"…and he were a strange sort, that skipper. Would only speak to the crew through puppets. Threw the bosun overboard for whistling “where the sky could hear him"
— Echo Bazaar
Windows 7 God Mode, excrescence, free auto quote for EBZ.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/GodMode-Windows-7-How-to,9345.html
God Mode folders on Windows 7. Pretty sweet, even if the operating system has a control-panel-search feature anyway.
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Excrescence! Cool word, count victus-worthy.
A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, esp. one that is the result of disease or abnormality.
An unattractive or superfluous addition or feature.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=define%3A+excrescence&oq=define%3A+excrescence
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Apparently I can get 25 fate by getting a free auto insurance quote through EBZ’s offer system. I think I’ll do it so I can get better rates, and my soul back in EBZ, lol.
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I eagerly await your next post, Demi Victus.
And in other news, $300 to listen to Alexis Kennedy speak.
http://complicity.eventbrite.com/
I can’t imagine that I couldn’t find his words elsewhere on the ‘net. I’d pay at most $40 for this whole day.
but
Rewarding player expressiveness. I’ll bet that proves that people care about what their characters are wearing, Demi! Eve noticed how cool it was when my clothes changed to prison overalls when I was arrested in Popmundo. :}
I think narrative as a terms in games may be on the rise. I’ve seen it being used a lot, and in my PC gamer magazine this month, people are using it everywhere. Especially the BioShock folk, and in ways I haven’t seen before. “Did you ride the blimp or shoot it down and take on the battle from the ground?” “What weapons did you use?”
I never really thought about the actual process of the means to an end - what weapons you used, upgraded, felt a synthesis of finger<->trigger with. That itself is a small piece of the narrative. My choices are very personal: I tend to like big, one-shot weapons that pwn faces. I prefer life drain vs. constant small attacks, constant big attacks, and the closer I can get to the enemy’s face, the better. I think it’s going to be pretty interesting to see how characters are dressed in game 3, because that attire tells just a bit of who they are - and who the player is.
Today I finished my next-to-last solo excursion into Guild Wars. I finish tomorrow: I will use all my consumables and summons, whatever I have available, to destroy Duncan The Black on Hard Mode. I’ll be keeping Wayne in-tact, ready for battle at any time.
However, I had planned for the four bosses I killed tonight to take 1:30. It took 2:30. I even spent some time afterwards making sure my Hall of Monuments calculations were correct. They were, and now with this final excursion into GW, I’m free.
Uh-oh. Free? No, I’m not trapped by the game. I’m trapped by my own feelings of never being finished. It took nearly 1,600 hours of Guild Wars to finally say, that’s enough for PvE. I’m completely ready for Guild Wars 2 and I have been for quite some time: the HoM points I’m gaining now are for prestige, and are utterly… pointless, in terms of GW2 advantage. Yet I continue(d). I enjoyed the extension from 3 to 7 heroes, Eve may remember my reaction when it was so simply stated in the patch notes. “Players may now bring up to seven heroes with them.”
I won’t bore you with the finances, but after some YouTube videos I’ll post, I think I’ll feel good about GW. To get my prestige, I’ll sign in and do what I like to do in most games: Player vs. Player. Then hopefully get my prestige title and await GW2 with my loverly Eve and whoever else is joining us.
But this isn’t just about Guild Wars ending… it’s about Echo Bazaar, too. Of course I’ll never quit EBZ, but I realized today, ironically, that… I’m rather done, aren’t I? The same day I’m nearly done with GW, I’m nearly done with EBZ. There’s nothing left for me until they make new content. Just this screenshot happened today. All that’s left really is to find Mr. Eaten and buy the best of every stat’s item. When PvP comes, I’m sure my stats will make me the best dude.
I don’t know how I feel right now. I set up a playpen, showered, did some light exercise, and played Guild Wars. Wrote/read a little tumblr. Recently I felt like I was oozing utopianism with my planned schedule… I’ve had, I think, a single day as I’ve planned so far. Wednesday I see Eve. She’ll keep me to 8:15+, I’ll come home at like 10, do my internet, get tired. Sleep. Thursday I do my chores and shower. 9 hours dedicated to non-me-related work each day.
As I played, and knew I was spending too much time, I thought to myself. “Finish my portfolio site, learn some OOP, go back to murcity…”
But when? I said, September it should be ready to play on a server. Who am I kidding? 9 weeks? I’m a young man, and I don’t even have free weekends anymore with children. I don’t want to feel bad for playing games. I want to have enough time to make and play games.
I wonder what I love more in the world than my creations. Maybe I should take a tip from Mr. Eaten and sacrifice my mental stability (“fun”) for glory. Vienna.
You know I have never once seen someone who blogs like me. o.o;
Increasing Connected: The Church echo bazaar
[this is a test! If posting this content helped you out, then mail public at vaelvictus dot com and tell me!]
Purchase the Tiny Reliquary for 80 echoes. It has the options:
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“Whisper to it. If you tell it secrets, it will open for you.” for 50 whispered secrets. Requires 10 Connected: The Church, which you can farm at home if you have 3 scandal, or at the carnival, up to 10.
+4 Connected: The Church
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Offer a prayer to the little ivory box. It does not necessarily have to be heartfelt.
[narrative content kept to myself as per EBZ’s request]
As expected, it’s never worth it. 2 Fate gave me +6 Connected: The Church, didn’t cost me 50 whispered secrets, and I got a Sudden Insight. (which is supa awesome ‘cuz I have 26 of them on top of 134 watchful anyway!!)
Seeking Mr. Eaten’s Name 4
Eyes burning your back
The halfpeople in the streets watch you with hateful, ignorant eyes. They won’t dare talk to you any more.
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Really gotta remember to watch my nightmares when I do this stuff.
update: just got it again. Urchins (of course) gone, persuasive seems to have lost a whole tier.
Hopefully I’ve helped the lone googler trying to see just how worth it the storyline is. I was in Watchmaker’s Hill when I get the opportunity card. I believe the increase for Seeking Mr. Eaten’s Name is 3 change points.
Just bought the new Unexpect album.
It’ll be shipped to me in due time. Cost $20.
Fables of the Sleepless Empire is released on the 31st of May. Awfully excited. My top bands are sorta like:
bright eyes
luca turilli
unexpect
rhapsody
TATU
So yeah pretty excited.
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Echo Bazaar now lets you watch videos for 1 fate. $10 = 40 fate normally. This is a common practice in browser-based games: you offer advertising options that the player can participate in to get whatever currency you offer. It’s age-old, even Neopets did it. I’m actually pretty excited about the videos though, because this shows that they realize no one really put in authentic information on the creditcard-lacking offers. Videos are much more interesting and require you to be there to watch the video. I can definitely see doing something like this for MurCity. :}
Oh no, I’ve lost my soul and am now an unresponsive husk of a man!
Good thing this is Echo Bazaar and anything that ever happens ever is a bonus. Look at that! I think I’ve just counted 60 echoes in that screenshot, and some wound-reducers to save me from some trouble.
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Been on a bit of a cyberpunk binge lately and I’m loving it. Downloading Tron Legacy and Blade Runner, and my music so far has been generally approvable for constant listening.
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http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/
In case you really hate cyberspace and really love meatspace.
And few things can be as torturous as sitting in front of a computer screen for hours on end.
Disagree. Try attending a party with typical college-kid-party-types. If you can stand it, you are probably not someone who should be writing such articles.
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http://www.walmart.com/ip/Build-Your-Own-Gaming-PC/
get your gaming pc from walmart, lol
We’re sorry, but the item you are looking for cannot be found.
Please use either our search tool, or browse the virtual aisles by clicking on a department icon above. Thanks again for visiting Walmart.com!
Well, that was faster than I expected.
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http://www.weather.com if the aliens attack, they’ll need no futuristic weaponry; they will use the earth against us.
EBZ released Mahogany Hall, a further continuation of persuasive/shadowy. Shadowy was raised to 110 cap. Persuasive unchanged.
At first I didn’t know what people meant when they said that EBZ’s writing was good, but not great. Now that I’m less enchanted by the game, and I see things like
“Lyme’s big hands are unused to handling delicate pens and inkwells, but he’s getting there.”
Unused? I think you should use, “aren’t used to”. I read it as “used” because no one ever says unused. It’s technically the best word to use, because it means “never used” rather than being open to the possibility of being used, and just not often enough. What I’m wondering, though, is if I should consider this to be good writing.
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The story is pretty interesting, though. I’m educating a clay man. Too bad I probably won’t be able to educate a devil after this - which was another storyline. EBZ seems to be doing that lately, and I really hate being locked out of content forever.
A dream! A dream! A vivid dream.
Last night was very interesting. This is some echo-bazaar-style dreaming I experienced. I think I can classify this as a nightmare.
I was in a sort of hotel, with a busload of people. Busload doesn’t imply we were on a bus; rather, there was that many people, and we had the same understanding of each other as you would expect from people on a school bus, coming off it for a sports meeting. (a wrestling team, for example, going to another school to wrestle)
The hotel was very grand and made of stone. My comrades were in the locker room getting ready for this thing. I don’t know what the thing was, but I remember I was incredibly interested in it. I was so interested, that I took off my shirt as we left the locker room and went running to this thing.
The thing, it turns out, was a meeting of the executives of the hotel or at least, some sort of supervisors. There was a line formed in front of the supervisors, and people were very upset. I soon learned why they were upset: we were going to get our eyes removed from us. They assured us it was a good thing. At any rate, we were trapped, and I removed myself from the line to try to get out of there. They didn’t seem to care that I left the line, probably because they knew I was trapped.
I managed to slip by somehow, and I wish I remembered how. All I remember is I think I used some of my ‘favor’ with an individual to let me escape.
I was now moving through the hotel, but keep in mind I had no shirt. There was a lecture being done for some doctors, but there’s no way I would’ve fit in because I was shirtless and they were all wearing blue… uh, smocks? Coats? Scrubs? Eh.
I went through these double doors and met a man who told me he was thankful that I escaped, and then he… touched me. I don’t remember the action, I just remember he did something. Now, in the dream, when I closed my eyes, the world would turn into this awful version of itself and the noise from the hotel turned to TV static. I’d open and be back.
Yes, this was a pretty badass dream.
He told me that I should have my eyes removed, but I would be different from the others and the only way to kill this big evil spider thing was to close my eyes and enter this world. Obviously, the removal of eyes would grant permanent residence to this creature’s world.
All I remember after that is that I did choose to remove my eyes, and I felt as though I were tricked, but I continued on my way to the spider. I later woke up, or just simply don’t remember what happened afterwards. I should’ve tumbled in the morning but I was so late for work. x.x
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All this nightmare/dream stuff really disappoints me in a way, because those of you who remember every detail of everything that I write, should remember I expressed that “game 3” would allow me to write nightmares for someone to enter and “cleanse”. This would require a lot of narrative work on my part, but I’d at least enjoy it.
Well, it seems with the latest iteration of game design that actually makes sense, I will not be able to foster such a system. :( I’m going to definitely make locations that are going to hold narrative and I will treat these locations as both nightmare/dream (which they are) and a permanent locale that the player can access.
I cannot and should not give any details on my tumblr, but I can tell you that I’m very excited to develop game 3, and I still care very much about MurCity and delivering its narrative as well. I plan for Game 3 to be my ‘magnum opus’ of gaming and hopefully it will allow a nice segue into musical composition. Speaking of which, I’m hooking up my secondary computer tonight for musical composition. :)
