#Blackreef

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Julianna Blake - Deathloop (2021)

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♾️💥You wrote it on Blackreef!!

#AEONuary2023 continues with today's prompt: You Know The Code

[eiramew]

[irkedisaac]

i'm shocked it took people any time at all to realize that deathloop and dishonored are directly linked tbh. the cabinets are a dead giveaway

[allyouneediskilly]

Deathloop (2021) by Arkane Lyon

Colts apartment/Julianna’s telescope

[unlucky-words]

one day im gonna post about my visionary oc and then its all over .

[barrymccaulkinem]

I wish i had watched superjail when weed still worked properly on me

[updaamafterdark]

Good Morning Blackreef!

The long awaited release of the Deathloop Zine is finally here!

But first, a huge thank you to everyone who made it possible, with their awesome stories, games, and art!

You can find a download link here:

Enjoy uncovering all the secrets of Blackreef, and reading about the lovebirds and their daily life.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or wish to contact us, the qna and email present on our carrd will remain at your disposal.

If you want to hang out with some cool Deathloop fans, our Discord is also always open.

Thanks again to all the contributors for the zine! 🧡

Happy looping ;)

[loveofdetail]

oh my god ⭐⭐⭐⭐any dl fic thoughts you know i'm eating them with a spoon <3

Oh, here's something interesting about "She Likes Us To Watch"—in at attempt to get Fia's voice right (challenging!) I originally wrote huge sections of this in first person. My ~process~ is so long and convoluted (literally 80% of this fic sat in my gdocs for two years before your kink week gave me the impetus to finish it) but it gives results I'm happy with I GUESS.

More stuff:

"Cold was the first thing you stopped feeling on Blackreef." -> meant to make you ask what else Fia has stopped feeling by now :)

"She’s given him no program for what to perform today." -> EXTREMELY pleased with myself that this could be read as either a theater program or a computer program.

Ugh, my dirtiest Charlie/Fia secret is that in my heart of hearts I think that, if they weren't doomed by the inherent destructiveness of the loop, they... might have actually been really good for each other. SOMEHOW. I love how much of their relationship is shown in their artistic collaborations and I tried to bring that out in this fic even if in this case 1) the artistic collaboration is public sex and 2) they are already pretty on the rocks emotionally.

"She thinks, for her, he would finally stay inside his own outside (mostly… mostly)" Oh you know, aside from the whole part where half his brain is in a robot. OTHER THAN THAT.

"...none of this will work if, when he’s unraveling, he autonomically tries to Shift flusher against her, as he often does." I think the idea that he loses control of his teleportation when he cums is HOT and i am NOT SORRY.

and last but not least:

"Being without is a different world from never having.” His face freezes like he can’t believe her, then cycles, upper lip twitching almost sneer-like as he starts to say—but he closes his mouth and looks at the floor. Has she said something wrong?

I'm not sure how obvious this is, but what he stopped himself from saying there is: no shit! he is INTIMATELY FAMILIAR with this idea from that little thing where he had half his brain removed at her encouragement!

[sigilmint]

Julianna asks Eternalists if they've fulfilled their Colt-Killing Quota, which is 'a million kills' total, or ~2,217/person. Doing that math back should give you the pop. of Blackreef, right? Well, 451 people would give you that lol

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Deathloop (2021)

[prommytheus]

im losing my mind over these little blackreef bitches so have this

[8omi]

  Let’s go find the Blackreef💨💨

[fridge-reviews]

Deathloop

Developer: Arkane Studios Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Steam Deck Compatibility?: Verified Rrp: £49.99 (Humble, Steam and Epic) Released: 14th September 2021 Available on: Humble, Steam and Epic Played Using: Mouse and Keyboard and Steam Deck Approximate game length: 20+ Hours

With a gasp you wake up on the beach again. What was it this time? A sniper, gotta stay in cover next time. With a gasp you wake up on the beach again. What was it this time? Machete, got me from behind while I was shooting her friends. With a gasp you wake up on the beach again. What was it this time? Damn, cooked the grenade too long. With a gasp you wake up on the beach again. And again. And again. And again. Eventually, you’ll get it right. With each loop a clue and another step closer.

Deathloop is a FPS from the developers of the Dishonored series Arkane Studios (yes, they also made Redfall but that’s a whole saga unto itself). The game is set on the small Isle of Blackreef, where a strange group of people have somehow set up a time loop that resets itself at the end of each day. For most people, when the day loops they forget everything that happened. You play as Colt a man who for some reason retains his memories between the loops and has decided he’s had enough, it’s time the loop was destroyed.

The problem is, destroying the loop is not as simple as smashing a machine, you have to kill a specific group of people who call themselves Visionaries. Complicating this is the fact that they all have to die within the same loop, which is harder than it sounds because they’re all scattered around the isle. A second problem is Julianna, a skilled assassin who also retains her memories from loop to loop and wants to protect the loop.

In order to kill those Visionaries you’re going to need the one thing that can never be taken from you. Information. With each loop you learn something new, maybe even several things, such as where people are going to be and when. Perhaps that will allow you to lay out a trap, or at least find a time when they are at their most vulnerable. Of course, even if you fail and only kill one Visionary in a loop that’s still no bad thing. The Visionaries carry special items called ‘slabs’ which grant you an ability such as being able to go invisible or teleport short distances. The more of these abilities you can gain the easier the whole affair will be.

Of course, the Visionaries aren’t the only ones on this isle with something worth taking. You see the various enemies on the isle all carry weapons and sometimes items called ‘trinkets’. All trinkets fall into one of two types; personal or weapon. Weapon trinkets can be applied to a weapon and will have a passive effect such as increasing the damage or reducing recoil.  Personal trinkets work similarly to weapon trinkets but instead will give a passive benefit to your character or in some cases grant an ability such as double jump. Both weapons and trinkets come in one of four rarities, crude (black), sleek (blue), exemplar (purple) and unique (orange). In the case of weapons the higher the level of rarity the more weapon trinkets can be applied to it, and with trinkets the higher its level the more potent it is.

A loop lasts from morning til night, then you wake up on the beach again and all your equipment is reset and all enemies respawn (yes, even the Visionaries). The game splits the ever looping day into four parts; morning, noon, afternoon and evening. Each of the districts have different opportunities that arise at different times of day, meaning that you will likely spend multiple loops exploring a single district to work out how to do your perfect final run. There are only two ways to progress time which is either travelling between the districts or choosing to wait in the district select screen. Yes, this does mean that you could spend twelve hours exploring a district and when you leave it will still be ‘morning’.

As you might have noticed I mentioned that once a loop restarts everything is reset, so you might wonder what the point in gathering weapons and items would be since they all get reset back to zero at the start of each loop. There is an answer and the answer is ‘Residuum’. Residuum is a resource that can be spent to allow you to carry specific weapons, trinkets and slabs between loops. You can find residuum while exploring the districts but your main source will be through sacrificing weapons and trinkets you don’t need. Of course, you don’t have this power right away, nope. You need to find and complete a specific quest to gain it. I recommend prioritising that quest over anything else in the game, because without it the game is near impossible to beat.

While exploring the island you’ll get ‘invaded’ (to use Dark Souls terminology) by Julianna, or rather, a player controlling her. This player will lock down your tunnels for escape and hunt you relentlessly. If you do manage to kill them then you can get some residuim, a weapon, trinkets and sometimes a slab (or slab upgrade). You can’t avoid being invaded by changing the setting to single player or friends only because the game will instead invade you with an AI controlled version.

Verticality is the word that comes to mind when I think of this games level design. The developers clearly wanted to give the players as many options on how to approach a scenario. Do you go in guns blazing? Maybe sneaking through the vents or over the rooftops? Perhaps a mix of the two. The fact that the districts change depending on what time of day you enter them is great too, some windows are now closed, others open, perhaps a passage has appeared that wasn’t there before. So many options.

I love this game, it really scratches an itch that Dishonored left behind. One of the many things I love about it is that it’s really just one big puzzle. Admittedly, a very violent puzzle but still a puzzle.

If this appeals to you perhaps try;

The Dishonored Series The Sexy Brutal Thief 2: The Metal Age

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[irkedisaac]

anyone else think julianna was kinda pissed when colt said "but you havent written any" (books)?

anyone else think that's an insanely well-aimed barb? she's the archivist, she had a passion for the written word - her library is the treasure she brought to blackreef. she devoted her life before to a medium that can never ever be added to again in the loop. you can read the same library as many times as you want, but you can't ever put something new on the shelves.