Christmas 2012

During the Christmas 2012 Season

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Time to Shovel

SNOWBOUND!

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Snow's Neathy equivalent is especially thick this year. The path to your Lodgings is blocked! You'll have to clear it before you can return there (or leave and return).

Clear the path yourself.

Put in the spade-work. Hard labour ennobles the immortal soul.
Unlocks: Dangerous 5
Requires 5 actions.

Pay urchins to clear the path.

Labour can ennoble someone else. You want to get in and sit down by the fire.
Unlocks: 50 x Whispered Secret, Connected: Urchins 1
Requires 2 actions.

Clear the paths of others, then your own.

Parties of friendly citizens are co-operating to open up the ways of London. Lend your back to help those snared by the oddly odorous stuff.
Unlocks: Dangerous 20
Requires 10 actions.

An unexpected volunteer.

"May I be of assistance?" flutes a high-pitched voice. What? Is that a Master of the Bazaar, shovel in hand? There are two slightly variant outcomes here. Both are beneficial.
Unlocks: 20 Fate

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Requires 20 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

Out and about in the Neath-snow

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Tramp, tramp. It sticks to your shoes, it smells a little of tom-cats and fish-guts. Still, it is charming, the way it glitters in the gas-lamps.

Assist a friend?

Offer to clear another's path for them. It's Christmas, after all. (You might also find a use for the snow from their threshold.)
Requires 5 actions.

The Neath-snow

Clicking on An Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow in your Inventory brings up this storylet.

A Pail of So-Called Snow

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It's noticeably different from most of the 'snow' in the streets. It has an oilier lustre, and the smell is not quite the same: ammonia, but touched with oil of roses. There is no indication at all that the stuff is safe. The wisest thing to do would be to dispose of it.

So what will you do?

Eat it

Really? Really?
A matter of luck: the odds are against you here.

Dispose of it

Pour the stuff into the Stolen River, which will, one assumes, carry it harmlessly to the Unterzee, which consumes as seas inevitably consume.

Dump it on the fire

Unlocks: Uncovering the Secrets of the Face-Tailor 3, Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus 10, 4 x Tales of Terror
Some memory tugs at you…
A matter of luck: pretty good odds.

Scent your pillow with it

Unlocks: An Experienced Zailor 1, 4 x Memory of Distant Shores, 1 x An Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
Did you hear a story about this, leagues across the bitter zee?
A matter of luck: pretty good odds.

Feed it to a Malevolent Monkey

Unlocks: Ruthless 1, 1x Malevolent Monkey
Most of your pets have more sense than to touch the fishy mush. But the Monkey's curiosity brings it stealing forward…
A matter of luck: the odds are against you here.

Feed it to a Talkative Rattus-Faber

Unlocks: Ruthless 1, 1 x Talkative Rattus-Faber
Hello, what d'you have there? Ooh, can't say I like the smell. Is it? Is it really? Are you sure? What, even behind my ears at the back? Mm, all right! Have you got a spoon? No, I don't mm mf fmfm mmff…
A matter of luck: a long shot…but you might win.

Mix it with an old wine

Unlocks: 1 x Extraordinary Implication, 1 x Broken Giant 1844
Something from the Surface…
A matter of luck: it could go either way.

Examine it through your Semiotic Monocle

Unlocks: 1 x Semiotic Monocle
What might you discover?
A Scholar of the Correspondence challenge.

Drown a rat in it

Unlocks: Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name 4
Splash, splash. Let us have a tiny sacrifice.

Dip a soul in it

Unlocks: Connected: Urchins 1, 1 x Soul
There's a rhyme the urchin-gangs sing…

Some options increase Putting the Pieces together - The Taste of Lacre without saying as such; the levels are as follows.

1: Neath-snow - or is it 'lacre'?
2: Lacre can poison, intoxicate or even transform…
3: Why does the lacre accumulate at Christmas?
4: Why has there been so much lacre recently?
5: Is lacre touched by the Correspondence?
6: What draws the lacre up from its reservoirs?
7: Lacre. Is it what happens when the Bazaar weeps?
8: Lacre. What memories are inscribed in its frozen core?
9: What longing does it embody? What urge to alteration?
10: What fills the lacrimal founts?
11: What stirs the lacred waters?
12: What walks in crimson guise?


A Gift, from Failbetter Games.

TWELVE DAYS OF MR SACKS

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Happy New Year! The Neath-snow has fallen thick this year. Mr Sacks is on his rounds, as many of you have seen… but something's different.

Mr Sacks arrives by Opportunity card. You don't need to be in your Lodgings to draw him - don't worry, he'll find you when you return home of an evening. The cards will become more frequent every day, and the story concludes on January 6th.

We nearly forgot!

We got you a little something. Pay no attention to the sounds from within the box.


Mr. Sacks..? Is that you?

These storylets are from opportunity cards, drawn in eventual succession.

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A Peevish Visit from Mr. Sacks?

A knock on your door. A hunched figure. Every year, this Crimson Beast of Winter brings his terrible sack, demanding gifts to fill the void. And now you hear a high-pitched, faintly peevish voice: "What will you put in my sack?"

Mr Sacks! Would you care for a little of the '68?

Unlocks: 1 x Greyfields 1868 First Sporing
This is, traditionally, Mr Sacks' favourite tipple.

Mr Sacks! Take my best regards!

The traditional response from those who wish to keep their possessions. Mr Sacks may be disappointed, but you'll suffer no harm.

Mr Sacks! Take this pail of… snow?

Unlocks: 1 x An Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
Best be rid of the stuff. It's beginning to melt, and the odour is not attractive.

'Mr Sacks! Would you care for something…spicier than wine?

Unlocks: Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 1, 100 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
His voice is familiar. You have a hunch he might approve of this gift.

Mr…Sacks?

Unlocks: A Veteran of Mr Sacks' Visits 1
Your voice sounds different…

Mr Sacks! Take these wicked words!

Unlocks: Scandal 1, 1 x Appalling Secret, 1 x Proscribed Material
Be rid of all your Scandal. You'll need some sticky words to tie it to.


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A Genial Visit from Mr. Sacks?

A knock on your door. A hunched figure. A rich alto voice: "What do you have for me tonight?"

Again? Mr Sacks, like Christmas, comes but once a year….

Mr Sacks! Would you care for a little of the '68?

Unlocks: 1 x Greyfields 1868 First Sporing
This is, traditionally, Mr Sacks' favourite tipple.

Mr Sacks! Take my best regards!

The traditional response from those who wish to keep their possessions. Mr Sacks may be disappointed, but you'll suffer no harm.

Mr Sacks! Take this pail of… snow?

Unlocks: 1 x An Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
Best be rid of the stuff. It's beginning to melt, and the odour is not attractive.

Mr Sacks! Take this eery air.

Unlocks: Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 2, 1 x Consonant Violin
His voice is familiar. You have a hunch he might enjoy a little violin music.

Mr…Sacks?

Unlocks: A Veteran of Mr Sacks' Visits 1
Your voice sounds different…

Mr Sacks! Take this tale of romantic misery!

Unlocks: 1 x Touching Love Story
Here's a tale you heard. Perhaps Mr Sacks would care to hear it too.


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Mr Sacks, in taciturn mood

And again! A knock on the door; a looming shape in white-trimmed red. But this time, Mr Sacks speaks only one word. "Diamonds."

Mr Sacks! Would you care for a little of the '68?

Unlocks: 1 x Greyfields 1868 First Sporing
This is, traditionally, Mr Sacks' favourite tipple.

Mr Sacks! Take my best regards!

The traditional response from those who wish to keep their possessions. Mr Sacks may be disappointed, but you'll suffer no harm.

Mr Sacks! Take this pail of… snow?

Unlocks: 1 x An Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
Best be rid of the stuff. It's beginning to melt, and the odour is not attractive.

Mr Sacks! Take this little diamond.

Unlocks: 1 x Diamond
It's not very impressive, but it's definitely a diamond.

Mr…Sacks! Take this rather larger diamond

Unlocks: 1 x Magnificent Diamond
Your voice is different…

Mr Sacks! Take this rather larger diamond.

Unlocks: 5 Fate
How fortunate that you bought it so cheaply just last week.

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Requires 5 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.


What's the angle?

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The Neath-snow has fallen more thickly this week. Mr Sacks, too, seems thick on the ground. Cloaked and hooded Masterly figures are visiting certain addresses not once but several times, demanding gifts. What is going on? And more importantly, how can you take advantage?

Keep your plans to yourself

You will find your own opportunities, and keep your own counsel.

Seek knowledge

A lively gang of naturalists, bazaarographers and spelemeteorologists is researching the matter. Join your efforts with theirs. This will give a chance at an increased Mysteries reward later.
Unlocks: 10 Fate, Connected: Benthic 5

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Requires 10 Fate

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Seek the downfall of the Bazaar

If the Masters really are visiting dwellings in person, they're unusually vulnerable. But still terribly dangerous. You'll need to prepare your ground carefully. This will give a chance at an increased Luminosity reward later.
Unlocks: 10 Fate, Connected: Revolutionaries 5

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Requires 10 Fate

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Intrigue with urchins

A cadre of urchins serves Mr Sacks. Is he their captor or their deliverer? The urchin-gangs of the roof-tops have a particular interest… and an interest, too, in Neath-snow, to match their strange knowledge of wild words and vagrant winds. This will give a chance at an increased Wild Words reward later.
Unlocks: 10 Fate, Connected: Urchins 5

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Mr Sacks, purringly

Tonight's Mr Sacks anounces itself with a merry triple knock; bows; addresses you as 'my dear'. "Give of your dreams," it says. "You've met the ones who desire to rule dreams. I wish only to reflect them."

Mr Sacks! Take this dream of better times -

This is a relatively safe option.

Mr Sacks! Take this dream of deep waters!

Unlocks: Having Recurring Dreams: Death by Water 5
This will reduce the relevant Dream score.

Mr Sacks! Take this dream of flames!

Unlocks: Having Recurring Dreams: The Fire Sermon 5
This will reduce the relevant Dream score.

Mr Sacks! Take this dream of mirrors!

Unlocks: Having Recurring Dreams: Is Someone There? 5
This will reduce the relevant Dream score.

Mr Sacks! Take this dream of lost winds!

Unlocks: Having Recurring Dreams: What The Thunder Said 5
This will reduce the relevant Dream score.

Mr Sacks! Take my ignorance from me. Are you…"

Unlocks: Investigating the Twelve Days of Mr Sacks with: scholars at Benthic College.
Ask outright. What is it with all these Sackses?

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A concrudescent Mr Sacks

Good evening, citizen! My sack awaits your gifts most perelactally. Today, I am considering literature of many kinds.

Mr Sacks! Dispose of this sedition for me!

Unlocks: 5 x Proscribed Material
Revolutionary sentiments flourish like weeds. Best root them out quickly.

Mr Sacks! Take these tales of joy and woe!

Unlocks: 10 x Touching Love Story
"In matters of the Bazaar," it has been said, "look to love, always." And whoever this Mr Sacks is, he's certainly of the Bazaar.

Mr Sacks! Take this exalted hymn to patriotism!

Unlocks: 1 x A Copy of your Patriotic Adventure
Perhaps he will approve of your support of the established order. Note: you will no longer be accounted author of this work.

Mr Sacks! Take my wicked reputation!

Unlocks: Scandal 3
Perhaps your various scandals would fit in that sack.

Mr Sacks! Take these works of political philosophy…

Unlocks: investigating the Twelve Days of Mr Sacks with: February, of the Calendar Council, 50 x Proscribed Material
February has provided you with a number of innocuous and sober covers. Place these seditious materials within, and who knows where they might end up?

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Requires a Fate-locked Quality

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.


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Mr Sacks, in embered red

Twin red stars glow in the depths of his cowl. There are impossible echoes in the piping voice. But he seems tired. He wants to talk. He wants only one thing from you, an answer: how do you like London in the time of the Bazaar?

Mr Sacks… I have nothing for you.

Safest to keep your own counsel.

Mr Sacks: it is peaceful here

Between black Neath-roof and blacker water, there is glittering light and silence. We are spared the ills of the world: storm, war, famine. Even Death is a rare guest here. All is well, or shall be.

Mr Sacks, London is the crucible of desires

A treasure-house! Marvels heaped up with both hands! Wines and wonders the Surface will never know! How fortunate we are.

Mr Sacks, London weeps for the sky

We are cold, here. The sky is closed to us. The airs of Earth are still. We do not see in colours.

Mr Sacks: the Bazaar strangles and consumes

London was the heart of the Empire! You ripped that heart out, you and your fellows. We are not even the ghosts of puppets.

The Violet-Eyed Waif told you what you should say…

Unlocks: investigating the Twelve Days of Mr Sacks with: the Knotted Sock
Mr Sacks: the winds are wild, the lacre deep. The snarling stones arise from sleep. The Fifth's tales may exalt the suns, but never hope to halt what comes.

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Mr Shacksh

His voice is a gravelled roar: I am Mr Shacksh! Bring me honey and jewels! And a bottle. The good stuff. None of your mushroom swillery.

Chase off this impostor with a stout stick

Unlocks: Watchful 5
He is not so very like your other visitors. His robe is inexpertly patched, and he smells of gin and compost.

Give him honey and jewels

Unlocks: 1 x Broken Giant 1844, 20 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey, 10 x Sapphire, 10 x Diamond, 10 x Venom-ruby
And a bottle of good pre-Fall wine.

Invite him in for wine and cold meats

Unlocks: 1 x Greyfields 1882
You have half a jugged lizard in the pantry that needs finishing. And the poor soul must be hungry to try such a desperate ploy.


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At your window

That night as you sleep, Mr Sacks crouches on your window-sill. His robe is the colour of salt, and his hood is trimmed with red fox-fur. I have brought you gifts, he whispers.

Accept the Wax-Wind

It will shrivel the meat from your bones.

Accept a single crumb of bread

Unlocks: seeking Mr Eaten's Name 0
It will place a charge and a burden on you. This will begin a storyline that you will later greatly regret. Don't do it.

Accept his heart and lights

Many times has he been consumed.

Ignore him as best you can

Accept sinister gifts from a white-robed thing squatting outside your window? Yes, that'll end well. Turn over and sink into deeper sleep

Accept the Name!

Unlocks: seeking Mr Eaten's Name 3
Though you will forget it when you wake. Even the memory of the visit will be erased. Lacre cannot bury the law.

Ask him what he wants

Unlocks: Investigating the Twelve Days of Mr Sacks with: scholars at Benthic College.
"The key to understanding these Sackses," the Dapper Bazaarographer confided in you, "is understanding their desires. That's the key to understanding everything the Bazaar touches."

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Down the chimney!

This Mr Sacks comes down the chimney in a floating welter of robes… much paler than the last time. One might call them anaemic. He desires wild words,

Mr Sacks! Take this limping rhyme.

Unlocks: 1 x Maniac's Prayer
Give up a Maniac's Prayer.

Mr Sacks! Take this wounded metal!

Unlocks: 1 x Correspondence Plaque
Offer him a Correspondence Plaque.

Mr Sacks! Take the sky's pain!

Unlocks: 1 x Aeolian Scream
Offer him an Aeolian Scream.

Mr Sacks! Take this little work of the wind!

Unlocks: 1 x Storm-Threnody
Offer him a Storm-Threnody.

There! This is the one you were waiting for…

Unlocks: investigating the Twelve Days of Mr Sacks with: the Knotted Sock
When a Sacks comes down the chimney, the Waif told you, it's time to say these words…and be ready.

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Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.


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Mr Sacks, mutely

Mr Sacks looms like a clock-tower. Mr Sacks holds up a card, which reads: HO HO HO. Mr Sacks holds up a second card, which reads: COME WITH ME.

Decline the invitation

Who knows where it might lead?

Accept the invitation

A crimson-lacquered carriage awaits you.

Refuse to go, but offer him a knife, and a candle

Unlocks: 1 x Skyglass Knife, 1 x Mourning Candle, Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 3
He doesn't speak? That suggests something familiar.

Decline, but offer him the chair nearest the fire

Unlocks: investigating the Twelve Days of Mr Sacks with: February, of the Calendar Council
Tell him you have confidences for him. Just as February requested…

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Requires a Fate-locked Quality

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.


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Mr Sacks, at his limits

You step outside the back door to look up at the false-stars and consider the events of the last two weeks. And there at the back, a crimson blotch lies on the ground. It tilts its head up towards you. Melting lacre drips from the fur trim of the hood. The face within is a blurred, unreadable horror. "My dear…please…" it whispers.

Assist the wreck of Sacks

Whatever this is, it's suffering.

Take advantage of the situation

Gather up the lacre spilling from his robe…and go through that sack.

Now this is what you've been waiting for

Unlocks: Investigating the Twelve Days of Mr Sacks with: scholars at Benthic College.
What an extraordinary opportunity for research!

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Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.


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