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Ignatius M. Meen posted:I'm betting one of the two non-Yorick swords is the sword Laertes is supposed to have, and so Hamlet wins the duel instead of dying. There isn't actually any difference between the three swords whatsoever; picking a different sword has no bearing on the outcome. Laertes already got hold of his preferred sword, it appears. We've arrived at the final segment of the Yorick path in To Be or Not To Be. Hamlet himself doesn't fully suspect that he is standing in the play's final scene. It's just another day for our hero, and this is just his afternoon's exercise. He has a sneaking suspicion that something bad is going on, but he has concluded that whatever is fated to happen today, is fated to happen. Act 5, Scene 2 full text Thus, Hamlet chooses his sword. Act 5, Scene 2 posted:
Hamlet's lack of actual fencing practice has put him in genuine danger. Choosing the wrong option here will result in Hamlet taking a hit, and as it turns out, Laertes's sword isn't capped at the point like a fencing implement should be. Hamlet's facing somebody with a deadly weapon. Act 5, Scene 2 posted:
An offer to drink out of the King's cup is quite an honor for Hamlet to refuse. Then again, that pearl seems like a choking hazard. Act 5, Scene 2 posted:Besides, Hamlet seems to be getting into the zone. Boozing now is certain to disrupt that. Act 5, Scene 2 posted:
Something is very, very wrong here. Claudius's statement was directed at the audience, not at Gertrude, so they must be in on this plot too. A lot was going on at Elsinore while Hamlet was away having pirate adventures, including a plot to poison Hamlet using a goblet of wine presented to him at this very match. It looks like that plan has backfired, and Hamlet's mother got into the poison instead. Whoops. Still, our hero has a fencing match to focus on. Act 5, Scene 2 posted:
Ryan North has obviously never read a GBS CYOA. Act 5, Scene 2 posted:
Aaaaaand there's the rest of the plot Claudius worked out to get rid of Hamlet. Not only was Laertes using an uncapped foil, he poisoned it. This was all supposed to look like an accident. Claudius's original plan was for Laertes to run Hamlet through with an uncapped foil. Laertes could claim later that he had no idea the foil was defective and dangerous, and even if that claim fell through, Claudius would still keep his hands clean while Laertes went to the chopping block. Laertes was probably going to die anyway once Claudius had no more use for him, in order to keep secrets and to get back at him for leading a rebellion. To use a poisoned sword was Laertes's idea, so Hamlet would collapse and die mysteriously after being even slightly scratched. Claudius then topped things off by introducing a poisoned goblet to the plan as an insurance policy. All of this has backfired. Once Laertes got stabbed and Gertrude collapsed, Laertes relented of his involvement in this murder plot and spilled his guts to Hamlet. Hamlet knows everything, he's got a poisoned sword, and Claudius is suddenly looking very, very alone. Act 5, Scene 2 posted:
And that's the end of it. The royal family of Denmark is dead, and Fortinbras, son of the king of Norway whom Hamlet Sr. slew, will claim the throne. The English ambassadors were here to notify King Claudius that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had been put to death, but Hamlet isn't around to hear what they have to say. Conclusion posted:
Horatio never did have much autonomy until this very last moment, when he decided to drink from the poisoned goblet and die alongside Hamlet. With the last of his strength, our hero managed to stop him, imploring him to tell Fortinbras what has occurred. The play concludes with Horatio asking Fortinbras to set the bodies of Hamlet and Claudius on a stage, where Horatio will tell the story of what has taken place. The English ambassadors had arrived to notify Claudius that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had been put to death, per the king's orders. Yorick has left us. The first option drops us back into character selection. We won't be doing that. It's time to exercise some autonomy of our own, finally, and see what's behind that other option. Conclusion posted:
And that's a wrap. The stats page looks a bit odd because I started this up from a checkpoint, and that sort of thing isn't tracked. The only way to get stats for the entire Yorick path is to start the entire thing from the beginning and run through it to the end in one sitting. This results in the following: quote:YOUR STATS THIS ADVENTURE: A few nonsense items at the end sometimes appear when stats are listed. Hamlet never gets to marry any bears, or play any tennis, to my understanding. The rank we get on the Haml-O-Meter depends entirely on how many Yorick options we chose throughout the story. This means you can't get a top rank if you started at any checkpoint; you have to start all the way from the beginning. There is no other purpose to the Haml-O-Meter. Our map has, for the last time, been updated. I'm not posting the fully-revealed version just yet; I'll wait to see if Oblivion wants to pick up and show off anything else. He has the revealed version of the map too, in that event. I'll follow up later with some thoughts on To Be or Not To Be and the LP. My thanks to everyone who's stayed with it to the end! Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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Congrats on finally finishing this LP.
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Hi! I'm here! I just wasn't here over the weekend. I've still got interest in continuing this thing, I just haven't yet got things set up for seeing how it will go on my computer. Take your time writing your closing thoughts, and we'll see if I've put something well enough afterwards.
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Having finished with the LP, I thought it would be a good idea to look back and talk about what happened. In retrospect, this LP came into being because I suddenly thought it would be a good idea to start a Let's Play on impulse of a game I didn't know nearly enough about, by an author whose reputation on these forums I hadn't accurately judged, in a format that I hadn't sandcastled or at least tried compiling a few updates in beforehand to see how it would look/whether it would hold up for the duration. That wasn't in fact a good idea, and I'm not now sure whether it's a good idea to go back over what happened and rehash/try to justify the things I hosed up on. In summary: I'm glad this LP didn't happen to a better game. Granted, I did like writing the fake explosion sections a lot, and I'm really happy to hear that people liked reading them. There are a couple games that I've been thinking about doing an LP of next, but that would be awhile, and I'd want to give those games another playover first to make sure I knew what I was doing/talking about. Anything I try to do will hit the Sandcastle first, too. That's about it. Oblivion, it's all yours!
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So! Between Christmas prep, work, and general laziness, I hadn't actually gotten anything done these past few days. But! I just now got done taking a bunch of pictures out of a segment not previously covered in the LP, and I will be putting them together into an update / test post tomorrow, because then I should finally have time to both be a lazy bum and get some LP work done! So be excited for that! Or... just keep going like you normally do. That's probably good enough.
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Hello and welcome back to Let's Play To Be or Not To Be! This LP is now under new management, which I'm sure will go well for everyone involved. Before we dive into the story itself, I've put together a sort of test update to make sure that things work out well enough for you. As you go in, keep in mind that my laptop has the freakish resolution 1366x768, so images may be a bit different than you're used to. If anything looks wrong or out of place, please tell me so I can (hopefully) fix it before we start proper updates. So, let's go back to before the story even began, and take a look a bit behind the scenes. quote:From here, we'll read the acknowledgements. quote:No book comes together without an author feeling like thon's in debt to SOMEONE. Hm. I think we need to know more about the person who wrote this. Let's get in the author's head by, uh, BEING the author. quote:
Well, that just takes us back to the story itself. However, I don't think those acknowledgements earlier were quite thorough enough, do you? Let's go back a choice and ask to read more acknowledgements quote:Gosh, well, I suppose if we're really doing this, then I also want to thank everyone involved in the series of events that led to me being here today... Let's avoid starting the story as long as possible. quote:Ryan North was born on October 20, 1980. Since then he has done the following things (this is NOT an exhaustive list): Well, that's it then. Assuming everything in this update looks okay, we've got no choice now but to start the story. Of course, I leave the where and when to you. We could make a run at it from the very beginning again. We could go back to chess. If you saw anything promising off to the side of the Yorick path, feel free to suggest it! Whatever it is you who are left here want, let's do it! Oh, and an updated map will come... later. The version I got a while back is actually quite a bit behind after the LP took a path from beginning to true end, and editing it to be current all at once is kind of draining! But it'll get there sooner or later. Oblivion4568238 fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Can we do the 'escape the locked room' option with Polonious' corpse?
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# ? Dec 8, 2015 10:13 |
I'd like to see what the successful run at chess looks like.
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:I'd like to see what the successful run at chess looks like.
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I would also like to see you win the chess sequence. I can't prove it, but this is either Randall Munroe or a spot-on imitation.
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We're not dead yet, it's just been a busy time of year. And also I was bashing my head on trying to figure out moving individual selections in a layer on GIMP. Turns out you have to use a function that is automatic in every other image manipulating program I've ever used! But, with that dealt with, let's Chess.quote:
Hey, you know what? I used to be decent at chess. Instead of going right for the end or anything, let's see what happens if I give it a go, completely blind, no looking at a board, the choice map, or earlier in the thread. quote:
Really? Well, let's futz around with the chessboard image, see what the board looks like right now- Oh. This is why people don't play chess in a purely text format, I suppose. quote:
From there, I originally chose to go on to the same ending from earlier in the LP, but then I realized this would be a good opportunity to get a different ending out of the way. We're only a few lines away from the relevant choice, so let's walk through to it. quote:Gertrude looks at the board, looks at you, and smiles beatifically. Artist Information posted:Emily Partridge is an artist from the pacific northwest and you can totally tell. She makes cartoons and comics and illustrations and painting and arts and crafts and stuff. So, that's how you can be both the worst chess player and get yourself killed all in one go. Proper victory will come later, as there isn't enough time left in the day for it now. Again. I'm certain the schedule will stabilize once we're out of the holiday season.
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You know, I appreciate that Claudius comes up with his own ridiculously intricate plan to off Hamlet. After all that malarkey with Gonzago, dude deserves some counterplot.
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