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[Eggnog]

[Caterpillar]

[catherwood]

I didn't mean to imply that I'm frustrated with the game (so far). Bored, maybe just a teensy bit, but it's really a good thing that we have a leisurely pace. I don't have hours every day to spend watching plot points fly by -- and there is something more realistic about the day-to-day incremental minutia.

One other observation I meant to toss into the mix is the dangling carrot of Cthulhu. I absolutely love Lovecraft, and it's the one thing that's keeping me from falling completely back into the lurker shadows. Yet, it's still only vaguely hinted at. I really liked the analogy up-thread with the slow progression of madness -- it was a major selling point for games like "Eternal Darkness". If you just opened a door and saw Cthulhu, you'd die of fright! Instead, this slow acclimation to impending doom sets the mood, and lets the horror creep up on you. I'll enjoy what they're giving us now with that in mind -- but I do expect a major payoff in the next chapter.

p.s. -- this isn't the thread for talking about in-game specifics, take those to their specific puzzle threads. We're only about the "meta" here.

[johnny5]

[Blue K]

Count me amongst the hacking Illiterati as well. Ports you say. Make mine tawny, please. Telnet? A device for catching telbutterflies perhaps? The game does feel a bit "exclusive" so far, but I'll gladly chalk that up to seeing only a part of the whole. I have faith in GMD. More importantly, at least for myself, is reuniting with a rather large portion of Tinfoil Posse.

I've tried posting at SO, but to be honest, I don't feel..."Welcome" isn't the word...appropriate? 'Til then, I think I will participate behind the scenes through the use of PM's (I'm speaking of SO, not here). Hopefully things will open up a bit, although I guess it's possible that I don't fit into the demographic they are seeking (I don't really believe that ). It's early, we'll see what happens.

[James Stone]

[Lovek]

[Blue K]

[cissmiace]

[Phaedra]

[cissmiace]

Haha! Oh dont worry, I'm not leaving this game When the time comes for crazy conspiracy theories, and spookyness I'll hurl myself into it

I keep lurking on the SO forums because I'm hoping I might learn something technical along the way!

[catherwood]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Is anyone else having trouble figuring out who we can and can't trust on the SO fora? Some of the new "players" like Icculus are obvious PM-created entities perceived as necessary to our forward progress.
But I'm having more trouble trying to figure out the motives of some of the other "players". Most of the original SO denizens are holding to the behaviors we've come to expect from them. Mkaos joining in and hanging out in the MUD environment with us was a little of a surprise. But some of the more recent players are hard for me to figure out. Saying BA is just relaying their dreams, directly, without posting their dreams, beforehand. The "wise-assed(ness)" jibes/obfuscations. The Technomage babble. Guess I need a program.

[Caterpillar]