Get it off! GET IT OFF!

“Fount of Impossibility”

“Outlook”

Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel and prequel to all our other games set in the Fallen London universe.

https://www.failbettergames.com/announcing-our-next-game-mask-of-the-rose/

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The aberration, Mr Fires says, and so you say through lips blue with fear:

don’t call it that. it’s just a baby.

And Mr Fires looks angry and disappointed and its furnace eyes burn into you, and if the stakes weren’t so impossibly high, you think that it might have cuffed you for your insolence.

(And if you tried to run down here, lose it amongst the cramped, bulging shelves, all it would have to do is leave you here, alone and small and swallowed by the dark, and why does your mouth taste so like ancient soil? You have to get out of here you have to get out of here you have to g)

Silence, the Master snarls, I will call my creature whatever I like. You may have stolen a seat at this table, but do not forget your place, thief.

Yes, you are a thief, and yes, you are a low-life, and yes, bringing about this birth will be the most audacious con you ever pull off, and yes, you were born to die anonymously in a ditch and not to hold the fate of a wretched, fragile little life in your calloused, inadequate hands. But it needs you, now. It needs you to be brave. Even if that means, for the moment, swallowing everything you would dearly like to say to Mr Fires that alternately burns and freezes in your gullet every time it looks at you with its calculating firebrand eyes, and remembering your place.