The Wardens remember honor and sacrifice, words that have little meaning to the rest of us. They lay down their lives for those they have sworn to protect. We all need to believe there are such men in the world. I needed to believe I could be one of them.
𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 ┆ 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐫 ┆ 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐰 ┆ ♡ 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧 “Let me say it plain: I loved someone and I failed at it. Let me say it another way: I like to call myself wound but I will answer to knife.”
making a bard durge who before realizing who she was, believed that she had no story, she’s just a vessel to tell other’s stories & then when she does realize who she is … she’s like oh i have a story… but it’s not a good one
For the record I feel like saying “Dreadwolf is going to suck because they laid off Mary Kirby” is like… really dramatically missing the point of what’s going on here.
The next game has been in alpha for nearly a year now. Kirby’s work on the game as a writer was probably mostly finished. Which does not make this better. If anything, it makes it worse.
The layoffs aren’t terrible news because a game we’re looking forward to might be worse because of them. They’re terrible news because people who have devoted years of blood, sweat, and tears to making the game good (including the person who wrote one of the two characters on which they’ve been hanging the entire marketing campaign for said game thus far) have been axed now that the company has decided it can probably get by without them.
The quality of the game when it finally comes out is irrelevant here. If it’s amazing, it won’t make this any better, and if it’s awful, it won’t make it any worse. What matters is the people whose labor made it exist at all are profoundly undervalued, the industry as a whole is broken and frankly abusive, and I wish everyone in it some good labor organizing.
