I was a candle

TRAVELLER RETURNING

So, it’s been a while. Just dropping by to give you a quick status update, if you were curious. As of a few months ago, I’m no longer working at Failbetter (you might, or might not, recall this blog post from around that time). That said, I don’t have any plans to resume activity on this blog. I’ll leave the archives as they are, for any future information-seekers. Those 344 questions waiting for an answer in my ask box aren’t likely to ever be answered, though, and this is almost definitely going to be the last post you’ll see here.

I’ve got a shiny new website you can visit here, though there’s not that much there yet, or you can follow me on Twitter over here if you wanna.  If you happen to have any leads on design work (freelance or permanent), especially of a narrative-adjacent sort, especially around a London-ish sort of area, drop me a line. Or if you just want to yell at me for crimes against web design or something.

All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. ok cya 🐀

Merry Ratmas to all, and to all a good rat!

failbettergames:

The 7th of December marks the unofficial Fallen London feast of Ratmas, when players collaborate to bombard us with rats on a string!

Not played during Ratmas before? A history and a primer.

It should be noted that the instigator of the first ever Ratmas, Spacemarine9, now works here, and is surely most deserving of rat gifts.

You can shower Spacemarine9 with rats at his new account, the cunningly-named Spacemarine10, in Fallen London.

Will the Rattening be so great that we are forced to hastily gain the quality Accepting No Further Rats? Up to you, delicious friends!

Riding Immortal on the Seeking Road

Or: Seeking, an Oral History / Dying Historic on the Seeking Road / I Went North And All I Got Was This [REDACTED] / Six Years, Seven Candles / Dehumanising Myself And Facing To Bloodshed: A Memoir / I’m a Candle, And So Can You!

I did it. I went the whole way NORTH. All of it.

This has been a long, long time in coming; I started playing this game six entire years ago, in 2010, and started Seeking in mid-2012; late August, I think, though the exact date has been lost to time. I figured, as someone who’s been around for most of the history of Seeking, it’d be cool to write up an account of everything that’s happened with this weird obscure punishing side-story which attracts a far bigger crowd than anyone would ever expect. Buckle up for about four years worth of Instances and Happenstances; I can’t promise it’ll be earthshattering, but hopefully it’ll be entertaining, or at least informative. There’s even an origin story or four.

You may also enjoy NiteBrite’s autobiography from a while ago, which covers a lot of similar ground.

(This is terribly long, and Tumblr has played merry hell with the formatting. Some of my images don’t seem to want to port over, too. If you want to read the original, it’s here. The formatting’s mangled there, too, but in a way that adds character. There is also a gif of a goat getting owned, so it’s objectively superior.)

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