#FIRST IT WAS THE LONNIT CREW

[kindheartedgummybears]

(draft from a couple weeks ago) I love annoying @ssssatoru 🥰🥰

THE Z'S INSTEAD OF S'S AND LACK OF C'S WAS DUE TO BROKEN KEYS🙏

[tinynightmarewoman]

The Light Pictures Anthology

The Dark Pictures Anthology but only good things happen for once

Man of Medan: 5 friends go out on a boating trip to as a bonding activity and an opportunity for proposal. They wind up making friends with a group of fisherman after their boats accidentally collide and they politely help pay for the damages. When they come across an old WW2 vessel they stay off it and instead follow Fliss's advice and inform the coast guard, going about their trip like normal and having a great time.

Little Hope: A heartfelt story about a group of college students and their professor going on a trip but when the bus breaks down they decide to take a walk around the spooky ghost town while they wait for a replacement bus. They have a good time and discover they actually have history in this town and that in past lives they were apart of big happily families together that live LONG and HAPPY lives. They eventually leave town and go back on their journey feeling a little closer then when they started.

House Of Ashes: IDK dude there is nothing fun or good about war... I guess they fall in to the vampires lair but it turns out they're actually pretty chill and just trying to live their lives. They return to the surface, leave the army and go home because the Iraq war was an unnecessary nightmare. The End!!

The Devil in Me: Lonnit entertainment are having troubles with their show so decide to go all out for an episode about Americas first serial killer H. H. Holmes. They get a call inviting them to a replica of the Worlds Fair Hotel and when they get there Hector Munday meets them. Hector is a little quiet and strange but he just an eccentric and friendly man with a special interest in history after retiring from the FBI after a long but successful career. The crew film an amazing episode and the show does amazing once more and they continue to have amazing careers!

D2080: Space is cool!

That is it, nothing bad happens, they're just happy and having good times... except HOA because ¯\_(:|)_/¯

[mybrainrotforreal]

I want.... I want Squid Game S2 inspired TDiM AU!1!1!1!1

What if Charlie is the only survivor, got hospitalize, reporting it to the police department but they don't believe that the killer is still alive. The body was shredded because of the propeller anyway. The case got closed. Yet Charlie is determined to know who is Du'met and why he does this sick game. Part of it because he is guilty to what happened to his crew, the other part is because he knows it was real and it should be uncovered and he should be the one who first publicize it.

He was a journalist, knows some bunch of people and see a pattern where some influencers, tv shows crew or writers who make any content about H.H. Holmes got missing. He contacted those people who are still alive and established partnership with them by giving important details. He knows Du'met will eventually invite them.

Years later, one of those people call him they got invitation and since one of their crew are sick, they invite Charlie. He sees that black limousine, the recorder and hears the order to put their phone into the box. But this time, he sneaks mini camera to his clothes.

Obviously Du'met knows and he watches Charlie goes, "I'VE PLAYED THIS GAME BEFORE!". Charlie ruins his plan to kill his victims on the first trap and he is intrigued by his determination to come back. So Du'met disguises himself as one of victim from former batch, makes alibi that he managed to hide from the killer who thought he was already dead. Inho's style~

But who is going to control the game? The new castle has sensor detecting devices to operate automatically since it's easier for Du'met to trap the victims. Then they got separated into two groups and Du'met kills the ones with him before he fakes his death.

Charlie and the other crew tries to escape but Du'met snipes the crew. On the other hand, he gives Lonnit a non-fatal gunshot on his right shoulder instead of killing him, after which he was rescued and brought back to castle. Tending him until Charlie is conscious, only to find he has been cuffed.

[writtenjewels]

Stick Figure

Hope-tober day 6

Mark nudged Kate and raised his eyebrows at her. She answered with a shrug indicating she knew as much as he did concerning this meeting. Jamie and Erin soon entered the room and took their seats looking equally confused. So this was a case of Charlie calling a meeting but explaining to none of them what it was about. Mark did not like where this was going.

“All right, everyone,” Charlie began, “unfortunately the location for our next shoot won't be available until this weekend.”

“Are you kidding me?” Jamie burst out.

“Charlie, I thought you said you had it all arranged,” Kate added with a tired sigh.

“It is arranged,” Charlie insisted. “The time-table's just been shifted a bit. I thought in the meantime we could work through the shots we want.”

“And how exactly are we going to do that?” Mark wondered. Charlie flashed a smile and brought out a piece of paper. It looked like amateur blueprints; a closer look showed that it was to their location. Before Mark could ask any more questions, Charlie also brought out some paper cut-outs glued to Popsicle sticks.

“Uhh.” Erin stared at them, her eyes darting to the other crew-members. Clearly hoping someone else would ask. Kate was bound to, but Mark decided to speak first and save some arguments.

“What's with the stick figures?”

“This is Kate,” Charlie explained, waving one of the figures back and forth.

“I have no idea how to take that, Charles,” Kate said dryly. Charlie ignored the use of his proper name, as he often did whenever Kate spoke it, but his lips did press together a bit tighter.

“As I was saying, this is Kate,” he resumed. “We'll want a shot of her entering the building.” He walked the stick figure forward. Mark glanced over and saw that Jamie was fighting hard not to laugh. He made the mistake of catching her eye and had to bite back his own laugh. “I was thinking Mark could be here to get a good angle.” Charlie used another stick figure to indicate Mark's position.

“Why is my stick figure smaller than Kate's?”

“Obviously because Charlie had to accommodate for Kate's big head,” Jamie answered.

“Could we focus, please?” Charlie scolded. “The more we have this planned out ahead of time, the quicker we can get all of our shots in when we arrive.”

“Sorry, Charlie.” Jamie gave him an innocent smile. “It's just hard to take this seriously when it feels like we're watching a puppet show for grade schoolers.”

“I think it's kind of cute,” Erin piped in. She shot a nervous glance to Charlie. “Well, I mean, not cute exactly,” she quickly corrected. “I mean more like, it's a fun idea. I don't know a lot of directors who block this way.”

“Thank you.” Charlie pointed one of the stick figures at her. “That's the sort of attitude I love to hear. Shall we continue on, then?”

He walked them through all the shots he wanted. They paid attention for the most part, but it was still hard not to look at each other and keep from laughing at how silly it was. Never a dull moment at Lonnit Entertainment.

[sammyloomis]

2023 completions

welcome to the 2023 edition of my ramblings about video games i completed this year!! including even more unwanted opinions and even less coherency

total games: 37

09/01 - Sam & Max Save the World - 8/10

sam and max, freelance police, begin a long string of investigations involving hypnotised celebrities, sentient computers, and conspiracies that go all the way to the TOP, baby

startin the year off good game wise then!! tbh i started this one in 2022 but it didnt make that list cause i just.. wasnt in a game playin mood towards the end i guess fghj but anyway!! really liked this one, ive seen a few mutuals who like this series so i was excited to play it and it was a lot of fun :] defo an old school point and click game and i rly liked the main characters themselves and the supporting cast!! glad theres another remaster i can jump into right after this one

11/01 - Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me - 8/10

the crew of lonnit entertainment are invited to a recreation of the infamous murder house, the stomping grounds of americans first serial killer, h h holmes. they are hoping the location will help save their documentary, but will you be able to save... THEIR LIVES??

i feel like every dark pictures game becomes my fave dark pictures game as they come out, but this one really was Very Good. i can confidently say this is probably the most scared ive been while playing a supermassive game Ever. the characters, while dysfunctional, grew on me a lot over the course of the game which made keeping them alive even more nailbiting :’] speaking of, the deaths in this one were Particularly gruesome imo, just from a concept standpoint, so big kudos for that too!! my only gripe is that i think the new “features” such as puzzle solving and traversal mechanics just artificially prolonged the runtime without actually adding anything to the experience

15/01 - Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space - 7/10

even more weird shit is afoot in the second sam and max game, this time our duo facing off against T-H-E-M, the bermuda triangle, and satan himself!! ... or was it santa??

2 sam and max games in one month, this may have detrimental effects on my brain :’] but really, i liked this one too!! not as much as the first, but i still liked the characters and overall story, i liked how it all connected to both the previous game and the events through this one. i found some of the puzzles a bit more difficult and obtuse, but they were still fun. another fun point and click game (tho somewhat dated in some cases fghjk)

18/01 - Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments - 5/10

the game preceeding sherlock holmes: the devils daughter, which i completed last year, follows the titular character once more, solving 6 of his cases along with his partner dr john watson

eh, not much to say about this one. i certainly prefered the devils daughter, but that one was also kinda meh fghjk. with this one being an older game, the graphics and gameplay were a bit more janky, and i guess theyd changed voice actors for sherlock since this game cause i didnt like his voice in this one tbh. that being said, mystery wise id say its abt on par with the devils daughter. yeah, again, not much to say really :’]

24/01 - Psychonauts 2 - 10/10

a mole in headquarters, an evil from the past is rising again, and even MORE figments hidden in really obscure places... another day at the psychonauts office :V raz once again must delve into various brains to figure out what the Fuck is goin on

okay this game was literally so fkn good in every aspect. visually stunning, amazing story, brilliant characters both new and returning... GOD!!! what the first game did well, this one blew it CLEAN out of the water, i loved it a lot!! like idk what else to even say, it was just such a solid game i cant think of much to critisise :’]

04/02 - AI: The Somnium Files - 3/10

kaname date works for the police force for a department unknown to the general public, using groundbreaking technology, he delves into the minds of suspects and uncovers clues using their own memories. when a body shows up resembling a victim of a serial killer from a cold case, he begins his investigation

... man... spike chunsoft rly just know how to make characters that grate on me fghjk for starters ill praise the original concept and interesting story (when it finally got around to being revealed), but i disliked/was uninterested in most of the characters and thought the tropes they kept using were annoying and just plain weird. im not fully sure Why this game was a branching path type game since it never really plays into the plot and the main story could have easily been told with a single storyline. overall, didnt rly enjoy this one, but what can ya do they cant all be winners :’]

13/02 - Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus - 5/10

sly cooper, youngest descendent of the illustrious cooper thief clan, had his familys secrets stolen when he was just a lad. now he sets out to retrive what was taken from him and beat up some bad guys as he does

i gotta commend this game for the humour and the creativity with it, and im defo lookin forward to playing the rest of these games based off this one, but i think this first entry suffers from a lot of Jank that made it quite frustrating to play :’] also, there wasnt any way to mute anything except the music or adjust the volume so it would routinely blow the FUCK out of my eardrums. that bein said tho, still fun, very quick game, but im keepin it a low rating cause im expecting to like the later ones better :’]

26/02 - Hidden Agenda - 2/10

the infamous “trapper” killer makes a final confession while counting down the days on death row, claims he never killed anyone and he can help lead the police to exactly who did. detective becky marney must investige this case one more time and decide if hes lying, or if the killer is still afoot

im so so SO sorry to my friends who like this game but besties.... why fghj for starters i was locked out of playing it for almost 2 years when the app you are REQUIRED to use in order to play this thing just stopped working, and when i finally did start playing the jank didnt stop with just the app. the whole game seems to be a broken mess with textures flickering in and out, characters walking thru solid objects, its MADNESS. the story and characters are so.... not interesting :[ it takes only 2 hours to do a full runthru of the story so i never rly grew to care abt them and theyre so flat anyway that i didnt Want to. if it wasnt so clearly rushed i think itd be good, and some of the acting is actually rly stellar, but overall...... its a no from me

04/03 - Minecraft - minecraft/10

its minecraft

technically i already got the plat ages ago but this year i finally got the coveted 100% so.... yeah ;w; i mean we all know what minecraft is so like...... idk what to say abt it guys, u already know how good it is (tho the console version is Vasty inferior to pc)

05/03 - Death Stranding - 8/10

after a world ending catastrophe dubbed the death stranding wiped out modern life as we know it, humanity is scattered across america. its up to sam porter bridges, post apocalyptic delivery man, to travel across the country and unite those that remain

depsite how confusing this game was, and how slow it was paced, and how fkn damn weird it was half the time, i still had a lot of fun playing it :’] i enjoyed the characters, tho wish certain ones had more limelight, i enjoyed the actual gameplay, tho by the end game i was finding it a bit Too repetetive, and i found the story rly interesting, when i could understand what was going on fghj so basically for every good thing i liked, it was countered by something, tho they are fairly small things. also the ending cutscene is an hour n a half long and i was fkn 3 am when i was finally allowed to exit the damn game so, u know, beware of that

10/03 - Ratchet & Clank - 7/10

young mechanic ratchet, with his new buddy clank, join the galactic rangers in stopping the blargs from destroying countless planets in order to build their own

another game thats been on my backlog for ages, im glad to have this one done and dusted :’] i certainly had fun playing it, but i feel like it was a bit Too kiddy in some places for my personal taste (dialogue and humour wise that is, but since this was also made by insomniac of spiderman fame, it makes sense) and after a certain point the game becomes piss easy with all the upgrades u get, but i still enjoyed it

03/04 - Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves - 5/10

sly and his pals return to their thieving ways after learning that the infamous klaw gang have begun reassembling parts for slys arch nemesis; clockwork. they travel across the globe to stop them

man my descriptions are getting worse fghj but anyway, as with the first game, i rly enjoyed the characters!! and the music, and... thats pretty much it. i really dont know what it is about these sly games that i just cant seem to enjoy the gameplay but i Really Really dont have fun while playing them :[ which is a shame cause, like i say, great characters that id like to spend more time with. if this was supposed to be the best in the series, i think im gonna give the 3rd and 4th games a miss for now, but maybe ill come back to them in the future

29/04 - Last Day of June - 7/10

a short game depicting a young couple named carl and june, and the tragedy surrounding their relationship

this game doesnt actually have a plat, which is something im trying not to be too picky about going forward in terms of playing games, but even tho this game was super short i really liked it!! the story is rly simple but incredibly sad, and even though theres a lack of “voice acting” in the traditional sense, there was still a lot of great emotive acting in this. that being said, the fact some of the voices sounded so odd detracted from the seriousness of the plot sometimes, and the actual gameplay was kinda boring, but still a solid short game :]

29/04 - Predator Hunting Grounds - 1/10

DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME

OH THE AGONY OH THE PAIN OH THE HOURS OH THE WASTED YEARS THE WASTED YOUTH THE PRETTY LIES THE UGLY TRUTH

and i dont like it >:[

03/05 - Linger in Shadows - 1/10

this... isnt even a game apparently

i had it on my list of things to check out while i had the ps plus premium thinking it Was a game, but its not. its a strange kind of “art” thing according to the guide i used. i didnt rly know what was going on fghj. certainly a unique experience i suppose but nothing id recommend u go out of ur way to do, even if it takes literally 10 minutes to get all the trophies (no plat either)

08/05 - Kurushi - 2/10

ps1 puzzle game, another one from the ps plus catalogue

not much to say abt this one again fghj seems like these last few games have been kinda duds huh :’] ah well, theres certainly better games on the horizon i suppose. as said, this is just some puzzle game from the ps1, janky controls and all. the music is surprisingly good, sounds almost like disney instrumentals :’] not that fun without assisstance tbh

09/05 - The Gardens Between - 6/10

a very short puzzle game following 2 friends exploring a strange series of islands that tell the story of their friendship

when i say short i Mean short. like even without a guide i got this completely done in 2 1/2 hours, and that included me leaving the game on while i went to get something to eat from the kitchen. that being said, its a very cute game!! i enjoyed the puzzles, the style is nice and Capital-I-Indie, the musics nice and relaxing. the story was also nice, if sad, (can i say nice a few more times??? nice nice nice nice) but i just think this game is Wayyyy too short dfghj i think a lot more could have been done with it :’] glad i didnt pay the full £15 for this as it would have been a bit of a rip off

09/05 - Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent - 8/10

fbi agent tethers is sent out to the minnesotan town of scoggins to investigate the local eraser factory shutting down

damn we’re just flying thru em now huh! ive actually played and 100%’d this game before on steam, as well as its sequel so i suppose im a little biased :’] but i rly like this game!! another short one, and another puzzle one, but i rly love the art style and story, as well as the puzzles being fairly simple but still fun!! its a shame the second game never made it to ps or id complete that one too but yeah, fun and simple puzzle game, defo recommend :] like most games like this tho, i wish it were longer

11/05 - ABZU - 6/10

you are a diver on a journey through the ocean, discovering the creatures that inhabit the waters

short n sweet indie game (anotha one) and this one was pleasant!! i rly liked the style and music, the story was simple but told fairly well, and just overall a nice game :] beyond that, not much to say tho fghj defo a very pretty game, and id recommend if you have an interest in marine life n such, but beyond that its pretty bog standard indie game

11/05 - The Pedestrian - 5/10

a short puzzle game where you traverse various signs as the tiny person within them

pretty straight forward puzzle game with a Weird ending that i dont quite understand fghj but overall it was enjoyable :’] most of these quicker games ive been playing lately have been super quick puzzle games so i might be getting burnt out on them, but even then i can appreciate the creativity of this one. its also another game with no plat which, considering it came out not 3 years ago, is kind of annoying

14/05 - Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - 4/10

two brothers venture on a quest to find medicine for their sick father

another short puzzle game, with a pretty interesting feature!! you control each brother with an analogue stick each, which can make coordination in some parts quite tricky if ur me fghj overall a pretty decent game, the story was kinda meh for me but i thought the gameplay was interesting, not much else tho

20/05 - Bloodborne - 6/10

the town of yharnam is crawling with beasts and hunters alike. fight through the corrupted streets and discover the fetid depths of this city and all the inhabitants trying super duper hard to kill you

im editing this from when i first wrote it after immediately finishing the game because i was cranky and frustrated because i cant in good faith give this game a score lower than 5 (mainly because i know the fromsoft fans would dox and kill me). this game is visually very nice, in the sense that it looks Horrible, which fits the vibe. the gothic style along with the monsters are really unique and detailed to the point where some of them are hard to look at. that being said, i personally didnt like this game. at all. i know on a “technical” level its very good, but i struggled for a Long Time to “git gud” as it were and surprisingly, dying a million times because you cant dodge within a 1/2 second window before being stun locked to death GREATLY decreased my enjoyment of this game. and thats all im gonna say about it :V

21/05 - Black Mirror - 4/10

following the suicide of his father, david gordon returns to scotland from india to inherit his familys estate. however, there are strange mysteries surrounding this house and the family who occupy it

pretty short horror/puzzle game that was pretty light on both the horror and puzzles fghj tho this game had a surprising amount of animation that looks fairly good which was a nice surprise. the characters were fine, and the story started out quite interesting but just felt a bit... weird. especially the ending, the final climax is basically just a bunch of qtes that ends really abruptly with little push back from the villain :’] for a free game i guess i cant complain too much

23/05 - Vampyr - 8/10

dr johnathan reid, recently turned vampire, has just returned home to london after serving as a field medic during the war. the streets are crawling with rogue vampires, and an epidemic is spreading quickly through the city, all while johnathan is searching for his maker

FINALLY A GAME I ENJOYED. GOD. okay so this was surprising because ive heard a lot of people call this game p mid, and maybe id think the same if it wasnt preceded by a whole bunch of Crap ive recently played, but here we are!! i really loved the chracters, i thought they were all fun and interesting, even the ones we dont meet for too long, and i also found the story super compelling!! the game Does have a bit of jank to it, with weirdly long loading times (even on the ps5) and the occassional graphical error, but otherwise i rly enjoyed this one :]

31/05 - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - 9/10

seperated after dr nefarious begins ripping holes into other dimensions, ratchet and clank must team up with another lombax named rivet and stop the universes from collapsing altogether

man this game was so fun!! i got the whole thing done and dusted over the course of 2 days :’] the writing was still a bit cheesy for me, and as implied the play time is Outrageously low for the steep price (which i thankfully avoided cause ps plus), but the gameplay itselt was Incredibly fun and engaging!! defo a huge step up from the first game in this reboot series. i also rly loved rivet so that certainly helped :’]

02/06 - Lake - 5/10

meredith weiss, a successful programmer, moves back to her childhood town of providence oaks to fill in her her dad at his post office job. deliver mail to the residents of this lakeside town and decide how meredith wants to end her 2 week stint

pretty cute indie game i got through ps plus, i kinda wish the whole thing Was just a post delivery simulator :’] the characters are okay, the storys okay if a little eh.... i wanna say Loose?? like the plot beats (if u can call them that) feel kinda boring n half arsed. theres also a random romance option in this which feels?? out of place and doesnt actully impact anything that much. overall its an okay game, like i say the thing i found the most fun was driving around delivering post but maybe thats just my autism showing :V

13/06 - PowerWash Simulator - 10/10

i mean... kinda does what it says on the tin guys

is a 10 a bit generous?? maybe. do i particularly care?? absolutely not. this game is a 10 if ever there was one. i truly dont know how else to sell this if the idea of cleaning stuff with a powerwasher isnt immeditely appealing to you like, maybe You’re the problem :V this game also has a weird amount of lore?? which is also v fun fghj so do with that info what you will

19/06 - LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean - 7/10

a lego retelling of all 4 pirate movies, with all the usual lego bells and whistles

pretty typical lego game, so the gameplay and stuff is p fun!! ive actually never seen these movies so i didnt rly know what was goin on half the time, especially because this is an Older lego game so theres zero voice acting in this. i also had quite a few crashes and bugs while playing where i had to restart either the level or the whole game, which got annoying during the cleanup grind. overall tho, cant go wrong with a lego game tbh

17/08 - Chicory: A Colorful Tale - 9/10

after all the colour in the world disappears out of nowhere, you must go on a quest across the picnic province to restore it using a magic paintbrush

you may notice the significant time gap between the last game and this one and uhhhh ngl folks i was Not Gamin dfghj i was Tired n a lil Sad but eh what can ya do, but this was a great game to come back with!! absolutely loved this one, super adorable art style and gameplay that reminded me a LOT of toem, very similar vibes but this game is much longer imo. id give it a perfect 10 if the collectibles weren’t so horrid to find fghjk but other than that cant recommend this one enough!!

29/08 - Observation - 7/10

dr emma fisher wakes up after the space station on which she resides undergos a catastrophic failure. take control ships ai, S.A.M., and attempt to reboot the systems and find the crew, who have all mysteriously disappeared...

rly quite liked this one!! the fact u control the ships ai is a pretty interesting feature and made the interface really cool and sci-fi lookin, defo alien inspired on that front. i liked the story, even if it Did get a bit confusing, and the voice acting was also pretty stellar!! gotta dock points for some classic indie game Jank, and the fact that there isnt a whole lot goin on gameplay wise (p much entirely minigames that arent that well explained to you that u only end up doing once) but the story and overall eerie atmosphere rly saved it for me

31/08 - OMNO - 5/10

short indie game where u travel through a mystical world, solve puzzles, and meet extraordinary animals

theres indie games and then theres Indie Games, u know?? this is the latter. and thats not a bad thing!! it just means its kinda... predictable. usual fare of no voice acting, gorgeous music, simple but stylised graphics etc etc. it was pretty cute and the puzzles were fun, but some of the controls felt a bit clunky and like i say, a little boring story wise imo (but maybe ive just played too many of these types of games). perfectly middle of the road :’]

03/09 - Tacoma - 7/10

you have been sent on a mission to retrieve the ai from a ship where all the crew have seemingly vanished (sounds a bit familiar huh?? all sci fi is the same (affectionately)). explore the ship and piece together what happened to everyone

anotha one, anotha sci fi indie game :’] rly liked the story of this one!! and it was an interesting mechanic to be able to view scenes of the crew via an AR system, and then also view their files and such. despite their limited appearances, all the crew members were interesting and unique, and no spoilers but it made the ending and its lead up a lot more exciting and intense. gotta dock points for how Glitchy this game was, it crashed at one point and started stuttering so bad i had to restart it manually, and also for how short it is. still, good story, good characters

06/09 - Chicken Police: Paint it RED! - 8/10

a gritty noir point and click detective game where u play as the infamous sonny featherland, one half of the crime fighting duo, chicken police. after a nervous dame shows up on his doorstep about her mistress recieving vague threats, he realises hes gotta take just one last case

anthropamorphic detective chickens..... played TOTALLY straight, mind you. like i was actually totally blown away by this game fghjk its Completely voice acted for one, and its Pretty Fuckin Good voice acting too, the story and mystery is Really interesting, the world its set in is super gritty and deep despite how little its kinda touched on through the story, i was very surprised!! i think the ending and reveal were a bit uhh.... abelist, not to get too into spoilers, but for a noir story i guess its par for the course. still, enjoyed this one!!

08/09 - The Testament of Sherlock Holmes - 5/10

a mutilated bishop, a deadly poison, and some other shady bullshit, its another sherlock holmes game

this is actually the oldest game in the series thats avilable on ps, ive kinda gone about playing these in the exact wrong order :’] that being said, i do think this is my Least favourite of the 3 ive played thus far. like crimes & punishment, this game also has plenty of jank, and the voice acting is a lil ehhh stiff for my taste. the puzzles were fine, the story was fine, overall just Fine. this game follows 1 case rather than multiple like its sequels do

10/09 - Garfield Kart: Furious Racing - 4/10

basically a mario kart clone but with garfield :]

now i am not one who loves racing games. in fact i suck quite badly at them. so u may wonder why i have a racing game in this list and well?? im ngl i bought this game as a meme and it ended up being so hard i had to put it down for a while dfghj BUT i came back to it and after hours of sweatin and gamer rage i DID IT!!! but at what cost. the game is fun, it looks nice, tho the only real garfield references it Has are its racers, the courses are kinda bland and generic. also the trophies...... my GOD the trophies..... not even a plat btw hhhh anyway if u like racing games check it out but if u Dont then DONT

17/09 - The Last of Us: Part 1 - 8/10

in the fungusy zombie apocalypse, smuggler joel is tasked with taking an immune girl, ellie, to a group of freedom fighters to create a cure. a remake of a remake :’]

obviously its good. i mean cmon. i remember watching a playthru of the OG og game wayyy back when so i kinda knew all the plot beats, but playing it myself in this beautiful 4k ps5 remake was Glorious (dont get me wrong, i think it was totally unnessesary to remake it AGAIN but it do look pretty). i can certaily see why this game has such a cult following and got the reception it did. maybe a Tad overhyped?? maybe a tad. but still good!! gameplay is solid, story is solid, characters are solid, whats not to like?? docking points for the frankly OBSCENE price point (luckily i got mine Mega cheap but go-LLY)

03/10 - The Last of Us: Part 2 - 10/10

after a devastating loss, ellie begins a gruelling quest for revenge and runs the risk of not only losing the ones she loves, but herself as well

i mean. fuck me guys. fuck ME. if the first game is good then this one is straight up glorious. the story is Vastly improved, so much tension and grey morality and Bone Deep Agony, emotionally and physically. its just such a hugely better game, both story and gameplay wise with a Bunch of new features and they arent afraid to take you to Extremely dark places with characters we already love and brand new ones too. this games going to be sitting with me for a long time i feel

and thats it for 2023!!

kinda fell off the gaming wagon in the final few months of this year due to a variety of reasons, but lets hope i can keep gettin games off the ol’ backlog in the new year :]

[108garys]

Tdim Werewolf/Vampire ideas

With the influx of vampire and werewolf stuff in the tdim fandom I'll get into an idea I've been thinking about a little, also relating to that vampire Bradshaw I recently did

First things first who's what, Du'met is a vampire and the Lonnit crew is a pack of werewolves(with the exception of Erin because she's still new and hasn't been turned yet) But where does Bradshaw come into things?

So basically Du'met would have already been a vampire for who knows how long, long enough that he was drawn to the world's fair due to the height density of humans and there he discovers something that amazes him, he doesn't necessarily interact with HHH since he's just another human(also I don't want him to) but he sees the castle either when it was operational or after Holmes's arrest(before it got burned down) and he plans on how he can build such a place for himself and after decades of meticulous planing he meets Agnes who wants immortality and to be young and beautiful forever and they come to the agreement that she will fund his project and he will grant her most deeply held desire(the specific decade is still up in the air)

On to the wolves, Charlie would have inherited lycanthopy from his mother who was bitten by a werewolf while vacationing in America(likely charlie's own father), he grew up this way and is very well adjusted as a wolf and considers the turning of his crew as the same as building a family but of course there's a lot of the same friction there

I haven't fully fleshed out how much Erin knows as the only human but I'm thinking it was the intention to have her officially join the pack after filming for the episode, it's unclear if Du'met simply wants her as prey or to turn her so that the wolves can't have her, Idk but I feel like however it goes she'll be the most vulnerable person in the castle until she isn't

Also not sure about the Hector/Du'met thing and how that'd work as this is a very early concept and not one I'm entirely sure I'll go all in on but I wanted to throw it out there

[queenofbaws]

hi I may have accidentally been spamming you and I am so sorry <3 in my defense I just played devil in me after a bit of a break when I 100%d the quarry and now I'm vibrating about the whole thing. I own a ps4 and until dawn and I'm like ough. i have to ask tho what's ur onion on tDiM? I think it was... good but a little boring? like obviously it's fun, but at the same time I was in the edge of my seat the whole time like, trying to guess the twist and I just ... the twist is that he gets up? I guess. I know it's seemingly a part 1 but. Hm. Hmmm. I was hoping for Terminator style, slowly replacing all of his human parts with machines, like when the dog bites his hand in the end we were gonna see metal fingers. Anyway I am RAMBLING anyway bye

heheh, well hi yourself!!! ;)c i prooomise you weren't spamming - i always love seeing new names and faces popping up in my activity!!! and aw man, i know exactly what you mean about tdim. when i went back to it recently, i was pleasantly surprised to find i liked the lonnit entertainment crew more than i did my first time around, butttttttttttttt yeah, that ending though.

see, my main problem is that i'm a forensic/criminal psychologist, so i just spent the game on high alert like "I CAN SOLVE THIS ONE, BOSS!" and that. wasn't the right way to go, ha!!! seriously though, my first playthrough i spent most of the game thinking there were two possibilities with du'met that could be really cool, and that was (1) there was more than one of him, hence the silence, the mask, and the being everywhere at once; or (2) since we're shown he has an obsession with making animatronics out of bodies, well, maybe the du'met chasing after us is some kind of fancy - like you're saying, terminator - animatronic!!! both i think would've been creepy for different reasons.

alas. he just gets up. 😔 for sure i thought the game was a blast, i have yet to meet a supermassive game i don't like, and i loooooooved a lot of the visuals they used, just...idk i guess i hoped for some sort of crazy du'met CLUB where serial killers from near and far could get their kicks at the murder castle aslkdjfalksdjf HAHAH

okay now i'm rambling. thanks for the ask!!! :D

[mybrainrotforreal]

Secret Admirer 

“Happy birthday, Charlie!” The door was opened with a loud bang, making his shoulders jolted and he almost knocked his coffee mug over. His crew scrammed around his small room. Jamie is smirking ear to ear while holding a tiramisu cake, probably to maintain the caffeine intake Charlie should have in his system. Erin is clapping excitedly behind her, Kate just rolls his eyes and of course Mark is recording the entire scene with his phone, hoping to upload it in Lonnit Entertainment’s Instagram. 

Charlie blinked as he took in the scene unfolding before him. His crew, who had decided to stay with him after the incident they had almost a year ago in a hotel, had thrown him a surprise birthday party. He couldn't help but feel a mixture of confusion and amusement. Well, as they were soaking wet and waiting to be rescued by the police, reflecting on what they had been through and how they could save each other with teamwork, they started to give it a chance. And of course Charlie learnt to stop micromanaging or what Kate used to say, “being a jerk.” 

Maybe they just needed team building programs. Just like what Erin had suggested.

“You don’t have to do this, guys. Just work and–” 

“Shhh, if we didn't throw you a party now, we'd have to wait another half-century." Jamie snorted as she shoved the cake with candles shaped like the number “50”. Life could happen so fast, huh? 

"Come on, Charlie! Blow out the candles and make a wish before you forget what you want,” He can hear Kate sneering. 

“No worries, Charlie, a few more years and you can get senior discount cards.” Of course, Mark would always see the silver lining but Charlie could only roll his eyes and pursed his lips to hide his smile. Unfortunately, he couldn’t do anything with the red flush on his cheek.

 "You guys are insufferable. I'll have you know that fifty is the new thirty, and I'm just getting started, alright?" Charlie blew the candle and wished he would have enough patience to deal with his crew. Although, like hell he would replace them with anyone else. 

In the end they came home later than usual, Charlie ordered pizza and beers to share with his crew. He must admit that he couldn’t even remember the last time he celebrated his birthday, probably fifteen years ago? When he was still working as a senior journalist for a newspaper and had a boyfriend, now becoming an ex. Then he made his own company, making him work even longer and with no significant other to celebrate with, he couldn’t care any less. 

As Charlie ate his cake, he looked at his crew. The near death experience had bonded them in a very special way, something that they couldn’t even share to anyone else, unless if there were any survivor from Du’met hotel. To Charlie, now his crew was more than just subordinates nor the source of his headache. They were his friends now, partners in crime, and, in some ways, his saviors.The director  raised his can of beer and made a toast, just like in the hotel. But this time, Charlie is determined not to screw it up.

 "To us," he said with a genuine smile, "To a crew that's not just surviving but thriving. Here's to many more adventures and, hopefully, a lot less danger."

~*~

Charlie came back to his apartment with a full stomach and generally felt content, something he rarely felt but the feeling was welcomed. But as he opened the door of his apartment, the small smile on his lips disappeared. The first thing he noticed was how unusually clean and tidy his apartment looked. It was a stark contrast to the usual clutter and disarray of his bachelor lifestyle, really. There was no stack of paper and books everywhere, he remembered he left his mug on the table and now it sat quietly along with the clean dishes. Goosebumps prickled his skin as he realized that someone had been in his apartment while he was away, touching his things and somehow knowing where to put them in their respectful place. As if they had an intimate knowledge of his habits and routines. 

His heart began to race even faster as he spotted a letter and a vase of flowers sitting on his table. He approached the table cautiously, his senses on high alert as if it was a trap. Charlie picked up the letter, sealed with a crimson wax seal and began to read the words written with deep red ink. 

Congratulations on your birthday, Charles. 

Just like the finest cabernet sauvignon, you have matured over the years, deepening in complexity and so ready to be consumed. 

One day, we will meet again when the time is right.

~Your secret admirer 

Charlie dropped the letter on the table, his legs now trembling in fear and he found it was hard for him to stand. As he sat on the chair, the director  examined the letter more closely, the undeniable truth became clear—the ink used was indeed a sinister shade of crimson. He was still a journalist at heart and driven by curiosity, he brought the paper and breathed in. Instead of a sharp smell of chemicals, it was a hint of metallic instead. Blood. 

There was only one man in Charlie's mind who would pull this kind of thing to him. But that man should’ve been dead with an anchor hooked on his chest, falling to the water and dragged on the boat’s propeller. Nobody could survive that, even an Ex-FBI psychopath with mother issue. There was no logical explanation for this. Maybe, maybe his crew was pranking him, knowing how he tended to ignore anything outside of his work and deciding his apartment needed to be deep cleaned. But no, only Mark had visited his apartment and there was no way Mark would touch his stuff. Charlie brushes his sweat that starts to appear on his forehead. Or was it someone else, someone equally malevolent and intent on tormenting him? No, the letter said “meet again.” Du’met somehow was still alive and hunting his lost preys. 

After the nightmarish night they had in the hotel, Lonnit always felt like he was being watched, like someone was observing every move he made. He had tried to call the police but after three times coming over to his place and nothing happened, they referred him to a mental health provider. They diagnosed him with Acute Stress Disorder and later PTSD. Now, Charlie only wished that this was just in his mind. How he wished he was just crazy, took the pills and just went to sleep. Where he thought he could just move on with his life, working again with his crew, now it all shattered with a letter written with blood, a vase full of red roses with meanings of love, respect, admiration, but also, desire and passion. Charlie counted the flowers and found seven roses. It couldn’t be just by chance, Du’met always did anything on purpose or hid meaning to it. Charlie took out his phone and googled the meaning of roses by the number and the result of it made his heart sink even deeper. 

Infatuation, obsession.

His eyes darted around the room, and his breath came in shallow, uneven gasps. In that moment, he felt like a helpless animal, cornered by an invisible predator. Those locks on the door and windows were just useless, they wouldn’t prevent the maniac from taking what he believed as his. The thought of it making him found himself engulfed in a mental storm. Flashes of that night on the remote island in Lake Michigan intruded his mind. The cold, clammy air, the darkness, and the relentless sense of being trapped in a Matryoshka doll —all of it rushed back as vividly as if he were reliving it in real-time.

He could almost feel the cold, rough texture of the wall against his fingertips as he stumbled through the basement. The shrill pleas of animatronics and the grisly discovery of the groundskeeper's fate haunted his thoughts. But above all, it was the moment in the yard, when Du'Met had carved that word onto his chest, that scarred him the most. The excruciating pain as the blade carved its message with dancing on his chest felt like it came back again. The echoes of his screams and pleas for mercy echoed in his ears, and he could taste the salt of his own tears. 

Charlie's chest heaved with the weight of the memory, and he clutched at his shirt, as if trying to shield himself from the phantom blade. Everything went back to square one, where the line between reality and his worst fears had blurred. Where he couldn’t even remember the grounding technique his psychologist taught him. But did it matter? His fear had changed into reality and he knew he would never be freed from Du’met’s clutch. 

~*~

In the dimly lit apartment just across from Charlie's, Granthem Du'Met sat in an old leather armchair, the tuxedo cat he took from the island slept on his lap. Behind him, a large telescope was perched by the window, pointed directly at Charlie's apartment. Du'Met's obsession with Charlie had only grown even bigger after the incident. His eyes gazed to one of the monitors on his desk, and there, he saw what he had been waiting for—a live feed from Charlie's apartment. The sight that greeted him sent a surge of satisfaction coursing through his veins.

It had been such a simple act, a letter, a vase of roses, and a few carefully chosen words. Well, yes, cleaning his apartment was impulsive - how could he live in such a place - and yet, those actions ignited a firestorm of terror within Charlie's soul, bringing him back to the nightmare Du’met had orchestrated. 

The psychopath let out a content sigh as he watched Charlie’s face contorted in fear, tears running down his face, making his eyes become glassy, hand clutching his chest as his body was trembling. Such a beautiful sight, Du’met wouldn’t want to miss it even for a second.He reveled in the knowledge that he could control Charlie's emotions, that he could so easily manipulate his prey without even showing himself. The thought of nobody could trigger such intense emotion to his Charlie except him making the devil in him roar. He wanted to mark him both physically and mentally to the point all of Charlie’s existence could only depend on him. 

Almost a year after his failure to kill the Lonnit crew, Du’met had schemed grand and terrible plans, only for Charlie. He wanted to push him to the brink of madness, to make him suffer in ways that would defy imagination. He wanted Charlie to only see and think about him, where he couldn’t even think about escaping his web ever again.  But those plans couldn’t be rushed, like a predator, Du’met patiently crouched down behind the bushes so his prey couldn’t see him. In fact, he actually enjoyed the waiting and cataloging Charlie’s behaviors like an avid bird watcher.

And when the moment finally arrived, Du'Met would savor it like a connoisseurs sipping perfectly aged wine.

A birthday gift for Charlie~ I wonder who it’s from? ❤️

[tinynightmarewoman]

I would have loved to see a little spin off or some shit about Du'met settling in to his second manor house after the first one goes tits up from the Lonnit crew. Just him quietly having to restart and get everything prepared in a new space after having to leave behind so much shit from the Murder Castle.

Add to that the fact he got cheese grated when he was pulled off the boat by a fucking anchor lodged in his shoulder I would loved to see a more dishevelled and torn up Du'met that's had to patch himself up and keep moving on to... you know... murder...

Like that man leaves behind authentic H.H. Holmes memorabilia, Manny Sherman's corpse, all his old shit from being Hector Munday, his fucking dead mother and he's still going! I want to know what that man has stored in this second place I want to know what its like moving in to there after losing years worth of absolutely everything.

I want to see what he does to prevent a Lonnit Crew situation from ever happening AGAIN!! What traps does he have now? What precautions does he take now that the media are keen on him? What will he do about his lost kill streak? Would he start counting again or would he continue from the number he left off at?

I'm aware that he returns in Switchback but until I play that game for myself my answer to anything he does in that game is NUH UH!!!

[maria-rayro]

soulmate!au where you feel your soulmate's pain

Du'Met holds the knife out to Charles's face and makes a sharp cut that simultaneously makes both Lonnit and himself twitch. Granthem realizes everything and is at a complete loss, probably for the first time in a very long time. He realizes that he can't let Charlie to burn in fire, as he had planned before, because he would feel the same torment. And he doesn't want that for sure. As he ponders this, he watches the crew through the cameras and habitually pushes the button to keep the group from reuniting. He stays in his thoughts, not really watching what's happening on the screen, until suddenly he feels a hellish pain in his arm. Looking up at the monitor, he sees that Charles has his arm crushed by the wall. He pushes the button twice so that Lonnit can get it out in time.

Now Du'Met has to take better care of Charles.

[alessiathepirate]

The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me

CIGARETTES: Charlie Lonnit x fem!reader

Summary: A short one shot, in which the reader helps Charlie find his cigarettes.

Note: English isn't my first language. I apologize for any mistake I made while I wrote this short story.

Warnings: swearing, talking about smoking and nicotine addiction

•••

"Oh, Erin I checked my blue bag. No cigarettes." she heard Charlie's voice as she carried her bags up the stairs, trying to find her room.

"That's where I put them!" Erin answered, probably getting frustrated on her very own, polite and kind way.

"Come and show me. Maybe one of us is color blind and doesn't know what a blue bag is."

She almost laughed as she just crossed the corner. That man always said the rudest yet funniest things when the nicotine-addiction made his mind blank. However she also felt a bit of anger when he hurt poor Erin because of his problems. Erin was always helpful and she never even heard her swear or raise her voice. So when she stepped a few steps closer to her talking crewmates, she felt pity for her.

"It's all right, Charlie. No need to stress over it. I'm sure your cigarettes are there somewhere, if Erin said she packed them."

"I swear I put them in the blue bag!" Erin said again, trying to prove that she's telling the truth.

"Then come and show me. Because right now I have to think that they turned invisible."

"That's enough!" she shouted, having enough of their bickering. "I'll help you find them, so you can leave Erin and Jamie alone. Let them rest a bit before dinner. They just crossed the whole fucking island."

"You don't have to do that. I know where I put them, I'm sure-"

"It's okay, Erin. I have to find my room either way. And judging by the number I'm right next to Charlie." she said with a small smile, then she put one of her bags on her shoulder, because it was starting to get too heavy to hold it in her hand. "Have fun girls!" she smirked. " Come on, Charlie, I think our rooms are this way!"

The man obeyed and followed her without another word - which was new to the two girls who were left in Jamie's room. Charlie always had to have the last word. Yet when she was there he was more than pleased to let her talk and get away with everything.

Ever since Topeka the pair seemed to grow closer than ever. He threw a big fuss about the investigation going wrong, yet she maneged to calm him down with only a look. That's when the crew noticed - including Jamie - that despite Charlie made the be professional - rule, he wasn't able to live up to it.

"You know, you can be quite the asshole when you don't have your cigarettes." she stated as they walked down the hallway. She was sure he was about to say something, but she quickly continued. "But watching you like this can also be a comedy show."

"At least someone enjoys it."

"Oh, I can enjoy everything you do if I want to be honest." she said with a shy smile. "Especially when you and Kate are bickering. Now that is comedy gold." she teased.

"Oh, please!"

"All right, all right! Let's just go and find your cigarettes, old man!"

They reached the end of the hallway. The last room on the left was opened so she could see all the suitcases and bags Charlie decided to bring. And there was the mentioned blue bag, Charlie was obviously looking through it because it became quiet the mess.

"It seems I'm right beside you. So you can come and get me anytime you are looking for something." she put her stuff down in front of the door as she crossed Charlie's room and sat down next to the blue bag - what, judging by Erin's words, hid the cigarettes Charlie oh so desperately needed.

"Well?" the man asked after he watched her look through the bag.

"I'm looking Charlie, give me a break!" she answered as she made the bag completely empty. "Oh, by the way..." she started as she noticed a book at the bottom. "Kate wanted you to have this."

She smiled up at him as she gave him the book and to her surprise he smiled back. But Charlie's smile completely disappeared when he read the title of the book out loud.

"Breaking Down Walls: Navigating the Maze of Anxiety. Are you fucking kidding me?"

"I think she thought it might help you with your stress and-"

"Absolutely not." he didn't let her finish her sentence. He walked out of the room only to throw the book to the other end of the hallway. "I'm not stressed. Okay? Do I look fucking stressed?" he asked as he came back.

"Well..." she looked at him with an expression what hid the do you want me to be honest question.

"That was rhetorical."

"Well your cards came out nice enough." she tried to get his attention away from the book and his newly found anger.

"Oh yeah. Embossing. Makes a huge difference." he reached for the card. "But I also put it on heavy stock and did the logo in foil."

"I will never understand this big fuss over business cards. I mean come on, let's not play American Psycho."

"Damn, I should've had one ready for Mr. Du'Met." he continued, ignoring what she said.

"It's okay, I'm sure you'll have a chance to do that."

"Did you find them?" Charlie asked getting back to the main reason they were there as he squatted down next to her.

"No, but Erin said she put them in here. I don't understand. She wouldn't mess this up."

"Jesus." he stood up again, but this time she could feel his frustration. "Well stop tearing around in there like a maniac and check the other bag!"

"Or be fucking methodical. Where did she say she put it? Which pocket?"

"Blue bag, front pocket."

She checked that pocket again, but there was no luck. The pocket was empty. At this point it was starting to get annoying.

"They are gone Charlie. I'm sorry."

"Gone? Just like that? Are you saying somebody took them?"

"That must be the case. I'm sure Erin was saying the truth."

"Actually, I can see Kate doing that." he started to think about that as he sat down on the bed. She sat down next to him. "Or Jamie."

"Look, I'm sorry."

"It's fine, let's just get on with things."

She let out a long breath. He will finally let the stupid cigarettes go. Another word about them and she will jump out of the window or hit him just to shut him up.

It was one of those times when he was throwing a big tantrum about small things. And when he was doing that there was no way you can do anything to get his mind off of the matter.

"This place is massive, surely there is a pack of cigarettes in here somewhere. Even if they are ancient."

She burried her face in her palms. Here it is... The addiction is talking again.

"There was a bar off the lobby. There must be cigarettes in the bar. Right?" he suddenly stood up. "Come on. We should check it. Or maybe we should go and ask Mr. Du'Met. He might be a smoker too or..."

That was her breaking point. She stood up so suddenly she actually starteled him for a second, but he quickly found his voice and she was sure he was about to start talking again - but this time she won't let that happen. She grabbed Charlie's tie - and because of the height difference pulled him down - and kissed him roughly.

This seemed to surprise him even more, because he froze for a second or two unable to process what just happened. But in the next moment he was kissing back. He held her hand, trying to get it away from his tie.

The kiss just dragged on and on - it was like they just found something they didn't know they wanted, yet they really liked.

"Hey, Charlie, did you find your cigare- what the-"

Erin completely froze when she saw them and it seemed like she lost her voice as well.

The pair quickly pulled away. The woman's face was red, but she wasn't the only one. Everyone was red as a tomato and she was sure if she wouldn't be part of the main attraction, she would laugh. This was truly a comedy gold moment. Fucking picture worthy.

"Yes, well- No luck with the bag. But we will go and check the bar, won't we, Charlie?"

"Yes- yes, of course."

And just like that the pair was gone, leaving Erin alone with a story what was the main topic during dinner.

Until the crew decided to start shooting - and with that the night took another turn...

[108garys]

i first really realised this properly when I did my hoa era lonnit crew and it was just 2003 Charlie as a young single parent of 4 and then thought about the 2020 cast in the same context

I realized that if the LH kids were real and born in the modern time, they would have been born in like the early 2000s. Andrew would be born in like fucking 2004. This is insane to me. People born in 2004 should be like 15 wtf

[hail-dondus]

Low-key obsessed with the literal kill counter Du’Met keeps in the lobby of his murder castle

Like when the gang first arrive, the number is at 178.

Then sometime after we see Morello and Bethany running onto the ferry to get away, we get the option to look at it properly and the number has gone up to 180. We know from the “bad” ending if Mark agrees to help Du’Met that he leaves two survivors - a “ferryman” and then another person from their group who they care about and is used as leverage to make them go through with it. So in Morello’s case, it’s obviously his daughter. We also know from that bad ending that Du’Met lets the two survivors go to the ferry and start to leave only to pull them back in and snipe them. And we know they were killed anyway because their bodies can be found near the very end of the game.

Obviously, between Jamie seeing Morello and Bethany leaving and then this counter going up, Du’Met sniped Morello/Bethany.

Also, in the meat freezer area, you can find a dead body hanging up there with the label “176. Natalie Morello”; Natalie is Morello’s other daughter.

The fact that the Morellos were the most recent party to check in, right before the Lonnit crew, Natalie being “176” and the counter going up after Joseph and Bethany “leave”… Du’Met literally keeps his kill counter in plain sight, that fucker is proud of it.

[mia-cot]

What if Hector, after he had exceeded 300 kills, just wanted to live like an ordinary person?

He invites different film crews to shoot some materials for films here and one day stumbles upon Lonnit Entertainment.

Out of old habit, he decides to sort out the ins and outs of these people. Their director is a narcissist, but tries not to show that the company is collapsing. Mark, who hesitates to leave the company. Quiet new girl Erin. Cheeky Jamie. Kate, who knows her own worth.

Interesting guys, as soon as they all got together?

He invites them. They all sit down for dinner at 20:00. Filming was supposed to start closer to midnight to take a couple of shots in the light of the moon. At dinner, they get to know each other, talking a little about themselves. Hector didn't interrupt them-he just listened and enjoyed the company.Charlie was the most talkative at the table. When he first started talking, everyone immediately paid attention to him, including Grantham. When someone else was talking, he was either looking at the liquid in the glass or idly picking at his food with a fork.

Charlie, happy to be the center of attention, communicated openly, hiding nothing and always smiling. Du'met listened with interest to the man's stories, although his face remained as calm as the surface of the water.

- I think I'll go out for a smoke, - Charlie got up from his chair and headed for the door. When he got out, he hesitated a little, because he didn't quite remember the way to the main entrance. The corridors were so identical…

- Perfect for building such a place for killing people, - Charlie himself grinned at his terrible joke and went on.

He just headed straight, hoping to see a way out. Five minutes later, he had not found a way out of these walls.

- My God! What's wrong with this place!? - Charlie slammed his fist against the wall and groaned from the pain in his arm.

- Is there anything I can do for you, Mr. Lonnit? - Charlie squeaked a little in fear. But it was so quiet that he hoped he hadn't embarrassed himself in front of an older man. How long has Du'met been following him? Or maybe it was Charlie who returned to the place where he left?

Charlie turned at the voice and saw the owner. For some reason, without even thinking about why Du'Met was standing in front of him now, although he should be in the hall with everyone, he was overjoyed just like a child who got lost in a store and saw his mother.

- Mr. Du'met! I wanted to find a way out of here, but apparently I got caught in your nets. The further I go, the stronger I feel that I will never get out of here… Could you help me get outside? - Du'Met nodded and silently led Charlie through these corridors with strange paintings…

Charlie definitely wasn't walking here… "Is he even leading me right?" Charlie looked at Du'met's back, suddenly wondering why this man lived here alone. But he found it incorrect to ask such personal questions. His back stiffened a little as they passed through the boarded-up doors.

When Du'met led them outside, Charlie happily inhaled the cool night air:

- Yea… The weather is a little chilly here… The lake, after all… - Charlie rubbed his shoulders, in an attempt to warm up and jumped on his feet.

Du'Met looked with interest at this seemingly adult man, but with the heart of a child. Such Du'Met has not yet met. There have always been petty and calculating people in his life. He killed a lot of people, but they were all rotten inside.

So what if Charlie loved being the center of attention and his narcissistic nature was manifested in this? It wasn't vicious at all for Du'Met. How many times has he already seen how native people exchanged their lives for the life of their loved one… That was what really disgusted Du'Met.

Betrayal. But it was so nice to look at the faces of those people who realized how little their lives meant to someone else…

But that's not the point now. He was living a normal life now, or at least he was trying. He kept a couple of animatronics for himself, so that sometimes he could take out on them a sudden thirst for murder. That was enough for now.

Hector took off his jacket in one motion and draped it over Charlie's shoulders. The huge size of the thing retained the warmth of its owner, and Charlie wrapped himself more tightly in his jacket. Gratefully looking with my own eyes at the man in the shirt.

- Thank you very much, Mr. Du'met, you shouldn't have, you'll freeze! - Charlie was about to take off his outer clothes, warm as a blanket after a nap, but Du'Met interrupted him with a wave of his hand. Charlie once again smiled gratefully in Du'Met's face and nodded slightly in gratitude.

It was unusual for Hector to see good emotions directed at himself. So open, such as they have always existed…

But they were inaccessible to him for so long…

He was sorry. I regretted a lot. He definitely wasn't born like this. The people who surrounded him made him a murderer. Hector took something out of his pocket. It turned out to be a red box of cigarettes.

- Oh, so you smoke too! Wait, let me light them up. - Hector held a cigarette between his lips and leaned over to Charlie, looking straight into his eyes and waiting. Perhaps because it was so embarrassing, Charlie couldn't stand the long eye contact and concentrated to light a cigarette. The wind prevented him from doing this and he covered the fire with one hand.

- Here, it's done. Thanks for the cigarette… and a jacket. - Charlie took a step back from Du'Met, interrupting their intimacy. The older man just nodded in response and straightened his back.

"I have to admit, this tie and shirt suit him…" - Charlie really liked this combination. He finally lit his cigarette and took a drag.

- Well… the moon is unusually bright today, the shots will be great, - Charlie raised his head to him and just looked at the moon.

At that moment, the man standing next to him realized why he had started living an ordinary life - to find someone who would shine brighter than the moon on such a dark night.

While Charlie was looking at the moon, Hector was looking at Charlie a little behind, thinking that now he would do anything to stay with this man for the rest of his days.

***

OH. MY. GOD. I FINISHED IT.

HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO WRITE IN ENGLISH…

IF THERE ARE MISTAKES, PLEASE POINT THEM OUT, I WILL BE GLAD TO LEARN!

[somewhereinthepines]

well, i just can’t leave the new ‘shiny’ alone for now. so this happened. this lil monster right here. *heavy sigh* 

not fully sure how to describe this one. like, this is 110% unapologetic du’lie fic. therefore, i won’t even pretend like the ‘plot’ won’t be literally tied up to their relationships on main lol. but it’s written from du’met’s pov, so it can be…well. smth. prob will have a different tone to it vs 2 other fics. might also have a bit different take on some canon events & such. so yup. time for me to stare into the abyss.

now, an actual summary of the first chapter : what is the ‘final battle’ with du’met happened inside the lighthouse? aka a version of events, where the lonnit entertainment crew (what left of it) is actually attempting to take on du’met.

spoiler alert, it doesn’t go too well for them.

[ange-de-la-mort]

I have five more minutes, I'm waiting for my train, and since I did it for Josh/Chris, I'll recap Erin/Du'Met for the peeps who haven't played TDIM.

Erin is part of Charlie Lonnit's film crew that specializes in True Crime. Du'Met lured them to his murder castle under the guise of having just what they need to get their show back on track.

Basically five minutes after arriving, she is French kissing with Jamie, therefore establishing our lesbian couple in this game (you even get a trophy if they kiss!)

Erin is the first one Du'Met fucks with, probably because he knows she's the youngest and most easily scared. He traps her in the blacked-out room (screenshot above in OP) and scares the crap out of her, causing her to have an asthma attack. He offers her her inhaler - if she decides to attack him, he will kill her here. If she takes her inhaler, he will pin her to the wall and cut a lock of her hair as a trophy (the game is so dark, the first time I saw that I thought he cut part of her ear to take an earring or smth).

She manages to describe the encounter in the most fumbling way possible, leading the rest of the crew to believe she was just scared and seeing things in the dark that don't exist.

He manages to isolate her from the crew again, and in this encounter most people will probably get her killed on their first play through because the "hide or not" decision is super stupid. Anyway, if he kills her, the crew will find her later horribly mangled with her chest cut open so they can see her still beating heart kept alive by machines (that are turned off the second the crew finds her).

IF she survives this encounter, they…… don't really interact any more except for the cast trying to survive and him trying to kill everyone. She can throw a lamp at him? I think that's it?

If you ship them, you're probably one of two types:

1) "I can fix him" where you hope your fav's love will make the evil man less evil, which, all the power to you. 2) You just want to see your blorbo wrecked. Raped, tortured, dead, the whole mile. The Dove isn't Dead, it's ROTTEN at that point. Which, all the power to you, they're just pixels to play with, go wild!

Fun trivia:

Du'Met and Travis are the same age (57 in 2022, with Travis being younger by a month)

Both are / used to be law enforcement with Travis as the town's sheriff and Du'Met a former FBI agent

Both are abused by their parents (with Travis, it's seen more implicitly in the way he behaves around them, with Du'Met we literally have audio records and medical documents of severe physical and verbal abuse during his childhood, including beatings, starvation, and rope burns from being tied down for long periods of time)

Both have a moment where they snap and become irredeemable (optional for Travis, if Laura shoots him earlier and he kills her in a fit of rage; canonical for Du'Met after a serial killer taunts him once to many and he starts beating the shit out of him which leads him to the path of killing people, with his mother as his first victim.) I'm not saying they should be murder husbands, but they COULD be murder husbands

Depending how old you headcanon Laura to be, she and Erin can be around the same age, too (Erin is 24 in 2022), but that's where the similarities end, I think, as Erin is meek, shy and has self-esteem issues while Laura will fuck you up if she decides to do so.

This poll is not a part of the tournament! I just have a scientific interest

 Granthem Du'Met x Erin Keenan 1. black-out room.. don't ask (once again - no romantising, it's fully abuse) 2. once again adding this mostly as a test... I'd like to see how many votes and how far this gets.

Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett (Hackearney) 1. they have a cool dynamic. they could be a battle couple!