Muzman on 24/5/2015 at 00:01
Quote Posted by demagogue
First look at it, I like that bats carried London down to the depths. My interpretation of that is a reference to the alt history fan trope of an ASB rating, that is, how many alienspace bats do you need for your alt history scenario to work. (Zero means it could have really happened in history. 10 ASBs, history just needs a little supernatural push. 50, a bigger push.) When there are enough bats to carry the entire city of London, it's a cute way of saying this is a really fictionalized version of Victorian London's world.
That is cute. Most times I get some glimpse into the online fiction scene it's full of all this clever stuff like that. The culture runs pretty deep.
Aanyway
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http://members.iinet.net.au/~ragtag/sschar.jpgAfter 1469 days on the unterzee my captain has retired (she didn't die! That was a nuance that interface seemed to miss).
Being a character that lived well before and through release it had started to become obvious that there were places on the map and many stories from the early part of the game that she was too far advanced to see now. There were still quite a few later game things I could do, but I thought I should probably see things from the start again. So without buying that mansion she always wanted, Myf cashed out everything she's accumulated and settled for a quiet life in a nice enough town house. Her lifelong ex-pickpocket friend from the London streets had left to live among the Khanate outcasts. Her lover and their adopted son had gone, possibly to the surface, during her lowest struggles when all seemed lost. They never saw the vast battleship she would later use to carry a fortune in each trip.
This was enough.
I really racked up the hours on this. It's clearly not everyone's cup of tea, usually because it's not hardcore enough in some area or other. But it hits a sort of leisurely spot that works quite well on me lately. It's fairly low impact. You can listen to things while you play and trundle to and fro digging in to one islands quests or other. Some weird new branch or combo of things you didn't think of doing still reliably turns up on a fairly regular basis (like the Brisk Campaigner (one of the ships' surgeons) who died of some disease an eternity ago and was buried at sea. When you descent to the Fathom King's hold you find her there among the drownsies. You can rescue her. For an extraordinary amount of money. But dammit I wanted to know what happened! "We have work to do boys!")
Quinns did a little thing about what is supposedly bad design in this game and others, which can actually help the impact of some aspect of the game. I've definitely found that.
[video=youtube;_r6VtUW9504]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6VtUW9504[/video]
