The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind manicured hands, getting elegant ladies out of elegant fixes - and you're in debt. Bound by oath and honor to a pack of scoundrels. Your father, old peasant that he was, could have warned you against their type. A piece of interactive fiction written by Emily Short.
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Classical in form, grave, contemplative and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the game
- Platforms
- Web browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Emily Short
- Released
- April 1, 2002
- Perspective
- Text
- Engine
- Inform
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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