apocyan. in essence this has the ability to remove the plaque buildup and the casing, essentially breaking it off your synapses, and can help to heal any damage caused by an immune response or the synapse being freed from the casing and plaque. in this it would return the neuron to its natural, unaffected state, and the pathway would neither have the benefits or drawbacks of using violant or irrigo

[thegreatyin]

lore question for FL tumblr: what does apocyan do, exactly. i know on a basic level it can sort of "store" memories and imprint them into other things but like. what's its whole deal with the weird alternate future stuff. what distinguishes its messing with memory stuff from violant and irrigo 's messing with memory stuff

[letheology]

When they first came to the Neath, overwhelmed with grief from the death of their lover, Mina found the Cave of the Nadir. Forgetting offered them solace. The less they remembered, the less it hurt. (Or at least, they could pretend it hurt less.)

Only after they'd forgotten too much - so much they couldn't find their way home to their new beloved - did they finally stop. They went there less and less. But their experience with irrigo got them a job at the university, and a job at the shrine as a midnighter.

Still, the fear of using irrigo as a coping mechanism stuck with them. Anytime they feel bad, it's so easy and so tempting to just... let go of those memories. Rather than keeping themself from irrigo, though, they kept themself from negative emotion. There's no need to forget if they don't dwell on anything that would make them feel that grief again.

And yet.. This time, fresh with grief of losing the clay highwayman, they don't want to forget. They want to remember.

They request a transfer. They set aside their irrigo robes and put on their travelling coat. They have plans. Big plans.

[acedefiant]

my good friend @dualclock has inspired me to try to get into the fallen london fandom on tumblr so... presenting Mina Azoulai.

[warabola]

Ah, they've got the Director's society attire, I see.

[geraldofallon]

Fashions of the Neath, taken from 1890’s fashion plates.

The gaze of onlookers slides on, past, gone. What do they see?

[esteemed-excellency]

ALL this irrigo and I can't put it in a mirrorcatch box. I just need one single box please 😭

[thedeafprophet]

got me thinkin on dawnburnt stuff now lmao

with Alex's arc of being dawnburn ive always personally gone with the use of irrigo mixed with apocyan (relevant with is being Josephine and Fires being the ones trying to Deal With That), to physically remove the memory of the dawnlight from Alex's head.

the consequences of that of course is he quite literarly doesn't remember anything involving it afterwords, and its always a question of whether that is really enough to work

[szilverer]

gotta confess that although i decided to give reisz the amnesia trope beam just bc i wanted to start playing before having to settle on their background, i did have a barebones semi-canon backstory for them all along.

its just that. out of all the canon-compliant manners of messing with memories that i came across so far (mostly mentions of irrigo & bottled oblivion). the One idea that i like the most just had to be the most convoluted possible

it wormed its way on the back of my head from the very first week or so when i was thinking about making a seeking alt and came across random unmarked nemesis ending spoilers in the discord.

the idea is reisz as the returned loved one of a nemesis alt, yeah.

naturally, the whole thing didn't work out that well for the two of them in the end..........

(…whenever i make a new Main oc it's like a curse. it doesn't spawn on its own, no. it comes in twos and they always come with an unsatisfying enmeshed relationship from a shared past. so those nemesis spoilers made me point like the dicaprio meme and BOOM second doomed character materialised in my head instantly. and cuz im a simple cliche bastard, a sucker for foils and mimesis whose autism craves narrative patterns, these two would have had inversely parallel developments.)

nemesis is just about the perfect ambition for a seeking alt bc it seems like the natural next step for a ultimately compassionate person that decided to commit their life to a vengeance that did Not pay off (due to the whole. not remembering thing.) so if i do decide to canonize this idea the matter of her current whereabouts is already answered: NORTH. and now that reisz got their first (and last) weeping scar. well. they match <3

i'd be playing events from years past but going north means she doesn't get to do the railway or any of that other stuff, so it fits nicely in the phantom's timeline.

this also would give me two very good explanations for their memory issues:

somehow rebooted themself on purpose bc they simply Couldn't Deal (same reason the… avenger? scourge? went north. they got to watch the beginning of her self-destruction, of course.)

it's an occasionally reoccurring consequence of whatever the hell got done to bring them back to life (i do not know what it was . i know there's cider involved but idrk what cider is.)

the only reason im wary of canonizing this right away is that aside from vague ending spoilers i Do Not Know what happens in nemesis. i Do Not Know if this idea is viable for a pc or if the circumstances of being brought back this way would contradict what a pc can or cannot do.

am in a weird spot that i Need to know more spoilers to check if everything would fit in a way that makes sense, and bc i want to play the ambition someday i don't want to spoil myself by trying to look it up!!1 flops down on the floor.

alas. i promised myself i'd only make an alt once im way into the endgame with reisz, so this boutta be their Schrodinger's Past for a good while. and if i do get to the end of nemesis a year from now and find out it doesn't actually fit, well . that's a problem for future me

[players-of-intrigue]

almost forgot to mention that Elio switched professions to Midnighter (either temporary or not, just trying it out) so here’s a lil concept design of her with and without the veil