highlights of this year's fallen london summer event:
absolutely no disasters happened.
this greatly distressed the people of london to the point that some of them began trying to make a disaster happen On Purpose
in the end they settled for making a Past Summer Disasters Theme Park in the esoteric dream-memory-forest that grows in the land behind mirrors
you can go to this theme park to relive past summer events (and the disasters therein). this includes climbing into a furnace, on purpose
(you do not HAVE to climb into the furnace. climbing into the furnace is entirely optional. you are told, in bold text, that even in a dream, it is a bad idea to climb into the furnace. you can still climb into the furnace.)
you can also assist the theme park by barking. barking pays ridiculously well, better than any other grindable activity in the game. to be specific: at max stats, it pays you the equivalent of 6.9 echoes.
assisting the theme park or reliving past events builds up a community-wide nostalgia meter that unlocks rewards for everyone as it rises. one of these rewards is the ability to make your profile header picture a drawing of a croissant.
the playerbase lost their minds over this.
another reward is the unique, one-time item "An Insatiable Porcine Investment Vessel" - aka, a piggy bank.
you can smash the piggy bank to get an uncertain amount of money. the bold text warns you that this action is "permanent and irrevocable." the description for this action makes sure to mention that you're not looking it in the eyes.
you can also put money in the pig, one penny at a time. doing so increments a quality that changes descriptions depending on how many pennies you've put in, all the way up to 777. you are told, in bold text, that this quality has absolutely no effect on the amount of money received from smashing the pig.
there may or may not be a cult dedicated to the pig among the playerbase.
you can climb into the furnace multiple times. climbing into it a second time gives you a quality that calls you out on your questionable decisions. it can be incremented further by climbing into the furnace again, up to seven times.
this quality is a pain to raise because you can only climb into the furnace once per ~80 action replay of that specific past summer. it also does absolutely nothing.
and naturally, a significant portion of the playerbase dropped everything to max it.
