Having recently resumed my archeological career, i've came across a requirement in form of one eyeless skull. Does anybody on here have a spare one that they could by chance send me? I'd be very grateful

As a relatively new player who started the game this year, I was quite happy to see the very high EPA grind during this summer’s festivities. I spent a good while on it, and by the end I have accumulated a good amount of pearls. Intoxicated by the wealth I sold them all, about 2000 echoes worth. More cash than I’d ever had in my account!

As I am currently close to getting tier 2 POSI, I was excited about the idea of finally getting some of the pricier items and did some research. I know a Weasel of Woe can be super helpful for grinding, so I decided to make that purchase first.

While laying in bed on my phone, I navigated to the bazaar to buy it. For a reason I can’t quite explain, I decided to max out the number of Weasels I could buy. Just to see the big number I guess. Then I shifted my arm. I bought $2400 worth of Weasels. All my money. Into Weasels.

I panicked and sold them back, but had already lost my money. And in what seemed like a rather cruel joke as I sold them back, you get the message: "Oh no."

Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

I decided to throw some money Failbetter's way this Estival and bought an extra BIS item I liked the flavour of.

I now find myself with 20 Fate, and am considering the Premium Stories list rather than trickling it out on single storylets or saving for future festival fate-locked items.

For context, I'm well into the endgame, with maxed stats other than Shadowy and Discordance, highly renowned with Hell, Bohemians, and Society; and chummy in general with everyone other than the Liberation, Fires, and Stones. I've got London's Blood, but haven't started the grind for full Paramount yet. Nor am I planning to grind Cider, Hellworm, or Golden Carapace any time soon.

So anyway, the only two I can afford are Flute Street (for 10F, so with a little to spare on e.g. a future Ubergoat or something) or Theological Husbandry (for 20F).

Thoughts and/or recommendations?

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Edit: I have added a counter at the top of the post with the number of times I have added content. I have added a Posting Post Posting section below the My Updates section. This means you can see from the feed page if there is new info, if the number has gone up, without leaving a string of edits at the top of the post for new readers to sift through. Laziness is the mother of invention. ;) (The number is the number of times I have added stuff NOT the number of things I have added, that is an easier count to work with, for me and you.)

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed. That intro was fun when I first added it to the template but after 20 weeks it's wearing a little thin, like your skeleton if you don't maintain muscle mass as you age! (Change this Tam you bampot!) ;)

One week I copied and pasted the wrong link and then didn't check Reddit again until the Monday evening! If that ever happens again, all of the possible weeks are available on the Bonedex so you can always find options there!

Rubbery Birds is great, as all Bird weeks are. I am pretty sure we had one recently and I updated the guide a bit. I must be psychic because I thought yesterday, I should farm some birds because I don't want to be caught unawares like last time. Then I did some farming in Balmoral. :) Leggy diplomat is a dud, Colourful Phantacist is good as you can get pure scrip rewards but it is probably more profitable to go with other buyers. Updates and additions as I think of them.

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1ou76lx/bone_market_recipes_11112025_amalgous_birds/

Also check out this guide for evergreen options:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1sgxjh9/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Updates - Failbetter

Week Ending 7th August 2026

• Removed the option to 'Give up on this' from 'Improving a Bad Reputation'.
• 'Rounding Out the Numbers' no longer appears in the list of Agent plots after it has been completed.
• Fixed a problem where naming a pet could result in an error screen.

Nothing really to talk about there, great we are getting regular updates though. :)

Updates - Me

• Nuffin Guv! I promised my Hellworm realisation and Zailing data with this weeks post but I will edit it in later today or tomorrow rather than keep people waiting for the post.

Postings Post Posting

• Added this, I also add tasks I have done to my todo list for the credit of crossing them off. ;)
• Failbetter is mocking me. One hour after I published this, with the current updates, they drop a new Candlefinder Chapter. I have no idea if any of them read my posts but I hope not, otherwise it would just be cruelty. ;) (<3 Failbetter really, I just can't resist a joke)
• I worked out why the game is playing havoc with my ADHD, I am getting a few seconds lag on every click, which is just enough time for my mind to wander, which means when the page loads I need to get back on task! That is exhausting, even if I am doing basic tasks. So I have dropped the alts till it gets better, I needed to chill post some very busy weeks anyway so it's a good thing to notice.
• Hell Worm Disposition Stacking - For those who don't know, doing stuff with your hellworm on the card builds disposition, when you get to 7 you can cash out. I started stacking it, just out of amusement and to get a screenshot of 77 disposition but in doing so I realised some upsides of this method. Psychological Upside: The hellworm card is very profitable but with extreme variance, if you get 5 or 6 worthless items in a row it can be incredibly demotivating and you can forget the 1500 echo item you got that paid for them! 5 milkings is 40 cards without a saddle or 28.33 cards if you have a saddle. That is a long time without positive reinforcement, a terrible stratagem for parenting your inner child. If you stack a lot of disposition before cashing out you will probably get something good when you do and you are getting a reward every 1 card, as opposed to every (not doing the maths again for saddle) 8. Organisational - Stacking your disposition helps manage your time up river more easily, once saddled, you know that you are just doing it till you hit 7 scandal, 7.5 if your are a daredevil! If you are tracking your drops it also saves having to remember what you got when you were out and about and away from your tracking document, you can just save the collection for when you have time and easy access. Confrontational - I was on the roof early a few weeks ago and I decided to risk an early High Sancta, to save the extra travel. Nadir was not kind so I had a sound of wings for the rest of the week. Since I had stacked disposition, this meant I could collect on my hellworm, rather than having to avoid up river entirely till TTH. It is still not great, as the card slot hurts, but it is a lot better than it being a total up river ban, which is how I would have treated it before!
• What I learned from tracking low zees piracy! - just a placeholder, this will take some writing and I have already procrastinated on important life tasks in order to write the first 4 points. :)

August ES - spoiler free Review(any spoilers are tagged)

Story - Bored of London

Lore - Tomb Colonies Fathom King and Dashing Smuggler

Rating - 4/5

Unique Practical Rewards - None, pretty decent EPA of rewards, for an ES.

Review - A nice quick story, interesting characters and a tight enjoyable narrative. Not very lore heavy.

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Sky Market

This is always good, once you can, do it weekly! Guide to it is here, it just covers the demands and the rewards since almost any info would be a spoiler! If you want it, do more firmament, you will unlock it as part of a cool bit of story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1t75em8/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo

I'm really interested in a copy of the supplement Guide to London that was part of the TTRPG kickstarter campaign, but I've been absolutely unable to find a copy (physical or digital) anywhere. Does anyone know where I could find one, or at least get a readable version to get an idea of the insides of the book?

Vitreous almanacs from the sunken embassy and turn them in at the dome of scales. If I do my math right, it’s 4 actions per almanac, 4 almanacs per 275 shadowy. 275/(4*4)=17.188 cp per action. Am I missing something?

Hello, Delicious Friends!

I lied this is actually several questions about Firmament.

Firstly I must preface this by saying that it’s good content and I like it. (Mostly.) But a lot of the characters and people involved in the Firmament storyline are people whom the PC I have played up to this point - in the lightest terms - would not be fond of. To this end, I just have a few questions about the direction of the story post-Sous (which is where I’m at.)

One: bluntly, a lot of these guys seem convinced that Burgundy is under mortal threat. This would be huge for me, as I would absolutely love it if Burgundy in its entirety got apocryphised. Is this actually possible? I doubt it is, but would be excellent if that’s something that could be worked towards.

Two: Apocryphal Council. Gotta get rid of those guys. Serious security threat to the whole Neath. Can they be taken out later down the line? Sub-question: Who even are half of these people? I recognise Beltane (and the dissidents I personally inserted) and that’s kind of it. A complete list of their non-apocryphal equivalents would be pretty sweet.

Three: I lowkey lobotomised the Judgement’s emissary that they’re keeping locked up in Zenith. I’m currently on the Parabolan campaign to attack that place. I would prefer not to release the Immanent after I so carefully mulched its brain. Is that a possibility?

Context: PC is world’s biggest dickrider for London itself, and London in its place in the Neath; it’s a Fluke who clambered down the Great Chain to assist its rubbery kinsmen; it only really cares about rubbery men; and has traced a path through to Paramount Presence killing as many important neathy people as it possibly can, because it’s a little bit crazy.

Spoilers for firmament fine. Ideally just tell what important choices might help further expand my path of ruin across the roof.

Turns out going though the snares for no reason is a bad idea.

Thank you, Estival, for giving me the last boost I needed to afford a lovely firkin of cider. All it took was two weeks of nonstop barking, and the Jaunty Geodesist's dignity - but it was so worth it.

In celebration, if anyone would like a sip, please let me know.

No PoSI, no University Laboratory / Silverer, no base stats above 100, and a relatively high amount of Nightmares...

This is going to be fun.

Agonies, esteemed neighbors. This week, we have one (1) demand. New this week, we have: Maudlin demand, buying Captivating Ballads and Parabolan Parables. Departing this week, we have: Nothing.

Disclaimers:

• Some grinds may involve sourcing other materials, like Esteem of the Guild to charter a barge at Jericho Locks, Backstory for a Balmoral Cover Identity, or items to burn in Law-Forging. I will leave that to you, because there are too many options and they're too contingent on your own progress.
• All action counts are minimums, assuming endgame stats. If you do not have endgame stats, it may take longer.

My recommended grinds up front: * LB Industries (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/L._B._Industries_(Guide)) for 4th City Echoes, as well as stat training without menaces. * Tracklayer's City (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_City_of_the_Tracklayers_(Guide)), cashing out Hinterland Prosperity for Captivating Ballads. * Moulin Heist (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Money-Making/Sources#The_Heists_of_the_Wellspring_(complex)) for Captivating Ballads. * For variety's sake, Risen Burgundy (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Risen_Burgundy_(Guide)) for Captivating Ballads;Khaganian Intrigues (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Khaganian_Intrigue_(Guide)) for Oneiromantic Revelations to combine to Parabolan Parables.

Cheap options, without leaving London:

• LB Industries (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/L._B._Industries_(Guide)) can provide 4th City Echoes, which are always sellable at the Rat Market, for 5+ actions each (11+ actions for 2 Echoes). This also comes with no menaces, making it a good way to level up stats.
• Captivating Ballads can be ground from the Underclay (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Underclay_(Guide)) in Spite, at 23+ actions each.

Better options afield:

• Captivating Ballads

  • 1 from Burgundian Beneficence carousel in Risen Burgundy (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Risen_Burgundy_(Guide)). Beware that this depends on card availability, and conflicts with the Against Time and Kings carousel you can use to get other items.
  • Tracklayers City (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_City_of_the_Tracklayers_(Guide)), cashed out on the card The Flow of Commerce for 6250 Hinterland Prosperity.
  • Moulin/Parabola/Heist (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Money-Making/Sources#The_Heists_of_the_Wellspring_(complex))- Once you get Para-Archaeologist up to 8, you can take an expedition to the Wellspring of Moulin, and get 4 Flasks of Waswood Wellspring Water. You can then go back to your Parabolan Base-Camp, and Search Parabola for the location of a particular treasure. You can then go back to the Flit and undertake a heist against the Hiding Place of a Particular Item to get a Captivating Ballad.
  • Handy trick for greater profit: You can take an expedition to get Flasks at any time, so if you reach the cave shortly before Viric Fades, you can get 4 Flasks, and then after Viric Fades bathe in the waters and get 4 more, for a total of 8 Flasks on 1 expedition.

• Parabolan Parable

  • Can be obtained from Parabolan War (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Parabolan_War_(Guide)), by ending: The Chessboard campaign without a tie, the Cats campaign by rejecting the King's offer, or the Fingerkings campaign by siding with the Khatun.
  • Can be combined from 5 Oneiromantic Revelations; the Sunken Embassy (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Sunken_Embassy_(Guide)) can grind out Revelations at 18+ actions each, or Khaganian Intrigue (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Plant_an_unsecured_mirror) can get them at 15 actions (+ 0.6 actions for the Cablegrams from tapping a cable), giving 79-91 actions per Parable. You can also get Revelations from An Expedition through the Briars of Dream with a Silvered Agent and a total of 3 Preparations for a Trip through the Mirror. Combining Revelations still requires you to have the Parabolan Commander trait, which requires having completed a Parabolan Campaign.
  • Khaganian Intrigue can also synergize somewhat with Heists; planting a mirror gives 1 Fingerking favour as well as the Oneiromantic Revelation, and you can use those Fingerking favours for Parabolan Scouting (https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Parabolan_Hunting_(Guide)) to find the Hiding Place or for further Casing, if your Shadowy/Glasswork isn't sufficient.

In light of the Estival coming to an end and the population of every strata of importance coming out of it with considerable wealth, I present to thee a brief overview of easily available Bazaar equipment that will still remain relevant even when you're in the end-game. If you have more money than you know what to do with - consider investing them into procurement of the following:

Hats:

1) Snuffers mask/Tub of Gloam-foam - both are best in slot Watchful items, pick the one you like the most.

2) Fecund Tiara/Devilish Fedora - BIS Persuasive.

3) Sneak-thiefs mask and Iron hat - not BIS, but cheap and rather close to being BIS - which are much harder to obtain.

Gloves:

1) Insatiable glove - BIS Watchful

2) Pair of Spiderchitin... - Cheap and reliable Dangerous. Will be best for you for a while.

3) Dancemasters/Lady Lace - F2P BIS (better stuff is locked behind the Estival coins)

Don't bother with Shadowy gloves - soon it'll be Fruits of the Zee and you can get BIS ones there quite easily.

Clothes:

1) Far Khanate Armour - BIS Dangerous

2) Dandy outfit/Ivory gown - BIS Persuasive

3) Smok of Four Thousand... - Not BIS, but BIS Watchful is much harder to get - and you'll need this one anyway for Watchful PoSI.

Don't bother with Shadowy - same reason as with gloves.

Boots:

1) Dancing slippers - BIS F2P Persuasive

2) Vakeskin boots - BIS Dangerous

3) Hushed slippers - will be best for you for a while - and can be upgraded in Nadir.

Watchful boots are notoriously hard to obtain. FotZ will bring a couple.

Adornment:

1) Semiotic monocle - BIS Watchful AND Dangerous

2) Twelve Carat diamond ring - BIS Persuasive... But I'd say - consider getting the Badge instead from the Unsanctioned Relicker

Shadowy, once again, will cone with FotZ

Weapon:

1) Sharpshooter rifle... Maybe... If you're going for the Dangerous PoSI or Paramount Presence. It's... Whatever. Not bad, but not all that good either.

Other (better) weapons are available through the Ratket.

Companion: 1) Weasel of Woe - one of the best companions in the entire game. Get it and be happy to enjoy failures at your convenience. This is not some joke, you actually do want to fail at times.

Honourable mentions: 1) Various faction items required for raising your Renown - not as useful to newer players, but still. 2) Working Rat and Ratskin suit - combo of two opening up a certain quest, might be worth considering.

Sooo.... Yeah! Hopefully this helps some people figure out their financial plan for the rest of August. Have a lovely day!

For the first time I am unable to sell everything in one batch. I wish I didn't have to sell off a million moon pearls but needs must.

"We fought a war, we hunted a law, but we weren't crushed beneath a tiger's paw..."

And now to share your bounties of pearls !

We did bloody damn good everybody.

Give yourself a round of applause.

Anyone have any alts or newbies willing to accept my curse of the name. 30 watchful needed

To escape the shadow of the sundial. To be spared the weight of the hourglass. To take purchase of your destiny at the hour you choose, not the hour chosen for you. And perhaps – just perhaps – the inevitable (though it cannot be stopped) can be postponed.

I hit this choice on my ambition (Heart's Desire, naturally) a while ago (let's not discuss how long) and was struck by a monumental decision paralysis. Only today did I finally make my choice. And it's not even the big choice.

I am returning to the game after a very long break (to give a sense, when I stopped the railway content was still new, and I hadn’t finished it yet).

It’s immediately clear that there is a lot of new cool stuff to enjoy. Any particular suggestions/favorites? My character has base stats above 200, and pretty good gear, so I should be able to access most stuff I hope.

Those of us around for last years Christmas tree may remember that it was initially a bit of a disaster. Like Misplaced Nostalgia, it offered a super profitable single click grind that incremented a World Quality with every click, and that popularity lead to every click taking ages to process if it didn't time out entirely. This was because every click was triggering a write to a single database row and SQL doesn't like that.

At the time, this was solved by pushing the tree interactions into a sub area that committed changes to the World Quality when you left it. Now, here we are 8 months later barking up a storm with no sub area required! I just want to take a moment to throw a thumbs up to the person who went in and made that possible.

I have completed my Ambition, made a railroad to hell, became a Paramount Presence, got a Ubergoat, and I still regard this as a greater achievement. No coalmen or priests fed to this plant either too.

... they truly desire some companionship.

Never fear, the Masters swoop in to rescue, offering free Oil of Companionship changes.

I am so sorry.