ImpWyrm

its sorry it has to do this so often but this is the only way it can survive longer, the world is trying to isolate and kill it so desperately right now.. so as always, its a homeless disabled trans woman who lives purely off donations, PayPal's here, would appreciate anything at all,,

and so, casualties unknown has a solution to this. you are not "playing as" the character. you are simply guiding a different unique and cute little critter each run.

this little critter is trying their best. they will respond to your orders, tell you what they want and how they feel. you will fall in love with your critter. this is not a "might," you will do this, as you learn the quirks of this run's expie. maybe this one is hopeful and optimistic. maybe it's anxious, or having a rough time out the gate

it turns out, i have a lot easier of a time resetting a downwell run when I take a hit or get a bad starting weapon than I do abandoning (explicitly, and diagetically) a poor little critter bleeding out and pleading for you to help after falling 40 feet through a cave onto sharp rocks and breaking its legs

as I get more proficient at this game, the knife feels like it keeps getting twisted deeper and deeper every run. it has an incredible quality of making me invested in a run incredibly early on. because yeah, it turns out that a broken leg, bleeding, and some brain damage is incredibly survivable if you know what you're doing. and yet, those scars, the hurt inflicted, won't go away. you can see the bandages and the splint well after the accident, and movement is going to remain impaired. this expie might not be as willing to trust you, and might have a more dismal outlook on the mission as a whole. it might become depressed or suicidal if it truly internalizes that its being sent here to suffer horribly and then die and be abandoned. it might begin outright refuse your orders out of spite, regardless of whether that's in its best interest

I find myself thinking about this game for hours after any run. this game would be interesting, but not a lot more than that if you were simply playing as a generic and personality-less protagonist. my reaction to this situation would be annoyance. I had an infected leg that had stopped responding to treatment, I was rushing through the cavern to try and find a way to amputate it, and missed a spike trap that functionally killed me instantly. that sucks. next run I guess. annoyance is not the emotion I'm feeling right now. I feel nauseous. adrenaline is still pumping through my blood, nearly ten minutes later. I feel the emotions the expie did, of realizing there was no way out of this, of hoping it got to die sooner rather than later as my screen flashed and I stopped being able to make out any of the geometry of the cave.

'Hi, I'm Fred!' the man at the table introduced himself.

Hi everyone! I'm playing more Deadlock with @pineconelizard and @impwyrm! I'm still new so I still suck but it's gonna be funny! Maybe! Maybe. It's probably gonna just be frustrating cause I'm so bad. But that's okay >:3c

Come say hi!

no, there's not a succinct way to refer to those with privilege over us except by just saying they are not us, which feels to me a bit toothless

concrete

rusty metal

vast pools of water

overgrown foliage

a dense fog covering the land

broken machinery

a landscape of ancient structures too vast for one to fully explore in a single lifetime

I was surprised by the current results, but these tags are making me realize I have made this FAR too vague, and not in the spirit of what I'm trying to capture