IWUAaDNW: Party 5.2, 5.3

Along the way, I discovered an additional limitation of jumpscares, namely that the realism of the illusion and the rate at which my pixies got tired was directly dependent on the size of the illusion they were making. This meant that small illusions were more efficient than larger ones.

So I started creating tiny illusions directly in front of their eyes, like tinkertech goggles, and found that this barely tired my pixie.

—IWUAaDNW: Party 5.2



“I thought all flashers were good at was making, like… flashes, right? What’s up with these?”

“They do illusions,” Bedwyrr replied. “I think she’s chain-casting them. What did she make you see?”

“You guys were over there,” he pointed at the floor where they definitely hadn’t been, “and I killed like… four bugs.”

“You were swinging like crazy, but you barely hit anything,” Milderwynn said. “And we were over here.”

“How can she make me see weird shit, but not you guys?” he glared at my pixies.

—IWUAaDNW: Party 5.3