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Early
Posts: 196
12/21/2011
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The great thing about the Echo Bazaar is that there are so many stories intersecting and branching off. Some, inevitably, stick with us more than others. What are your favorites, and why?
The Intimate of Devils storyline was quite lovely and rewarding, but I found the ending (the process of retrieving one's soul) to be rather unsatisfying. Personally, I still remember the Finder of Heiresses, which is impressive considering that it was quite long ago. Very ambiguous, very poetic, and it does an excellent job of setting the often bittersweet tone of love in Fallen London (which arguably counts as foreshadowing). The Cheesemonger is probably my favorite, for similar reasons. No matter what route you take to end it, it's very striking. I still kind of wish we could learn what became of Alice and her daughter, unless it's covered somewhere and I simply have yet to encounter it, but the way it ended was undeniably fitting, and it would be hard to continue it in a way that could do it justice.
On a less concrete note, the Gracious Widow and the Duchess are possibly my favorite characters. I haven't really found any stories that deal with them in-depth as major characters, but they're encountered, alluded to, and slowly revealed by many different storylets in a way that makes them seem like major components of the setting. There's enough information given -- through the Once-Dashing Smuggler's arc, the University stories, the In Search of a Stiff Drink cards -- to come to reasonable conclusions about them, and they have striking similarities, but both are still enigmatic. Having to choose between them in the matter of the Widow's brandy was quite a hard choice.
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Andrey Shmarev
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12/21/2011
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I guess i'll be the first but definitedly not the last to mention the Cheesemonger. I started playing hoping to be a James Bond/Indiana Jones scientist/spy , but looking at her face was a sober realization of the real life of a master spy.
I guess , to summarize it all i'd say that I like the Cheesemonger's tale because of it's message "no good deed goes unpunished".
edited by Andrey Shmarev Shmareva on 12/21/2011
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