Is there a downside to cannibalism?

[Uboa]

Other than roleplaying ramifications, is there any downside to performing actions which make me a cannibal?

Like, is there any story I'll be locked out of or suffer negative effects in because I have the cannibal taint (unaccountably peckish)?

If not, I think that's kind of dumb, because there are some good things you can only get WITH the cannibal taint. I know the game's not just about min-maxing, but still.

[acornco]

good question. i ate almost all my crew in one trip. it raises terror and increases your menace: peckish. but aside from terror... i dont know. i tend to avoid it in more serious runs. theres probably some bs skill check late in the game that will get you killed if you have to much of the menace.

theres also a crew member who requires you to be a high level canibal in order to save him/her...

[this first-draft dream of mine]

I wouldn't really call that "saving" them, if you're talking about who I think you're talking about.

[ShadowNeko]

I ate 3 times at a certain isle before realizing I was eating people x.x

[Burusagi]

You're... eating fellow humans...? That's one downside I suppose, lol

[Azzak]

More stories are to come + one DLC. I'm sure it'll be a downside in the future. As for now... eat well my dear friends !

[Rossman]

As far as I can tell there are absoloutly nothing but benefits to being cannibal. There are no penalties at all, and a few really useful events that can only be done by cannibals or are made much simpler by being cannibal.

[Burusagi]

There needs to be a "Suspicion" counter as well - one which penalizes with varrying degrees you in social civililized areas such as Fallen London if you are a known eater of men.

[Wlerin]

Originally posted by Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?:

I wouldn't really call that "saving" them, if you're talking about who I think you're talking about.

Well, "saving" in the sense that this individual remains part of your crew. Neither of the other two endings are really "saving" either.

In FL this quality was part of pursuing a series of decidedly unwise choices, that did increasingly horrible things to your character. In a few cases you might have even been locked into certain options because you had too much of it (don't recall exactly). Similarly, in Sunless Sea it it required to perform a number of horrible and horrifying actions, but not ones with quite the same mechanical destruction as in Fallen London. I'd say it's a Menace in that sense, as otherwise your character still has enough human decency left to avoid said actions. But besides that yeah, not really a menace in the same way nightmares, wounds, etc. are.

[darren]

Originally posted by Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?:

I wouldn't really call that "saving" them, if you're talking about who I think you're talking about.

You do save most of him at least.

[Wlerin]

Just the important bits. Or perhaps the least succulent.

[this first-draft dream of mine]

Originally posted by Alcohol Fueled Brewtality:

There needs to be a "Suspicion" counter as well - one which penalizes with varrying degrees you in social civililized areas such as Fallen London if you are a known eater of men.

There is a Suspicion quality. It's just not tied to Unaccountably Peckish.

Originally posted by darren:

You do save most of him at least.

Ehhhh. Hope no one will ever save you in that manner :P

[Burusagi]

Originally posted by Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?:

Originally posted by Alcohol Fueled Brewtality:

There needs to be a "Suspicion" counter as well - one which penalizes with varrying degrees you in social civililized areas such as Fallen London if you are a known eater of men.

There is a Suspicion quality. It's just not tied to Unaccountably Peckish.

Sounds like there might be a bug then?

[Wlerin]

No, they're completely separate and unrelated things.

[this first-draft dream of mine]

Eh, not really. Suspicion deals with your run-ins with the law -- your suspected association with criminal elements, the revelation of your involvement in espionage, the discovery of your illegal cargo. Unaccountably Peckish tracks how much of a cannibal you are. It is entirely possible to be a cannibal without attracting the law's notice -- or even to be a cannibal in ways and locales outside the law's purview.

[Burusagi]

You missunderstood me then.

I meant that there ought to be a seperate Suspicion for cannibalism. Things like eating your crew have a way to get around town. I mean, the Khanate learns of you destroying one of their ships somehow despite the fact you clearly leave no survivors to tell the tale so it is not too far-fetched...