The Noman

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From: A Sundered Sea

Pass the blade of the knife across your palm. Let the blood fall into the lacre. Something will arise: though it will not survive the winter.

Game Instructions: You will keep the Knife, but none of the other ingredients. This will also slightly reduce your quirks. Whatever you gain will last an unpredictable interval - a few weeks at most. Creating a Noman will become rapidly more expensive as January wears on.

Unlocked with 1 x Skyglass Knife, 3 x Hard-Earned Lesson, 3 x Sudden Insight

In addition to the above fixed requirements, there are changing requirements, that increase every few days.
Taste of Lacre expenditure increases by 2-3 levels, the amber item required changes (Deep Amber -> Warm Amber -> Pulsating Amber) .

Starting Price:

• Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 3 (then 5)
• 1 x Nodule of Deep Amber

Price at Taste of Lacre 7 (then 9, and then 12):

• Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 7, 9, or 12 (respectively)
• 1 x Nodule of Warm Amber

Final Price:

• Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 15
• 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber

Locked with 1 x Noman

Success

A newborn

[…] But second by second, it looks more and more like you. When it looks up and smiles, its face is your own, albeit snow-coloured and fragile. "I'm me," it says in delight. "I'm me!" It reaches out to touch your face.

Player summary:
When it first clambers out of the lacre it is pale and barely-formed, with shadowed pits for eyes.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre is dropping… (-3 levels and up to -15 levels)
• Melancholy is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Ruthless is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Steadfast is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Subtle is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Hedonist is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Magnanimous is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Forceful is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Heartless is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Daring is dropping… (-2 CP)
• Austere is dropping… (-2 CP)
• You've lost 3 x Sudden Insight
• You've lost 3 x Hard-Earned Lesson
• You've lost 1 x Nodule of Deep Amber (if required - since price changes by date)
• You've lost 1 x Nodule of Warm Amber (if required - since price changes by date)
• You've lost 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber (if required - since price changes by date)
• You now have 1 x Noman
• You now have 100 x Noman's Friend - The Noman is pristine