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Choose one

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^ the iliad does this constantly. "achomachus, son of hippolyppe, loved his father very much, and has a wife and children at home, who miss him terribly. diomedes stabbed his sharp spear through his forehead, turning his brains to mush"

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2009

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(deep in my coal mine) huh. maybe canaries just do that.

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Found this randomly on a walk. I didn't see any sharp blades or anything anywhere so I'm???

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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

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you could go back but there is nothing and no one waiting for you there. LOL

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[cheerfully] i've been in self-made hells worse than this

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BH

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I miss fishing in this game

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fish

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idonthtink this is really what being a maid is like

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Small game idea I've had for a while:

You're taking a history exam. You haven't studied. The exam is about some completely fictional event in a fictional country. It's all multiple choice questions about this made-up history. Here's the trick, though: the exam is really poorly made, in that way where a lot of the questions (and the answers they give) inadvertently give hints to the answers of different questions.

So you'll get, for example, "who assassinated Chancellor Eurich?" and "who was the Chancellor in 1895" and "what event in early 1896 precipitated the Great Power Struggle" You have to determine from the test itself what the answers are and get as good a score as you can.

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In this episode, we talk to Emily Allen, the game designer behind Dying Stylishly Games. She’s best known for her two now classic OSR adventures, the Gardens of Ynn and the ennie-award winning Stygian Library, which popularized the depth-crawl format. Both of which are now republished in new editions from Soul Muppet Publishing. She’s also designed Dungeon Bitches, a violent sapphic PbtA game about trauma and survival and the Yellow Curtain, a weird meta-storygame inspired by the King in Yellow. And then this year, we got Black Death Rising, an OSR-ish game of religious horror amidst the black plague where you can play vampires, werewolves, homunculi, changelings, ghouls, grotesques, ghosts, and waifs. And fight fascists, demons, and intelligent rats.

Emily Allen’s blog: https://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/cavegirlpoems

Games on drivethruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/8182/cavegirl-productions

Emily’s Games:

Wolf Pack & Winter Snow (2017)

The Dolorous Stroke (2018)

Gardens of Ynn (2018)

Stygian Library (2018)

Deep Morphean Transmissions (2019)

Esoteric Enterprises (2019)

Dead Girls in Sarkash Forest (2021)

Dungeon Bitches (2021/2022)

The Wounded, Hungry and Forgotten (2022)

Black Death Walking (2022)

The Yellow Curtain (2024)

Black Lung (2024)

Black Death Rising (2025)

Show Notes:

Book of Revelations

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Games Mentioned

Stars without Number

Beyond the Wall

Miseries & Misfortunes

Vampire the Masquerade/World of Darkness

Lacuna by Jared Sorenson

Mork Borg

Empire (larp)

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