#Uri strange men series

[nervousnighttragdies]

On today’s episode on A trying not to out themselves as neurodivergent. Guess who totally isn’t recreating all the stages from their favorite video game in Minecraft. And no I have not just completed the first floor of the hotel area.

[cookiekurimu]

"...and he won't be content...

until you take your life."

Art by cookie

[fedrafaust]

The Boogie Man: Sophie I'm gonna take you into the world inside the closet

Sophie *gasps*: oh my god the GAY REALM???

[pinkseas]

hello to the Maybe Three People In This Tag if i wrote a sophie-centric fic taking place during the hanged man would you be interested or consider reading it be honest <- already wrote it just deciding whether or not to even make a promo post bc i have NO idea how active/dead the fandom is right now

[nagihonos]

love getting a video essay about an rpgmaker horror game "no one remembers" recommended to me. like you fool. you idiot. you misunderstand how mentally ill 14 year old me was. i was playing games off the rpgmaker website with like 2 stars and no reviews. of course i remember this game 😑

[thetrueoverlordbear]

Hi I replayed The Boogie Man recently and your voice as Brendon was pretty entertaining. It's been a while since the game has been out. Will you guys have something happening for the anniversary of the game? And if you don't mind me asking, do any of the voice actors/actresses still keep in touch with Uri like for any possible future games?

Hey there, thanks very much for the support! Unfortunately, I haven't gotten wind of any anniversary activities, assuming there are any. I haven't been keeping up with my castmates as much as I used to either, and I assume we're all doing our own things. I have noticed that vgperson has released translations of the Insanity remake and PEDESTAL, though, both of which I thought wouldn't get translated. And I gotta say, this Ask reminded me to catch up on those, so hey, thanks very much again, hahaha~ X"D

[shslargue]

you're a demon child, will

[lilydalexf]

🌲👽 X-Files Survival/Wilderness Fic Recs

Here are some very good X-Files survival or wilderness fics. Because @thatsaprettycoolposter and @pookie-mulder asked! This list does not include post-colonization fics, which are also all survival fics of a sort. Enjoy!

Alligator Moon by jordan big monster in swamp attacks FBI agents

Antidote by Rachel Howard and Karen Rasch Strange doings in a tiny western town bring Mulder and Scully out to investigate. Once there, they uncover a deadly experiment that may cost both of them their lives.

Backtracking by Kel and Scetti What do Charlie Scully, the Alien Bounty Hunter, and Jesse "the Body" Ventura all have in common? Last April you could have found all three of them in Minnesota.

By the Wind Grieved by Karen Rasch Months have passed and Mulder is back. But things are not as they once were. He doesn’t know who he is or what Scully and he are to each other. Together they must reclaim the past before their enemies take away their future.

A Cabin in the Woods by @leiascully Mulder and Scully, on the run, stay for a while in a cabin in the mountains in Montana. A series of interlacing vignettes.

a cabin in the woods by @monikafilefan Being stuck in this rustic cabin, clearly left to age among the wilderness had Scully feeling wild herself, and it felt as if their bodies danced to an ancient song among the elements.

Camping by Amperage and Livengoo Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have survived abductions, serial killers, mutants and aliens but the Partner Cooperation Program Wilderness Encounter may finally do them in. After poison ivy and catfish, who wouldn’t long for a nice, safe killer mutant?

A Change of Seasons by Jo-Ann Lassiter A search for a mythical beast in the woods of Pennsylvania takes an alarming turn for the worse when Mulder's minor in ury escalates into a life-threatening disease.

Changing Tides by QofMush Who says change is all bad?

Circumnavigation by Suzanne Schramm Sometimes you don't know where you're going until you get there.

Coming Back by Karen Rasch Mulder gets a call from Mrs. Scully, who fears for Dana's safety. Following her instructions, he tracks his partner to a cabin in the mountains where he finds that she does indeed need his help. Memories of her time away have come back with a vengeance. (Sequel: The Calm After The Storm)

Dark Water by Suzanne Schramm Prehistoric insects. Mothmen. Now it’s a publicity-shy tribe of murderers. Just another nice trip to the forest with Mulder.

Falling Snow by Snark Mulder, Scully and a mysterious woman from Mulder's past crash in the snowy landscape of the Colorado winter.

Frozen by @dashakay The end of a case, and a stay in a log cabin during a blizzard, lead Scully to take the biggest risk of her life.

Last Chance Falls by @slippinmickeys A man. A women. A forest. A hit squad. An adventure.

The Lost by Wintersong Mulder and Scully are trapped in the remote wilderness and the art of surviving was not what they expected.

Old Growth Forest by Andrea Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearances of homeless people in Madison, Wisconsin and seemingly end up suffering the same fate.

A Path of Salt by Analise Mulder ditches Scully yet again to help an old friend in the Park Service. But Scully has never been one to sit and wait.

Tam Lin by Pequod When your local young men disappear, only to turn up dead a year later, sometimes it helps to have friends in high places. Myth and murder combine in a remote Scottish village, and Mulder and Scully investigate. The Fairy Queen is out to revenge the loss of her most prized knight, Tam Lin. Mulder believes but Scully’s not so sure, until Mulder takes a walk in the woods.

Tempest by Missy Pennington Mulder and Scully survive a plane crash to find themselves injured and stranded in the Appalachian wilderness. (Sequels: Distance, Wild Places, and Escape Me Never)

Untitled by @o6666666 Prompt: Mulder takes Scully camping and they make love for the second time ever under the stars.

Waiting in Motion by mountainphile After leaving the hot spring (in "Miraculous Manifestation"), Scully and Mulder take an unexpected detour on the way home. Dark secrets emerge when they seek shelter in a raging storm...and an intriguing X-file rears its head... (Sequel: Signs of Life)

Way Through the Woods by Pellinor and Rebecca Rusnak Three months ago, someone noticed something unusual about Scully. Now, in a desperate attempt to stave off the inevitable, Mulder has disappeared, and Scully’s only chance of finding him include an unlikely ally and an untrustworthy informant. As they make their way through the woods, can Mulder and Scully find each other, or is the future lost?

[vgperson]

What Did I Do In 2023?

Whatever I wanted, mostly.

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As I mentioned last year, my site now has an RSS feed with basically everything I've done back to 2020, so this will mainly be going over the same stuff from that, just with added context.

In January, I finally sat down and properly realized an idea for a short story I'd had sitting around for a while: From the Sidelines, about a fantasy RPG expedition going sideways. I remain very proud of it in both concept and execution, and hope people read it.

In February, Your Turn To Die was released on Steam Early Access, receiving character profiles and some bonus mini-episodes, adding two more later in the year.

After finishing From the Sidelines, I carried that momentum to revisit my Ut0p1a story series about funny computer animals. I'd always meant to continue it - and conclude it - but hadn't been satisfied with the ideas I had for it until totally rethinking them this year. In March, I posted the remaining stories one after another: Right to Code and Left to Code. I'm very proud of these as well. Also in March, Kenshi Yonezu released LADY. (Video, interview)

In April, Uri released the Data Book of the Strange Men Series, a big collection of the writing she's done on the games in the series, with a lot of new parts as well, all translated by me.

Then in May... uh, well, let's see. In April, Capcom released the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection. I always adored the Battle Network games, and was initially excited that they finally did the thing... but by the time it came out, I was pretty disappointed by how, while you certainly couldn't call them low-effort ports, the effort didn't extend everywhere I thought it should, with the biggest offenders being the total absence of any "convenience features" except Buster Max Mode, the bad font, and the almost entirely untouched translations.

So, I ended up deciding I might as well just replay the originals, and that was a fun time (aside from the parts that were bad). Doing this, I couldn't help but notice how... turbulent the translations were, even if I'd always known they were less than ideal. I mean, the first two games just used periods for ellipses despite the tight character limits, then in BN3 they had an ellipsis character... but it's center-aligned, Japanese-style? Aside from the intro, which has normal ones? Gosh, somebody should fix that - it's simple enough to find and edit in YY-CHR. "JapanMan" is silly, too - I wonder if anybody made a patch for that? Wait, what do you mean there's just a tool to extract and insert text in all the Battle Network games including the Legacy Collection???

Thus began a journey that sort of occupied the rest of my year. First I did the BN3 Translation Revision, trying not to worry too much about cross-referencing the Japanese text unless something seemed wrong, so that I didn't spend too long on the project. Then I began to consider BN2, with its unfortunate "foreigner" text that would need some more significant reworking. I established more convenient tools for comparing with the Japanese script, and thus did a much more thorough job with it, releasing the BN2 Translation Revision in June (AKA Princess Pride Month).

Finally, after giving myself time to recover and actually finish replaying the series, I knew what I had to do to close things out. With the BN4 Translation Revision, you can finally play Battle Network 4 with a translation that isn't such a mess. Whether you'd want to is for you to decide, though if you can get over the structure, I don't think it's the worst game in the series by any means. (Oh, and in December I also updated the BN3 Revision to 1.1, doing a thorough pass with the methods I'd honed. But I think I'm pretty much good on MMBN translations now.)

Anyway, backtracking to other things that happened during my Battle Network haze... June had Kenshi Yonezu's Moongazing (video, interview), and July had Globe (video, interview, interview).

Last but not least, released in November, I translated Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, a short game from Lizardry (creator of 7 Days to End with You) with a fun concept.

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Obviously I was right to have said "no promises" last year. But really, Your Turn To Die should get its final part on Steam sometime next year, maybe even early-ish in it. That's certainly the goal.

I'm also hoping to buckle down and finish one of my own games, but as usual, who knows how that'll pan out. Letting my whims carry me this year let me finally finish From the Sidelines and Ut0p1a, which was great, and it also led me down a Battle Network rabbit hole, which was... fine, but definitely for a narrower audience. I'd always like to get back to more free game translations and the like, too, but it takes effort to find things I'd want to translate. For now, I think my increasing desire to be able to let loose some of these original games I've been planning, and the stories in them, might come out on top.

[helenabaring]

【Three Person Collab】

I did a three person collab with Biwa and analoguri! We drew and coloured each other's illustrations of the Strange Men Series protagonists and did a final illustration of Keith ourselves. ✨

Thank you so much, Biwa and Uri, for doing this with me!

※Please do not crop, edit, use or re-upload/reprint my illustrations anywhere without my permission. Thank you!

[kolegabezimienia]

☆ミCringetober Day 24☆ミ

I love The Crooked man and the Strange Men series sooo muuuuccchhh ヽ(*⌒▽⌒*)ﾉ

Idk what Uri put in these games but man,,, I've been hyperfixating on them since 2..? years now

I really want to talk about the series more, but I don't know how to formulate my thoughts in an intresting or understanable manner

(＞﹏＜)

[ariapmdeol]

rpgmaker creator guidelines

this is just a masterpost of guidelines for different devs! i'll include links to diff languages and translations. You should be able to click and go to the website. I've listed the work that they're best known for and their studio name. This list is incomplete. If you have any creator guidelines that you'd like me to link to, please let me know!

Witch's Heart - Blue★Star Entertainment/IZ ENG JP KR CN PORTUGUESE

Cell of Empireo - Sharktale Factory JP KR CN ENG

END ROLL - Segawa eng/jp more here in eng as well another eng

ZENO/SHTDN - Marutoku Base 丸得基地 JP KR Eng

Ib - Kouri eng JP JP2

The Witch's House - Fummy eng jp(free) jp(mv)

Mermaid Swamp/The Strange men series - Uri eng JP

[ruptinea]

girls I'm playing the strange men series by uri

[fedrafaust]

my heart will never stop skipping a beat or two every time this happens

[reaversanctuary]

me playing literally any pixelated horror rpg: yeah it's good it's good but is it as good as uri's 2015 "the boogie man" third installment in the strange men series? i don't think so-

[strangespectres]

hello! i don't have any fancy promo graphics for now, but this is a new multimuse for characters from uri's strange men series, including the crooked man, the sandman, the boogie man, and the hanged man. if you're interested in stories of trauma, healing, and battles against depression and grief - or if you're a fan of horror games and watching various protagonists try to escape from the monsters out to hunt them down - this blog might be for you!

no knowledge of canon is needed to interact, and while muse pages are still a work in progress, i'm happy to answer any questions you might have about the characters here. if you'd like to interact, please consider giving this post a like or reblog - and thank you so much!