I find it hilarious that the first guy is like, "I want a wife", the second is like, "I want a friend with benefits" and the demon is just like "Are you guys aware that you are quite LITERALLY NEIGHBORS WITH HELL??"
Main things to understand about Fallen London: London is now ruled (sort of) but the Master's of the Bazaar, mysterious hooded figures with oddly Bat-like features. London fell just to the east of Hell, and so Devils often take a trip to London to buy (or steal) souls and indulge their curiosity. In the Neath (the cavern London fell into), natural laws like Time, Space and Death don't quite function as they should- and so people who die will often wake up a few hours later with only a few scars. It's only if your really torn to pieces that death is permanent in London. There's a crapload of other things- squidlike Rubbery Men, the vast ocean of the Unterzee, The four cities that came before London, Another dimension behind mirrors, the powerful Judgements, the Bazaar itself, etc. The number of mysteries this game has is absurd.
And yet, in its core it is a love story. THE ONLY love story with spiders that steal and infest your eyeballs with their eggs rendering you blind - if you are lucky. Then, they escape through mirrors and anything mirrorlike to find more victims, create massive island colonies with the intelligent humongous spiders providing "volunteers" with packages filled with hatclings to start the cycle all over again. Almost exclusively the motivation of characters is love, even if it is weird "let me immolate myself to show you my love Princess" love most of the time.
11:33 it’s less that they’re in Hell and more like Hell is now an neighboring nation upriver of the Thames. As for the Death angle, think of it as Death having fled London and thus death cannot seem to easily… stick. You can die, but much like serving a sentence or skipping town until a scandal blows over you eventually get back up and continue as you were.
Great reaction, wonderful, very much enjoyed it You've got most of the facts super well. To answer one of your questions: Hell borders on Fallen London. Devils visit London very often, mostly to try getting souls. Also, the hooden figures who seem very focused on love stories aren't actually the devils, they're a very powerful and mysterious group of only a handful of members known as The Masters. They control practically all trade in Fallen London, and very much have their own schemes
Spoilers bout masters They are of a batlike race called curators that normally serve as angels effectively towards the judgements (the stars and basically gods) but the masters betrayed the judgements to work for the Bazaar (which is sentient) to collect love stories to present an argument for why the bazaar should be able to date the sun. (I don't have the best grasp of lore.)
16:21 may I introduce you to THE MASTERS OF THE BAZAAR, they are the reason London in down here, they made a deal with basically the queen to get bats to drag London down in exchange for the basically king’s life due to him being sick
Fallen London essentially boils down to a lovecraftian love story. The stars in this universe are literally gods called Judgements and their rules apply to everything their light touches. The Neath is outside their rule as it's shrouded in Darkness, instead it's ruled by a thing called The Echo Bazaar and its servants, the Masters. Before coming to Earth the Bazaar was the Messenger of our own Judgement, the Sun A long time ago, perhaps eons ago, the Bazaar and the Sun became entwined in a scandalous and forbidden love; the affair between a Judgement and its messenger produced strange cosmic rock offspring, including Stone. The Sun then fell in love with a different Star, and to add insult to injury, sent the Bazaar to give the other star a love letter. This other star rejected the Sun in her reply, which the Bazaar feared would cause the Sun to die of grief. The Bazaar begged Storm (a god) for extra time to deliver the rejection notice; so it has seven cities' time - ordered by the Dragons (the Judgement's soldiers) - to find seven cities' worth of love stories to boil down into the ultimate love and prevent the Sun from drowning in its own tears. Despite its commitment to save the Sun, the Bazaar itself is super depressed about the whole thing and spends it's days eating a cosmic drug that makes it hallucinate "better days" and even still its wallowing in a literal ocean of its own tears. That's a very basic break down of Fallen London.
Bryon's not THE Devil. Don't be Silly! ...he's merely A Devil ;) Fallen London now finds itself in the general vicinity of Hell. After some nasty border wars, the two powers have uneasy diplomatic relations, and it's not unusual to see a Devil or two on the streets, which is what Cassie was referring to.
Shouldn’t coal be cheaper by the time devils are walking around town? Or were they there before the train was built? I don’t know what all their exports are, but their ports have the cheapest fuel in Sunless Sea
@runeanonymous9760 Mask of the Rose takes place within the first year since the Fall, so the supply lines aren't really in place yet. (Which is also why the lyrics keep talking about how food is scarce; that's not really a thing in the browser game.)
Something you didn't mention, and I'm not sure you noticed, but the bottles the demon guy has? Ya, pretty sure those are souls. One manifests out of nothing at 14:49, bottle, glow and all, which is a detail I hadn't noticed until I watched your reaction Oh, and nice comentary by the way! I didn't notice some of those plays on words!
I think those are Muscaria Brandy, mainly for the color. Although the green light is usually the colour of common bottled souls in Fallen London, it might just be an artistic license they took.
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I find it hilarious that the first guy is like, "I want a wife", the second is like, "I want a friend with benefits" and the demon is just like "Are you guys aware that you are quite LITERALLY NEIGHBORS WITH HELL??"
perfect summary
And the Masters are like, "Passlocate the popcorn, this is gunna be goodificuous. We'll make ensurified of it."
I didn’t think about it during the video, but reading your comment made me think of Mr. fizwidget from the ratchet and clank going commando game lol
The best friend dynamic
Main things to understand about Fallen London:
London is now ruled (sort of) but the Master's of the Bazaar, mysterious hooded figures with oddly Bat-like features.
London fell just to the east of Hell, and so Devils often take a trip to London to buy (or steal) souls and indulge their curiosity.
In the Neath (the cavern London fell into), natural laws like Time, Space and Death don't quite function as they should- and so people who die will often wake up a few hours later with only a few scars. It's only if your really torn to pieces that death is permanent in London.
There's a crapload of other things- squidlike Rubbery Men, the vast ocean of the Unterzee, The four cities that came before London, Another dimension behind mirrors, the powerful Judgements, the Bazaar itself, etc. The number of mysteries this game has is absurd.
And yet, in its core it is a love story. THE ONLY love story with spiders that steal and infest your eyeballs with their eggs rendering you blind - if you are lucky. Then, they escape through mirrors and anything mirrorlike to find more victims, create massive island colonies with the intelligent humongous spiders providing "volunteers" with packages filled with hatclings to start the cycle all over again.
Almost exclusively the motivation of characters is love, even if it is weird "let me immolate myself to show you my love Princess" love most of the time.
11:33 it’s less that they’re in Hell and more like Hell is now an neighboring nation upriver of the Thames.
As for the Death angle, think of it as Death having fled London and thus death cannot seem to easily… stick. You can die, but much like serving a sentence or skipping town until a scandal blows over you eventually get back up and continue as you were.
Great reaction, wonderful, very much enjoyed it
You've got most of the facts super well. To answer one of your questions:
Hell borders on Fallen London. Devils visit London very often, mostly to try getting souls.
Also, the hooden figures who seem very focused on love stories aren't actually the devils, they're a very powerful and mysterious group of only a handful of members known as The Masters. They control practically all trade in Fallen London, and very much have their own schemes
Spoilers bout masters
They are of a batlike race called curators that normally serve as angels effectively towards the judgements (the stars and basically gods) but the masters betrayed the judgements to work for the Bazaar (which is sentient) to collect love stories to present an argument for why the bazaar should be able to date the sun. (I don't have the best grasp of lore.)
"Devils visit London very often" oh, so it's like real life.
9:55 "they're down there Lawless"
man you don't realize how accurate that choice of words was
16:21 may I introduce you to THE MASTERS OF THE BAZAAR, they are the reason London in down here, they made a deal with basically the queen to get bats to drag London down in exchange for the basically king’s life due to him being sick
And the day of wraith is the day it was brought down
Fallen London essentially boils down to a lovecraftian love story. The stars in this universe are literally gods called Judgements and their rules apply to everything their light touches. The Neath is outside their rule as it's shrouded in Darkness, instead it's ruled by a thing called The Echo Bazaar and its servants, the Masters. Before coming to Earth the Bazaar was the Messenger of our own Judgement, the Sun
A long time ago, perhaps eons ago, the Bazaar and the Sun became entwined in a scandalous and forbidden love; the affair between a Judgement and its messenger produced strange cosmic rock offspring, including Stone. The Sun then fell in love with a different Star, and to add insult to injury, sent the Bazaar to give the other star a love letter. This other star rejected the Sun in her reply, which the Bazaar feared would cause the Sun to die of grief. The Bazaar begged Storm (a god) for extra time to deliver the rejection notice; so it has seven cities' time - ordered by the Dragons (the Judgement's soldiers) - to find seven cities' worth of love stories to boil down into the ultimate love and prevent the Sun from drowning in its own tears.
Despite its commitment to save the Sun, the Bazaar itself is super depressed about the whole thing and spends it's days eating a cosmic drug that makes it hallucinate "better days" and even still its wallowing in a literal ocean of its own tears.
That's a very basic break down of Fallen London.
Thank you, I knew of fallen London and of a few mysteries but I didn’t know anything specific about the mysteries or why all these things happened.
Jesus and I thought lotr was dense
"Byron brimstone"
"Fire and brimstone"
I hate how I didn't get it until just now.
Bryon's not THE Devil. Don't be Silly!
...he's merely A Devil ;) Fallen London now finds itself in the general vicinity of Hell. After some nasty border wars, the two powers have uneasy diplomatic relations, and it's not unusual to see a Devil or two on the streets, which is what Cassie was referring to.
Shouldn’t coal be cheaper by the time devils are walking around town? Or were they there before the train was built? I don’t know what all their exports are, but their ports have the cheapest fuel in Sunless Sea
@runeanonymous9760 Mask of the Rose takes place within the first year since the Fall, so the supply lines aren't really in place yet. (Which is also why the lyrics keep talking about how food is scarce; that's not really a thing in the browser game.)
You're surprisingly close, considering that Fallen London lore is so mind-bogglingly complicated!
FNAF levels of complicated?
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As a British history buff, I love the Victorian era theme of this song
Goin' round and watching all the reactions too? Seen your comments around.
@@ReddCrystal Yup. I like letting people know I guess 🤣
Something you didn't mention, and I'm not sure you noticed, but the bottles the demon guy has? Ya, pretty sure those are souls. One manifests out of nothing at 14:49, bottle, glow and all, which is a detail I hadn't noticed until I watched your reaction
Oh, and nice comentary by the way! I didn't notice some of those plays on words!
I think those are Muscaria Brandy, mainly for the color. Although the green light is usually the colour of common bottled souls in Fallen London, it might just be an artistic license they took.
Love your 'Invader Zim energy' line! 😆 Hadn't made that connection and you are so right!
love is very important in fallen london. they import love stories.
and you're arrested for trying to leave with one.
This song is so... V I B E .
Loved your reaction!
I love your channel keep up the great work
A normal human worm baby
Ppl who watch the song first then just want to see others reaction 👇
I missed some pretty funny bits on my first go through.
You're missing some bars because of your headbop