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Came up with this while waking up (on Puppet Caz)

Which... yeah, I guess you could say I thought it was peak a few minutes ago and now it's mid? I'll share it anyway cause it's still pretty cool. Okay so imagine a universe where Caz is a puppet---like a mobile, stalking puppet with voicelines and everything. As we know, being a puppet entails being a subconscious trapped in a monstrous form---and as we know but keep forgetting, Caz is our claustrophobic king! Also guys this literally came to me very briefly at the end of a dream so I just hopped into the tags and started cooking. Yes, one of his lines has to be "I can't breathe" and Roy HAS to hear him say it (and yes Caz has to be gasping while he says it cause he's just silly like that). I also imagine him just running around and into the walls like he's trying to pry himself out of there (but it never works </3) Actually put that way, it sounds like his existence could very easily be worse than hell. Honestly Puppet Caz's psyche is a little weird as on the one hand, he's afraid of being found; on the other hand, he's afraid of being erased. It looks like all I can confirm right now is that he's not great in tight spaces.

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I don't know what I was on last night but for some reason I dreamt that SWTD wasn't just a one-time thing but a mere installment (an episode, if you will) of a saga of different perilous oil rig adventures; it just happened that the cosmic-horrors-beyond-human-comprehension episode was my favourite. Even then, that's only one plot structure---one day on the Beira and only one small chance to explore the world and its characters; I thought to open my eyes and consume the rest but alas I then woke up :'( And yes, if you're wondering, this came to me as I (Caz) was doing parkour while being chased by a giant and evil kangaroo. Don't ask. Normal Beira D Chronicles stuff. And yes, if you're wondering, I wasn't thinking about the game's ending when this was running through my mind.

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Partially Revived Sketches!!

Another week another delayed chapter!! (all jokes aside, I'm really close to finishing Ch6 and then definitely need the extra time for a 28-PAGE Ch7) As promised, have some of my artworks from my partially revived au (of which I said time and time again that I'd write "if my spirit isn't broken after CYWB"). Last is a WIP cause I'm lazy and can't finish anything unless I actually set aside a schedule for it.

Warning: partially revived au means PARTIALLY revived! It means blood, tumours, disfiguration etc. of someone who actually looks like a person again.

(A few nods to some plot points in my au sketches) I derived this au from the original ideas from the devs: that assimilated humans were just vessels for the horror to explore a world not made for them (not unlike spacesuits, PPE, machines etc. for humans). But what if you don't fit your equipment; know nothing about taking care of your suit? Put so much extra stress on your it? It won't just snap right back the second it's doffed!

And this coming from an entity that doesn't know the first thing about taking care of a human!

So now we're left with a overstretched and torn human hazmat suit, still terribly disfigured, terribly thrown off of his chemical balance, and still full of cosmic residues. In a sense, revival in this au is revival with consequences. The essence of Puppet Muir got purged from its tortured dwelling, and now his body and mind have to work incredibly hard to recover.

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So I just hit my elbow really hard last night and started jumping and waving it around to cope with the pain---and then it hit me! All this time we thought Muir was a jolly energetic dude when in reality he was just so clumsy that every brush of his limbs in an ungodly place had him suddenly running around and hopping on his feet. In all seriousness, it is either this or he moves on like nothing happened (I can already imagine him ranting about some passionate topic, shoulder-checking a doorframe and continuing on like nothing happened; his pal tries asking him if he's ok but he's too enthralled in the topic of conversation to answer) because maybe he has a massive pain tolerance after all of that (which makes his state as a puppet all the more disheartening).

Be honest does he run around after bumping around or does he just shrug it off?

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I'm either procrastinating terribly, or just in a pickle with this chapter because for some reason each pass of chapter 6 takes like at least 2 days to complete (and keep in mind I read over each chapter on average 6 times before posting) so js a heads up it might come a little later and be pushed back to the following Saturday or something of the sort. Oh yeah, also as I'm sitting on google docs, the chapter is 26 pages long while the others were anywhere from 13-18. Perhaps that has something to do with it. Also guys as tough as it is to get through each pass I am honestly very stoked for this chapter!! I love chapter 6 guys I love it so much...

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Things that Will Put a 70's Working-Class Scottish Man Into a Coma: Scotcha Latte

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Ch4 will take a while.

Hey guys. Chapter 3 of CYWB is up. Just a heads up that although I've been pumping out edited chapters a week between each other, I was reading through my draft of chapter 4 and... it'll take longer than a week to get this one out.

It exhibits a deeper prose issue despite the content being exciting enough to normally stave off this soulless writing. I'm afraid the best I can do right now is rewrite it, and that will take a while. How long? I'm not sure.

On the bright side, things are looking good while rewriting. Love y'all and stay tuned!

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My Fic is Finally Here!

After 3 months of planning and 5 months of drafting, my first ever publicly posted fanfic (and longest work in my life), "CAREFUL, YOU WEEGIE BAM!" is up on ao3!!

This has been a true labour of love; lots of dedication and self-discipline went into making this happen---into writing the entire draft before treating myself with posting a thing. Really, the only reason I sat down and wrote it was so that the fandom could read it, and it's kind of like a 120k word love-letter to you guys in that sense (I usually keep my writing to myself).

This canon divergence, follows Innes after he survived up the crew lift and proceeded to try reaching out to Muir again---to finally get him that 'help' he's been asking for. Of course, hardly anything goes according to plan; as I like to say, the Big Bad(TM) happens and things somehow still get worse. (Warnings for swearing, gore---lots of gore, etc.) To this lovely fandom: she's yours!