There's a new tab* in Fallen London for the next year: mysteries! It's a series of questions, from the easy, to the esoteric, that get scored at the end of the year, and you get rewards for how many you get right. I've listed the questions below, with some of my thoughts on them. Anyone willing to collaborate?
I'm not sure, but the Moloch Street Station is the only remaining train station in London. It runs one route to the west, taking devils and the odd human to Hell and back.
King's Cross? Anyone know London geography better?
Not sure. From the forum: "Elderwick - a church, booksellers, artists' lodgings."
Piccadilly Arcade, suggests a forum post.
(Piccadilly -> formerly Portugal -> contains Lusitania.)
No idea. An alley with lots of stray cats?
This one's easy: Irrigo, Violant, Cosmogone, Peligin, Apocyan, Viric, and Gant.
Chess Pieces? A certain candle suggests it's being played for Central Asia?
The Ormolu Door, The Steel Door, The Copper Door, The Glass Door, The Ivory Door, The Paper Door, and The Teeth Door.
The Wings-of-Thunder Bat, which is, in reality, Mr. Hearts and, possibly, the other Masters of the Bazaar. Where the Hound of Heaven comes from, as it is not the beast you trained (cause Mr. Hearts ate it), is another question, with terrifying implications.
Because Elder Continent stuff? uhhhhh I dunno.
We have no idea. They are a member of the revolutionary Calendar Council, but their exact identity is unknown. There are a few people connected to the revolutionary elements who might be candidates:
Curt Relicker
The Affluent Photographer
The Jovial Contrarian
The Secular Missionary
The Revolutionary Firebrand
This one's got me scratching my head. I haven't heard anything about a dead royal child. Maybe the Alluring Princess? Any ideas?
There's a real newspaper called the "[ur=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Working_Man's_Friend_and_Family_Instructorl]The Working Man's Friend and Family Instructor[/url]" that got discontinued in 1852, around the time of the Great Exhibition. The image is a newspaper. Maybe they're talking about The Magazine Formerly Known As The London Magazine?
An admiralty splinter cell called the New Sequence.
The devil Virginia, bane of Archeologists.
I seek not the Name. Can a Seeker enlighten me?
Mr. Sacks? Mr. Eaten? I have no clue who the first lacre-homunculi was.
I have no idea. Third City/Fourth City stuff? Any ideas?
Something something parabola something something magic dream tiger cats something something fingerkings are angry snakes
Meat puppets? Liberation of Night? Apparently, you can "use an Implacable Detective's Business Card to Locate a Deranged Medium; completing the case offers what seems to be a good hint. The information is better if you get a Notable Success, and also if you visit Mirror-Marches while pursuing the case and look into an Ivory Frame."
A tragic love story. An empress sold her kingdom to save her lover. And then bats. So many bats.
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Only on the browser version, they couldn't scrape the code together for the mobile version.Also ps to rolan7, sorry to not responding and being a shitty suitor. I keep saying "I'm going to get to it" but I never pen that blasted response.