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Fort33dople
Oct Member 2021

Fort33dople

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Spoilers, obviously

The plot of A Clockwork Syringe involves torturing a zombie head, and part of it is torturing said Zombie head with makeup, I think that plot element hasn't aged the most gracefully, the quest having come out before gay marriage even, but also before the age of men's makeup tutorials, but I also don't think that it has aged so ungracefully yet as to need a total rework like the Barbarian Village.

I liked how the new (at the time) Gunnarsgrunn quest addressed the problems with the Barbarian village line when that decision was made though, and so I have a suggestion for change. In the quest, we find out after torturing the Zombie that we could have just sailed randomly south and would have found it, and that the torturing was just a waste of time. My suggestion for a rework is kind of that, keep the entire actual quest and mechanics the same, but change the line of dialogue, so instead of caving and giving a location, the Zombie says something like "I went to Gielinor Pride, I'm not afraid of a little makeup" and then have you and Bill, having learned something about diversity, and have failed to torture the Zombie, needing to sail in a random direction to try and find it.

I also know that it may not have aged as much in the UK where the game is based than it has in North America, so you could have it be a quest-dependent line of dialogue. I.E. if you complete Tales of Pride before A Clockwork Syringe, then in A Clockwork Syringe, acceptance having spread through Gielinor based on the actions of the hero to collect the stories, the Zombie being no longer able to be tortured with makeup, and you and Bill needing to just hit the seas and try and find it.

08-Jun-2023 06:39:52

BrunoNutto
Feb Member 2023

BrunoNutto

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Things like this can be difficult to go back and alter to what is currently acceptable to some cultures but still not to others (and this is a global game).

Sometimes the very act of revisionism can do more harm than good and result in fueling a whole load of divisive resentment.

This is a game, it should be about escapism and understanding that not everything has to be viewed through only one political perspective. The story is fiction after all, artistic licence and all that would be quite limited and boring if a box ticking exercise was demanded evry time.

I mean no offence to your perspective; but I honestly disagree that everything needs a fresh coat of paint just because some laws in some nations have changed.

08-Jun-2023 19:27:42

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