Please enjoy this interactive fiction fantasy!

October 3, 2014 5:53 PM

With Those We Love Alive by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie
posted by bile and syntax (12 comments total)

This didn't work for me in Chrome.

Worked in Firefox though. Pretty darn Porpentiney! Good stuff. Weird stuff.
posted by aubilenon at 6:33 PM on October 3, 2014

It also failed for me in Chrome but worked fine in Safari.

I think the instructions at the start about the marker and the headphones add a lot to the experience.
posted by bile and syntax at 6:35 PM on October 3, 2014

Having a bit of experience with Porpentine's other work I feel like I need to ask, how viscerally horrifying is this one?
posted by LogicalDash at 6:55 PM on October 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

It's deliciously icky.
posted by bile and syntax at 7:07 PM on October 3, 2014

I think more viscerally horrifying than the one where you had to sit in the chair and see visions, but less than the one where the spaceship takes liberties with you.
posted by johngoren at 7:10 PM on October 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

Trigger warning: "violence, drugs, child abuse, reference to self harm"

That said, I really enjoyed this. It's worth it to draw the glyphs on your skin.
posted by glass origami robot at 8:14 PM on October 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Well that was quite nice! In Linux, on Chromium 25.0.1364.160, I got errors when it tried to play sound, but I was able to figure out the URL and play it in another browser, e.g.:

http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/empress/friend.mp3

(Otherwise the links and transitions appeared to work properly.)
posted by XMLicious at 8:26 PM on October 3, 2014

odinsdream, which parts gave you trouble?
posted by picklenickle at 8:59 PM on October 3, 2014

<3
posted by Drexen at 7:19 AM on October 4, 2014 [2 favorites]

I'm on my phone right now, so I'll have to check this out on my computer later. Howling Dogs made me fall in love with Porpentine. I wanna have, like, 10,000 of her babies.
posted by malapropist at 5:36 PM on October 4, 2014 [1 favorite]

This had me going around and around in circles and ending up nowhere. I must be doing it wrong.
posted by kinnakeet at 4:54 AM on October 5, 2014

Kinnakeet, did you try sleeping? Passage of time matters.
posted by bile and syntax at 5:19 AM on October 5, 2014