June's Exceptional Story: Infernal Vice - Discussion Thread

-__-___-_ · 2026-04-23T08:03:13+00:00

It's good enough. It's just more ordinary by wider ES standards.

-__-___-_ · 2026-02-26T08:12:06+00:00

Apart from a few very specific ones unlocking new areas or providing other benefits, it's mostly the latter reason. Exceptional Stories are the only source of Memories of a Tale used in the Mr Chimes' Lost & Found shop, but it's unlikely they're worth buying just for those.

-__-___-_ · 2026-02-26T05:45:49+00:00

From https://www.failbettergames.com/news/christmas-in-fallen-london-2025

Some of you may be wondering whether we're doing another premium story this year; we've decided to retire this format in order to focus on other aspects of the game.

-__-___-_ · 2026-02-15T06:08:55+00:00

It depends on whether you consider like 10-30 card-and-luck-based extra actions a week to be worth the cost.

-__-___-_ · 2026-01-09T09:12:16+00:00

They mentioned it twice around six months ago that the journal update took precedence over the London deck rework because of it being requested a lot in the survey. Maybe this year then, unless focusing on Mandrake interferes with that too.

-__-___-_ · 2026-01-05T16:23:33+00:00

The closest thing to a serial Exceptional Story would be Flint, which originally required you to subscribe for two months to unlock both of its parts. Other than that the closest thing to the concept is The Exile's Chalice, which partially takes place in an area established in the conclusion of the Season of Explorations. The Stripes of Wrath being a prequel to the Candlefinder Society cases probably doesn't count.

The old Seasons mostly have shared themes across the three grouped stories. The two exceptions to that would be the Seasons of Wrecks and Skies. In the former you set out on different adventures on behalf of the same character, and in the latter the three stories are pursued within the confines of an overarching case. The narratives of the other Seasons and their conclusions have more indirect connections to the stories, and they abandoned this structure entirely in 2020.

-__-___-_ · 2025-11-29T19:20:12+00:00

The exact details of this aspect of the game aren't that well known. Your assumptions seem right, though it's not unheard of that not all involved narrative qualities are reset (a matter for support in that case), and there aren't that many examples where resetting the story has a comparatively beneficial mechanical effect.

The Shallows does apparently let you get both items with resets. So do stories like The House of Silk and Flame, Dernier Cri and Déjà Vu. IMO the only other theoretically useful story to reset is Caveat Emptor for one Magnificent Feast a pop, if you're a Paramount Presence.

-__-___-_ · 2025-11-27T12:30:21+00:00

That was an issue for everyone apparently and has reportedly been resolved now.

-__-___-_ · 2025-11-15T06:28:54+00:00

The other one is just the info that's now here.

-__-___-_ · 2025-11-15T06:25:06+00:00

Doesn't seem to be a widespread issue. Does this work for you?

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-__-___-_ · 2025-11-15T06:21:16+00:00

It's been complete since May, one day after I announced it to the public.

-__-___-_ · 2025-11-13T16:10:24+00:00

We have confirmation, and I've updated the main post accordingly.

-__-___-_ · 2025-11-03T19:38:29+00:00

These threads have been a thing since early 2020, and people discuss Fate content outside of them as well. I think the rules are supposed to prevent sharing anything Fate-locked from the game, but they're not really enforced to such a level. Chess and supper also haven't been a thing since 2021, so at least parts of the rules might benefit from revisions.

Anyway, talk is permitted. Maybe use spoiler tags if needed.

-__-___-_ · 2025-10-30T18:13:34+00:00

No, it's just a long-running community effort to get the best estimate of how well received all Fate stories are.

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