The Starless Sea

They take an unspoken vow to no longer tell their own stories in reverence to the ones that came before and to the ones that shall follow

Chandler’s great but Hammett’s better. He was an actual detective.”

You get to live in a game,” Zachary points out as they return to their conversation, to a topic he knows he’s discussed with Kat before. “For so much longer than a book or a movie or a play. You know how you have real-life time versus story time, how stories leave out the boring bits and condense so much? A long-form RPG has some substance to it, leaves time to wander the desert or have a conversation or hang out in a pub. It might not be the closest thing to real life but pacing-wise it’s closer than a movie or a TV show or a novel