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Christminster
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Christminster is the home of Biblioll College, where your brother Malcolm teaches. When he sends you a telegram urging you to come visit and learn about his big discovery, you waste no time in heading out that way. But the mystery is only compounded once you arrive -- Malcolm is nowhere to be found, his room is ransacked, and there are two sinister professors who seem to be hatching a pretty evil scheme. Can you unravel the mystery of what's become of Malcolm, what's with all this talk of alchemy and elixirs, and what are the no-goodnik professors up to?
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Christminster is a monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. As a canonical Orthodox monastery, it is in communion only with those missions, parishes, monasteries or ecclesial bodies approved by the Holy Synod of ROCOR Bishops.
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Jude Fawley (Eccleston), a north country farm boy, has been inspired by his schoolmaster to try to get into Christminster (the university name Thomas Hardy substituted for Oxford). A quickie marriage to Arabella (Griffiths), a pig-farmer's daughter who thought she was pregnant after a roll in the barn, ended when she ran off to Australia. So Jude goes to Christminster and studies Latin, Greek, and other subjects on his own while employed as a stonemason. He meets his pretty cousin Sue Bridehead (Winslet) and falls in love with her, but since they believe marriage is out of the question, she weds his cold schoolmaster Phillotson (Cunningham). Jude is rejected by the university, but he and Sue cannot keep away from each other and Phillotson lets his wife go to the other man. The couple live in sin, take in his son by Arabella when she shows up again (she was pregnant, after all), and have two children of their own. But society's disapproval tosses the struggling family out of jobs and homes, and their life goes from hard to worse.
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Ever since his first ecstasy or vision of Christminster and its possibilities, Jude had meditated much and curiously on the probable sort of process that was involved in turning the expressions of one language into those of another. He concluded that a grammar of the required tongue would contain, primarily, a rule, prescription, or clue of the nature of a secret cipher, which, once known, would enable him, by merely applying it, to change at will all words of his own speech into those of the foreign one. His childish idea was, in fact, a pushing to the extremity of mathematical precision what is everywhere known as Grimm's Law--an aggrandizement of rough rules to ideal completeness. Thus he assumed that the words of the required language were always to be found somewhere latent in the words of the given language by those who had the art to uncover them, such art being furnished by the books aforesaid.
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A social visit to Biblioll College, Christminster turns to an exploration of alchemical secrets and centuries-old conspiracies when you discover that your brother is missing. A well-developed environment with vivid characters and some quite suspenseful moments. Although not billed as a mystery - and although whodunnit is pretty obvious - much of what the player does in this game is very detective-like. The whole game is very closely tied together; once you've gotten past the front gate, neither the plot nor the map is easily divided into segments. A nice mix of puzzles, including several optional ones. Some puzzles appear to be time-based, but closer scrutiny reveals that time only advances in response to plot events triggered by solving puzzles, so that's nothing to worry about (although there are a few small, local time limits.) One of the few games with a female protagonist.
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Encouraged and inspired by these words, Christminster lovingly maintains the western Orthodox rite, each day celebrating the Mass according to the ancient rite dating from the time when the west was still firmly Orthodox in its faith and observance. The Hours of the Divine Office are celebrated as set forth in the Rule of Saint Benedict. The ancient chants of the western church are used in all services, sung in a traditional, liturgical English, and occasionally in Latin.
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