#thequarrygame

The Queer-y (ft. Ryan, Dylan and Kaitlyn).

My head hurts and this game has been on my mind so have this so far.

i really liked the quarry but so much feels a little underbaked. I think the story is really cool. i've seen some complaints that the hag of Hackett's quarry and Silas and everything were shoehorned in and it would have been fine with just the werewolves, but i think it does work quite cohesively and gives us answers to who, where and how this all started. i would have liked it either way but i appreciate how there are layers beyond just werewolves. danger. fight.

it's a tale of two rival families that while both may be a little evil in execution, ultimately have the same fate. they could end the werewolf curse that while they're trying to manage it with minimal harm isn't proving unsustainable. But to do so would mean killing (at least one member of) their own family something they obviously really don't want to do. And not wanting to lose their own pushes them to justify and cover up a lot of awful things. And so they're doing their best to hold down the fort and kill Silas so they can cure it without losing their own blood and then you've got Eliza who's stirring shit up from beyond the grave. hella messy sis, stay with it.

so again, I like the story but it's not as fleshed out as it could be. the premise leaves me with so many questions. for at least six years the Hackett family have had multiple family members turning into beastly murderous monsters every full moon so what's their management plan been for that? they clearly have one but it's not very clear. Chris seems to be locked up in chains in his house (which he breaks free of as soon as he sees people), and two months before he was in the bunker also with chains that did not hold. also HUGE question. i could sit here and wonder how on earth they justified continuing to hold a CHILDREN's CAMP while they are a #werewolf fam but there would have been full moons during the camp time right? it's two months long. how they have so many people, young children especially there without thinking that's dangerous is insane to me. they don't even have a couple days of padding in between they have them down the DAY after the full moon and send them back the DAY before.

how are they not thinking something is gonna go wrong especially since they don't seem to have a permanent management plan yet? (yeah yeah I know, it's a horror story, that's the point, crazy creepy plot, bad timing, stories take place WHEN crazy things coincide yeah I know, I'm not cinema sins I just think it's not the cleanest writing of all). but even with all of that again there is a full moon DURING the camp. one the day before on June 22nd. One the day after August 22nd. WHAT DID THEY DO IN JULY??? Even if they kept the family under wraps what about Silas he's potentially roaming free every month including the one you have children there. and potentially my biggest question. WHAT ABOUT THE BASEMENT??? The mom very clearly brings wolf nick and Jacob (depending on how you play) into this creepy red-lit electrified caged-up basement that MUST have been built for quite some time unless they just got it together that night that looks like a better option than most so WHY aren't they keeping the family down there???? i don't get it. again I really like the story and the game, it's a lot of fun. it's just not the most structurally sound as time goes on but writing is hard and criticising is easy.