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Written by Adam Cadre. Winner of the 2000 Xyzzy Award for Best Use of Medium.
Shrapnel begins with you standing outside a white house. Is this a parody of Zork? Well, yes. But it's also a bizarre and meta-fictional exploration of your disturbing past, time travel, and the Civil War.
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Pros
- Fully researching it drops health significantly.
- Can provide research and containment.
Cons
- Has a 'nasty' triple effect.
- Is a difficult epic to deal with.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- containment — Shrapnel can be contained by players.
- Research — Shrapnel has an effect that sets research to four, and fully researching it drops health from 6 to 2.
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- The nice thing when when curve ball comes out this bracket starts on the lowest level.
- The color coding this game really works well that way.
- Steelheart he's gonna go up one more already can't go any higher and that means gonna trigger this effect which kills another innocent sensor
- if they want us to take powerhouse I think we should give it a try
- ho sizzling now she would do research or two and give us one money not the best reward
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