#the unterzee

[alexanderpearce]

thought i’d share some of my fallen london playlists!!

fallen london / mysterious and indistinct (the unterzee) / seeking mr eaten’s name / THESUNTHESUNTHESUN

#hopefully some songs you havent heard before #im particularly pleased with my smen one #fallen london #playlist #fanmix #seeking mr eaten's name #smen #the unterzee #the sun #echo bazaar #sunless skies #sunless sea #my playlists #i take em seriously #umm some artists that show up a lot are #emily jane white #iamx #thou #the pogues #the family crest #mark korvern #everyone listen to thou please #popular

[bacchusen]

“Hush, now. Lay your head down and rest.”

Stone, The Mountain of Light

#fallen london fanart #fl #Stone of the Unterzee #the first person to guess all the kingdoms on her dress gets a star #The dress #oh the dress #the pattern took me the longest #But I wanted to do her justice #Especially since she has way more description and official art than her parents

[capn-twitchery]

Twitch bragging like I've Died in parts of the zee you haven't even HEARD of

they are being eaten by zee monsters those nerds at benthic haven't even considered the existence of yet!!!!!!

#this has me CACKLING thank you #the undiscovered unconsidered depths of the unexplored unterzee??? yeah we've all seen it-oh what??? you haven't??? #skill issue #twitchery #inquiries #lieutenantkim

[esteemed-excellency]

epic fail AND epic win moment

#you die in the stupidest way possible BUT you also gain a fuckton of glim so 🤷‍♂️ #looney tunes vibe #fallen london #failbetter games #unterzee

[no-i-will-not-shut-up]

fallen london and frostpunk should kiss

#fallen london #frostpunk #im using my neurons to make an au #where london freezes -> people leave -> london falls in the unterzee #so the people who leave my city and actually manage to survive #end up in the unterzee #ofc none of the generators cities know about fallen london #because anyone who goes to checks falls in #and everyone else assumes they just died in the frost

[bishopofstdiesis]

So let's talk zubmanines. These were early attempts at creating my in game "ship" Lady Crow Leviathan. Clearly, with all the lights & tech this is more scifi than "Fallen London" which is the only reason I count them as a fail for my ship.

This does, however, mean that if any other players, or RPer's, want these as their ship/zub they are welcome to them. If you use MidJourney & want to modify off these, let me know if you want the job ID.

Happy zailing.

#ai art #ai artwork #fallen london #failbetter games #Zubmarine #sunless sea #sunless skies #unterzee #Zeefaring

[nyctodromist]

just got out of church and i'm uncomfortable as usual but i don't feel nearly as bad as i did at christmas and i think this might have been the last time i'll ever have to go

#bernie talks #thought of the hours and the gods of the unterzee and mekhane #as i usually do #even the fears a little bit #i miss my gods but i carry them with me always

[writ-in-violant]

Art: GIMME THE FIRST SHIP YOU GOT I WANNA GET ZAILING Celestine, at the same time, halfway across London: Oh, I couldn't possibly be ready to present myself as a person of some importance in London until I had lodgings fitting to my person. I think a room at the Brass Embassy will be sufficient.

#oc: the pallid pugilist #oc: the comely catbuglar #they have such hilariously different priorities i love it #celestine: appearances are everything #art: i don't care what this looks like if it seems like it will work i'll use it #art: the sheer force of my momentum will make this shitty boat get me wherever i need to go in the unterzee

[beeapocalypse]

^ aigul

#i NEED need to get further in the game / play sunless skies apparently theres more fluke lore there. need to know as much-- #--abt them and the rubbery men as possible to better undertand aigul and the rubbery rituals the first mate uses 2 Create the regret-spines #the fact that if the captain dies all u can get from aigul are more spines. what the hell do you even use those for outside-- #--of the woman at the unterzee port where u can sharpen parts of your body. man :( #forever forever going to be thinking abt the hypothetical of the aigul crew getting a ride w a zee captain (HYDE) back to the wolfstack-- #--docks when they were ready to leave. the emergence back into Reality after so long trapped within regret both metaphorically and very-- #--literally (<-- WHAT a cheesy thing to say but it is true and it is emo. that is the entire theme of aigul cheesy yet painful and-- #--impactful lol) like. would station III send a new crew to occupy the beached fortas kettle? the aigul crew shipped the spine shavings-- #--to them #i DO have the-fortas-kettle username saved (aigul is still taken by an empty blog ;_;). perhaps i will change 2 it for halloween fun lol

[thebaldursmouthgazette]

The action replenishing rate on FL is killing me

#time to do deeply illegal and fucked up things on the unterzee while I wait

[cartridgeconverter]

I am the very model of a modern fallen Londoner Of wonders of the Neath I am a long-established wanderer I've met the Traitor Empress and I've delved the Sunken Embassy And I have zailed to nearly every island on the Unterzee. I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters of Parabolans. I've traveled through the mirrors and waged wars with their inhabitants. I've had the strangest dreams and I know others who have dreamed of them For I have stayed for many evenings in the Royal Bethlehem!

#fallen london

[failbettergames]

You dream of rain. You dream that the ink that is your flesh is running off the page, smeared into dark rivulets on the vellum. When you wake, you can still feel a stiffness in your back; as if your spine is being held tautly by yarn.

In the dark of the cabin, your mind enumerates sensations as your eyes adjust: The sway of the gondola. The vibration from the engine in the starboard nacelle above you, rattling slightly – still no replacement for the broken fuel intake.

The noise of water rapping against a porthole window.

Hello, delicious friends. It appears that time, very disrespectfully, has chosen to march on until it is very nearly April. The time has come to talk about our major future plans for Fallen London.

A new major storyline

Firmament is Fallen London’s next major expansion, a main story arc that adds on to the game’s ongoing progression. Acquire an airship – permanently, this time. Fly to the Roof. Explore the stalactite fields ruled by the Starved Men, the carved paths of the Moon-MIsers, the inverted jungles of the Antipelago, and more.

This expansion focuses on the Roof. Just like the unterzee gets stranger and darker as you zail away from familiar shores, so do the upper airs of the Neath contain more than what you know about. As these castles on the ceiling open to you, you will learn more.

Firmament will launch over the course of April, with a prologue becoming available on April 11th, and the full first chapter on April 18th.

While Firmament is in some ways a follow-up to the Railway storyline, we are aware of how long it takes to get to the very end of the game’s (current) highest-level story. When Firmament launches, you will be able to start it as long as you have already begun the Railway storyline and reached Ealing. While you will need to advance your railway further to access the latter parts of Firmament, there should be ample time to catch up on the Railway in between Firmament chapters.

New mechanics

The Railway arc added new advanced skills. During the Zeefarer cycle we added revamped Zee travel and the new Boon/Burden mechanic. This set of updates comes with its own mechanical expansions to the game.

New item slots

Airships make their return as full-fledged items. Much like zeefaring ships, they serve you mostly in air travel – Aerial Prowess and Aerial Armament also make their return. But we’re also adding a few other item slots, while we’re at it.

Adornment includes all manner of jewellery and accessories – rings, necklaces, earrings, neckties, brooches, and more. Previously, items in this vein would appear in slots like Gloves or Clothing, leading to the somewhat odd mental image of wearing your Pendant of Helicon Amber and nothing else. With this update, these items gain their own space, enabling more player expression and empowering players to reach slightly higher stats.

Several existing items will be shifted to the Adornment slot, slightly buffing them by allowing them to stack with other existing items. Adornment is intended to be a part of the game from relatively early on – around the later parts of Making Your Name. A new Bazaar store, selling Adornments, will be added in a future update.

Crew is a complement to both ships and airships. We’ve long wanted to give ship crews (distinct from the vessels themselves) a bit more personality. Are they experienced or green? Are they Admiralty men through and through, or a band of privateers and villains? These kinds of concepts never really fit the Companion or Affiliation slots, so we are creating a purposeful slot for them.

Crews will be made available in a future update, initially accessible to players who have a ship.

Luggage may seem like a slightly odd addition, but so much of Fallen London, and Victorian fiction in general, is about travel and the mystique of travel. A battered steamer trunk that’s been everywhere. A briefcase full of secrets. Phileas Fogg’s carpetbag. Luggage is intended as a midgame slot. In a future update, you will be able to assemble some initial Luggage items in the Bazaar Side-Streets.

New Skills

We are conscious of not adding too much complexity to the game, especially not all at once. Firmament doesn’t add a full suite of new skills, like the Railway. It adds one new skill, and two new qualities of a somewhat skill-like nature.

Chthonosophy, the study of the root of things, has already been teased – but you’ve not really been able to obtain it, thus far. It is the major new skill for Firmament, playing a role similar to the role Zeefaring had in Evolution.

Inerrant and Insubstantial join Neathproofed as its two other counterparts. Like Neathproofed, these will appear more as additive benefits; they help your checks with other skills, more so than being checked in themselves. They exist to add a little extra, to help differentiate otherwise-similar items, and to act as an occasional bonus. As part of Firmament, we are pushing to make more use of Neathproofed, and carve out that space for its new counterparts, also.

Roof Travel

I won’t go into too many details about Roof travel, other than to set expectations. Yes, there is a new map. No, Roof travel is not quite a fully-fledged activity like zailing is.

We aimed it at a sort of middle ground between Railway travel (which is convenient and fairly predictable) and Zee travel (which is a whole venture unto itself.) Traveling from point to point on the Roof mostly takes one action; very occasionally, two. But it is drastically more variable than rail travel. There’s a broad variety of different things you can encounter in the upper airs of the Neath. And as you progress this storyline, you will encounter stranger things as you travel through the air.

And other delights…

Of course, we have other things planned for the rest of 2024. Our usual festivals will run as usual. A new Estival. Monthly Exceptional Stories. Various other surprises, including a series of more grounded new stories set in London. But we’ll talk about these things in detail sometime after Whitsun, which should take place, as usual, in May.

#fallen london #firmament

[probablyfunrpgideas]

The heck with it. Add extra local color to your world the way Fallen London does, by changing some words to fit with a particular theme. Maybe you have a special form of government that you want to distinguish - call it the Monarquie. The ruler is the Monarque, their supporters are called monarquists, and so on. It’s your world! Misspell it!

Of course, it helps if you have a good reason for your idiosyncratic worldbuilding. The Unterzee is a word that seems to have Dutch roots, so you could apply themes and aesthetics to the zailors and their environs if you wanted. (Anyone who knows Fallen London better than me, tell me if I’m wrong).

#idea #tabletop rpgs #d&d #d&d 5e #pathfinder #d&d 3.5 #worldbuilding #fallen london

[thunder-threnodies]

Sometimes, a music full of memories of light can be heard echoing throughout the Snares.

A lone Captain can be found dancing and playing by themselves, reflections rising from the Unterzee reenacting stories long past.

Of sunlight on golden hairs. Of Knights, Queens and Kings. Of nights spent drinking and laughing, hidden in the penumbra in a corner of some tavern.

Sit by and listen to the music and you'll be taken to a place far from there. No one will see us, watch the pain as it disappears.

There's no time for anger, no time for despair.

#fallen london #thunder threnodies #oc:captain francis dargor

[house-of-mirrors]

Thinking about the House of Rods and Chains Masters and the different ways they communicate with humans, given they have less experience than the Masters of the Bazaar, and also how it matches with their histories

Menagerie speaks incredibly formally with prose more reminisce of the eloquence of the correspondence. It is also very old and remembers the time before the Judgements' rule so that also probably affects its language, like with Stones. It sees itself as greater and its voice reflects that.

Pennies is broken and frantic and all over the place; barely anyone talks to it at Lustrum and it's focused on its work more than anything, so it's had less opportunity to practice/learn English. Also matches with the constant rush and running out of time, like it doesn't have seconds to spare even to speak

If I'm correct, we never hear Pipes speak, only nodding to its staff. Which lines up with what Barleycorn said about it choosing to retreat from the world

Barleycorn still has some of the more formal Curator style in its speech but is the closest to the ~standard~ style spoken by human characters, imo. It's had experience communicating with people through the unterzee gap over the years. And, well, to be a good attendant in a court, one must be a good communicator.

#sunless skies spoilers #these guys need so much therapy #I wanna wrap them up #sunless skies

[bizarrebazaar13]

inspired by this post, I designed my own neathy fears, based off of the destinies (the original ones, not the Irem ones)! under a cut for length and spoilers. there’s 14 of them, each with 3 examples of what falls under that category, so strap in. everything except the last one is a destiny.

The Authority. Unbreakable hold on the past, present, and future.

The Judgements

The Empress

The Bazaar

The Gleam. Light is law, and light changes when it moves through glass.

Parabola

The Dawn Machine

The Royal Bethlehem

The Memory. Something fundamentally changed, in your memories and in the present.

The King With a Hundred Hearts

Shapeling Arts

The Cave of the Nadir

The Road. Knowledge, power, and the terrible things done to gain both.

Mr Cards

The Marvellous

The sacrifice of Candles

The Passion. Love as horror, a curse, a driver of disaster.

The Lady in Lilac

Lacre

Light Fingers

The Gloom. What hides in the darkness?

The Unterzee

The Forgotten Quarter

Flute Street

The Appetite. A hunger left unsatisfied.

Seekers of the name

The Vake

Heart’s Desire

The Oath. A promise made, not easily broken.

Mr Wines

Infernal contracts

The sale of cities

The Instrument. You are a tool of violence and war.

Knife and Candle

Jack of Smiles

Hearts’ Game

The Curator. Everything must be watched, studied, and preserved, eternally.

The Labyrinth of Tigers

The Masters’ hoards

Mr Slowcake

The Backstage. Every action has a butterfly effect, infinite consequences branching out as far as you can imagine.

The Great Game

The Moonlit Chessboard

Cats and Fingerkings

The Revelation. Knowledge you were never meant to comprehend.

The Iron Republic

The Correspondence

Artisan of the Red Science

The Torment. Endless pain and regret.

Cline

The Tomb-Colonies

The Cantigaster

The Reckoning. It will not be postponed indefinitely.

The Liberation of Night

Nemesis

Revolutionaries

#aelan speaks #fallen london #the magnus archives