#picayune dreams spoilers

[klunskie]

WE'RE SO BACK LIKE WE NEVER LEFT ‼️

EVERYONE HOP ON THE UPDATE

[tunaf1sk]

A (small) selection of Picayune Dreams fanart I've drawn over the course of the year

[aless-was-here]

Play Picayune Dreams

[monowing-1]

Aftermath

“Miss, for the purposes of this recording before we begin our session. May I have your full name?”

“Cyl.”

“Ma’am, that’s…that’s not your name. That was the designation of the suit that you wore for the mission. You do know your full name right? We are aware of your…unique state, so if you do not know please tell us we can inform you again-”

“No, I know what it is,  they’ve told me.”

“Then what is it?”

“They said my name is Picayune Moore. It’s not the name I would have chosen for myself, but It works.” “Good, good, and for the purposes of affirming this once more for clarity. You had no recollection of your name or your identity until you were informed recently?”

“......Yes.” “I see, and that’s why you took the designation of your suit’s identification code as a replacement?”

“I suppose.” 

“You…suppose?”

“Someone told me that was my name and I guess I took it as my own.”

“Was it one of your other teammates before they died?”

“You can say that.” 

“Alright then.”

*Sounds of a pencil being marked down.*

“Now, as we begin Ms. Moore. I did want to ask, how have you been lately? Is your recovery going well? I’ve heard that they had to do some invasive procedures on you after you arrived.” “As good as it can be. They had to cut me out of the suit with a blowtorch and saw. They said it was due to…damage.”

“Damage? Why?”

“A lot of reasons, but I don’t think I’m at liberty to say. You're not affiliated with them, remember?”

“Right…right, then it's better not to go into that specific detail anymore. How about your prosthetics then? Have you felt any strange or painful sensations since you’ve had them installed on you?”

“They’re itchy.”

“Itchy?”

“Yes, when they took me out of the suit they replaced parts of me with other ones. They said it was for safety and that because I wasn’t a part of the program anymore I wouldn't need them anymore.”

*whirring of a mechanical limb*

“They said it’ll take four months to a year for calluses to fully develop and for my body to acclimate to them, but even then they said it’s hard to say for full comfort. Nobody’s apparently worn the suit and put it and themselves through the damage that I did before they cut me out. They say it’s a miracle that I'm alive.”

“And especially so from what I remember on the news. Your suit had cracks, fractures, and who knows what when you arrived back home. You and your suit were practically a dying machine.”

“Mhmh, but one that wouldn't die.”

[99-devilz]

rudeness + drawings from dev stream

[figbarrr]

i reaaaally love infected picayune she’s so horrifying and her fight is really fun i’ve only beaten it once (part of that is because it takes a really long time to get to but)

[stainedinlavenderblood]

Less is Moore

i wrote a fanfic for Picayune Dreams warning: HEAVY spoilers for the final boss please play picayune dreams im 100% obsessed with this game that released 2 weeks ago

[cikrovat]

I actually did the art before finishing dlc, so all my thoughts for the was "oh, cyl is losing her humanity, how cool"

oh, I did not expected to be so right. and wrong. oh, to see shadows in the cave. oh.

related ref for my future personal use

sence of self

[sizeofyoursoul]

Anne Rice vs. A Chicken Restaurant

If you are a huge Anne Rice fan, you may have come across the weird detail that she had a feud with the guy who started Popeyes. You may know this New York Times article, this LA Times article, or this nola.com article. This Time article is not paywalled. But, if you're like me, you might be slightly frustrated when a lot of these articles reference multiple full page ads, but usually don't include their full text.

First, here's the actual scene from Memnoch the Devil (spoiler warning) that the articles keep referencing being set at the location where the restaurant Straya was later built (2001 St Charles Ave, which is a couple of blocks up from Jackson Avenue in the direction Lestat is walking):

I walked a long time down St. Charles Avenue. I walked under oaks I knew, on old pavements and stretches of brick, past houses new and old, and on across Jackson Avenue into the curious mix of taverns and neon signs, of boarded-up buildings and ruined houses and fancy shops, the garish waste that stretches to downtown. I came to an empty store that had once sold expensive automobiles. For fifty years, they'd sold those fancy cars in this place, and now it was a big, hollow room with glass walls. I could see my reflection perfectly in the glass. My preternatural vision was mine again, flawless, with both blue eyes. And I saw myself. I want you to see me now. I want you to look at me, as I present myself, and as I swear to this tale, as I swear on every word of it, from my heart. I am the Vampire Lestat. This is what I saw. This is what I heard. This is what I know! This is all I know. Believe in me, in my words, in what I have said and what has been written down. I am here, still, the hero of my own dreams, and let me please keep my place in yours. I am the Vampire Lestat. Let me pass now from fiction into legend.

This is the end of the book, and was originally intended to be the end of The Vampire Chronicles. This was the original plan for how Lestat's character arc was going to conclude. I need you to know this because it will enhance the experience of the rest of this.

On Feb 4, 1997, Anne Rice published the following ad in the Times-Picayune:

A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO OUR MARDI GRAS VISITORS, OUR TOURISTS, AND OUR CITIZENS: I WISH YOU A WARM WELCOME FOR THIS CARNIVAL SEASON, AND ASK THAT YOU LET ME EXPRESS MY PERSONAL HUMILIATION, REGRET AND SORROW, AS PRIVATE CITIZEN ANNE RICE, FOR THE ABSOLUTELY HIDEOUS STRAYA'S RESTAURANT WHICH HAS JUST OPENED ITS DOORS ON ST. CHARLES AVENUE. THIS MONSTROSITY IN NO WAY REPRESENTS THE AMBIENCE, THE ROMANCE, OR THE CHARM THAT WE SEEK TO OFFER YOU AND STRIVE TO MAINTAIN IN OUR CITY. IT IS AS IF MR. COPELAND HAS TAKEN EVERY FAST FOOD RESTAURANT FROM HERE TO PANAMA CITY AND COMBINED THEM INTO ONE LUDICROUS AND EGREGIOUS STRUCTURE. THAT THIS RESTAURANT STANDS IN THE SAME BLOCK WITH THE VENERABLE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL DOUBLES THE INSULT TO ALL OF US. THE STRIP OF ST. CHARLES AVENUE BETWEEN LEE CIRCLE AND JACKSON AVENUE IS A KEY PART OF OUR CITY, WHERE BLACK FAMILIES AND WHITE FAMILIES CONGREGATE FOR MARDI GRAS. THE RESTAURANTS ALONG THIS STRIP -- SHONEY'S, HOUSTON'S, THE CARIBBEAN ROOM, DELMONICO'S – HAVE ALL GIVEN PLEASURE TO NEW ORLEANIANS. STRAYA'S, HOWEVER, IS NOTHING SHORT OF AN ABOMINATION, AND MR. COPELAND SHOULD BE ASHAMED. AS A RESIDENT OF NEW ORLEANS, I AM DISTRESSED. I AM SURE THAT I DO NOT SPEAK FOR MYSELF ALONE IN SAYING THAT IN SPITE OF THIS MOST RECENT INSULT TO ALL OF OUR PRESERVATION GOALS, NEW ORLEANS REMAINS OUR PRIDE AND JOY. THE HUMBLEST FLOP HOUSE ON THIS STRIP OF ST. CHARLES AVENUE HAS MORE DIGNITY THAN MR. COPELAND'S STRUCTURE. WHAT MAKES THIS REALLY TRAGIC IS THE FACT THAT THE STRUCTURE OF THE RESTAURANT ITSELF IS POTENTIALLY BEAUTIFUL. REMODELING PROMISED A REAL ASSET TO THE AVENUE, INSTEAD, WE HAVE AN EYESORE. NEW ORLEANIANS, I URGE YOU TO EXERCISE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT AS AMERICANS AND LET MR. COPELAND KNOW YOUR FEELINGS, IN WRITING OR BY PHONE CALLS. MAYBE THEN MR. COPELAND WILL REALIZE THE GRAVITY OF HIS MISTAKE, AND DO SOMETHING TO SHOW RESPECT FOR HIS FELLOW CITIZENS AND HIS CITY. ONCE AGAIN, A WARM WELCOME TO ALL OF OUR MARDI GRAS VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. ANNE RICE AUTHOR OF INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

After Copeland's initial response, Anne Rice took out a second ad February 23, 1997, which I was finally able to find the text of here.

EXCLUSIVE TO THE TIMES-PICAYUNE THE VAMPIRE LESTAT IS BACK!!!! READERS ARE OVERJOYED!! THE VAMPIRE LESTAT WANDERED INTO TOWN TWO DAYS AGO, AND WAS WALKING IN HIS DAZED AND SHOCKED MANNER DOWN ST. CHARLES AVENUE WHEN HE DISCOVERED THAT ON THE VERY SPOT WHERE HE HAD SAID FAREWELL TO HIS READERS--THE SITE OF THE OLD EMPTY CAR DEALERSHIP--A NEW AND WONDEROUS STRUCTURE HAD SPRUNG TO LIFE, LIKE A GIANT PINKISH PEACH PLANT, RIGHT OUT OF THE EARTH. LESTAT IMMEDIATELY KNELT DOWN AND GAVE THANKS--THE PEACH APPARITION SEEMED NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE! LESTAT IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED HIS HARLEY DAVIDSON UNDERGROUND FRIENDS AND OBTAINED THE BIGGEST "HOG" HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON. HE IS NOW DRESSED IN FULL LEATHER, PROWLING THE TOWN AS VIGOROUSLY AS EVER, SEEKING EVIL DOERS TO SLAKE HIS ETERNAL THIRST. HE SENDS HIS SPECIAL LOVE, SPECIAL REGARDS AND SPECIAL THANKS TO MR. AL COPELAND: "MR. COPELAND, NOTHING SHORT OF YOUR INDESCRIBABLE RESTAURANT COULD SHOCK ME OUT OF MY TORPOR AND MY COMA. I AM NOW MYSELF AGAIN! IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF A STROKE OF GENIUS ON YOUR PART TO CREATE A RESTAURANT THAT WILL BE IMMORTALIZED IN HISTORY, LEGEND AND LITERATURE. YOU ARE ONE HELL OF A GUY! MY IMMORTAL THANKS. I WILL ALWAYS COUNT YOU AS ONE OF MY DEAREST FRIENDS. YOUR KITH AND KIN ARE A MARVELOUS BREED. MAY GOD LOOK DOWN WITH HIS INFINITE MERCY WITH LOVE UPON YOU ALL. LESTAT" (END OF SPECIAL REPORT FROM THE ASTRAL PLANE) A.R.

And lo, The Vampire Lestat passed right back out of legend October 10, 1998 when The Vampire Armand was published. Because he was brought out of his coma because of how ugly a chicken restaurant was.

[derkdirt]

Super Mega 10000% spoilers ahead for Picayune Dreams!!

Drawn in MsPaint and took me like two weeks. My early christmas gift!

A unique Picayune Dreams tribute where I redrew the panels of the famous bloodandthunder.png comic with (my understanding of) the lore of the game. Kinda awkwardly blending the two. Had alot of fun challenging myself with the backgrounds and using one layer (never doing that again).

Possibly uploading the individual panels in a different post here or somewhere else!

Watch with the pacing of the song the lyrics were used here! the song I used, by Milkypossum!

[waterhoeses]

very mild spoilers for the true ending of picayune dreams:

Just achieved the true ending of Picayune dreams...

I'm crying, sobbing, shaking, squealing

cuz omg

they're happy ;w;

[klunskie]

OKAY PEOPLE TOMORROW MORNING 10 AM!

[tunaf1sk]

"They're so proud but it's an applause without context."

[gooberthed]

hayyyy I’m running out of ideas for captions LOL whats pooopin!?

Izu and Cyl from Picayune Dreams crossover 😭😭😭🫶🫶🫶🫶 GO PLAY IT ITS AQESOMEEE

[monowing-1]

I played Picayuna dreams today and I got the normal ending. =v= It's honestly a nice twist on things in terms of endings. You win, you go home, and you have the realization that you've just solved one probelm in the world and that you can't solve them all.

Depressing a bit, but honestly fitting I suppose.

Save the world from the big monster, but you can't save it from mundane everyday terrors.

[figbarrr]

picayune whiteboard doodle