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theskeletoninthegarden · 1 year ago

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I had a dream where I was playing as a thief tasked to find out the truth behind the whereabouts of another criminal on a college campus. It was fun in that I was given an overall objective, but absolutely no one gave me an idea as to where to start first. Basically a lot of it involved either me figuring out how to B&E into different offices, or eavesdropping at the right time, but there were other hired thieves that I had to deal with at the same time that added an element of "combat" to the experience.

#personal #but also by eavesdropping and looking into files and etc I picked up stories about the people working and living there #which helped give them actual personalities and overall raised my investment in making sure their home essentially would be safe by the end #as an example there was this lady in her office that i could hear muttering from her computer #I was outside just under the window and my personal goal #personal as in there was no objective marker I just had a hunch #was to get in and look through her stuff #by listening to her mutter I learned that she had a friend in an office nearby that A I had to be wary about showing up #B had a key to the place (but also the doors would be unlocked)#C that she was stressed as hell and thus pretty distracted #the window before the desk was open a bit though she closed it before she left #I remembered thinking that I could have jammed it to keep it from closing all the way #but like the doors she didn't lock it #so i just slid it back open on my own #I learned about her life from her computer and jeez talk about trauma #but learned more so to follow the thread of going to her own friend's office #who as I learned #would be leaving it eventually too #idk there weren't any quest markers #just a large af map with multiple floors and a variety of ways to go about things #and a plethora of NPCs with set schedules I had to learn #Which would change dramatically if people learned I was there #I think it would be overwhelming for some people but tbh it's so what I want out of the genre

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