Thread:Vae Victis/@comment-6042046-20130526090455/@comment-6042046-20130528005816

Regarding the Forgotten Quarter, there's a hint to its origins in the Feast of the Exceptional Rose 2013 content. You could blink and miss it. You have to know what you're looking for to spot it. Even then, it's just a hint.

Frankly, I believe the Forgotten Quarter is a tribute to Indiana Jones and maybe also the treasure hunter class of choose-your-own-adventure novels. It's more than that, but I view that as part of its raison d'être. It's a big ole haunted house with flickering lights and spooky snakes; there are other mysteries to ponder. Don't let it hang you up.

"The way I see it, a clever entrepreneur could set up an average high-school and harvest enough Stolen Kisses, Love Stories and Romantic Notions to clean off half of the Bazaar in a year."

LOL! Well, if that's where your mind went... :P I was thinking along the lines of Nevercold Brass, bottled souls, Prisoner's Honey, Correspondence Plaques and whatnot. The ratwork we've got here is usually more intricate, sturdier and all around skillful than the products made by human hands or machines.

This is Victorian era London. Fallen or not, people aren't going to go along with your well-intentioned and humanitarian plans unless you're wearing the right clothes, living at the right estate, and holding the right social position. I know, I know; it's pitiful that people oppress themselves and each other when they could be working with and for each other, but that's largely the society our characters live in. We work with what we've got!

Of course, you can also do all the wrong things if you look the "right type". Since you're playing a psychopath, you won't have to worry much about resolving social injustices. You should only worry about how to get those same social injustices to work for you and your goals.

I've got my own little psycho alt. She has a fancy towards being a Master. "Mistress Wines" carries a good ring to her ears. She isn't interested in marrying for the title, either... She'll probably meet a bad end. And she'll like it, too. She's that side of crazy.