Recent content by Shiny Phantump

This one felt pretty dense-- I ended up breaking it down to a few different reading sessions like a multi-chapter fic. The idea of telling two parallel stories is an interesting and ambitious one, but can also be a very difficult thing to execute upon. Doing so always risks that the reader...

This was a really compelling read. I also think it's very tuned to my particular tastes, I love that kind of "identity horror" note, as well as characters who struggle to let go of their past. Maybe it's a bit early to call it given I've only read one, but I fully expect this to be my personal...

A oneshot written for the Weird and Wonderful oneshot contest, where it won second place in Ditto Flight. The original contest version had some serious "submitted one minute before deadline" grammar errors/typos, which have been ironed out for this release. I've also made some tweaks to help it...

"I guess I should give some closing thoughts in case I, you know, don't wake up..." If that happened, would she even know the outcome of the game? Or would she just wake up back in her cabin with memories of the first two days? God, no one back there would ever believe this had happened to her...

[[*despite losing some cops.]]

[[The paranoid corners of my brain, waiting for the other shoe to drop and the fuckshit to start, has contemplated "what if rolecopcop and cop and joatcop are all possible town roles because we're all fucking inverse and there's more than usual so that the town can figure it out the hard way...

[[Sharing the boiler sympathies, Pano. That sucks. Also, gameplay: Forgot for a minute that ties no longer result in abstention, was worried for a minute that Eon's vote would (probably accidentally/unplannedly) make it possible for Free to swap her vote from me to Eon to tie and abstain but...

[[ you should also give me my h back in my name :) ]]

[[I was definitely a bit quick to back off last night but part of the reason why is that I figured it didn’t change my actions. Plus, I thought the Watcher call would hopefully force him not to take any night actions in the event we lack a town roleblocker because I mixed it up with Reporter aka...

Morgan’s pupils dilated, surprised and cowed. “In a setup like this… I think I’d call that a counterclaim?” It was a belated one, maybe, but that was consistent with his guardian’s last playstyle. Morgan’s bruised ego put explanations for how she could still be right on her tongue, but the dual...

Morgan was, of course, not personally concerned that she might be a condemner. She was, however, starting to dread the possibility that Gabriel was a Condemnee. Nocitlālin's condemnee in particular. Although her Guardian had gone over the last of these game, one run by Odile's buddies, and it...

[[No that’s definitely on the table. I don’t think we’ve ever seen cop sanity in a TR Mafia game before and that disclosure was the only reason I considered it. If Jackie’s right and I am a rolecopcop then a bastard sanity modifier would be one way to make it something other than a more...

Morgan would’ve paled, if she could’ve. That was a very plausible explanation for why the flavour name for her role was like that. “Oh shit that does actually make sense.” And it meant she really should’ve shut up. She’d been running off the wiki page that said a Rolecop was about equivalent...

“It was pretty damn clear.” [[Also if you’re not on Bright Skies forum theme that black text is just /Gabriel is. I know I could edit the quote to fix it but in the spirit of authenticity I’m leaving it. Also I didn’t claim a power role because I’d turn up dead, didn’t know how powerful my...

Morgan cackled with glee, while her guardian stopped to check the rules of the game. The box-standard rulebook they had access to clearly didn't reflect the way Satan was running things, unless she was (mechanically) insane. After all, the very second sentence of the article about her role...