#the lonely shore if

[thelonelyshore-if]

DEMO

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Hello hello, everyone! It's finally time. Here is the rest of chapter one, all wrapped up...except it occurred to me that there's 0 reason why this shouldn't just be chapter two. It's over 100k words long total, I'm being needlessly stubborn not wanting to call it a new chapter. So, here's chapter two!

This is a hefty update--though there are four distinct branches, so a good portion is spread out between those parts. It feels incredible to release this. I've been excited to share this for so long.

In this update you can:

Visit Ravi and crash a funeral. OR

Visit Jay and check out the animal shelter. OR

Visit Beck at work and get a lil silly with it. OR

Get coffee with Yasmin. Get to know her and chat about the horrors.

Sit down with your new friends and finally learn the truth.

Go for a drive, company optional.

( There was another section, at the arcade, that I originally had planned. I worked it and reworked it over and over, but it just wasn't happening. I figured it was better to scrap it (especially since it wasn't a very story-heavy section) and move on with the plot. )

Unfortunately, saves will likely break with the update. There are variables that have been added since the last one. I'm really eager to share with everyone. As always, the content warnings page has been updated for the new chapter.

If you have any feedback, or notice any bugs, feel free to send it to my inbox or post on the forum thread. I hope everyone enjoys!

[dazyxi]

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;; “ASPEN” DE ROSA (she/it)

- tight-curled, black hair that reaches its mid-back, dark brown eyes and freckled tawny skin. 6ft (182.88cm)

- she’s a journalist!!

- strange obsession with the woods and cryptids.

- weird & smart!!

- SO awkward. she tries soo hard but her overall demeanor kinda unsettles people and always has, so her social skills arent great.

- MOST likely gonna romance perri. still kinda in the air

- willow is her BEST friend. calls her wills.

- wears coconut-scented perfume but the scent of the forest always kinda lingers.

- nicknamed aspen (like the tree)!! its real name is zaya but it doesn’t introduce itself as that.

- during a school presentation, while walking back to its seat, tripped. she legit just burst out in tears in class and the memory still haunts her.

- bad vision in its right eye, perfect vision in its left. breaks all their glasses within weeks, though. at a certain point, it gave up trying to replace the lens.

- dying feels so much like dreaming.

— INTERACTIVE FICTION

@thelonelyshore-if

[opposumrave]

I don't remember when I took this

[jimmyspades]

[if-rambling]

Next is my mc For “The Lonely Shore”

Name: Ángel Alvarez

Occupation: firefighter

Main stats: 50 tough and 50 Charisma

Lowest stat: 25 smarts

Magic path: resistant to the magic but he does believe in it

Relationship to willow: he is very close to his baby brother willow

Some other thoughts and stuff I have about him

He’s very pissed at Ravi and Jay however he’s still very attracted to Jay. He’s just kinda mad at him right now

He is two seconds away from throwing a punch at Ravi on the other hand

Honestly he likes beck and perri. he was just put off by how casual they are about everything

Thinks Yasmin is chill can probably become goods friends with her

Despite how I made him look he’s actually very friendly. Ángel just wants to get the hell out of this town

Honestly with how obsessed he was with the lake as a child I like to imagine Ángel briefly considered becoming a professional swimmer before deciding on being a firefighter

One of my favorite moments of the game is when we’re watching willow go out in the lake. I could so clearly imagine the flashback. The writing for this game is amazing

The lonely shore is such a fun IF and I’m so excited to see more chapters. I’m a big fan of mystery and horror genres so I kinda fell in love with this IF pretty quickly. Here’s the picrew I used for Ángel

[thewriteone]

Hell

a/n: This is a piece of fanfiction I wrote for the interactive fiction The Lonely Shore (@thelonelyshore-if). If you don't know what that is, go check it out because it is amazing. Contains spoilers for the demo. This 435-word fic truly burst out of me like an alien from that one movie. You know the one.

Written from Willow's perspective. MC isn't named, but I did make them genderqueer (she/he/they pronouns). Please let me know if I missed any potential triggers. This is the first time I have ever written/posted fanfiction, and the first time I've ever posted any of my writing on the internet, so I don't know what I'm doing yet.

cw: sibling death mention, implied drowning (?)

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Sick.

That was the first thing Willow felt when their older sibling disappeared into the lake without resurfacing. She had jumped in to save them, after all. Guilt curled tightly in the hole that fear clawed into their chest. Their eyes flicked over the lake. They knew they weren't the strongest swimmer, especially not when compared to their sibling, but they hadn't expected this. He just jumped in after them. What kind of idiot does that?

A spark of anger was all it took to consume Willow's guilt. All they had to do was sit back and let Willow show them it was all real. The town on the other side of the lake, the lights, the dreams. But no. She never listened to them about these things, not properly. Never believed they knew what they were doing, not really. He only ever saw them as his precious little sibling (or, on some occasions, a pest). Immature, rash Willow off on another one of their silly little adventures. Surely it wouldn't be a problem to just interrupt the ritual Willow researched and prepared for months to get just right. Yes, clearly this was their fault.

Suddenly, as though they had been dunked in lake water, an ice cold chill washed over them. She still hadn't resurfaced. For the first time in their life, Willow felt paralyzed by indecision. What were they supposed to do? They felt their eyes prickle as a tingle began to buzz at the ends of their extremities. A world with their older sibling was all they had ever known, all they ever wanted to know. How could they possibly be expected to adjust to one without him present, one where he was d—?

No. Willow clenched their fists, closed their eyes, and took a deep breath. They weren't dead. Willow wouldn't allow it. After taking a moment to ground themself, they finally realized something. By this point it had been long enough that even a dead body should have emerged, yet the only thing on the lake surface was the foam being frothed up by the still-angry waves and a misty fog just beginning to unfurl. No sibling. No body.

The ritual. It didn't do as they intended, hadn't even been correctly completed, but it did something. Something Willow was determined to replicate. Whether it meant dragging their sibling back here or joining her on the other side, they didn't care. Jaw set and fueled by sheer willpower, Willow turned on their heel and marched back into the cabin.

Come hell or high water, they will get their sibling back.

[origamihoshi]

I kind of liked them both so there's two versions.

I've been playing around with brushes today. This is my MC from @thelonelyshore-if's game, Rivera Posey, fae is a true crime podcaster, really big into all that. But doesn't believe anything in this town being magical, like the fog is just fog right? totally not keeping faer trapped there nope.

but yeah I don't know I wanted to try something for fog.

[lotrmusical]

My high school did a yearly poetry recitation contest (Poetry Out Loud), so Oh Boy do I know some poems. My favorites are Ozymandias and "the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love," by Kara Jackson. Also in 8th grade we had a Poe unit and had a class contest to make the best music video of the Raven, so I still know a good chunk of that.

i hadn't heard of the kara jackson one! just read through it and enjoyed it, particularly these lines > 'grandma returns to her love like a hymn, marks it with a color. // when the world ends will it suck the earth of all its love? /will i go taking somebody’s hand, / my skin becoming their skin?'

[kdelarenta]

meet my mc's:

name: vesper sullivan

li: ?? (idk but leaning towards perri)

story: the lonely shore by @thelonelyshore-if

[5pebbles4president]

Mr president, if that is your real name…

May I ask why your policies directly attack and disrupt scavenger populations while you have a known war criminal as your personal Secret Service member!?

- Forger of the Red Plate

FP: My apologies for not keeping up with these as of recently, we have been busy with general administration. BSM: Pebbles, I'm checking Artificer into therapy. BSM: They have some... pent-up feelings I think they need to work out. Else things turn lethal. FP: ...

[thelonelyshore-if]

DEMO

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Finally, the chapter one (part one) update is here! I've been fighting tooth and nail against my own perfectionism, but my partner assures me that the chapter is good and I think I'm finally happy with where it's at. In this update you can:

Wake up!

Have a conversation with your host (Jay, Ravi, or Dr. Jones)

Go for a drive!

Return to the lake, or check out a gas station in the middle of nowhere.

Eat Breakfast! Meet Beck & Perri!

And that's it, nothing else weird will happen at all, I promise <3

There's a good amount of branching in this one. Three starts, two distinct middle paths, and it all comes together at the end. Because of that it might feel a little shorter than its almost 60k words (somehow the edit made it longer this time???), but I'm feeling good with the length.

Apologies in advance, but you'll need to start a fresh save for the update. I ended up changing the variables in the prologue quite significantly. Additionally, the content warnings page has been updated for chapter one, part one, and can be found here. Feedback is always welcome! My askbox is open, and the forum post for the WIP is another great place for feedback. That can be found here. Thank you so much for your support, and I hope you enjoy!

[colgatebluemintygel]

What are your top 5 fleet foxes songs? <3

your protector

on another ocean

the shrine / an argument

english house

wading in waist high water

<3333

[dreadbornehorror]

tag dump - verses

[jimmyspades]

He’s talking about me again..

[asoiafhyperfixation]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55466179/chapters/140863972

The link explains it better. I will reiterate that I will be posting updates in the next few weeks, and in October, I will reveal the handle of my new blog and sideblog. Thank you, for all your kind words and ecouragements.

[spacedlexi]

is anybody else out there still creating twdg fanworks 😭📢 where is everyone please dont say reddit i cant go back there