![]() ![]() The text says it concludes the story - I assume there is no follow up card to pull from the deck, then? I’m confused. I got a Searing Enigma and some text that he has a revelation - when it said "help him with the ritual", which is what I seem to recall the option saying though it’s very possible I’m misremembering already, I thought there might be a bit more to it than opening boxes. So I helped him try what he wanted, a contrast to last month where I Did What I Felt Was Best for the Whole of the City to the Dismay of a Master. It struck something in me about self determination of one’s fate (related to irl goings on with end of life elder care). He still wanted it, despite all logic and despite all warning. I didn’t feel like I needed to base my decision off of gaining him as a companion (stats unimportant for me and still mourning The Intrepid Deacon), and I’d warned him off the stuff earlier (I am Cut With Moonlight). I picked the same option and have the same feelings of abrupt incompletion. Let me start by emphasizing that I really enjoyed the premise, the potential for rationalism and mysticism outlooks to color the story, the Debunker (the game gave me a great reason to help him), and learning about the new areas. I opted to … Maybe I inadvertently picked the worst ending option possible and the other paths would’ve been more satisfying, but as things are, the story ended on a bit of a flat note. ![]() However, the ending felt very hollow to me. Quotes from His Lost Sweetheart: Harry Houdini and His Mother. At the dinner party, “Queen Cecilia” received her guests while perched on a throne obtained for the occasion." "He bought a dress that had been made for the Queen of England, had it tailored to his mother, and asked her to wear it. Of course, in this timeline, Houdini grew up in the Neath and not the US. However, the quest to find an honest medium inevitably turned Houdini into an anti-fraud crusader, and he went public with several books condemning the practices of charlatans." "Still, Houdini craved contact with his mother, so he continued to seek out mediums that offered the possibility of allowing him to talk to her once again. The memories of his mother in the house were too overwhelming." (He saved the original letters, directing his relatives to use them as stuffing for the pillow in his own coffin when he died.) Houdini also found himself unable to dwell in the Harlem house he had shared with his wife and mother. He had all of the letters his mother had sent him over the years retyped and bound in a book that he would pore over incessantly, crying. ![]() "At night, he would sometimes wake up calling for her. ![]() In letters to his brother, Houdini wrote that “I can’t seem to get over it…my heart will always ache for our darling mother…my heart of hearts went with her.” " Audiences who admired Houdini’s daring little suspected the sadness that underlay his performances. "This was the period when Houdini began hanging upside down from skyscrapers in straightjackets and nearly drowning himself in his “Chinese water torture” box. A bit of history about the real world counterpart of the Debunker, which I felt added more to the story: ![]()
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