[David-kyo]

Just started reading it, looks promising so far.

[Spann]

Just finished it. Thought it was really good, the tone in particular struck me. Good to see the magic/ethereal world being explored a little more, and the Engineers sound fucking awesome.

[Ghello]

Too long for a computer read, I'll probably just print it out later.

Dark Corners of the earth was fantastic, but really lost its sense of dread and overall fun when I started sporting a Tommy Gun with enough clips to kill a fish army.

[TheOrator]

Fucking fantastic.

[Solar Powered Walri]

Weird. As of yesterday I was just thinking "When's Yahtzee gonna do something new?" Come to the forums and BAM there ya go. Also, more Mythos is good. Good good. Reading now.

[AdamM]

I've never read Lovecraft, but the story seems to have a consistent tone throughout, so I didn't think he fell off the stylistically-referential wagon as he claimed.

Grim stuff, though ending was a bit shit.

[David-kyo]

All this Chzo stuff is starting to be more and more reminiscent of I have no mouth and I must scream...

'Twas an ok story but I sometimes felt it was a little bit dry, maybe more dialogues could have fit in there. Also, I didn't find the ending as shocking as it had perhaps been intended. The characterisation just wasn't strong enough for me to really care about the men's fate.

[Friend]

I just realised how much I missed reading Yahtzee's non-comedy writing.

[David-kyo]

Coo'.

Anyway, what the hell is the deal with these alien magicians? In Trilby's Notes, the beheaded corpse in the stairway room seemed humanoid enough and he was supposed to be an inhabitant of the Ethereal Realm. Maybe he and his girlfriend were guests there? That would be far-fetched and doesn't really explain his attire either.

[Solar Powered Walri]

That was pretty gruesome. I'm glad it explored more of Chzo though, which is something (someone?) that was left pretty much unknown as far as his "body" goes. Nice. But yeah, it doesn't really tie in with the body in Notes. Maybe Yahtzee's just making this up as he goes.

[Game Over]

I was surprised that Yahtzee said hadn't read any HPL book prior to playing Call of Cthulu.

I like it. Not bad. Nice touch on the details, though. Lot's of vignettes, pretty Lovecraftian.
It reminded me of that comment he made on Clive Barker's Jericho (the one about his eyes popping out of his skull when he couldn't really figure the plot out).
I don't know why, but I could picture this very clearly in my head.


I wonder if Clive Barker's Undying is Vista compatible.

This post has been edited by Game Over: 17 April 2009 - 11:06 AM

[Spann]

What's to say that the entirety of the population of the ethereal world are magicians? Just like we have different coloured skin, in the ethereal world there could be magicians and... non-magicians. Simples.

[Gobbler]

You bunch would have made for a beautiful Harry Potter fan crowd if only you had been born a few years later.

Edit: Fuckfuckfuck can't even go for one single sentence without fumbling a typo in.

Edit: Oh for fuck's sake, not even when I edit stuff?

This post has been edited by Gobbler: 17 April 2009 - 01:59 PM

[Thaluikhain]

Hmmm...thought the Hotel was built on Earth, got a shadow self somehow, and the couple were humans that had blundered in. The story mentions that all conflicts are done with magic, which they probably wouldn't be if not everyone had it.

The story was alright, though I think it'd be better not to be Chzo related...having the ethereal realm as somewhere moderately odd you can walk around in is a bit of a disappointment. I always cringe at mentions of the Ministry or STP as well.

As for writing like Lovecraft...he's using an old fashioned writing style, yes, but otherwise I don't think he was trying...probably a good thing, as most attempts fail badly. Dan Abnett sticking words like "non-Euclidean" and "cyclopean" and constantly unearthing ancient cabals/mosnters that have been manipulating the fate of the universe since before blah blah blah in his BL novels come to mind...though the latter became very common in BL and GW things a little before they gave up trying. Also, the Engineers seemed reminiscent of the Savage Morticians from BL's Dead Sky, Black Sun, by Graham McNeill, a bit before he gave up trying.

[Game Over]

At least the character was a tolerable 2-dimentional brit. I wondered weather my characters were in the right zone.
http://www.springhol...zes/marysue.htm
Got 17, which means I'm in the safe zone.




Found here:
http://badwebcomics....y-sue-character
Nothing special really.