"Good thing you never go anywhere without your emergency fireworks!"
That was a phenomenal Exceptional Story. It certainly figures among my preferred ones.
Though it does makes Baruch a little bit more concerned with his associates in Parabola…
Darn, I missed trying to persuade the Elephants the first time (thinking I could come back to them after speaking to the Vagrant) and now I don’t have the option to get them to join forces, which is exactly the outcome I really want… :/
ETA: I guess there’s no way to avoid this outcome, and maybe she had it coming, but this is truly the stuff of nightmares…
edited by theonie on 5/7/2022
Same… I went to find the mouse before persuading them, thinking I could come back to it, but didn’t have an option for that.
https://community.failbettergames.com/topic28751-may-exceptional-story-the-queen-of-the-elephants.aspx#post266390
I never had that option but I had upgraded from siding wiht the queen to “Crimson-Handed” Do I need to go back and get the precursor trait by replaying the tournament ES?
Oh but there is an Affiliation choice at the end if you’re someone who will not be caught red-handed
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plan
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Maleclypse/26585266
plan
Explain to him the thing you both saw in Parabola
You know more than you’ve let on.
edited by maleclypse on 5/8/2022
edited by maleclypse on 5/8/2022
A bit bummed out that it wasn’t more clearly signposted that the option to give a certain bit of testimony was only available up until you went to meet the testimony-giver’s waking self - I missed out on the way I’d have liked things to progress because of this, and seemingly locked myself entirely out of the ending I wanted. There is a message regarding the testimony, but it says that you "may also" go and give the testimony (which doesn’t imply to me that this is a limited-time offer), and doesn’t mention that continuing on the current branch will progress the story.
I just finished this Exceptional Story, and thoroughly enjoyed it! As always, Harry Tuffs absolutely knocked it out of the park with the writing – whenever I see a story written by him, I know it’s going to end up as one of my favourites, and this one did not disappoint. If you enjoyed this story, I urge you to check out his superb game A House of Many Doors (Steam, Itch).
Great promo art for Queen Mary, too, along with some tantalising lore on the Red-Handed Queen (along with a certain Beleaguered King, if I’m not mistaken in what was implied in the story).
An interesting story touching on some things lore-wise that haven’t been heavily fleshed out, but I’m always a little disappointed when I don’t feel like I can have much impact on the outcome of a story.
Well, shame about the “mouse”. And Mary. Not so much a shame about the vagrant…