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Author Topic: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!  (Read 1601 times)

Iituem

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Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« on: December 03, 2015, 08:20:54 pm »

Chapters

Chapter One: The Demise of the I.F.S. Zephyr
Chapter Two: Shrouded Hills
Chapter Three: Bank Robbers and Luddites
Chapter Four: Dernholm
Chapter Five: Meddling in the Affairs of Halflings
Chapter Six: Bandits, Barter & Beasts Beyond Mortal Ken


Welcome one and all to my very first video Let's Play!  With this in mind I have chosen one of my all-time favourite games; Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura.  Join our not-so-gentleman bandit Jack Hunt on his adventures through a world of magic, rocked by the advent of the industrial age!
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Let's Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura! - The adventures of Jack Hunt, gentleman rogue.

No slaughtering every man, woman and child we see just to teleport to the moon.

Harry Baldman

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Re: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2015, 07:29:03 pm »

Perfect voice for this game, have to say.

And oh dear, using guns. That's going to be... an intriguing challenge.
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Re: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2015, 07:40:31 pm »

Perfect voice for this game, have to say.

And oh dear, using guns. That's going to be... an intriguing challenge.

It would be a lot easier to go backstab-halfling-chronomancer, to be sure, but I enjoy making my life difficult.  I'm setting these up to appear M-W-F, so the next one will appear midnight GMT on Monday.
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Let's Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura! - The adventures of Jack Hunt, gentleman rogue.

No slaughtering every man, woman and child we see just to teleport to the moon.

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Re: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2015, 05:34:44 am »

Also noticed you didn't go for the Kite Shaman over on the other side of the map. There was this one time when I killed him with an Escaped Lunatic and found a suit of magical plate mail in his treasure chest. Plate mail + Escaped Lunatic = nigh-invulnerability, as it turns out.

And then there's the classic half-ogre who Ran Away With The Circus. Starting the game with 20 Strength, what fun that was. And that's not even getting into the low-int dialogue.
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Re: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2015, 04:33:16 pm »

Will be lurking here, since Arcanum is one of my all time favorite games.
Dwarven pyromaniac was one of my most... entertaining characters. "Hey Lloyd, catch!"
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Re: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2015, 01:18:18 pm »

Next two videos are up.  These are set to a M-W-F schedule, arriving at midnight GMT on each day.  In these videos we explore a little more of Shrouded Hills and engage in a spot of, eheh, forced withdrawal from the banking system.
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No slaughtering every man, woman and child we see just to teleport to the moon.

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Re: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2015, 04:18:41 am »

Chapter Four takes us to the decrepit city of Dernholm, capital of Cumbria, a dying kingdom.  We lose some barfights, acquire a new companion and play match-maker with the elderly.

This Monday, stay tuned for Chapter Five: Meddling in the Affairs of Halflings!
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No slaughtering every man, woman and child we see just to teleport to the moon.

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Re: Let's (Video) Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura!
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2015, 01:18:19 am »

Chapter Six is out, and has our party face off against beasts beyond mortal ken!  Someday we'll find out who this Mortal Ken fellow is, too.
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Let's Play Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura! - The adventures of Jack Hunt, gentleman rogue.

No slaughtering every man, woman and child we see just to teleport to the moon.