Narrator: “Likewise, Toporov (not that anyone had noticed) had already been dragged beneath the waves, mayhaps to a fate even worse then that suffered by Ms. Lim, who was not dragged below but neither spared, in spite of her sex, in spite of her innocence, but was rather killed brutally in front of her her uncle, the king, who was, for one cursed moment in his life, powerless to save her.
@@garcalej actually not sure if he was her uncle, the friend I played this with translated the "Miss Lim are you still there" when Beng died, to him actually just saying "My Wife, My Wife" Weirdly enough, the Wiki lists them as "Miss Lim and her Servant It-Beng Sia"
@@dashi7070 Speaking as someone of Chinese heritage, the word your friend translated as “wife”actually means “miss”, as it’s actually more often used to used to refer to young *unmarried* women (during the time Obra Dinn takes place, it would have been specifically a term of address for a young single female aristocrat). Also, the word “uncle” (and “aunt”) in Chinese isn’t solely reserved for literal family; it’s also used as a term of respect for any older male (or female), like, say, your best friend’s dad or your mom’s boss.
This line made me doubt my assumptions so much. I knew who everyone was but O'Hagan, but the dude was so clearly fucking dead I was in disbelief that anyone could mistake him for possibly not dead.
@@WyldeFyres Yeah I had the same reasoning, but I looked through the memories prior to Galligan's death and saw that he was never looking in O'Hagan's direction, distracted by the deaths happening on his boat. It's excusable then for him to ask if he was still alive
I like to imagine the fear in Nichols' eyes as he saw Tan, the last Formosan, aim a gun at him. A murderer of two people, his entire plan failed, everyone who joined him dead, and now there he was, begging for his life to the person who lost the royalty of his country and fellow guard because of him. A pathetic man whose greed sealed his fate.
Tan probably saw the shells and mermaids, and he knew the entire ship was basically fucked. Man made damn sure he used what could be the last moments of his life to get revenge.
It was Nichols cowering in the boat and being the only one not doing anything that made me go "...is this guy just the biggest piece of shit in the game or what?".
Not only that, he was the only one with a weapon. You'd think he would've at least trusted his steward enough to let him have a gun, but nope. He hogged the one pistol for himself and didn't even use it in the end. At least it was really satisfying to go back to the last memory of "The Calling" and watch Chioh Tan blast him away. When I first saw that memory, I felt it was a bit of a dick move to just fire on an unarmed man like that after he had clearly barely survived a terrible predicament. But after finding out the kind of man he was? I had nothing to say but "good riddance". The only question that remains is: how in the world did that piece of trash come to outrank great men like Martin Perrott and John Davies?
@@saintrubenio4225 it's such a shame too since one man's greed lead to alot of innocent and brave people's death, like Davies protecting his steward from the crab riders or attempting to stop Wiater from stabbing Lanke to death. and Perrot bargaining with a mermaid to make sure the Obra Dinn returns to Falmouth, so it really is just a mystery why Nichols' morality is so backwards compared to the other mates
Shout out to my boy Beng. He was tied up, hands bound and kept his cool. Dodges a harpoon, used the tip of the harpoon to break his binds, killed one of his captors, and managed to incapacitate the mermaids by sacrificing himself.
If you think about it, if he hadn't done that Nichols wouldn't have brought the mermaids back to the Obra Dinn. Which means no Curse brought by the Mermaid, no Crab Riders invading the ship, no Kraken wrecking everything, no Munity dividing the unity of the crew, and the Obra Dinn probably would still be sailling.
@@MarkBackles don't blame beng, he was a great man and even though your comment is right, thinking of it, the person we have to blame here is clearly Nichols
It's worse when you realize that throughout the entirety of the game, his corpse just hanging there by the rope. After being murdered in Chapter 3 (Murder), his corpse is just dangling from a rope the whole way through things like Soldiers of the Sea and the Doom. It's only in Chapter 9 (The Escape) that a few people, like Hoscut and Lewis, finally realize he's there and go to cut him free, only to then be distracted by the attempted escape and all the deaths happening one after another. Poor dude's corpse just hangs upside down until it decomposes, the main body drops into the ocean, and the leg's all that's left.
I just think about poor Lim. She really got the worst of it. Best friend wrongfully executed, get kidnapped, tied up, and completely helpless. Can't do anything to stop a mermaid from climbing and slicing your throat. Can't fight back or move around, just gotta sit there and get slashed, then just sit there and wait to bleed to death out of your throat. Bad way to go.
@@AlmightyPolarBear I think the main clue for clawed is if you look at the fingers of that mermaid. Since they are dark, whilst the others are lighter (depending on colour mode maybe)
This music coupled with the extraordinary visuals of this scene (and the following few memories) is honestly as frightening and chilling as any well-directed supernatural horror film could be. And even more so - the way this game delivers its horror-fantasy elements is probably more effective in its bone-chilling nature than anything I've seen in mainstream works of art. You honestly feel the terror of each and every character, it's mind-boggling how real and frightening these scenes feel, even though they are technically comic books, or maybe only "just" paintings. This is definitely the most nightmare-inducing sequence in this game (alright, the spider crab soldiers are on par with it.)
This is the part when it finally came to me that the glowy thing in the ocean is not a relic that lost at bottom of the sea at I first thought. It actually was a mermaid, the one responsible to killing half the crews, just sitting there silently watching me inspect the crime scene for 10 hours. I couldn't get off that ship fast enough.
haha yea once I realised what the glowy thing must be, it kept freaking me out until the end of the game. Even googled if the game had any jumpscares as I was fearing that some fucking crab monsters would come for me 😅
@@kazerniel I just imagine the ship slightly changing as you explore it until eventually you can actually see a crab through one of the windows right before you get off
I hear so many stories about how people compared notes with their friends and tried to guess what happened together. And that's amazing because I played the game completely different but still had an experience that was just as good. I loved taking my time carefully looking over clues and analyzing the fates to find the smallest details. If i had played with a friend, I wouldn't have been able to give it as much attention and love. Like diving into a book. What an incredible game
Just gotta say I'm lowkey pissed with something in this chapter. Because one man asks if O'Hagen is still breathing, which implies to me whoever O'Hagen is in the memory is someone who has a spear in them but not in a place that would cause immediate death... And then it turns out O'Hagen has a spear in his damn neck. WHY ARE YOU ASKING IF HE IS STILL BREATHING. THAT MAN IS DEAD. DEAD I TELL YOU.
I am guessing linde, milroy and butement were guarding the main deck but then nichols commited mutiny, dalton noticed it but was quickly made unavailable
I feel so bad for the Formosan royalty. One of their guards got accused of murder and they could do nothing but watch him get shot, then Beng tries to sacrifice himself to stop the mermaids but it was in vain as Lim was already dead. Then their last friend has to see the corpses of all his friends, AND the mermaids being brought on board, with the lone survivor being the shithead who started all of this. He knew by that point that everyone was fucked one way or another, so he took his chance to shoot him. Good lad.
On the other hand, they presumably stole the shell from a mermaid in the first place, or got it from someone who did, making them indirectly responsible for the disaster.
I didn't really consider that Nichols could _possibly_ be referring to the man spiked right through his center when he asked if he was still breathing XP
I hate to ask, but can anyone let me know the sequence of events in this? I’m really confused. Did they always have the shells? What’s with the chest? What was edward nichol’s plan? Did the captain keep all three shells?
*spoiler warning* srsly spoiler warning The Formosans already had 1 shell and Nichols found out and wanted to steal it and sell it for money and hold the Formosans for ransom. So he convinced some of the crew to help him. They kidnapped the Formosans and stole the chest. The chest (being close to the water) attracted the attention of the mermaids whom the shell belonged. the mermaids attacked them and killed all of the sailors except Nichols. Bun lam lim was being attacked and Beng managed to free himself. Beng he took the shell from the drawer of the chest and shoved it into the burning liquid inside the chest in an attempt to save lim. This stunned the mermaids but it burned Beng's arm off killing him but lim was already dead by then. Nichols was the only one left he saw that the mermaids all had a shell each so he took the mermaids and their shells. he returned to the obra dinn and was shot by the last Formosan. the mermaids were locked in the lazerette with the chest and the shells were taken from them. Filip dahl was also locked up in the lazerette and he managed to open the chest and take the shell out of the liquid but he met the same fate as Beng. After the captain forced the mermaids to withdraw the Kraken he took the shells and threw them overboard. Martin set the last mermaid free and gave her the shell before makeing a deal with her to lead the obra dinn back home and dying. He tells the stewards to throw the mermaid back into the sea. At "The End" the captain is the only living person that knows that the mermaids and shells are gone so the remaining crew tries to kill him to take the shells but they only find death as the captain kills them all and then himself. i hope that answers your question
i instantly thought this is based on "thieves in the night" by hot chip. which would kinda make sense storywise. :) so i was wondering which songs the other chapters were based on.
We unfortunately don't really know the circumstances as to why the Formosan royalty had such a chest with a mermaid shell on it, so we can't really say anything for certain
it was my favorite part once i had watched it in the right order. i watched everything in the right order, but this one had so many moving parts, it was so fascinating to observe who moved where and who did what and which clues did they leave behind.
This was my least favorite part because of the corpse juggling you'd have to do to see a specific part. also some internal swearing at trying to figure it out.
Episode 4: Mr Nichols Shitty Boat Trip
Were are we going today Mr Nicholas?
Tanker one Nicholas had a shitty spear trip
Please let this be a normal boat trip
With O'Hagan? No way!
@@bennievankempie1932 getting attacked by mermaids is normal, at least for o'hagan!
Cruisin' down the North Atlantic,
and Galligan is on your arse,
'Cos when hiding, you can't see the
Chinese seafood shootin' sparks!
Narrator: "O'Hagann was, in fact, not still breathing, and unlikely able to row."
"oh... F u c k"
Mood
Narrator: “Likewise, Toporov (not that anyone had noticed) had already been dragged beneath the waves, mayhaps to a fate even worse then that suffered by Ms. Lim, who was not dragged below but neither spared, in spite of her sex, in spite of her innocence, but was rather killed brutally in front of her her uncle, the king, who was, for one cursed moment in his life, powerless to save her.
@@garcalej actually not sure if he was her uncle, the friend I played this with translated the "Miss Lim are you still there" when Beng died, to him actually just saying "My Wife, My Wife"
Weirdly enough, the Wiki lists them as "Miss Lim and her Servant It-Beng Sia"
@@dashi7070 Speaking as someone of Chinese heritage, the word your friend translated as “wife”actually means “miss”, as it’s actually more often used to used to refer to young *unmarried* women (during the time Obra Dinn takes place, it would have been specifically a term of address for a young single female aristocrat). Also, the word “uncle” (and “aunt”) in Chinese isn’t solely reserved for literal family; it’s also used as a term of respect for any older male (or female), like, say, your best friend’s dad or your mom’s boss.
"Shoot them for God sakes!"
*MISTER NICHOLS IS UNAVAILABLE AT THIS TIME*
Hzhahahhahaha
signor Nichols, is that you?
He be pissin' his pants
You tried to use your pistol
*Nichol's word's echoed... "There's a time and place for everything, but not now."*
"O'Hagan! You still breathin'? Can you row?"
*Has a spear jammed through his neck* ¬¬
ช่วยด้วย! Help!
This line made me doubt my assumptions so much. I knew who everyone was but O'Hagan, but the dude was so clearly fucking dead I was in disbelief that anyone could mistake him for possibly not dead.
Well, there were two dead assholes on that boat. At least O'Hagan was the more recent corpse.
@@WyldeFyres Yeah I had the same reasoning, but I looked through the memories prior to Galligan's death and saw that he was never looking in O'Hagan's direction, distracted by the deaths happening on his boat. It's excusable then for him to ask if he was still alive
jesus christ O´Hagan was such a pain in the ass to figure out
I like to imagine the fear in Nichols' eyes as he saw Tan, the last Formosan, aim a gun at him. A murderer of two people, his entire plan failed, everyone who joined him dead, and now there he was, begging for his life to the person who lost the royalty of his country and fellow guard because of him. A pathetic man whose greed sealed his fate.
yes
My boi Tan can aim!
Tan probably saw the shells and mermaids, and he knew the entire ship was basically fucked. Man made damn sure he used what could be the last moments of his life to get revenge.
It was Nichols cowering in the boat and being the only one not doing anything that made me go "...is this guy just the biggest piece of shit in the game or what?".
the worst part is by the time it beng sia managed to stun the mermaids the only one he saved was nichols
@@emzedjiklool511 Which also indirectly caused the ship to get attacked later!
@@Watsuda nichols killed 3 people and caused the indirect death of another 53
literally the worst character, i guess every game needs a villain lol
Not only that, he was the only one with a weapon. You'd think he would've at least trusted his steward enough to let him have a gun, but nope. He hogged the one pistol for himself and didn't even use it in the end.
At least it was really satisfying to go back to the last memory of "The Calling" and watch Chioh Tan blast him away. When I first saw that memory, I felt it was a bit of a dick move to just fire on an unarmed man like that after he had clearly barely survived a terrible predicament. But after finding out the kind of man he was? I had nothing to say but "good riddance".
The only question that remains is: how in the world did that piece of trash come to outrank great men like Martin Perrott and John Davies?
@@saintrubenio4225 it's such a shame too since one man's greed lead to alot of innocent and brave people's death, like Davies protecting his steward from the crab riders or attempting to stop Wiater from stabbing Lanke to death. and Perrot bargaining with a mermaid to make sure the Obra Dinn returns to Falmouth, so it really is just a mystery why Nichols' morality is so backwards compared to the other mates
"Wait, why is his arm glowing like it's burning? And so is the box. Oh well, rewind to the next memory and...... what."
The Formosans should *really* be investigated more closely
Poor Beng; sacrificing his life to save someone who was already dead : (
And only to have their captor be the sole survivor, bringing the mermaids back to the Obra Dinn and costing nearly everyone else their lives.
@@pizzaparker1651 at least the last Formosan was able to shoot him before being spiked
Shout out to my boy Beng. He was tied up, hands bound and kept his cool. Dodges a harpoon, used the tip of the harpoon to break his binds, killed one of his captors, and managed to incapacitate the mermaids by sacrificing himself.
If you think about it, if he hadn't done that Nichols wouldn't have brought the mermaids back to the Obra Dinn. Which means no Curse brought by the Mermaid, no Crab Riders invading the ship, no Kraken wrecking everything, no Munity dividing the unity of the crew, and the Obra Dinn probably would still be sailling.
@@MarkBackles don't blame beng, he was a great man and even though your comment is right, thinking of it, the person we have to blame here is clearly Nichols
@@feliperibeiro3026 True dat, Nichols was a piece of shit.
@@MarkBackles not just a piece, he was total shit. He was smiling at the execution of hok sen lau, he had no humanity.
His death was also one of the saddest. Until his death, he didn't realize Lim was already clawed and dead.
No one talks about that topman who swung down to try to stop Nichols. Hero he is
Timothy Buteman is an unsung hero among the ranks of Perrot and Smith
It's worse when you realize that throughout the entirety of the game, his
corpse just hanging there by the rope.
After being murdered in Chapter 3 (Murder), his corpse is just dangling from a rope the whole way through things like Soldiers of the Sea and the Doom. It's only in Chapter 9 (The Escape) that a few people, like Hoscut and Lewis, finally realize he's there and go to cut him free, only to then be distracted by the attempted escape and all the deaths happening one after another.
Poor dude's corpse just hangs upside down until it decomposes, the main body drops into the ocean, and the leg's all that's left.
@@MrAwesomeMatty "where's the rest of his leg?"
I just think about poor Lim. She really got the worst of it. Best friend wrongfully executed, get kidnapped, tied up, and completely helpless. Can't do anything to stop a mermaid from climbing and slicing your throat. Can't fight back or move around, just gotta sit there and get slashed, then just sit there and wait to bleed to death out of your throat. Bad way to go.
Beng too. Tried to save her but he was too late and died for it.
With how it looked I thought they bit her neck. Didn't look like she was clawed to me.
@@AlmightyPolarBear I think the main clue for clawed is if you look at the fingers of that mermaid. Since they are dark, whilst the others are lighter (depending on colour mode maybe)
I thought she was strangled
@@diooverheaven4137 blood coming from her neck. Claws.
This theme works so well, marking the moment when all hell (literally) breaks loose
Well, technically youre not wrong but hell avtually only broke loose when the crabs atacked
@@roderrickgaming9949
Kraken: You call that hell? 😂
This music coupled with the extraordinary visuals of this scene (and the following few memories) is honestly as frightening and chilling as any well-directed supernatural horror film could be. And even more so - the way this game delivers its horror-fantasy elements is probably more effective in its bone-chilling nature than anything I've seen in mainstream works of art. You honestly feel the terror of each and every character, it's mind-boggling how real and frightening these scenes feel, even though they are technically comic books, or maybe only "just" paintings. This is definitely the most nightmare-inducing sequence in this game (alright, the spider crab soldiers are on par with it.)
This is the part when it finally came to me that the glowy thing in the ocean is not a relic that lost at bottom of the sea at I first thought. It actually was a mermaid, the one responsible to killing half the crews, just sitting there silently watching me inspect the crime scene for 10 hours.
I couldn't get off that ship fast enough.
She actually brought the boat back to England
haha yea once I realised what the glowy thing must be, it kept freaking me out until the end of the game. Even googled if the game had any jumpscares as I was fearing that some fucking crab monsters would come for me 😅
@@kazerniel I just imagine the ship slightly changing as you explore it until eventually you can actually see a crab through one of the windows right before you get off
@@kazernielI saw someone get jumpscared by the giant crab corpse in the cargo hold, lol.
I dunno when exactly I picked up on it but I was CONVINCED that as the rains set in she was getting closer.
I was wrong.
Nichols: “we’re goin on an adventure, boys! We’ll be rich!”
Everyone else: *dies instantly*
Nichols: “...boys?”
*gets shot*
The mermaids had a Russian bias
Even though they killed two Russians?
@@RamdomView Well, two. I'm saying they picked them out specifically
Alex The russians were the only seamen who were drowned by the mermaids
Toporov: Pff! That is because Russian man is irresistible! Even to rusalki!!!
"Mother of God!"
I hear so many stories about how people compared notes with their friends and tried to guess what happened together. And that's amazing because I played the game completely different but still had an experience that was just as good. I loved taking my time carefully looking over clues and analyzing the fates to find the smallest details. If i had played with a friend, I wouldn't have been able to give it as much attention and love. Like diving into a book.
What an incredible game
X Ahoy!
They're back!
Get the captain!
X Ahoy!
Recover the boats!
X Wait! Don't shoot!
I have treasure! I yield!
Hold your fire!
*fire anyway*
Revenge is a dish best served with a bullet through the sternum.
@@eranbenzeev627 "The rules don't apply to me cos I don't speak English"
@@n484l3iehugtil "This is for Nunzio, Timothy, and the rest of my Formosan friends"
@@n484l3iehugtil the sign can't stop me because i can't read!
Just gotta say I'm lowkey pissed with something in this chapter. Because one man asks if O'Hagen is still breathing, which implies to me whoever O'Hagen is in the memory is someone who has a spear in them but not in a place that would cause immediate death...
And then it turns out O'Hagen has a spear in his damn neck.
WHY ARE YOU ASKING IF HE IS STILL BREATHING. THAT MAN IS DEAD. DEAD I TELL YOU.
The best one out of all of them
小姐！小姐！
TIP: Always have a guard protecting any boats.
EDIT: To prevent desertion.
I am guessing linde, milroy and butement were guarding the main deck but then nichols commited mutiny, dalton noticed it but was quickly made unavailable
That part was so creepy.
Kidnapping at the beginning, kidnapping at the end.
@@AlgaeNymph I was talking about the mermaids biting the necks of people or drowning them, but the kidnapping was very shit too.
I feel so bad for the Formosan royalty. One of their guards got accused of murder and they could do nothing but watch him get shot, then Beng tries to sacrifice himself to stop the mermaids but it was in vain as Lim was already dead. Then their last friend has to see the corpses of all his friends, AND the mermaids being brought on board, with the lone survivor being the shithead who started all of this. He knew by that point that everyone was fucked one way or another, so he took his chance to shoot him. Good lad.
On the other hand, they presumably stole the shell from a mermaid in the first place, or got it from someone who did, making them indirectly responsible for the disaster.
Thanks for uploading these!
I didn't really consider that Nichols could _possibly_ be referring to the man spiked right through his center when he asked if he was still breathing XP
I hate to ask, but can anyone let me know the sequence of events in this? I’m really confused. Did they always have the shells? What’s with the chest? What was edward nichol’s plan? Did the captain keep all three shells?
*spoiler warning*
srsly spoiler warning
The Formosans already had 1 shell and Nichols found out and wanted to steal it and sell it for money and hold the Formosans for ransom. So he convinced some of the crew to help him. They kidnapped the Formosans and stole the chest. The chest (being close to the water) attracted the attention of the mermaids whom the shell belonged. the mermaids attacked them and killed all of the sailors except Nichols. Bun lam lim was being attacked and Beng managed to free himself. Beng he took the shell from the drawer of the chest and shoved it into the burning liquid inside the chest in an attempt to save lim. This stunned the mermaids but it burned Beng's arm off killing him but lim was already dead by then. Nichols was the only one left he saw that the mermaids all had a shell each so he took the mermaids and their shells. he returned to the obra dinn and was shot by the last Formosan. the mermaids were locked in the lazerette with the chest and the shells were taken from them. Filip dahl was also locked up in the lazerette and he managed to open the chest and take the shell out of the liquid but he met the same fate as Beng. After the captain forced the mermaids to withdraw the Kraken he took the shells and threw them overboard. Martin set the last mermaid free and gave her the shell before makeing a deal with her to lead the obra dinn back home and dying. He tells the stewards to throw the mermaid back into the sea. At "The End" the captain is the only living person that knows that the mermaids and shells are gone so the remaining crew tries to kill him to take the shells but they only find death as the captain kills them all and then himself.
i hope that answers your question
@@samuelmagnusson4004 good analizing there
i instantly thought this is based on "thieves in the night" by hot chip. which would kinda make sense storywise. :) so i was wondering which songs the other chapters were based on.
O'hagan didnt end up getting jis weapon
is there another game soundtrack that utilizes that loud low brass sound like this song does? i love it
Best ost
This track fuckin slaps
Ahoy! (X)
They're back!
Ahoy! Wait! Don't shoot! (X)
Hold your fire!
this theme oddly reminds me of ...
All you got to do, was shooting the damns murmaids nichols!
Damn, I want to hear this being in front of huge orchestra
최고의 게임
Honestly, I am not sad about the death of Sia and Lim.
It seemed they had stolen something from the mermaids and the mermaids wanted it back
Or not?
We unfortunately don't really know the circumstances as to why the Formosan royalty had such a chest with a mermaid shell on it, so we can't really say anything for certain
If i wouldve been there, nob9dy except the mermqids wouldbe died
R/ihadastroke ?
@@roderrickgaming9949 I think he got drunk before typing
I doubt it. If you'd be there you'd kill fellow sailors for stealing the chest, kidnapping Formosans and escaping the ship
This feels like the theme for a fat villain
The mermaids in this part are kind of like those in Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides
This is more historically accurate on how it depicts what people thought if meremaids
@@matthewbrandt5053. Not like Ariel the little mermaid or those Japanese anime mermaids which I rather prefer.
just by the music I can see Henry Brennan murdering all the crew.
This was my least favourite part. It was far too confusing and I could barely follow what was happening
I actually liked this part a lot. While, yes, the action is pretty confusing, the dialogue makes a lot of things very clear.
@@Nixitur the dialouge actually made it more confusing to me
it was my favorite part once i had watched it in the right order. i watched everything in the right order, but this one had so many moving parts, it was so fascinating to observe who moved where and who did what and which clues did they leave behind.
This was my least favorite part because of the corpse juggling you'd have to do to see a specific part. also some internal swearing at trying to figure it out.
@@robopecha Add what happened in The Murder and you have a beautiful intrigue. That's what I loved in those two chapters
Is it just me or am I getting clicker heroes vibes?
I like this music.
For me its best ASMR song if i listen this with earphones