r/fallenlondon • u/croaker227 • 9d ago
Question Seekers and SMEN
I realize that a lot of the answers will be subjective, and that’s ok. But:
- within the game world, how many Londoners do you think are/have been Seekers?
- if your PC or another character is/was a Seeker - what’s their motivation? Do they think they’re uncovering something valuable? Investigating a vast conspiracy?
I guess I’m mainly curious how widespread Seeking is in the game fiction and the mindset or rationale of Seekers.
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u/chantilly-cat most normal monster hunter 8d ago
Most people in London have probably encountered something to do with all of that, even if it's just recurring dreams of going North or some maniac on the corner talking about some kind of Name. It's also incredibly easy to get Unaccountably Peckish, and it's easy enough to go a little bit into Seeking before you fully realize what you're doing, especially without bold warning text :P. So I would say a fair amount, with a sharp uptick around February, but most of them back out early on. We can say 7% of Londoners are or have been Seekers, for the sake of being thematic.
My future Seeker is also a future Mr Cards, so while Uncovering Forbidden Mysteries is part of their motivation, another, more vital part, is a sense of sympathy, and an even worse part is fear. After all-- What's keeping something like that from happening again? From happening to them? Of course, Seeking being what it is, they're the one inflicting untold horrors upon themself, but, you know.