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The name edward kelley is familiar to me, not from history itself, but from another game I played recently... Is he weaboo gerralt from nioh?
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No, hes the villain in Nioh and is based on a real life alchemist/medium
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May 22, 2018 21:02
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The main character in Nioh is William Adams who is based off the real British sailor who ended up stranded in Japan after a disastrous voyage and became an advisor to Tokugawa.
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May 22, 2018 21:09
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 Should be another update tomorrow. But I'm going to erode my sanity streaming and watching the cutscenes of a Kingdom Hearts game over here at 10:00 PM EDT (a little over an hour from this post) if that's your kinda bag: https://www.twitch.tv/neodarkid Much darkness will transpire.
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May 23, 2018 01:43
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Christ there's still some of that left?
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:Christ there's still some of that left? https://imgur.com/a/oXimIxs
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Arkanumzilong posted:The name edward kelley is familiar to me, not from history itself, but from another game I played recently... Are you thinking of Edward Kenway from Assassins Creed, by any chance?
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Accordion Man posted:The main character in Nioh is Williams Adams who is based off the real British sailor who ended up stranded in Japan after a disastrous voyage and became an advisor to Tokugawa. He was born in my hometown - which when I saw his beefy blond design in Nioh, made me laugh my rear end off.
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Accordion Man posted:The main character in Nioh is Williams Adams who is based off the real British sailor who ended up stranded in Japan after a disastrous voyage and became an advisor to Tokugawa. Ah right, I just confused the names around Thought he was the protag cuz I remember hearing/reading his name a lot, thought it might have been from playing bladestorm as well
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For some reason my internet never works with livestreams, I'm always slow or off by a couple of seconds or even minutes so I'll catch this on a Youtube upload. But drat, TDI is doing 3DS. What fun. Lalala. What fun. The Watchers, they laugh.
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Episode XXIII: Portrait of Ruin.jpg) “Something’s not right” seems like an understatement to all the batshit insanity of this joint at this point. So Patrick kidnapped and butchered 300+ chickens, nearly 50 pigs and somewhere upward of 200 kidnapped women and sex workers to cut up and stuff in a weird magic Welsh cauldron to resurrect his dead wife. Never mind that Ogden and Bessy apparently just had extracurricular activities of murdering anyone trespassing well after the fact. .jpg) And all that eventually resulted in is resurrecting a soulless husk. Even if the procedure had worked as planned... gonna venture a guess his marriage with Elaine would be mildly strained given the extent of heinous murder he committed... What was he going to do if she came back right? Was he going to have Bessy keep her busy while he and Ogden hastily run around the monastery grounds with a big wheelbarrow scooping up all the bodies to hide? What about all the ghosts and monsters the place was lousy with now? .jpg) There’s many flaws to this plan, is all I’m saying... But we’ll ruminate on that in a bit. First, we’ve got a boss encounter to sort out here. As soon as we step unto this corrupted holy water font we're attacked by the boss residing in Patrick's mansion. Given recent revelations, I can only assume Patrick Heyworth stuck his dick into the water flow outlet while getting his rocks off to satanic porn in order to coax out more evil spirits. With a drawing of his beloved dead wife pasted over the face of Baphomet and whatnot, naturally.  Music: Incantation Again .jpg) January 19th. Rain. Blitzed another dozen hookers and poured their remains into the cauldron. Baked five hours on a medium heat just as the Émigré Document showed. Let cool for 20 minutes. Results... less than satisfactory. Too many legs. I think a spider might have crawled into the vat between cleanings. Will have to have Ogden clean more thoroughly before the next attempt. .jpg) Meet the Scapegoat, an enemy that definitely looks like it escaped from an alternate universe Bloodborne that was made in 1999. This mass of limbs and faces comes packing a fairly daunting 9216 HP. But despite its nightmare fuel visage, it isn’t all that much of a threat. Especially with its severe weakness to Fire elements, being a Water elemental beast for... some reason. I imagine it is quite juicy. .jpg) .jpg) The Scapegoat’s primary means of attack is launching a lightning orb at whoever is closest to it at the moment. Which means our forever frontlines facing vanguard, Edward. Which is a bad scene for him, since he is the only one that will take any sort of significant damage from magic attacks. James has healing Edward duties for the duration of this fight. .jpg) The beast can also throw a mean haymaker that hits poor Ed for about the same 500ish range of damage. That would be extremely problematic for Koudelka or James. Which is primarily why we have him up front. Really, Edward’s only role here is to be a punching bag because the Scapegoat has a massive resistance to physical attacks. .jpg) .jpg) Really, Edward cannot even break double digit damage from a three hit combo in this fight. He is utterly useless except as a damage tank while Koudelka does all the heavy lifting and James keeps him alive for more abuse. I’m sure there’s something to be said about the characters’ relationship from this dynamic... .jpg) .jpg) Between pumping her magic stats every level, the Catseye weapon and all the magical trait buffing accessories equipped on her, Koudelka’s magic stats will carry us through most of the game damage output wise. Even with nearly 10,000 HP this monster can be sorted out in 2-3 turns of hitting its environmental weakness. Especially since we’ve had Flare the longest, it’s now a Level 3 spell by this point. .jpg) That’s kind of it for the woman/spider/nightmare hybrid that is the Scapegoat. You might be thinking Koudelka might be slightly overpowered by this point. But I’m going to counter that with: this battle system is terrible and anything that makes it go faster is perfectly fine in my book. Honestly, I probably should have had James start working on being a secondary battle mage to make the fights go even faster with magic casting overwhelming odds. .jpg) At the battle’s conclusion we receive the very last magical spell in the game -- Reflect. The Reflect spell works exactly like it does in many RPGs with a similar (usually identical) spell: it reflects magical attacks. This will be extremely useful (by which I mean all but mandatory) in the near future. So we’ll just keep in mind it’s now a part of our magical arsenal. .jpg) Speaking of arsenal, the Scapegoat also drops the final pistol in the game -- the Automatic Pistol aka the Mauser C96. Also known as the right choice of handguns, the Red 9 from Resident Evil 4. Or the basis for Han Solo’s blaster from Star Wars if you’re some kind of lame nerd. The Automatic Pistol is a straight upgrade over the DA Pistol and best of its class for handguns in Koudelka. Its chief advantage is having 10 rounds over the usual six of the revolvers. Fun fact: The Mauser C96 was first produced in 1896 making this a fairly new handgun on the market. Clumsy Patrick must have dropped the one he bought into the homunculi cauldron as he was fumbling with all those severed legs he was dropping in that afternoon. What a buffoon! .jpg) In any case, the holy water font has been purified and with it another Permanent Save Point. After a long absence, we’re actually coming up on the next timed item unlock at 10:10:10. Well... in around half an hour, at least. But we’ll sort that out next time. For now, we’ve still got some more business in this room beyond slaying that boss. .jpg) If the party tries to leave the room after killing the Scapegoat, a lengthy scene plays out as soon as we pass Elaine’s portrait. Let’s take a look... .jpg)  So this is Elaine? Yes... I don’t see what all the fuss is about. <murderous scowl> She’s the one I had the psychic vision of... Do you doubt it? No indeed... Good. Let’s begin. Wait. You’re not going to let yourself get possessed by her or something, right? That didn’t go well last time... No. I’m just going to summon her spirit. ...You can do that? <shrug> Probably....jpg) Koudelka performs some yoga breathing exercises as a low hum begins to emit from the painting and the ghost of Elaine Heyworth appears. Gonna go on record saying that the camera angle for this entire scene leaves something to be desired... I don’t think they intended for this entire emotional scene to be punctuated by an omnipresent Koudelka panty shot. But here we are... .jpg) <falls to her knees and starts panting> ...... It’s been a long time indeed, Mr. O’Flaherty Oh Elaine, is that really you? Yes, it is. It is such a pity we meet again and I can only present myself to you in this form. You do not get to keep your shoes in spectral form, I’m afraid. It’s very rude of me. <to Koudelka> This is the woman that responded to my voice is it not? .jpg) <rises to feet and nods> Thank you for doing this for someone like myself. You were screaming into my head with psychic calls every single evening as I tried to sleep for the last two weeks. I didn’t have much of a choice... Elaine... Haven’t yet come to terms... Please tell me how this happened to you. Didn’t she get murdered by some thieves? <glares> Edward, I will end you. OK... OK! Sheesh... Of course I will explain.New Music: Dead (Music hardly ever plays in this game. You should probably listen.) .jpg) James... Eighteen years ago I was murdered by some thieves that broke into my home. I was helpless. ...... <hangs head> See that’s exactly what I said... Both Patrick and Ogden were out on business. There was nothing that anyone could do. I will not accept this! This should not have happened! Yes. Patrick responded the same exact way. Well, initially. Bless his heart, it... got out of hand... Understatement of the year... He could not accept my death. He spent years and years perfecting his craft of wizardry and tried everything in his power to bring me back to life..jpg) Resurrecting the dead? I-Is this for real? Hey, we're not talking about Frankenstein here... Frankenstein? That novel written about a hundred years ago. It’s about this monster, Frankenstein, that was made out of corpses brought back to life. I must have missed that one... Frankenstein was actually the name of the doctor. The creature went unnamed. Also, it was actually only seventy-five years since it was written. Well EXCUSE ME, miss. I suppose there is more wizardry in your husband’s version. He was taking it very seriously! And he had found the key to actually make it happen....jpg) <raises head> The Émigré Document. Yes. With Ogden's assistance and the powers from ancient Druids, he held a resurrection ceremony in this monastery. I haven’t seen dear Ogden in some time. It’s strange. He used to come regularly to talk to this portrait. Oh... I’m sure he and his wife will be along... shortly. But about this ceremony... But something went wrong, didn't it? As I said, it got... out of hand... Repeatedly... We read his journal. We know. Oh thank goodness! That would have been awkward to go over... ...... He only resurrected my physical body. As you can see, my soul is still doomed to roaming the universe. <hangs head> Forever separated from my body. And the terrifying thing... is that my body was resurrected as a heartless monster. Monster... Although the monster may look like me... <floats closer to James>.jpg) It is not me. Mr. O'Flaherty... Please! Turn my body into ashes with your power. <raise head and sounds on the verge of tears> Ashes...? But if we do that, we won’t be able to bring you back to life... Mr. O'Flaherty... I was robbed of my life by those thieves and I could hate them as mortal enemies. Choose to think that my death was preordained by the Lord. <lowers head again> Please do not mourn my death. It was wrong for Patrick to try to resurrect me.... to undo the work of God. The hundreds of women he murdered wasn’t too great either... Was that the Lord’s plan too? He works in mysterious ways. <groans> <raises James’s head> Please do not be sad. .jpg) Death is at the heart of God's reasoning. ...... <voice echoes and gets further away> I urge you to destroy my body. Its existence defies the wise providence of Heaven. It mustn't exist in this world!.jpg) And with that Elaine’s ghost vanishes, never to be seen again. .jpg) Wait! E-Elaine! I still don’t see what the big fuss is about with this broad....jpg) <falls to his knees> God... curse... What a cruel world! I gave everything for your happiness! And now... what am I left with...? I have no meaning in my life... <punches the ground> drat IT! What have I been doing with my life!? <shouts at portrait> ELAINE! ELAAAAAAINE!! Psst... Hey... Should we go or...? Let’s just give him a minute....jpg) And on that note we’ll let James have that minute. Tune in next time as we consult with everyone’s favorite Franciscan monk on recent events and see if we can’t figure out how to find Elaine and destroy her soulless monster body. I'm sure it'll be a straightforward, simple matter to accomplish. I’m less sure if that’ll sort out the nest of evil spirits and monsters fluttering about Wales. But at least it’s a solid objective as Koudelka continues!    Video: Episode 23 Highlight Reel (You should watch this.)   James O’Flaherty’s Journey to Nemeton – He was never good at talking with ladies outside Elaine. The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 21:22 on May 25, 2018 |
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May 23, 2018 17:57
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Man, that song is really good for that scene.
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James breaking down in this scene is really amazing. Guy's a prick, but him questioning all the choices he made in his life is really well-acted. I also find it very humanizing that James wanted to resurrect Elaine as well and that she had to talk him out of it. A different writer might have made him agree to destroy Elaine's body without question, but it probably wouldn't be that easy to let go if you knew there's a way to get a loved one back.
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Major Berserk spoilers for the current storyline just for comparison with this game, but I'm reminded of the current Casca storyline in Berserk with a certain someone who ironically enough, had an alias of Elaine made by sex workers to protect her. That one is going about as well as this one despite Guts turning over a new leaf to the point that he rescued a couple slave kids. And I'm not surprised James would try and use the Emigre Manuscript. Guy's a loudmouthed racist and is still pining for some girl he met years ago. He'd probably rationalize him using the thing as being on some mission from God and immune to failure no matter what depths he'd sink to as opposed to Patrick's killing spree with two cranky old caretakers using inferior sex worker sacrifices. He'd just go to the nearest bar in town, pick a fight with a couple drunks, specifically foreign ones, and lure them out to whatever murder cave he'd have built for himself. Even Patrick showed remorse in his diary and made pithy rationalizations when he killed all those people. James would be burning with the fury of the lord. The Dark Id posted:Even if the procedure had worked as plan... Should be "planned." Shitenshi fucked around with this message at 21:24 on May 23, 2018 |
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The Dark Id posted:Tune in next time as we consult with everyone’s Franciscan monk on recent events
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Xander77 posted:Favorite? I wouldn't go that far.
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Koudelka gets a lot of flack for its music choices, but here it really nails it out of the park. The music here combined with the fantastic voice acting to create a scene that was just really hard-hitting. The strength of the actors on display isn't something that gets prioritized in games that much, but god is it really appreciated when it is. BTW I'm pretty this info only gets mentioned in material outside of the game itself, but James actually came out of the Great Famine (1845-1849). So that puts a bit of context behind him passing on his for love Elaine with the knowledge that even though he still managed to survive poverty and hardship a bit better than his fellow countrymen, he was still in a much poorer condition than everyone else outside.
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Now I'm wondering if we're going to get a choice in destroying Elaine's body. Cause these days, that kind of set up would definitely foreshadow that sort of thing.The Dark Id posted:As soon as we step unto this corrupted holy water font. The first probably works as-is, it just feels like you intended to say "up to". The last one needs "it" removed and a comma or a colon added after "game".
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I thought Elaine died like within the last three or four years. Not loving EIGHTEEN years ago. drat dude, let it go...
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Nohman posted:I thought Elaine died like within the last three or four years. Not loving EIGHTEEN years ago. drat dude, let it go... See, this is why you don't even start trying with the piddly only-take-a-few-pints-of-goat-blood resurrection spells, the sunken cost fallacy gets you every time. Pretty soon you are like: Welp, the additional virgin sacrifices didn't work either and now her immortal souls is in constant writhing agony, but luckily this mysterious foreigner taught me how to summon Baphomet to give me a quick setup tutorial.
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Nohman posted:I thought Elaine died like within the last three or four years. Not loving EIGHTEEN years ago. drat dude, let it go... If people in RPG's would let things go, the genre wouldn't exist
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Nohman posted:I thought Elaine died like within the last three or four years. Not loving EIGHTEEN years ago. drat dude, let it go... How the hell did I never notice this? I thought everything happened maybe within a five year period max. Ah well, gotta let that angry spirit malice ferment well I suppose... Off topic, but something fantastic has happened lately. Thanks to the efforts of a wonderful goon (I'm not sure if you would like your name credited or not?) for sharing the files, the Koudelka Drama CD is now available for everyone to hear! I spent a while to splitting the files up, and uploading them to Youtube, so ch-ch-ch-check it out!  Chapter 1 'Between Life and Death' / 第一夜「生と死の狭間」 Chapter 2 'One More of Me' / 第二夜「もうひとりの自分」 Chapter 3 'In a Spirit Prison' / 第三夜「魂の牢獄で」 Chapter 4 'Someone Worth Protecting' / 第四夜「守るべきもの」 Chapter 5 'Primarily in Opposition, a Moment...' / 第五夜「主に背く、瞬間……」 ...And there's more, but that's spoilers at this point so I'm not posting until we're past it.  It's currently untranslated, but from what I can tell, it seems like it expands on Koudelka's backstory. Also gives Alias a bit more of a bigger role to play since he came to the same village as Koudelka in search of treasure to be found in the Nemeton ruins presumably. The werewolf monster that was the game's intro to combat? Also has a speaking role. Going through this even without the benefit of knowing Japanese has been very interesting in seeing what choices were made to expand on or change for the sake of a radio show. I can tell by listening that the game's director Hiroki Kikuta had plenty of ideas to expand on had this game been commercially successful (this game is successful in my heart, drat it.   ), and I'm glad to be able to share this with you all.p.s. If anybody knows Japanese or someone is willing to help translate this, let me know either here or on Youtube. EagerSleeper fucked around with this message at 01:04 on May 27, 2018 |
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16, given Patrick's diary is two years before our current date - but it means Elaine's been in torment for almost two full years, poor woman.
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Episode XXIV: Hearthstone.jpg) OK. We now have an actual objective in our adventure: destroy Elaine’s body. I’m sure it’ll be as simple a matter as merely stuffing a pillow over its face until it stops moving and perhaps giving it a proper burial. We’ll be done in no time! .jpg) Speaking of time, the fated hour of the next item unlock is upon us. Well... upon the LP. I had to wait another fifteen minutes. Thankfully the depletion of the bulk of our key items has freed up enough inventory that I only had to discard a couple obsolete weapons to make it to 43 items for the unlock. .jpg) .jpg) This time around we get prolific Welsh serial killer Ogden Hartman’s murder weapon of choice – Ogden’s Axe. This is a non-elemental version of the standard rear end axe but with its stats significantly altered. The normal Axe grants +12 Strength, +4 Vitality, -1 Dex and -2 Agility. Ogden’s Axe grants a whopping +40 Strength. Though with significant cost in the form of -10 Vitality, Intelligence, Piety, Mind and Luck. Since Edward already has Vitality to spare and will only be getting more and the rest are dump stats for him, he might get some use out of that axe in the future. That aside, Ogden’s Axe is the penultimate unlock as far as this LP is concerned. The next unlock is at 11:11:11 which isn’t far off. The final unlock, however, is not until 22:22:22. There’s like three hours left in this game. I’m not waiting an extra eight hours just to legitimately gain a weapon with different stats and a changed name. Even I have my limits on completionist junk. .jpg) .jpg) Back on task, now that the Scapegoat has been slain and the holy water font restored, the path upstairs further into the mansion has now been unlocked. So let’s get to explorin’! .jpg) Hmm... Did Roger light this fireplace or did a passing ghoul feel the need to warm up before entering the random battle queue? Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved. With that said, we can solve a mystery to a puzzle we’ve yet to even find by turning Koudelka’s attention to the bookcase in the center of the room. The one with the five volume set of books the size of a small child. .jpg) Above the dragon, it reads “Hestia”. If you remember correctly, that means “Hearth” in Greek. .jpg) Good to know Koudelka has studied up on Greek and Latin. Now if you were to wager a guess that we need to interact with the fireplace directly to the left of this hint... you’d be dead wrong. It’s just a normal rear end fireplace. You imbecile. You loving moron! .jpg) .jpg) Naturally we need to go find another hearth in an adjoining room. Welcome to Patrick’s laboratory. We’ve got a few items of interest scattered about where Mr. Heyworth started his 1890s predecessor to Umbrella Incorporated. For instance, on the shelf to the left is... .jpg) An empty bottle that just so happens to be completely 100% acid-proof. All acids ever made could be stored into this glass bottle safely. Stick a hole in a Xenomorph and let that acidic super blood rest safely in this container. I’m sure we’ll find a reason to need to transport acid sometime. Who hasn’t had a need for acid at one time or another? .jpg) Also of note here is a scale which we can use to weigh Koudelka. 45kg or around 99 lbs. Sheesh, lady. Did you escape from Chrono Cross or something? We need to hook you up with a burger or two once we’re out of the haunted hellscape of Wales. But for now, we’ll just keep Koudelka’s skinny rear end weight in mind. Music: Waterfall  Also hanging out in the laboratory is this special boy and his delightful walk cycle -- the Puppet. He’s some sort of vegetable... skeleton... thingie with a snake for a scarf. I’m not quite sure what his deal is but I like his moxie. .jpg) .jpg) Puppets don’t actually have any proper damaging attacks. They instead can buff their allies’ Strength and Intelligence or do the same draining our party’s stats for the battle. Yeah... pal. I don’t think -10 Strength is going to put too much of a damper on Koudelka’s fighting ability. .jpg) Barring bosses, I’m fairly certain the Puppet is the last new random battle enemy we’ll be encountering in our time with Nemeton Monastery. Here on out (and really for a decent clip off-camera) it’s just been palette swap and stat bumped variations of past enemies. If nothing, at least we ended on a high note. .jpg) The enemies in this stretch of game were also nice enough to drop a couple of new weapons along the way. Such as a pickaxe in case Koudelka wants to give up the wandering ghost busting psychic routine and become a tomb raider. Warning, the profession is wrought with murder as I understand it and it takes a couple goes for the tomb raider moniker to stick. .jpg) We’ve also picked up a C Knife if anyone needs a good and proper stabbing. I kind of miss the days when character limits resulted in bastardized approximations of words or bizarre initials to begin names. It’s all so sterile and formal these days. .jpg) Moving to the back of the laboratory... Well, wouldn’t you know it? It’s another hearth. And this one isn’t on fire. We’ll take a peek in there in just a sec. Right now the paper on the table seems a touch more interesting. A closer look reveals this is Patrick’s Memo. Which reads.. .jpg) Oh good. In addition to being a mass murderer and amoral and heretical science boy, Patrick was also really anal about keeping up with his weight. 70 kilograms is around 155 lbs. Pat seemed like a husky boy in his unused character model. But he’s well under the average weight for a guy in his 50s unless he was actually some manner of Hobbit. Anyway, we’ll just keep that 70 kilograms in mind as well. Now then, about that hearth... .jpg) You remember the word “Hestia” written on the scroll. Perhaps you should investigate the fireplace. Yes... perhaps we should lift the giant obvious hatch with a handle and everything that is in the fireplace. .jpg) Note: Koudelka will not do this unless she has specifically found that hint written on the cover of books in the previous room. How could she know without such inside information!? Down the hatch we go... .jpg) Not much going on in the secret room beneath the fireplace. Trying to exit through the door down here reveals it is locked “using a trick mechanism of some sort.” Koudelka can determine this at just a glance, but pulling a hatch open in a fireplace is a bridge too far in her deductive reasoning skills. But there is also a scale next to the door. Hmm... Let’s step on it and see what happens. .jpg) By adjusting the counterweight, you can change the balance of the scale. “70kg” was written on “Patrick’s Memo.” Maybe you should adjust the counterweight to that weight. .jpg) A headscratcher of a puzzle presents itself. Patrick has a very odd security system in place. Was he just locked out of this door if he ever went over 70kg? I suppose that’s one way to stay slim when doing nothing but butchering kidnap victims all day for dark incantations. Anyway, we need to reach 70kg. Koudelka is only 45kg. Can you do puzzle out this first grade level math problem? Go on. I’ll give you a moment. ... ...... .jpg) A Gold Star if you picked 25kg! Congrats! The door is now unlocked. For your next problem, please tell me which weighs more. A kilogramme of steel or a kilogramme of feathers. .jpg) Heading on out, we found out a man who didn’t get it and died trying to figure it out. The corpse slumped over on the ground can and should be pillaged for a piñata of goodies within its soiled trousers. For instance we have... .jpg) The world’s most uncomfortable to wield looking matchbox ever constructed. The thing looks like it was carved from the chitin of a deep one whose name cannot be spoken in a human tongue. Not sure why we’ll need a tinderbox in the near future. But that hasn’t stopped Koudelka from shoving far stranger things in her pockets. I mean she’s still carrying around a mummified human arm for no particular reason. .jpg) The stiff is also carrying the final shotgun, Shotgun 6: Jason Lives. Like the Rifle RD and the Automatic Pistol, this is just straight up the best Shotgun in the game both in strength and the fact it can hold six shots over the previous models’ two. Shotgun 6 is also the very last Gun class weapon we’ll come across in Koudelka. At this point we could technically just have a team of ruffians all sporting firearms to smoke every ghoul and ghost hey come across. Sadly, that’s the least efficient party loadout in this game by a long shot. The dead body also has a box of shotgun shells if we pillage his remains a third time. What a helpful dead man. .jpg) Returning to business, beyond the thoroughly looted cadaver we have a haphazardly constructed bridge leading further into the monastery. Unfortunately, the party decides they will not go further until they figure out a way to properly dispose of Elaine’s body. No actual barrier or anything. They’ve just decided they should probably do some research or seek some advice before continuing forward. .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) And by “seeking advice” I mean we need to backtrack several rooms to Roger Bacon’s hidden library and ask him what’s up with Elaine’s body. .jpg)  Hmm... I know it's here. I-I saw it here. I put it here! I threw it here. It LANDED here! It should be here! “Here” is starting to no longer sound like a word here... <notices the party walking over> W-What...?.jpg) Have you come round to see me again? <hands Patrick’s Research Notes to Roger> I want you to look at this. Research journals! I want you to tell us whether what's written there can actually happen or not. <takes book and squats down to take a look> Well... Let me see....jpg) Hmm... Yes, yes, I see... Well that's right! Resurrecting the dead! Oooh... A cauldron! Ehh... The Branwen Tales, indeeeeeed! Yeesh. 43 pigs? That’s too much ham. No wonder the stench of this place. And all of those chickens too? I’d go mad from eating that much... Terrible diet. Just terrible... <wanders on-screen like he got lost on the way over here>.jpg) <slams book shut> Yes. It is most likely that the events detailed here did take place. Just as I thought. But that’s so frightening that— Personally I have not attempted it. Honestly, everyone I know who is dead... heh... is better off staying that way... I am certain that the Émigré Document contained accounts of secret rituals conducted to resurrect the dead. But as you can tell from reading THIS, it involves complicated preparatory work. That is... one way to put it... I took one look at that hassle and went “no thank you!” Immortality was only about an hour of prep and no messy kidnappings or butchery of human specimens. Much more manageable at my age. ...Yeah. I have given up discerning the impossibility of using the psychic powers necessary to create such an immense psychic platform. Moreover, I would never have expected that people would attempt to challenge such a feat. You never thought anyone would try to resurrect someone? I can scarcely stand one or two malevolent spirits fluttering about. Flooding an entire site with them? The fortitude to bother with that nonsense is quite the tall ask. Especially the part about sticking your... appendages into holy water fonts... Come again...? Let’s try to focus here. The journals say that the physical body was resurrected but not the soul. Absolutely. The Ancients held the secret to life in the palm of their hands. Hehe. But they could never come close to touching... the secrets of the soul. The say such forbidden soul arts were lost to a deep, colorless fog long ago... They resurrected the dead in order to use their physical bodies as a workforce. Thus building the great civilization we oft times speak of. In fact, heh we would not be far off if we called them... puppeteers. Hehe. Exploiting the HUMAN BODY as an object!.jpg) If so, then wouldn’t— Yes! Resurrecting the dead and restoring them to life as it was before death... is impossible... There was a very clear and underlined post script under the incantation saying such was impossible. Ugh... Nobody ever reads the post-scripts... Then how do you return the resurrected body once again to earth? That... is a very complicated question, since it already defies universal logic. Please— It is no easy TASK! Tell me how! It’s what Elaine, God rest her soul, wanted! ...... ...Right. Hm..jpg) It is not... *absolutely* impossible. Uhh... But... I would need to call forth the sacred powers in order to complete such a feat. Hm... ...... Ohh... Yes... I know that... the arm of Daniel Scotius, the man who built this monastery, is... stored in a stone statue on the ground. Oh yeah... We already have that... Y-You what...? A thief tried to kill us by shooting down a chandelier and out popped the arm from the rubble. I... But... Heh... Why would you take such a thing with you without any prompting...? It seemed like a good idea at the time. I see... Heh... And people call me the abnormal one... Hmph... So what about the arm? If... if we... throw that... into a cauldron... we will... successfully destroy the ROOTS of the Tree of Life! There was a Tree of Life involved? Of course there was! What a foolish question. Hmm... How else would you go about constructing a body? My mistake. Hmm. After that I haven't a CLUE whether to call forth the energies of fire... or entrust the task to water... It is sooooo complicated! <ponders> Fire... or water...? What are we going to do?.jpg) <starts talking to self and walking away> Oh... Heavenly Father! Bless our souls and bring forth an end to THIS suffering... Ohh... Ahh... Ohh... Hmm....jpg) And with that Roger Bacon departs. OK. So we either need to set Elaine’s body on fire or drown it, huh? Well, at least we’ve ruled out bashing it over the head with a rock or... leaving it out on a chilly night? I’m not sure how you’d do wind weakness in a practical setting. .jpg) .jpg) That aside, with this (incredibly vague) knowledge in hand we can now proceed further into Nemeton Monastery... .jpg) Into the Vestry of the church. Tune in next time as the gang search for Elaine’s body, fights an otherworldly being and James’ college minor in chemistry finally pays off as Koudelka's Disc 3 draws to a close!  Video: Episode 24 Highlight Reel (It’s pretty much the last of Roger Bacon hamming it up. You should watch it.)  Koudelka Comic Art – Cat ally. Cool lady. 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May 26, 2018 23:46
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Roger has some amazing animations.
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May 27, 2018 00:40
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The Dark Id posted:
haha, the delivery on this line is amazing.
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May 27, 2018 02:05
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Not that getting all of the goofy time based items matters much, but couldn't you just leave the game running overnight to add a bunch of time to the clock? Or is there something that actually requires you be there?
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May 27, 2018 03:54
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A wind weakness would make sense if you're fighting a a fog monster or something. A vampire gets damage from a +1 magic sword (but not a super cool kill u legendary sword of plot device) so they turn into mist to go back to their coffin; but then you gust their mist apart all through the atmosphere.
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May 27, 2018 03:58
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So the fomors weren't interested in resurrection at all, just making useful horror robots.
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May 27, 2018 04:00
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Well, it's technically still resurrection! They just never specified returning the body to life versus bringing back the person they once were. Not the Fomors fault that everyone just assumes it's True Resurrection right off the bat 
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May 27, 2018 04:02
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Speaking of Chrono Cross, the Puppet reminds me a hell of a lot of Mojo. Next we'll find Elaine's resting place with her secret nickname from Patrick, Koudelka, learn that our protag was the actual accursed corpse of Elaine all this time and Ogden was doing the right thing when he strapped her to his murder table.The Dark Id posted:
Should be "mad." Shitenshi fucked around with this message at 05:23 on May 27, 2018 |
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May 27, 2018 05:11
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Well, it's technically still resurrection! They just never specified returning the body to life versus bringing back the person they once were. Not the Fomors fault that everyone just assumes it's True Resurrection right off the bat In their spare time when they weren't working on this Emigre Document thing the Fomors also invented rear end in a top hat genies.
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May 27, 2018 05:20
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Qrr posted:Not that getting all of the goofy time based items matters much, but couldn't you just leave the game running overnight to add a bunch of time to the clock? Or is there something that actually requires you be there?
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May 27, 2018 05:45
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I am honestly surprised there's not an item at every major increment leading to a maxed out timer.
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May 27, 2018 06:02
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Zereth posted:You need to have the correct amount of items and make the save at the exact second. When you load it, the item will show up in your inventory. I know, but he has 10 hours to go. If he can spend most of those with the game just running while nothing happens then it'd be doable to save at the right time.
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May 27, 2018 11:59
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Nah, for a wind weakness all you need is a weapon that uses sudden bursts of air to injure people. Like explosives.
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And clay is used to make dynamite, so there's your earth. e: and nitroglycerin is a fluid, and the fire is obvious. It's like how a supreme pizza is actually all the food groups in one. Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 16:59 on May 27, 2018 |
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May 27, 2018 14:23
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I dunno about equating any sort of fluid to water. Stories with fantasy magic, and especially alchemy rules, tend to get pretty strict about no technicalities. How often do hear hear about blood passing for water, even if it's technically mostly water? Sometimes, but mostly split into only blood stuff and only water stuff. Nitroglycerin doesn't even skirt by on a chemical level as having any water molecules. Unless the story is playing with expectations on purpose, usually with puns (moonstone gem or a rock from the moon), your typical story spells and such don't usually allow that much stretching and get upset if you try. The Dark Id posted:I’m sure it’ll be as simple a matter is merely stuffing a pillow over its face The last one either needs "searches" or switch to "come upon"
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Zagglezig posted:How often do hear hear about blood passing for water, even if it's technically mostly water? Ultima 7: The Black Gate has a disturbing example of this. Because the game doesn't distinguish between different kinds of liquid when using them to cook you can feed a young boy bread baked with the blood of his own recently murdered father.
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