#echo bazaar

[cawsaurus]

Fallen London is so great. You'll be like "Okay, so now that I have a Whirring Contraption I have to go to Doubt Street and create a Rather Poor Edition of a newspaper to have enough Jade to buy a Human Ribcage, which I will then exchange for Incisive Observations, which I can use to level up my Shifty Students, and then after I graduate 3 more students, I'll finally have a Gifted Student!

This will make my lab research slightly more efficient."

[videogamepolls]

Requested by @dawn-path

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

mr veils (fallen london) for the hunt. it is also part slaughter and web but it's also so very hunt.

[chiropteroneironaut]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the fifth city” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw a talking tiger smoking a hookah

my buddy february, pacing: we have to kill the sun

[sanyafromkarpat]

The work done at the college. I really like the technique of linocut!

[mistergaslow]

I've been playing Fallen London since 2011, and now they're celebrating their 15th year anniversary!

I've done a few fanarts over that time, focusing on the characters of my four accounts. Here's a view of them all at once.

Casting Includes:

Mr. Cheshire: The Red-Haired Liar: My oldest account, an old thief and Crooked Cross who pines over the masters. Well, most of the masters, he doesn't care much for Mr. Fires. He's one of the few to come back from the North. He's most associated with Shadowy and Watchful endeavors. Mister Bounce: The Forgotten Agent: My second oldest account, a small bitter creature who got his revenge on a master. While good hearted, they are unforgiving and will take their pound of flesh when angered. They're most associated with Watchful and Dangerous feats.

Dearest Deiress: The Gant-Eyed Killer: One of my favorite accounts, Dearest is a Bishop, a Master of the Bazaar, a follower of the red-handed queen, and a licensed Licenate. She's a large imposing force, though her penitent for transformation and gluttony sometimes get the better of her. She's most associated with Dangerous and Persuasive schemes.

Cautious Kitty: The Soulless Teacher: A teacher and hunter who came down to the Neath found themselves so entranced, that they themselves were transformed into something else. They've since given up their body, their soul, their face, their will to the neath. They are not the same person they once were. They're most associated with Persuasive and Shadowy tasks. (And I'll give a shoutout to my wife's character, who has been in existence for about two years. Say hey to the Mushroom-obsessed Lord Akumidori!)

[ynne-art]

a little peaceful moment of my Fallen London OC dreaming of their past life on the surface ft. all their animal companions <3

[vaynglories]

so i keep seeing fallen london posts on my dash and getting curious about it bc oh hey, i used to play that game ages ago, it looks like they've added all kinds of neat shit to it since then?

and i logged in to my old account, and

i'd forgotten that the last time i'd played fallen london, several years ago, i was in a relationship both irl and in the game. both those things are no longer true.

unfortunately, since (i'm assuming) my ex logged in and broke off the relationship in-game before our avatars could actually make it to the altar, i'm now stuck on the marriage event with no way to go forward and no way to leave this dialogue box.

unable to proceed, unable to retreat, literally stuck in some kind of eternal Divorce Limbo. this is levels of divorced previously only reached by harry du bois from disco elysium i think.

fallen london is a great game! love to actually play it sometime.

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London Travel Guide:

The Bazaar

The Echo Bazaar on the South Bank is the commercial heart of Fallen London. Glistening black spires reach into the air. Almost anything can be bought or sold here. All under the benevolent eyes of the cloaked Masters.

[t1red-gastr0p0d]

I miss the Fallen London phone app.

It was handy to have it on hand so I could play it on the go.

...i just realized I've made a pun sorta kinda.

Uh.

Hmmm...

What do you think Tyrant Moth Antennae tastes like?

Look, there's all sorts of food and drink in Fallen London, and I am a hungry caterpillar.

(Maybe there's a title in that. Like how people go by titles instead of names in Fallen London)

Ok I'm done rambling

[moddeydhoo]

one LONDILLION dollars 🫰

[voideconomics]

Fallen London and the US West

I very much doubt this was intentional but one of the things that drew me to the Fallen London broader universe is that it resonated deeply with me as a resident of the US West. Not California, to be clear, which I think we and they would agree is kind of its own thing, but the more inland west.

I first got into Fallen London though sunless sea, back when I think it was still called the Echo Bazaar. Sunless sea speaks to me in the sense of a deep sense of isolation and danger traveling between ports, with tentative but temporary safety when you reach each one. Obviously things are much safer here now, but the US west is, by nature, one of the least hospitable environments for settled human life on this planet, and while we don't have giant screaming mountains, we also don't not have giant screaming mountains. It's dangerous, and whenever I end up driving to a rural part of the state and see "no gas for 60 miles" or equivalent signs I get a sense of caution that the game, and later sunless skies, has definitely evoked in me. It's not the same as it was, and things are much safer, but travel where the environment hates you and the place you're going might not even be there when you arrive is part of the storytellling fabric of this region, even before the advent of US settler colonialism.

Another and perhaps less enjoyable element I find resonance with as a Westerner is the deep, fanatical paranoia and individual isolation found in the SMEN storyline. Doomed chosen are also very popular here, less in myth and more that doomsday cults are a dime a dozen in the US West. Cadillac Desert My Marc Reisner perfectly encapsulates how the US West was built on faith, lies, and speculative capitalism, and I think there is an element of the people who ended up staying, not going bankrupt during the Dust Bowl or any of the myriad banking collapses of a sort of unhinged true believer. It makes no sense to farm and irrigate here, not to the extent we do it and not where we do it. Those who stay are always vulnerable to the elements, even now. Droughts have real effects, fires, everything. People lose their minds out on the plains, in what was formerly (and still should be) known as the Great American Desert. The West is a place for the unstable, the fanatical, and the destructive. Unfortunately this is also a part of our region.

The final thing is a lot less poetic and just that the GHR storyline is very western both in reality and in terms of Western as a literary genre. You're building a railway through mysterious lands and playing with old depths and the magic of the betrayed. It's right there. The railway is even going west.

[deafmangoes]

Perhaps the best outcome for the Bazaar would be to descend the chain and never return to the Sun. If it became a Curator, would it be Ms Echoes?

[continuallycowardlycod]

Ok ok I feel like enough people have joked about how funny it is that, in fallen London, you could just be talking to someone and mention something slightly worrying and they immediately go into a state of some confusion. Funny but, have you considered someone slightly stammering and immediately marching off to exile themselves to the tomb colony's for the sheer scandal!

[sanyafromkarpat]

The process of drawing my oc in the universe of Fallen London. When I'm done, I'll tell about it 🦇

[cameoappearance]

They're turning 46, probably (it's kind of hard to calculate with what the Traitor Empress did to the calendar, but they've been in the Neath for 12 years and they were 34 when they got there).