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Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Hmmmm.

Hunt11 posted:

I just assume he pisses off the side of the boat to and from missions.

Coolguye posted:

3) Samuel is loving done with my bullpoo poo
:v:

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Oblivion4568238
Oct 10, 2012

The Inquisition.
What a show.
The Inquisition.
Here. We. Go.
College Slice
Couple of days behind the video, but I have to ask: Coolguye, how do you plan on revealing the Lord Regent's crimes to Dunwall when you've systematically destroyed each and every speaker in the city? On a serious note, after how into it the Outsider was with the post-death speech, I really wonder what his post-non-lethal speech sounds like.

Rats Tossbag
Jan 16, 2014

RoboKy, why didn't you kill the announcer? We could have had the one voiced by Carrie Fisher!

JossiRossi
Jul 28, 2008

A little EQ, a touch of reverb, slap on some compression and there. That'll get your dickbutt jiggling.

Phon posted:

RoboKy, why didn't you kill the announcer? We could have had the one voiced by Carrie Fisher!

It is so weird that they got Fisher to do VO for the game but then put her behind an optional and easily missable murder. Even on my death sprees I spared that dude cause he was just stuck in dingy tower all day talking into a mic.

Rats Tossbag
Jan 16, 2014

JossiRossi posted:

It is so weird that they got Fisher to do VO for the game but then put her behind an optional and easily missable murder. Even on my death sprees I spared that dude cause he was just stuck in dingy tower all day talking into a mic.

I had no idea until I'd played through the game twice, and even then I read it online rather than found out myself. That guy is so out of the way, and there is no reason to go up there in a high chaos run, and low chaos runs generally don't involve killing innocents. I'd love to know the rationale behind that decision.

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

Easter egg, I imagine. Maybe Orv can show it off? I've never heard of it before so I'm hoping to see it.

TheLastRoboKy
May 2, 2009

Finishing the game with everyone else's continues

Phon posted:

RoboKy, why didn't you kill the announcer? We could have had the one voiced by Carrie Fisher!

I considered it as a thing to do but by the end I was meandering so hard I figured I'd just not.

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010

JossiRossi posted:

It is so weird that they got Fisher to do VO for the game but then put her behind an optional and easily missable murder.

Carrie Fisher's voice work isn't that great, I'm pretty sure that's the main reason they did this.

JT Jag
Aug 30, 2009

#1 Jaguars Sunk Cost Fallacy-Haver
The only true way to deal with the Lord Regent is to release the tape and then kill him. Ruin his reputation and then, when he's killed, no one will even consider him as some sort of martyr.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

JT Jag posted:

The only true way to deal with the Lord Regent is to release the tape and then kill him. Ruin his reputation and then, when he's killed, no one will even consider him as some sort of martyr.
That happened in my last playthrough but I'm not sure how. He was just suddenly lying dead on the floor. :iiam:

Orv
May 4, 2011
"Suddenly".

I'll take care of the VO bit.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer

Poil posted:

That happened in my last playthrough but I'm not sure how. He was just suddenly lying dead on the floor. :iiam:
Walls of light. The guards taking him away will go through a couple and if you hacked any, well, it's fried regent.

Orv
May 4, 2011
Next episode will see the not-so-triumphant return of Science Corvo. Someone draw me a picture of Corvo in a lab coat, studying a clipboard while stabbing a man in the face.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007



I couldn't get Corvo's face to look any better than that. :saddowns: :effort:


anilEhilated posted:

Walls of light. The guards taking him away will go through a couple and if you hacked any, well, it's fried regent.
But then there wouldn't have been a body, and he was just lying in the corridor some distance away. It was a(nother) non-lethal run so I hadn't hacked anything. Maybe a guard flipped out and shot him. I earned the ghost achievements on that run so it's even more confusing.

Porush
Dec 26, 2012


E: Fixed link to image.

Orv
May 4, 2011
You are both beautiful people.

Bootcha
Nov 13, 2012

Truly, the pinnacle of goaltending
Grimey Drawer
I'm a little late, just saw this, but here's my contribution:

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?
:eyepop:

Late but great!

NullBlack
Oct 29, 2011

I'm as confused as you are.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
Jesus Christ I love all of you hahahahahahah

Orv
May 4, 2011
:golfclap:

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
Return to the Tower (Low Chaos): Youtube Polsy

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Not bad a climb and sprint for an old man. Maybe he got some extra adrenalin to attempt to stop the broadcast. He wakes up all groggy and hears what's going on and clears the waterlock in one jump and madly dashes across the courtyard and up the stairs when a pair of mysteriously awake guards pull him over for speeding.

It would be amusing if he didn't notice the guards went missing and walked into the prison by himself. All the guards just staring as he enters the first available cell and sits down, never looking behind him. :v:

Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

Coolguye posted:

Return to the Tower (Low Chaos): Youtube Polsy

No thread title change 0/10, but for science where does the lord regent's escort when he was arrested take him? Does he make it outside?

Stormgale fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Mar 19, 2016

midwifecrisis
Jul 5, 2005

oh, have I got some GREAT news for you!

Coolguye posted:

Return to the Tower (Low Chaos): Youtube Polsy

I'm only two minutes in but you guys definitely are onto something. I bet the Outsider is actually just a result of CHIM taken to extreme conclusions.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
Wait wait wait hold on the royal spymaster got loving shouldersurfed by the radioman of all people?

JT Jag
Aug 30, 2009

#1 Jaguars Sunk Cost Fallacy-Haver

Fish Noise posted:

Wait wait wait hold on the royal spymaster got loving shouldersurfed by the radioman of all people?
All indications seem to show that Hiram was only good at the "loving over other people" half of spycraft, and completely inept at the "avoiding getting hosed over himself" part.

IronSaber
Feb 24, 2009

:roboluv: oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...:fap:

JT Jag posted:

All indications seem to show that Hiram was only good at the "loving over other people" half of spycraft, and completely inept at the "avoiding getting hosed over himself" part.

Especially since he left the most incriminating recording of himself lying around instead of destroying it like a sane person.

AradoBalanga
Jan 3, 2013

IronSaber posted:

Especially since he left the most incriminating recording of himself lying around instead of destroying it like a sane person.
And then let a random person see the combination to the safe he was keeping the incriminating recording hidden.

Even further, Hiram also made the drat thing in the first place, so if he kept his mouth shut none of this comeuppance would have happened.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

It sounded like he definitely felt guilty about where things went, probably recorded it as a "history will vindicate me" confession thing.

Lprsti99
Apr 7, 2011

Everything's coming up explodey!

Pillbug
"Corvo's already a felon, can't get much worse than that."

I dunno, stuff like bouncing that dude's head off of his own piss and the enemies that keep getting bisected by walls and poo poo yet are still alive probably count as crimes against humanity :v:

Torlon
Oct 27, 2007

Kittens, you have to get them before they get you

IronSaber posted:

Especially since he left the most incriminating recording of himself lying around instead of destroying it like a sane person.

Let's be honest here. Everyone has had incriminating stuff that they keep. Roboky keeps a dead body with him most of the time, we've got a "scientist" who kept records of poisoning/infecting people, the high overseer's black book... the list goes on.

Keeping incriminating evidence about yourself seems to be an important tradition here.

Delacroix
Dec 7, 2010

:munch:

IronSaber posted:

Especially since he left the most incriminating recording of himself lying around instead of destroying it like a sane person.

If you don't keep the incriminating evidence, then who will? Someone has to do it because tightly wound conspiracies won't undo themselves. Narrativium demands it.

Shei-kun
Dec 2, 2011

Screw you, physics!
"A very bad case of the Starscreams" is a phrase I will be using in the future whenever I can.

it's too beautiful not to use. Thank you so very much, Roboky.

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

AradoBalanga posted:

And then let a random person see the combination to the safe he was keeping the incriminating recording hidden.

A safe conspicuously placed in his minimalist bedroom, where guards seem to patrol constantly, and apparently also where the news broadcaster is sometimes allowed into? Who else has access to the room where the Lord Regent keeps his Ross Ulbricht-esque "my crimes.txt" audio log?

It's not even a wall safe behind a loving painting. It's just a big tempting metal box sitting in the middle of his room that any maid, guardsman, new broadcaster, or whoever could get a Big Idea to brute force the 3-digit code for riches and instead find out the Lord Regent's deepest, darkest, most incriminating secret.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

AradoBalanga posted:

And then let a random person see the combination to the safe he was keeping the incriminating recording hidden.

Even further, Hiram also made the drat thing in the first place, so if he kept his mouth shut none of this comeuppance would have happened.
The radioman even has a pretty good idea of what's on the incriminating record! Was he there for the recording? Did the royal spymaster not know how to operate the recorder and need help?

Did the punchcard keep jamming and the radioman get called in to see what the problem was and it turns out he was putting it in backwards and then kept the radioman there in case anything else broke and then the radioman just stands there listening to the confession with a :aaaaa: expression?

death .cab for qt posted:

It's not even a wall safe behind a loving painting. It's just a big tempting metal box sitting in the middle of his room that any maid, guardsman, new broadcaster, or whoever could get a Big Idea to brute force the 3-digit code for riches and instead find out the Lord Regent's deepest, darkest, most incriminating secret.

TheLastRoboKy
May 2, 2009

Finishing the game with everyone else's continues
If Hiram Burrows had displayed any sort of competency in his plots and plans up to this point I might have gotten annoyed by how he prepped his own petard for hoisting, but honestly just look at the guy! He's been operating with so little oversight for so long he has no idea what succeeding at something actually looks like. This is a guy that probably thinks spilling his coffee all over his pants while trying to read the newspaper in a dignified pose is how you start your day. The kind of guy that thinks he's mastered tripping face-first down the stairs as a means to get to the bottom faster. He probably accidentally burned off all his hair doing something stupid and is convinced he's minimized his personal drag.

Hiram Burrows is the kind of spymaster that when confronted with a lack of evidence to match his intuition regarding the safety of the kingdom he decided the potential enemy was so insidious as to be able to hide from even his amazingly talented methods, so the only way to destroy this enemy nobody could tell was there but him was to imperil the kingdom in an utterly stupefying manner.

That he ultimately made it ridiculously easy to reveal him as the cause of the city's suffering is less shocking than the idea that he managed to avoid revealing it in the first few seconds of the Empress' murder by not going "MY GODS! THE EMPRESS HAS BEEN KILLED TO PROTECT ME FROM THE REVELATION OF THE PLAGUE BEING MY DIRECT FAULT! A VERY GOOD REASON! ARREST CORVO!" like he probably wanted to.

Manic_Misanthrope
Jul 1, 2010


At this point, Hiram was definitely losing it. We'd killed/kidnapped/banished all of his allies, everything he had going well for him has been kicked away and then this happened. He thinks the assassin is a ghost of the vengeful empress or something, and to top it off? He gets bottled, twice.

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

I mentioned the brute force detail because I remember Perochial Joe doing it, but I didn't it remember it was the samz safe :allears:

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AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

I don't know if it's a weird issue on my end, but the episode ends on you about to start a sentence "Yep, the uh..." and Orv never kills the announcer. Was that intentional?

This episode though. :allears: This loving episode.

And I totally forgot there was DLC oh my god there's still so much of this LP left. :swoon:

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