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Echo Bazaar!
Sep. 10th, 2010 06:10 amI had meant to post about the game again at the one month mark, but kept getting sidetracked. The terrible truth is that one of the things that probably sidetracked me was actually _playing_ Echo Bazaar. But hey, it's all for the best - the delay has allowed me to suck 3 or 4 more people into the game, so more people reading this may even know what the heck I'm talking about.
My main character has done all sorts of amazing things. I think at the one month mark I had become an archaeologist, which was great because it finally got me a hat with eyes and teeth, even if it wasn't as cool as the purchaseable hats with eyes and teeth. At this point I've moved beyond archaeology and gone into teaching The Correspondence at The University. This is a big step up because it means that I've moved so far beyond giving people nightmares by writing penny dreadfuls, and now I'm giving them nightmares with my lectures about a mysterious language that makes people's eyes bleed. Progress!
Since I started playing, the game has introduced a Mysterious Benefactor who gives you a present after you break out of prison. This is all well and good for new players, but what about those of us who have already broken out of prison? We don't get free stuff? At first I thought it didn't really matter since I already had better stuff than what you could get, until I realized that one of the presents was a pair of shoes that give you Watchful +1. Watchful shoes! There are no Watchful shoes at the bazaar! Those are the only Watchful shoes in the whole game!
So I was very sad. But then I had this crazy idea that maybe if I managed to go back to prison I could still befriend the Mysterious Benefactor. A quick browsing of ye Internet supported this theory. So I worked at getting back into prison, which due to the perverse nature of probability took much longer than I planned. At last, I have my shoes. And a prison shiv, which will be handy for Shadowy stuff, and in case I ever want to go back to prison again. I even managed to break back out of prison a bit earlier than I expected by accidentally assembling an escape plan with knotted rags and notes on the dirigible flight plans.
But enough about crude material possessions! I have been The Darling of the Ambassador's Ball! I am Free of Surface Ties! I am, of course, A Scholar of the Correspondence. I have stolen almost 200 Lucky Weasels!
...okay, that last one isn't an accomplishment according to the game, as is technically about material possessions again. But they're just so darned cute that I can't say no to stealing them. I don't know what I'm going to do when I want to buy something later on. Sell my weasels? I suppose I could always go back and steal more...
My main character has done all sorts of amazing things. I think at the one month mark I had become an archaeologist, which was great because it finally got me a hat with eyes and teeth, even if it wasn't as cool as the purchaseable hats with eyes and teeth. At this point I've moved beyond archaeology and gone into teaching The Correspondence at The University. This is a big step up because it means that I've moved so far beyond giving people nightmares by writing penny dreadfuls, and now I'm giving them nightmares with my lectures about a mysterious language that makes people's eyes bleed. Progress!
Since I started playing, the game has introduced a Mysterious Benefactor who gives you a present after you break out of prison. This is all well and good for new players, but what about those of us who have already broken out of prison? We don't get free stuff? At first I thought it didn't really matter since I already had better stuff than what you could get, until I realized that one of the presents was a pair of shoes that give you Watchful +1. Watchful shoes! There are no Watchful shoes at the bazaar! Those are the only Watchful shoes in the whole game!
So I was very sad. But then I had this crazy idea that maybe if I managed to go back to prison I could still befriend the Mysterious Benefactor. A quick browsing of ye Internet supported this theory. So I worked at getting back into prison, which due to the perverse nature of probability took much longer than I planned. At last, I have my shoes. And a prison shiv, which will be handy for Shadowy stuff, and in case I ever want to go back to prison again. I even managed to break back out of prison a bit earlier than I expected by accidentally assembling an escape plan with knotted rags and notes on the dirigible flight plans.
But enough about crude material possessions! I have been The Darling of the Ambassador's Ball! I am Free of Surface Ties! I am, of course, A Scholar of the Correspondence. I have stolen almost 200 Lucky Weasels!
...okay, that last one isn't an accomplishment according to the game, as is technically about material possessions again. But they're just so darned cute that I can't say no to stealing them. I don't know what I'm going to do when I want to buy something later on. Sell my weasels? I suppose I could always go back and steal more...
