Entry into EndMaster's 2024 Prompt Contest! 

The Faceless Knights uphold divine law, crushing mutation and degeneracy whenever they encounter it. When the young lord of a recently-conquered territory calls for a true servant of God, you must answer. 

This game has a sequel.

A short, silly, high-octane ride through a cyberpunk future where your bullets are few, your friends are fewer, and the long tentacles of the law are slithering up your pant legs. 

I am aware that technically, writing a sentence in all capital letters is gramatically incorrect. I did this on purpose, several times, for stylistic effect. If you point this out in the reviews, a team of hit-apes will kick in your door. 

Winner of EndMaster's 2024 Crisis Contest! 

This is a sequel to A Prayer for Destruction. It is highly recommended that you read that work before beginning this one.

The North, that frozen-over land of fanatics and heathens, has suffered a great and mysterious calamity. The Sultan bids you raise your banners and ride in his name to investigate.

Winner of EndMaster's 2020-2021 Grimdark Contest!

Take the role of Lord Winter, an aspiring sorcerer and the scion of a noble line that has fallen into obscurity. 

Contains scenes of intense gore, brutality, and sexual violence. 

Cover art by the talented MadHattersDaughter.

"Death is struck and nature quaking;
All creation is awaking,
To its Judge an answer making.
Lo, the book, exactly worded,
Wherein all hath been recorded;
Thence shall judgment be awarded.
When the Judge His seat attaineth,
And each hidden deed arraigneth,
Nothing unavenged remaineth."

-- Dies Irae

Ultimately, the fate of life is to destroy itself.

Note: This was adapted with express permission from a friend's "Creative Nonfiction" project for ENG223: Journalism in the 21st Century at Toronto Metropolitan University. Footnotes added by me to add clarity when needed. 

this is so fucking stupid

Basically, the problem with Orwell is that linguistic relativity isn't real - language doesn't act in the way he thinks it does. If some word becomes impossible to say, that concept doesn't vanish from the air. Take the word "faggot", now largely considered impolite in most company. Someone who wants to deride a man for being effeminate could replace it with a limp wrist gesture, a finger in the hole-gesture, a combination of "Does he..." and a jerk off motion, etc. The underlying concept being discussed does not change, but the expression does. 

Newspeak is predicated on, essentially, the "strong" version  of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: that is, the idea that if you lack a word for a concept, you can't intellectually apprehend it. I don't think that actually games out, and he based his book on a fundamental cart-horse displacement. 

I think the best parts of the books are when he gets into the culture of the Party, and I also liked how much of a deranged pervert Winston was. 

Ready Player One is legit garbage and 1984 has gotta be the most overrated "classic" of all time 

You have bottom of the barrel tastes 

French Malk suddenly shudders from his reverie. "Unascapab... une escap.... unscappabl.... zis fag should go to the guillotine!" 

Is that what we're calling your moms back 

Okay this one isn't actually a kid this is a bit 

"Bonjour, cocksuckeurs... I am the dark mirror of Louisiana Malk. I am French Malk," says French Malk. A tiny moustache hangs from the end of his snout. Beneath the moustache, a cigarette. Behind the cigarette, a sneer of contempt. Behind the sneer of contempt, such sophisticated Francophone thoughts that they would bedevil and beguile any American who attempted to understand them. 

dude just look at my fucking alignment i'm not a troll 

"I mean, uh, I think I have a hankering for etouffee..." 

"I say, I say, I say... Liminal, having been outed as a scoundrel and a layabout, is yet again making attacks on my esteemed person. And to make matters worse, he accuses Will? The smiling Chinaman who has only helped the site through his historical games? Vile calumny and slander."