October “Interactive” fiction is back on this year!

Hey all! Last year I had to give it a miss due to real life happening too hard and too fast, but as a reminder in two weeks we’ll be back on for our otherwise-annual Halloween serial “interactive” fiction!

How does it work? Why the scare quotes? Well, I’ll put up a proper instructions post the night before, but in the meantime you can read 2022’s instruction post, or this twitter thread where I get into the nitty gritty of the mechanics. It’s not traditional pre-written IF (and has a lot of DNA from forum “Quest” threads): I put up a section, YOU make suggestions for the protagonist, and then I write the next section goes up taking those suggestions into consideration. Most sections are around 1000 words, and by the end you’ll have read and participated in a novella!

In the meantime, feel free to take a look through previous year’s stories, and get hype!

As an unrelated announcement, I recently released a monster-themed 1-pg Laser & Feelings RPG hack, Body / Horror! You can find it here to pick up and play for a few hours with a few friends, and it could be a fun Halloween activity!