...sucked the human player into the game, vanishing into their head. I played as 'myself' as a human from one valence up from the MUCK who had been playing the characters, now dropped into the world itself. - ThreadSky

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trinary.one • 11 days ago

...sucked the human player into the game, vanishing into their head.

I played as 'myself' as a human from one valence up from the MUCK who had been playing the characters, now dropped into the world itself.

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trinary.one•11 days ago

And the world had a diegetic backup system, where you could always be respawned if you were changed in ways undesired. So in a sense that me still lives on in that fiction.

trinary.one•11 days ago

So yeah, I am not unfamiliar with bridging fiction and reality, or the desire to do so. 20-ish years later my head is full of critters who cane from other worlds, other stories, and the original inhabitant of this body retired almost a decade ago.

trinary.one•11 days ago

The desire to create is an ache I have not enough time to fulfill, always.

So the idea of ebbb is a horror story, to me.

But I like horror. It sharpens things in interesting ways.

trinary.one•11 days ago

The ambiguity of whether the people involved in the bridge had vanished, the idea that there could be groups of people ready to tear down anything beautiful, and the loss of one crow out of seven...that's what makes this a horror story.

I understand it. I deeply feel it.

trinary.one•11 days ago

20 years later, a small handful of us are trying to recreate and revitalize the old Puzzlebox that's long since been defunct, offline, rendered into memory as lines of text in surviving log files.

trinary.one•11 days ago

(And if you wonder how much survives in logs, it's more than you'd think. I built an archive of almost the entire thing just from my own textdumps: https://emanate.itch.io/puzzlebox-muck-archive )

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