Advent Calendar 2013

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December 1st to the 25th, FBG will release an access code every day. Little trinkets and toys will be given out with the codes. Each code will only work for 24 hours, so log in often to spot and snag all the Christmas delights!

Please visit the Fallen London twitter and facebook pages for the newest access codes! This is simply an archive of the story snippets which accompany each code.

December 1st

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advamber

A furtive rustling on the roof! What is that curious sound? Like a toy balloon trapped in a trombone.

Result:

A pop, a rattle, a thud! Something drops down the chimney to lie glowing in your fireplace.

•  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber

December 2nd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advolution

Tonight, the Savage Sergeant is aglow with mulled wine and bonhomie. "Come closher," she says, with a friendly wave of her truncheon.

Result:

"Goodwill beneath earth, and peashe! I've let the lads know they can forget about any... little indishcretions."

• Your 'Suspicion' Quality has gone!

December 3rd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advovate

An ovoid shape, on your windowsill. Wrapped in a scarlet muffler. Is that a note?

Result:

"We are starved for words. Feed it well." Something stirs within the egg: something pale as wedding-cake.

•  You've gained 1 x Pristine Raven's Egg

December 4th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advaleatoria

A parcel wrapped in seven colours of silk. The card reads A PEACE OFFERING.

Result:

"We've had our differences. But this is Christmas. Best wishes, the Fallen London Probably Random Number Algorithm" 

•  You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die

December 5th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advvolumeofvisages

A hiss. A crunch. A curl of candle-wick smoke. A drifting leaf of paper. Click here to like this book.

Result:

Do you enjoy your friends? We enjoy your friends. So much. So very, very much.

[The Page from the Liber Visionis will allow you to change your cameo.]

•  You've gained 1 x Page from the Liber Visionis

December 6th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advguanatic

A smiling woman in an unfamiliar uniform, with eyes like moon-pearls, raps at your door. "Drink deep!" she says, handing you a steaming mug.

Result:

That steam! Inhale it and feel your synapses snap and your sinuses crackle.

[Drinking Darkdrop Coffee will refresh ten actions. Find it in your inventory.]

•  You've gained 1 x Darkdrop Coffee

December 7th

http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advseriouslydontclickthis

This is a gift that few will appreciate, and none will benefit from. Probably it will do nothing for you. Be grateful.

Result: CONGRATULATIONS, FRIEND! If you were Free of the Name, you are no longer. If you don't know what that means... be glad.

• Your 'Free of the Name' Quality has gone!

Player Summary: If you already seek hunger or revel in blessed ignorance, nothing happens.

If you freed yourself from this horrific hunger, you will... [Data Expunged] ...All these... for nothing... Nothing...

December 8th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advdeepandcrisp

As you pass the exiles in their nooses at Hangman's Arch, one rolls his eyes and wheezes.

Result:

Like spores,' he says, 'from never.' He strains to sign at the ceiling...or the Surface. Something primordial tucks at the coat-tails of your memory.

•  You've gained 1 x Primaeval Hint

December 9th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advsmugglerslamp

A Hissed Conversation... this is a chance to catch our Sunless Sea teaser snippet if you missed it the first time.

Result:

The Smuggler's Lamp! Head to Mrs Plenty's Carnival to learn a little about the zee...

•  An occurrence! Your 'The Smuggler's Lamp' Quality is now 1!

December 10th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advtranshumanticlibation

Curious remnants of previous cities occur around London. This one has occurred in your wall. What is it?

Result:

Behind a loose stone in your pantry wall, someone has left an earthenware bottle. The contents are translucent white; the smell is eye-watering, but heady. Your vision swims briefly. A plain of golden green, the sun rolling in the sky... 

•  You've gained 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise

December 11th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advanima

Carol-singers raise their voices bravely against the rumbling of hackney-carriages…...but there's another rumbling. Thunder!

Result:

The singers disperse, screaming in terror, as a bolt of apocyanic lightning shatters a flower-pot on a balcony. Above you on the roof, you glimpse an urchin peering: a liver-mark sprawls across half his face. Something remains in the shards of the pot.

•  You've gained 1 x Storm-Threnody

December 12th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advbucketofcat

Enter, Friend! A sprinkling of lacre's come early this year. Your doorstep is rank with fishy-smelling white goo. Happy Christmas-to-come.

Result:

Ah, lacre. The Neath's answer to snow. Lacre-men always seem watchful. Lacre-capped roofs tingle with sinister phosphorescence. Lacre dissolves in water only reluctantly, like a guest who hopes to find space in your box-room.

•  You now have 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

December 13th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advholynight

"Catch!" the Igneous Correspondent shouts. He tosses something in a glittering arc and is gone, with the Ministry of Public Decency in flapping pursuit.

Result:

A soul! A pale, still soul, watching you from inside its bottle with an unusual degree of tranquillity. 

•  You've gained 1 x Silent Soul

December 14th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advoncemoreforgory

A solemn procession of rattus faber dignitaries delivers a black leather cylinder with a hinged lid, like a map-case. Inside, a sable-furred venge-rat floats in a bottle of formaldehyde. The lead dignitary smoothes her whiskers and begins to read from a letter.

Result:

"Honoured Foe - it was I who sunk my teeth into your instep that day at the Increate Vaults. I have long admired the taste of your flesh and the brio of your reflexive kick. I hope that on damp nights you may have limped, and recalled me. No doubt you have been bitten by other rats in your time, but I flatter myself I bit with particular savagery. I have asked that my corpse be commended to you on the occasion of my death - " Is this a case of mistaken identity? Perhaps best not to say, if it is.

•  You've gained 1 x Venge-Rat Corpse

December 15th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advstravinksyinastrop

Why do you sleep so deeply tonight? What is it that's drunk your dreams?

Result:

Translucent goo on your pillow. A curious throbbing in your ear. Something has profited from your nightmares. Your sleep is clear and clean. Hurrah?

• Your 'Nightmares' Quality has gone!

December 16th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advwarmandbright

The crossword of the Unexpurgated Gazette is especially challenging tonight. But wait! Of course! That's -

Result:

As you solve the clue, the paper flares with a clean white flame. You curse and drop its burning halves to the floor! The crossword is gone. But the answer remains in your mind, crouched like a scorpion.

•  You've gained 1 x Searing Enigma

December 17th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advirrigoandlime

You start awake suddenly. Something unexpected has happened. The room is scented with lavender and seawater. You are unharmed and untouched. But your vision is tinged with irrigo - the colour of forgetfulness. But it's already fading. And what's this?

Result:

Someone's written on your mirror. "Thank you. I won't forget. x." You've begun to erase it by the time you realise it's written in reverse on the *other side* of the mirror... Over the course of the next day it fades like steam.

•  You've gained 1 x Favour in High Places

December 18th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advnodandablink

One for sorrow, two for joy. Three for Paris, four for Troy. Five for Athens, six for Thebes and seven... hush. Not yet.

Result:

Seven bats perch on the roof of your house. This is, perhaps, a good omen.

[Use Favourable Circumstances at the Write Letters option in your Lodgings to draw certain Opportunity Cards.] 

•  You now have 1 x Favourable Circumstance

December 19th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advitisamongus

A procession: one of the odd little cults that spring up by the docks. Grey pennants hang limply in the still air. The leader wears a papier-mâché goat-mask with eyes faceted like a fly's. The mask turns as the procession passes.

Result:

For days you are aware that it is almost within sight. It squats in your cellar like a troublesome memory. It dislodges the tiles on your roof at night. It is present as a brackish taste in your tea, as a stain on your pantry wall. Your friends assure you that you have imagined it. The Heptagoat.

•  An occurrence! Your 'Acquaintance: the Heptagoat' Quality is now 1!

December 20th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advinstaroutstar

The Stolen River: as the Thames it was athrob with ships. Now river-traffic is rarer and fishermen find difficult catches in their nets. This one spits and makes to hurl something back: you snatch it out of the air... http://bit.ly/1cMzKlO

Result:

Something like a crab, but not very like a crab. The smell is not pleasant. It swivels an eye at you, as if to inquire "Yes? What of it?" It nestles into the folds of your sleeve.

•  You've gained 1 x Dark-Carapaced Crustacean

Bazaar's IRC visit

See:  http://alias-mortimerzachariah.tumblr.com/post/70596865379/message-from

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/adreamofasunderedsea

What is this place? A sky of fire and names, a sea of pale tears?

Result: You've gained 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre

December 21st

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/advaglaura

Above ground, this would have been extraordinary. They would place it beneath a glass dome and a blinding light. There would be a line of admirers. A plaque. http://bit.ly/1kp2NNt

Result:

Here, it is nothing: a fleck of deep amber. Drop it in your pocket. Fiddle with it while you speak. Rub your fingers to rid them of that greasy quality.

• Wounds is dropping… (-? CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Deep Amber
•  a Connoisseur of Neathy Delights is increasing… (+? CP, up to level 21)
•  You've gained 1 x Sudden Insight

December 22nd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/midnightmatriarchy

A delivery! The postman goes masked. How wise of her. http://bit.ly/J0UqJu

Result:

The box bears this warning: THE DUCHESS IS THIRSTY.

•  You've gained 1 x A Boxed Cat?

December 23rd

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/ghostofratmaspast

A sound, downstairs at midnight. A burglar…? http://bit.ly/1esLYkB

Result:

Someone has left… something in the centre of your parlour. Was it a gift? Or did you disturb them at their midnight work? 

•  You've gained 1 x Rat of Glory

December 24th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/exceptionalfeet

Ahahaha... Excuse me. We do beg your pardon. 'Ho ho ho.' http://bit.ly/1i6OxJv

Result:

"Do you recall how we came to that place? And they sang of their lightnings and shapeful disgrace? And we tilted our vanes and ennobled our spires. They welcomed us then and commingled all choirs. And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns, and still waits the Sun."

•  You've gained 1 x Meticulously Altered Stocking

December 25th

Access Code: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/a/magnificentfeast

In Fallen London, it is Christmas. But wherever, whoever and whenever you are, Failbetter Games wishes you the best imaginable holiday of your dearest preference. We'll see you in 2014! http://bit.ly/J9XAKy

Result:

Meet, drink, and be many, for tomorrow They may dine. 

•  You've gained 1 x Magnificent Feast