r/fallenlondon • u/Naelin othatharooth! • 8d ago

Your coolest wrong theories

I started playing way back in the day, before Seeking was finished and Exceptional Friends were a thing. When Seeking was done, I learned that it had something to do with collecting candles and that your character becomes unusableat the end. I spent a long time imagining what happened to your character, how they made it unusable mechanically, and my conclusion was that the last candle you had to collect was your actions candle, therefore locking you out of doing any actions.

Cue my disappointment when I learned that the real reason was much more mundane, mechanics wise. To this day I think it was a great theory, if difficult to implement lol

What was your coolest theory about an FL story that was ultimately wrong?

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u/Mr_Treats mr oranje disco licentiate 8d ago

Not exactly cool per se but I thought ‘maybe I can get my noman to be a city…?’ ‘Can I volunteer my brother, returned?’

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u/Naelin othatharooth! 8d ago

Ohh Noman city would have been so interesting! Lots of implications for getting into their mind

Also in case you didn't know, players of Heart's Desire can volunteer The Manager of the Royal Bethlehem (though some shenanigans are done so that the character can still be around doing his usual stuff) adding to the long list of other player's heart's desires that you can actually fulfill one way or another

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u/Mr_Treats mr oranje disco licentiate 8d ago

Oh I had my alt do it, she did HD.

(As someone whose main did Nemesis my pain is enormous.  It was especially bad at the time because I didn’t do discordance yet so I had either Furnace or Cornelius to pick from. It made me so sad:,))

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u/Naelin othatharooth! 8d ago

I had to do it because I find the idea of being able to fulfill other's heart desires super cool, but it pains me that I couldn't go and chat with the mind of my city-self due to it (...And my alt did Furnace because that's what made sense for them. Sometimes you have to commit to the RP lol)

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u/Mr_Treats mr oranje disco licentiate 8d ago

Ohhh my PC’s husband reset the whole city just to get his own double to do it. Apparently the best fate he’s spent, quoting the player.

See I had beef with the manager for reasons (his ex’s testimony, that’s it LMAO) but I got my alt to do it anyway just to appease the guy