In Progress Let's Play: Fallen Gods

[lightbane]

The commie guy is a monster that wants to ruin the world. What did the dev mean with this? Obviously, join him, and go whatever. I wonder if he'll backstab you.

 

[Demo.Graph]

North and this.

The commie guy is a monster that wants to ruin the world. ... Obviously, join him, and go whatever.

I think that nordic god fighting evil commies is turbo retarded. From the god's position both peasant and king are iceniggers, capitalism is haram fit only for dwarves and all decent folks, maybe even some women, get the same treatment in Valhalla.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The point is that ultimately the commies will be going after you, and the FG world also has a very strict social hierarchy as imposed by Orm himself (he is king of the gods and men).

Also there's no real Valhalla - Skyhold is strictly reserved for the Ormfolk.

 

[Malakal]

The point is that ultimately the commies will be going after you, and the FG world also has a very strict social hierarchy as imposed by Orm himself (he is king of the gods and men).

Also there's no real Valhalla - Skyhold is strictly reserved for the Ormfolk.

Wow fuck that guy then, OPPRESSED MASSES RISE UP.

 

[Trash Player]

We'll regret not selling that Skald soon enough.

Is the game going EA? or closed beta until release? I will d1p this.

 

[Demo.Graph]

The point is that ultimately the commies will be going after you

The puny humies are not a threat!

and the FG world also has a very strict social hierarchy as imposed by Orm himself

Yes. Like in all medieval (predominantly kinship-based) societies. Both communism and capitalism in their modern sense (incl. communism as it's represented by flat-earthers) wouldn't have looked reasonable to those folk.
Premodern pops had communistic ideas (from Jesus and kibbutzes to Fraticelli, etc.), but they generally weren't messianic in the way it's portrayed in the game and they never advocated for total equality.
The dragon seems to have dumbness aura, it's good that we have that tinfoil helmet.

 

[Malakal]

We'll regret not selling that Skald soon enough.

Is the game going EA? or closed beta until release? I will d1p this.

Yea I'll probably get it too unless we get the entire game spoiled here...

 

[Darth Roxor]

Yes. Like in all medieval (predominantly kinship-based) societies. Both communism and capitalism in their modern sense (incl. communism as it's represented by flat-earthers) wouldn't have looked reasonable to those folk.
Premodern pops had communistic ideas (from Jesus and kibbutzes to Fraticelli, etc.), but they generally weren't messianic in the way it's portrayed in the game and they never advocated for total equality.
The dragon seems to have dumbness aura, it's good that we have that tinfoil helmet.

Dulcinians tho.

 

[anvi]

Does this have any gameplay or is it just reading about furries like everything else nowdays?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Does this have any gameplay or is it just reading about furries like everything else nowdays?

bro look at this hot bitch

yiff yiff yiff

 

[Ryzer]

She is so cute

 

[Darth Roxor]

You don't say!

Spoiler

Let's check if there's anything of note in this hillstead first.

Das rite, it's fucking nothing.

Gossip reveals info about a nearby runestone.

As if I need Orm's stinking blessings.

lmao imagine listening to a wom*n speak

While in the village, I spend some cash on a lotta food.

And off we go into yonder barrow.

I don't like the look of that.

We can try entering this suspicious barrow ourselves (Gift, Ill, Blood, no highlight) or send any follower in (Gift, Naught, Death). The follower highlight is Speed, and since all our bros are slowpokes, might as well do it ourselves.

!

ayyyy

This time Speed is highlighted for grabbing any of the goods, and the blurbs are Gift/Gold, Death, which sounds very promising!

The chest is mine!

But of course

Neato.

Better to sing of such a shirt than to wear it.

The Ormshird Byrnie is a pretty trashy armour item that gives +1 defence and das it. Hornberk is strongly superior to it in every way.

Since Orm used to give this to his most trusted mens, there is only one logical thing we could possibly do with it.

And that, of course, is giving it to Hrodi the churl. I would have expected the fighters to be more bothered by it, but they must also see the unshakeable logic behind this gift.

Next stop: unknown cave.

Ominous!

"The path forks and twists beneath the earth" ahead.

Where are the road signs in this place?

Taking either path gives blurb "Stone". "True path" is headway but costs 1 soul for Foresight. Seeing that we have resources to spare but are short on days, I pick the Foresight override.

I go where I please!

Next up: "Bold men seek to make gold from a wight's woe."

Idiots will bring the wights upon us if we don't do something about this.

"Tell them to stop" is Fear + highlight Helm of Awe. "Kill the wight" is Blood. "Give them gold" is unacceptable. "Leave them" is, interestingly enough, Blood.

I could just tell them to fuck off, but there's clearly a more naughty way of handling this, therefore I kill the wight.

It appears they didn't like that

TO BATTLE!

Funny, the last battle we had was actually 60 days ago (!), and we fled from it immediately. Truly this has been a very pacifistic run.

Anyway, these miners are all scrublord churls, so we should have no problem whacking them.

Followers like the skald are great for picking off stragglers with 1% hp left.

Eymund pokes his second churl to death.

And so we win with minimal damage taken. Note the raven landed on the top churl - it feasts on valid corpses and gives the god 1 hp back after a fight. Very useful for preventing stupid attrition.

No loot to be found on these churls, but being a dick is its own reward!

Next: "The cave goes on."

And indeed it does.

Next: "The tunnels rumble with grumbling about a great need for gold."

You know what that means...

Yep, an encounter with cave gypsies.

"Warn him to make way" is "Headway, Curse" even though it highlights the Helm. Unfortunately its autowinning powers usually work only against men. "Trick him into taking less" is "Trickery, Wandering" with wits highlight. I ain't paying him no toll, and giving him nothing is likewise "Wandering".

I trust Naughty Ninny's 8 wits more than his 4 might even with the Helm, so I opt to trick dis dwerg.

Ring-a-dinga-ding, baby

High wits is the best shit.

Well done, indeed.



(please ignore the artifacts in the text)

Next stop: "A pack of wights seek to bury the gold they've gathered".

Sounds like a fight is brewing ahead, so I leave and rest one day to get everyone up to 100% hp.

And back in we gooooooo.

Kill them: "Blood"
Gib ur gold: "Blessing"

It goes without saying that no one's getting my hard and perfectly legitimately earned gold! CHARGE!

M U R D E R

Hmmmm...

Pretty sure we should win this, although they've got us outnumbered. The armoured wights appear roughly equal to our fighters, but since we got the drop on them, that should even the odds nicely.

I opt to engage the armoured wights with fighters while sending the god to quickly dispatch one of the weaker wights.

After that Hrodi and Eymund take care of the other weak wight. Hopefully this mobbing will make the other armoured wights go after the god and fighters.

The turn passes, god kills his wight dead and is engaged by another.

But then another jumps to engage Hrodi while the second weak wight is clubbed dead. Unfortunate, because that means Hrodi is dead meat. I tell Eymund to support a fighter.

We've got half of them down. Hrodi predictably hits the dirt. He didn't enjoy that magic shirt for too long.

More punishment is administered.

The final asshole starts yelling.

Which brings him reinforcements. That's not what I needed now.

Because the god is now engaged by the shit wight, and I really wanted to bumrush the final armoured one before he kills the fighter.

Unfortunately we have no such luck as Torgeir is clawed to death.

All in all, not a bad outcome. Note that the raven doesn't fly down to feast this time, because these wights are not tasty enough.

Though 17 gold for two dead dudes is not a good outcome either

Still, I invested way too much into these idiots to just let them rot here. Therefore, I use my GODLIKE POWERS AND RAISE THEM FROM THE DEAD, for the bargain price of 1 soul each.

The dungeon pinata scores us a net +1 soul (-1 for foresight in tunnels, -2 from rezzing dudes)

Mission accomplished.

Since everyone's badly beaten up, I rest for two days to get them back up to speed.

After which we proceed to this barrow.

Can't even scare them away. Sad!

But no matter, emboldened by the last EXTRAORDINARY VICTORY, Naughty Ninny rushes headfirst into the battle!

They don't look like much, but there's a lot of them.

The wights were stronger for sure, though these two fast thieves are a nuisance.

The outlaws p. much all get first strike on us.

First two kills.

Amazingly enough, with Eymund's support, Hrodi the churl is actually going to win against that outlaw woodsman.

Yep, the woodsman goes down with his skull staved in. Talk about a great investment with that Ormshird Byrnie!

The god kills the last outlaw, and we're victorious.

I rest for another day to let these suckers heal up.

Next time we'll investigate this weirdo glowing tree which smells of HERESY.

And after that, we'll probably make a full circle through the shrine and hillstead to finally return to Fraener.

 

[anvi]

Reminds me of Banner Saga. Too much reading.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Spoiler

Continuing our final tour of the northwestern area.

hot

Some say the fields were better long ago.

"Go to her" is "Love". "Hack the alder down" highlights Woodbane and gives "Death and Gold".

While the second option feels decently assholey, the first one is definitely more naughty.

Giving her MHP is "Friend". Breaking away is "Naught, Loss" but with a HP check.

Let's go all the way through!

Funniest shit is we could now beeline to win Ormson. We have everything needed to win except for a priest, but those are a dime a dozen in any shrine.

But that ain't happening.

Now speaking of priests...

Don't these people have matches?

Let's inspekt this chest of theirs.

Jarl Klaufi knew such woes.

A keepsake of our kind? Clearly it belongs to us by right!

Buying or letting Eymund speak are words/wits checks for the god and skald, while demanding it, which is clearly what should be done, is a threats check with "Fear, Anger". Interesting that the Helm of Awe doesn't work on these priests, but maybe they have too high WP.

Now shut up and gimme your stuff.

This will be a tale of shame.

It seems the whiners that follow us around aren't particularly happy about this vulgar display of godhood, but let them whine as much as they want.

With the relic looted, the shrine closes down for good and can't be entered anymore.



Let's check out the new item.

A woman's wits are her own.

Eldblood is like the Helm of Awe, but for Words, as it makes most Words checks autosucceed. Not particularly useful for Naughty Ninny's Wits 8 and skald. It can also be gulped down for +1 wits, but I have a better idea.

You see, it can also be gifted to Eymund... or to Hrodi. It's only natural for Hrodi the Churl to keep hogging all the shinies.

Thus Hrodi transforms from a churl into a skald...

Eymund doesn't seem happy about it

The cool thing is that a transformed follower still keeps all the bonuses of the prior item gifts. Thus Hrodi still has the +1 defence from the Ormshird Byrnie. Not that it's gonna be of any use to us anymore.

Finally I decide to give Eymund the arm ring as a consolation prize to get his morale back to mid. No whining allowed in this merry party!

Everyone has his price.

Moving on, we take a detour to this runestone here.

It'll take 4 days to return to Fraener, so we can spare them for the runestone.

dum-de-dum

A well-told tale.

This lore dump is a freebie global +1 morale. Not bad, but worthless to us.

Anything to be had here?

Of course not.

Just more gossip. This extra might could have been useful earlier.

COWARD

Final stop before the end.

Makes u think!

Quickening it takes a soul and gives "Blessing, Naught" with a wits check.

Always been a gamblin' man, rolled them bones with either hand

Obviously.

Outwitting Orm (neither for the first nor the last time, heheheheh) gives us a blessing and makes skalds happy. Woopdedoo.

Time to mo-

Lol. How about you fuck off, scrublords?

:glare:

Outta my way, nerds.

So we return to Comrade Fraener's HQ.

Despite wasting a shitton of time at the very beginning of the game, we still managed to cover a lot of ground. Only the west area remains unexplored, and the northeast bog uncleared.

Not a bad set of stats and achievements either. Too bad we never got any use out of those beast and wight lores we got from the hermit at the start, and the alderwight at the end.

Likewise too bad that we didn't have as many opportunities to be a dick as I would like. There are a few events in this game where you can be asshole supreme, but that was not meant to be.

With 8 days to go before our godhood fades, we proceed to win the First's friendship.

I give him the helm...

rip

Talk about mixed feelings

Kick back to the main menu.

Thus ends the ill-sung saga of Naughty Ninny, a god fallen in more ways than one.

 

[lightbane]

That was very anticlimactic. What happens then? Does the commie kill us once we're no longer useful, as commies/bad guys are wont to do? IS it possible to kill that commie?

 

[Malakal]

That was very anticlimactic. What happens then? Does the commie kill us once we're no longer useful, as commies/bad guys are wont to do? IS it possible to kill that commie?

I'd like to think we become a commissar and leader of secret police, leading the masses towards a world revolution!

 

[Darth Roxor]

That was very anticlimactic.

It's a bad end, so duh?

IS it possible to kill that commie?

Yes, but you decided not to.

 

[lightbane]

It's a bad end, so duh?

So, joining the antigod revolutionary is worse than joining fem-Satan it seems, although I wouldn't be surprised if that's a bad end too.

 

[Trash Player]

Btw, how many types of fetches are there? Abilities? I know soul fire is one of them, souls for damage in combat?

 

[Hag]

Well, a fitting end for our loser ex-god.
Though with all the trinkets he got during this play he could have opened a museum.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Btw, how many types of fetches are there?

Four: wolf, raven, fox, eagle.

Abilities? I know soul fire is one of them, souls for damage in combat?

Five: Healing Hands, Wild Heart, Foresight, Death Lore, Soulfire. Soulfire doesn't give damage in combat but instead lets you bypass a lot of fights with a soul tax (i.e. you nuke the enemies away).

 

[Hoodoo]

Good stuff. Thought you were gonna die a couple times.

 

[Brancaleone]

These two playthroughs have left me wanting for more. Bodes well for the final version.