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* BigBad: The Vlasekari and their Vlaski Empire. [[spoiler:Notably, they're the BigBad regardless of whether in the end you work for the Mercian government, the Free Mercia movement, or the Sun Temple, although for different reasons: the Mercian government hates the Vlaski for being superstitious, the Free Mercia movement hates the Vlaski for dominating their serfs, and the Sun Temple considers the practice of light-eating to be repulsive, as being sun-touched is meant to be a blessing used to heal others.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: If you choose, you can play a straight male character, happily married to Grace Chandler, and yet still be very close friends with Garret Finch.
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* MyFistForgivesYou: Woodward reveals that [[spoiler: Finch is alive]] and he knew for two years. One response is to punch him in the face and storm off. If you go back, he acts as though nothing happened.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Professor seems rather indifferent to the loss of life or livelihood of average Mercians in his pursuit to topple the Mercian government. [[spoiler: This shows he cares nothing of Mercia and will sell it to Vlaski for Loegria's, his own country which is ruled by Mercia, freedom.]]
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* CastFromHitPoints: Using their healing powers draws upon a a sun-touched person's LifeEnergy.
* FantasticRacism: Many people versus the sun-touched.
* GoodOldWays: The sun-worshippers believe that the use of hands is sacred, and that modern technology interferes with this and so is against their religion. [[spoiler: The player character can make them more flexible by pointing out that bandages and such require the use of hands as well.]]
* HealingHands: Ideally, this is how the sun-touched use their power.
* LiesToChildren: The player can listen in on a lesson given in the solar chapel about a noble traveling healer. When he points out to Taggart that the real history of the solar religion was much more nuanced than that, the Father says that these are very young children who need to learn about the ideals of the solar church before they learn the darker truths.
* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:Befriend Alexandra Townsend without actually hooking up with her, get her and Woodward to work together and stop the Rise, and she'll mention that you and she were star-crossed...allies. Which seems to leave things open.]]
* NobleBigot: [[spoiler:Miss Chandler is an intelligent, brave, good-hearted woman, but being straightforward with her about your sun-touched nature and about having used your powers (if you have) is too much for her to accept--although to her credit, she promises not to reveal your secret.]]
* NobleBigot: [[spoiler:Miss Chandler is an intelligent, brave, good-hearted woman, but being straightforward with her about your sun-touched nature and about having used your powers (if you have) is too much for her to accept--although to her credit, she promises not to reveal your secret.]]
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* ThereIsAGod: After [[spoiler:Finch's supposed death]], the player character (formerly a Rationalist) can join the sun-worshippers, although the extent to which he embraces their faith is up to the player.
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* TwiceToldTale: A Holmes pastiche with the doctor as the main character.
* WitchSpecies: Being sun-touched appears to be a latent trait which occasionally pops up in some bloodlines. [[spoiler:The aforementioned tainted wine can being it to the fore.]]
* WitchSpecies: Being sun-touched appears to be a latent trait which occasionally pops up in some bloodlines. [[spoiler:The aforementioned tainted wine can being it to the fore.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Vlaski boyars are rich, vaguely Eastern European, nobles who unnaturally extend their lives with the life-force of other creatures.
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* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: Light-eating isn't just horrible: it's ''addictive'', with light-eaters trying to redeem themselves suffering incredible cravings for the life force of other living things. [[spoiler: The tainted wine that imparts temporary sun-touched powers has a similar withdrawal effect.]]
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* LifeDrinker: "Light drinking" is the hideous practice of sucking out another being's life force to fuel one's own. Originally, the old solar priests were only supposed to do so with the consent of their parishioners, but the Vlaski Empire is ruled by men and women who do so as their "right" over their serfs... or to torment prisoners of war.
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* LifeDrinker: "Light drinking" "Light-eating" is the hideous practice of sucking out another being's life force to fuel one's own. Originally, the old solar priests were only supposed to do so with the consent of their parishioners, and the current Solar Temple in Mercia still does it that way, but the Vlaski Empire is ruled by men and women who do so as their "right" over their serfs... or to torment prisoners of war.
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* {{Expy}}: Finch is SherlockHolmes, complete with [[spoiler: FakingTheDead for two years without telling you]]. Woodward is Mycroft and the Professor is Moriarty. More-broadly, Mercia is a more-advanced portrait of VictorianBritain, while Vlaski is a nightmare portrait of Tsarist Russia with a little Transylvania. Alexandra Townsend and the opera singer Madame Adela Albsecu could both be considered counterparts for Irene Adler in different ways, and Colonel Fearnley is a pretty clear analogue to Colonel Moran, complete with big-game hunting. The treatment of sun-worshippers, meanwhile, is a reference to English Catholicism.
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* SerialKiller: [[JackTheRipper The Ripper]], naturally, [[spoiler: the player character]] can also become one depending on the choices you choose to make.
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* SerialKiller: [[JackTheRipper The Ripper]], naturally, naturally. [[spoiler: the The player character]] can also become one depending on the choices you choose to make.
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* BanOnMagic: Being "sun-touched" or "sun-blessed" is not illegal per se, and neither is using the power to heal. However, anyone who has or shows such an ability is barred from polite society, which for a doctor means losing your medical license (you can still practice, but only as a "healer" helping the poor and making no money) and being relegated to the slums.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The Ripper path leads to you either being turned into an enslaved SuperSoldier for Woodward, dying at Finch's hands, or being killed by the real Ripper after descending into purely animalistic madness.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The Ripper path leads to you either being turned into an enslaved SuperSoldier for Woodward, dying at Finch's hands, or being killed by the real Ripper after descending into purely animalistic madness.]]
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No, that\'s not really valid. Conventional means adherence to Rationalist values as a social position, but it\'s not inherently Enlightened as it also includes purely social conventionalism, such as marriage and looking down on the lower classes - similarly, Radicalism is Unconventional but Enlightened.
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* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: The essential thrust of the Conventional/Unconventional axis. "Conventional" opinions are pro-Enlightenment, being rational, skeptical, and enamored with scientific and technological advancement, but often-blind to the ways they impact people for the worse and very discriminatory towards the old sun-worshippers. Conversely, "Unconventional" thinking feels very keenly the loss of [[GaiasLament once-beautiful scenery to the uglier aspects of industrialization]] and is sympathetic to the good things that sun-worship can bring, but can come across as naive about how much "progress" ''has'' done to help humanity and historically nostalgic about the horrid things sun-worship has done in the past. Note, however, that a moderate opinion that BothSidesHaveAPoint and should learn to coexist and pool their talents is ''also'' regarded as "Unconventional," due to the rigid conservatism of Mercian society.
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Daggome it! Not again!
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* LifeDrain: "Light drinking" is the hideous practice of sucking out another being's life force to fuel one's own. Originally, the old solar priests were only supposed to do so with the consent of their parishioners, but the Vlaski Empire is ruled by men and women who do so as their "right" over their serfs... or to torment prisoners of war.
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* LifeDrain: LifeDrinker: "Light drinking" is the hideous practice of sucking out another being's life force to fuel one's own. Originally, the old solar priests were only supposed to do so with the consent of their parishioners, but the Vlaski Empire is ruled by men and women who do so as their "right" over their serfs... or to torment prisoners of war.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Possible for the player character if you choose to [[spoiler:become a vigilante life-drinker in the East End.}}
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* CorruptChurch: The Vlaski version of the solar faith is presided over by beings that literally drain the life out of their people to keep them in slavery.
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* SaintlyChurch: The solar chapel the player can visit partway through the game represents everything right about their faith, eschewing violence and taking care of the poor and miserable without taking advantage of them.
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* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: The major difference between Mercia and actual VictorianBritain is that Mercia is a rigidly atheistic society, to the point of discrimination against sun-worshippers. This is a byproduct of overthrowing a horribly abusive theocracy not much better than modern Vlaski's.
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* SherlockScan: Finch, naturally. The player character can also learn to do this if they raise their 'perception' stat high enough.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: A Conventional protagonist has the option of standing in rigid denial of their own innate sun-touch.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: A Conventional protagonist has the option of standing in rigid denial of their own innate sun-touch.
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* GayOption: Given that the main character is an ex-military doctor with a war wound and his roommate is a brilliant detective with weak social skills, it is perhaps unsurprising that Finch counts as one.
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* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: The essential thrust of the Conventional/Unconventional axis. "Conventional" opinions are pro-Enlightenment, being rational, skeptical, and enamored with scientific and technological advancement, but often-blind to the ways they impact people for the worse and very discriminatory towards the old sun-worshippers. Conversely, "Unconventional" thinking feels very keenly the loss of [[GaiasLament once-beautiful scenery to the uglier aspects of industrialization]] and is sympathetic to the good things that sun-worship can bring, but can come across as naive about how much "progress" ''has'' done to help humanity and historically nostalgic about the horrid things sun-worship has done in the past. Note, however, that a moderate opinion that BothSidesHaveAPoint and should learn to coexist and pool their talents is ''also'' regarded as "Unconventional," due to the rigid conservatism of Mercian society.
* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: The essential thrust of the Conventional/Unconventional axis. "Conventional" opinions are pro-Enlightenment, being rational, skeptical, and enamored with scientific and technological advancement, but often-blind to the ways they impact people for the worse and very discriminatory towards the old sun-worshippers. Conversely, "Unconventional" thinking feels very keenly the loss of [[GaiasLament once-beautiful scenery to the uglier aspects of industrialization]] and is sympathetic to the good things that sun-worship can bring, but can come across as naive about how much "progress" ''has'' done to help humanity and historically nostalgic about the horrid things sun-worship has done in the past. Note, however, that a moderate opinion that BothSidesHaveAPoint and should learn to coexist and pool their talents is ''also'' regarded as "Unconventional," due to the rigid conservatism of Mercian society.
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Finch.]] The player character can either forgive him for the deception or sever all ties in response to this.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Mercia contains all the nastier aspects of VictorianBritain, and the Resistance does have some good points about workers' rights and the need for reform. On the other hand, the Vlaski nobility live by draining life from the serfs, and the Professor has no qualms about destroying thousands of lives to achieve his goals.
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A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight is an independently produced ChooseYourOwnAdventure game hosted by ChoiceOfGames and produced by Heather Albano.
The game begins with the player character, an officer in the Medical Corps of the Mercian Imperial Army in its war against the Vlaski Empire. After being seriously injured in a rescue mission on a Vlaski prison camp, you return to the Mercian capital of Kingsford and take up a position under Arthur Woodward, a [[BlatantLies minor official in the Mercian Government]], working alongside part-time newspaper photographer and fellow agent [[GreatDetective Garrett Finch]].
The free demo for the game can be found [[https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/study-in-steampunk/#utm_medium=web&utm_source=ourgames here]].
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!!A Study in Steampunk provides examples of the following tropes:
* Expy: Finch is SherlockHolmes, complete with [[spoiler: FakingTheDead for two years without telling you]]. Woodward is [[SherlockHolmes Mycroft]], and [[DiablolicalMastermind the Professor]] ([[spoiler: Sean Callahan]]) is Moriarty.
* SerialKiller: [[JackTheRipper The Ripper]], naturally, [[spoiler: the player character]] can also become one depending on the choices you choose to make.
* SherlockScan: Finch, naturally. The player character can also learn to do this if they raise their 'perception' stat high enough.
The game begins with the player character, an officer in the Medical Corps of the Mercian Imperial Army in its war against the Vlaski Empire. After being seriously injured in a rescue mission on a Vlaski prison camp, you return to the Mercian capital of Kingsford and take up a position under Arthur Woodward, a [[BlatantLies minor official in the Mercian Government]], working alongside part-time newspaper photographer and fellow agent [[GreatDetective Garrett Finch]].
The free demo for the game can be found [[https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/study-in-steampunk/#utm_medium=web&utm_source=ourgames here]].
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!!A Study in Steampunk provides examples of the following tropes:
* Expy: Finch is SherlockHolmes, complete with [[spoiler: FakingTheDead for two years without telling you]]. Woodward is [[SherlockHolmes Mycroft]], and [[DiablolicalMastermind the Professor]] ([[spoiler: Sean Callahan]]) is Moriarty.
* SerialKiller: [[JackTheRipper The Ripper]], naturally, [[spoiler: the player character]] can also become one depending on the choices you choose to make.
* SherlockScan: Finch, naturally. The player character can also learn to do this if they raise their 'perception' stat high enough.
