|
Choice of Games posted:Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first. Choice of the Deathless is a text-based choose-your-own-adventure game and part of the Choice of Games collection. Your decisions will cultivate your skills and abilities that you'll use to solve the various problems that you'll be facing throughout the game. The game is set in the setting of The Craft Sequence novel series, where people have gained the power to kill gods. Indeed, they've killed some gods and bent the laws of nature over their knee in the process, and now, men have taken the place of the Gods they killed, bureaucracy and magic (the "Craft") are intertwined in a dangerous relationship, and souls are little more than money and fuel for the Craftsman's work. Timeline-wise, Choice of the Deathless takes place a year or two prior to Two Serpents Rise. If you like, play once for free in the Choice of Games website, play free with ads on the mobile omnibus app, or buy it off Steam, Google Play, Apple's App Store, or Amazon. This game is a few years old by now, but please, no spoilers. The story has some twists and turns that some people might be happy finding out firsthand. As long as it's behind spoiler tags, it's okay to discuss an option's mechanical requirements ("The option to check the chest actually uses Perception, not Lockpicking") and outcomes of alternate options ("If we chose to help Mark instead of Alex, we'd get a gun instead of a sword"), but please don't discuss or hint at significant plot beats before we're exposed to them. When in doubt, ask me over PMs. Let's go. quote:The sky over the demon world is broken. Lightning licks the strange geometries of cloud. Around you rises the demon-city Akargath, warped crystal and flame, thorns and razor wire. And this is the nice part of town. Well, we're in medias res, and on the losing end of a fight... What should we do? And while we're at it, let me know: Are we a guy or a girl? What's our name?
|
# ? Jul 23, 2018 04:01 |
|
|
# ? May 3, 2024 14:37 |
|
I read a run through of this in the archives, it was fun. Still need to check out the books. Hit the enemy hard and we are a girl named Liang unless people vote otherwise.
|
# ? Jul 23, 2018 07:43 |
|
achtungnight posted:I read a run through of this in the archives, it was fun. Still need to check out the books. Agree
|
# ? Jul 23, 2018 08:27 |
|
Forgot to mention that a surname would be nice too.
|
# ? Jul 23, 2018 15:59 |
|
I’ll let someone else pick the surname unless people want me to, a few do come to mind.
|
# ? Jul 23, 2018 19:57 |
|
quote:You're strong. Stronger than this. And you won't die here. Still taking votes on whether we're a guy or girl, and our full name.
|
# ? Jul 24, 2018 13:38 |
|
Lady Wen Liang is excellent at setting traps.
|
# ? Jul 24, 2018 14:21 |
|
You've activated my Trap Card! Wen Liang (Liang Wen?) is fine.
|
# ? Jul 24, 2018 18:24 |
|
I’ve been playing too much Dynasty Warriors again lately so I picked a Chinese name in the traditional style. Although the GM can transcript it however they like.
|
# ? Jul 24, 2018 20:23 |
|
I'm assuming that our lady Liang Wen is our choice. it's probably better than Fenix Wight anyway quote:You might not have hurt him much, but at least you pushed him into position. That went well. For the feat of dying against a superior opponent, we got an achievement. Achievements gotten so far will be recorded at the bottom of the update. Punching the guy in the face could have gotten us another, too. Anyway, let's see how this whole dying thing is going for us: quote:Your mind comes to pieces and the pieces tumble, sharp, spinning. Seconds come unmoored from seconds. Shards catch and reflect images of a once-familiar life: your past, spinning out of reach. We're a lady, and our name is Liang Wen. quote:How did you get here, Liang? So many alternative pasts, so many options. Dreamshards, timepieces. Achievements posted:Die: You died! Let's see you get out of this one... (15 points)
|
# ? Jul 25, 2018 15:38 |
|
I stared fascinated at the Star, as it died.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2018 17:40 |
|
RickVoid posted:I stared fascinated at the Star, as it died. I like this one too, although I hope for more variety of votes as we continue.
|
# ? Jul 25, 2018 22:27 |
|
EAT IT
|
# ? Jul 25, 2018 22:51 |
|
Eat the star.
|
# ? Jul 26, 2018 00:58 |
|
We can eat light.
|
# ? Jul 26, 2018 04:48 |
|
I have no idea what any of the answers do anyway. All of the choices seem legit, honestly.
|
# ? Jul 26, 2018 06:44 |
|
Feel free to pick the answers you like. I'll update tomorrow evening. Pace will hopefully slow down once we get to more plot-significant sections. The answers will adjust your stat distribution, and I'll show the stats once we're out of the early character-establishing slump.
|
# ? Jul 26, 2018 06:55 |
|
We chose to eat the star.quote:You pressed the star past your open lips, tasted lightning on your tongue, and swallowed; liquid metal seared your esophagus, and you fell back onto the dead grass, screaming. Galaxies wheeled above you, moonlight unbearably sharp. You closed your eyes but that only replaced the punishing stars with another vision. On a side note, which way do we swing? Are we into boys, girls, both, or not into any romantic stuff?
|
# ? Jul 27, 2018 07:03 |
|
Girls, rich af.
|
# ? Jul 27, 2018 08:29 |
|
Our childhood was comfortable, but we still worked hard to earn our power. We happily service clients of all gender identities.
|
# ? Jul 27, 2018 11:36 |
|
Comfortable pansexual!
|
# ? Jul 27, 2018 13:16 |
|
Natural 20 posted:Girls, rich af.
|
# ? Jul 27, 2018 21:53 |
|
Girls, rich af.
|
# ? Jul 28, 2018 00:45 |
|
Max Gladstone wrote a CYOA in the Craftverse?
|
# ? Jul 28, 2018 00:46 |
|
We're poor and bi as hell.
|
# ? Jul 28, 2018 01:16 |
|
RickVoid posted:Our childhood was comfortable, but we still worked hard to earn our power. This.
|
# ? Jul 28, 2018 01:46 |
|
GreyjoyBastard posted:Max Gladstone wrote a CYOA in the Craftverse? He wrote two, actually! This one and Deathless: The City's Thirst. Up in the air on if I want to LP that one after this, though.
|
# ? Jul 28, 2018 02:00 |
|
Girls, rich yo
|
# ? Jul 28, 2018 05:31 |
|
We are poor, and we like girls.
|
# ? Jul 29, 2018 03:45 |
|
someone awful. posted:We're poor and bi as hell. Not an emptyquote vote.
|
# ? Jul 29, 2018 07:37 |
|
So far: Rich lifestyle is in the lead at 4 votes. Comfy and Poor lives are tied at 3. Being into girls or everything are tied at 5 votes each.
|
# ? Jul 29, 2018 10:15 |
|
Poor and bi. Important trivia: Did you know that "bi" also means "bee" in swedish?
|
# ? Jul 29, 2018 11:32 |
|
Natural 20 posted:Girls, rich af. +1
|
# ? Jul 29, 2018 13:14 |
|
|
# ? Jul 29, 2018 21:55 |
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIAkRVBS-0U
|
# ? Jul 29, 2018 22:00 |
|
We were...quote:…a scion of a grand old family, with connections and powers stretching back thousands of years, to the old days when gods ruled the world and human beings did not control their own destiny. quote:A bright afternoon, a brief rest, a pressure of lips and hands and bodies. Neither one of you was very good at kissing, or at anything else you tried, but it was a start, and it was sweet. You wonder what became of her.
|
# ? Jul 30, 2018 05:08 |
|
We are dedicated nerds and studied all the time because that's how we will, one day, break the universe over our knee. Except maybe not too much, because then we'd get sued for damages.
|
# ? Jul 30, 2018 05:38 |
|
We were definitely a party girl.
|
# ? Jul 30, 2018 05:48 |
|
Studying and Knowledge We shall exact to the minutest detail how exactly we will bend existence by loopholes and scheming. We're a lawyer. Knowing the ins and outs of the pettiest things helps
|
# ? Jul 30, 2018 06:01 |
|
|
# ? May 3, 2024 14:37 |
|
Maximum Nerd
|
# ? Jul 30, 2018 06:51 |