Dishonored Midterm

The Dishonored Midterm is the third midterm in the Secret Wars saga. Estimated to take place in late 2021 or early 2022, it shall be a best-of-9 speedrun race through the nine chapters of the game. First to 5 wins. But we'll probably play the whole thing out even if someone wins early. Whether the gameplay style will be stealth or full-sprint is yet to be determined.

Terms are the usual midterm standard. 5 movies or equivalent ~10 hours for core terms, 3 movies or ~5 hours for bonus terms. As usual, there are no deadlines as we know how this works by now, and vetoes are allowed if the recipient has a fair enough reason for it. Both players do the other's core terms, and the loser also does the bonus terms.

The speedrun occured on December 12th, 2021. The terms were engaged, and the criteria of the match was decided in a brainstorming session before the event. Rather than do a strict full stealth or just straight speedrunning playthrough, it was decided to spice it up and do different plot beats and play styles for each map. This included things like killing our boy Hiram Burrows in the safehouse on top of Dunwall Tower, a path that is often avoided in most playthroughs because of the ease of the 935 safe method of neutralizing him.

The playthrough started with Jack taking a decisive 3-0 lead. The first mission had a photo finish, as Jack reached Samuel a literal second before Beecher to clinch map one. High Overseer Campbell and House of Pleasure were pretty straightforward with nothing too noteworthy happening to either in the run. Map 4, the map was once agan a photo finish as Beecher avoided a shutout and rescued Sokolov first. With a score of 3-1, the next stop was Lady Boyles party.

The party sequence is where the run starts to get a little fucky. Deciding to do the duel with the british lord guy, Jack missed his first shot somehow and nailed the guy on his second shot. Beecher not only missed the first shot but also then got the lightning bolts above the guards and was attacked. After entering the party, Jack told Beecher about how ez it was to pickpocket these rich bastards at the party (The Boyle's all have 100 coins, named characters have 50 and guests have 25). Beecher then got immediately harrassed by a guard after attempting to steal on one of his first tries. Jack pissed off that Ramsey guy and somehow triggered a cutscene he had never seen across dozens of playthroughs, where a guard comes up to you and asks to know your name. He then asks you to come with him because he is suspicious of you. Jack then alerted after having to kill the guard, and quickly knocked out the right Lady Boyle with a combat dart and quickly blinked away from all the guests. Beecher on the other hand accidentally murdered Lady Boyle while delivering her to the pervert, thus granting Lady Boyle to an even worse fate. Beecher would then narrowly take another map victory here.

The rest of the run was then pretty normal, Assaulting the Lorg Regent in his tower proved difficult for both, as there are fuck ton of dudes up there. After a lot of unskippable cutscenes, Jack clinched a 7-2 victory, thus dooming Beecher to the fate of an old PS2 game that Jack has played dozens of times and four films, including: a film from the guy who took twelve years to make a film about childdom, a campy fun horror-ish? movie, a political thriller, and an animated movie for furries. Jack on the other hand will be taking three Bong-hits, a movie released when radical socialist FDR was President, and a movie about a really big shark. The results of the run and map criteria are displayed below