Kevin

Now it says “only 10”.

This quote from the experience @bcbishop had certainly seems relevant:

“When they stop believing you, that’s when you’ll know it’s begun.”

@jakeo @coryphella I think you’re both getting at an interesting tension (no pun intended) in immersive theater. You have to get participants to walk some kind of line between “fortune favors the bold” and don’t be a dick (to both participants and the actors), often without actually telling the people attending where that line is. Sleep No More…[Read more]

But if he knows Bryan is an influencer with good credibility with us, would the blackmail ever really work?

Noah would have to think we’d believe Bryan’s version of events over his, right? And now Noah’s risked his own credibility by trying to blackmail someone people probably trust.

I was getting vibes of this near the end of Tension, but the recent Lust stuff, specifically with DLB has really got me thinking about Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

The book deals with three guys who create a conspiracy dealing with secret societies as something of a thought exercise. It starts out as a game for them, but they get deeper…[Read more]

Ha, they manage to screw with us even when they’re not trying to screw with us.

Genuinely unnerved by the painting showing up in those two places.

@mistere In the book the room is just called “Apartment” and you can actually see the painting on the left hand page.

This is the one I got. It’s actually pretty prominent on the pages with the notes in the book.

Tangentially related, did anyone end up in the room that the book lists as ‘The Void’? I mostly lurked on the Tension forums, but never saw it mentioned in anyone’s recap.