(fallen london stamps by one of my favorite things in Fallen London is the museum exhibit that lets you drink poison on purpose (warning for comedic harm to one's good self, including to the eyes!)
it just is like, the perfect little microcosm of the game as a whole:
- the description: "Well, the children of London have to learn to identify common poisons by their flavour eventually."
- and the bold text warning you that This will hurt. and that you only have a 10% chance of success, whatever that means in this context.
- (but oh, aren't you curious?)
- the fact that success boosts your esoteric toxicology stat... but still hurts you, because you drank poison on purpose, what were you expecting???
- meanwhile, failure doesn't boost your toxicology, but does treat you to one of a variety of entertaining lorebits about the esoteric poisons of the Neath.
- (so naturally, you've gotta do it again and collect them all, right?)
so many little touches to make drinking poison on purpose a thing that you would want to do! I love it
