“John, I can get you close to Arthur, but you’ll be in someone else’s head.”
“Larson, I will put a fragment of an elder god in your head, but he’ll be an absolute pussy.”
i am considering the sickening possibility that john's truthful answer to arthur's question "where did you go [when yellow was in my head]?" is "in larson's head"
A concept sketch for the King in Yellow's design that developed into a portrait.
Hooded Crow John and Red-backed Shrike Arthur
So when “miles to go before I sleep” was first mentioned, I recognized it immediately. Had no idea just how important that reference would become.
Spoilers through Part 26: Bedrock.
…and it was to make a gift for them. If I hear this friendly helpful rotting head slandered one more time istg
“Surely you can’t expect me to climb a 30ft pole and take the already loose eye out of a dead man’s skull!” -the guy who scaled a vertical shaft dozens of feet tall, shimmied around the exterior of the nth floor of a mansion on a cliff during a storm, has survived an elevator drop from inside a hotel to the bottom of a massive underground cavern, stumbling into an eldritch meat pit in the bowels of another world, and being thrown down a mineshaft, and has killed “I don’t know, seven?” people, two of which by shoving his thumbs through their eyeballs.
Y’all will do fuck all for Yorick smh.
Actually, I decided I should have it written down. Here: (if you can decipher it🙃)
Ah yes, the brainrot is developing nicely
arthur lester shivering like a feral chihuahua and covered in blood
You know you’ve got a premium blorbo when he literally dreams about getting a restful sleep.
I hope Larson and Yellow(?) have a similar bonding experience to Arthur and John but more fucked up and evil
What about cameras in front of the Arthur’s eyes that feed the video to the John in another room wearing a vr headset?
Dumb idea: escape room, Malevolent-style.
The puzzles are built for two people; one person is blindfolded, the other isn't allowed to touch anything. Non-blindfolded one has to tell blindfolded one what they see and what to do next.
Bonus points if some Eldritch Nonsense is introduced every so often via holograms, sound effects, animatronics, etc.