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I've been bopping in & out in between reading other things, but I did just finish book 3 and have downloaded book 4, for those keeping track of my DCC journey! I have a lot of chores/organizing/cleaning to do over the next week so I may make it through this book faster than the last one. We'll see!

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

there was a point during the first boss fight (no spoilers) where I walked away for like 2 weeks b/c I was irritated, but I picked it back up & as the book went on I felt like I could see which parts were deliberate and the point they were trying to make more clearly. I enjoyed enough to get book 2!

It's the sort of book that I definitely think could be fun to discuss if social media wasn't currently a shitshow of media illiteracy and defensive fandom and I don't feel like wrestling with either side right now. But I really am interested in the wide range of non-gamers I see reading these!

They feel so aggressively niche gamer to me, if you are a non-gamer reading them I would love to hear if you find any of that tedious or overwhelming. I'm having a hard time imagining what the experience would be if you're not a big gamer, but they have CLEARLY broken containment in a huge way.

Hello! I am so thoroughly not a gamer I think the last non-puzzle game I played regularly was like Kirby's Dreamland on Gameboy, and I tore through those books! At first the videogame world-building stuff was really distracting, but eventually the characters and truly BONKERS plot won me over.

Yeah, the characters are super vivid for sure. I like that in book 3 I'm getting to see more of the other crawlers now, too! but some of the video game stuff was even distracting for me, so I really wondered how folks were dealing with it!

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I'm sure I missed a ton of references! But yeah, it was probably around book 3 that the videogame stuff stopped pulling me out of the story and just became backdrop.