Echo Bazaar

[bryant]

"Moloch Street Underground Station is the first stop on the journey to Hell. Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour, haunt of spies, is here. Hangman's Arch can be a good place to hear gossip, and is always a good place for a hanging."

My only excuse is that it's not a Facebook game. It's a Twitter game! Isn't that much better? Sure it is.

Still and all, the worldbuilding is way more interesting than farming -- London has Fallen beneath the earth, and is now a strange and timeless place, full of Victorian frillips and niches. Hell is close by. Salvation seems less likely. I kind of want to run an RPG in this setting.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Is a frillip a cross between a frill and a fillip?

[bryant]

Exactly that.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

I, too am enjoying it. I'm not into knives and candles, though. I'll be interested to see if it keeps my attention or gets to the point of grinding.

Also, I am slightly violating the spirit of the game when I post twitter updates, but change the first characters to d mcroft... :)

[bryant]

That's funny. I thought about a throwaway Twitter account but discarded the idea...

[drivingblind.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's fun. Though I do wish there were more... varied ways to amp up the various stats. There's a lot of lather-rinse-repeat on the same action at any one particular numeric tier.

[bryant]

Yeah. I am not reading spoilers, cause if I knew all the storyline there's no way I'd play it out.

[shadowflyer.livejournal.com]

It is strangely addictive in a penny-dreadful sort of way. I have hit plateaus where it took a while for a new option to appear, but the growth tree seems to be pretty broad and there are scads of stuff barely hinted at thus far.

[rfrancis]

It is better, because it never surprises you by posting a message to Twitter on your behalf, ever.

Personally, I never post text from it to get turns back. I post text from it because the Starveling Cat poems crack me up and I wish to share them.