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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β DASTGERD CHAINWATER // WATCH-SLATE β
β βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ£
β [ VALVE I ] ........ STEAM PRESSURE LASHED β
β [ DIALS ] .......... BEATING GAUGE GLASS. NEEDLES ZEROED. β
β [ WARRANT ] ........ EDICT LAID BARE. β
β β
β > BOILER IGNITED. β
β > CASTING OFF MOORING CHAINS. β
β > BOW TURNED TO BLACK WATER. β
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HELM A DOOMED CHIMERA.
Lo, destiny crooks a finger only to those whose eyes peer beyond ΓΎe 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, ΓΎou steerest Ablahshikar by murke point-nettes and sputteryng tables.
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β MATRIX ADJACENCY //: [ . . Β· βββββββββββββββββ Β· . . ] β
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β β² β
β βββ β΅ 0x1A4F β
β βββββ β 0x2B9C β
β βββββββββββββββββ β
β βββββββββββββ [Veni, precor, hiems mΓ¦sta,] β
β βββββββ [Veni, mors, et claude festa. ] β
β βββ β
β βββ β
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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 ΓΎy brands and snarl at ΓΎi cure.
ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ WINNING TACKLE ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
β β
β line: set truer now β
β wreck: brine-dark β
β noise: rising β
β β
β [G] HOOK/HAUL β
β [V] SEND CREW β
β [C] CUT LINE β
β β
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LET FOLIOS GOUT WITH ΓI SHAME & GLORYE
Alle naviΘacioun is nought but grym runes crawing on a text-bord. Γou beholdest glutted ASCII matrices & ΓΎe 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 ΓΎilke sigils into ΓΎe Folios of Γal-Drayem through many lif-loans, proof of how keenly ΓΎou and ΓΎine brueden crisped in ΓΎe pale rush.
βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ WATCH NOTICE βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
β β
β β² GOLD ARROW = YOUR HULL β
β β
β BLUE = PORT GOLD = STARBOARD β
β β
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TURN HOUND ON HOUND, & CAST HEM INTO HEMSELF
Lif hengeΓΎ 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 ΓΎy crew in ΓΎe gnasty cogges ΓΎat ΓΎe 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.
βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ HELM PLATES ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
β β
β [Q] LEFT GUNS [G] HOOK/HAUL [E] RIGHT GUNS β
β [V] SEND CREW [C] CUT LINE [B] BRACE PART β
β [O] THROW BAIT [T] VENT STEAM [Y] BURN DECOY β
β [I] STRIKE GLASS [J] JETTISON [H] TETHER [L] FLARE β
β β
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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 ΓΎe frame with a trusty mall til ΓΎe scale disgorgeΓΎ its treason. Peer through ΓΎe quavering ciphers to glimpse ΓΎe nude doome of coal and decay.
Haply, haply, whan ΓΎou flayest ΓΎe laste viserne of Γal-Drayem ΓΎe Candell-SΓ¦, ΓΎe blanchte grin shal wyden for ΓΎe 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.
βββββββββββββββ HELM βββββββββββββββ
β hull / rig / fuel / crew β
β guns / tackle / bait / flare β
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βββββββββββ WATCH-SLATE ββββββββββββ
β chart / wreck / fog / fire β
β log / slate / deed archive β
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βββββββββββββ AUTOPSY ββββββββββββββ
β warrants / factions / zones β
β notices / dossiers / ports β
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βIf you want to build a ship, donβt drum up people to collect wood, and donβt assign them tasks and work. Rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.βAntoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ryβIgnoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.βLucius Annaeus SenecaβTherefore he counselled them to get ready to fight a battle by sea, for in this was their bulwark of wood.βHerodotus, concerning Themistocles
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