[Machina] - Mini update 2

It's taken you a little while to get this to start on your shitty machine but it seems to be working now. Just got to wait for it to load...




You saw some videos about this all-time-classic game from a while back, Fortuna. It looked really interesting but you never really got around to playing it.



A day or two ago, a friend bothered you about the game again, said some modpack that dropped of the radar had updated right out of the blue. She said it looked like your kind of thing, and sent you a code of the game she had "just lying around."



She probbably just wants someone else to gush about story or something to, but you finally got around to setting it up and installing the mod this morning. Apparently it's some kind of "total overhaul" for the original game. You guess this means its not even really the game you were excited about?




She also added a patch that added one of the "original" species. Thats nice, you guess.
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This loadup screen is taking a long time, even for your rig. You swap out and look for the wiki while it loads.




The site clearly isn't done... pages... species...




Oh hell no.




All you want is a good fun sci-fi adventure without humans in it for fucks sake everyday life is full of humans people! Scifi is supposed to be escapism AUGH!




You bet they're the generic "Jack of all trades" "Federation" type too, you cant be having with this no not in the slightest. She knows you hate this trope this is absolutely on purpose.




Some quick searching for mods later you find what you're after. You stick it in your mods folder and reboot, compatibility be damned. More waiting.






An eternity later the main screen appears. Shiny!




On advice from your friend, you start a new game rather than messing with the settings.



Why would anyone want the freeplay before they've done the campaign? modders, you swear.



Now what do you do here?

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SpoilerShow

Welcome to Machina! This is a story I'm going to attempt to run about a game of "fortuna" played in, well, not the fortuna setting at all! If you missed the little wiki link it's behind the panel that says "Click Me!" feel free to check out the slapdash arrangement of species and pick out some names, jobs, and species to go with!

Also I guess this means Catacombs is on indefinite hold.