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    How we write impactful stories in Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies

    Hi @sward! We use a bunch of tools: We have a 137-page long (and growing) lore document that we add to as time goes on. This contains bullet-point distillations of our lore, organised into categories and ranked by secrecy. We use Jira to manage workflow, In a studio-specific configuration...
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    Writing Weird: How we make inventive horror in the Fallen London Universe

    @Hurgus Burgus A few! Inevitably I will forget lots of great examples, for which I apologise. Cassandra Khaw: Cass has written for both Fallen London and Sunless Skies, and has a sumptuous writing style that crawls under your skin. She's a master of unsettling horror, and has written novels...
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    Introducing Ourselves: Failbetter Games

    Hi all! I'm Chris Gardiner, Narrative Director at Failbetter. I've been Narrative Director since halfway through the Zubmariner expansion for Sunless Sea and all through Sunless Skies. Before that I was Head Writer and before that Writer at Failbetter.
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    Writing Weird: How we make inventive horror in the Fallen London Universe

    @jpishgar – this is an amazing question and has a lot of different angles to it. And if there's anything I like talking about more than writing, it's tabletop RPGs. /rolls up sleeves Right! I think that advice you're talking about, to keep the ultimate villain offscreen until the end, is a...
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