{"id":14859,"date":"2012-01-20T16:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14859"},"modified":"2012-01-20T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:28:25","slug":"deus-ex-human-revolution-ep7-adventures-in-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14859","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex Human Revolution EP7: Adventures in Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize in advance for how this devolves into a mess. We probably would have called a do-over on this episode if not for the fact that we needed to wrap up the session because I needed to get going. <\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: I had no idea that the game re-rolled conversations until this week.  I thought the solution to a conversation would be the same for all playthroughs.  <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88erQe3KDWo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=88erQe3KDWo'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I count four ways into the alley behind the police station:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The lightning alley, which requires the lightning-proof aug. (EMP shielding, I think?)\n<\/li>\n<li>The chain-link fence, which requires the Mario Jump aug to get over, because it&#8217;s impossible for Jenson to climb a chain-link fence.  I consider this to be an egregious oversight. You can also use the super-strength mod to stack up dumpsters and crates, although the stacking physics are, like most videogames, horrible fiddly.\n<\/li>\n<li>Sewer. Sigh. The sewers are filled with armed foes and traps because hey, videogame.\n<\/li>\n<li>Speech-check (or murder) your way into the police station, and then exit through the side door.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty screwy, but the thing that bugs me is that there are quest-relevant people back in that alley.  How did they get there? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize in advance for how this devolves into a mess. We probably would have called a do-over on this episode if not for the fact that we needed to wrap up the session because I needed to get going. Fun fact: I had no idea that the game re-rolled conversations until this week. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[76,208],"class_list":["post-14859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-deus-ex","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}