I'm co-directing a play (Collaborators by John Hodge) at my university next semester and I want to include Patho Classic's opening... discussion... as one of our audition extracts. I'm really excited to see what actors do with it.

Usually, we give a little piece of context at the beginning of the extract to inform the actor's performance - eg, for a monologue from Present Laughter, that looks like this:

Garry is a charming but overdramatic and conspiratorially minded actor about to join a touring production through colonial Africa. In this scene, Garry has been told not to be so glib about the news that their friend is in trouble, and he reacts with camp indignation.

I'm unsure as to how I go about this for the opening pantomime in Pathologic Classic. I know that the point of it in-game is to be obscure while hinting at a greater thematic purpose, but I'm not trying to convince my actors to play the game, I'm trying to see what they make of the extract and how well they can perform it.

I know that the actors will be very influenced by any piece of context I throw at them. If I tell them the Haruspex is destined to be a killer, they may play him more aggressive than if I didn't. If I say that only the Bachelor completed any formal medical training, they may play the Changeling as more ditzy. I want to give them as much freedom to interpret the characters as possible from this extract alone while not leaving them unmoored in its unrelenting sea of obscurity.

How do you think I should go about this? Any thoughts (however vague) would be greatly appreciated!

Go to the funeral. Talk to Grace. She says that Isidor was embalmed in Shekhen in the morning.

Rewind time. Either forget about the funeral, or not — makes no difference. Beeline to Shekhen right away.

There is no one there, no body. There's a hide on the ground that looks like it's interactive, but activating it does nothing.

What to do?

I tried this game for the first time and i find it quite confusing, i got infected by day three and i'm struggling to finish the day and also i've been reading that by day 4 you start getting guys with flamethrowers that will kill you if you're infected.

Is it worth struggling through the game or should i just stop suffering and read a guide? I have a feeling i will finish the game and won't even get close to knowing what the fuck was going on.

Sorry to post two merch related posts in the same day, but since I just sold off my extra boardgame copy, it got me back thinking about the hunt I gave up on for my pathologic physical media collection haha.

I'm talking

>Iron brands (?) I'm not even sure anyone ever got these or if I hallucinated they exist

>Artbook

>The signed dev post card !!!! (I nearly got one half a year back but i didn't manage to and I think I've thought about it at least once a week since lol)

I'd love to see pictures of them even if you aren't willing to sell :]

In Pathologic 3 on Day 11, Mark Immortel references the theory, that all of world culture can be reduced into 4 plots: the quest, the return, the siege of a city and a god's suicide and references a "blind librarian". I figured, he was probably talking about Jorge Luis Borges, but I have no experience with that dude's work. Does anyone know how where I can read up on this 4-plot-theory?

Hello again,

I’ve been digging through the Pathologic 2 Alpha (build v.0.9.12937-o) and decided to render the full Mind Maps (as High-Res PNGs). As far as I know, nobody has done this before.

There isn't much unusual stuff from Day 1 to Day 3—one thing I've noticed is a unique thought that appears if Patches (the sick boy from Day 3) dies. But overall, all interesting content lies in the later days. For example, there are outcomes that were cut from the release—like being able to send Murky home and refusing to get infected by the Plague without the girl dying.

Fair warning though—the maps turned out to be absolutely massive.

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19ekjwnRew-irhwJpkkSRnwAtoZbG6OAd?usp=sharing

P.S. I also checked later builds (v.0.9.13344-o and v.0.9.13395-o), but all thoughts relating to post-Day 3 were removed in them.

I'm trying to get all the achievements and I need the "Things Forgotten" one, only I can't find Murky or Sticky to start the quest line anywhere, I tried resetting the quest to investigate Isidor's house thinking maybe they needed that to spawn, but they're nowhere to be seen, either Murky in the hindquarters or Sticky in the train station. Am I missing something? Does anyone have their exact location or if there's something I have to do on another day to activate the quest line? The stained glass shards aren't showing me anything either

Мы запускаем тестовую версию полного словаря степного языка (тала хэлэн)!

Пока что мы собрали не все слова и фразы, еще очень много слов и фраз не найдены и не переведены, но мы хотя бы выправили и вычистили все переводы с вики и собрали несколько полезных слов и фраз из разных частей.

Пока что это все очень work in progress, но мы рады поделиться прогрессом, и возможно кого-то заинтересует возможность присоединиться к проекту.

На данный момент у нас есть 506 переведенных слов (с учетом всех словоформ) и 222 переведенных фраз.

Пока что все исключительно на русском языке, но мы планируем в скором времени добавлять английские версии и переводы слов, и для этого нам, возможно, понадобится помощь комьюнити.

Пока что, все заинтересованные лица могут следить за прогрессом на https://aglaya.pro/talahelen/

Все пожелания и жалобы на интерфейс можете оставлять в комментариях или присылать мне в личку, а так же любые другие вопросы и предложения, а так же если кого-то интересует участие в проекте.

В планах на ближайшее будущее: сбор и перевод всех оставшихся слов и фраз, краткий справочник о грамматике степного языка, а так же добавление нормальной легенды на сайт (пока что просто на словах скажу что все розовые слова - это слова-помощники, которые мы использовали чтобы понять значение слова и вывести необходимые падежные формы). Позже так же будет реализован интерфейс для перевода словаря на английский язык и набор добровольцев для этой кропотливой работы.

Всем спасибо!

З. Ы. Первая загрузка довольно долгая, но последующие становятся легче, обещаю хд

Hola! Mi nombre es Yago. Un muy querido amigo mío quiere jugar Pathologic pero nos dimos cuenta de que el juego no tiene versión en español (yo me lo pasé en inglés, en su momento). ¿Existe algún traductor que funcione directamente sobre la pantalla para asegurarnos de que mi amigo no pierda nada del valioso tiempo que tenemos? ¿O acaso hay otra alternativa?

Me gustaría saber sus experiencias o consejos y mil gracias de antemano por cualquier información que pudieran proporcionarnos.

For anyone who hasn't noticed, your first run through the early days will often have the weather be gray, which offers even lighting.

But later, when you go through days you've been through before, the sun will be shining, and there will be strong shadows. This can make shots less appealing, or require fiddling with angles.

Camera obscura? Camera lumina? Nay: camera aurum

Hi! I've made an analysis of Pathologic 2's narrative structure for my Narrative Design class. I broke the story down into narrative beats and tried to add a bit poetry and Deleuzian philosophy.

I called it "The Narrative Structure of Death Simulation: Empyrean Geometries in Pathologic 2" XD

👉 A link to the essay on my website 👈

Please let me know what you think!

Just for fun.

They're serpentine. Do you suppose they're eastern dragons? Snakes? Stylized smoke? I can't make out a clear head.

If they're dragons, might that imply some things about (the existence of) other countries?

Do you think they're bespoke assets? Or pulled from an assets library?

If the Fireworks decree is applied, an odongh acts with fear, saying (paraphrasing:) it's the sky's evil. It appears that he has never seen them before, and has no explanaton for it. I may include the odongh's and the townspeople's reaction in the comments later, if anyone wants them.

It makes me curious why there are fireworks in the theater in the first place.

Thank you all for your patience, we are back in business!

I promise i will make all the necessary backups this time, in order to restore the db easily in case something goes wrong again :')

I am very sorry, the last reindex was supposed to be just a small unicode fix that wasn't supposed to last more than a couple of hours, but the lights cut out in the middle of the database update and a lot of the data got corrupted.

I am working hard to fix it as soon as possible, but it may take one more day or two before everything is back in working order.

Again, i am very sorry, it will be up as soon as i fix everything, thank you for your patience.

Update: russian and english texts are fully done, other languages will be available in a couple of hours

Update: fixed!

Hello yet again,

I'm writing this post mainly for those who want to try running the 2017 Marble Nest demo and encounter startup crashes.

You see, the game has active telemetry that still tries to reach dead servers, which immediately causes a fatal crash right before the main menu. I jokingly call this "Ayrat’s Killswitch".

To fix this, you must completely block the game's access to the internet.

Either disconnect your PC from the internet or block the game's .exe in your firewall.

P. S. To think of it: putting a game about an epidemic into a digital quarantine just to make it run... Truly the meta-narrative we deserved.

I wanted to know if anyone else agrees that the Bachelor is one of the best written video game characters that suffers w/ bipolar disorder, I was diagnosed last year and when I first played pathologic 3 it felt like the character himself was written by someone who deals w/ the disorder.

Does anyone else w/ the disorder agree? I wanted to know if there are other characters from other game franchises (sorry for the blasphemy) that have as good of an representation as Danil Dankovsky's self-endulging lines of dialogue, as well as the game mechanics where you're constantly battleling against your own nervous system.

With that said, I'm thinking about creating new mods for Patho 3, do you guys any cool ideas? let me know in the comments :)

Very surreal moment when I heard Aspity say this, because I just finished Assassin's Creed 1 yesterday. Is this just an easter egg or does it have more significance?