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oh man i'd love to see briar's noman in Memory of Moonlight? no pressure though!

I hope I got them right! I assumed that they look like Briar, I hope I wasn't mistaken haha

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stealing government documents from a foreign envoy from the literal land of dreams in order to sell them to literal devils (who are secretly space bees) in order to turn around and buy blueprints for a literally unholy device from the same devils so i can upgrade my laboratory so I can investigate a break in the spacetime continuum and resume building a literal railway to actual Hell. I'm only building a railroad to Hell because I killed the space bat who killed the love of my life and then I helped my friend become the Grim Reaper while retaining his identity and now I'm bored and don't know what else to do with myself

Fallen London is a very normal game

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making, slowly, a paper doll style refsheet for Ruthie and her carer, Sybil.

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2 more Helenas, I'm trying to make her face shape look a bit more realistic

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given how huge london is and how the streets are constantly shifting it must be such a struggle for Londoners to find their way...

new feature to make the game worse, every time you travel somewhere there's a luck check to see if you make it or not, or if you end up in a completely different section of the map instead.

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You know what, let me put some preliminary notes here:

Elizabeth/Liza, 13. Closest to her mother in temperament. Adapting very well to life in London.

Roslyn/Rosie, 11. More curious, doesn't much like to sit still. Has some degree of artistic talent.

George Jr./Georgie, 6. Shy around strangers, otherwise rambunctious. Survived polio recently and is in the process of getting leg braces.

Charlotte loves her children. Having them, however, was not easy for her. Pregnancies were difficult at every stage of the process. She did not feel, however, that she was able to stop trying through all of the emotional turmoil--not until they had a son. Not with the constant prodding questions over tea with her mother, not with the way her husband would look at her when she pulled the blankets over her shoulders complaining of a headache. Yet despite it all, she would not trade them for the world.

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Charlotte loves her children. Having them, however, was not easy for her. Pregnancies were difficult at every stage of the process. She did not feel, however, that she was able to stop trying through all of the emotional turmoil--not until they had a son. Not with the constant prodding questions over tea with her mother, not with the way her husband would look at her when she pulled the blankets over her shoulders complaining of a headache. Yet despite it all, she would not trade them for the world.

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we were chatting about Tamara so, permanent geranium lake and lilac luster for her 👀

permanent geranium lake: are they artistic? if so, how would they describe their art?

Tamara is artistic, though wouldn't describe herself as an artist. She started painting in order to make a record of her memories of Varchas before time pries them from her mind. Her skill for photography started out a similar way--just trying to record images. It's only slowly over time that she's discovered the more artistic sides to these, and started experimenting with more creative choices.

lilac luster: is there something they wish they could forget? something they wish they could remember?

The thing she wishes she could forget is more something she wishes had never happened--that her first thought when she and her twin were pushed from the light and fell off of that cliff's edge was of herself--an instant of grieving for her life as she knew it, ended in that instant. And that this was where her heart was, and she hadn't yet registered her brother was dead. She wishes she could remember her friends' voices--something that paintings can't capture. On a more immediate day, she wishes she could remember much of anything in detail about Ockham, particularly when they've made some sort of plans and that sharp memory is of the essence.

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Unmellow yellow and neon carrot for Ockham and Charlotte? (from @neathbound-fiends )

neon carrot: if you could give them any npc as a spouse, who would it be and why?

Ockham's pretty happy with the dream polycule and has some weird thoughts on marriage, but heshethey're fond of the Duchess, primarily for linguistic reasons.

As for Charlotte... Perhaps the Sardonic Music-Hall singer? I'm unsure, it's early days.

unmellow yellow: how much time do they spend in parabola?

Well Ockham has been trapped there for the last several months, with no signs of being able to leave any time soon, but before the whole reflection incident Ockham was coming and going pretty regularly, almost an even split.

Charlotte has yet to make it to parabola.

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Ockham outer space

outer space: could they survive in a sci-fi setting? thrive, even?

Probably. Ockham's pretty adaptable and just rolls with things when they happen. On the other hand, the usual amount of "fuck around" means that Ockham could find out in some even more spectacular ways in the setting shift.

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fl oc ask game based on fun crayola crayon names

english vermillion: if you could give them a custom lodgings, what would it be?

permanent geranium lake: are they artistic? if so, how would they describe their art?

banana mania: what thing from the surface would they give an arm and leg for (hopefully not literally)?

outer space: could they survive in a sci-fi setting? thrive, even?

celestial blue: are they in other games besides fallen london?

tumbleweed: what stats would they provide as an in-game companion? how would you acquire them?

atomic tangerine: if you had to choose a neathbow color to associate them with, which would it be and why?

neon carrot: if you could give them any npc as a spouse, who would it be and why?

unmellow yellow: how much time do they spend in parabola?

screamin’ green: if you could give them a custom profession, what would it be? what unique tools of the trade item would be associated with this profession, if any?

lilac luster: is there something they wish they could forget? something they wish they could remember?

earthworm: if they could, would they go back to the surface? why or why not? if yes, where would they go?

bittersweet shimmer: who do they miss the most?

acid wash jeans: what would an exceptional story featuring them be about?

mango purée: what’s something modern they would love, and what’s something modern they would hate?

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A Lottie sketch from last night.

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I wanted to do some art to celebrate but I've got nothing. Anyway, vanity quality achieved! Sorry, Ockham.

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Today's Hiram is sponsored by Franz Ferdinand (the band)

lyrics compilation under the cut:

Evil Eye • Evil and a Heathen • Darts of Pleasure • The Doctor • Audacious • I'm your Villain

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I never shared my very first drawing of Hiram so here he is, straight from my 2019 sketchbook ✨️

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small smoking Howard (based on a scene from Anna Karenina)

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Viric, What Is Up With Your OC?, an Ocksplainer:

Ockham (heshethey/mirrored pronouns), the player character, is a Parabolan reflection inexplicably spit into the Neath. Hishertheir memories are an amalgamation of both that of hishertheir original body, and also those belonging to the Cacophony possessing the original Ockham (Snockham).

Because Ockham is a reflection, heshethey struggles to manifest entirely properly outside of Parabola. Ockham gives off intense levels of viric radiation, making any conversation or interaction feel fuzzy and difficult to recall after the fact, like trying to recall a dream.

This effect is entirely negated when wearing Cosmogone Goggles. In fact, Ockham appears incredibly vivid in those goggles. There's one silverer in Ockham's social circle who wanders around with goggles on in London and they've yet to comment on the fact that there's anything unusual afoot.

The viric radiation effect is also entirely negated when in Parabola, as with any creature of the Is-Not.

All this time, there's a possessed Snockham (he/him, though nobody's yet asked the Cacophony's pronouns) running around devoid of memories and looking marginally worse for wear.

Not included here, but any time Ockham shows up in a reflective surface, the reflection is visible and of Snockham.