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each Scrybe deserves its own Kaycee’s Mod-like expansion to their specific gameplays and aesthetics. we only saw Leshy’s and PO3′s for extended periods of time, and even those two felt very short. Leshy has the eponymous Kaycee’s Mod. we deserve an endless mode for Grimora, PO3 and Magnificus.

if the world was perfect, they all would get extended versions of their respective games

i feel like seriously describing junji ito's horror works as simply "wouldn't it be fucked up if this happened" is dumb because it's such a vague description that most other horror works can also be described as that. For example:

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if your house suddenly started creating new rooms and changed its dimensions on you?" (House of Leaves, specifically The Navidson Record)

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if the doors, windows, and your parents suddenly disappeared out of nowhere?" (Skinamarink)

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if a clown in a sewer started killing kids?" (It)

among others.

Not to mention, most of Ito's works do have deeper meaning to them, specifically targetting japanese culture. This video touches on his shorter works, but even his larger works have metaphorical meaning.

Junji Ito describing his mindset on writing Gyo as "man it would suck if sharks had legs" is real funny, but it's also critiquing Japan's war crimes in WWII; the origin of the "legs" being from World War II when the Imperial Japanese Army was trying to create biochemical weapons cannot be a coincidence. Hellstar Remina is about a hostile alien planet, but it's also an allegory of fans turning on a girl because of something beyond her control, reminiscent of idol culture. Hell, even Uzumaki, probably one of his greatest "WTF" horror works, is also about a pair of teenagers being unable to escape their hometown, unable to expand their horizons in the outside world. they just keep going in circles, unable to escape.

I don't know, at this point describing Ito's works only being "wouldnt it be fucked up if this thing happened" is starting to feel like "the curtains are blue because the author likes the color blue" but like. for horror

Happy Halloween season! Here's another stab at my own take of Carrie White, based on her book description. I'm super happy with how these turned out! I'd love to tackle some of the other characters in the book eventually, especially Margaret!

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Concept that won't leave me alone;

If Grimora had the OLD_DATA at the start of the game, I reckon she'd go for a dungeon crawler. Imagine, you wake up in darkness and in the distance sits a candleabra and some decrepit tombstones. An ominous voice speaks from behind them, narrating your journey and giving cryptic hints, slowly becoming less encouraging and more frigid.

The crypt is divided by checked tiles and the candle will only reveal ones in your nearest vicinity. For every step you take, ghosts and ghouls in the darkness will move- hostile or otherwise- and will engage if you move onto the same tile.

It's essentially a reimagining of her segment in Act 2 and the board she has in the finale, just given a more 3D spin compared to Leshy and P03's tabletop gameplay. Once you actually get to her, you see her chessboard and the pieces she's been controlling to battle you. Now that you've bested her ghouls, she wants to add you to her collection-

oh shit how cool would it be if you're roaming around and you find a ghoul with the name from your last run :0c maybe instead of having a death card, they offer you one of the cards from your old deck?

This shits so clear in my minds eye, but illustrating it has been a pain. Now that it's out in written form, maybe I can focus on the other concept gnawing on my corpse?

random magicks npcs thoughts / head canons i have floating in my head

i like the idea that James was friends with Lonely before james was evicted. Lonely's trial of being completely isolated was a result of this, and the isolation trial would also serve as a means of preventing Lonely from forming friendships with goobert and the future ruby mage. Magnificus isn't lying when he says he does this to "unlock the full potential of the mind," but he is still very much doing it because No Fun Allowed

Magnificus' enmity towards James was passed on to Amber when she was introduced to the game. I think students of Magnificus practice normal studies before facing their "finals," but Amber promptly vivisected before he could even gauge her personality due to his disgust and paranoia with the previous ruby mage

the students are drawn towards different types of art; Goobert paints to take after his master, James and Lonely enjoy dance, Amber is more of a writer/poet, since thinking about words was the most she could do without a body

I like to imagine that P03 is a huge fan of AM from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream because he also wants to wipe out all life, but it isn’t powerful enough to do so, so he just fantasizes about doing that to the other scrybes

Various sample images from Inscryption, 1986 for Commodore 64 and Apple II microcomputers. This is very real and not just a re-imagining of Inscryption Act 2. I recommend listening to the soundtrack of Act 2 while viewing these

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