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Boundary Pass
Boundary Pass is an interactive suspense novel that follows the experiences of a park ranger in the winter of 2003. Set in an isolated mountain pass known for its body-count, struggle to keep the mountains from claiming another life.
The demo currently has the full prologue and first chapter, and is just over 9.5K words.
So this is super important I saw on reddit and cog
https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-free-choicescript-game-hosting/9250/798
Yeah anybody on dashingdon needs to see this
Over 50 authors and artists from the Interactive Fiction community here on tumblr have come together to offer an array of prizes for a focused donation drive! We are aiming to raise as much money as possible for five families who are currently trying to evacuate Gaza. These fundraisers have been vetted by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi (thank you for your hard work!)
RULES:
Please understand that these prizes are pulled blind and assigned at random. You cannot pick or choose which writer/IF or artist you get. It is completely randomized. You get what you get-- even if you aren't familiar with the writer or their game. Artists and authors also have the right to refuse your request at their discretion. Please be respectful and remember that our main goal and focus here is fundraising for these families.
Ticket submission form:
if you are an IF author or artist and you're interested in participating in a charity-drive raffle, please check out this form! we are aiming to do one big raffle with a single prize pool, where people submit proof of donation in exchange for a raffle ticket.
prizes we are currently considering would be things like a spicy snippet or a cosy snippet, etc. potential sketches from artists or a rendered bust, etc. and we'll allow the authors & artists to dictate how much/what exactly they're comfortable offering. donating to multiple gfm will mean more entries into the raffle. we'll be offering a list of potential gfm to donate to (we're going to try and focus on ones with low funds) & any artists/authors offering prizes can specify if they want to sponsor specific gfm.
this is subject to change! we are just trying to gauge interest right now and see what we can put together on our side of things which depends entirely on the people willing to contribute & if we get enough interest.
here is the google form for artists and authors to fill out:
this was inspired by the book auction for gaza as well as the many other art raffles i've seen here and on twitter.
thank you everyone for the response so far! i want this form to circulate for a bit before we move forward with anything else, and in the meantime i'll start compiling a gfm list (i'm hoping we can focus donations and really help a handful of fundraisers or even get one fully funded?) as well as putting together forms for getting a ticket.
i will be organizing a discord server later for contributors, if you filled out the form i'll be in touch :-)
My very dear language friend, k̓łm̓píc̓a, is requesting mutual aid while she fights stage four cancer. She's an amazing woman, and she's someone I can really call a matriarch of my community. Please support her if you can, and share if you can't.
Tagging some folks to help boost this: @neechees @northern-passage @nabulsi @furiousfinnstan @littlestpersimmon
How you been?
Good! Life’s been incredibly chaotic for me in the last two years (mostly in a good way). BP is a story I only ever really feel drawn to in the winter when I’m home in the mountains (for reasons that I think are pretty self explanatory shfjfj). Just gonna ramble for a sec but honestly BP is a story I only ever wrote when I was in the worst headspace of my life, when I was incredibly lonely and grieving with no support system. I’ve been kind of procrastinating making a decision about this blog, bc I dont think I’ll ever finish Boundary Pass (and I hope I never do). It’s not a story I feel like I need to tell now. Maybe I’ll revisit it one day in the future when I can look back that time without the fear of falling backwards, because there’s a lot woven into BP that I do love, but! Hi hello that’s how I’ve been dhjfjg
Posted this, scrolled through the blog, and that day in the future might be sooner than I thought, I do love this project sm dhfjjf
How you been?
Good! Life’s been incredibly chaotic for me in the last two years (mostly in a good way). BP is a story I only ever really feel drawn to in the winter when I’m home in the mountains (for reasons that I think are pretty self explanatory shfjfj). Just gonna ramble for a sec but honestly BP is a story I only ever wrote when I was in the worst headspace of my life, when I was incredibly lonely and grieving with no support system. I’ve been kind of procrastinating making a decision about this blog, bc I dont think I’ll ever finish Boundary Pass (and I hope I never do). It’s not a story I feel like I need to tell now. Maybe I’ll revisit it one day in the future when I can look back that time without the fear of falling backwards, because there’s a lot woven into BP that I do love, but! Hi hello that’s how I’ve been dhjfjg
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During the next following weeks, we will feature interviews of queer creators. Discussing their inspirations for their projects and experience as IF creators, we want to shed a light on their journey.
Here are our month’s featured authors, please check out their works and join us in supporting them!
Kit, Author of The Northern Passage
It’s cold, so cold, and your head aches, your ears pop, water choking your throat and nose, all you can do is watch as the sky gets farther and farther away from you. Clawed hands grab at your ankles, your legs, your arms, pulling you down, tearing at your clothes and piercing your skin.
You convulse violently, your body struggling to expel the water from your lungs as more floods in.
Staring up into the fading light, you feel your body grow weak, giving in, sinking now, your blood churning all around you in the water. A hand grabs at your throat, caressing a thumb over your skin, pulling you down as the dark water turns red.
The Northern Passage is an 18+ horror fantasy CYOA, where you play as a hunter sent up north to investigate a series of missing people along the border of your home country and in the port cities of the Blackwater. Working with your handler, Lea, you will travel north and discover that things are far worse than you ever could have imagined, and that there is something powerful lurking out in the deep, dark sea…
Anna, Author of Wayfarer
When your mercenary work backs you into a corner, you take the only option available and accept a contract: to travel to the city of Velantis and steal an ancient artifact said to be blessed by the gods. Simple, right?
But Velantis holds more than you bargained for. Gathering a ragtag party of malcontents and renegades from across the city, you must navigate enemy factions, meddling guilds, and escalating political tensions. Your choices will ultimately determine the city’s fate – and the fate of every person who lives there.
Wayfarer is a dark fantasy interactive fiction game. You play as a Wayfarer, a member of an order of warriors born with magical immunity in a world dominated by magic. It is currently in development. The full game will include three acts and a total of 14 chapters.
Jupiter, Author of Supernova: Renegade
In the distant future, Humanity has mastered space travel and joined the intergalactic community run by an alliance known as the Galactic Board for Interplanetary Peace. While none of the GBIP species have their own military, there is still a need for a peace-keeping force. Thus, the Arbiters were created.
You have just joined the Arbiter ranks—whether you wanted to or not. This prestigious position comes with a fair amount of perks, including your own ship and crew. However, it’s also the most dangerous job in the galaxy. When a small colony faces an attack from an unknown source, you’re sent to investigate. What you uncover reveals a danger far greater—and far closer to home—than you could have ever expected.
Brigid, Author of Event Horizon
[EVENT HORIZON] is a science-fiction-horror story, set far into a future in which humans are not alone in a hostile galaxy.
The Failsafe has been activated. War lingers on the horizon. Five years ago, you were one of the last people to be selected for the Failsafe and Final Stand Programs. You were frozen in time, placed into orbit at the edge of the solar system. And now, you’re hurtling through space towards a ship you’ve never seen before. The Nomad. A secret mission beyond the edge of the solar system, to stop the Enemy before they can begin their second invasion. A suicide mission. A point of no return.
Read more about Event Horizon here. Play the Demo here or here. Brigid is also the author of Lost Birds (link) and CLOSEDLOOP (link).
Abigail, Author of Willow Creek Run
It’s finally summer and you’re spending it in your childhood home of Willow Creek. It’s a small, idyllic town in mid-America filled with rolling green hills, winding streams, and miles and miles of horse country. Most of the population learned to ride before they learned to walk, and you are no exception.
You’ve agreed to help out at your father’s training and boarding stable because he’s fallen on hard times and can’t afford the summer help he needs. He’s been missing payments to the bank, and if he doesn’t pay in full soon they’ll either take the farm or he’ll be forced to sell out to his old rival, Alexander Mannor.
Your only hope is to win the town’s summer-end competition, Willow Creek Run, and use the prize money and prestige to pay your father’s debts and save the farm. The problem is that you don’t have a horse of your own to enter and you haven’t competed in years.
Just when it looks like all hope is lost, a mysterious horse turns up on your father’s property with no sign of an owner and a wild look in its eye. Could this be the sign you’ve been looking for? You have the whole summer to train your horse, make friends (or enemies!), and do your best to prepare for Willow Creek Run.
Read More about Willow Creek Run here. Demo: TBA
Maxim, Author of Werewolf Noir
Set in a modern fantasy world, Werewolf Noir is a dark mystery where you’re looking for the person who killed your kid. If it’s for justice or revenge is up to you. You play as a relatively new werewolf after having lost everything and everyone, now living in the city of Reaver, corruption runs deep through the system and the richer someone is the more corrupt they are. Meet interesting characters and ro’s as you put the puzzle pieces together, get adopted by a tiny little pup or kitten, and pick out your new career path (private detective, bounty hunter, criminal) to make ends meet as you navigate this world and try to keep the wolf inside contained.
Read More about Werewolf Noir here. Play the Demo here. Maxim is also the author of Ichor: Awakening (TBA) and A Hero’s Job (TBA)
Jess, Author of The Black River
Somewhere, somehow, you lost your memories. You’re aware that–whatever it was that happened –it involved chanting cultists, and horrible serrated knives, but unfortunately none of those nice gentlemen are around to explain what’s going on to you. Oh… and also it seems that whatever they did with the aforementioned chanting and knives tore a hole in the fabric of reality and opened a gateway from the world of the living to the Underworld.
Which you fell through.
And now you’re stuck, despite your best efforts, on an antique ship from several centuries ago, with a crew of dead sailors and a motley assemblage of others from the living world. You don’t know what’s going on back in the world where you’re supposed to be, but you know that it can’t be good.
In order to get home, you’ll have to help sail the Will-o’-wisp across the length of the Black River, uncovering truths that change the entire way you view the world and fighting villains whose ambitions extend to the very act of deicide.
And you’d quite like to get your memories back, while you’re at it.
Nell, Author of Body Count
Your life isn’t going how you’d hoped. Despite having big plans when you graduated, you’re stuck in a dead end job and a crappy flat with zero romantic life to speak of. All until a friend convinces you to join the cast of a new reality TV show.
The premise is simple: 12 singles are sent to a villa on a tropical island and they live there together for a month. After 28 days, the couple who is voted by the other islanders as being most likely to withstand the test of time will win £500,000. In addition, the couple with the highest body count will win £500,000. Total prize pool? £1,000,000.
In this context, “body count” refers to how many people you’ve slept with… right? Well, that’s what you think when you sign your contract. Turns out, though, that not all of your fellow cast members will be using that definition to get to the prize.
Fall in love, win big money, solve some murders and try to stay alive.
Heather, Author of Jade Empire: Shadow of the Lotus
Legend tells of the Spirit Monks; servants of the Water Dragon, shepherds of the dead, warriors without peer. Though their order was all but wiped from existence forty years ago, they are slowly but surely rebuilding themselves. Young warriors from across the Jade Empire dream of joining their ranks.
You are no different.
You are the newest initiate of the Spirit Monk Order; raised in the idyllic Two Rivers and trained by a living legend, you are a martial arts prodigy. As the junior member of the Order, you travel the Empire, dealing with lost and vengeful spirits. But shadows of something far more sinister lurk on the horizon, and it’s up to you and your allies to unravel the dark mystery before it’s too late…
Arthur Heming (1870-1940)
The world you live in. Credit: TheAllSeeingDill
new(ish) jacob geller video! check out his fear of depths video too, which i’ve shared before. two of my favorite fears to explore in fiction 👀
what is it about hiking that just makes you feel like the happiest you’ve ever been, like wow i love my body i love my friends, i love trees and grass and little crayfish hiding under rocks in the river. wow dude i just love hiking.
