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[prog]

For some reason, learning that Deus Ex notes on the PS2 memory card which endings you successfully hit made me want to put the effort into doing all three, so I just sunk an hour into it.

I did the "Helios" ending yesterday. The "Illuminati" ending may actually my favorite of the three now, not so much for content as for presentation. The "Dark Ages" one is so extreme that it seems pretty damn out-of-character for the hero to willingly accomplish, and indeed he isn't given any lines of dialogue for it; I can't imagine how he'd justify it. But it sure is pretty to watch.

OK, really really done with this game now. Good job, Ion Storm. Rest in Piece. Daikatana!!1!

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Trivia: the lead producer of the game is Warren Spector, who until recently I knew only as one of the developers of Toon, the one role-playing game I feel I've ever successfully GMed.

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The last time I GMed a Toon session was maybe six years ago. The only thing I clearly remember was daerr's character (a walking, talking six-sided die) solving the party's problem of needing to cross the Pacific Ocean by using his roll of TP to soak up the water so they could walk across. This just blew my mind because he actually had the TP written on his character sheet beforehand, and it was so obviously the correct solution, though one I did not foresee myself.

I still have the character sheets from that, I think, somewhere. I recall xymotik was a pollutant-spewing East German car. I can't remember what you other guys were, sorry.

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Yeah.

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

I can't remember what I played either.

But I still have Bob O' Bob in one of my GM folders.

Re: Yeah.

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

The only problem with Toon is that it takes an awesome GM to run it, someone who is very dynamic.

You are that person prog.

I run out of energy. :P

[xymotik.livejournal.com]

If this is all the same session we're talking about, it would've been almost seven years ago in spring/early summer '98, because I left for California shortly after that. I played Trabbi the Trabant.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's right.