nameless
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1/22/2015
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Beware the rat-catcher!
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Spacemarine9
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1/22/2015
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fortluna wrote:
the ratsender game being referenced
That would be because I'm responsible for both of them! I didn't write the island itself, but I did come up with the actual design. I can't discount Going Postal as a subconscious influencer, but the actual thought behind it was "man it must really suck to be a postman in the Neath". Some of the stuff you can find on the beach is a pretty good case study on that, I think. alart; lethal levels of rambling ahead
[spoiler]The parallels to the Bazaar, that grand interstellar postman (which also betrayed its sacred holy duty!) occurred to me about six months afterwards, which made me laugh quite a bit. I don't know how I came up with that entirely by accident, but good work, me from october 2013, you did good. I then went back and elaborated a bit more heavily on all that when I did my Ratmas fangame thing. You can find a version of the original design doc I sent in there as well; bring a Rat of Glory with you to Nuncio to get that. All thanks to Nitebrite, who backed high enough for me to unleash the idea and send it to Failbetter to get put into Sunless Sea.
Nuncio as it exists in Sunless Sea is, in a lot of ways, extremely similar to the thing I came up with about six hours before my own self-appointed deadline; though, often, similar yet opposite. For example one of the big things in Sunless Nuncio is the Pull, that mysterious force that draws postmen- but, more accurately, their messages- to the island; what I came up with in Ratmas Nuncio, on the other hand, was more like a Push, compelling postmen to leave London for Nuncio instead. I think the Sunless Sea version fits the underlying lore a bit more neatly, and the final reveal is much cooler than a ramble about the metaphysical demands of an indescribable delivery-commandment in a canteen, on the whole. Neither version ever bothers to explain the statue at all, though, but I'm going to give myself a point in favour because I called it "The Royal Male". Not sure I'll ever devise a pun of that caliber ever again.
wow that went on way longer than I really intended! still, only one spoiler tag per post, so rip[/spoiler]
Enough self-indulgent rambling about the thing which I did, though. How bout that Empire of Hands, huh? It's pretty great. The archaeology adventure especially has some nice meta gags.
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Fretling
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1/22/2015
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I briefly saw an interaction for speaking to the Tireless Mechanic, but a bunch of non-announced story updates hit after the initial update -- that, or my New Stories button is malfunctioning -- and it got removed.
FTR, it required twenty Tireless Mechanics. I have no idea if this was a typo in a still-under-development storyline or whether the Tireless Mechanic's storyline actually involves cloning himself nineteen times for 20x Tirelessness, but... um.
(No, don't spoil me, I'm just going to sit here and entertain myself with imaginings.)
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Dumont
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1/23/2015
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I have the most adorable mascot ever now.
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Fretling
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1/23/2015
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Are you talking about what I think you're talking about? I assume a second expedition must be mounted for actual obtention*. How I itch to set it in motion!
* I know it is not a word. However, it should be a word, or something like it -- why is it that the noun form of "maintain" is "maintenance", "attain" is "attainment", "retain" is "retention", and "obtain" is null? Some consistency, please!
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