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Come on in, Have a Drink.
Rest all you need, we can talk whenever.
(This blog is a love letter to 2010s internet horror and as such WILL EXPLORE HORROR THEMES! <3) {Ran by @Dughckit}
It is surely a pleasure to have you!
This is an ask blog/interactive narrative blog
Ran by @dughckit
Consider this a 'spin off' of some kind to my main askblog @pressure-operationqna
I wanted to tell a different narrative with different guys with more direct horror inspirtations! So this is that <3
This will borrow from a few things for inspiration BUT
This takes place in the QnA/RnR universe of Pressure lore
Inspirations are mainly things like:
-Roblox 'Myth' Games (Settings and such)
-2000s to 2010s Creepypastas and Internet Horror in general
-The Odyssey, and Malevolent Podcast (These are the two weirdest pulls, but they will make sense, I swear)
CONTENT WARNINGS AND RULES
This is a horror blog, there are horror themes here.
{PLEASE GO HERE TO READ THROUGH CWs AND RULES}
There are three characters, all with colored text
The Harold {He/They/It}
The Traveler {He/Him}
The Tavernkeep {Any/All}
Read about em here! <--Link
I've made a separate post detailing my feelings about the recent exposure of Zeal's crimes/disgusting behavior toward Ren/NoLongerNull {Should be below this one on the blog}
And I'm saving this post to discuss the future of this blog/my personal feelings toward the Pressure Dev Team/The Pressure Game.
I have never not once liked the Pressure Dev Team.
There have been countless controversies, dramas, and wrongdoings revolving around the staff of the game, and a long long time ago I made the choice to interact with the game as little as possible for this reason.
My place has been firmly planted within the fandom, alongside all my fellow fans and OC creators.
And I've seen some people already making posts with takes stating
"Let's remake Pressure together" and "Let's let our characters remain in Spite, and take Pressure for ourselves"
And while I agree with these takes to an extent, and will be doing something to this tune in the future myself--
For now, being 100 percent blunt:
I'm fed up. I'm tired.
I remember nothing but positive experiences within this fandom/community and I want to honor these people.
The Mutuals and Friends and memories I have made,
All the characters interwoven and stories told-
But I am so fucking tired.
I don't know when I will come back to these blogs ( This and @the-last-rig-askblog )
But it will not be for a while-
If not for my own feelings over current and past events involving the dev team
As for now, my plans in the future are to repurpose my OCs and maybe continue these plotlines
( Thanks to my time in a prior fandom also centered around containing supernatural experiments and entities-- I've already gone through the labor of making up a Supernatural/Scientific Research foundation-- so we're half way there )
The Last Rig will be easier for sure, given it has barely anything to do with the original pressure canon
But QnA is going to be trickier-- though I'm still committed to finding a future for this side of the project
I've been contemplating turning these blogs into a proper web comic for a while and I may just go ahead with this.
We will see.
For now
Thank you all so much for following along and interacting with the narratives with these blogs
It has been wonderful, getting to meet new people, draw new characters, and learn about/collaborate on new stories!
Goodbye,
And Good luck out there!
Hello everyone!
This post is in reference to the recent drop of the document "What Zeal did to Ren/NoLongerNull"
Due to what was revealed in said document about Pressure's creator (SA, Abuse, and Abuse Tactics)
This blog, and it's sister blog @the-last-rig-askblog
Will be on an indefinite hiatus!
This and a few other wrong doings and incidents* of Zeal and other Pressure Team Members has slowly turned me off of the game over the past few months.
I'll have a separate post prepared later on for plans for the blogs (if I have any) but I would like to save them- to keep this post relegated to currents issues and matters.
I'll keep my words short on this, but-
Support Ren/NoLongerNull during this time, and respect her desires and wishes detailed in her Google Doc.
The focus should be on her healing and getting her voice out there.
Thank you all for reading.
* Incidents used in the term of "Criminal/Wrongful Incidents". Not to mean "Accidents"
"Ah--- do pardon me if I'm at the wrong closet! A... a rather surly and squat gentleman showed me here! uhm-- I have-- I have a message for you! I think? You uhm... your name is Archie, right?.... Do you know an Astor Crawley?"
{ @the-last-rig-askblog <3}
Now that you're awake, you miiiiight want to wash that off
Wash what you ask?
Well, while you were in a drunken stupor, i painted a tapestry on to your back...
What can i say? I was bored!
βπ
"MY It's been an age and a half, hasn't it? Well-- I suppose to speed run a few things: Happy valentines day to you as well, you still GREATLY concern me- but you are always welcome here, and-- What do you mean ONE? How many names can one procure? Nevermind! Much to do! Idle hands or whatever the saying is!"
"There's a poor joke I can make here about your age and sponge baths, dear Traveler, but suppose I shall spare your pride."
Asks referenced in this post lol vvv
"Th--three? What? Huh? Weren't we just hostin' a party?"
"NO! Fuck-- I mean-- It /feels/ like it but-- we just both got black out drunk and let people run rampant-- LOOK, look... it's been three months-- we have a BACK LOG of drink orders, Tavernkeep is nowhere to be seen, I have errands to catch up on, You need to get up off the ground and have a meal and a shower, We need to clean this place up PRONTO, I--"
"S-slow down, Othello-- it's gonna be alright-- what do you mean Tav is missin?"
"She's gone! Into the fuckin' night-- I don't know when she left, where she is, when she'll be back! They've never gone off like this-- oh Almighty above-- y'don't think I've done something to piss them off, yeah? He isn't giving me the cold shoulder o-or trying to bail this business on me or maybe this is just IT maybe I finally fucked it oh GOD. I can't do this! I can't run a business? What am I gonna do with an abandoned rig? I-I can't run a bar-- I can't--"
"Othello-- breathe-- you're fine... I'm sure she's just gone for personal reasons or something of that sort... M'positive he'll be--"
"Ah--- do pardon me if I'm at the wrong closet! A... a rather surly and squat gentleman showed me here! uhm-- I have-- I have a message for you! I think? You uhm... your name is Archie, right?.... Do you know an Astor Crawley?"
{ @the-last-rig-askblog <3}
"Feels odd, having been here long enough to have a 'usual'-- shouldn't Othello be on bar?"
"Ah-- 'e's uhm... goin' round refillin' drinks right now- should be at least- uhm... how are ya- I don't think I know your name."
"You're fine-- Astor Crawley. It's a pleasure. As for how I am.... hm."
"Hm?"
"Yeah... i don't.... it's been a rough couple of weeks? months? Hard to tell at this point..."
"Well... what is a barkeep's job if not to listen?"
"You make a good point... where to even start? I died just recently- lost everything that ever made me happy... but... I'm not... a ghost or anything, am I? I find that odd but-- I suppose my whole adult life has been 'odd'-- ever since I picked up an internship for Urbanshade."
"Too.... try and make it simple, I guess, uhm... Not two months after I get promoted to Junior Field Researcher... I'm sent out on this... death trap of a mission... and I actually fucking die."
"Ah... m'sorry?"
"And it's even stranger because-- because I'm dead but I'm still living? no pulse, no need to breath, I can hardly eat, my body is-was... was losing all function-- but I could still talk, and walk and have thoughts and feelings--- all because of this... algae that infected my brain."
"Algae? Pondscum did this t'ya?"
"Not-- not /just/ pondscum, I don't think so at least..."
"Oh?"
"There was.... gods I couldn't tell how many... but just this... mass. In this tunnel at the bottom of this lake, decaying, bloated... purple almost... lots of limbs, mostly just... arms and hands. I bumped one, it- it fell of and floated about the water... that's what freaked me out, made me take off my respirator and inhale all that shit... Sorry I'm rambling..."
"How many hands?"
"What?"
"Were there horns?"
"What are you on about?"
"Right well uhm... I gave you my name but you never gave me yours."
"I don't know if I should."
"I.... Nothing..."
"What does... What does 'nothing' entail?"
"No.... no bonds.... no desire... you don't... if it's not hidden-- it's just not there..."
"Ah."
"I'm sorry, I know that's probably not what you wanted to hear."
"It's fine, thank you, Miss... I appreciate this."
"Feeling better? Your uhm... incisions... seams... less leaky?"
"Yes. Hello there.
The blue boy y'all know and love seems to be... a bit blue. Lately. Immobile and useless- he won' get up to do any fuckin' work. So I'M. Taking charge.
Enjoy your stay. Or don't. That's not what I'm 'ere for. And I don't particularly care either"
OOC:
YES! PHASE 2 RNR ANIMATIC IS DONE!! Ima add this do the pinned post but I wanted to make a separate post for it too because I'm very proud :]
This animatic has been haunting me since August 2025 :']
((I might make another post later with sketches and stuff maybe idk))
Animatic foreshadows a few things past present and future >:] Do with that what you will
Astor, Mischa, Othello, Augustine, Tarvernkeep, Terry, and Query belong to @pressure-operationqna
MY PEN BROKE AGAIN! WOW!
So anyways here's something i've been wanting to do for a while
Just like-- a playlist of songs my guys would listen too with like
"Cast Commentary" to read on some of the tracks <3
Here's the playlist
And below is the commentary! Yay!
Please Note: This is non canon <3
Track 1- Midnight in Tokyo - Mini Mansions
ASTOR- "I will admit, this choice was fueled gayly."
MISCHA- "Grooossss"
ASTOR- "Oh, shut up-- God forbid I want a song that makes me think of my man on here."
MISCHA- "All we've got to lose, is just a love that will never survive?" Really?"
ASTOR- "Well yeah! Cuz I'm dead-- doubly so-- so-- yeah! It's-- not literal-- I love him very much."
TERRY- "It's a good song, kid."
ASTOR- "Thank you, Su-- er-- Terrence. I appreciate that at least you are making an effort here."
Track 8 - Invisible - Duran Duran
ASTOR- "Your taste is so old, Mischa."
TERRY- "Cut him some slack-- it's good! Duran Duran is good-- Why this song, kid?"
MISCHA- "I don't know it... yeah. It's... it's helped me with a lot. Everything with uhm... Dove... and... and you. It's nice finding music that helps me feel seen. Y'know-- feelin' seen, means that your wounds are acknowledged... means that... somethin'... somethin' about healing. I dunno."
TERRY- "Thoughtful."
ASTOR- "I... yeah. I'm glad you've found an outlet."
TERRY- "Quick side bar though-- Butthole surfers?"
MISCHA- "OH! They're amazing, you'd like 'em Ter-Bear."
Track 11 - The Past is a Grotesque Animal - of Montreal
MISCHA- "I'm sorry- ELEVEN MINUTES? Terrence you spoil me."
TERRY- "Ah, please... it's just a good song! The Eleven minutes is a bonus!"
ASTOR- "I'd never think you capable of such in depth tastes, Terrence."
TERRY- "Please-- Sk-- Cayse made me listen to nothing but trashy y2k pop, shit like this is a damn palette cleanser, also getting to swear again. That's good too."
MISCHA- "What's your favorite swear?"
TERRY- "Oh! There's this one my grandparents used all the time, what was it-- 'Stuff your nose in it and roll, you dull cunt'."
ASTOR- "Why share this one, Terrence? The song, I mean."
TERRY- "Same as Mischa's, I guess. It helps me to listen to it."
Track 18 - Backlight - Ado
MUNROE- "Ado's good."
OTHELLO- "Did I do anything to indicate otherwise?"
MUNROE- "No, I just have this nagging feeling whenever I'm around ya that yer about t'open that vacant trap of yours'n spill yer damn guts when I didn't ask fer shit from ya."
OTHELLO- "I love you and value your opinions too, Munroe."
AINETT- "Hey-- no fighting. Get your butts up, one of you dance with me, yeah? I'd rather shoes be flyin', not fists."
MUNROE- "I--"
OTHELLO- "I'll dance with you, Ainett."
MUNROE- "Drop dead, Othello."
OTHELLO- "Say something quicker, next time, dear."
Track 23 - Tesselate - Alt-J
ASTOR- "Mum-- I didn't take y'for the 'Alt-J' type--"
AINETT- "Oh, yeah-- some of those Urbanshade detainees travellin' out here left me with some music! Wonderful tastes that lot."
ASTOR- "What'd you like to listen too before uhm... before.."
AINETT- "Ah... your father picked our music back then... never really was given time to consider that. When I was little though, I loved the radio-- I still like to think that's carried with me. I'm not picky about genres still... though i do have favorites."
ASTOR- "Oh?"
AINETT- "I'll leave you the cassettes, if you'd like? It's a lot of Black Keys, Tei Shi, Offspring, Fall Out Boy--"
ASTOR- "/laugh, sputter/ Fall out boy?"
AINETT- "Oh I LOVE Fall Out Boy--"
Track 27 - Get Close - CRX
OTHELLO- "Augustine, you and I should dance t'this one sometime, hm?"
AUGUSTINE- "Oh? I-- It's... different than what m'used too."
OTHELLO- "Too glitzy?"
AUGUSTINE- "No! No I just... instruments I 'aven't 'eard before... very... dreamy."
OTHELLO- "Dreamy.... y'hear that, Tavernkeep?"
TAVERNKEEP- "..."
OTHELLO- "Oh don't roll your sockets at me, luv-- anyways, Augustine, dance?"
AUGUSTINE- "/laugh/ Sure, let me take off my coat-- the lyrics're a lil' dower, aren't they?"
OTHELLO- "...."
Track 34 - From The Gallows - IDKHow
OTHELLO- "AWWH DARLING.... Our song..."
TAVERNKEEP- "The synth still scares me."
OTHELLO- "I told you, luv, it's all electricity..."
TAVERNKEEP- "Even the voice?"
OTHELLO- "Just the one! You're fine, I promise."
TAVERNKEEP- "I do like the song. Perhaps I am left easily frightened by the modern elements. Ha. Modern feels such an odd word t'use... futuristic feels more right, perhaps."
OTHELLO- "Words are words, and they're dumb, c'mon, dance with me, darling."
Track 40 - Hello my Old Heart - The Oh Hellos
OTHELLO- "Did that Crawley boy just show you sad shit?"
AUGUSTINE- "N-no, he 'elped... ah.. I just like these ones... 'specially this one... the words... the words were nice."
ASTOR- "I like it as well, Augustine... I remember listenin to this back in... oh... 2014?"
AUGUSTINE- "Twenty-- a century's passed? Hah-- I-- I need a minute, I think."
OTHELLO- "You get used to it over the years, darling."
Track 44 - Just One Dance - Caro Emerald
MISCHA- "God I forget how much electroswing y'fuckin listened too."
DOVE- "Mmm... watch your tongue, Mika. I didn't insult your butthole surfers, did I?"
MISCHA- "You really didn't say /anything/ about em... could've been thinkin' shit, were you?"
DOVE- "Besides the point, Mickey... I say watch how you speak about my tastes.... you...?"
MISCHA- "W-watch how I speak?"
DOVE- "VΓ½bornΔ, koΔiΔko."
MISCHA- "OKAY! This is a family show, reel it in, doll."
Track 48 - The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
CAYSE- "C'moooooon Terry Berry! I wanna see your hips shaking to this shit!"
TERRY- "I'm good, thanks."
CAYSE- "OH COME OOOOOONNN.... Where's that smile? Where's all that energy?"
TERRY- "Mmm... took it with you when you bore that hole into my chest, I'm pretty sure."
CAYSE- "AAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH-- Oh-- you are a /treat/, dear darling Terry."
TERRY- "Fuck off."
CAYSE- "Awwwwwhhhh... not even worthy of your favorite insult?"
TERRY- //Grumbles//
CAYSE- "You're just too much, blondie, my goodness."
Track 51 - Aristotle's Denial - Joe Hawley
QUERY- "You were gonna make a mixtape without me? //gasp// I'm hurt! I-I mean-- you as well, I'm sure but-- you get what I'm saying! Emotions! Emotionally! I'm wounded and heartbroken-- truly and deeply! I just wanted research partners in all of this-- you all get that, right? Augh-- We could have had it all together-- right? Hello? Is anyone there?.... please?"
Track 55 - Gods and Gangsters - Cosmo Sheldrake
ASTOR- "This is uhm..."
AUGUSTINE- "Haunting."
ASTOR- "Mm..... do we know who put this on here?"
AUGUSTINE- "N-no..."
ASTOR- "I.... Interesting songs. You sure it wasn't you o-or The Tavernkeeper?"
AUGUSTINE- "Positive.... maybe we.... maybe we just... ignore this. For now."
ASTOR- "Sounds good, yeah."
CW: Interrogation/Torture (Vaguely Depicted, Mostly Implied), Body Horror, Implied Drugging/Injection
"Itaque: ecce, in cubiculo pleno daemonibus, spiritibus, atque etiam angelo es. Non puto sermonem Latinum sermonibus arcanis aptum esse."
"Hic, praeter me, tres tantum homines Latinam sciunt: tu, deversor, et ille vir pilleo lato."
"Et confidis nos tres neque aufugituros neque omnia quae dixeris relaturos esse?"
"Confido me posseβut ita dicam, "Fugite urbem!"βantequam quis vestrum de ea re verbum facere possit."
"Bene. Redimus ad id quod rogabam: Angelus non esβtamen tam facile pro angelo habΔris. Cur?"
"....Urbanshade."
"You don't wanna make this easy for yourself, then?"
"AΕΎ se osvobodΓm, rozΕΓznu ti bΕicho aΕΎ k bradΔ."
"Mm. Right, well... while you're still coherent-- I suppose we should let you know: We got your little boyfriend in custody."
Happy new year! To another year trapped on the rig!
"What about all of you? A-any stories? People you think of durin' this season?"
"Sure let's just start a round table discussion."
"You started this, Tiras."
"Pah-- whatever... M'gettin' another drink."
"Do you carry wine in your selection?"
"Ah-- y-yes? I think so? Merlot okay?"
"Merlot is fine."
"...You have wings..."
A strange ghostly apparition can be seen at the door. It tries to grab the handle, but its hand simply passes through it. The being proceeds to shrug, and just go through the rest of the door.
Its voice sounds like it's coming from a transceiver, even coming with the squawk it makes when turned on.
"ΠΠΏΠΈΡΠ°ΠΉ, ΠΏΠΎΠ½Π΅... ΠΠΈΡΠ»Ρβ¦ Π½Π΅ ΡΡΠΌ Π³ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΡΠΈΠ» Ρ Π½ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ³ΠΎ Π½Π° Π±ΡΠ»Π³Π°ΡΡΠΊΠΈ ΠΎΡ ΠΈΠ·Π²Π΅ΡΡΠ½ΠΎ Π²ΡΠ΅ΠΌΠ΅. ΠΠ°ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠ° ΠΌΠΈ Π½Π°ΠΏΠΎΡΠ»Π΅Π΄ΡΠΊ ΠΌΠ½ΠΎΠ³ΠΎ ΠΌΠ΅ ΠΈΠ·Π½Π΅Π²Π΅ΡΡΠ²Π°β¦ ΡΠ΅ ΡΡΡΠ±Π²Π° Π΄Π° ΠΌΠΈ ΠΏΡΠΎΡΡΠΈΡ."
{"Try, at least... I think⦠I haven't spoken to anyone in Bulgarian in a while. My memory has been failing me a lot lately⦠you'll have to forgive me."}
"And uhm-- thank you-- though, I've always been told I have tendency t'mutter sometimes... forget my ramblings-- we're here t'drink, not for me to fish free therapy from strangers."
Typing a list here as well so I can ping people! lala
From left most to right most!
???? @outofcreativitytothinkofaname
Alma and Malachoir @pressure-operationrnr
Astor, Munroe, Ainett, and ??? @pressure-operationqna
Heatsuit @void-in-hazmat
Jester/Joker card Anon
And whoever else would like to show up! :}!
(I just drew who's previously interacted with the blog in some regard lol)
"Do you... remember gettin' here? That's always a good place t'start... If not... Tavernkeep makes a mean Rusty Nail... not much but I'm sure it'd help."
