‘Soul-Red Roses’ suggests that not every supernatural manifestation is flashy. There are other implications, but I’ll leave them as an exercise for the interested reader. No need to pound a metaphor into the ground.
Well, there’s certainly some kind of Delusions going on here. But who’s having them? ‘Tis an interesting question.
You kind of want to hope that this is true, right? I mean, it’d really suck if grinding was horrible for your character. Then again, if my characters could think and feel I’d never put them through my games…
I guess the moral for ‘Be Forgot’ is that it ain’t easy out there for an anthropomorphic representation. Although this particular one has been cursed with the metaphysical equivalent of perfect hearing. Couple that with a state of non-metaphysical profound drunkenness, and, well…
“All is Calm” represents a certain moral flexibility on both sides after a very, very long War. Five thousand years ago, they’d have been shoving flaming swords into each other — but five thousand years is a long time, even for immortals. You have to get on with the job.
Is ‘Out of Charge’ really fantasy? I mean, obviously you can quantify things. That kind of makes it science fiction, with weird physics.
Although… don’t we have something like what’s going on in ‘Practical Physics’? That entire situation where quantum mechanics and general relativity are inconsistent with each other in some places, but you can use either theory to do things. Or something like that. I just write books.
I’m going to use the idea in ‘Contents May Vary’ at some point. It might not even be for a horror project, either. There’s nothing really awful about the concept, after all. If the soul-substitute is benign, why not have the end result be, too?
I don’t really remember much about the viewpoint character in ‘Fire Always Works,’ except that he deserved what was about to happen to him. Oh, and that the reason why that air hurt him was because all the evil had been taken out of it. So, yeah, he was bad.
Ah, ‘The Monkey’s Ass.’ That was a week, let me tell you. We followed up that awesome Saturday with the entire house coming down with Covid – but at least we didn’t have to deal with Thanksgiving holiday traffic! …I have been very disciplined in my thinking since then.
