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I'd actually be fine with this not being the sixth history, but they don't commit, but they also ruin the vibe.
In cultist simulator the world was mostly the same, but stuff was weird on the periphery. The mystic stuff was on top of a world we understand. So a normal person works a normal job and suddenly his world falls apart and he discovers a new secret world hidden within the one he knows. You keep finding lore like what if elagabalus was a follower lf the grail and their odd behaviour was cult stuff and ooh and ahh. And you get stuff like the veneration of Saint Agnes "inadvertently" carrying on secret lore of the knock aspect and the mother of ants and oooooooo
In Travelling at Night people talk about the Sun in Splendor in the open, there's a picture of the Witch and Sister in the stained glass window of a church just labelled that. You talk to the actual Worms.
But also. Everything is still the same stuff. Just with no subtlety. You're playing a guy from game 1 referenced in game 2 and the events that happened in the background of book of hours are canon even though it was retconned. All the people you meet are the same people Oh you go to a mysterious mental health institute with a very understanding head physician and find j.n. sinnombre. The quest to find the mysterious lady is called The Lady Afterwards and she's name the thing from the game.
Oh, that is weird. My guess is you happen to be in a cult-heavy area, but even then in CS they usually still try to be subtle about it. They're more open in BoH, but you're also in a specifically occult library. BoH is probably my favorite, but I got good at CS before BoH was even announced.
No. See. They retconned it (Or it's the seventh history or whatever). Christianity is gone. Well, it's an American cult called Crucianism. The global church is the church of the Sun in Splendor.
People just talk about doing cult magic in the open. It's in newspapers and you get hired in a park to cast spells.
Oh wow. That's a big deviation! I guess it could be a different history, but that's still a weird shift from the usual atmosphere. So I guess there's no suppression bureau in this world? I'm still interested in this game, but it sounds very weird compared to the others.
No there still is, and your player character who was a suppression bureau agent in cultist simulator was still that.
They just suppress uhhh. Some of the deeper lore? It isn't clear to me. Can't be doing much though because
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you walk up to and talk to a long. You just meet a lantern long in the flesh. Which they now have to be because the Mansus exploded. A thing people know happened. And like people just know about the Carapace Cross. That's a thing people read about and talk about and just see walking around.Wild. Like if the secret world just completely collided with the mundane one to the point the esoteric is almost mundane itself?
Yes kinda. But also they still reference it as secret stuff, except... it's not.
Like they say "Oooo you shouldn't talk about this in public" right next to the chapel to the Sun in Splendor and a hole the worms are crawling through. Which you know because they tell you they are.
It's almost silly! Still sounds fun, if very different from the others.
If it sounds like your bag you should try it. I hope you enjoy it, and if you do don't mind me being grumpy about i
Oh no, you can be grumpy all you like! Sorry if I sounded like I was arguing, I was just curious.
I didn't take it as arguing, don't worry.