There really is not nearly enough time in the day to accomplish all that we desire to accomplish here at the Calamity. Nay, unfortunately it is all to often the case that the timer runs out well before we have completed even the most modicum of tasks selected for the day. As we continue to evolve the infrastructure of the Calamity, working to raise our ability in developing attractions for your enjoyment, we must work to find the balance between this and the actual development of attractions! This is none too easy. And yet, here we are with another issue!
First off, you will notice the lack of an update from the Groundskeeper. There is no Gazette this week! We have made the difficult decision to withdraw the Gazette from production until there is more to share from the Necropolis. If you booked an event there, please be assured all events are happening as scheduled. We just won’t be posting about them for some time.
In place of the Gazette, we are sharing the latest installment of House! If you are on Social Media, particularly Threads for this, you will find the chapters being published there every Sunday. We are providing links here for your convenience.
Elsewhere, everything else remains the same! The latest chapter of A Vampire’s Vengeance is available, The Place of Madness by Merlin Moore Taylor continues our excursion through themes of confidence and fear, and of course, your cinematic weekend awaits you in this week’s Letterboxd List.
Let’s get into it →
What attractions were in active development this week? Only the usual, I’m afraid: House, A Vampire’s Vengeance, and Bus Driver. Structurally, our in-house team of mechanics (me) is busy scaffolding a system by which all the various production departments and their communications can be unified. Simply put, I’m building a fucking plugin to make all my Obsidian Vaults talk to one another so workflows adopted in one vault can be integrated into all the others. It is no small feat.
Hence the point above regarding evolving infrastructure. We (me) are constantly building and refining systems to harness the chaos happening across all the many projects in process. The end goal is to automate much of the record-keeping and backing up workflows and standardize the attraction development process, so when a new story arises, the infrastructure is in place so I can spend at least 90% of my work time writing and designing.
So please, I do genuinely hope you enjoy keeping up with A Vampire’s Vengeance, Bus Driver, and now House, as it may be some time before other attractions are completed and ready for your attention.
Have you started reading House? You’re not that far behind! Here’s the latest chapter on Threads, with all the others linked in the replies:
The youngling speaks! Our elder vampire is no longer alone, though it remains to be seen if the youngling will be an asset or a liability to the coming journey. Read the latest chapter of A Vampire’s Vengeance here:
We continue with our theme of fear and confidence in The Place of Madness, by Merlin Moore Taylor. We hope you enjoy this short yet interesting presentation.
This week in cinema, we present to you … more found footage! Hooray! In all seriousness—well, as serious as backstage at a carnival can be—we enjoyed this series of films so much, we couldn’t help ourselves in sharing! It is our desire you appreciate the terror as much as we did.
on sale now
A traveling merchant finds himself in quite the predicament when he manages to win a duel, leading him down a dark path. A tale from the Odds ‘n’ Endings Boutique.
When last we rode with the bus driver, they had faced off with a wanderer … er, sort of. You can catch up with Part VI here. Now they’re on the highway and things are looking bleak from an existential standpoint. How is the bus driver handling this? Let’s find out.
