Ciarán O'Brien @Sarklor@tabletop.social

Another thousand-ish words. Writing is hard. I deserve beer and kiss

While its central thing is psychosis, it's hard not to see parallels with other mental illnesses too. Parts of the game felt like depression/anxiety dialled up to extremely uncomfortable levels. Maybe coincidence, maybe there's some common root between them, but goddamn either way it was a visceral experience.

After starting play on release day, I finally finished Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice this evening. Not that it's a difficult game, it's just... It's a bit like reading a Cormac McCarthy novel. You can't deny it's well-written and compelling, but holy shit do you sometimes need a cup of tea and a hug between chapters.

Screaming into the void, as a treat

I don't know why I had to make this, only that I had to.

Following an entertaining and inspirational "writers meeting", I went and wrote a sentence so unwholesome that I felt a bit queasy reading it back to myself, so I think this next project is really going in the right direction :)

They could have simply phoned it in, but Shootas Blood & Teef went for a proper, honest to Gork (or Mork?) Goff Rokk band for their soundtrack and I am so here for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMvx7lPz0Mg

Mr Blobby in the Bayeux Tapestry. That's how central he is to British culture and identity.

https://twitter.com/TreborRhurbarb/status/1533753279229878272?s=20&t=cjxUvOdqeWjvoPhS1z8gjg

In tonight's WFRP session our Grey Wizard used Teleport to bypass a locked trapdoor and ended up trapped in a tiny room with a starving ghoul that very nearly killed him.
The main reason he survived was that they had previously hired an Ogre who hailed from Tilea of all places because they wanted me to voice a gigantic Italian.