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Greetings Program! This is where the mask slips, only a bit, and just for a moment.
Thank you so much for reading my silly little project. I want to start there before explaining the madness. If you came here first then I do suggest reading at least a few recollections before continuing here. If your online handle is Papa Meat or Wendigoon, then you’re welcome, and I’m sorry. But you should know you started this.
See on a recent episode of Creep Cast the boys decided to tear into two sentence horror, something I consider to be an underappreciated form with untapped potential. As a novice and previously unpublished author I’m far from the best person to tap this potential, but a childish urge that mostly left me behind in high school rose from within as I roared “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!” and I proceeded to go just slightly mad. Instead of sleeping for the better part of a couple weeks, like a man possessed, I decided to make an entire website to prove Wendi wrong, and maybe poke a bit of fun at him along the way.
What I got instead was an entire setting that’s alive in my mind. Characters with backstories and trauma still unexplored, new locations developing their own personalities as Duskwell grows inside the darkest corners of my mind. And even a new way of sharing horror, and new kind of ARG where you really become part of the myth. I haven’t coded anything in twenty years, but I remember enough to make something better than this cookie cutter template based site. It works, for the tourist trap. The overuse of site builder apps works to Duskwell’s advantage in the short term by giving a recognizable kind of nostalgic tone and giving the story and its unique format a place to shine and grow. I will be adding more content here, hopefully weekly. However I have much bigger plans for the next site, a forum where any story that follows the rules is included in the Duskwell multiverse, allowing users to add content, an AI companion to help guide you through the site, and that’s where things get interesting. That’s when Duskwell will start to write back, start to bleed more and more into reality till the line between website and ARG disappears completely. For that I need to dust the rust off my coding skills, and make a few changes to what AI is currently capable of.
So don’t expect anything big for at least a few months, but more is coming. I’ve found my passion. What’s yours?
ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS ON THIS SITE—EVEN THOSE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE—ARE ENTIRELY FICTIONAL. ALL CELEBRITY PERSONALITIES ARE IMPERSONATED…..POORLY. THIS SITE CONTAINS COARSE LANGUAGE, MY PERSONAL TRAUMA, A GOD WITH NO NAME, AND COGNITO HAZARDS, AND DUE TO ITS CONTENT IT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE!
Please only donate if you can comfortably afford to do so, I’m hardly a starving artist. That said if we get $1,000 in donations I’ll upgrade this from a joke of a website to a part time job, with consistent content and merch. There’s a few surprises already waiting under our town map.
9. “The Hymn of Teeth”
He wrote a hymn with bone and twine—
Each note a molar, each pause a spine.
When sung in reverse at three-oh-three,
The church bell tolls inside the sea.
10. “Amen”
His last sermon he wrote down his throat with a
rusted fork—
It ended with the phrase: “The town is the cork.”
He wept as his veins formed a map of the streets,
And the newcomers smiled with hollow repeats.