Random thoughts on the game Sunless Sea
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Fallen London – Sailing the Sunless Sea
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The PaleoGamer Plays: The Longest Journey – Part 7
April visits the improbably named “Burns Flipper” and after enduring another carpet f-bombing get information on the Vanguard *and* the name of the missing Guardian. Along the way she plays MacGyver 2200, finds out that police power armor isn’t waterproof and wonders why Zack is hanging around outside her room. Then bad things happen. It’s the end of Chapter 3 of The Longest Journey!
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The PaleoGamer Plays: The Longest Journey – Part 6
Having finally gotten into the police station, April attempts to enter the Archives only to find she needs someone to lend her a hand. Or at least an eye. She helps a guy with his stomach problems, finds that computer security is just as lax in the 23rd century as it is today and uncovers the startling truth about hovercraft safety. Just another step on The Longest Journey.
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The PaleoGamer Plays: The Longest Journey – Part 5
April begins her quest to save the worlds by enduring a carpet F-bombing by Zach. She then travels to the bad part of town and we rethink our views on the relative merits of Arcadia and Stark. The game is then interrupted by a news report and a game-breaking bug but April finds that the real challenge to getting into the police station is bureaucracy, which is apparently what they mean by “The Longest Journey”.
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The PaleoGamer Plays: 1953: KGB Unleashed – Part 3
Nikolyev sets out to do some ghost hunting, because burial chambers hidden below the basement of secret underground bunkers never have anything bad in them. And it turns out that recordings of ghosts can cause sleepiness, murder and subways. It’s the conclusion of 1953: KGB Unleashed
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Eclipse Phase – All Alone in the Night
A group of characters whose egos have been in storage since the Fall are accidentally awakened on a Lagrange colony. The colony director is willing to overlook the “accidental” part and let them keep their new morphs… if they will just check out a mysterious ship that has drifted near the station for her.
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The PaleoGamer Plays: The Longest Journey – Part 4
After finding herself in another world, April Ryan receives multiple visits from the exposition fairy and comes to realize the dangers facing the twin worlds of Arcadia and Stark. Now she just needs to get home. To do that she plays a flute to distract a god, gets a job as a delivery girl and finds her way to the home of the “Rolling Man”. Then she has to save the world. But only after her date with… Zack?
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tremulus – A Night at Primrose Manor
The shadows are closing in on Primrose Manor. Literally. Can the town’s newest residents find their way out of the trap that had been laid for them, or will their last night be spent in Primrose Manor.
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tremulus – Welcome to Ebon Eaves
A group of new residents of the town of Ebon Eaves have been invited to Primrose Manor by Sir Nigel Primrose. What they find there is not what they expected.
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Traveller – In From the Cold
A Free Trader crew stops at an isolated planet, only to find no communications from the surface and no signs of life.
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