 For feast history, see Feast of the Exceptional Rose (historical). |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Game Instructions: Send rose-gifts as signs of affection and scorn. Later in the Feast, you can trade your rose-gifts for Masquing, and trade Masquing for special companions! Find other players to trade rose-gifts with here.
Options:
Learn about the Feast of the Rose
- Spoiler
Draft a brief article on the state of Love in London
- Spoiler
Watch passers-by
- Spoiler
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 10
|| 7 - very chancy (41%) || 9 - chancy (51%) || 11 - modest (61%) || 12 - very modest (71%) || 14 - low-risk (81%) || 16 - straightforward (91%) || 17 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Neathly glories
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
- You've gained 4 x Inkling of Identity
Rare Success
Not always subtle
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
- You've gained 8 x Inkling of Identity
Failure
Predators and prey
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
- You've gained 1 x Inkling of Identity
Visit the Perfumed Pleasure Garden!
- Spoiler
Success
Your hackney-carriage awaits
- You have moved to a new area: Mrs Plenty's Carnival
- You've gained 2 x Carnival Ticket
- Making Waves is dropping… (-3 CP)
Redirects to: The Perfumed Pleasure Garden
^
Observe the spires of the Bazaar
- Spoiler
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 50
|| 35 - very chancy (41%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (71%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)
Success
A ruddy nimbus
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained 6 x Appalling Secret
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
Failure
Nothing
- Watchful is increasing…
Purchase a Mask of the Rose
- Spoiler
Locked with 1 x Mask of the Rose
Success
Your mystique is assured
- You now have 1 x Mask of the Rose
- You've lost 80 x Moon-pearl
Sending Non-Fate Gifts
(your friend can exchange these for Masquing, but only up to 30)
Send a Custom-Engraved Skull
- Spoiler
When Sent
Respice post te, hominem te esse memento, memento mori - nam mors indecepta There's a ghoulish fashion amongst the well-heeled for unearthing the Prelapsarian dead and putting them on display. It's rare to see permanent death in the Neath, after all. […] You could add words of your own, […] to fill the head of the recipient.
- You've lost 200 x Inkling of Identity
Your friend will receive:- [Your name] has sent you a Custom-Engraved Skull – a considered and morbid gift, perhaps indicating that you should commit their message to memory.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend's name] has accepted your gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something dead! [Your name] has sent you a token of undoubted interest! Check your inventory.
- You've gained 1 x A Custom-Engraved Skull
-
Send someone an Antediluvian Ushabti
- Spoiler
When Sent
I repeat to you the good deeds which my own heart did for me from within the serpent-coil […]The Nile Kings were entombed with these […] so that they would have labourers after death. […] That night you dream of an overgrown garden. […] The Ushabti is at your side. A heavy crown rests on your head. […] The dream lingers after waking.
- You've lost 20 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Your friend will receive: [Friend Name] has sent you an Antediluvian Ushabti. It is an antiquarian gift. A funeral figurine of the Nile Kings, its polished jade sheen obscures its wide, staring eyes.Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] has accepted your wonderful gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something extraordinary! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undying love! Check your inventory.
- You've gained 1 x An Antediluvian Ushabti
Send an Illicit Volume of Unexpectedly Racy Fungal-Themed Poetry
- Spoiler
When Sent
Secret and safe Perhaps an inscription inside the cover - something intimate; something pointed. Thick brown paper, double wrapped. An entire ball of string, tied into knots that would give a zailor palpitations. There - proofed against all but the nosiest of postmen.
- You've lost 100 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:- [Friend Name] has sent you an Illicit Volume of Unexpectedly Racy Fungal-Themed Poetry. Are they sending you a message? Or trying to get you arrested?
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] has accepted your wonderful gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Your friend will receive:
Something extraordinary! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undying love! Check your inventory.
- You've gained 1 x Illicit Volume of Unexpectedly Racy Fungal-Themed Poetry
Send someone a Singed Playing Card
- Spoiler
When Sent
A slim envelope "I would abandon even the Marvellous for you". "Love is not a game." "Fate is our plaything." "Be discarded." A message of a hundred ambiguities.
- You've lost 500 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
Your friend will receive:- [Friend Name] has sent you a playing-card crisped in a candle-flame. What does it mean?
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How delicious.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
How charming! [Friend Name] must hold you in high regard. Check your inventory
- You've gained 1 x Singed Playing Card
Send a Tiny Kettle of Pickled Liars' Tongues
- Spoiler
When Sent
Without number You've never heard of anyone actually eating the things. How many silver kettles sit, you wonder, in the dust at the back of forgotten cupboards?
- You've lost 50 x Intriguing Snippet
Your friend will receive: [Friend] has sent you a Tiny Silver Kettle of Pickled Liars' Tongues. How...delicious? Possibly.Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [Player] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Tiny Silver Kettle of Pickled Liar's Tongues
Send a Lemurian's Mask
- Spoiler
When Sent
Hallowtide The mask of Hallowmas, worn by the midnight confessor and the masquerader. A mask out of season. To wear them during the Feast is to make a deliberate statement. What omen do you wish your intended to divine?
- You've lost 50 x Intriguing Gossip
Your friend will receive: [Your name] has sent you a Lemurian's Mask. A Hallowmas Mask, worn fashionably, or spitefully, out of season. Become the ghost at the feast!Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [your name] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Lemurian's Mask
Send a Glass of Teeth
- Spoiler
When Sent
Tightly wrapped You don't want it rattling in the post.
- You've lost 500 x Cryptic Clue
Your friend will receive:- [Friend Name] has sent you a Glass of Teeth. Read that how you will.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [Friend Name] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Glass of Teeth
Send an Unblemished Exile's Rose
- Spoiler
When Sent
A rose without thorns The flower pressed to the paper, its petals flattened like ink. Velvet to the touch and wet with unstolen nectar, the Exile's Rose is redolent of dark promises made at midnight. London's veterans returned from the war on Hell wearing them on their breasts.
- You've lost 200 x Inkling of Identity
Your friend will receive:[Your name] has sent you an Unblemished Exile's Rose, an untarnished flower of Hell. Do they flatter you with its dark beauty? Or mean to suggest you should take a trip there?
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [your name] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Unblemished Exile's Rose
Send a Buttered Chess-Piece
- Spoiler
When Sent
Suitably anointed Butter is the aristocracy of dairy-goods. Cheese, its wicked demi-monde.
- You've lost 200 x Inkling of Identity
Your friend will receive: [Friend Name] has sent you a Buttered Chess-Piece - a gift opaque, perhaps, to the most determined and insightful analysis.Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend name] has accepted your wonderful gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something extraordinary! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undying love! Check your inventory.
- You've gained 1 x Buttered Chess Piece
Send a Pink-Painted Cat
- Spoiler
When Sent
A stream of protests You've paid a fair price, but the cat professes to regret the arrangement. The colour of the paint is unexpectedly strident. The quality of your payment is inferior. The box to which it must submit smells unsuitably of peppermints. You are relieved to abandon it at the post-office.
- You've lost 200 x Appalling Secret
Your friend will receive:- [Friend Name] has sent you a Pink-Painted Cat. One hopes this bedraggled wisp of fur has been well-paid. Its dudgeon glows like a storm-cloud.
Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] accepted your gift. How brave of them.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Check your inventory. And, perhaps, thank [Friend Name] by returning the favour.
- You've gained 1 x Pink-Painted Cat
Send a Decanter of Lachrymose Chartreuse
- Spoiler
When Sent
Of imbibing The liquid is the colour of jaundiced emeralds. It tastes of pickled sweetness, earthy roots, and macerated cloves. The terroir is of dark waves lapping against cold stone. The aroma is redolent of peat. Much like St Stalactite, this chartreuse plummets from a high place to a lower one.
- You've lost 200 x Amanita Sherry
Your friend will receive: [Friend Name] has sent you a Decanter of Lachrymose Chartreuse – a tart and ascetic gift, that lubricates the vocal chords for diverse vocalisations.Once Accepted
You will receive:
[Friend Name] has accepted your unique gift. Let's hope they appreciate it.
- You've gained 1 x Romantic Notion
Your friend will receive:
Something green! [Friend Name] has sent you a token of undoubted interest! Check your inventory.
- You've gained 1 x A Decanter of Lachrymose Chartreuse
Sending Fate Gifts
(your friend can exchange these for Masquing, without a cap)
Send a Hamper of Heart-Cuts (5 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Watchful Doll (5 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Rose-Bearing Maggot (5 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Starveling Stole (10 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Box of Potentials (10 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Key-to-Heart Dagger (10 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward information available for Fate-locked actions.
^
Send a Promissory Note for Intimate Favours (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Liberalian Mask (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Chivalrously Murder Someone's Rival (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send Terrifying Candies (20 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Hand of Glory (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Tear-Drowned Collection of Incomprehensible Love-Poems (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Mouthless Amber Mask (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Heartwood Hearse (30 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Blemmigan Pedant (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Lupercalian Mask (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Arrange a Explosion of Neath-Colours on the Stroke of Midnight (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Tanned Mask (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Gold-Spiked Rosary (40 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a One Way Ticket on the 12:15 to Hell (50 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Well-Song (50 FATE)
- Spoiler
Send a Luxuriantly Coiffed Sorrow-Spider (50 FATE)
- Spoiler
Success
No reward information available for Fate-locked actions.
^
Send a Set of Martyr's Bones (50 FATE)
- Spoiler
