I know it's unlikely such a major writing decision was made in response to fandom discourse, but the fact that Noelle will straight up murder-suicide Kris if you try to back out of the Weird Route in Chapter 5 feels like a pointed commentary on certain characterisations of their relationship.

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(3/4) Media that fails to achieve its creative goals in an interesting way is BETTER ART than media that succeeds prosaically – not merely by virtue of the hypothetical work it might have been had it hit its intended mark, or by virtue of its "ambition" (whatever that means), but its own right.

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A peek at a Fire Salamander; Dormant for most of the year, during breeding and spawning seasons water meadows and swampy areas briefly come alive with the lights of their fires, often mistaken for will o the wisps or corpse lights.

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when its fucking go time

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(3/3) That's why I find a lot of "trust the Fiction, always begin and end with the Fiction, never invoke the rules if it can be resolved in the Fiction" stuff misguided – it's discarding that metafictional anchoring and replacing it with vacuous maundering about how being GM is a Big Responsibility.

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