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#was trying to find out why search result 2-- the song-- was called that.#i still do not know.#the fourth search result (below suggested images hence why it didn't make the screenshot) was the wikipedia page for “ferret”.#if you know what is going on with this please let me know

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Incident at Galley House spoilers …

(Massive game ruining spoilers actually. This is one you want to try blind. At least go look it up and see if it’s your thing.)

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ok you know the deal it's gonna be more spoilers and you're not gonna click it until you've clicked both this and this

-Katherine being called "Person K" is potentially a reference to one of my favorite Agatha Christie novels, Peril at End House. "Person K" is used in the book to refer to an unknown additional person present in the house where the death occurred, although it turns out everyone knew Person K was there and simply missed adding them to the suspect list (because of a fundamental misconception about the case.) It's a great book and you should totally read it! I think this is probably intentional, just because of how strongly Galley House draws from other Christies, most notably And Then There Were None (it is also vaguely reminiscent of various others but probably not to a point beyond coincidence.) So cool when my favorite stuff references other excellent stuff

-speaking of, the note attached to the pictures mentions that the extra pictures not taken from Galley House are from an inheritance dispute that occurred around the same time. AN inheritance dispute. The unavoidable implication is that Katherine is linked to the inheritance dispute. (So what does it look like when the estates of all the cursed people are dealt with, anyway? Where do these items go? Cause it's not going to be to Martha's or Helen's or Damian's families and I highly doubt there would be any legal precedent for any of their stuff to go to John's ex. Does the inquest assume these are the remaining belongings of Elizabeth Galley and try to find her extended family? Actually what was that inquest even like, damn) Anyway. Not to get distracted. Presumably what happened was that the possessions stored in Katherine's house came under dispute by the family of the previous owner (or a current co-owner). Perhaps her sister and the sister's children are the remaining three pictures? But really we'll never know.

-oh yeah here's something I just noticed, the manual having explicit warnings about how people who use the machine should not be inclined to false beliefs or fantasies, and the two other people on the ID list who were fired before Reya kind of explain each other, no? It seems like only certain people can use the machine safely without long-term risk. (I mean, it doesn't seem like Ervin has used it in a while, and he still suffers the effects.) I am glad Sam kept this technology hidden for four years because It Is Not Ready although I do have to admit it is very useful actually

-Because I've seen at least one other person asking about it-- before Rupert died, the Galleys were expecting John to come, and presumably expecting him to stay the night once the weather set in and they realized they couldn't send him home in this. Because of this they decided to make up the extra bed in the Study. After this Annie arrived unexpectedly and they had to room her in the Attic (obviously the Study is the preferable room, at least pre-unexpected corpse, which is why I think Annie probably got the last option.) When Rupert died, Annie was set up in the Attic already but the Galleys forgot the Study bed was meant for John until it became clear he needed one. I wonder how Annie would have come to realize this and what impression it would have given her, especially after it became clear that Helen's (and then Victoria's and Eddie's) room were also free. The question goes from "why did Martha even put me in here when there are rooms free" to "why did I even decide to sleep in here in the first place" ... yeah I think I might have to agree with Tyllurium's Type Help video on this one, there's something about the curse that means people don't immediately realize these sorts of things once their cache has been cleared. Annie had some other fucking things to worry about anyway

-a mistake I had in the last post regarding Pippa (two more to follow): Pippa uses her antennas to detect codes, but it's also possible to do that manually at least to some degree, which explains why she wasn't needed for the prototype version of the machine at the D&M offices

-Pippa works at the Foughburn Research Centre (not Center) that one's on me

-OH BY THE WAY Pippa has a line in scene 30: "I should have realised... It was only the younger girl that was worried about their mum finding out. The older one must not have known... /// It was the same thing, the same disease..." This isn't in reference to Annie like I thought it was but to Ervin's daughters since Pippa helped with that machine! This confirms Maisie is the younger sister and Tabitha the older (as Maisie thought Tabitha's drawing on the walls would make their mother cross, which was the memory trigger) and therefore that I was wrong about their death order in my previous post. Lucy (3)->Maisie (2, younger sister)->Tabitha (1, older sister). Welp. I kind of love that Ervin is person 4 because it helps emphasize that the curse really did spread from him even if he wasn't the last carrier. He should really not have been sharing Certain Information about the People Getting Deleted When They Are Given Certain Information curse with his Favorite Person. dude.

-sorta tangentially speaking of, one of my favorite things about the game is that we don't get to know or confirm the characters' names, that we don't know what Tony's real name is, that we don't know if Pippa is short for Philippa, that we don't even know if the younger Beaumont sister is named Annie (short for Ann) or Ann (short for Annie) or even Annika, that we don't know for sure whether Victoria and Damian were actually married, all of these details that We Just Can't Find Out. They won't Lock In or be Typeset for us when we discover the truth! What we see is all we get! Nobody is fact-checking us! This is it! It just makes everything feel so ephemeral. This information is just Gone. The machine is incredible but it cannot make up for what was lost from the space of collective memory.

-but mostly I like how well they illustrate how so many of these characters have that fundamental impulse of curiosity and Need To Figure This Out and that's NOT the right thing to do here. But you can't stop yourself. I am that person. I know this thing would kill me. As Reya (for instance) I would have to make myself into a different kind of person to survive and I don't think I could do that scared. I would not succeed. This is my Eurydice. Thanks Roos

-and finally

I don't. Wh. Did they-- did they delete Pope Gregory? Wtf?

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You won't believe it, but I made another post, and it has more Incident at Galley House spoilers in it. If you're seeing this post and have that great honor, dignity, wherewithal, and topical ignorance necessary to not click the readmore, send me an ask that just says "egg" and I'll congratulate you and engage you in conversation about your interests before I try desperately to convince you to play the game. if you do, these posts will be a little less annoying. I beg you desperately not to click the readmore, and instead to take the experience still open to you. If you liked the domino cats here's a link for you to click

First, some errata:

-The writer of this game is named William Rous (not Roos, as I spelled it before). Sorry Rous

-I can't count. 11 + 1 + 1 + 8 + 1 = 22. The birthday paradox requires 23 people. 22 people is not 23 people. Unless I arbitrarily decide to count Lucy for no reason at all, this doesn't work. Oh well.

-There was another verse in Mountain that I didn't mention although I really should have. I'd pay the price of sorrow / If I only knew that some tomorrow / I'd find you. Screaming crying throwing up

-I looked further into the date thing and this goes deep, man. The date on the Sunday newspaper, March 14, was actually a Saturday in 1936; in Type Help, we don't get a newspaper, but it's stated that the incident occurred on Sunday, March 7, 1936 (which was also a Saturday). There's no reason for a day of the week to even be provided in Type Help, which reinforces how this is apparently intentional and confirms that it's not just a special edition of the paper or something like that. Ok, but it gets stupider, they aren't on the Julian calendar either, because March 14, 1936 in the Julian calendar is a Friday.

-ok admittedly I don't actually know very much about this, nor do I have terribly much interest in researching it very extensively, but here's a fun fact about the Gregorian calendar: when it was first introduced, 10 days were skipped (so for instance, there was no date October 5, 1582) because they were trying to fix the drift that had been caused by bad Julian leap year calculations for the last 1600 years, and also make Easter stay in the same general date range. This makes the Galley House (Galliday?) calendar weird because whatever they're using is NOT corrected like this in the same way. Presuming that the calendar reform occurred due to the necessity of a calendar reform becoming more obvious after the death and deletion of Pope Gregory and not because of some other alternate history that happened before any of that... *stops to take a breath* this seems to indicate that the catholic church was somehow less obsessed with the date of easter which is so unbelievable that my only possible alternate theory is that the calendar reform was not instituted by the Vatican. galley house alternate french republican calendar with regular weekdays and some unknowable leap year correction system what the fuck am I on about chat. btw when I said I'm not interested in this I was fucking lying obviously

-no I will NOT be using the terms "thunderclapped" or "memory holed" on this blog, not that anybody has asked me to, not that anybody thinks these are normal things to say. death and deletion please and thank you

ok back to your regularly scheduled feral analysis

-there was an interesting discussion a few days ago on the Galley House discord that ended in a tied 11v11 poll and a statement from one of the devs (Ward) about how he knew what the intended answer was but wasn't going to say it, and then he deleted that message later, and which eventually led to me making this shitpost

which as you can see once you get past the fact that this was my immediate thought and also probably why I worked out that I'd done the math wrong before: I voted no. So I would like to elaborate on why exactly I voted no on this.

-Reason 1: narratively. Great hubris comes with great tragic consequences, or at least I think that's what spiderman said. Ervin's plan is a long shot, and it not only relies on all the acquaintances he's forgotten having worse memories than him but also relies on the emotional connection framework of the curse.

-Reason 2: about that. I am willing to believe that Ervin has done quite a lot more investigation into the curse than Reya, both with the machine and in person. I absolutely think he was involved in the deaths of Jacqueline's circle; I know he has plausible deniability as having taken the items in the bag off the bodies, but I think it's very likely that he's been nudging the curse for a while, using similar events like the Galley House 2011 incident to remove people more peripheral to himself from his memory. This whole situation would have given him the chance to experiment with the curse more, especially were he using the machine to look back on each situation, but even just saying "it has to transmit through emotional connection" is a very vague and subjective criterion, one that would require a lot of experimental evidence for me to get behind and one which is only hammered in as much as it is because Meg is trying to save Reya's life.

-Reason 3: I don't like him and I want him to lose I genuinely think Ervin's character arc is improved if it was all for nothing. I haven't seen anyone talk about it, and I don't know if that's because they think it's too obvious to mention or because they haven't discovered the same reason, but, Ervin is a character motivated by revenge. ("I'm doing this for you.") Behind his bullshit about being a hero who wants to stop the curse from spreading, NO, he wants to KILL the damn thing. He is actually the only character who even uses the term "curse"! (I use it because I can't stand to refer to it as a disease due to the weirdness of the transmission vector, as I talked about in the first post, but I think Ervin uses it in a way that implies some degree of personification of something that, for all we see, is purely a sourceless and mindless phenomenon.) BUT, in the pursuit of revenge, he uses the very curse he wants dead to destroy himself and everyone he has ever known. And I know this already sucks. But it's important to me that, when Ervin uses this curse to such an alarming degree in such a desperate quest to be forgotten... that the curse ends up helping him out a little further than he intended.

I'm sorry, it's just, the story is better if he fails. And even if he's right and the vague implication in type help still holds and it's not a mindless phenomenon but an unknowable memory eating Thing I still like it more than I like him so there's that

-one more thing about the curse before I go on to a different large topic: I wanna talk about how perfect the thunder is. Because I realized recently while working on some fanart that the lightning motif is actually a great representation of what the curse is and how it transmits. It reaches a point of low potential (new victim) and then has opportunities to branch off and progress to multiple people, but one of them remembers first so the curse jumps there and the previous pathways don't continue. It comes from Somewhere, some unknown collective memory space, and strikes you down where you stand. It is sudden and disorienting and destructive. I have no business being surprised about this because everything else about this game's writing is also phenomenal, so, this is obviously also guaranteed to be good symbolism I guess

-so, next, I want to talk about everything this game accomplishes with its opening and framing story (before Lawrence's death). Unlike Type Help, the framing story of which placed the "player character" in a situation so indistinguishable from that of the actual player that you might as well be playing as yourself-- Galley House faces the monumental challenge of aligning the player experience with that of (1) a named character, (2) in a very different situation, (3) that doesn't make any sense and isn't supposed to, because (4) it's a false memory. Of course, Galley House being Galley House, it pulls this off BEAUTIFULLY.

-We know, from how many of the characters talk about their missing memories, that curse survivors tend to have an impression that something has always been a certain way and they've just never properly thought about it. See Eddie's comments in 08-KI, something to the effect of: "I don't know who my father is... I've never really given it much thought". This is the impression the game is attempting to cultivate when presenting the player with Reya's false memories. The player should go along with what is happening WHILE remembering enough of it to come back to it later WHILE not really thinking about it very much. And this is EXACTLY what happened to me when I played!

-Galley House is doing this, I think, by exploiting genre conventions and the limitations of video game mechanics. You see a static 3D model at the start of the game, so the player might not realize the bag and umbrella at the entrance doors aren't Reya's. They'll remember the bag and the umbrella because of the attention drawn to them in the art, and the fact that the cord in the bag, and the umbrella are weirdly not interactable, but they won't think about why they don't see a representation of Reya putting down those items or picking them up and taking them in with her. You look through the window and Reya says, "I can't see anyone inside", and the player's immediate reaction is generally, "Oh, that's what my character sounds like," followed by "What's that diamond thing?" which cements it in their memory well enough for them to later realize they hadn't asked the actually important question, "Who is she talking to??" And then the door is locked but it opens and everyone knows that's weird and remembers that but they have no ability to investigate it because the game is point-and-click. Reya goes inside because she has no reason to be scared, because the door didn't open by itself, and the player goes inside because they know that's where the game is, and they don't really think about it because they can't, they have no context for it yet.

-AND THAT'S NOT ALL! The tutorial sequence pulls this off too! Perfectly! You get inside and see the machine and you remember that it's there already, you don't have to set up the physical components, but you don't think about it because, look, you're being introduced to the gameplay already. "What's that thing?" and "How do I turn it on?" are distractions from the real question "Who set that up?" There are handwritten instructions already on the machine. Oh, this is a tutorial! Let me figure it out. And it's fine that it makes no narrative sense because you're distracted by working out the game mechanics. How does Reya know exactly what buttons she should and shouldn't push? Because those are the only interactable areas. No other reason. Remember it and don't think about it. You watch the list being ticked off and the items being crossed out even though nobody is holding the pencil. And you don't think about it because this is already established video game shorthand for something your character is doing. Don't mind that unlike every other time Reya touches something it's because you clicked on it, and you did not click on that list. Remember it and don't think about it. Notes appear on the machine with handwritten messages on them. This is just what happens when you progress in games, you unlock stuff! Even if you do question it when it happens, there's nothing you can do about it. You get used to it. The power goes out and you turn it back on. There's a coffee cup in the room now. Was that there before? You remember it but can't look at it. It's just set decoration. You train yourself. When the power goes out, go turn it back on. When it, eventually, doesn't work, there's nothing for it but to back out. Oh, it came back on anyway! Well, time to get back to the investigation. So when the power goes out and there's a body in front of you, you go straight back to the generator to restore it. When the ID list comes under the door you don't focus too intently on who left it. You remember everything. And you don't think about it. Until you know better.

-Final thesis on this is that Galley House is banking on the unfailing ability of Obra Dinn players to not remember who mailed them the UI until they suddenly run across it by accident 80% of the way through the game, and also running with the conventions used by some mystery games that don't even bother having a player character or a framing story (Golden Idol for example), but mostly the devs are just knocking it out of the goddamned park with the details of the player experience they've crafted.

This post is very long. I think I should maybe publish it now.

#Congratulations a fourth triumphant time for not clicking the button #the link is not a trap #every time I think I've posted all the thoughts I might have about this game and I can't possibly have enough for another post?#guess what happens #I think this post has my most incomprehensible rant yet #which I will happily screenshot and send to you if you can't read the rest of the post #the incomprehensible rant does not actually have any remotely relevant spoilers in it!#I need to take a break from this #the incident at galley house #type help #there isn't even egg symbolism in this game why did I pick that

shoutout to a Brickset review I just read which was about 40% description of the box, instructions, and how the bags were distributed, and 60% enumeration of the various minifigure and animal parts in the set, whether they had appeared in other sets, how often, and when they were introduced— only to then break into a tangent about how the wheel coverings on the tram in the set were not sufficient to meet modern transit safety regulations. I love Lego fans. I want that set

#lego #set was called Beach Streetcar or something if you’re curious #great informative descriptions in that review

Do you know anyone called Vic?

#inspired by @fayzart136's Excellently Upsetting fanart for 09-ED #i present. oh hell what scene is it #*opens game*#18-VI #yeah. that one #sorry I can't get it to look like her. reference pics only do so much for face blindness. putting that in the Maybe Someday bin #also the perspective could be a lot clearer. ok stopping that now this is how learning looks #thanks to my friend for providing dead body pose reference I didn't ask her where she got it #the incident at galley house #type help #(customary additional tag)#ouuuughhhhh #play. the game. itssogoodguys

hope this clears things up! thanks

#was talking about fandom problems in the tag of my last post so I thought I'd elaborate #the problem is rarely ever toxicity the problem is Do You See My Vision Please See My Vision Here #and when it isn't that the problem is usually me. lol #not gonna tag this with any of the fandoms because that's not really the point #let me know if you can't read my handwriting btw #or if you don't know what the thing is I'm talking about #My Strongest Most Desperate Recommendations for all 6 things by the way

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will when he's seen exactly where his stars go and it's into mandy's: where did my stars go

#posts written by my inner monologue while I wasn't home #what does this mean kiki #why did you think this with such conviction #who are any of these people #gonna start posting more of these because although it happens infrequently #it is the kind of thing that's just the right kind of inexplicable to record here #i'm not even drunk

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Incident at Galley House spoilers …

(Massive game ruining spoilers actually. This is one you want to try blind. At least go look it up and see if it’s your thing.)

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ok you know the deal it's gonna be more spoilers and you're not gonna click it until you've clicked both this and this

-Pippa works at the Foughburn Research Centre (not Center) that one's on me

-and finally

I don't. Wh. Did they-- did they delete Pope Gregory? Wtf?

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#for a third time: great job not clicking the button!#go play the game!#i hope someone is reading these. i'm putting so much thought into them #(thought which could not possibly be redirected into anything else because that is how hyperfixations work. but.)#and tears #(but that's the game's fault)#why do my recommendations never work #I have gotten 1 person into the cosmere TOTAL and that was because I made an offhand reference in a webcomic forum #well. that's probably a set of complaints for another post #the incident at galley house #type help #i've fully stopped using the other tag because I don't think anyone is really using it #ah well. my secondary curse

Interviewed my friend who hasn't played Galley House about Galley House. I'd been talking about it nonstop for the last week and a half, so I thought there must have been some kind of osmosis, but... well, you should really see for yourself. This is probably the best one yet

Q: Who are some of your favorite or least favorite characters?

"Oh no."

"I know some things you've told me, but I don't know-- I don't think I can remember which characters they apply to. I think Annie is the one who stole the watch? She kinda sounds like a dick, just cause... no, I don't think it was Annie."

"Whoever stole the watch seems like they're kind of a dick, because it's like an ancestral possession, and it sounds like the clock is creepy, but not, like, extremely harmfully creepy? So there's basically no reason to get so worked up about it..."

[Character #1 is a least favorite, and is whoever stole the watch?] "Yeah."

"I don't know who my most favorite is. Who's that woman with the blond hair? Is that Annie?" [No.] "I heard you... you like her. Uhhh. My most favorite, I'm gonna go with Eddie, because, it's a cool name. He's probably a dick, but I can't remember the names of any other characters right now, so I'm gonna go with Eddie. I think I saw a picture of him when you were watching that video earlier, and he has a nice coat." [Got it.]

Q: Can you pick any two characters and describe their personalities?

[You are welcome to ask for more names, since you only remember Annie and Eddie. I have a list here.]

"Thank you. Can I ask for another name?"

[I'll just give you the list.]

"Cool. Eve! That's the person I was thinking of, but I was thinking, Eda? It wasn't Eda, it was Eva. Eve. Eve you said, I think, was very like Renate, from Lorelei? But you also said that you just really wanted her to be Renate because you love Renate so much. There's room for a good joke here, let me see if I can execute it." [Who are we making fun of here?] "Uh, Eve. Hopefully Renate doesn't kill Eve, although I really hope Eve's not an artist." [She's not, and, Renate never killed anybody!] "Yeah, but you have the Renate Is Gonna Kill Me Theory--" [Oh yeah! Hahahahaaa.... 🤦‍♀️]

[... Okay.] "Uhhhhm. Perhaps Eve is a, well, you said she wasn't an artist, but maybe, is she the one who picks up the telephone at one point? Maybe she's floating on the radio waves of the telephone. So far I've described basically nothing of her personality and made, like, six references to Lorelei and the Laser Eyes." [That's the wrong video game that you haven't played!] "I bet she's that character who uses the phone at one point, maybe. So we'll say that she is communicative and, um, likes to reach out and talk to people."

"...I didn't even know there was a character called Jacqueline. I bet Jacqueline would be... because of the way, I'm just gonna start making up characters, because of the way she was raised Jacqueline doesn't have, like, I dunno, close connections with people. So she got in a fight with Eve because Eve has close connections with people and she thinks that's a waste of time. I dunno. But I made characters with two different personalities! I do know that Jacqueline also likes to collect pencils." [The funny thing is you hit the nail on the head with Jacqueline having no close connections.] "Seriously?" [But because that's everybody.] "That's the equivalent of having a whole box of crayons that are all red and then asking somebody to guess what color one of them is, and going, hey, you got it right! Because they're all red. ... Like blood." [That last part wasn't there the first time you said it.] "It was not. But I thought because it's Galley House. You know, it's a murder mystery. Lots of blood and death."

[On that topic...]

Q: How many of the core cast of 14 characters died from murder?

"Well, I assumed it was all of them, but you told me recently that a couple of them survive, so I'm gonna say that Annie and Rupert survive, because they have cool names, and you seem to talk about them a lot, and by that logic I feel like if you survive for longer there's more to talk about." [You know who else I talk about a lot?] "Who?" [Renate.] "Oh, yeah. But Renate is not in Galley House." [Right, but my taste...] "Oh, yeah. Does one of them become a soul-- or, a ghost, that's drifting among the radio waves endlessly? And may kill aspiring artists?" [Okay, maybe that's not the point I meant to make. Sorry! I'll stop making Lorelei references!] {Addendum: These are not even spoilers, they are vaguely summarized versions of my insane headcanons. Go play LATLE (and Galley House)}

Q: How many of the "DLC" cast of 8 characters died from murder?

"I wanna say all of them, but maybe about 6." [That is right!!!] "Really?? I was gonna say, not sure where I got that number, but it seems right! Maybe I'm just that good a writer!"

Q: Can you name any character who was not confirmed to have died?

"I'm gonna guess Amelia, because you didn't circle her name... but also probably people from the 'DLC' is a good guess?" [Anyone specific from the 'DLC'?] "Uhh... I'm gonna guess Sam. And, Ervin, cause it's a cool name."

Q: Which of the following things helped this situation in any way?

Burning photos of an unfamiliar person

Finding a watch that had inexplicably gone missing

Shooting someone in the head with an experimental seance gun

Locking a threatening figure in the pantry and then making a marriage proposal

Writing down a list of everyone in the house

"I wanna say Shooting someone in the head with an experimental seance gun, both because it's, like, really weirdly specific, and also because probably one of the things is gonna sound deadly, but for some weird reason helped some situation." [Also correct!] "Really?? I'm just a master of narrative structure!" [Save that til the end.] "Yeah, that probably is gonna come back to bite me."

Q: What should you do in this situation to ensure your own safety?

"Oh no!! ... I know what you should do. You should leave the house and not return. I mean, it would be the most boring course of action, but probably also the safest, unless there's ways which for some reason you can't leave." [Okay!] "Also, don't go to the mysterious... I think it was... Church? On the grounds, because that seems like the spot for the final endgame, and you don't want to be at the spot where the final endgame is going down."

Q: Which character will I loudly proclaim did nothing wrong?

*laughing* "Probably not the one I'm going to say. Oh wait! Is this the one character who, like, killed five people with sheets of paper? But didn't actually intend it? I think it was Annie actually. But I could be wrong about the names because I'm tired!" [No, that's exactly right.] "Oh, yay!"

Q: Under what conditions would you climb the highest mountain?

"I don't know that song!" [That's the song I've been singing for a week!] "Sorry, for some reason I thought it was a classical music song you'd heard in choir. Since I am not athletic nor desire to be athletic, the only reason I would probably get carried up a mountain is if I was already dead, and somebody decided to scatter my ashes on the highest mountain for some reason. It would not be my wish, but they could take me up there. Although I would probably start to smell after a couple days."

[Can you give me a second? *typing* Okay. ... WHAT?]

"I wouldn't climb the highest mountain, so I mean, that's the only reason someone could get me up there, (speculation about how much she would be paid to climb Everest and complaints about oxygen deprivation, all insisted too fast to transcribe)"

[The prophecies are true, you're not romantic at all.]

"Wait, does somebody climb a mountain about... wha... ok? I guess climbing a mountain could be romantic under some circumstances?"

[I'd climb the highest mountain, if I knew that when I climbed that mountain, I'd find you!]

"...That makes sense. ... That makes everything I said, like, ten times funnier. I really wanna hear more of these. Just, romantic songs, but you take out the romantic part and ask an aromantic person to fill in the gap."

Q: Can ghosts cook?

"I feel like this is the entrance to a philosophical debate! I mean, what sort of ghosts are we talking about? Are these like the ghosts in Magyk, like they can sometimes Cause things to happen, or can they only pass through things and never touch things? It depends on the fandom. I'm going to go with standard ghost rules, which is, they can't touch anything, but it's also generally standard ghost rules that they can like whisper and say things, so you could technically say that a ghost was cooking if it was whispering recipes to the living, since it was a ghost recipe, but they're not cooking with their hands, just with their brain I guess." (-Master of narrative structure)

"Or you could also interpret that as, do ghosts cook in the sun, which just popped in to my head, although I think they would not, because they seem kind of cold and ghostly and nothing changes that."

[Thanks for your philosophical contribution.]

...*after rereading the post* "Fascinating."

#words of the uninfected #honestly maybe I just need to be asking her totally out-of-context questions. or doing that song thing #my friend is so much funnier tired with no context that even the vague amounts of context from the game scenes she's seen might be too much #we have not found anything else to do this sort of thing about #but as I said before: if you have suggestions #or if I follow you and you would like to interview me about something you post about a ton #or if you follow me and would like to be interviewed about something I post about a ton #any of that #send me an ask. i love these. i am so down for more #although I'm not sure if you'll be able to derail these questions with death facts quite as much as my best friend here #a woman doesn't mind her body being preserved so much as long as she dies #<- (misquoted empress theresa)#the incident at galley house #type help

jamin007

I'm remembering now that when I was reading Hero of Ages and the epigraph described Leras' body dropping out of the mists as being short, having black hair, and a prominent nose and an image was beamed into my brain. I have perfectly recreated it here. Just know that this is what I was seeing as a dying god when reading Secret History

jamin007

So I made my Leras in Tomodachi life

And he IMMEDIATELY fell in love with Ati

So things are going well

that-androgynous-lightweaver

oh my god

inolienkiki

for those in the loop

jamin007

I... he's perfect. Thank you

Though I do seem to now be out of the loop on my own Leras creature lore. Why does Ati have bird legs?

inolienkiki

they’re crow’s feet

jamin007

So I made my Leras in Tomodachi life

And he IMMEDIATELY fell in love with Ati

So things are going well

that-androgynous-lightweaver

oh my god

inolienkiki

for those in the loop

#arcanum unfounded #he had more of those spider skin things but they came off in the crop. oops

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a-casual-egg

Okay, okay, I keep thinking about it so I need to just get it out of my thoughts so we'll see if this is coherent but does anyone ever think about Tony's like lack of an identity?

For starters, in a game where a huge mechanic, quite literally *THE* mechanic and objective of the game, is to identify everyone in order to keep track of everyone's movements and solve this mystery, we don't know a character's actual name. When Tony's standing over Martha's dead body and Annie's looking at the list, we learn that Tony is not his real name. Specifically, he says "My real name's not Tony. People just call me that after my father.". Now, we never learn his actual name but let's hold onto this line for a moment. Specifically the bit about his father.

When Helen and Vic are talking in the living room, we learn that Helen found out she was expecting again shortly after the war broke out. (And that apparently her second pregnancy was so much worse than her first) This would mean she was expecting Tony, and she was expecting that everything would get back to normal after the war. But then her husband never came back, and she was left alone, with two little children to care for all by herself. Now that's going to be tough for anyone but I imagine it especially took it's toll on Helen, and I think her grief of her husband is partly why Tony is like that.

From a young age, he'd (like Eve) have seen his mother in pain and I think, given stereotypical gender roles, he decided, as "man of the house", given he'd be the only male in the house, that it was his job to protect her (and Eve). So I think he starts seeing everyone outside of the family as a potential threat, which then feeds into paranoia. And I think those things together are big factors into why he reacts to Hobbes the way he does, by other-ing him and stealing the pocket watch to keep it out of this stranger's hands, it's all a desperate and confused attempt to keep his mother out of harm's way.

But back to his father. Now we don't know what Tony and Eve's father looks like, but it's possible the Tony we know is a spitting image of his father, or somewhere close, but I think with Tony (and Eve) as the last thing she has connected to her husband, Helen starts seeing him in everything Tony does. Y'know maybe they stand the same way, or use the same product to style their hair, or make the same kinds of jokes, but whatever it is, Helen sees the resemblance and what would've been something nice to laugh about if his father was still alive, becomes painful. "You're just like your father." becomes less a lighthearted comment about the men in her life and more a reminder of her grief. But I think it continues, not in a way that she can't separate the two or anything, just that she thinks about them together so much that there's been multiple times where she slips up and calls her son Tony. Then I think it just kept happening to the point where he had to accept it as a nickname.

Now, even sharing his name, Tony has no idea what the man was like. Helen even says herself that "Tony's never known his father" so all he would have to go off of are stories from his mother and potentially from his sister. And I think that makes him feel very lonely (much like everyone else in the Dauer family) and so I think he starts to cling to everything he knows about his father, desperate for some sort of connection that he feels he was robbed of. So I can see him, either consciously or subconsciously, taking the trajectory of his father's life as a road map for his own. Especially since his mother is putting pressure on him (and his sister) to essentially be the best man he can be (aka become rich and wealthy and well-respected so he (and Eve) never have to suffer like she did when raising them). So he models himself off the man his mother holds in the highest esteem, his late father, and starts doing what he did, including joining the army.

Which I know, according to Eddie, he says he joined for fun. But him saying he joined the army "for fun" sounds like an answer you'd give if you know you can't admit your actual answer, be it because you'd get in trouble or, the more likely reason, because you don't have the level of emotional maturity or comfort being vulnerable to actually admit it to anyone.

So I think, with all this, Tony's sort of spent his whole life hiding behind this armor of his father's, sort of tying himself in knots and becoming a not-quite-right replica or facsimile of the memory of his father instead of becoming his own person because that's kinda what his mother needed him to be in those years. She needed someone to help her, needed someone to protect her, needed someone to be the man of the house.

inolienkiki

YES YES YESSSSS you are so right about all of this. and. it gets so much worse

(Spoilers as usual. if you have not played this game, go away. the cut I put here is not manifesting for some reason, so, game link I guess to fill space and encourage you to not scroll down?)

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must un

#thank you for the analysis here #it has necessitated my usual level of Damn That Phenomenon Really Ruined Everything Huh #the writing in this game is just unbelievable #the incident at galley house #type help #tony dauer

Most kandra are already 10s but OreSeur isn’t yet. don’t worry he’ll be one soon

#they’re a ten singularity #cosmere #brandon sanderson #cfsbf #cremposting #arcanum unfounded #leaving the joke in this one buried #I trust you guys. youll find it #you got this #singularityposting

inolienkiki

OH MY FUCKING GOD DARK ONE FORGOTTEN im fuckingf sobbing what was that. why arent people talking about that. it was so good and im gonna have a headache tonight because i cried but i don't care because i heard this story. go listen to it now

and I had it in my notes! I had this idea in my notes!! (went and checked and it's not in my notes) ok but at some point I wrote down a character who uses a curse to their advantage, and then I read alcatraz and was like oh that's not what I meant but I guess it's fun, but THIS. THIS DOES IT. SO WELL. and at some other point I wrote a short story about a functionally invisible character and that was before i read the schwa was here and this is actually one of my favorite tropes but this is the best one. this is absolutely the best one. endorsing dark one forgotten as the best functionally invisible story

went on coppermind to find the actors and coppermind forgot about them tooooo chris and sophie don't even have coppermind pages wtaf why did no one listen to this

i think its rachel jacobs and sophie oda and i can't find much info about either of them but they were boht fucking amazing. dear god thank you rachel jacobs. the number of times you said the other actors were really good and then you completely blew them out of the water. you made me tear up at least twice and the other time it was sophie oda so points to all of you

the story. can't even explain waht thsi is. true crime horror mystery fantasy? and I don't even like the first half of that sentence but I don't care because the story punched me in the gut and I didn't even need to understand the worldbuilding. chris asked questions and consulted experts and ran experiments and she got my heart. skeptical about sophie but she was there the entire time. not her project, not her obsession, not her responsibility, but she stayed, and she helped. chris and sophie said they weren't a couple and I was immediately like "yeah if they weren't both women(, bitch) that would be foreshadowing" and IT WAS FUCKIGN FORESHADOWING istg. This. This is also the best romance. And I hate romance I'm arospec lmao but dear god this got me. the sheer dedication to stare at somebody for eight god damn hours straight and then the music box scene. the music box scene. I got to it and I knew it was going to happen as soon as sophie asked but it still blew my mind and broke my heart that she did. because sophie is the best person in the world.

I have not been making sanderson reread update posts, and I read rithmatist and all of reckoners, but I'd already read most of those and there's nothing notable about lux except the plot holes and they didn't hit me hard like fucking dark one forgotten did. i barely knew this existed. It came out during the year of sanderson and yet nobody includes it in the book count. (There were 8 books/stories released, cowards, not 5.) but also I feel the need to mention that I thought dark one was quite good as well, but also that it feels like only the first chapter of a story so I can't say much else as of yet, I guess? I need more dark one. now. anything mirandus. why is nobody talking about this thing

also I feel the need to mention that there were she-ra references? like, references to the reboot, which is hands down my #2 favorite show (can't compete with dark but nothing can lol). and they were good references and they made sense. I started laughing hysterically when sophie said "hey adora". has brandon sanderson watched she-ra and the princesses of power? is this canon? I mean he definitely needs to

inolienkiki

1. Great job Past Kiki for successfully tricking Future Kiki into doing this to herself again

2. I apparently misremembered or misunderstood the degree to which the text implies that they’re gay (yes, that reading is there, but I would call it subtext.) although to be fair, listening to the exchange “I love you!” “I love you too!” “Okay, are you ready to smash it?” was extremely funny with that misapprehension

3. two years later there is still no mirandus. I would not call myself a rithmatist fan I think this is actually a different and even more pathetic level of desperate

4. if you don’t have a time loop/functional invisibility safeword you need to get yourself one stat. because I am going to continue inviting memory curses to an alarming degree. these are the best kinds of stories

#dark one forgotten

me when mystery games understate the severity of what has happened

"the incident at galley house" 19 people died!

"return of the obra dinn" no they didnt!

"rise of the golden idol" ok but it was red. also it fell is what happened

"the roottrees are dead" wait actually. most of them are fine. this one is a complete overreaction, we can cancel the post

#look I've been trying to contribute something to this little corner of the internet every day #but i drew a bunch yesterday and I don't have enough analysis stuff right now to rb my other post so that just leaves Being Funny #which I can't always do on command. so #the incident at galley house #return of the obra dinn #rise of the golden idol #the roottrees are dead #I think the overlap between the fan communities of these games is massive actually so no need to tag it as some obscure crossover #special mention goes in the tags to the room series #each of the games takes place in multiple different rooms #should have called it The Box ngl

Discovery of the day: I have absolutely, 100%, performed Dvorak's Humoresque no. 7 at some point in the past. I don't know when and I don't know where. I genuinely did not remember this had happened until I listened to the piece just now. I don't know why I would have learned it, since at the time I was mostly working out of a specific series of repertoire books, and it's not in there. I didn't recognize that it was the piece being quoted in the piano roll. I don't even remember ever playing anything Dvorak. I'm honestly kind of doubting myself, because this doesn't really make sense, but the thing is that I know I have the muscle memory and I trust that more than my regular memory now.

This game never stops hitting, man. Every time I have the chance to stand up it pushes me down again. I love it.

edit: it was actually on a totally different instrument than I thought which explains why it's not in those repertoire books but the rest of the post still counts ok? give me this one

#the incident at galley house #type help #deep cut. but. this one is true actually. i'm not doing a bit #would love to have access to my keyboard and my program book so I can verify this for sure #for now you might just have to take my word for it

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tonight at CUWiG[1] we welcome the delegation from Galley House for Pippa Smith's[2] keynote, "The Same Keynote I Gave Last Year But For Keeps This Time" (Smith et al. 2011)

[1] * Conference for Undead Women in Gaming

[2] * PhD, analytical spectronoetics, Foughburn Research Centre

#this is by far the greatest quantity of characters I have drawn in one night #I don't think I can even tag them all #This style is good practice in that it's pretty quick and simple and iterative. but bad practice in that I'm getting calluses #always good to try something new with these things though #was actually going to draw a lot more current attendees but realized plenty of the characters I was thinking about drawing #I had no emotional connection to. so I figured I didn't need to invite them to my murder scheming house or whatever #the incident at galley house #...characters are all fairly recognizable I hope given I used the in game portraits as reference #the others are from #the room game #return of the obra dinn #(honestly which I would not have included if I hadn't already drawn them but hey)#and #lorelei and the laser eyes #cuwig itself is a riff on the conferences for undergraduate women in physics #how this post happened I do not know.#posts for three people #comment or smth if you want to know who a specific character is. I tried my best

inolienkiki

Incident at Galley House spoilers …

(Massive game ruining spoilers actually. This is one you want to try blind. At least go look it up and see if it’s your thing.)

inolienkiki

ok you know the deal it's gonna be more spoilers and you're not gonna click it until you've clicked both this and this

-Pippa works at the Foughburn Research Centre (not Center) that one's on me

-and finally

I don't. Wh. Did they-- did they delete Pope Gregory? Wtf?

#congratulations again #for what may potentially be the second time you didn't click the button #I spent way too long trying to find that specific scp by the way #and found eight other articles I want to read. so there's that #to return to the topic at hand I Do Not Know What Is Up With This Date #if there is another implication I don't understand or if I just don't know how newspapers work. please tell me #but my own interpretation is so goddamn funny I'm gonna keep that anyway #I will reblog this again if I come up with anything else but the flow rate is easing a little bit so idk if that will happen #incident at galley house #the incident at galley house #type help

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