The hooded being was a Master, not a rubbery man! (Still not a Devil either)

@@mibadada specifically Mr. Pages, given the words used.

Well the not quite English only applies to one of the masters haha.

One of Jack's doing perhaps? The poor sods are always overdoing it.

@@thefreelancepsyco9426 Jack was definitely not active at that point in time I'm afriad so can't be.

@@exidrablack316 I think he meant the jack of smiles

Wait there is more than one Fallen London Game?

@@davidklaube497 yep! There's the original browser game which is very fun and also free, so it's worse a shot And then there's sunless sea and sunless sky And now of course this one

The Stars are gods. Their light enforces their Laws. Laws like 'people die when they're killed.' Now, ordinarily just not being in sunlight wouldn't be enough to allow for breaking these laws, but the Neath (where London fell to) has some... peculiar properties. Eldritch colors that affect memory, temporal anomalies, and something hungry for identity... this place hasn't seen the Light of Sol but for one tiny corner, and it shows. So most of the time, mortal wounds aren't, and if you do manage to actually die (takes rather more effort when getting killed doesn't do it), it's a simple matter of getting ferried back downriver. Got to win your game of chess though - 's traditional. As for the Masters, you're more or less right save for them being space-bats under those cloaks. Pretty sure the devils didn't have much of a hand in the whole taking cities thing, either. I will grant that Hell is next door - the church went to war with Hell (and lost).

@@KyrilXIV It's actually very amusing how much the Masters correspond with cheesy 1950s B movies - Alien Space Bats who just want to understand this thing called Love.

@@KyrilXIV aight

I know it is. It’s why I didn’t expect it lol. I was expecting Stargirl or someone else after reading the cast list and I didn’t recognize Stupendium without their mustache, which threw me for a loop at first lol

@@ARCAlpha12 I didn't realize it was them until I scrolled through the comments and had to do a double take

No way....

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I mean... Rubbery Men are absolutely tainted by the eldritch. They're no where nearly as eldritch as the Masters, but they're connected to horrid things themselves.

@@damsonrhea I would say the Masters are actually even less eldritch than the rbbery men, they are just aliens who made a deal with a giant space crab. (sure it is strange and sorta eldritch once you consider the giant space crab is a messenger for living stars but the more comedic tone of Fallen London reduces the eldritchness of most things significantly, after all The Bazaar becomes alot less scary once you notice its just a fool in love.)

@@supremegodemperorderpfestor Eh, they have semi-sapient teeth, size-change, wield strange powers, have connection to the Messengers... Like, it's pretty clear they're higher along the chain of being, and the higher you go, the stranger you are.

@@damsonrhea Yeah the main thing is just the tone of Fallen London that, while can be pretty fucking scary at times, is mostly very comedic which reduces the impact of most eldritch characteristics, but if Fallen London were to be more serious I have no doubt it would be extremely horrifying.

If I remember correctly, Failbetter lists the games’ genre as “comic horror” (as opposed to “cosmic”).

Well that makes sense because they are best friends