Talk:Developer Diary/@comment-7706473-20140713100406

Woah - this makes me far more disposed to the state of the world and certain beliefs, if it were to be true. And I found it just after coming off the tale end of something that made it click just perfectly. An excellent story to finish the night too, even if I'm a little disappointed that it's apparently been up for awhile and I hadn't noticed it.

Because I continuously fear that people who read the comments before reading stories exist, I'll avoid saying anything too bluntly, but I was very much expecting the horror to entirely come from 'strangeness' in the world itself. The implifications of weird things being developed by early players/modding communities and overzealous pvpers is already a creepy enough idea as it is, but the twist at the end comes out of nowhere and is yet so entirely congruent with the rest of the pasta that you kick yourself for not picking it up earlier. It's entirely the best kind of mindfuck, the one that leaves the reader grinning because, like a good puzzle, it makes sense.

Also, and a little unrelated, I think the word 'skybox' might just be my cellar door. It's exactly what it sounds like; how perfect is that?

In closing, I suppose I'll have to go looking for some of those well-hidden 'anomalies' that I can only wonder at. Makes me ponder just what other easter eggs survived the rapid-patching process...

Digitalis obscura, for it's wordplay which works on multiple levels and a world built that somehow manages to work on multiple levels, even if the temperature system undergoes a few changes then and again.