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Stigmata

by vileidol

2024

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About the Story

"try & watch a horror film from the point of view of the monster." - Three Poems, Sam Sax

you are a vampire in the house of a vampire hunter. you are a corpse in the bed of someone painfully alive. you are a dirty, filthy thing in a room with the sun rising behind you and your lover's father in front of you, crossbow pointed at your chest.

girlies (gender neutral) we are full on playing ship of theseus with nyehilism’s originally breathtaking Sugarcube Twine template. 

made for  queer vampire game jam and smoochie jam

cw: light blood and gore, violence and death, queerphobia, religious imagery, suggestive content.


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Entrant - Smoochie Jam 2024

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Be careful who you are kissing..., March 8, 2024
by manonamora
Related reviews: smoochiejam

What do you do when you, a vampire, are faced with a vampire hunter pointing a crossbow at your chest, while, incidentally, in the bed of his daughter? Or better yet, what can you do?

Stigmata is a Twine piece about survival, identity, and relationships. You play as a vampire found in your lover’s bed by her vampire hunter dad, fighting your way to escape (and the pointed insult coming your way). As your standing in this fight becomes uncertain, memories of your Sire and of your meeting with your lover intertwine, painting a picture of who you are… and how you got into this sticky situation. There are 3 endings in this story, with some path insinuating maybe your lover’s implication in all this.

The writing is quite emotionally charged, and gruesome at times, especially during physically demanding sequences. The depiction of the PC being a filthy thing who corrupted the virtuous daughter and which should be hunted down was disconcerting, but evocative of the usual rejection and derogatory depiction of queer individuals.

I didn’t always feel immersed in the story, probably because of the often confusion shift in timelines and interlocutor. But I liked the conversations with the Sire the most, those were pretty interesting.

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