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I have to admit, this game has a surprising variety of frigid wastelands you can get posted to if you screw up the investigation and live.
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Kopijeger posted:Seems unlikely that tourists from "bourgeois" countries would bother with porn when they could easily get that stuff at home - if there was a market for them, it seems like it should be among Soviet citizens with better connections than most. I think you underestimate how often some men require porn.
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Feb 13, 2014 20:06
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Clearly this tale of conspiracies, official corruption, snuff pornos, and hard drug smuggling wasn't complicated enough.
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Feb 14, 2014 19:36
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V. Illych L. posted:Could also be a lovely phone and very short sentences. Russian doesn't really 'do' accents, and Rukov was careful to avoid using any idiom. The rest can be decently chalked up to stress, I think. You might note that starting out with more than a single word gets the guy suspicious right away, for instance.
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Feb 16, 2014 20:05
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Xander77 posted:Russian is also (the only? One of the few?) languages that can have a short story where every single word starts with the same letter. Depends on if you're also doing the shortest possible story challenge. "Aaron, an ancient argonaut, attacked an aromatic athlete. Aaron asphyxiated."
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Feb 18, 2014 06:15
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Kopijeger posted:Not as such, it is more that the character seems to be the embodiment of American crassness; ridiculous name, fat, garish and sloppily dressed, delivers an exuberant sales pitch for a crass product. Ever seen "The triplettes of Belleville"? On the plus side, there's some fairness to be had when every culture is being portrayed from an outsider's perspective.
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Feb 23, 2014 01:25
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At least Chapkin had the decency to let Rukov get seven and a half hours of sleep before waking him up. With all the names and connections getting thrown around in this game, I feel like we'll need a recap or at least a cast list before the climax hits.
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Feb 27, 2014 01:02
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He was remarkably lucid for sodium pentothal, too.
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Mar 2, 2014 06:15
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Xander77 posted:I don't even remember what the rules for hostile takeovers of abandoned LPs are. There are no real rules. Just do whatever and if the OP comes back, step aside. That's about it.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:25
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Xander77 posted:In case the end of the update was a bit too vague - do you guys have any ideas as to what we should do next? If we're still tracking the exchange, we might want to head to the warehouse. Seems like that's where the next exchange would take place.
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Jul 20, 2014 19:09
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The interrogation sequence reminds me of a bit from Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin. An American agent is captured at one point, drugged, and then put into a high-tech sensory deprivation tank. Not only are his eyes and ears covered, but he's also suspended in a special gel so that every sense is completely cut off from input. The guy basically goes insane after around twenty hours in the tank.
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Jul 28, 2014 07:21
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paragon1 posted:Why the sudden ending, do you think? That's because act 3 would be the coup attempt that took place on August 19th. The Emergency Committee was a very real organization that tried to wrest power from Gorbachev, but they didn't have a fake premier to issue orders in their name. Rukov stopped that from happening, apparently. The coup would wind up collapsing before the end of the month.
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Elite posted:Also we're told it was 4 men who snatched Protopopov which kind of hints at the KGB guys doing it themselves.... and it doesn't really seem like the needed the Rogov Institute because apparently Protopopov had already been suitably 'programmed' elsewhere. They brought Protopopov into the Rogov Institute simply to check on his programming, but then the nurse alerted the Pamyat, the neo-czarist fascist group that owns the gallery, and they stole the fake Gorbachev for their own use. Apparently Rukov's handler was a member of the fascists, but Volvov, the other guy who confronts you, was a double agent and a hard-line communist. From what I can tell, the reason everything gets confusing is because there are no fewer than four factions involved: there's the moderate government represented by Rukov and his uncle, the left-wing communists who brainwashed Protopopov as part of their coup attempt on the government, the right-wing Pamyat whose KGB contacts alerted them to Protopopov and had him kidnapped, and the gangsters who were set by Pamyat to act as a distraction. However, once Protopopov is kidnapped, the communists decide to go ahead without him, leaving Volvov to eliminate the fake Gorbachev and anyone who knows about him.
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