Anne Auclair
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4/1/2016
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How's the journaling?
Update: Still bugged.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
4/1/2016
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an_ocelot wrote:
Ouch, Kukapetal. That sucks, I'm sorry.
[spoiler]Well, he didn't get dragged off right in front of me, my protege just put the crown on his head and we left him there and listened to his screams as we were leaving. I just can't picture my character doing something like that, even if the jerk deserved it. What kind of ending did you get?[/spoiler]
Anyway, pretty sure the Young Stags are irredeemable. My character washed his hands of them. Then he canceled his exceptional friend status, gave away his remaining fate to friends and checked himself into the nuthouse. Now he spends his days watching it rain coffee cups. May he finally find peace in insanity...
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Anne Auclair
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4/1/2016
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Kukapetal wrote:
an_ocelot wrote:
Ouch, Kukapetal. That sucks, I'm sorry.
[spoiler]Well, he didn't get dragged off right in front of me, my protege just put the crown on his head and we left him there and listened to his screams as we were leaving. I just can't picture my character doing something like that, even if the jerk deserved it. What kind of ending did you get?[/spoiler]
Anyway, pretty sure the Young Stags are irredeemable. My character washed his hands of them. Then he canceled his exceptional friend status, gave away his remaining fate to friends and checked himself into the nuthouse. Now he spends his days watching it rain coffee cups. May he finally find peace in insanity...
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I hope he gets better ^^
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
4/1/2016
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He will not. He is finished because I am finished. I've finally accepted that this game's just not for me. Best of luck to the rest of you.
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Gilphon
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4/1/2016
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I don't see the Young Stags as irredeemable.
[spoiler]The Patriarch and his sons were the only ones among the current members who knew what was really going on, so if a particularly notable member who knows the truth were to nudge others away from it, it would probably go decently. Sure, there's probably still plenty of political corruption in the works we can't stop, but I never really expected a club based around the irresponsible drunken antics of the young and rich to be a beacon of morality. [/spoiler]
But anyway, I loved the ending to this story. The fact that it's equivalently difficult at all stages of the game was a really nice touch.
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navchaa
Posts: 561
4/1/2016
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This was fun! I liked how the chase was pretty nailbiting, something that I don't get a lot as an almost stat-capped character. Haven't drawn the final card yet, but this was a nice little bit of fluff, albeit with some dark themes.
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Estelle Knoht
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4/1/2016
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Kukapetal wrote:
He will not. He is finished because I am finished. I've finally accepted that this game's just not for me. Best of luck to the rest of you.
Not the best day to say something like this, innit?
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Danko
Posts: 142
4/1/2016
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I am going to be honest here and I apologize in advance to everyone offended.
I have to say after playing the last month's exceptional story just a few days ago, which was emily-short-amazing, this story stroke me as very cheap and of a significantly poorer quality than expected from Exceptional Stories.
First of all, It was short and mostly linear, didn't offer any significant choice and didn't pay off, and I was very dissapointed that most text vignettes were barely 2-3 sentences long, containing the most generic information.
Worse, there was no character development, no character interaction, and the story itself felt kind of cliche out of a bad thriller movie.
Worst of all, there was absolutely no interaction with my daughter and no character development for her. She felt just lifeless, like any random nameless protege I do not care about at all. The initial promise of spending quality time with the person you care about was very much undelivered.
Also I actually quit Parthenaeum and joined the Stags just for this story. Was it worth it? No. It unlocked a total of one storylet at the very beginning that barely told me anything of note.
So needless to say this story left me a bit on the melancholy side.
Nonetheless, I understand that every ES can't be amazing, and different authors have different skills and style, so I don't hold any spite for Failbetter, and I'll eagerly await the next month.
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Master Polarimini
Posts: 310
4/1/2016
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an_ocelot wrote:
nightday wrote:
(post-story discussion)
[spoiler]My interpretation is the current king doesn't want to get eaten, so came up with this idea that there would be a sovereign just long enough to "count" and then they'd get eaten in his place. The rule is "every seven years we must sacrifice our sovereign", not "a person gets eaten after being sovereign for seven years."[/spoiler]
Yes, I think this is the meaning you get when you visit the hall with the paintings of the various Stags' Kings.
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Master Polarimini
Posts: 310
4/1/2016
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But has anyone actually
[spoiler]sacrified the aunt? (when you have selected the "...but not always" choice) what does the "gratitude" of the Patriarch give?[/spoiler]
(my problem is that I'm not that invested emotionally in my Aunt so I wouldn't care that much, but still...)
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
4/1/2016
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Danko wrote:
I have to say after playing the last month's exceptional story just a few days ago, which was emily-short-amazing, this story stroke me as very cheap and of a significantly poorer quality than expected from Exceptional Stories.
First of all, It was short and mostly linear, didn't offer any significant choice and didn't pay off, and I was very dissapointed that most text vignettes were barely 2-3 sentences long, containing the most generic information.
Worse, there was no character development, no character interaction, and the story itself felt kind of cliche out of a bad thriller movie.
Worst of all, there was absolutely no interaction with my daughter and no character development for her. She felt just lifeless, like any random nameless protege I do not care about at all. The initial promise of spending quality time with the person you care about was very much undelivered.
Also I actually quit Parthenaeum and joined the Stags just for this story. Was it worth it? No. It unlocked a total of one storylet at the very beginning that barely told me anything of note.
So needless to say this story left me a bit on the melancholy side.
Nonetheless, I understand that every ES can't be amazing, and different authors have different skills and style, so I don't hold any spite for Failbetter, and I'll eagerly await the next month.
I have to say I pretty much agree with you completely.
It wasn't my least favourite story, by any means, but it did feel very 'generic'. I think I've come to expect the fate and exceptional stories to offer what can't be offered for free in game; such as stories about characters that don't feature elsewhere, interesting tidbits of lore and/or new locations, or a story far longer or in depth that others in game.
I also expected something more for being able to 'customise' the story by picking who I was with, whether I was in the club or not, etc., but don't remember spotting anything different/unique from those choices. It felt like all that changed was the pronouns, or a brief paragraph extra for being a part of the club already. I'm pretty sure - from what others have said - you could pick a daughter, aunt, or protege and still end up with exactly the same text and exactly the same situations. It feels like an illusion of free will, which is probably what irked me. A lot of choices in FL end up with you in the same place, but they have flavour or some initially different outcome, or - well - something . . . here it felt like all that changed was the word 'aunt' to 'daughter', for example, so it felt meaningless to me and broke the fourth-wall a bit.
There were also a few typos - I spotted one with 'an case', while another user pointed out the misspelling of 'dais', and another user pointed out other typos, too, and then the echoing/journal bug, too, which is unusual for an exceptional story, as usually they seem to be absolutely perfect. It was also pretty hard to be invested in the characters; the Stags were all nameless, the guy-in-charge wasn't really that memorable and was painted too much as 'evil jerk' to care about, and the character I chose to enter the whole story with was just a placeholder name for text that was generic (in the sense the text didn't change to reflect the character, so you knew the choice didn't matter either way).
That being said . . . art! I loved the art XD
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Emain Ablach
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4/1/2016
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I liked the story. It was a good time. But as some said, it felt more generic than the other stories. It was a pleasant experience nonetheless, and I fully understand that all Exceptional Stories can't have a lot of content. So I'm quite satisfied. It was nice. Not incredible, but nice.
But the characters clearly lacked personality, the guy in charge was very... cliché, and my interaction with the Sovereign (my daughter) was shallow. Oh and the texts felt very short. That could have been better.
But anyway, it was an interesting story ! Thank you very much !
PS : oh, by the way, I really appreciated the bits of texts about the Stags and their behaviour. Their society, who didn't interest me in the least prior to that Exceptional Story, is now a part of London that I like.
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Appolonia
Posts: 248
4/1/2016
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I would agree that I had mixed feelings about this one. Some of the folklore detail was good, and it delivered on the overall promise of latent horror, throughout the game. The art is very good. The picture of the protogee made me want to see him become a more recurring character. But, as others mentioned, I did not feel like I had the ability to influence the world very much. I too thought letting my protogee defend himself would make a character who had seemed very weak in his decision-making emerge more confident and competent and prepared to thrive in the Neath (and potentially as a new companion). The characters introduced among the Stags were pretty shallow, and did not change as a result of the story. The reward was very trivial. I thought the last story was quite good in making me feel like I had a number of choices at the resolution, and that mine were personal and had a small but lasting effect on how the rich treat their servants, and on how the Orpheus society functions. I would have liked to see some promise of longer impact on how the Stags function.
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Pyrodinium
Posts: 639
4/1/2016
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I'm not an EF but I liked how this story has some ties with the ladies in Pyro's life.
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Hark DeGaul
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4/1/2016
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Has anyone actually given up their aunt to the Stags yet and, if so, is it worth it? Hark is at the crossroads where they have to choose whether they do or don't and I'm conflicted. On the one hand I've worked hard to save poor Aunt Tilly, on the other hand something in me really wants to know what I get if I sacrifice her.
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absimiliard
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4/1/2016
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You know the Dawn Machine would sacrifice her Hark . . ...
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Breckner
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4/1/2016
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Hark DeGaul wrote:
Has anyone actually given up their aunt to the Stags yet and, if so, is it worth it? Hark is at the crossroads where they have to choose whether they do or don't and I'm conflicted. On the one hand I've worked hard to save poor Aunt Tilly, on the other hand something in me really wants to know what I get if I sacrifice her.
I did, and so far have not gotten much of a reward at all? The promised opportunity card was just being pranked by urchins. Maybe there will be another one down the line, but that's all I've seen so far.
I don't really care, because Breckner hated the aunt all along and I don't really care about losing the very intermittent action refreshes, but I was a little surprised.
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Hark DeGaul
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I did, and so far have not gotten much of a reward at all? The promised opportunity card was just being pranked by urchins. Maybe there will be another one down the line, but that's all I've seen so far.
I don't really care, because Breckner hated the aunt all along and I don't really care about losing the very intermittent action refreshes, but I was a little surprised.
Hmm, I'll probably let Tilly live then. As bizarre as it sounds I have a soft-spot for the woman and it would hardly be sporting to hand her over to a bunch of hungry humanitarians after I've expended so much effort keeping her alive and away from devils.
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You know the Dawn Machine would sacrifice her Hark . . ...
Tempting, but I don't think I'll go through with it. The Dawn Machine's sacrificed plenty of people but all of them were eaten for a reason. Unless that Patriarch's planning a trip to the Grand Geode in the near future I see no reason to let him escape his fate for a second time.
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absimiliard
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I have to admit, for a woman who I know for a fact is Not my character's aunt, I too have a soft spot for her. I think it's the brazenness of claiming to be my character's aunt, that sort of confidence -- chutzpah -- bespeaks a con-artist of a truly singular character.
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RandomWalker
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4/1/2016
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So one of my characters tries to be evil. He wasn't going to sacrifice his aunt, because his aunt is useful, but this arrogant social climber who wanted to use me as a stepping-stool? Yeah, he needed to go.
Can I just say I LOVED the card that finished the story for this run? Beautifully evocative.
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