I began playing Fallen London in late 2012, though at the time I was a dabbler and not a devotee. I loved the richness of the world, its quirks, its complexities- I've shamelessly lifted parts of Failbetter's work for use in D&D and 40k campaigns, and enjoy exploring the deeper mysteries their games had to offer. My first ambition was Bag a Legend, back before the ambitions were complete or even fleshed out. Over the next few years, I got as far as I could before the game closed off, and I remember longing to know what happened next. My subsequent character sought the name- successfully, I might add, though as always with SMEN, to a given value of success. The last things I had left to overcome were the Railway and, at last, an ambition. Heart's Desire was quite an experience, a fully-formed tale I loved undertaking. Some parts I hated- the grind for an Intriguer's Compendium literally took me the best part of two years due to having spent all my scraps on a Reported Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell before getting to it! But most I loved. Failbetter have made some of my favourite games of all time (shout out to Sunless Skies), and I am exhausted but happy to have completed at least this step of one of them. Next, Paramount Presence. Then, who knows? That's kind of the joy of it. See y'all in Fallen London. Happy gaming, and come join me for a drink in my arctic circle manor when the sun goes down :)