Our Bleak-Ass Writing Competition at the Ragged Verge of Spacetime

From imaginary games jam. OBAWCATRVOS (OH�baw�CAT�tra�vos) is a four�-player paper-based collaborative/competitive writing event which takes place at the end of the universe. Based on the review:

Spelunking the Soul

Perhaps it�s conceited to review the fruits of one�s own efforts, but given the other 3 humans still in existence are the authors, I am the only one left who can review it. My name is Bernardo Contrarius, and full disclosure I commissioned the writing of this interactive fiction.

It was all made possible by the creation of the first functioning time machine in 2066. In my youthful enthusiasm, I used the device to fulfil a lifelong dream. I plucked Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allen Poe from the heights of their respective careers and brought them together to collaborate on a single, definitive work of interactive fiction.

Unfortunately, in the process, I irreversibly destroyed the timeline leading to our now being trapped in the void, living in a milesquare field of gradually fraying reality.

But it was all worth it.

The result was Spelunking the Soul, the greatest work of interactive fiction ever written. Carroll�s unbridled whimsy and Verne�s scientific inquiry are tied together by Poe�s wonderfully macabre insights. The result is an epic work that spans the breadth of imagination and the depth of the human condition. The final choice is a moral and existential catch22 that leaves me torn to this day and will doubtless continue to gnaw at me until our little patch of universe collapses into nothing.

I give it 10/10. It�s sublime I just wish there were more people around to appreciate it!