
It’s called The Forgotten City, and if any of the following cultural products strongly appeal to you then you should stop reading this and just go play it without any additional context: The Legend of Zelda (Majora’s Mask, specifically), Lost, the immersive theatrical event Sleep No More, the sort of vague pre-teen conception of “mythology,” or gossip. Recently, though, thanks to a full-throated recommendation from my favorite video game podcast, I completely fell in love with a game that is the definition of small: barely 10 hours long, made by a team of only a handful of developers, and originally conceived as an add-on to a much, much larger game. I’ve mostly found it comforting to play gigantic games - JRPGs (Japanese role-playing games) that can take hundreds of hours to complete - or open-world adventures where you can wander a fictional countryside and venture beyond the walls of your one-bedroom apartment for an hour or five.

I’d played them steadily since I was a kid, occasionally becoming obsessed with this franchise or that throughout my 20s, but it wasn’t until I had nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody to do it with that this lightly pulsating rhythm beneath my day-to-day existence became a full-blown roar.

I'm way past vague hints at this point, please just tell me what to do.It would be hard to overstate the degree to which I’ve become addicted to video games during the pandemic. What am I missing? Can you somehow continue and gather the other pieces and descend into the irradiated tunnels while the world collapses around you and dwarven centurions are attacking? Is there another solution? Am I losing my mind? Hopefully the answer to one of these is "yes." "Dwarven Law doesn't apply here lol SIKE!" The most annoying part of this is that the mod seems to be presenting solutions that then just don't work for reasons that are, to my understanding, unexplained. Apparently there isn't a way to get this ending as a non-murderer you have to kill him to get his stupid armor.

Tried surfing the Internet for any other freaking solution. Surprise surprise, immediately trigger armageddon. In desperation, tried killing him out in the open. Tried bringing him to the jarl's secret room where, we're told, the powers that be are blind. Tried bringing him to the underground tunnels like I was told.

The apocalypse.įigured my only shot lay in telling the jarl that Rykas is the guy even though he and I both know that's a load. This time I want to try to get the set of immaculate dwarven armor, since apparently that's necessary for the "true" ending. I've played it once before and got the ending where you free Maisi and then she immediately kills the jarl.
