I’m playing a woman, yeah, but she’s not very knightly and it’s pissing Arch off. Come on, Arch, fall for the charming, roguish, morally ambiguous rake…
Westbound Travel (post-apocalyptic, surreal fantasy-western) [Updated 6/28/25, approx 180,000 words]
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Lol all I can say is good luck! I hope you didn’t kill Prince Geb at the very least.
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Actually I think he liked my character’s little defiance more than she did.
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Oh, he fully did. He thinks the world is in its death spiral and doesn’t see the point of carrying on beyond entertainment of taking anything seriously.
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I liked this, it felt kind of clever. Personally I was never a fan of the souls games, but the theme fits really well in this format along with the surrealist stuff.
I like that of the choices and decisions you get to make feel really natural and fitting.
I liked that one of the options for naming your horse is ‘Glueboy’. and the gunslinger achievement, mwah, beautiful.
Glad I got to read it.
Ending stats stuff
Westbound: 59 Knightly: 54 Chulainnlike: 10 Noemi regard: 9 Styx regard: 30 Arch regard: 11 Passerine and Newt regard: 12 Path: west Arch or Passerine: Passerine Angelic’s regard: 5 Prophetic’s regard: 9 How you left Dridgen: violence
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I’m honestly immensely grateful for this comment. I had gotten distracted by other writing projects and somewhat despirited in this project. And your comment really inspired me to write a bunch today, so thank you, seriously!
Also, yay! I was worried very few people would choose Passerine and I am glad someone did
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No worries. Honestly I had a whole bunch of thoughts about it but I’m not even sure how to start talking about them. The writing was good though and I had to say something.
Passerine actually survived because I rolled the dice on that fight, but I was curious about them anyway so no complaints lol.
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Oh, yeah, there is legit a random chance element that only comes up if you don’t intervene in the fight. Thank you so much for the comment!
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