Hallowmas (Guide)

Early MYN Content and Onwards

This content is only available during Hallowmas! For the history of this holiday see Hallowmas (historical)

A damp fog fills London’s streets. Londoners of all stripes lurk in its concealment: masked, cloaked, triply hidden. It is the season of Hallowmas, of the commission and purging of sin. Londoners seek out the Attendants – the masked representatives of the Bazaar – to be shriven.

Hallowmas is Fallen London's annual feast of masks and confessions. Hallowmas starts roughly a week before Halloween and ends a week afterwards.

During the festival, you can:

• Collect Confessions, which can be handed in to the Attendants to upgrade certain Companions
• Attend Hallowmas Masques, where certain Confessions can be swapped and Menaces can be raised
• Relinquish Menaces to the Fool's Apostate in exchange for , for later rewards

Masks

At Hallowmas, Londoners wear masks. Those in the know will wish to pick a very particular mask. Three have particular import.

Each year, three of the four different Masks are available to wear. The ones available in 2023 are , , and . They grant stat bonuses and can cause an opportunity card to appear while worn during Hallowmas. Masks will become tattered and useless (except as a memento) by the end of the festival, unless you choose to purchase a gilded one for FATE.

Each mask grants you free entry to one of the Hallowmas Masques via an opportunity card. While attending a Masque with its associated Mask, a particularly lucrative option will be available to raise the associated Menace. When the Menace reaches 7, it can be relinquished to The Fool's Apostate in exchange for Spirit of Hallowmas.

Note: could not be submitted to the Fool's Apostate in 2023.

The main reason to choose a particular Mask is to make it easier to raise a particular Menace, due to the privileges the Mask grants at its affiliated Masque. Changing your Mask costs — though if you have any of the Fate-locked gilded masks, you can swap between them and your temporary mask whenever you wish.

Temporary Mask	Gilded Mask (30 FATE)

Not available in 2023: / .

Menaces

The Fool's Judgement Summary
Limited-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
0 A				4+ A				1 A
Progress Details			Raise , or to 7 and turn in to the Fool's Judgement. Cash out at the end of Hallowmas.
Items Inputs/Outputs Outputs
Raw EPA			1.90			Raw SPA			1.12

The Fool's Apostate is the arbiter of Hallowmas. He judges whether Londoners have adequately entered the spirit of the festival.

Three Menaces are part of the Hallowmas festivities every year. The Menaces for 2023 are , , and ( could not be turned in).

Menaces can be raised at Hallowmas Masques, or in any of the usual ways. See Menaces (Guide) for Menace-raising strategies.

When one of this year's Menaces reaches level 7, a storylet will appear: The Fool's Judgement, where you can trade all of that Menace to The Fool's Apostate and receive . This can be traded in at the end of the festival for rewards of valuable items. Additionally, the Menace you turn in the most of will grant you a particular Affiliation.

Note: The Fool's Judgement is not an autofire storylet; you will have to leave any storylet you are currently in, and then click on The Fool's Judgement. Don't get distracted and overshoot, as you will be sent to the associated Menace area if it reaches 8! (This isn't as punishing as it would otherwise be, as during Hallowmas there are cards which let you return to London with 5 levels of menace remaining.)

You can track your on the Myself page, under Stories. The quantity of individual Menaces you turn in are tracked by hidden qualities.

Confessions

Bring Confessions to the Attendants to upgrade certain Companions, improving their stat bonuses.

Confessions are released throughout the festival: seven at the beginning, and seven more a week later. You will get a random assortment of the available Confessions: Curiosity, Guile, Impropriety, Pride, Violence, and Whimsy. Different combinations of Confessions can be traded to the Attendants in order to upgrade certain Companions. Different companions are upgradeable each year.

Sources

• Procure A Mysterious Confession: Seven free Confessions are given out on the first day of Hallowmas, and seven more a week later on 31 October.
• FATE: Purchase another Mysterious Confession (15 FATE).
• Trade confessions with another player: You can trade any Confession you have for any Confession one of your Contacts has, assuming they accept the trade. (The request will appear in their Messages tab.)
• Exchange Confessions at Masques (discussed below).

At the end of Hallowmas, you can turn in leftover Confessions at The Fool's Justice. Any Confessions you hold onto after Hallowmas will disappear when next Hallowmas begins; they cannot be saved from year to year.

Masques

During Hallowmas, three Balls will be held in different locations across London. Attendance is by invitation only.

The Masques appear as storylets, with a Favour required for entry. At each Masque, different options are available depending on (which changes randomly with each action you take). These allow you to obtain small rewards, raise that Masque's associated Menace, and swap certain Confessions for others.

Attending the Masques

Each year, three Masques are in swing; click their titles to see all the actions available there.

— Mrs Plenty's Carnival

Options to raise . allows free entry via the opportunity card The Squall of Infants; otherwise you can spend a favour from Rubbery Men, Constables, or Criminals. You can trade confessions of Whimsy for Guile, or Curiosity for Pride.

— Spite

Options to raise . allows free entry via the opportunity card The Devil's Gambit; otherwise you can spend a favour from Hell, the Church, or Bohemians. You can trade confessions of Impropriety for Violence, Pride for Impropriety, or Guile for Violence.

— Watchmaker's Hill

Options to raise . allows free entry via the opportunity card The Crown's Splendour; otherwise you can spend a favour from the Docks, Urchins, or Tomb-Colonies. For 2023 you can trade confessions of Violence for Whimsy, or Impropriety for Curiosity, or Whimsy for Pride.

— Veilgarden (not active in 2023)

Options to raise . allows free entry via the opportunity card The Flight of Moths; otherwise you can spend a favour from Society, the Great Game, or Revolutionaries. You can trade confessions of Impropriety for Curiosity, Violence for Whimsy, or Whimsy for Pride.

Exchanging Confessions

All exchanges require 34–66; this can be cycled using the other options at the Masque.

Location	Required Confession	Gained Confession
(Mrs Plenty's Carnival)	Whimsy	Guile
	Curiosity	Pride
(Watchmaker's Hill)	Impropriety	Curiosity
	Violence	Whimsy
	Whimsy	Pride
(Spite)	Impropriety	Violence
	Pride	Impropriety
	Guile	Violence

(Confessions can also be exchanged via social actions: Trade confessions with another player who has the one you need.)

What to do with all these Confessions? Seek out the Attendants, and hand in your Confessions to upgrade certain Companions you may have acquired.

Companions and Items

At Hallowmas, specific combinations of the Confessions can be brought to the Attendants. If you have a certain Companion, these Confession combinations can be used to upgrade that Companion to a superior, Hallowmas version of that Companion.

Obtaining Companions

See Hallowmas (Guide)/Item Comparison for a detailed breakdown of stats and uses for Hallowmas items

When Hallowmas begins each year, a new Companion joins you. This year, you'll meet the , who can also be upgraded this year using Confessions. Other past companions can be acquired for Fate.

This year's freely available companions:

• , +3 +3
• , +5
• , +3, +1

The many, many companions from Hallowmases past, available this year for Fate, may be perused at Let Slivvy Speak.

Upgrading Companions

If you have certain Companions already, the right combination of Confessions will allow you to upgrade them.

Note: The information under Uses will be filled in as uses for the new Companions are discovered.

Hallowmas Companions available this year

Original	Confessions	Upgrade	Stats	Uses
	Guile Whimsy		Shadowy +7 Persuasive +3 Bizarre +1 Reduces Suspicion build up.?	Employ the services of the Clay Corroborator
	Impropriety Curiosity		Shadowy +3 Persuasive +7 Respectable +1 Reduces Scandal build up.?	Engage in moral rectitude with the Gravel-Voiced Gossip
(Last Year's HALLOWMAS or FATE)	Curiosity Pride Whimsy		Watchful +8 Dangerous +5 Artisan of the Red Science +2 (Shared BiS item)
	Impropriety Guile Pride		Shadowy +6 Glasswork +2 (Shared BiS item)
(FEAST OF THE ROSE or FATE)	Impropriety Violence		Dangerous +10 (Shared BiS item) Dreaded +1 Kataleptic Toxicology +1 (Shared BiS non-Fate item)
	Violence Pride		Watchful +7 Dangerous +4 Dreaded +1	Attend with your Ermine Assassin
(FEAST OF THE ROSE or FATE)	Curiosity Guile Whimsy		Persuasive +10 (Shared BiS item) Dangerous -1 (Shared WiS item) Respectable +1	Accept, wearing timeless fashions
			Persuasive +10 (Shared BiS item) Dangerous -1 (Shared WiS item) Respectable +1
	Violence Guile		Dangerous +5 Persuasive +5 Watchful +2
	Impropriety Pride		Persuasive +4 Watchful +4 Bizarre +1
	Impropriety Violence		Dangerous +9 Persuasive -10
	Curiosity Pride Whimsy		Dangerous +9 Persuasive +7 Dreaded +1 Respectable +1

Hallowmas Upgrade by Confession

Original	Upgrade	Curiosity	Guile	Impropriety	Pride	Violence	Whimsy
			✓				✓
		✓		✓
		✓			✓		✓
			✓	✓	✓
				✓		✓
					✓	✓
		✓	✓				✓
		✓	✓				✓
			✓			✓
				✓		✓
				✓		✓
		✓			✓		✓

Rewards

When the Hallowmas revelries come to an end, you will encounter a universal storylet named Hallowmas: The Fool's Justice. Here, your Spirit of Hallowmas may be traded in for a variety of rewards, and you will receive a gift from one of the leaders of the Masques depending on which Menace you submitted most often.

Spirit of Hallowmas

Each reward costs a certain number of . You can spend your Spirit however you want—take the highest-tier reward, and then smaller rewards to spend whatever you have remaining, or opt for more of the smaller rewards. For example, 1600 Spirit could be spent as 1000 + 500 + 100, or 3(500) + 100, or 16(100), etc.

Any Spirit of Hallowmas above 2500 will be converted into CP for the The Knight of Hallowmas vanity quality at a ratio of 20:1 (in other words, plug the result of (Spirit of Hallowmas - 2500) / 20 into the CP Calculator as your CP gain). Obtaining this quality sets your Spirit to 2499, which you can then spend as you wish on the other rewards.

Affiliations

These are awarded depending on which Menace you submitted to the Fool's Apostate the most. If you already received the Affiliation associated with that Menace in a previous year, you will get the repeat reward instead, a non-unique but high-value item.

Menace	First Reward (Affiliation)	Repeat Rewards

Not available this year: (the Affiliation) or its repeat reward of .

Each of the affiliations you can gain has an associated Opportunity Card, with options to gain items or Favours. These cards can appear year-round, as long as you have the Affiliation equipped when drawing from your deck.

— Drink with the Crew of the St Elmo

• Share Stories: Gain and
• Carouse with the Crew of the St Elmo: Spend to gain

— Attend a dinner at St Fiacre's

• Enjoy a delicious repast: Gain and
• Provide a sermon for the table: Spend to gain

— Meetings of the Initiates of the Society of the Inverted Stalactite

• Ascend the Roof Below: Gain and
• Light the Roof Below: Spend to gain

Not available this year (but if you already have the Affiliation, you can continue to draw its card):

A Member of the Order... — A Shrouded Soiree with the Order of Those Who Will Not Be Caught Red-Handed

• Witness a feat of illusion: Gain and
• Dress up: Spend to gain

Confessions

Any leftover Confessions can be traded to the Fool for item rewards. Note that any Confessions kept after Hallowmas will disappear when next Hallowmas commences; they cannot be saved from year to year.

Confession	Reward
Curiosity
Guile
Impropriety
Pride
Violence
Whimsy

Visitors

A smaller activity that can be done is attracting a visitor. Most of the actions are rather unremarkable, trading an action and some low value items for nightmares and making waves, which are consequently what you need 5 of both to draw the Visitors at Hallowmas card. The option Open a window to the night air cycles the airs for an action. There are however 2 options here that are of note:

• Attend a lecture on 'spiritual hygiene' (7 FATE) will sell your soul and either provide a T7 item, or a , which is a shared best-in-slot Kataleptic Toxicology item, though there are nonfate ways to obtain this.
  • Requires 32-35
• Feeding the River is the only way to raise up to 3.
  • Requires 1
  • Requires 90-100

Strategies and Analysis

Strategies and Analysis →

Hallowmases Past

Hallowmases Past →

Timeline

It is useful to know what your deadlines are. As of 2020, the timing of different events is recorded below. Past events are no guarantee of future behavior. All switch-overs happened around noon-ish GMT.

• First Monday: All main-event storylets are opened. First batch of 7 free Confessions is available. October 23, 2023
• Second Monday: Second batch of 7 free Confessions is available. October 30, 2023
• Third Monday: All main-event storylets are closed, and post-event turn-ins become available. Unused confessions can be turned in for 2.5 echo items on the storylet Hallowmas: The Fool's Justice. Upgrading Companions is closed. November 6, 2023
• Fourth Monday: Post-event turn-ins are closed. Remaining spirit and confessions are wiped by Time, the Healer. November 13, 2023