#eye to eye

[zegalba]

Storm Thorgerson: Eye to Eye (2003)

[earl-of-grey]

Radioapple 📻🍎 moment:

They loathe each other’s presence, but the moment Vox shows up on the hotel’s doorstep…

They beat the shit outta that tv screen together in beautiful harmony ❤️

[travelersrest]

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[outro-estranho-no-mundo]

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[ebrusidar]

You’re at your secret place

[the-final-sentence]

Eventually, if we speak the truth to each other, it will become unavoidable to ourselves.

Audre Lorde, from "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger"

[toyastales]

Well, this is one way to sit face to face!

[vintagerpg]

The big finale of the trilogy of beholder adventures for Monstrous Arcana is Eye to Eye (1996). Despite the underwhelming title and the plotty plot, it actually delivers quite a bit of the alien quality I was hoping would characterize the whole series. Better late than never, I suppose.

The problem really is all the plot. I am not sure any of the set-up across the previous installments is necessary or enriching, but whatever. The town of Cumbert is atop a beholder city and, thanks to the elder eye’s machinations, the hive mother wants to wipe it out, while the player characters want to do the same to the beholder colony. The elder eye’s hope is that the two factions wipe themselves out, leaving a power vacuum it can fill. Yawn. I mean, it’s fine, but I really don’t understand why I can understand the motives of a floating multi-eyed abomination, if that makes sense. This volume primarily sees the players exploring and battling through the hive city. It’s pretty much all dungeon crawl.

It’s pretty great! A lot of detail was paid to making the city makes sense as a place inhabited and traversed by a spherical species that floats, which complicates traversal for players while making the environment feel casually bizarre (one section is like a giant water park, others remind me of the videogame Marble Madness). The city is a sandbox, too — there is a lot to do here, and a lot of ways to do it. Ultimately, you could stick this city anywhere and develop a plot that doesn’t involve the players watching two NPCs battle it out in the end.

[travelersrest]

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[dolores-hazy]

Prompt

I dont want you to drift away but i dont know how to hold on to you

Are you even trying?

Not ready to let go

So I'm holding you close

Any closer would be smothering

That's not what I want but can't bear

The thought of you in another's arms

Do you still want me too

Or are you really ready to say

We're through and move on

To someone new?

Maybe you are giving it

The best you can

The most you've learned how

Not grasping that it seems like

Giving up without a fight

It's tiring, I know, just trying

To survive this life

Let's have a heart to heart

And see if we still

See eye to eye

[chinbandack]