Icarus's blog: "Augurs, Martyrs, and Agnostics"

Kuon just keeps staring at me now that Demon's souls is done.

Turns out its made by the same people.

I dunno... PS2 survival horror is kinda like going back in time or to one of those cheesey fifties themed diners.

Its quite forced.

But steakburgers, malts, and shortskirts are pretty god damn awesome.

So was the big bopper.

SOLD!

... maybe not.

Not yet.

It's a tepid "sold".

Mostly based on the fact that I have NOTHING to do except spin my wheels on the novelish thing

I think I'm gonna yank another direction again from about "IWNTS" 1.0 forward.

(I was never the sun 1.0)

I think I'm gonna keep the first two sections and approach the scene much

sloooooooooower

hell, I was debating on doing the sungod there or just having it be some damnable pit of evil that unaware travelers got drawn into and murdered.

I'm not crazy about the central character in this section either.

Alorid just kinda springs to life and keeps running

this mercenary guy jumps up and smacks himself into a wall of cliches and gets thrown out

repeatedly.

I do think that the dark fantasy setting of Demon's souls and the imagery within are something I'd like to draw from

draw from not copy.

I want vivid, horrifying denizens, bad shit to happen, inescapable purgatory

actually I wanted that all along, but MAN these guys made an art out of it.

I'm thinking in order to get darker I'll have to know darker

so... horror movies and "dark fantasy"? sign me up.

Ties in with that whole "power with a price" thing too doesn't it?

What I got so far?

Nebulous pantheon

Living (terrifying and vile) gods

Alorid

The 1% developed "faithless" (the hero?)

The soldier/mercenary/veteran

The arcanist

No setting

No timeline

No backdrop

No exposition

The mistress

The rag man

Some dude covered in keys (keys, not bees. I dunno, it can definitely go somewhere)

What do I want?

A life worse than purgatory, and the tale of the struggling few who have no chance of overcoming it.

How long til I get there?

Hooo... man that's the million dollar question.

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I made char siu bo.

It was pretty damn good.

Sticky mess.

But good. More on this later.