The Sable Spirits

the sable spirits

a souls-like gm-less lasers/feelings hack about killing giants and wondering about your purpose.

the sable spirits is a hack of Lasers and Feelings by John Harper and War in the Year 3000 by Ben Roswell.

dark souls is an inherently queer experience. you, a character formed from nothing and dirth of any history, are suddenly called into the world to enact a singular purpose with a pre-determined path by a society with whom you are unfamiliar. to stray from this path is to commit treason against the state, yet you cannot help to. the empire is crumbling to pieces, the masses stuck in an endless present, and the rulers exist solely to commit violence against the innocent. you can never truly end this society, yet you can subvert and undermine this society to liberate the people from the constraints of undeath. simultaneously, enacting the narrative grants you immense power, and you look sick as hell commiting it. and, occasionally, the tools of the imposed narrative can be repurposed towards the narrative destruction. in short, dark souls is the queerness of gaming.

well, traveller. do you wish to progress and take on the mantle of warrior of flame? or do you wish to throw your sword to the ground and seek the illusory passage, running headfirst into the long and dark? this is your choice traveller... a choice you must make well...