anyway.

The release of the iOS version tempted me back.  Advertising on The Allusionist podcast alerted me of it.

Started a new character since I hadn't played since about 2011.

My proudest achievement so far is romancing the Barbed Wit at the Shuttered Palace.  I have a weakness for Barbed Wits.

I'm playing Sunless Sea, which is the same people, similar space, but not browser-based, and at sea, which I love.

I played Sunless Sea for a while, too. I immediatelly fell in love with the setting and fiction all over again but I got bored with it almost as quickly. Hard to say why.

I'm enjoying thinking about how Fallen London tricks my mind into building a narrative out of isolated touchpoints.

Yes.  I started fresh when the iOS version came out.  Although, I feel like I'm not making progress.  My Ambition appears to have disappeared and I'm kind of stuck in cycles of doing the same thing over and over.

The short story writing minigame is hilarious.

In a similar vein, I'd highly recommend 80 days. Evocative and economical writing, clever game design. I'm still chewing on exactly what makes the mechanics successful, but the way the game uses a physical map to represent branching paths helps to mitigate some of the inherent tension between interactive fiction and nonlinear/open-world play. It works quite well!