Here are some highlights from today’s FBG Reddit AMA. If any more questions are answered tomorrow I will add to this post!
Elections will come back for Fallen London this year too! (x)
The Mr Eaten Storyline won’t be specifically addressed in SSkies but “However, there are some practices, rites, and mysteries in Sunless Skies that followers of the Mr Eaten story will find resonant. For now, we’ll just say that the Masters weren’t the first beings to come up with the idea of throwing their enemies into wells…” (x)
“The Martyr-King’s Cup? Nothing to worry over; it is just the folly of those who’ve read so many books their brains have all dried up. Lunatic dreamers who speak in silly thee’s and thou’s and oblige themselves to esoteric codes, because they think it brings them closer to some cosmic truth, some greater glory.” (x)
The plan is to not have a logbook at all and have the flavor text for the locations appear on screen, similar to the trailers (x)
“I’ve just started writing one of our ports. I hope you lot like bees. (And if you don’t, all the better!)” (x)
“Parabola is not welcome in the Judgements’ sight. Parabola is the realm of Is-Not. The heavens are the arbiters of what Is. Yes, we will be learning more about [Parabola].” (x)
“In Sunless Skies we’ll meet the Scorn-Flukes, who grieve for lost Axile.” (x)
“Can confirm devils in Sunless Skies. Look for a port called Carillon” (x)
[on the dragons reacting to the Judgements’ murders with military force] “You will no doubt be completely unsurprised to hear that it’s rather more complicated than that. The few snippets we’ve learned about the ‘dragons’ have all been depicted from very specific points of view. It’s not the whole story.” (x)
“(We have certain priorities when inventing new Correspondence sigils, which we do sparingly. Every one has to be sound like it can refer to two different specific things, which I won’t elaborate on because spoilers)” (x)
“We’ll be on Windows, Mac and Linux for full launch in 2018.” (x)
“You can certainly choose to support certain Judgements’ goals!” (x)
Neath inhabitants aren’t immediately killed upon exposure to the HW because there aren’t many Judgements around these days (x)
“When players start a new game, we’d like to give them several options to customise their game to create a level and type of challenge that’s right for them. If fine motor control challenges are not really your thing (or just something you happen to be bad at), you should be able to adjust the degree of auto-aim, so that your projectiles automatically arc towards their targets.” (x)
“At present, I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of a train whistle.” (x)
Also not really a piece of info but I feel like sharing this because it was very sweet:
