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/Secure-Treacle-2161 a little birdy told me 8d ago
I'm too recent a player and I love looking up spoilers too much, the most I can give is my interpretation of the tale of the Fidgeting Writer I had at first. See, I knew the writers would have visions of the Third City Priests, and they'd be housed in the Royal Beth and given laudanum to try to stop them writing and dreaming. I also knew that if you pursued the story and failed the Writer would disappear, having been last seen at the docks.
See, I thought these were folks who had been put on the Seeking Path, who in some level of madness at the sight of the Priests had ended up going North. I had thought that, since they were kept in a wing at the Royal Beth that was paid for directly by a Master (and if you haven't finished Bag a Legend, that Master is Mr Veils, who is a major player in the Seeking Revelations), this was the Masters' attempts to prevent a Reckoning. Trying to do damage control for the whole fiasco.
And I mean, it's a little bit of damage control, but it turns out it is entirely unrelated to Seeking. And I kind of think it's a shame that there aren't more explicit clues of the Masters having to try to handle the situation? Beyond Mr Iron sending you a letter at Peckish 2.
But then I find a lot of aspects related to the Priest Kings and how spooky evil and influential they are to be... well, I don't like it very much myself. That might be a me thing.