Barse
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8/25/2016
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Calling it an "easter egg" and revealing its existence was probably a mistake. It is not, as google has helpfully defined for me, "an unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or a bonus." It is not something that can be shared in an echo. If you find it, good on you. If not, then that's fine too. You'll just be having a different ES experience. Your experience if you don't find it is in no way lacking, neither is it necessarily enriched if you do.
edited by Barselaar on 8/25/2016
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Eglantine-Fox
Posts: 872
8/25/2016
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Tip to those who want to take Heartless options:
[spoiler]Be very sure of it before you forsake the crew's promises. I did on my bad-guy alt, and even then the suffering involved made me feel horribly guilty. Rest assured, it really makes you earn those points in Heartless, and the consequences are awful for those you forsake.[/spoiler]
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Eli V Tso
Posts: 7
8/26/2016
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Anyone know what happens if you [spoiler]bring the Survivor in the coffin to the father?[/spoiler]
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
8/26/2016
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As much as I appreciated the opportunity to do the things that happened behind the easter egg and have my character live with that. I really hope this doesn't become a common thing, it kinda lessens it if there's unknowable warning signs everywhere.
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RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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Art Shrival
Posts: 51
8/26/2016
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Does anyone know whether the zailing portion of the ES resets your Fascinating, Dramatic Tension, or Inspired qualities? I have a character with quite a bit built up and would hate to lose them.
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Eglantine-Fox
Posts: 872
8/26/2016
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Art Shrival wrote:
Does anyone know whether the zailing portion of the ES resets your Fascinating, Dramatic Tension, or Inspired qualities? I have a character with quite a bit built up and would hate to lose them.
It doesn't seem to, no. I kept mine.
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Siobhan O'Malley, Irish patriot (or 'bl__dy Fenian' if you're impolite).
Isidore Day, an up-and-coming London gentleman. All allegations of wrongdoing are categorically denied.
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Franzibald Fauntleroy
Posts: 6
8/26/2016
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Jeremy Saklad wrote:
Can someone PM me a journal entry of the easter egg?
I will second that, even though doing so strays towards the uncouth.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
Posts: 1372
8/26/2016
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Final thoughts:
Content-wise, I liked that it was Seeking-adjacent for those interested but not planning to go NORTH themselves. And any ending where I ponder the best option for literal hours is a good ending.
Mechanics-wise,
[spoiler]As others have said, having to keep gaining the Way onto the lifeberg was not great. I liked being able to choose different options, but I would have preferred setting out all the options at the start, making the Way threshold higher, and letting us decide which of them we were going to use, maybe all or maybe not.
I think this probably disinclined me to go back to the ship just to see if there was anything else, which meant I missed the captain's writing on his walls. I should note that, because we didn't immediately get given the option to read the writing, I formed the impression that we _couldn't_: you put text in front of me, I read it! It's automatic when I see it! So I'm a little bummed to have missed that.
I also agree that the hidden branch wasn't properly an Easter Egg, because I would've looked differently for it.[/spoiler]
Here's where my echoes start.
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Matthew Enigma
Posts: 28
8/26/2016
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*cough* I'd like a PM too, if possible.
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An Individual
Posts: 589
8/26/2016
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I did the thing. I'll keep it a secret because the game asked me to but I don't see why it's a secret. If anyone else is considering doing this my advice is don't. And I don't mean "don't" in the fun SMEN kind of way.
[spoiler]Right now I just feel like I traded a more interesting version of the story for a more bland version of the story and locked myself out of learning what was up with one of the mechanics. Maybe later something of interest will happen linked to these events but right now this may end up being the first ES that I ever reset just so I can go through it properly.[/spoiler]
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Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint.
Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road.
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Dameon Grey
Posts: 23
8/26/2016
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So... what happens if you indulge your hunger?
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
8/26/2016
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What do you think happens? (Mechanically, nothing particularly interesting.)
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
8/26/2016
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Has anyone echoed keeping or breaking the promise to the Cannoneer? I didn't make enough promises to do so.
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Televangelist
Posts: 109
8/26/2016
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An Individual wrote:
I did the thing. I'll keep it a secret because the game asked me to but I don't see why it's a secret. If anyone else is considering doing this my advice is don't. And I don't mean "don't" in the fun SMEN kind of way.
[spoiler]Right now I just feel like I traded a more interesting version of the story for a more bland version of the story and locked myself out of learning what was up with one of the mechanics. Maybe later something of interest will happen linked to these events but right now this may end up being the first ES that I ever reset just so I can go through it properly.[/spoiler]
I feel the opposite.
[spoiler]I feel like it presented me with an incredible lore mystery that I have no idea how to fully resolve... tying back into a previous Exceptional Story that I never would've expected.[/spoiler]
Edit: Ugh why are spoiler tags working in the part I quoted, but not for the latter half of my message 
edited by Televangelist on 8/26/2016
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Guest
8/26/2016
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Question: does taking the SMEN route end the story prematurely? Nyte is the sort of fella who's all for incidental cannibalism, but I don't want to get kicked off the lifeberg or have the story end abruptly with a mass mutiny or whatever.
edit: took the plunge. Can report story has not abruptly ended thus far.
edited by nightday on 8/26/2016
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Diptych
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8/26/2016
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Televangelist wrote:
Edit: Ugh why are spoiler tags working in the part I quoted, but not for the latter half of my message
edited by Televangelist on 8/26/2016
It's a restriction of the forum software, I'm afraid - only one spoiler per post!
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Skinnyman
Posts: 2133
8/26/2016
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An Individual wrote:
I did the thing. I'll keep it a secret because the game asked me to but I don't see why it's a secret. If anyone else is considering doing this my advice is don't. And I don't mean "don't" in the fun SMEN kind of way.
[spoiler]Right now I just feel like I traded a more interesting version of the story for a more bland version of the story and locked myself out of learning what was up with one of the mechanics. Maybe later something of interest will happen linked to these events but right now this may end up being the first ES that I ever reset just so I can go through it properly.[/spoiler]
Just a small question: is it well hidden or, if you're curious enough, you'll find it?
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
8/26/2016
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Skinnyman wrote:
An Individual wrote:
I did the thing. I'll keep it a secret because the game asked me to but I don't see why it's a secret. If anyone else is considering doing this my advice is don't. And I don't mean "don't" in the fun SMEN kind of way.
[spoiler]Right now I just feel like I traded a more interesting version of the story for a more bland version of the story and locked myself out of learning what was up with one of the mechanics. Maybe later something of interest will happen linked to these events but right now this may end up being the first ES that I ever reset just so I can go through it properly.[/spoiler]
Just a small question: is it well hidden or, if you're curious enough, you'll find it?
Both, I would say.
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Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
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RandomWalker
Posts: 948
8/26/2016
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Night whisper for my choice. Don't forget that there are a few little rewards scattered amongst the storylets, but overall exceptional stories are generally bad EPA from a end-gamer's perspective.
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Barse
Posts: 706
8/26/2016
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Ratskin boots are given from the other choice.
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The Scorched Sailor, up for most social actions and RP. Not as scary as he looks.
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