Bloodlines babbling
Friday, 12 June 2009 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I eventually got fed up with the sewer level after maybe the third or fourth time Felix the Toreador got mangled to death by a waterwheel while trying to grab onto the ladder out, and while he was being jumped on by screaming meatballesque Tzimisce-things. I figure I can always go back and play through properly if I want the street cred. In the meantime I didn't think the frustration and frayed nerves were worth any more than I could get watching some other unfortunate play through on Youtube, which I've already done.
So I skipped ahead some, using the walk-through-walls cheat to nip round through a back door into the Nosferatu warrens. In normal play this door is mysteriously inaccessible until the sewer level's finished, and its existence is another suggestion (gameplay convenience aside) that the Nosferatu were out of contact not just because the sewers are full of Tzimisce art projects, but because the Nosferatu primogen in this game is kind of a dick. He is an especial dick to Toreador characters, though to be fair the Toreador are dickish back. In fact, a minor roleplay snag was that Felix, who I normally play as excruciatingly polite and often a bit of a suck-up ("Wait, Bishop Plaguebearer who just went on a Motive Rant and is about to shoot me in the face, let's discuss this!"), had no other dialogue option than to call Gary the Primogen, paraphrased, the most offensive and obscene thing he had ever seen. Especially odd since he'd already seen some of those Tzimisce projects at that point. I should think they'd be in the running even if part of the Nosferatu schtick is being clobbered with an ugly stick.
I may want to pull up an old save file and legitimately take on the level sometime just for the image of Felix quietly twitching as it dawns on him, after the slog through the sewers followed by all that snark about blinding people with a pocket mirror and how much Gary wants to introduce his pretty face to a piranha tank, that there was a back door all along. For now I'll just go with "fairies told him about the door" (just like the fairies told him all those computer passwords).
Barring that, I finished the game this evening, with the Anarch ending. Of course I haven't got much in the way of bragging rights, but I still hope that all the headcanon I've built up can amount to something worthwhile ficwise. At least a character sketch or two.
So I skipped ahead some, using the walk-through-walls cheat to nip round through a back door into the Nosferatu warrens. In normal play this door is mysteriously inaccessible until the sewer level's finished, and its existence is another suggestion (gameplay convenience aside) that the Nosferatu were out of contact not just because the sewers are full of Tzimisce art projects, but because the Nosferatu primogen in this game is kind of a dick. He is an especial dick to Toreador characters, though to be fair the Toreador are dickish back. In fact, a minor roleplay snag was that Felix, who I normally play as excruciatingly polite and often a bit of a suck-up ("Wait, Bishop Plaguebearer who just went on a Motive Rant and is about to shoot me in the face, let's discuss this!"), had no other dialogue option than to call Gary the Primogen, paraphrased, the most offensive and obscene thing he had ever seen. Especially odd since he'd already seen some of those Tzimisce projects at that point. I should think they'd be in the running even if part of the Nosferatu schtick is being clobbered with an ugly stick.
I may want to pull up an old save file and legitimately take on the level sometime just for the image of Felix quietly twitching as it dawns on him, after the slog through the sewers followed by all that snark about blinding people with a pocket mirror and how much Gary wants to introduce his pretty face to a piranha tank, that there was a back door all along. For now I'll just go with "fairies told him about the door" (just like the fairies told him all those computer passwords).
Barring that, I finished the game this evening, with the Anarch ending. Of course I haven't got much in the way of bragging rights, but I still hope that all the headcanon I've built up can amount to something worthwhile ficwise. At least a character sketch or two.
