Poil posted:

The whaler song. Some people will whistle it and you can find the lyrics lying around in books occasionally but it's not actually in the game.

Coolguye posted:

I generally ignore readables for a whole slew of reasons, but this was legitimately one that I had intended to include. So I will treat it much like the other fun readables that people shout out in this game: I'll transcribe it, and put it in the update post!

Whale Vivisection posted:

[Excerpt from the notes of a natural philosopher aboard a whaling ship]

Remarkably, each specimen I had the pleasure of studying during the voyage possessed some minor variance in physiology. On the second leg of the trip, east of Tyvia, the crew hauled aboard a female, some 42' in length. I estimate she weighed 35 tons and the ship sat low, rocking side to side through the night with her thrashing.

By candlelight, I took her apart, sketching and taking notes. Against her bellowing, I cut into the mass of tentacles around her mouth. Within I found row upon row of teeth and a baleen running along the upper jaw. Through this broom-like structure, I assumed she filtered food from the water that was too small to be chewed.

Whale Oil Processing posted:

[Excerpt from the founder of the Greaves Whale House - By Ebenezer Greaves]

Out at sea, they secure the beast with hooks, with lines cast from the main-ship and from several smaller boats. Buoys keep the whale from diving deep. Once it's caught, a larger hook is driven through the tail, which is used to hoist the creature up through the chute. They moan and bellow for some time as the men get them onto the deck, then heft them into the scaffolding overhead. The ship adjusts its prow and returns to port in Dunwall, where the crew works on the great creature, slicing off the fattiest parts while it still lives.

Poil posted:

Weird, I remember the conversation with the sick overseer after the assassination being very different. Maybe it was a different place.

Possessing is really fun, it even works on fish. Who hasn't wanted to possess fish every once in a while?

Poil posted:

On my latest playthrough I wrapped up a few days ago I somehow got both the Ghost and Shade achievements. Possession is amazingly helpful. After choking a lady and leaving her on a basement floor, which apparently also had a pack of rats, I learned that it doesn't count as you murdering people if they die from environmental hazards so to speak. The box "didn't kill anyone" was still checked after it was over despite the contrary and mildly gruesome evidence.

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

It's really clunky exposition, especially in a game which to some extent trusts you to explore and make your own entertainment. You can find out about the brand from reading the book in the interrogation room (which you'll have stumbled upon organically in your quest for That drat Sokolov Painting) and by the objective marker. The conversation seems unnecessary.

NGDBSS posted:

Fixed that for you. It's not like we haven't seen Coolguye playing like a ravenous drunken kleptomaniac before, after all.

double nine posted:

Just have the player work for the nonlethal options. It's kind of the whole point of the easy but evil vs difficult but good morality system they built the game on.

A Darker Porpoise posted:

The LP got me started playing through this again on high chaos this time and well uh Dishonored a solid not at all glitchy game! .



I dooooon't think she's just unconscious.

Poil posted:

You can definitely get higher on the bridge than that. But not to the very top I think. Just pretty close on the beams.

Ablative posted:

I have a confession. I uh... I really liked this level the first time i played it.

Poil posted:

That's really common and it's like almost every single person is dead set on there only being a few predetermined forms of government with no variations as if playing older Civilization games where you pick one from a list. As long as it could reasonably be expected to work there is no reason why it couldn't be used. It does need to be a bit more functional than Simon Says however.

double nine posted:

Needless to say quite a few idiots found it too unrealistic to have a female pirate captain with kids.

MooCowlian posted:

It's just not practical.

Zomborgon posted:

So how about that killing things or hugging them, right?

JT Jag posted:

Do the Tallboys count, because he probably designed those

Orv posted:

Regrettably I have already made a "LP dead on account of X" joke but uh, XCOM, real good you guys.

Torlon posted:

Interesting... the month of harvest is after the month of darkness, month of high cold, and month of ice.

Unless you go up instead of down which is weird.

Drakyn posted:

Pandyssia is an Australian version of Pangaea

Bootcha posted:

Much like Austin, Dunwall lacks a mass-transportation solution

TheDarkFlame posted:

Yeah the notes and journals do mention the Whalers a few times. I don't know when they first get introduced as that, rather than just mysterious black masks. It's meant to be a disguise as well, I think? So to the average person, they're just hosed-up sailors who reek of death and highly-explosive fuel and carry a ludicrous amount of weaponry.

Speedball posted:

I think there's some document in the game that says that one of Daud's powers is the ability to lend some of his power to others, hence all the teleporting minions. But none of them are quite as powerful as he is, so, they aren't immune to time stop.

And he's got at least one power we don't, the Tether ability that freezes someone in place (they used it on us during the Empress's assassination)

Stormgale posted:

Daud is so interesting, as opposed even Corvo he really seems to be in it for the art of it all.

TheLastRoboKy posted:

(Also if you are wondering yes, I am aware of the Dawn of War III announce trailer)

Zomborgon posted:

I just found out that Mercer Frey from the Skyrim Thieves' Guild is loving Garrett. Holy poo poo, everyone loves their Thief references.
I was momentarily outraged that Corvo would get a voice, but in that light it's going to be wondrous.

Lunethex posted:

Stephen Russell (Thief, Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) as Corvo Attano

MooCowlian posted:

So I've got until november to get a computer that can run 2015/16 games. Right.

SgtSteel91 posted:

Or you can choke your doppelganger and knockout multiple people at one.

That might make Low Chaos (is there going to be a chaos system again?) runs really fun/easy

Delacroix posted:

If you can't use that to possess multiple guards and/or cause them to vomit in sync, it will be a sad state of affairs.

Possession isn't exclusive to Corvo, I hope!

CirclMastr posted:

As much as I like mocking Quantic Dream (and rightfully so), I'm super conflicted since their next game, Detroit: Become Human, stars my sister.

Fathis Munk posted:

Fathis Munk posted:

Doesn't she always talk about someone taking her to balls though? In my mind that was always about the outsider.

I might be mixing stuff up, it's been a while.

"The Journal of Granny Rags" posted:

[Excerpt from the ramblings of a street denizen]

Of course I’ll tell you, dearie. I won’t keep any secrets from you in the end. All the dreary days of my life are like the windows of a house. From the kitchen, I can see out into the garden where the leaves and stalks are brown and bug-eaten. You can see a little lump of dirt where something was wrapped in a blanket and laid to rest along the rows of twisting vines.

The front room looks out into the street, where the neighbors are all setting fire to their homes, barricading themselves inside. Warm and snug, dearie.

Don’t forget about the bedroom, either. It sees into a dreary alley, where hooligans are playing a game with an old man. The first two are hitting him with sticks and the girl with them is kicking at his dry, old ribs. Oh, to have those bones, to boil them in a pot.

No one lives in my house anymore dearie. No one you’d want to meet.

When I lived there with my husband, we were fine, fine people. Vera Moray, everyone would say, your house is as grand as Boyle Manor. Better even. Your dinners are lavish and your parties are the best.

When that young Sokolov came to paint my portrait I was nearly still in my prime. Radiant, he said, and he was just barely a man, so young, painting all the best people across the land. Everyone wanted a portrait by his hand, all my friends. I was the only one, dearie, wet with his paint, glistening on the canvas for a pretty coin.

But it wasn’t all parties and paintings. My husband and I weren’t always at home, no. We traveled together, he and I, to the far ends of the Isles. Beyond even, all the way to the red cliffs of Pandyssia, to dig in the rock and crawl through the caves, holding up candles and squinting at the walls. Many precious things we came upon, but none so precious as the boy with the black eyes, dearie. All those marks and bones, carved so deep and polished so bright.

I brought the old bones home. Hid them from my dear husband. Then I learned to boil them and carve them myself. They made such good presents, dearie. The little mute boy took them home. He loved them so. All the time he came back with new bones for me, holding them up so I could see it in his eyes, even though his tongue was still. Granny, his eyes would say to me, carve these bones for me. Make me another present. And he went so far, so far, all the way to Dunwall Tower, the Royal Headsman himself now. My little mute boy and his shiny, shiny sword.

Better bones were what I needed, you see. Better bones to carve and polish, scrape and gleam. My dear old husband was always tired. I made him soup and then he was sick. Better bones, was all. For my little mute boy, carved in the name of the one with the black eyes. And after my husband was gone, given away as birthday gifts, I didn’t want to live there any more.

So now I’m old and don’t have many to give my presents to. It’s sifting through the garbage for Granny Rags, and feeding the little birdies that gather at my feet. No one wants to have tea, dearie. Especially those rude louts on Bottle Street. Slackjaw and his boys, always meddling with an old woman just trying to make her way.

In the end we’ll be together with him. You and me in the dreary night with the stars above and below. And always the one with the black eyes, dearie.

Llab posted:

Do you mean in-game? It also shows up for GOTY owners. That, and a billion charms I never use. Slackjaw's rise was also good.

TheLastRoboKy posted:

Emily's powers seem cool enough I think I'll play as her first cause goddamn, that's a neat looking set of skills.

Fish Noise posted:

Even so, the fact remains: Billie Lurk is a cool girl who would never, ever mock you.

Wugga posted:

Train Runner