All right. I'll give Hetty 'til the weekend to reply, since it's been a week and I'm already scraping up against the minimum post rate I need to keep going here.

Prepare for the last sort-of quiet night in a while...

Behold! Pest has a portrait now. ^_^

My apologies to lock you both out of the first thread without others immediately there to migrate to, but it's 11pm and I feel I should probably not promise those at this point in the P.M.

I thank Hetty for showing up again, and hope both of you are still entertained (and know I'm here for comments and criticism as you like). Things get spookier from here on out. Fair notice that I intend to hide your new threads from each other unless requested otherwise, so that both of you can keep some mysteries to share or not as desired and get each other into terrible trouble.

Also, found this, thought of here (rude words warning).

Hmm. Well, to keep things sailing smoothly (surely a major goal for anything called The Lighthouse) I shall rule that draws where a player decision is already made will be taken by the GM if the player is not heard from in a week, starting tonight.

In the unlikely event you were planning to post tonight, Matt, please hang on 'til I've drawn for Hetty, in case the tower gets less stable & it affects what you roll.

I had decided on Matt’s course of action yesterday, so I was preparing to go ahead and post his response sometime today, but I will assuredly hold off in the event that circumstances change (worsen).

If a 1 is drawn, does that mean a sudden, incoming tsunami will carry him out to sea?

Maybe!

...or just unceremoniously slither on a green bit, pitch over and fall unconscious into the North Atlantic. I do have (terrifying) eventualities planned for early tower collapses; don't worry about losing your character completely quite yet.

edit: it's past six, I'm leaving work, that counts as the evening! Draw made, tower stable; draw and/or post at your leisure, Mister Hall.
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A tale of a lighthouse, madness and coming to terms with the drowned (but not how you thnk): http://thehorrorsofitall.blogs...use-of-dead.html?m=1

...and Michael Hordern's reading of Rats, by M.R.James

Hope you are both doing well! Sorry I have been quiet, there has been a lot going on! Will post tomorrow!

Much appreciated & glad to hear you're still with us. I'm actually doing all right this week, but I certainly hear you. If there's ever anything I can do or/and you two would like a definite hiatus time marked out, I'm always here for the asking. I'm only pretending to try and drive you insane/horribly murder you, after all.

Please accept whatever this horrible thing I found on the internet is, its strange beauty quite hypnotised me when I came across it: https://twitter.com/codexnoirm.../1456074936292978689

Glad you’re still with us! I hope that all is well.

A draw from the tower, please, Mister Hall.

I must say I'm entertained that anyone taking their problems to distract Captain Dowling from the shipping with is going to sound completely bonkers in a very mundane way...



edit: combat! For Dread, assume that anything you do that another character will object to, e.g. trying to strike them, trying to grab them, trying not to be hauled out to sea by a manifestation of lust and marine ambivalence when said manifestation is trying to drown you - will take a draw. The longer combat goes on, the higher the chance that it'll prove deadly to someone or other.
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Seemed relevant: https://twitter.com/Valdevia_A.../1389596882725449729

Hmm...is anyone still here?

I was struggling with two players at 4 posts/month, but if neither of you have any time at all...well, I can certainly put the game on hold until a set date if there's genuine interest in that, but otherwise...if all I'm making is a cause for guilt and apology, or yet another direction to be pulled on a too-packed schedule, that's kind of a rubbish thing to give people, right? I want to give my players good things.

I'll give it another week, and if there's echoing silence for the duration, please consider this as notice that I will quietly pack up and fold the endeavour away. If nothing else, I thank you for your great concepts and thoughtful contributions: I appreciate them all, even if this is all I'll get.

[leaves a thing for the player still about]
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{[quietly leaves this to be found]}

Merry Christmas! I sincerely apologize, I was dealing with some situations in real life. My interest is here for sure still but with holidays and end of year necessities I expect I'll be able to post after the New Year. :)

!!! Hetty! You're alive and here! Thank you for looking in - I very much hope to see you in January.

I also hope the quiet period around the holidays treats you better than things have been. May you find a warm spot and food that pleases you and some Good Thing you get to keep. [nod]

I hope that the New Year finds everything in a better place for you.

...and that liminal-spacemas treats everyone well. [nod] I had a booster shot today and keep being confused as to why my arm is sore.

Matt, this'll look bizarre to Hetty, but if our lad didn't take his clothes off/change into whatever he has for jammies before sitting down there I'm going to need a draw from you vs. hypothermia.

Sorry. I should have been more specific regarding his actions, rather than focusing exclusively on ruminating over recent horrors. My intention was for him to shed his sea soaked clothing and change into something dry, whilst placing the wet garments in the stove’s vicinity.

All that said, I can still provide another draw if needed.

Nope, just knowing he's in a decently dry rather than soggy state of collapse is fine. (Also, hello! ^_^ )

{  {{distant wake out to sea that may or may not be a first-footing from Wrath, since it's incapable of stepping over thresholds rather than demolishing them in wall-crashing fury}}  }

A joyful New Year to you both. Since a certain post is crossing places I haunt again, this time with pictures, it felt appropriate to link the story of the Carpathia here. People get the wrong idea about hopepunk sometimes and assume because 'hope' is a positive word it must be a species of fluff fiction, but it's in dark places and with hammering pressure that you can talk about forging hope where there shouldn't be. There's half a thought about lighthouses in there somewhere, but it's 3am by now since I wound up making midnight bread, and I must sleep.
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Feeling like I have scurvy due to chronic health issues (/requiring the ritual stabbing I recieve on Monday) and listening to the midnight rain made me think of here, and this, so I'm dropping The Longest Johns' version here: https://youtu.be/P9s76OCD6RM?t=11229

Alas, that's the clearest version of theirs I can find on the internet. I don't always like TLJ's arrangements of traditional songs, but sometimes they hit absoloutely right. At any rate, I hope the start of '22 is treating you both well, and that we can continue to tell stories here in which the hungry sea - and the hope of saving lives from it - is also a part.

Seagull friend coming to help me tell you that I just need one or two posts from players before getting us back together again in a new chapter.

Some notion of where Matt means to sleep (and whether he intends to barricade himself in just in case a certain entity is both determined enough to seal-hop across the island and learns how to open doors) and whether Hetty wants to tell the Captain anything (e.g. "I'd rather sleep up here tonight") would be good.

edit, update: Sorry to lock you out for a bit, Matt, I just need another post from Hetty to finish up there and I'll get going on a morning thread. Remember, it's the morning after Boat Day - there are pancake fixings! If you can keep them away from Pest.

I'm taking it that folk are all right with each others' threads being secret, at least for a while/until things finally come out IC? Seems it'd help immersion with the theme of isolation (though I rather want to give Matt some soup and a heat sock right now; lad needs a hug).

edit, another update: fair warning that I mean to boop the Tower thread to make the closed threads line up nicely at the bottom and that I've started drafting the start of the third chapter of our tale here, but I need to go scavenge for leftover supermarket bread tonight since I can't be bothered to make any, so...consider me to be working in the background here.
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Many thanks for the updates. Matt’s fine as he is for the moment. Fresh trauma to sleep off and such. :)

Ah, Lust there is just trying to help bring Matt out of his shell. You know, like an oyster.

Going to give Hetty a chance to look in but otherwise get to cleaning the Light around Friday. I hope y'all are as entertained as I am by the interspersal of being pursued by the dark and fearful corners of your psyches with an early-20th-century lighthouse-keeping sim.

I can't cope with this amount of stuff even theoretically, but a heads up since there are some really neat titles in here, including awared-winning CoC scenarios and a sweet little mod to make D&D into something more closely related to The Witcher or Bloodborne: ich.io is giving away all the games in return for donations to help protect the kids whose state govenor tried to get their parents lynched as a distraction/fascist rallying tactic recently.

They're good eggs, those folk.

edit: yes, I need to scrape together enough brain to make you two some intricate and lovely posts (to write about the sea with no awe or beauty is to do it wrong, I feel) but I also very much need to show you the seal breads. Look at them!
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