Grim Tales: Bloody Mary Session 1

I’ve got a new relative, Jackie! She called her auntie for help. I assume I’m the same person as in previous games and this is Brandon’s little sister and that somewhere John Gray is in a dungeon.

So right off the bat, this game is haunted as hell. Stuff keeps moving, the protagonist is finally noticing and commenting on the creepy shit:

Screencapture of Grim Tales Bloody Mary commenting on a small graveyard
Not a fan of the playacting graveyard.
Screencapture of Grim Tales Bloody Mary commenting on a human skull.
FINALLY we notice there’s a human skull on the premises. That head on a post back in The Wishes was driving me nuts.

 

So everywhere I go there’s haunted children trying to fuck my shit up. I’m so happy.

I wonder if the games are ever going to do anything about the fact that I have ghosts of twin murdered sisters that gave me a single clue once in The Bride?

(I’m not doing so great with story progression in this one, I keep having to ask for help)

Fun side tangent about Bloody Mary: In school around third grade I had a classmate swear her cousin had been murdered by Bloody Mary and I spent a fair bit of time confused between ‘but that’s literally impossible’ and ‘but why would someone lie about something like that?’ because I was 8 and not horrible and jaded by then.

Anyway, nothing about demon possession back then but that was Canadian Bloody Mary, not Russian Bloody Mary who I assume is much tougher.

Also the kids have been murdering the teachers and I have NOT been checking to see if they’re okay beyond ‘I hear some moaning’.

There’s achievements in this game and it does scratch that little ‘I done good’ itch in my head when it praises me for finishing a puzzle under a minute um, clicking on a meerkat. Yes. Keep praising me. PRAISE ME MORE. I am the best player ever.

Grim Tales: The Wishes Session 3

There were more corpses in this one. This one really leaned into Eastern European paganism, with shamans and totems and swamp witches, which I can really appreciate. Is paganism the right word? Anyway, shit went down.

I finished the game tonight and the bonus content (I really like the follow ups!) and here’s my last “The Wishes’ update!

I had a few goals in this one – I had to save John Gray from another wacky mishap, get my sister out of a crystal ball, and uh, evict a demon from my nephew. John Gray was off in Siberia being chased by bears (as one does) and I’m just so proud of him for not being in someone’s dungeon. He’s getting tougher.

The horrible puppet was never fully disposed of, but… perhaps one day that family will finally be safe. I wonder what happens in the next game, The Stone Queen. I’m sure nothing zany is happening to them now!

Screencap from Grim Tales the Wishes encouraging me to set a bridge on fire
“Napalm will solve this”

So the possession was pretty freaky! I had a friend watching me play and I do believe she screamed at this part:

Screencapture from Grim Tales The Wishes where a concerned family stands over a possessed boy
argleblargleatsouls

 

What I wished I’d screencapped: The demon bear I exorcised that turned into an adorable orphaned cub and the literal frozen corpse of the shaman standing outside his hut by the human skeletal remains that there is no real comment on besides ‘rub fish oil on his hand to get his flask!’. I don’t know what is up with the protagonist but she is cold as hell.

For the bonus content:

Screencapture from Grim Tales The Wishes which claims butterflies kill flowers
And I was like, bullshit.
Screencapture from Grim Tales The Wishes which claims butterflies kill flowers
And then the game was like ‘no it’s true’

 

Anyway, good times. I also played Bejeweled to save the world from a demon, proving I DO have the skills that will serve me well in the coming devil wars.

Grim Tales: The Wishes Session 2

First off, I used this to try out Twitch streaming and even with no viewers (and one spammer) it took a lot of the joy out of the game because I suddenly felt like I had an obligation not to fuck around. Well, we’ll see if I try that again. I prefer when I’m in a mood to keep trying the fire on all the puzzles.

Also pleased to report that fire was, again, a solution.

So I found the witch’s house (only the witch is a demon dude?) and after setting fire to him, in my charming way, I took a moment to reflect on the surroundings of his lovely cabin in the woods.

Screencapture of Grim Tales The Wishes that shows a cabin in the woods and what appears to be an impaled head
IS THAT A HEAD

 

IT DOES INDEED APPEAR TO BE A DECAPITATED HEAD JUST KIND OF CHILLING THERE. It is not interactable and Auntie has absolutely nothing to say about it.

As Luisa was forced into a crystal ball, I chuckled fondly. “Oh Luisa,” I thought, “you just can’t stay out of trouble!”

Meanwhile, finally got an update on her husband. He has been lost in Siberia. I assume he’s in a dungeon again.

Still unable to use any weapon I acquire on the horrible living puppet and there was a second one with moving eyes that kept following me… thankfully it was just a puzzle and I’m safe now but that’s gonna haunt me.

As a final update, I realized I could open up the map and click wherever I wanted to go without having to manually navigate each time like I’d been doing this whole game and after a pause to consider my life choices, I shut off the game and decided to go to bed.

Grim Tales: The Wishes Session 1

New game! Okay so apparently SHIT IS GOING DOWN with my nephew Brandon who no longer lives in werewolf castle but now lives in the suburbs (my sister really gets around since the first game where she was being sacrificed by our evil wizard father) and it’s up to me, his loving aunt, to find out why he’s so moody and mysteriously elderly!

Well, after some investigating and attempts to find a use for a cat I have in my inventory, it turns out my nephew made a deal with a witch to get a piece of paper that makes wishes and his first wish was to bring this horrible puppet he owned to life and it’s offering to help me.

I tried using the axe, the bullet, and the fire on the puppet and then I tried using the knife but that just cut its strings and now it’s telling me to follow it.

Now I understand why my nephew, before being torn from this world, declared: ‘I MUST CONFESS. I AM GUILTY. I MUST PAY FOR MY SINS’

He knew what he did, with this puppet wish. I salute you for understanding your crime. I will burn down your house as I leave to make sure the evil is thwarted.

Anyway I quit today’s session when that horrible puppet wouldn’t stop staring at me from the corner of the screen.

Grim Tales: The Legacy Session 4 (Final session)

Game update: With luck I found someone’s credit card in a tree with the help of a chisel I got from a bag that was on a fountain in a hidden basement that I got down via a piece of bamboo I sawed off by the cliff edge!

I then used the credit card to break into the car’s glove box and which allowed the hot wiring of the car with the hex screwdriver that was in the glovebox!

From there I frantically scavenged in a bear’s den to find a coffee bean which enabled me to acquire a muzzle to use on a werewolf, which I proceeded to carry around in a sack before curing and releasing into the wild to live out its natural life.

And with that, I have saved my sister’s marriage.

Star Trek TOS: The Changeling

Okay so I was going to watch this after I watched the last episodes I posted about here but for some reason when I turned it on I couldn’t… understand a single word anyone was saying. It wasn’t an issue with the computer, I had the same processing issue yesterday with Tommy and Tuppence! What the heck, right? I dunno what’s going on with my auditory processing but I do not care for it at all.

So! I gave The Changeling another shot today and I really liked it. Properly creepy (plus added ‘humans are technically responsible for billions of deaths in space’ meta) and the added fun of Kirk logicking a computer to death. I’ve done that, I think. Or was that ‘downloaded a trojan’? One of those!

It did throw me for a loop – when Uhura started speaking Swahili (her birth language, right?) I thought they were going to go ‘ah! Her memories are returning!’ but… they just told her to keep reading in English? So that wasn’t what I was expecting at all from that scene. Or uh, any idea what happened to her memories.

It ending on a joke after the horrific ending of Charlie X (still think that was a good end) was a mood whiplash/delight. Delightlash?

“My son. The doctor!”

Partners In Crime/Tommy and Tuppence: Finesse The King

Had a devil of a time with this episode in that I suddenly could not figure out what anyone was saying. I had to turn on subtitles, which really helped.

So anyway, a good mystery! And not just because someone got murdered. I mean, theft mysteries are good too…

I like the mysteries where they seek it out themselves just to, well, do something because that’s rather novel and when Tuppence gets to shine because she is delightful. I sadly do not have any pictures to share of her outfits which included a marvelous purple cloche and her dressed up as Sherlock Holmes for a masquerade ball.

I have to admit some cultural references were lost on me, I’m not sure what a man dressed up in newspaper has to do with Alice in Wonderland but I really should read that book sometime and not just rely on the Disney cartoon.

There’s a lovely bit in here where Tuppence is trying to dig for info about women who cheat on their husbands and Tommy is just happily saying Tuppence is his best friend (as for why she can’t cheat on him with his best friend). Watch her, Tommy. She’s creative.

Also genuinely upset by murder and death in this episode, which is a change from how mysteries usually go where it’s all a sort of delighted ‘oh a puzzle!’. That said, it was sad seeing Tuppence so sad and shaken.

Among Us: First Session

I got to try Among Us for the first time when someone on a server I’m in invited me! Oh boy, it was fun! I played several rounds and was only the imposter once (and due to walking in as THE OTHER IMPOSTER killed someone and being the one caught with the body was immediately ejected before I could even kill anyone meant I never got to be the true murder alien I knew I could be) and I still got ejected a bunch. I’m pretty suspicious.

My favourite part was when I was failing to explain how the admin panel that let you see where others were in the building worked, it was declared ‘Green is acting pretty sus’

After I died, I declared ‘GREEN NOT SO SUS NOW, HUH’

The best thing was probably when a meeting/body was discovered and there were a lot more dead players than we actually realized.

Star Trek The Original Series: Miri, Court Martial, Charlie X

Miri

While I was interesting in seeing Kirk beaten to death by feral children and I liked them learning about what happened via apocalypse logs, the ongoing subplot of Yeoman Rand being jealous over a child and Spock being ‘logically she’s over the age of consent so get over it, Janice’ while Kirk was trying to act normal and Bones was ignoring everyone to inject himself kind of off-putting and WOW that’s a hell of a sentence you’re welcome.

In conclusion, episode had good points and ‘they made it weird’ points and every Star Trek fan I’ve mentioned watching this episode to told me it needed to be burnt to the ground.

Court Martial

Universal excitement from the Star Trek fans about watching this one, I enjoyed how about midway through it turned into Ace Attorney and then in the climatic scenes scenery was ripped from the floor and eaten whole without chewing. I am not wholly sure about the logic about the chess. I like that there’s a kid named after Kirk and her costume was pretty neat.

Charlie X

I was recommended this one as a better ‘weird feral child’ episode and it certainly was in the sense that I didn’t want to scrub myself clean after watching it. Important detail: Apparently 17 year olds serve on the Enterprise and Thanksgiving (I assume Canadian Thanksgiving) is an actual Enterprise holiday.

I did not care for Charlie, finding him to be an increasingly creepy little man and the final conclusion of the episode was very ‘oh. Well then’ that felt like vindication after I noticed the majority of his victims were simply women he happened to walk by.