Let's Play Riven Part 20 - Freeing Catherine

[orionburch]

this is the climactic moment in a really fantastic game, but you unfortunately made it very unenjoyable by making little snide remarks all the way through. Were you making this video for yourself, to feel clever? :(

[ThePhantomSafetyPin]

@orionburch If you want to experience this climactic moment in said really fantastic game without my "snide little remarks", you're more than welcome to get a copy of Riven and play the game for yourself. If you want to watch an LP, then I suggest you understand that "snide little remarks" are part and parcel of watching an LP. Were you expecting pure gameplay footage with no commentary? Because that is not what an LP is.

[PhantomTimeLord]

she sounds so suprised when we captured ghen like she didn't think we could do it

[Joltoen]

21212!? That's even crazier than you getting the Ding, Ding, Click, Ding, Ding code when you played this originally. Thinking of whoever got 12345 is actually pretty funny.

It's interesting to think about the idea the Rivenese might be used to writing with a book oriented like a checkbook like that or something, I've always found that journal pretty odd for that reason.

[Xaio30]

I just had another (crazy) thought:

If the water constantly is avoiding heat, then how would warmblooded creatures live in the water without sinking like a rock? If I was trapped on Riven I would eventually try swimming. Bad idea!

[ThePhantomSafetyPin]

@Xaio30 It's not the water avoiding heat, it's the bacteria *in* the water. There are no such bacteria in the blood of the Rivenese natives or animals, since the bacteria makes animals and people ill. A warm-blooded creature would probably have no effect on the bacteria because the heat they give off is not warm enough; in fact, in The Book of Atrus, Atrus swims through a pool of Rivenese water and nearly drowns. The 98 degree F temperature of the human body isn't hot enough, but heat vents are.

[ThePhantomSafetyPin]

@Xaio30 That is, the temperature would need to be close to boiling or vaporization for these Rivenese caloriphobic (heat-hating/fearing) bacteria to react and move the water away. The Rivenese actually had a special powder they used to kill the bacteria so they could drink and/or boil the water to cook with, otherwise the water would just fly right out of the pot and the bacteria would make them very, very ill.