How do you mean? I don't recall anything in Wilmot's End that takes place outside of that one moderate-sized park.

Well, if the Cider can really be bought for a sufficiently large sum of Echo, as the Bazaar would make us to believe, I'd say Echo has a much better backing, than dollar.

Don't be silly, the Bazaar hasn't yet had a farcical, immature, and embarrassingly public fight about the budget yet. :P ^.^ Well, I bet Parliament has, but fortunately, their opinion no longer matters as much compared to the Bazaar's.
edited by Zmflavius on 3/13/2013

Paris is a recurring theme with storylines involving the Great Game (including both of the Wilmot's End storylines), to the extent that it's almost a Noodle Incident. The rare success for trading stolen correspondence with the Muffled Intriguer even sort of lampshades this:

'Just what happened in Paris?'
A warm day. A scarf over the face and a hat pulled low. 'Complicated business. Paris. The bishops. The thing with the swan. Take too long to explain. Here's a dossier. Wait a month before publishing.'

That being said, there are some reasonable explanations of why Paris instead of, say, Budapest or Prague:
1) Britain and France have a historical rivalry that goes back hundreds of years.
2) During this time period, there is a certain amount of tension between Britain and France over Imperial claims in Africa (the so-called 'Scramble for Africa')
3) Paris could be shorthand for France/the French Government in general, rather than referring to the literal place
4) France is one of the only (if not only) major European powers that we don't encounter agents for in Wilmot's End--which is rather odd, come to think of it.

However, personally, I've always mentally thought of it as something of a shout-out to Cabinet Noir, since it and the wilmot's end content came out around the same time.

With this in mind: The Bazaar said the "The first taught restraint and the second betrayed. The third taught us hunger: the fourth we remade. The fifth will live on in the heart of the Sun, and the sixth..."
We know of some examples of the Masters being fallible, and overreaching in their...experiments. Particularly with Smiles. That could be the First. The Third, could be the Era of Eaten. And why they won't say a d-ed word about it. The fourth was of course shown to us by Silver Tree.

With this in mind: The Bazaar said the "The first taught restraint and the second betrayed. The third taught us hunger: the fourth we remade. The fifth will live on in the heart of the Sun, and the sixth..."
We know of some examples of the Masters being fallible, and overreaching in their...experiments. Particularly with Smiles. That could be the First. The Third, could be the Era of Eaten. And why they won't say a d-ed word about it.


Does anybody know what went down in the Second City?

T WO Chandler wrote:

Either way, the Third is more commonly associated with the Elder Country, Snuffers and Face Tailors.

Slightly off topic, but......I just realized that Face-Tailors and Liber Visionis item are a nod to the fact that that storyline is/was the exclusive storyline you get from connecting your account to FACEbook. (...it even SAYS 'Book of Faces' in the item description!)


Wow, am I supremely late to the joke. Nearly 3 years late, in fact. I feel completely stupid now. *facepalms in shame*

I've wondered about the Surface question a great deal. Moriarty is incapable of returning to the Surface; Laplace has zero interest. Interestingly, besides the Boatman story, it seems as though there isn't really a tally that's shown in the UI as to how many times, or whether, you've died. This calls into question if the game even keeps track of this metric. My immediate guess is there's going to be a sort of ret-con/ band-aid in the endgame/denouement that will let you escape, once and for all.