Social Actions

Interacting with Other Players in Echo Bazaar

There are some things you can do with (and to) other players in the game. These are called social actions. They aren't strictly necessary but your experience in Fallen London can be enhanced by choosing them.

How does this work?

When you select a social action from a storylet or Opportunity Card, you will need to choose the other player's Twitter or Facebook username from the drop-down menu that appears. It will cost 1 action to send the invitation and 1 action to accept an invitation. If the invitation is never accepted, you still lose the action.

Invitations you send and that others send you can be seen on the Home tab. If an invitation is accepted, the resullts will appear underneath the Previously, in Echo Bazaar… heading on the Home tab. (Results from invitations you accept will generally take a few seconds to appear in that space.) You can also cancel outstanding invitations from that tab.

You generally cannot accept an invitation if you are imprisoned, dead, in disgraced exile, insane or in a similar state that limits your activity. (More research is needed.)

(The names that appear in the drop-down menu for the social action are those in your personal network(s). You cannot arbitrarily choose a player that is not connected to you through those networks.)

What kinds of things can we do?

From Your Lodgings

You need to have the Homeless Quality, in other words have Lodgings somewhere, to see these actions there. Refer to that page for more details.

	Invite a friend to join you in something potentially dangerous. Invite someone to a Sparring Bout. (Gain Hard-Earned Lessons.) Nurse a friend back to health. (Help a friend with their Wounds.) Poison an acquaintance! (Trick a friend and increase their Wounds.)
	Attend to matters of society and scandal. Invite someone to a Private Supper. (Gain Confident Smiles.) Ask someone for help in laying rumours to rest. (A chance to reduce Scandal.) Use someone as your dupe. (A chance to reduce your Scandal by giving it to someone else.) Laugh off scandal! (A chance to reduce Scandal.)
	Invite a friend to join you in something rather shadowy. Invite someone to a spot of Suspicious Loitering. (Gain Hastily Scrawled Warning Notes.)
	Invite a friend to join you in something terribly intellectual. Invite someone to a Game of Chess. (Gain Sudden Insights.)

Other Storylets

	If your Nightmares Quality is getting too high, the Find a way to deal with your Nightmares appears, in all locations, giving you an opportunity to reduce your Nightmares.
	If your Suspicion Quality is getting too high, the Find a way to throw the Constables off the scent appears, in all locations, giving you an opportunity to reduce your Suspicion.

Opportunity Cards

Playing the Putting the Pieces Together card gives you an opportunity to gain Cryptic Clues.

Items

You can invite a friend to share a bottle of Black Wings Absinthe with you.

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