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So that’s the end of Dishonored 1.

I wanted to comment on how they handled the non-lethal ending for Delilah, but I’m stumped. Maybe I could branch off and talk about how this goes against the grain of the ideas they planted for Dishonored 2, but that rings hollow and it’s probably better to just leaf it alone. In my defense: Rutskarn lost connection before the end, and if I hadn’t made all these shitty tree puns, he certainly wood have.

Despite my unrepentant sloth and apathy, the show will go on. The next season of Spoiler Warning is going to be…

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Rutskarn posed a few fun questions this time. I’m interested to hear how other people answer before listening to the show. Just from the gut, how do you imagine the following stuff works…

1. What does it feel like to be out of “mana”?
2. When you’re low on mana: Is it a simple binary thing as depicted in the game where your powers abruptly stop working, or is it more like a growing fatigue?
3. What does a mana potion taste like? How does it feel? Milky? Watery? Oily?
4. Do you get mana burps after chugging too many potions?
5. What does it feel like to talk to the Outsider?
6. Do you feel anything unusual or special when wearing charms? Are they warm or cold? Do they vibrate? Feel good? Make any sound?

We’re nearly done with this game. Tomorrow we’ll finish up Dishonored 1 forever.

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I like this idea that the Geezer is a prisoner in his own fortress, and someone else is using his power. The poison gas is a nice angle that does a good job of pitting expedience against morality, and morality against chaos, so that the low chaos route isn’t automatically the right thing to do. (This is not to say that sacrificing all these mooks so the selfish crime boss can get his wish is the right thing to do. I’m just saying this isn’t an obviously clear-cut choice.

Then again: Looking at it from an in-character perspective, if I was Daud I’d think there had to be a way to disable the poison gas bomb so that it would be safe to kill the geezer without dooming everyone else to die. Somewhere in the system there’s a trigger that will release poison gas if the geezer dies. If I was Daud I’d want to see if I could find that trigger. Or find a way to spoof the system into thinking geezer was still alive. Or trigger an evacuation. Or expose Trimble’s scheme to the Geezer’s men.

Maybe some of these possibilities are addressed in the game. Like I said, I haven’t played this, but these are the first things that came to mind when watching Josh play.

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