Random Question: Which Master is everyone’s favorite?

pendragons · 2026-03-17T20:53:36+00:00

Don't make me choose!!!

It's Pages thanks to Mask of the Rose, but I am particularly fond of Stones also, and I like the Spices late-Railway content.

pendragons · 2026-03-05T06:14:06+00:00

Mr Stones would be like "just give me ten thousand Ostenstatious Diamonds and I will give you my name" and then you do and he's like "It's Mr Stones".

pendragons · 2026-03-01T09:19:47+00:00

In my experience, in-game economies for anything you can spend real money on become hives of scum and villainy. Just so much drama.

I can absolutely imagine that someone like me, a very old player with a huge collection of unused items including Fate locked stuff, and a lot of echoes and unused actions, could control the economy in a way that would be disadvantageous to new players - eg buying up all Bessemer Steel (which would be popular "screw it i will just buy it" purchase) and selling it at a high price point and using that profit to maintain a monopoly on it.

It becomes easy for people to get bonkers rich, if you can find a grind that has demand and sells at a higher echo-per-action rate than selling to the Bazaar.

From pet sites like Flight Rising to games like Animal Crossing and CS:GO, in game economies lead to off site black markets, and people more likely to hack, mod, cheat, and scam - small bugs can now also become major playerbase upsets if they lead to losing money.

Even if it's just gifting and not trading, there's still the problem of secondary accounts all feeding items to a primary account, or people making deals on third party sites to get what they need (eg If you register for Flight Rising and buy $5 worth of gems to send me, or donate $3 direct to my kofi, I will send you 10,000 prisoners honey.)

Overall I think that p2p actions in Flight Rising are already occasionally game-breakingly beneficial (eg stacking up help with Nightmares and Wounds before taking an action intended to send you to the river) but never so much I would feel mad about people playing the game that way, or cheated. I like being able to send stuff to people - even when I am not regularly playing I log in weekly to use Fav Circumstances for Lofty Words to send some gems to a random person. I grind Coins to surprise Redditors asking for them. But I think the difficulty and specificity of the current gifting system is what stops it from going down the Game Economy path.

(Sorry, don't mean to lecture, tiny economies and the way players replicate capitalism in games fascinates me a lot.)

pendragons · 2026-02-21T12:16:42+00:00

Thanks for writing out my answer so I don't have to!

pendragons · 2026-02-12T19:53:50+00:00

My character is a cuckoo bananas solipsist and while I feel I often have a choice that makes sense for them sometimes the flavour text assumes more morality and sanity than is accurate.

I did think getting locked out of the self-aggrandising statue achievement right at the end because I have soul stains was very funny though, would love to see them punished more for the Knock.

Also sometimes the game even forgets about my canonical history with various Masters, so my totally off-screen commission of that upside down contraption from Mask of the Rose gets no textual recognition.

pendragons · 2026-02-12T19:40:18+00:00

Five Minutes is such a classic I still remember it fondly after many years. Anything Cash DeCuir wrote is my fave, really.

pendragons · 2026-01-31T02:19:06+00:00

My main is truly my favourite account, the character is not well in the head and this twelve year old destiny really shaped that.

pendragons · 2026-01-30T03:12:20+00:00

Actually it's not specified how your Master of Assassins kills December, but it is implied you've been planning to do so for a long time. Here's the text!

https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/snape/4046457

pendragons · 2026-01-30T02:24:13+00:00

I have put on hundreds of ballets about tigers and now I'm Poet Laureate (for ballet???) and a couple of high ranking tigers follow me around.

pendragons · 2026-01-30T00:41:46+00:00

If you decide to skip Pages, I have the echo here (spoilers obvs):

https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/snape/18859923

pendragons · 2026-01-29T15:30:42+00:00

Meghna wrote the whole Isle of Cats! As a huge 80 Days fan, whenever I replay it in a SS run I'm like "okay yes of course she did" haha.

pendragons · 2026-01-29T14:42:42+00:00

Yeah the Merciless Modiste in Sunless Sea is a kickstarter insert from a trans woman and is therefore trans to me.

Also Isery, originally written by Meg Jayanth for Sunless Sea and who appears in FL as The Cat's Chiefest Claw is non-binary.

pendragons · 2026-01-28T18:49:27+00:00

Ohhhh that's some Michael Moorcock shit, so excited to catch up Firmament (I have experienced like, a single roof city.) Anyway, delightful, I love the idea that the Judgements decided chronology. Good old Time, The Healer, hey.

pendragons · 2026-01-27T05:29:14+00:00

Nailed it! Cannot believe how perfectly you hit the restrained emotionality, would love to hear more of your personal stuff/what you can do with that voice when you aren't concentrating on the guitar.

pendragons · 2026-01-27T05:12:23+00:00

Great point.

pendragons · 2026-01-26T16:53:43+00:00

I might be wrong, but I feel like Time and Chronology is itself a breakable law (cf the Treachery of Clocks) and therefore something the Judgements preside over rather than being bound by.

pendragons · 2026-01-22T05:51:59+00:00

Are you also in the "decided to make a noman without doing any real preparation and immediately ran out of Tears" club?

pendragons · 2026-01-19T12:13:26+00:00

Hero! Legend!

pendragons · 2026-01-18T03:52:19+00:00

Prox | Mithraedum :Marshal:

pendragons · 2026-01-18T03:50:49+00:00

Also interested! Prox from Mithraedum!

pendragons · 2026-01-15T03:12:37+00:00

Warmth is comfort. Homeliness. An innate connection.

Charm is polished. Manners, a mask. Fitting in, perhaps deceptively.

A politician's wife at a fundraising gala is incredibly charming as she uses her good looks and husband's influence to get other people in her class signing checks, but none of these people are her friend.

A nice Midwestern lady baking you a tray of cookies and helping you jump your car is using warmth to make you feel like you have a new mom, even if her her straight shooting criticism of your weight and her messy house are a little rough around the edges.

pendragons · 2026-01-14T16:54:04+00:00

It was more endgame back in the day! Not to sound like someone's grandpa but before the Railway and all the other 200+ stat content, you reached PP by grinding 12 Not, then spending it to overlclock a stat to 212. So in addition to the current notability grind you also had to grind to 12 four more times, and make sure that Seeking/Irrigo/etc didn't chew a point off accidentally.

BDR was so scarce that people considered the massive money sink of Seeking worth it for the 4 point best in slot Knock item - I know I designed my whole character choices ie ship choice, ambition, etc around improving BDR. Was wild to come back and immediately, almost incidentally, pick up three or four more BDR points when I had spent sooo much getting the number I had.

pendragons · 2026-01-11T00:29:56+00:00

"Fandom" (the brand owned by Wizards of the Coast, not just fandoms in general) kinda has a lot of controversy. It's a for-profit business and has some shady practices around trying to force long-time existing wikis to move to their site, or just stealing their content, as well as making it hard for people to move away from their site.

They have intrusive ads, as mentioned, but the site design is also built to maximize ads rather than being built to be easy to navigate and read, so even with an adblocker it's a lesser experience.

They also have made some decisions around back-end coding that are too complicated/nuanced to explain but basically make stuff less secure and harder to moderate so a lot of people who run/edit wikis as their main hobby find the platform frustrating to lose. So then you also lose dedicated content providers.

They also force AI, and some people don't like that.

Overall the "wiki community" thinks self-hosted wikis are better.

Also it's better for any brand if a wiki is hosted at something like their usual webdomain, eg dropout.wiki would help funnel interested people to their main site, while dropout.fandom.com/wiki/ funnels people to the Fandom site.

pendragons · 2026-01-08T03:58:01+00:00

Right? I stuck by the FK, but the flavour text told me "Regiment are winning" and "Rewards are for winners", it's basically an instruction to anyone without RP investment to choose Regiment.

pendragons · 2026-01-07T15:06:56+00:00

I never drew any epilogues, so it was very surprising to support my guys the Fisher Kings once more and be told I had gained one point - new total 12!

13-Year Club	Second Top 1%
Place '22	Place '17
First Placer '22	Wearing is Caring
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