Bodies In The Docks

What was the point of going to the library to read about the Cult of Gilgamesh and all that if we STILL do not recognize the tattoo at 67, in spite of ref 114 specifically mentioning it?

It’s weird that a lot of the refs seem to go completely linearly i.e. 37, 38, 39, or 66, 67 and 68, or 91 and 92 or 118 and 119? Isn't that really frowned upon, because on a physical page, you get to see the outcomes of your choices before you take them?

Background says that it is set in the 1920s, yet according to ref 44, it is actually no later than 1918-1919?

It's INCREDIBLY strange that you get a choice of backgrounds, two of which would be highly unlikely to be done by women in 1918s/1920s (even a female doctor would be rare, considering that the British Medical Association didn't accept them until 1892), THEN you get to choose your gender in a SKIPPABLE encounter, and then the subsequent refs assume you are a man anyway. I.e. you can answer that you are a woman, and then STILL get ref 83 with "she has recognised certain speech patterns and words that mark you out as such a businessman." There are also all the references which effectively say you have personally taken part in The Great War: plausible for a female doctor, not so much for the rest.

At 39, it says "but you recognise her by her unique diamond brooch, which she was wearing earlier." – even if you fell asleep and only saw her note?

Travelling circus option in the library only seems to make sense if you got to ref 36.

Options at the docks do not change from day to day, at all. In particular, you don’t find anything on the beach in ref 75, even after you just killed some people there the previous day. Likewise, at 76, you dismiss the mariner even AFTER reading about the "mythical marine creatures" in the library AND after fighting those two/three cultists, who have brooches with the creature.(Perhaps after fighting the actual Deep One as well, but I haven’t tried, considering how unlikely you are to survive that.)

Also at 76, that mention of members of the Resistance sounds REALLY strange in a story set in 1919. I suppose there had to have been some French doing sabotage and the like in the occupied territories during WWI, sure, but why the hell would they need to flee all the way to England, and not to the unoccupied parts of France?

The writing for beach encounter just feels so wrong. You get attacked, and then have no choice but to stay in one place for the whole hour, and the cultist with a rifle just does NOTHING – neither investigating where the first two and trying to shoot you while you are so exposed, nor going back to get more support? For that matter, dead cultists would seem to be some ironclad evidence to present to the police, yet you cannot do anything as logical as that?

Lastly, is there any reason why we can't head directly to that warehouse during the day? Or any conceivable explanation for how the player character managed to kill a cultist on the beach without ruining WHITE robes with blood, sand, etc.? Not that it matters a whole lot, to be fair, since they only seem to let you bypass one fight, and then everybody knows who you are anyway.

Notably, why should I have any attachment to a character who cannot be bothered to look after themselves, as seen in ref 68: "You are too lost in your introspective thoughts to take any precautions of stealth, so you present a perfect target for any gunmen who may be lying in wait, but no shot comes". HOW did THIS guy (according to ref 83 and others) even survive the war in the first place? Was THAT the best Julian Striker could find?

Also, we didn’t retch after killing the first two cultists, but the rifleman was a step too far? For that matter, we get no such reaction if we are drugged on the train (I expected that to happen, though I thought that the entire champagne bottle being SEALED might have presented an obstacle to that?) and then kill a cultist before going anywhere else? That entire scene feels so pointless - almost as bad as the one in Devil's Flight. Here you at least get your gun taken away as you are captured, but the Cultist is still polite enough not to tie you up or to take your gun for himself, for absolutely no conceivable reason.

15, 19, 37, 38, 39, 48, 55, 67, 84, 96, 99, 101, 106, 118, 118, 119, 124, 128, 132, 226, 236, 251 – extra space before the question marks.

7
You notice that his voice, while soft carries with it a hint of menace. (comma?) + also near to the fireplace. + he says once more "Thank you again

11
their bodies are later found near to the docks, + contacted the police with regard to the matter,

38
you sit up in your seat sending something tumbling from your lap and onto the floor.

48
to catch what she is sating. (stating?)

52
for a further night.He seems rather anxious

56
may keep as evidence.Angry at

57
its forbidding cast iron gates (hyphen?) + But what's worse was there was intelligence behind its eyes

58
"Didja get 'em?" he croaks?

69
a strange, human fish hybrid,

75
Even for this time of the year, such complete (what?) is unusual and unsettling.

83
Antony "Fat Tony" Fletcher is renown as one (renowned?)

86
"So, why are you here?" he asks

87
making it seem almost blood red

92
would be nigh impossible (hyphen?)

96
The wounds horrific wounds


106 (I think.)
Were you searching for information on strange local cults ?

Or were you interested in whether there is perhaps an occult connection?

(these options sound very similar? Is there any way to rephrase that?)

And at 5, Spanish Influenza is described as "near-fatal". That seems REALLY wrong, considering that it was most definitely fatal for MILLIONS of people. Again, any way to rephrase that?