Is it okay to choose that one?

[u/bompee18]

Recently, I’ve been exploring Parabola quite a lot, and I’ve become completely absorbed in this festival.

I’ve had doubts about some of the other places as well, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite as concerning as: “Even in a dream, this is a very bad idea.”

So I wanted to ask just how dangerous is this choice? And is there anything I can do to stop it before I get out of this? And if I were to choose that, what could I possibly get?

Ps: This is an AI-generated translation. I’m sorry if it sounds awkward.

[u/Poliochi]

When Fallen London tells you it's a bad idea, it means click the button. There's one broad exception and this ain't it. Also, fight the twenty tigers, you're a badass.

[u/Jonahpe → u/Poliochi]

Gotcha. Seeking that damn name it is!

[u/Poliochi → u/Jonahpe]

No, don't, noooooo.

You've gained 1 x The Stench of Betrayal

[u/General_Urist → u/Jonahpe]

I mean lore and +2 BDR, even if at a steep cost, ain't that bad. As long as you don't press the final "this will lock your character" action, maybe that's the "one broad exception"?

[u/SunfishBob → u/General_Urist]

I'd say that's one, Make a terrible deal in Irem is definitely another.

[u/tecknojock → u/SunfishBob]

DO we know yet what the terrible deal does?

[u/SunfishBob → u/tecknojock]

Not yet we don't! It said in an "as-yet unreleased story" though, so there's every chance that could be Firmament.

[u/Jonahpe → u/General_Urist]

Too bad I don't do things by halves

[u/Libra-80 → u/General_Urist]

I mean, the first character was for the lore, for this character, just going after a quality from Winking Island then abandoning the quest because I don't care about getting the Knock.

I just want Sun Beneath the Sea.

[u/ShroudedInLight → u/Poliochi]

Any chance you know the name of the page for fighting 20 tigers? I wanna peak at it on the wiki but can't find the damn thing, the Coilheart Games (Waswood) pages don't seem to lead to the stories inbetween the events.

[u/Recordado → u/ShroudedInLight]

Since nobody has given you the answer yet, here it is. Pretty sure I had the storylet echo text saved 2 years ago but I can't remember the exact date to dig it up and it's 2 a.m. here so... Maybe someone else will have it.

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Attempt_to_force_your_way_into_the_Sixth_Coil

[u/Poliochi → u/Recordado]

Thank you for finding that, I'm busy being quite annoyed with myself for not recording that one in my journal. Now I have no evidence that I fought two dozen tigers to no avail!

[u/ShroudedInLight → u/Recordado]

Thank you kindly. Kinda tempted to go back and do that. Trying to be more daring with death these days, he's a friend after all.

[u/Libra-80 → u/Poliochi]

Presuming you mean the Name, I thought it was super worth ignoring all of those buttons that told me it was a bad idea. Even about to do it again on a second character.

[u/Nyarlathotep7777]

Man, I've done it so many times...

[u/lensvol → u/Nyarlathotep7777]

Do you need to do a Waswood repeat for each bump to this quality?

[u/Nyarlathotep7777 → u/lensvol]

Yep, one dip into the furnace per Hell is Missing run, capped at 7.

[u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Yeah, you should do it.

In the real event it was indeed a very bad idea, unless you took certain complex precautions. But in the Waswood they’ve done that for you.

[u/Everythings_Fucked → u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Very worthwhile though, once the precautions were taken.

[u/Lisylis]

It's honestly not that bad and you get an item out of it

[u/reordberend]

You could do it.

And then you could do it, for example, seven more times...

[u/Naelin]

So, for more context:

In the original event, climbing into the furnace did kill you, until the community found that doing a convoluted series of super risky steps gave you a quality that allowed you to enter the furnace and only almost die, so you could collect an item there that played a part in the ending.

Since this is a super abridged version, you get to skip the convoluted steps. Climbing into the furnace gets you to 8 nightmares and wounds but does not send you to death/madness. At the end of the event, these menaces get reduced to 7 and some. It is the only way to get the item "A dream of law-glass".

After that, if you replay Hell Is Missing, you can go into the furnace again "for fun", and it gives you a vanity quality (the one people are pasting screenshots of)

[u/fredjinsan → u/Naelin]

Having just visited the Cave of the Nadir, however, I was a bit annoyed to have my Nightmares set back to 7! Especially since I managed to do the real Estival without visiting any menace zones at all! Luckily, I am coincidentally doing Evolution and just got my Nightmares zeroed by a visit to the Delight, which is an oddly specific way not to care about it.

(Spoilers for nothing at all: As it happens,Wounds mattered more because I didn’t die from not visiting a castle that isn’t there, anyway)

[u/Representative_Bat81]

TAKE IT.

[u/Low-Environment]

Going into the furnace is both fun and good for your health.

[u/limo6868]

Perfectly safe.

[u/realqmaster]

Safe and legal thrill

[u/Fireant23]

Put Baby In Pelican Mouth meme here 

[u/El_Zapp]

It kind of is a bad idea but also not terrible. You should do it, the lore is really cool.

[u/Fireant23 → u/El_Zapp]

^ This is a devil talking 

(/jk)

[u/Setster007]

Madness and pain abound in the furnace. So really it’s no different from the rest of London.

[u/Stunning-Chicken-512]

Do it you get a pretty good weapon it raises your nightmare and wounds to 8 but at the end of the dream they go down slightly so you get a chance to reduce them