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Solo storytelling
Oct. 22nd, 2022 10:02 pmOn the up side, because I don't love watching shows on my laptop* and it's hard to focus on reading, I ran a solo playthrough of Ten Candles tonight and enjoyed it immensely -- watching the show in my brain.
I did most of it out loud using voice to text, so hopefully I'll have some time over this curious coming week to clean it up and post it.
Ten Candles is that beautiful death ritual disguised as a TTRPG that I fell in love with last year, but I haven't run a solo game since eleven months ago -- it is a game for the dark hours, not the bright.
It seems to consistently generate pretty well-formed tragic horror stories. I think this story is the most an actual horror story of any I've generated so far -- not gorier, though there is some creepy body stuff, but what I'd call -- ethical horror? -- the horror of being subject to bad choices (yours and others') and of not being in control of your own actions.
Anyway, consider this the teaser trailer.
{rf}
-- speaking of which! Did anyone else catch the tiny new clip in the old Magnus Archives feed? Any speculations? Just teasing?
*I'm starting to think I should get a TV again, which seems ludicrous -- more and bigger screen? where put giant screen? -- but a TV does feel like company in a way a show on the laptop doesn't, for whatever reason.
I did most of it out loud using voice to text, so hopefully I'll have some time over this curious coming week to clean it up and post it.
Ten Candles is that beautiful death ritual disguised as a TTRPG that I fell in love with last year, but I haven't run a solo game since eleven months ago -- it is a game for the dark hours, not the bright.
It seems to consistently generate pretty well-formed tragic horror stories. I think this story is the most an actual horror story of any I've generated so far -- not gorier, though there is some creepy body stuff, but what I'd call -- ethical horror? -- the horror of being subject to bad choices (yours and others') and of not being in control of your own actions.
Anyway, consider this the teaser trailer.
{rf}
-- speaking of which! Did anyone else catch the tiny new clip in the old Magnus Archives feed? Any speculations? Just teasing?
*I'm starting to think I should get a TV again, which seems ludicrous -- more and bigger screen? where put giant screen? -- but a TV does feel like company in a way a show on the laptop doesn't, for whatever reason.
