Ablahshikar is a turn-based ASCII salvage-survival game adrift on the Candle Sea. Bound to a worn terminal of bone-white and brass, you must strip wrecks and tear organs direct from rival vessels. Graft severed parts onto your keel to rebuild a failing warship into a doomed chimera.
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โ DASTGERD CHAINWATER // WATCH-SLATE โ
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โ [ VALVE I ] ........ STEAM PRESSURE LASHED โ
โ [ DIALS ] .......... BEATING GAUGE GLASS. NEEDLES ZEROED. โ
โ [ WARRANT ] ........ EDICT LAID BARE. โ
โ โ
โ > BOILER IGNITED. โ
โ > CASTING OFF MOORING CHAINS. โ
โ > BOW TURNED TO BLACK WATER. โ
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HELM A DOOMED CHIMERA.
Lo, destiny crooks a finger only to those whose eyes peer beyond รพe next tempest. Take custody of a faltering war-barge that wanders the outer brine of Dastgerd.
Thy wrists y-braced to a wan terminal of bone-whyte and tarnysshed latoun, รพou steerest Ablahshikar by murke point-nettes and sputteryng tables.
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โ MATRIX ADJACENCY //: [ . . ยท โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ ยท . . ] โ
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โ โฒ โ
โ โโโ โต 0x1A4F โ
โ โโโโโ โ 0x2B9C โ
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โ โโโโโโโโโโโโโ [Veni, precor, hiems mรฆsta,] โ
โ โโโโโโโ [Veni, mors, et claude festa. ] โ
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TEAR PARTS FROM THE PERISHED.
Descend into the midnight water to flense derelicts upon the seabed, or tear organs direct from hostile vessels. Graft their severed parts onto your own keel. Rear a freshe Ablahshikar from carcasses of loftier craft, though fremde yren shrike agenst รพy brands and snarl at รพi cure.
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โ โ
โ line: set truer now โ
โ wreck: brine-dark โ
โ noise: rising โ
โ โ
โ [G] HOOK/HAUL โ
โ [V] SEND CREW โ
โ [C] CUT LINE โ
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LET FOLIOS GOUT WITH รI SHAME & GLORYE
Alle naviศacioun is nought but grym runes crawing on a text-bord. รou beholdest glutted ASCII matrices & รพe stark lore of attricioun. Hert-cave brestes, self-flayne limmes for spare-stukkes, and blind brodsides in milk-fog ben sacrementes of schame and grace. Brand รพilke sigils into รพe Folios of รal-Drayem through many lif-loans, proof of how keenly รพou and รพine brueden crisped in รพe pale rush.
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ WATCH NOTICE โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
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โ โฒ GOLD ARROW = YOUR HULL โ
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โ BLUE = PORT GOLD = STARBOARD โ
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TURN HOUND ON HOUND, & CAST HEM INTO HEMSELF
Lif hengeรพ by malice forged to a gleyve. Pit towering bastions and mercenary flotillas against one another. You deploy smoke to shroud your heading, whip bird swarms until they tattle on the unsuspecting, and seduce rival armed factions into merry mutual evisceration. Cram รพy crew in รพe gnasty cogges รพat รพe dial mote steal another watch. Surrender a limb to make unanesthetized oblations to the Syzygy. Wring utility from the deep. Turn the hostility of the waters into a weapon of your own.
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โ [Q] LEFT GUNS [G] HOOK/HAUL [E] RIGHT GUNS โ
โ [V] SEND CREW [C] CUT LINE [B] BRACE PART โ
โ [O] THROW BAIT [T] VENT STEAM [Y] BURN DECOY โ
โ [I] STRIKE GLASS [J] JETTISON [H] TETHER [L] FLARE โ
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TRUST NO DIAL.
Gauges film over with green rot and bilious vapor, and their needles burrow themselves in the casing. Smite รพe frame with a trusty mall til รพe scale disgorgeรพ its treason. Peer through รพe quavering ciphers to glimpse รพe nude doome of coal and decay.
Haply, haply, whan รพou flayest รพe laste viserne of รal-Drayem รพe Candell-Sรฆ, รพe blanchte grin shal wyden for รพe likewise.
Features
- Turn-based salvage-survival on an ASCII sea.
- Harvest parts from wrecks and enemy vessels.
- Rebuild your war-barge from scavenged components.
- Manipulate smoke, fire, bait, carrion flocks, hostile factions & more.
- Strike unreliable gauges and make decisions from corrupted readouts.
- Heavy industrial and deep-water acoustic soundscapes.
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ HELM โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ hull / rig / fuel / crew โ
โ guns / tackle / bait / flare โ
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โโโโโโโโโโโ WATCH-SLATE โโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ chart / wreck / fog / fire โ
โ log / slate / deed archive โ
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โโโโโโโโโโโโโ AUTOPSY โโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
โ warrants / factions / zones โ
โ notices / dossiers / ports โ
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โIf you want to build a ship, donโt drum up people to collect wood, and donโt assign them tasks and work. Rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.โAntoine de Saint-ExupรฉryโIgnoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.โLucius Annaeus SenecaโTherefore he counselled them to get ready to fight a battle by sea, for in this was their bulwark of wood.โHerodotus, concerning Themistocles
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