Let's board the Orient Express (Completed)

[Redshirt #42]

The Last Express

This is actually my second playthrough of TLE, but I didn't take any screenshots while playing it so I have to start all over again to do this LP. Also, there's a lot of dialogue you can't see in 1 playthrough, but I'll try to cover as much as possible.

Let's begin.

[Perception] The intro starts at a train station in Paris.

Is this guy the protagonist? :mystary:

He looks around. Possibly waiting for someone? Must investigate further.

- Announcer: Ladies and gentleman, your attention please. The Orient Express is now leaving for Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia and Constantinople. -

Are the cops after him?

The train leaves. He looks kind of disappointed.

Looks like these guys missed the train.

He's going to jump on the train. Will he make it or become an hero?

:CLIFFHANGER TIME:






























Nah, just kidding.

Of course he did it. That means he's going to be the protagonist.

He waves farewell to his companion...

... who turns out to be a woman (or a tranny, I'm not sure).

Looks like nobody noticed that there's a new passenger. Why was the door open anyway?


Well, that concludes the introduction. Stay tuned for the next update, while I continue to struggle with Imageshack's uploader.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Stay tuned for the next update, while I continue to struggle with Imageshack's uploader.

Get photobucket. Mass uploading is easier and at least your images are guaranteed not to get erased after a year.

 

[Redshirt #42]

Get photobucket. Mass uploading is easier and at least your images are guaranteed not to get erased after a year.

Thanks for the advice. The website looks more popamole, but I have to say that uploading is a lot faster.

 

[spekkio]

I approve.
But keep up the proper screenshots to text ratio or it may turn out that you're doing it wrong.

 

[Redshirt #42]

Update #1

The door right in front is locked, as are the 2 doors in the wagon to the left, so there's only one right way to go.

There's a book on the seat.

It contains a list of all the passengers.

If you click on one of the names you can hear their voices (provided you've already met them or heard them speak).

Tyler Whitney: Please come, you're the only one I can trust.

While we're at it, we might as well check out the other items in the inventory. A newspaper article provides hints at our character's background.

And an envelope.

So, the PC's name is Cath. And his bro, Tyler Whitney, needs his help.

Afterwards, we meet a conductor. Fortunately, he's too retarded to notice that Cath isn't one of the passengers.

- Excuse me, can you tell me which compartment is Tyler Whitney's?

Oh, Monsieur Whitney, excuse me. Your compartment is number one. -

The compartment is on the end of the same wagon. It took me a while to figure that out on my first playthrough.

Noone responds to knocking on the door. But, it is unlocked.

Of course, Tyler Whitney is dead.

Cath sure is shocked to see his friend lying in his own blood.

So shocked that the first thing that comes to his mind is to dispose of his corpse and steal his identity.

If you let his corpse here, it will be game over soon (I'll add those endings later).

So we can either do it the old-faishoned way and throw his corpse out of the window...

... or ...

... hide his corpse away under the sofa.


CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES!

Shall I :

a) throw the corpse out of the window
b) hide it under the sofa

Which is better and why? You decide!

I'll give the poll a day or two and then continue depending on the results.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Oh hells yes!

Definitely hide it under the sofa! You need to bring him back for a proper burial once this mess is over.

 

[Cenobyte]

True, go for b)

Even though the compartment might get a bit uncomfortable with a dead corpse after a while... and the Orient Express' journey to Constantinople should take some time

 

[Darth Roxor]

This is most likely a tricky choice and the 'obviously safe' option will be the bad one, but whatever - throw him out the airlock!

 

[Erebus]

Re: Update #1

Who knew Jean Jaurès had intended to take the Orient Express at that time ? Guess he found himself more important things to do in France. (For those of you who don't know about him, he was a french left-wing politician who tried his best to stop the war from happening and ended up murdered for that reason. He really should have got aboard that train...)

Anyway, it's a promising LP. I've seen a few videos of that game on Youtube and it looked pretty cool.

As for our deceased friend, I suggest to hide him for now and to get rid of him during the night. It's obvious that we'll get caught if we keep this body during the whole trip.

 

[spekkio]

Throw the corpse out the window, for the natives to desecrate.

 

[SCO]

Did you follow my no cd instructions? I'd like to be showered in gratitude.

PS: if you fuck this up i will fucking kill you.

PSS: Do you know who produced and designed this? Jordan Mechner that's who. Respect!

 

[wjw]

Hide the body. At some point you might chop it into pieces and then feed those to the dog, so you'll be able to get the key. The key to victory.

 

[ghostdog]

I think I hid him under the sofa when I played it, so now you should throw him out of the window.

Also use tinypic instead of photobucket because PB has monthly bandwidth limit that can fuck up your LP (believe me I know). Tinypic doesn't have any restrictions like that.

It's a great game, get it to the end !





Also:

He's going to jump on the train. Will he make it or become an hero?

:CLIFFHANGER TIME:

Gillian, jump !

I can't ! My timing is off !

 

[anus_pounder]

A. Out the window !!

 

[lightbane]

Pick the most EXTREME option, aka throwing him out, for the greater lulz!

 

[Redshirt #42]

Also use tinypic instead of photobucket because PB has monthly bandwidth limit that can fuck up your LP (believe me I know). Tinypic doesn't have any restrictions like that.

Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately the webpage says that it is no longer accepting registrations for user accounts (and it seems an account is necessary in order to upload more than 1 picture at a time.

So should I continue using PB? I have already used up 185 MB (which is more than 1%) of my PB bandwidth. Imageshack, on the other hand, "allows 2000mb per hour for each image hosted" (I dunno if that's better, I suck me not like maths derpherp) and it claims that "Your files will only be deleted if they do not adhere to our Terms of Service. If you are registered, your files will be available forever. If you are not registered, any file that you upload will continue to be available if it is accessed by anyone at least once per year." - is that bullshit lies?

I'm open to any other suggestions too.

Did you follow my no cd instructions?

Nope.

I'd like to be showered in gratitude.

But your thread reminded me that I wanted to play this game some time ago. Thanks.

PS: if you fuck this up i will fucking kill you.

Mmkay.

PSS: Do you know who produced and designed this? Jordan Mechner that's who. Respect!

You don't say. Well, I guess I should have mentioned that. But true Codex elitists probably know that already.

/VD mode off

 

[ghostdog]

Imageshack's hourly bandwidth restriction will not cause you problems, but on the downside its UI sucks compared to photobucket. You could also check out http://imgur.com/.

 

[Quilty]

Great choice. It's a shame this game isn't more popular. I only learned about it a couple of years ago, and must have replayed it at least half a dozen times by now. Brilliant game.

 

[Brother None]

Chuck him out the window.

Also good stuff, looking forward to following this LP.

 

[Redshirt #42]

Update #1 Bonus

Here are a few extra scenes, which occur if you wait too long, don't dispose of the corpse at all, or just fuck something up.

SCENE A

If you don't find the corpse or remove it (or simply don't find your compartment, as I didn't ), the corpse will be found by one of the conductors.

Here's the dialogue between the conductor in the first sleeping car and the trainmaster:

They're both speaking French. Cath can understand French so they're dialogue is subtitled.

Good evening, Uncle.

How's it going?

Everything's fine, sir. Everything's under control.

Do you have an American in number 1?

You mean Mr. Whitney? He's right here.

Could you tell him that Mr. Schmidt is waiting for him in the restaurant. It seems he has been waiting for some time.

Ah! The German noveau-riche.

René! Watch your mouth!

Sorry, but you know he doesn't understand a word of French. At the station-

Never mind! If I heard any conductor mouth off like that, his career would end at the next stop.

I'm sorry, Uncle.

And stop calling me Uncle! It's bad enough knowing I'm related to you without you reminding me.

I'm sorry, Uncle-sir. Forgive me. It won't happen again.

Apart from that, everything fine?

Everything's fine. Except the gentleman in number 4. He's got four compartments full of veiled women and whenever I pass he glares at me as if I'm trying to rape them.

You know who they belong to, don't you?

Mahmud Makhta. That's what it says on the list.

That's the bodyguard's name. They're being very descreet because...

Really! Him? I don't believe it!

So treat them carefully, eh?

But, Uncle, you know I'm a married man. Now you, on the other hand...

I told you not to call me Uncle! That's enough joking. Now do your job.



After his uncle the trainmaster leaves, René goes to check out Tyler Whitney's compartment.

Excusez-moi Monsieur, it's the conductor. Monsieur Whitney, are you there?

And since obviously noone responds, he opens the door and...

Mon Dieu, there's blood on the carpet!

And you get arrested because you had no ticket. I wonder what Cath would have done in the same situation if Whitney were alive.



SCENE B

Now, this is what happens if you run around aimlessly and bump into one of the few NPC's that you actually can talk to.

- Ah, Herr Whitney?

My name is Robert Cath and I'm looking for a 'Herr Whitney' myself. I suppose you don't know - where I might find him?

I have had enough of this nonsense. -

And he leaves the dining car.

Afterwards he'll find the compartment number 1 himself.

- Herr Whitney, open the door! -

Again there's no answer. So he opens the door and enters himself. Note that once he starts knocking on the door, you can't prevent this anymore. Which sucks a bit - but at least that helped me to find the compartment the first time.

- Hilfe!

Hilfeee! -

Also, for some reason you can see the train stop this time.

But the ending is the same. Btw, the ending screen is a page from one of the passenger's journal (also narrated by the owner, whom we haven't met yet). I haven't figured out why exactly it's that person (whether it's symbolic, or there's a specific reason), but maybe I'll understand it this time.



SCENE C

Now in case you are a complete moron and you forget to change your bloody clothes after manipulating with the corpse, this happens.

Excusez-moi Monsieur. What's that on your jacket? -

René really is kinda slow.

- Uh, excuse me? -

Shiiit. Where did you get those awesome shoes?

This time, you get actually accused of murdering Whitney and apprehended. Who knows, maybe they would actually let him go free due to lack of evidence. I'm not sure how advanced forensic science was at that time.

I've also tried to run into some other passengers with the bloody jacket, but it's hard to pull off, because most of them are in the other wagons and if you try to go there, you will immediately be stopped by the second conductor who's sitting next to the entrance to the second sleeping car. Maybe it would be possible if you were really, really patient because the conductors are from time to time moving back and forth - but I think it's not worth it - one of the passengers inside the first sleeping wagon can see you and he ignores it. Also, for some reason the trainmaster doesn't give a shit - so it is safe to assume that only the two conductors react.

The next update (in which we will actually progress with the story) will be probably this Thursday.

 

[Twinkle]

 

[anus_pounder]

 

[Brother None]

Ah shit that bloody jacket! Ahahaha! What a dumbass

Nice to see these alternative fuckups. Good stuff.

 

[Redshirt #42]

Looks like it's 6:4 in favour of the first option - that is throwing him out of the window. I'll do that then.

Hopefully there will be a next page until tomorrow, because the next update is rather large.

 

[hoverdog]

yes, hopefully.