198BREW by DWaM

[wolfbiter]

also collecting my review, now that there’s a thread

my take on the game was that it was more interested in raising a bunch of fascinating ideas than running them to ground.

That said, I was definitely also v interested in what was up with the PC and Fiona. My guesses (with transcript quotes where I have them):

1. the PC and Fiona had a pretty close romantic relationship

[in the description of the bedroom] you remind yourself you’ll never share this bed with her again.

>x books
She always insisted on calling them books – but these are all comics. She once told you she was too embarrassed to leave them out in the open.

Given that most of them have naked women on the covers, you understand why.

(so you know her pretty well)

2. given that Luddum seems to have a whole anti-Blood movement, I take it society at large understands something about the body-taking-over process?

3. why did Fiona do it / did she understand? My take was that she probably understood she was not going to continue as an entity, and may have been basically depressed / suicidal

>x bed
“I want to die.”

You were lying right here, naked, when she said that.

[Luddum in a speech broadcast on the TV, seemingly identifying a criticism people often make of his position] The lonely and depressed may very well be forced to stay in that state.

so this implied to me that the people defending the Blood and the status quo say that the system helps the lonely and depressed (by letting them commit suicide??)?

4. what was Fiona doing? - I’m not sure if she was doing anything in particular, I think eating the PC took days to weeks (to get through that much mass) and it seems like at some point the process “completes” and that’s when Fiona “went away”?