Let's Play Loom Part 3 [CD] Chaos
2๐ง Exploring classic games and the story they have to tell, beginning a new quest with Loom. This will be the CD version and won't take much time to run through (only three short episodes), but is well worth revisiting (or visiting if this is the first time you've heard of it!). Will the loom child awake to his powers and save the world? Or will chaos be set free and destroy all that we love? Only time (and watch hours of this #letsplay ) will tell!
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๐ง Hello! I am the #FlightlessBird and Iโve been playing video games for a very long time. We started with the Quest for Glory series and during this time, I went back and played through Loom. I wanted to share it with you.
๐ง This channel will be dedicated to classic games (pre-PS3 Era) that have a good story to tell, but focused mostly on RPGs, Adventure, and Puzzle type games.
๐ง Check out our first series, Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero? Ep 1 [VGA] Flightless Bird Let's Play playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzPCpTnUu-FYxS80fJGFVJMNMCZoE4-Kj
๐ง Need a quick link to the start of this Loom series? Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzPCpTnUu-FZ4E1Vw6MSyIBlgTq8j2Vmv
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๐ง About #Loom (from the Wiki page): The events of the game are preceded by a 30-minute audio drama. It is established that the Age of the Great Guilds arose when humans once again tried to establish dominion over nature. The world of "Loom" is not defined in relation to ours, but many hold that it happens on Earth in a greatly distant future, since the game takes place in the year 8021.
People banded together to form city-states of a common trade "devoted to the absolute control of knowledge, held together by stern traditions of pride, and of fear." The humble guild of Weavers established themselves as masters of woven fabric, though they eventually transcended the limits of cloth and began to weave "subtle patterns of influence into the very fabric of reality." They were persecuted for these acts of "witchcraft," and purchased an island far off the mainland coast, which they called Loom, after the great loom that was the symbol of their guild.
Lady Cygna Threadbare is introduced as a bereaved mother who begs the Elders of the Guild of Weavers to use the power of the Loom to end the suffering of the Weavers. Their numbers are failing and their seed is barren. The Elders Atropos, Clothos, and Lachesis, who are named after Greek mythology's three Fates, reprimand Cygna, telling her that it is not their place to play gods.
Cygna, despite their warnings, secretly assumes control of the Loom and plants one gray thread. She inadvertently draws an (unforeseen) infant out of the Loom, incurring the wrath of the Elders. She surrenders the child to Dame Hetchel, the old serving woman, and accepts her fate. The Elders cast the "Transcendence" draft on her, transforming her into a swan and banishing her from the pattern (the name Cygna is the feminine form of swan in Latin). Hetchel names the child Bobbin, and cares for him as her own.
Bobbin grows up ostracized from the rest of the Guild. The Elders note that the presence of his gray thread has thrown the pattern into chaos, and the Loom foresees the very unraveling of the pattern. For these reasons, the Elders ban him from learning the ways of the Guild until a decision can be made on Bobbin's seventeenth birthday ("until his coming of age seventeen years hence," as it is described in the game's audio drama). Hetchel, however, defies the Elders and secretly teaches him a few basics of weaving. This is where the game begins.