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Mar-26-2006 00:13

The second episode in Michael Bagen's trilogy of featured mysteries, Doomslayer: Killers, will launch this coming Tuesday night, March 28th.

You will not be able to play Killers (which is set in London) unless you have completed episode 1: The Prisoner.

Apr-6-2006 06:10

Ahhh

*the other feature_s_

*bottom

Apr-6-2006 08:21

Greyling I have not played either yet (I am waiting to do all three at once) but I see no spoilers there that give any bit of useful plot bits or harmful to enjoyment issues.

Apr-6-2006 16:52

To answer the question, in order to make a viable continuity, it is assumed that though the other FMs not part of the series happened, your detective is not cast as the one who accomplished them. I did this because a) you may not have played the 3 FMs that are only loosely related to this series and b) to preserve the suspense. I showed this in the introduction, when Zorn discusses the other cases as news stories, separating them from the PC (player character) and placing them in time respective to Killers. It's an adversarial relationship that the game continuity has with narrative continuity, but the alternative wouldn't be that entertaining. Mysteries require the lead character to have a certain degree of ignorance to the situation. Besides, what fun would it be if the FMs worked as though the PC was the only big-time detective on Earth?

But thanks for letting me clear this up. It was an odd element to the story, in any event.

Apr-7-2006 20:02

Thanks for the feedback Greyling.

I've fixed the error with that "**name**" thing appearing the in end text.

I'll review later to see if there is a missing step before that city hall research bit.

Apr-8-2006 20:11

Here's the problem I encountered. I played the first part fo the trilogy without playing another case in New York first. When I went later to play that case, I realized I knew who the guilty party was immediately. Maybe a warning to play a featured mystery before the first part of the trilogy? I ran into the same problem for the second part.

With that said, these mysteries have been extremely exciting and have confirmed to me that this site is the best mystery site on the internet. With professional mystery writers such as the distinguished author John Hale volunteering time to write intriguing murder mysteries this site will long continue to dominate the industry.

Apr-15-2006 11:16

Thank you so much, Mr. Hale!