{"id":37490,"date":"2017-03-15T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=37490"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:56:55","slug":"dishonored-dlc-brigmore-witches-ep1-day-at-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=37490","title":{"rendered":"Dishonored DLC &#8211; Brigmore Witches EP1: Day at the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/Vf6vaK1OoV8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vf6vaK1OoV8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The Omar! I couldn&#8217;t remember the name of the blue-suit guys from Invisible War during the show, but that&#8217;s only because their name was dumb. It&#8217;s the Omar.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve apparently forgotten 99% of my Dishonored playthrough (and watching the subsequent Spoiler Warning one) but I guess I remember the prison level really well.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t noticed the similarities, but Chris is right: The world of Dishonored maps really well to Thief in a lot of ways. Daud&#8217;s assassins are a secretive group of stealthy manipulators like the Keepers. The Overseers seem to be majoring in fanatical religious authoritarian governance and minoring in steamworks technology, just like Thief&#8217;s Hammerites. Delilah has kind of this Pagan thing going on with her nature magic. Our lead character skulks around in the shadows knocking guys out. (Or shanking them, if he&#8217;s rubbish.) <\/p>\n<p>Then again, this might be a byproduct of the setting. Once you create a world that&#8217;s just entering the industrial revolution, it&#8217;s pretty hard to NOT depict a tug of war between technology and nature, religion and freedom, rich and poor. These were all hallmarks of the Victorian Era and were a natural part of a society going through rapid change due to technology. A quasi-Victorian setting without pervasive class warfare might feel kind of toothless and inauthentic. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, you CAN make up a world where this isn&#8217;t the case. But you&#8217;d need to spend a little more time and exposition on worldbuilding. If you&#8217;re just using the setting for aesthetic reasons, then there&#8217;s no reason mess with expectations. Throw in a few hints of religious fanatics, poverty, and civil unrest, and the user can extrapolate the rest of the world from the standard set of tropes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) The Omar! I couldn&#8217;t remember the name of the blue-suit guys from Invisible War during the show, but that&#8217;s only because their name was dumb. It&#8217;s the Omar. I&#8217;ve apparently forgotten 99% of my Dishonored playthrough (and watching the subsequent Spoiler Warning one) but I guess I remember the prison level really well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37490","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=37490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}