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Dancing with the Dead

"The year is 1975, and a ragtag group of undead try to navigate the mess of decadence that is the English Vampire Society."

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Dancing with the Dead is an adult webcomic unearthed by yours truly. After three years of development, it launched on January 14th, 2022 and has been haunting my mind since. It's a blend of character relationships, spooky hijinks, and undead tiddy action.

Set in a North Yorkshire hamlet miles from a single human, a post office, or thankfully Sheffield, Woodsgrave is occupied by the undead and micromanaged to death by unchanging hamlet politics. Their human familiars, terminally bored and starting to think homelessness might be a better deal, assist with the day-to-day. Most vampire denizens live beneath the chapel mausoleum; the more fortunate occupy cottages and offsite estates. Nobody is particularly interested in revolution when there's cheap alcohol, things to throw at the village necrophile, and the general comfort of sitting about in immortal depression.

That is, until a longtime rogue vampire and his banshee girlfriend find themselves initiated, and things in Woodsgrave might finally start moving.

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We're baaa-a-a-a-ck! Astro and I had a blast together at his place! It was too hot to go out much, but we made up for it by cuddling, scanning books, watching movies and getting stoned. I've been told my comic has a stoner jive, but this was actually my first time. In tradition, I greened out and had to be put to bed. The latter seshes went much smoother, though, and they'll provide some very useful insight for the comic's various characters. That aside, we plan to make this a near-yearly thing! We're also cutting out Chicago from the equation because we're too autistic to function and we're tired of its everlasting piss miasma. Plus they don't play Egg on command. Now, onto DWTD! I'm somewhat jet-lagged and I've had to spend a day recovering, but 20 starts very shortly! While I rack my remaining braincells, I hope to get out more stuff for this here site, as I redesigned it on the eve of this trip. Long overdue but it's better late than never. Get ready for 'ween season and visit your online friends NOW!

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Coming soon

Episode 20, and a potential Inform 7 port for Foxtrot. It'll be an expanded version of the base game with new rooms, puzzles and deaths!

Stuff to do

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  • Add sketches onto the gallery and wikipages.
  • Add various doo-dads, doo-hickeys and doodles.
  • Create individual floating cursor sprites for the wiki pages. For variety's sake I'm keeping this to characters' animal forms and pets. Clifford will have Princess, August will have one of his black dogs, and so on so forth.
  • Fix up the presentation for the Wiki pages some more. A footer menu is long overdue.
  • Redo that FAQ.
  • Redo that Glossary.

Cast

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Edgar

Spent 74 years frogging in peoples' houses and pretending to be a cat until he got laid. Overcorrects for being a vampire by letting every man, woman and child walk all over him.

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Crystin

Ex-vet tech trades the abject depression of north wales for frollicking in the grass and refusing to speak to anyone except for a cat and a homeless guy.

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Clifford

Had it all, until he didn't. Now has (another) jilted ex, a rekindled hatred for life and a crusty white dog with shit in its eyes.

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August

Morbidly-big big game hunter, local politician and the progenitor of several new cheese varieties that live exclusively in his trousers.

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Rozzlyn

A product of societal neglect that draws comix, huffs tiddies and would like to die somewhat but it's the 70s' so nobody really cares all that much. Here because vampires love cheap labourers that nobody will question the absence of.