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[TamerVirus]

I'm back
and so is Skookum

[Rolan7]

Nonpareil

Interluder

Bicker

Parable

Quality

Timeline corrected and causality resumed, I'll let you time citizens off with a time warning this time.

[King Zultan]

Sorry guys I left my skookum at home so I give you a rock instead.

[Eric Blank]

gneiss

[Scoops Novel]

Penchant

[Scoops Novel]

Literalize

[Scoops Novel]

Fabulist

(Someone who composes fables)

[Scoops Novel]

Redolent

[Rolan7]

Fabulist

(Someone who composes fables)

That's one of my favorite bits/jokes in Fallen London.  In the setting, bits of information (from gossip to scientific theories to stories) are easily commodities which are exchanged as easily as coins.  Often you can exchange a bunch of lesser factoids for a few more interesting ones.  When you do there's a random chance that you the player will get a narrative hint about one of the setting's mysteries, as a message volunteered by the character you're trading with.

The Salty Fabulist (nobody has names in the Neath, only titles)... appears to follow this trend.  Except in true zailor fashion, he lies.  He lies hard.  His tales are completely inaccurate, wildly fanciful, and very easy to believe considering how much weird stuff occurs in the setting.  Occasionally his tales will even parody the truth, but never in a way that actually aids understanding.

And yet the maps he trades to you are... as accurate as any maps are, in the Neath.  The zee is constantly changing anyway.

He's a lot like M'aiq the Liar from various Elder Scrolls games.  A sprinkle of truth, here and there, but otherwise a fabulist.

[King Zultan]

I give you guys a word that needs no introduction, I give you Skookum!

[Scoops Novel]

Suffice

[Magmacube_tr]

Skookum would

Suffice

[Scoops Novel]

Pertinences

[Uthimienure]

Penitences

[Great Order]

gneiss

Butte?