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It’s either this chapter will be huge to wrap everything up or one more chapter. If I do one more chapter, it will just be a little shorter and lean more into the prophecy conversation.

Decisions, decisions. I need a few opinions 😩

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and said Emmrich would look great in it and I was like "hell yeah, it's been a while since we've done Emmrich Dress Up, I'll just do a quick warmup".

And then suddenly it was three hours later and I'd created this.

I'm not mad at it. He does look amazing.

Date Night

A few bonus materials for the comic: I spent some time exploring clothing styles that better suit the characters, how folds work, and different cuts and silhouettes… Honestly, I didn’t expect clothing to play such a big role in the comic.

A very special gift for a very special person! @hawkstar5 redrew a bunch of profile pictures over on Bluesky, so I decided to return the favor! Original icon/screenshot below.

Hey there BG3/Forgotten Realms friends!

Want to immerse yourself in an incredible amount of Realms lore and fiction of remarkably variable quality? (I just finished Blackstaff Tower and it's, uh, okay, I guess?)

It's on the Archive! If you find the wiki to be brief and rather unhelpful, or if you've clicked on its source links only to be taken to another page of the wiki, this is for you!

Edit: I was a bit unfair to the wiki, which has been useful to me in the past despite being occasionally frustrating.

Important: many of these texts (mostly the novels) are still in print! I strongly encourage you to buy them to support the authors, or request the title at your local library as authors are paid royalties on library copies.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.

corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.

Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.

Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.

Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.

sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.

Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.

Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.

The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.

Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.

The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.

Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.

Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.

The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)

Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.

Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.

EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.

You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)

Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.

Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.

ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.

PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.

Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.

FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.

Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.

PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

Tools

Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)

Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.

Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)

Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.

Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.

17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.

Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.

The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)

Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)

Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)

If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.

r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.

r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

Soooooooo I've been a bit awol recently, and I can finally tell you all about it.

I was very lucky to be a part of The Fade Discord Server's Emmrich AU Zine which is now live, so the embargo has been lifted and I can yap about it

@thefadediscordserver here on Tumblr and here is the post specifically about the zine

And here is a link to the Google Doc

And here is the collection on AO3

And last but not least, here is a link to my specific piece of AO3 Once Upon A Wisp

I'm back on my fairytale bullshit and I will not be stopped and if you squint you might spot Rowan making a small cameo 😉

Please check out the whole thing as there are some amazing stories and artwork within and everyone did an amazing job