Talk:Mortis/@comment-25021327-20150719033836/@comment-24877498-20150719053045

I am super happy that you have read my pasta, and I'd like to address some concerns that you had that I may not have brought accross too well.

1: The beginning, and if you wish to interpret it as such, was meant to read like a game review of the fake horror games review site, and that's why I attempted to get away with addressing the reader directly.

2: There are many things that could be interpreted as deeper meanings, such as Dex -- if you remember, the protag's friend -- feeling oppressed by his own mind, feeling backed into corners of his own volition, and visualizing the ways he would look and how it would affect other people after he was gone, and other things I really don't feel like spoiling completely and leaving up for interpretation. I do think that the story reads better the second time around.

3: The things that freaked the protag out were more emphasized by the fact that he was playing it, and that would further creep anyone out if they themselves were playing it. Also, the story wasn't meant to be freaky or even terrifying, but rather just creepy, and tense. Hell, since a year after writing this and being pretty dissociated with the story and myself, I got pretty tense about what would happen to the protag and his friend. This is all the aftermath of the fact that I was initially going to develop a game to go along with the pasta, but decided against it. I might get back to it, though.

4: I'm glad that a second opinion was able to verify that I pretty well stayed clear of the basic CreepyPasta cliches, aside from addressing the reader, which I SOOORTA worked around, but I can understand it bothering some people. As this was my first ever written work of fiction that wasn't, like, for school or with a prompt, or whatever, so I'm glad that it turned out well. Hell, if I get inspired again, I'll be sure to write up another one.

Thanks for the input!

Happy reading!~