I just wanted to comment–In the “Root Out the Unfinished Men” challenge, the title is, “Do you make up these questions? Or do they write them down for you?” and the text is, “With the grudging agreement of the Constables, you interview a series of Clay Men, asking them ever more intimate and revealing questions about their ‘lives’, their work, their intentions, their emotions. Tortoises. That sort of thing.”
Both the title and the “Tortoises” bit refers to the Voight-Kampff questions in “Blade Runner.” Intended to root out Replicants, the questions measure emotional responses to various scenarios; one of them involves a tortoise turned on its back:
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping.
Oh yes I saw the tortoise thing on tvtropes, it actually caused me to go watch Blade Runner (It’d been something I missed in life), thoroughly a good decision on my part…
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Yeah Fallen London has a few good ones in them… I can’t recall any off my head now, but it also does a lot of internal referencing to events you may or may not of taken part of, it’s really humorous some of the inside jokes.
Thankfully, Fallen London is still Star Wars reference free! I was led to believe Alexis has a zero tolerance policy for that sort of rubbish.
Come to think of it, I have never asked myself these questions. And one of the constables did leave me a Cathay unicorn I’d been dreaming about… edited by Nigel Overstreet on 8/28/2012
I think I know the Special Constable you mean - well-dressed fellow; keeps making enigmatic references to having “done a man’s work” and the question of who really lives?
It’s worse than you think Lily Fox. The juxtaposition of the the gift of the unicorn and the fact that the gift was made in Cathay indicates that not only is he a clay man, but a rubbery one as well.