Echo Bazaar: Difference between revisions

* [[Badass Bookworm]] / [[Genius Bruiser]]: Any player who focuses on Watchful and Dangerous. (Naturally, this includes players who choose the Nemesis or Bag a Legend ambition)

* [[Badass Moustache]]: Some of the constables, it seems.

* [[Badass Preacher]]: The Bishop of Southwark. He's the finest orator in the Church. He's also a formidable wrestler, a {{spoiler|former cavalry officer}} and {{spoiler|hopes to lead an invasion of Hell.}}

* [[Bad Santa]]: Mister Sacks. He comes at Christmas to take things. He might take your headache away. He might take your auntie. If you're very unwise, he might take ''you''.

* [[Blatant Lies]]:

** You tell these in some Persuasive storylets, and if you're successful, people believe you.

"Russia is sinking! Fallen London will annexe the tomb-colonies! Mr Wines is marrying the skeletal corpse of a nun! The Spider-Council is holding a debutantes' ball! It's almost impossible to stop once you've started. Just keep talking. Everything will be fine." }}

** Subverted in a later storylet:

* [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers]]: Or more accurately, blessed is the Cheesemonger, a high-level operative in The Great Game.

* [[Blow You Away]]: The {{spoiler|Stormy-Eyed}} quality seems to give one some degree of power over wind.

* [[Cloak and Dagger]]: Spying is one of the non-combat employment options available to the community.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: One event card has a woman writing very scandalous things about you. One of the options is to unleash a [[Cluster F-Bomb]] of magnificent proportions in response;

** And if you "fail" that event you get this;

* [[Controllable Helplessness]]:

** {{spoiler|Playing as a Clay Man. Until you remember...}}

* [[Death Seeker]]: {{spoiler|Many of the Black Ribboners have strong overtones of this, and many of those who are are [[Heroic BSOD|traumatized wrecks]]. There's heavy [[Driven to Suicide]] implications for some of them, too.}} Kind of [[Tear Jerker|depressing]], really.

* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Since this is set in the late 1800s, of course it'll appear.

* [[Determinator]]: You, toward your Ambition.

** [[Subverted Trope|...unless you decide to ignore it in favour of other storylets]].

* [[Dream Land]]: Prisoner's honey sends you there. {{spoiler|Gaoler's honey sends you to someone else's.}}

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: One storylet has your character training up the Constables in the art of monster-hunting, with distinct overtones of this.

* [[Ear Worm]]: [[In-Universe]]; Failing challenges in Mahogany Hall gets you exposed to one of these, as a Menace stat similar to Wounds or Nightmares. The song is {{spoiler|Pop Goes The Weasel}}, and something bad may happen to your {{spoiler|pet weasels}} if it reaches 5.

* [[Easter Egg]]: It is possible to play as a [[Golem|Clay Man]].

* [[Either World Domination or Something About Bananas]]: Some attempts to translate the Correspondence veer into this.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: A great many, including but not limited to the Masters, the Rubbery creatures and Flukes, the Eater-of-Chains, the Vake, and more denizens of the Labyrinth of Tigers than have yet been named.

* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: All the NPCs are, and all characters potentially so - seduction storylets unlocked by upping your Persuasion are the same regardless of the sex of your character, and include people of both sexes as targets.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: ''Nobody'' likes the Rubbery Men.

* [[Funetik Aksent]]: An assistant of the Enterprising Astronomer:

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Sort of. In some storylets, the text for failure seems to be more a matter of bad luck than a lack of ability. Also, when failing some storylets that punish you with some Menace, the raised Menace sometimes doesn't make sense. (e.g. You've failed to lecture some people and don't get paid. Wounds is increasing...)

* [[Gaslamp Fantasy]]: Definitely Victorian, supernatural, and with Gothic roots, though it leans more towards horror.

* [[Good Feels Good]]: The main benefit of signing up with the C.V.R. - {{spoiler|a secret organisation that works to return souls to their rightful owners. Dealing in souls is much more lucrative, but the CVR gives you a hideously expensive option that sets your Nightmare, Wounds, Scandal and Suspicion to zero.}}

* [[Got Me Doing It]]:

You're well on your way to fearsing the worst too. Fearing the worst. You had better check the Forgotten Quarter. And you didn't know she had a sister." }}

** The Enterprising Astronomer's assistant (see Funetik Aksent above) has this effect, too. You notice the parcel is hemitting... emitting a low wail.

* [[Government Conspiracy]]: The Masters are always scheming, but a particularly nasty one is unveiled in {{spoiler|the Light Fingers ambition.}}

* [[Gray Eyes]]: Anyone with the Stormy-Eyed quality, meaning they completed Recurring Dreams: What the Thunder Said once.

* [[Hall of Mirrors]]: At Mrs. Plenty's Carnival. Although these mirrors show you the future(?). Or they might drive you insane. Or kill you.

* [[Harmless Villain]]: Jack-of-Smiles is a dangerous, insane serial killer who likes to hide in snowmen and leap out at people with knives. He is rather annoyed by how most of them [[Death Is Cheap|just get back up again when he's done]].

* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: If a certain shadowy task is failed, a priest gets a fishhook in his earlobe. From the narration:

* [[Hide Your Children]]: Averted. One task involves starting a war between two rival urchin gangs. If you choose to do so rather than warn them, you'll hear that children are throwing each other off rooftops and into the river. Probably gets away with it because the character isn't actually inflicting the violence, and it's only a text description. Also, as [[Death Is Cheap]] in the Neath, the kids will likely be fine in the end.

* [[Hit Points]]: Your wounds quality - which increases primarily from failing high level Dangerous challenges, but can also be increased in other ways - acts as a reverse hit points gauge. When it reaches eight, you die. [[Death Is Cheap|This is not notably more inconvenient than any of the other possible failure states]].

* [[La Résistance]]: The revolutionaries, an underground faction in the underground city, plotting against the Masters of the Bazaar.

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Some of the flavor text for items and quirks have elements of this. In particular, the flavor text for the {{spoiler|Seeking Mr Eaten's Name}} quest:

* [[Losing Your Head]]: You can stumble across a counterfeit head of St. John The Baptist. (Don't think too hard about where it came from. {{spoiler|Actually, they grow on a [[Man-Eating Plant|certain plant]].}}) Yes, you can make horrible headless jokes with it.

* [[Lost Forever]]: Most storylets will disappear once your qualities rise too high or you progress in the plot, though they're usually pointless to keep trying once they disappear anyway.<br /><br />In particular are gold-coloured storylets, which can only be done ''once'', period, no ifs, ands, or buts. This wouldn't be so much of a problem if not for the fact that they usually have multiple branches...

* [[Noodle Implements]]: During the Shadowy version of the Mysterious Benefactor story, you have to follow a spy. Apparently, at one point, "She nearly throws you off with a trick involving two hansoms, a Constable and a hurled umbrella." If you can figure out this trick, you've probably been playing too long.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Paris. Also, the University;

* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: The Curate and his sister, apparently. It is possible to [[Brother-Sister Incest|find fragments of a love letter signed by her in his desk]].

* [[One Nation Under Copyright]]: While not a [[Mega Corp]], the Masters of the Bazaar obviously think of themselves as merchants and traders, and are essentially the rulers of the city.

** A choice in a Christmas storylet in 2010 mentions a [[Zork|grue]].

** The London Magazine refuses to change its name:

** If you're Indulging A Less than Laudable Laudanum Habit, you can have a dream in which "your beloved dances in a graveyard," referencing Hector Berlioz's opium-inspired ''Symphonie Fantastique.''

** His Amused Lordship bears a passing resemblence to '''''[[Brian Blessed]]!'''''