Coming to Stay for a Few Dark Nights
over 7 years ago – Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 08:16:11 AM

Happy Halloween! We have hit another major stretch goal, another awesome, awesome addition for Bluebeard’s Bride! You’d think we should be pretty much done being surprised by how much support you’ve given us, but it continues to amaze and astonish every step of the way. Thank you all!

Checking in to the Vacant Hotel Unlocked at $72,500 

The hotel’s neon sign screams its vacancies out into the night outside your window. You lean back and drop the blinds, turning them to try to keep out the pink light, finding only limited success. The light slips into the room as a strange, odd vibrancy. A disgusting hue splashed across your bedspread and your legs.

The room is a bit tacky—floral wallpaper, some pastoral scene framed on the wall, a diamond patterned red and brown bed spread, blue carpet—but that’s not what has you awake when you should have gone to bed already. It’s the array. The symphony of things in your brain. The smell of the place, some strange metallic tang that stings your nose from time to time. The sound, a humming, a buzzing in the walls, as if they were infested by ever-flowing veins of insects. The way the light from the windows plays off the picture on the wall, seeming to sometimes create new figures amid the natural scene. The light in the bathroom flickers on and off, and you can hear loud thumps outside from what you must imagine are other guests...though it always sounds like it’s the same footsteps. Though the hotel is supposedly empty of guests, save for you.

That chorus of noise, smells, sights...it steals your sleep from you. It calls to you. It makes your skin tingle like a spider crawling gently over your body. It makes your heart beat faster like a lover with a knife.

You came to this hotel by invitation. You were greeted by the man at the desk as an honored guest. You were told that the Proprietor is eager to meet you. And you were told that there are others here who would love to meet you, as well.

Why wait? Why hold off? You can’t sleep, anyway. So you might as well meet your fellow “guests”…

Vacant Hotel is the fourth playset for Bluebeard’s Bride. Because we’ve reached this stretch goal, we’ll write the whole thing up—approximately 20 pages of tools, tweaks, and tone, to take your game of Bluebeard’s Bride into this alternate setting. Vacant Hotel is all about the horror of a woman, the Guest, coming into a strange and empty place to discover the depths of depravity within her own soul...and the power those depths may grant her. The playset will include all the necessary information to adjust Bluebeard’s Bride for those changes, including a switch to one of the Sisters to suit the new setting.

Vacant Hotel will be released as a PDF to all backers of $20 or higher, and will be included in the Book of Mirrors.

And it’s that time again—new stretch goal time! 

Stretch Goal #20 - $87,500 - Touring the Correctional Facility

First day of your new job. You arrived pristine, well appointed. Professional. Clipboard in hand.

You weren’t sure what you’d expected to find, but not these hollow faces. Not the bruises. Not the haggard, empty looks. Not the guards with yellow eyes and yellow teeth and hands on their batons. Not the walls that whisper to you as you pass by, that echo with screams long ago spent.

You’d thought all the stories were just that: stories. They couldn’t be true. Despite all of those stories, this place had a reputation for helping prisoners, for fixing them. Allowing them to better themselves and become productive members of society. That’s what you thought you’d be helping to do—fix broken souls.

But now your mind flits to the nightmares you’ve heard. The prisoners, beaten into silence. Their heads shaved. Their lives taken, and their bodies hidden.

You took this job to make a difference...but now you must wonder: what happens here? And who, truly, is the Warden?

If we reach this stretch goal, then we will write Correctional Facility, a Bluebeard’s Bride playset. This playset will be about 20 pages long, and will introduce the changes and tweaks necessary to bring Bluebeard’s Bride into this setting. The dirt-covered mirrors of the Correctional Facility show the faces of the upstart, unacceptable women sent here to be cared for and reshaped into proper citizens, for everyone’s sake. 

Mirrored Wine Cellar Reward tier list CORRECTION:

When we posted the Mirrored Wine Cellar tier we listed an extra book in the list. This tier does not contain both the LE corebook and regular corebook. You get everything from THE MIRRORED BEDROOM level, but with a special, limited edition hardcover version of the Bluebeard's Bride core book instead of the standard edition, as well as a beautiful ring to use during play, a copy of the Tarot of Servants, and a special silk-print Bride sheet to track her tokens. Sorry for any confusion! 

The Infinity of Mirrors

It’s amazing that we’ve unlocked four whole playsets so far, and with your continued support, we can unlock the final two! As always, thanks to all of you and to the awesome community that you are! Thank you for supporting us, and please—let others know why you like Bluebeard’s Bride!

Happy Halloween, Enjoy Monsterhearts 2!

Today, on all hallows eve we would like to point you to the launch of a very influential game, Monsterhearts second edition.

 

Check out this amazing game about the messy lives of teenage monsters, now entering its second edition. Evocative, groundbreaking, and queer. I couldn't recommend it more! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/averyalder/monsterhearts-2

Monsterhearts was one of the original, groundbreaking works that made us all realize what the Powered by the Apocalypse engine could for for roleplaying games. It's a huge influence on Bluebeard's Bride (as well as virtually every PbtA game Magpie has produced). Please go check out this exciting new addition, and help Avery bring Monsterhearts to life in new ways!

Getting a Strange Education
over 7 years ago – Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 01:41:53 PM

$65k! 18 stretch goals hit! A whole new book unlocked! Again and again, we’re surprised and amazed with how awesome you all are, and this is no exception. Thank you so much for all the support! We’re so excited to bring to you still more Bluebeard’s Bride excellence!

Admission to the Boarding School Unlocked at $65,000 

It was a bit of a walk here from the train station, and the cold tore through your woolen overcoat like it was a sheer nightgown. You crossed frozen mud and snow-covered dirt roads to get to these stone stairs, and you walk up them with trepidation. The broad doors are hunched below an archway missing its letters so only “Academy” is legible. You push against their weight and pass inside.

Busts of the great authors and patrons of the school line one wall. Silvered candelabras erupt from all the way up the staircase. Works of art, framed in black and gold, lie scattered around the entry hall as if haphazardly placed wherever there was space. The entire room bears an air of stillness and cold.

The sound of light, tinkling, bell-like laughter floats to your ears from down one of the hallways. Students? They shouldn’t be here during winter break. You arrived early specifically to settle in before they returned.

The sound of shod feet sprinting across stone, this time from the other side. There must be some students who couldn’t go home for the winter. You wonder when you’ll meet them.

The laughter again...this time hoarse, cracked and broken, more like the braying of a donkey. It startles you, the change.

And then you feel the eyes upon you from above, peering through the banister of the second floor. Piercing, brilliant blue eyes swimming amid a pale white face framed by jagged, greasy black hair. You return that gaze for a moment before you blink, and the boy is gone. If he was ever there.

A chill passes over your skin but you dismiss it. You are here to teach. You will not be subdued by simple fear.

You hoist your bag and proceed up the stairs, and try to ignore the sounds of feet and laughter.

Boarding School is the third playset for Bluebeard’s Bride. Because we’ve reached this stretch goal, we’ll write the whole thing up—approximately 20 pages of tools, tweaks, and tone, to take your game of Bluebeard’s Bride into this alternate setting. Boarding School is all about the horror of a woman, the Teacher, coming into a place where she has power and is supposed to act as a teacher and matronly figure, while also being the source of a hunger and “corruption” for those she is meant to serve. The playset will include all the necessary information to adjust Bluebeard’s Bride for those changes, including a switch to one of the Sisters to suit the new setting.

Boarding School will be released as a PDF to all backers of $20 or higher.

And, for the same stretch goal... 

The Book Of Mirrors Unlocked at $65,000 

Imagine a book.

You open it, and on the first page, you find a strange mirrored surface. You see yourself in it, but you’re different. You’re wearing different clothes, and your surroundings are changed. It’s you, for certain, but a different you. A warped you. Your palm graces the page, and in the blink of an eye you’re in the page, in the mirror, looking down at a different book, with a different mirror in its page, and a different you on the other side. An infinite hall of mirrors, each one warping you, each one showing you a different version of your own horror. All ensconced within a single book.

Because we’ve reached $65,000, we’ll be putting together The Book of Mirrors! The Book will be another hardcover, 8” x 8” tome, fitting in with the core book and the Book of Rooms. The Book of Mirrors is a collection of playsets, each one meant to take Bluebeard’s Bride into a different setting, with a slightly different set of issues, but still the same core horror of Bluebeard’s Bride. So far, we’ve unlocked Dark Carnival, Condemned Asylum, and Boarding School, and each one will be included in the Book of Mirrors. It will have at least the 60 or so pages for those three playbooks, and might have more depending upon how many other playsets we unlock.

Everyone who backs at least $20 will get a PDF of the Book of Mirrors; you can add on a hardback copy for $30 to any pledge that includes a physical book. Domestic shipping is free, and international shipping is $7. 

New Reward Levels 

To make things easier on you, we’ve added new reward levels including the Book of Mirrors, so you can just update your reward level to these if you want to easily add a copy of the Book of Mirrors to your pledge. If you’ve already backed at either The Kitchen, The Bedroom, or the Wine Cellar, you can easily just shift your pledge to the mirrored version to add a copy of the Book of Mirrors.

The Mirror Room - $110 

Back at this level and you get everything from THE KITCHEN level, as well as a hardcover copy of the Book of Mirrors.

That includes the Book of Rooms PDF, the Book of Mirrors PDF, the Core Book PDF, the hardcover Book of Mirrors, the hardcover Book of Rooms, and the hardcover Core Book.

The Mirrored Bedroom - $130 

Back at this level and you get everything from THE MIRROR ROOM level, as well as a set of customized Bluebeard's Bride dice, a set of 8 different tokens to track loyalty or disloyalty, and the Deck of Objects.

That includes the Book of Rooms PDF, the Book of Mirrors PDF, the Core Book PDF, the hardcover Book of Mirrors, the hardcover Book of Rooms, the hardcover Core Book, customized Bluebeard's Bride dice, a token set, and the Deck of Objects.

Mirrored Wine Cellar - $180 

You get everything from THE MIRRORED BEDROOM level, but with a special, limited edition hardcover version of the Bluebeard's Bride core book instead of the standard edition, as well as a beautiful ring to use during play, a copy of the Tarot of Servants, and a special silk-print Bride sheet to track her tokens.

That includes the Book of Rooms PDF, the Book of Mirrors PDF, the Core Book PDF, the hardcover Book of Mirrors, the hardcover Book of Rooms, customized Bluebeard's Bride dice, a token set, the Deck of Objects, the limited edition hardcover Core Book, a ring, a silk-print bride sheet, and the Tarot of Servants.

And now, time to reveal our next stretch goal—another playset! 

Stretch Goal #19 - $80,000 - Charting Bluebeard’s Legacy

You were raised by your mother your whole life, and your father...he was a topic to be avoided. A dark thing, a thought you weren’t allowed to think. But you always wondered. You had to know. Until one day your mother told you the truth of her time in Bluebeard’s manor, and how she ran from him, monster that he was. How she couldn’t share the story with any others, for fear of his power and influence casting her down and destroying her. How yes, you are his child, but she never wanted you to explore that legacy.

Except now...now Bluebeard is dying. And he has sent executors of his will to find you...for he names you—his son—as his heir. And you must know. You must know.

So your feet carry you to his manor, following the steps your mother, the Bride, must have tread once before. And you will walk inside, her own ring of keys in your trembling hand. And you will find your father, and whatever dark fate waits along with him.

If we reach this stretch goal, then we will write Bluebeard’s Legacy, a Bluebeard’s Bride playset. This playset will be about 20 pages long, and will introduce the changes and tweaks necessary to bring Bluebeard’s Bride into this setting. The aged mirrors that hang in Bluebeard’s house yearn for the face of a new generation to fill their frames, whispering for the Son to ignore his mother’s warnings and take up his father’s lordly mantle.

The Manor, Adorned

We’ve unlocked so much—including a whole new book!—and we still have plans for even more awesome to come. We’re thrilled with how much we get to do with Bluebeard’s Bride, thanks to you, and we’re so excited at the prospect of doing even more. Thank you, as always, and please keep talking about Bluebeard’s Bride!

Beyond the Barred Doors
over 7 years ago – Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 08:10:39 AM

And there it is! Another playset unlocked and added to the bounty of Bluebeard’s horror!

We’ve said it a lot so far, but we never tire of saying it—you’re all awesome. Thank you so much for your amazing and continued support, for helping us to unlock so much so fast. We’re so excited to put together these playsets for you!

The Condemned Asylum Opens Its Doors at $57,500

The rusted metal doors hitch when you pull on them. Just a moment. But then they come open with a screech. The latches and locks on the door stand out, like strangely arranged facial features on the grey and orange door’s surface.

Dirt covers linoleum floors inside. At the top of the wall, you see a speaker box framed by cobwebs. Behind smudged reinforced glass sits a young man dressed all in white. He appears too clean for his surroundings. His hair too slick. His uniform pristine. He is reading a book with yellowed pages, not watching you until you come closer. His voice is tinny as it comes through the metallic circle set into the glass.

He welcome you to the asylum. He says he hopes you find it hospitable. He disarms you with a kind smile, but his cracked and bloody fingernails wrap impatiently against the cold desk.  

Somewhere past the barred doors on either side of the orderly’s booth, you hear a sound like the wind passing through cracks in a wall. Like a scream of something pushed past humanity.

You step towards one of those barred doors, and push it open. A tray of syringes, full of multicolored fluids and arrayed like a rainbow, sit atop a rolling cart. A cell lies ahead, and through a grimy window, in the dark beyond, you see something move.

You hesitate. Icy metal clutches your heart. Your feet step backward. You could leave now. You could go.

But as you turn around, the orderly looks back at you. He’s come out of his booth and he stands behind you, smiling still with a mouth like an ivory graveyard. He puts his hands on your shoulders, and reassures you.

Now now, he says. Nothing to fear. Everything will be okay. And he pushes you inside.

The Director is waiting.

Condemned Asylum is the second playset for Bluebeard’s Bride. Because we’ve reached this stretch goal, we’ll write the whole thing up—approximately 20 pages of tools, tweaks, and tone, to take your game of Bluebeard’s Bride into this alternate setting. Condemned Asylum is all about the horror of a woman, the Patient, caught between hallucination and truth, with all those around her telling her how insane she is, no matter what the truth may be. The playset will include all the necessary information to adjust Bluebeard’s Bride for those changes, including a switch to one of the Sisters to suit the new setting.

Dark Carnival and Condemned Asylum will be released as a PDF to all backers of $20 or higher. And, if we do fund the Book of Mirrors, then all unlocked playsets will be printed within.

And, with Boarding School on its way at $65,000, it’s time for a new stretch goal…

New Stretch Goal: #18 - $72,500 - Reserving a Room at the Vacant Hotel

The vacant sign flickers overhead as you stride towards the front doors, bag in your hand. The clerk at the desk smiles too broadly, with too many teeth, and signs you in. He tells you that you are the guest everyone has been waiting for, and offers you a complimentary mint and turn-down service. His bellhop, the same mad grin splitting his face, is ready to take you up to your room, leading you over stained and crusted carpets, up the creaking stairs. He mentions that the Proprietor eagerly awaits your company later tonight. Along the way you pass pictures of pleasant vistas, marred by single bizarre fragments—a flowery meadow broken up by a naked man with the head of a bull standing in the distance; a crystal clear lake, with a body lying still and pale upon the far banks. And this place, it radiates...it hums...with a power. A vibrancy. Something that gets into you, beneath your skin, and calls to you.

Dare you listen?

If we reach this stretch goal, then we will write Vacant Hotel, a Bluebeard’s Bride playset. This playset will be about 20 pages long, and will introduce the changes and tweaks necessary to bring Bluebeard’s Bride into this setting. The elegant mirrors of the vacant hotel echo a vision of the perfection and power awaiting the Guest on the other side of sinuous, profane rituals, if only she gives in to her own perverse nature.

Time Aplenty for Fright

We’re only just entering our second week of the Bluebeard’s Bride Kickstarter, and we’ve already come astonishingly far. We’ve transformed the Book of Rooms into a 90 page atlas to the manor’s horror; we’ve fleshed out the Tarot of Servants to cover every tarot card, a full 78 individual pieces; we’ve expanded the Deck of Objects to include 55 total artifacts of the manor’s crimes and horrors; and we’ve unlocked two whole playsets, with a third, and a whole new book—The Book of Mirrors—on its way.

As always, thank you, so much, for your incredible support. Let’s keep Bluebeard’s Bride going, and make it as amazing as it possibly can be! Please keep talking about it, sharing it, and letting people know what you think of it!

Adorn Your Walls
over 7 years ago – Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 09:18:32 AM

As the fourth day comes to a close, you have pushed us past our fifteenth stretch goal.

Fifteen stretch goals. In 4 days. That’s beyond belief.

Thank you all, so much, for your incredible outpouring of support. We’re so proud that you have so much confidence and interest in what we’ve done, and we can’t wait to show you how great these books will be. 

The Beauty, Frozen Yet Unlocked at $45,000

The beauty of Bluebeard’s Bride, now available to adorn your very own wall—what refinement! What rapturous visual perfection!

Because we’ve reached this stretch goal, we’ll be making art prints of the five beautiful chapter images available to all of you as add-ons!

The art prints will come in 6” x 6” and 12” x 12” forms, printed on archival-grade Hahnemühle German Etching rag paper. This paper has a matte surface and slight tooth, making it a pleasure to touch while still rendering the art in exquisite detail. Each piece will have gold accents applied after printing, bringing it as close as possible to Rebecca’s original work.

The 6” x 6” prints will be $35, and the 12” x 12” prints will be $50. Shipping is $5 domestic and $10 international for any order of prints, no matter how many you order.

The Dark Carnival Welcomes You at $50,000

Your feet drag you across flattened grass and mud. A faint murmur of laughter trickles between the flaps of the tent near you. You keep your eyes steady, forward. Unwavering. Somewhere above you, a body twists in the wind. A rope snaps tight. Skin slaps against skin. But still, you keep your eyes forward. Eyes forward.

The clown comes forward to meet you. The Ringmaster’s right hand. His smile is painted on his face in blues and greens, a mix of lines and lips. You feel dizzy looking at it. He extends one gloved hand toward you, and you can do naught but notice the brownish smudges all along the seams. But you take his hand anyway, and he leads you into the shadows of the tent behind him. As he takes you to the Ringmaster, you feel eyes upon you, carving you up, and you wonder...what will become of you here?

Dark Carnival is the first playset for Bluebeard’s Bride. Because we’ve reached this stretch goal, we’ll write the whole thing up—approximately 20 pages of tools, tweaks, and tone, to take your game of Bluebeard’s Bride into this alternate setting. Dark Carnival is all about the horror of a woman, the Showgirl, coming into a new job and encountering its strange and grotesque culture. The playset will include all the necessary information to adjust Bluebeard’s Bride for those changes, including a switch to one of the Sisters to suit the new setting.

Dark Carnival will be released as a PDF to all backers of $20 or higher.

It is time to reveal another two new stretch goals—another playset, and something even cooler…

Stretch Goal #16 - $57,500 - Getting Committed to the Condemned Asylum

You’ve come to this place of locked doors and dirty padded walls as a last ditch effort to investigate and keep it from closing, despite what the review board wants. You want to find out what is happening to the women committed here, the poor souls trapped in lightless cells, strapped down to beds or forced into rough straight jackets. Are they being helped? Or is the review board right? To find out, you must talk to the Director. But as you pass into this place, through dank, stained corridors and into rooms full of strange, murmured words without clear source...as you come up against orderlies and nurses who deem you, too, to be in need of help, who hold syringes filled with vile fluids, ready to pierce them through your skin...you wonder: Can you trust anything you see? Can you trust anything you hear? Can you trust your own mind?

If we reach this stretch goal, then we will write Condemned Asylum, a Bluebeard’s Bride playset. This playset will be about 20 pages long, and will introduce the changes and tweaks necessary to bring Bluebeard’s Bride into this setting. The shattered mirrors of Condemned Asylum will reveal the nightmares and manufactured realities forced upon the Patient to help cure her hysterical ravings.

Stretch Goal #17 - $65,000 - Arriving at the Boarding School

The winter snows fall faintly outside the windows as you enter these ornate halls with your bags. You’ve been brought to this all-boy boarding school as a new teacher for the coming semester, and you thought you’d settle in before all the students had come back. You can imagine what it would sound like with countless students roaming the halls, passing between classes, chatting with each other. But for now, it is still and cold. Except for the fleeting impressions you get of eyes, watching you. Of a boy, dashing behind the black iron banisters above. Are there students still here, you wonder? And are they watching you with fear? Or...something else? Perhaps...perhaps you should find the Headmaster.

If we reach this stretch goal, then we will write Boarding School, a Bluebeard’s Bride playset. This playset will be about 20 pages long, and will introduce the changes and tweaks necessary to bring Bluebeard’s Bride into this setting. The graffitied mirrors of the boarding school will reflect the Teacher’s struggle to perform her duty and tend to the young men in her care without corrupting them with her feminine presence.

Also, if we reach this stretch goal, then we will now produce a full book collecting these playsets—the Book of Mirrors. This book will contain all three playsets unlocked so far—Dark Carnival, Condemned Asylum, and Boarding School. The book will have the same hardcover, 8” x 8” form factor as the other books. Everyone who backs at least $20 will get a PDF of the Book of Mirrors; you can add on a hardback copy for $30 to any pledge. Domestic shipping is free, and international shipping is $7.

More Treasures of the House

There are plenty more awesome things still in the pipeline, so please, stay tuned and keep talking about Bluebeard’s Bride! Your continued to support is making all of these awesome plans possible!

Cables and Annuli
over 7 years ago – Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:58:03 AM

Another morning, another two stretch goals, another show of surprising and amazing support from you wonderful backers. You just continue to impress, astonish, and amaze us. 

Haunting the Wires Unlocked at $40,000

Can you hear it? The buzz, buzz, buzz in the walls? Almost like a parade of beetles, like the house has veins full of hard carapace and fluttering, membranous wings?

Of course, a manor such as this would have all the latest of modern luxuries, no matter how antiquated it appears. Electricity, and access to the wider world through the safety of a screen. Your husband, in his efforts to care for you, may have taken some measures to ensure that the content you find on the other end of the screen is proper for one of your delicate temperament, but these are only for your own good, yes? Wouldn’t want you to see or hear something that would upset you. Wouldn’t want you talking to undesirables, or people who will only cause trouble. We all know you need to be protected.

With this stretch goal unlocked, we’ll create Roll20 overlays for Bluebeard’s Bride, to make it easy and simple to play the game online over Roll20. We know that playing online is convenient and one of the most common ways of playing today, and we want to make Bluebeard’s Bride available how you need it.

We’ll work on other digital materials to facilitate online play, as well, including releasing PDFs of the Deck of Objects and the Tarot of Servants to everyone who backs at least $20. That way, even if you can’t exactly deal yourself cards, you can be inspired by the content on those cards for your online games. 

Finding the Rings Unlocked at $42,500

The rings sit in your hand. Only bits of metal and shiny rock. They mean nothing, you try to tell yourself. They mean nothing.

But they scream up at you from silent “O”s, screaming of your husband and what he has done. Who he truly is.

For who would have worn this ring of rose gold and pearl, arranged to look like a racing horse’s mane...besides the woman you’ve seen in the pictures on the wall, standing next to her favored steed and smiling like the world had only warmth?

Who would have worn this ring of platinum with a triumvirate of diamonds glinting at its top, like a trio of stars cresting a constellation...besides whoever so carefully set up the observatory, took care of its telescopes and star maps, and stuck those notes, written in your husband’s hand, promising the sky and the stars with love, to the walls?

And this third ring...so much a mirror to the one upon your own finger...you’ve seen it before. That translucent figure who awaited you in the bedchamber. Her fingers of dust and bone reaching out to you. Your name erupted from her lipless, tongueless black maw. And your eyes caught upon the ring...this ring...echoed in ghostly memory upon the spectre’s hand.

With the Rings unlocked, we will add the final three cards to the Deck of Objects, completing it at 55 cards. Those three additional cards will be deluxe renditions of the rings of Bluebeard’s prior wives, along with dark tales of those women and the fates they suffered.

And as always, we must now reveal more stretch goals…

Stretch Goal #14 - $45,000 - The Beauty, Frozen

What is more elegant than a framed piece of art, a frozen fragment of beauty trapped forever upon your wall? There can be no question. If we reach this stretch goal, we’ll make available as add-ons art prints of the five beautiful chapter images in the Bluebeard’s Bride core book. The art prints will be available in 6” x 6” and 12” x 12” forms, printed on archival-grade Hahnemühle German Etching rag paper. This paper has a matte surface and slight tooth, making it a pleasure to touch while still rendering the art in exquisite detail. Each piece will have gold accents applied after printing, bringing it as close as possible to Rebecca’s original work.

Stretch Goal #15 - $50,000 - Buying a Ticket to the Dark Carnival

You’ve been hired by the Ringmaster to join his cavalcade of freakish wonders and obscene delights. As you approach the collection of darkened tents, like strange pointed hills jutting up from the grass, a chill passes through you. What will you find in this place? What will it be like to work here? What awaits you in the dark recesses inside each tent? And who is the Ringmaster...truly?

If we reach this stretch goal, then we will write Dark Carnival, a Bluebeard’s Bride playset. This playset will be about 20 pages long, and will introduce the changes and tweaks necessary to bring Bluebeard’s Bride into this setting. The funhouse mirrors of Dark Carnival will explore the twisted and warped trials the Show Girl faces in the workplace.

The Abyss Beckons Onward

You’ve all helped us to come so far by being so awesome, and we’re incredibly grateful. We never expected this much support, this quickly, and we can only express our thanks by making this project as awesome as possible. Please help us to keep improving it by letting other people know what you like most about Bluebeard’s Bride, and how far we’ve come!