codex: heels

QUESTION: What are the heels on INNOCENT skinsuits for?

✦ To stomp adversaries and rotten wood, break through doors and find items in boxes.

✦ It enhances the precision and discipline of your steps. 

✦ To grip the stirrups of mechanical armor. These high-powered machines have a morgellonic chasse and require a “firm way”, especially when ammunition is low and further confrontation becomes highly physical and “muddy”.

EXAMPLE: Vesp-class armor has a Misericorde, a reciprocating knife that wedges into cracks made in adversarial armor, useful for penetrating the enemy chevalier. Even if you can’t reach the pilot, applying a strong vibration to their cockpit could result in brain damage or even cerebral hemorrhage–if the cockpit’s protective membrane has been torn open. A cascade of seemingly minor or cosmetic blows can court felicity.

So really you see there is nothing laughable about the INNOCENT skinsuit, and this kind of talk is the result of unauthorized sects ignorant of the true way of thinking and prone to perverse beliefs. Not least of which is jealousy.

A second type is the foot glove, useful for much-directional traversal of wilderness or morgellonic districts.

There was a brief attempt at an INNOCENT “tactical sandal” but we don’t talk about that.

Despite all attempts at diplomacy, it is widely known that many encounters will inevitably be decided by “leg on leg” combat (from which we see the origin of the phrase, “brought to heel”). This is why martial dance must be practiced diligently to avoid unfortunate outcomes.

technical illustrations by draftsman 1st class Vich

Soring

You know what soring is?

Yes? No? Hard to tell through that bit. It really does make you drool, huh?

Soring. Not like an angel. S O R I N G. Sounds like it hurts, doesn’t it? You might be right. But pain is just another thing on TV until it happens to you.

As a horse girl, I thought you might care a little more about, I dunno. This thing we love. But you were always the stuck up equestrian. Me, the acne disaster in glasses, guess I had more time for reading. Watching. Planning.

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march bugletter: game preview, rubicon, scars

work continues at a tremendous pace on the Girl Cancer game, featuring some of Vich’s most stupendous, mind-boggling art ever!! (and music by lauren bousfield, rook, esper99…)

the Cancer Prize IP is one of gaming’s most iconic legacies and we at INNOCENT Interactive are thrilled to steward her into the next generation of gaming and safeguard her memory in the hearts of trillions of girls worldwide, as she takes on her biggest mystery yet…

our game has money so it doesn’t need a morality meter

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In Skyrim

I am the world champion of not killing myself. If you ever feel despair, say those words.

It’s been three days since I slept. I probably need a snack. Walking past impenetrable black ghost kitchens carved of obsidian. Acres of bought-out houses, coldly raptured under the overhauled night sky scabbed with nebulae. Even the self-driving cars seem to avoid me. After passing so many buildings that can’t be entered or interacted with, it triggers my condition. Snowdrops and peonies burst through the sidewalk, fuzzy purple Bugloss dope nodding in my periphery.

My brain damage and the entire political situation of the world and our universe can be explained by the fact that all people deep down inside have the genetic yearning to buy Skyrim multiple times, something which has been confirmed by all mainstream psychologists and psychological magazines and medical websites since then. It speaks at something larger within the human spirit that was seeking to erupt from capitalism, something good and perfect…

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Conditioning

A lot of men hit on her, failing to understand what will happen. Some of them lose interest. Others freak out. But eventually she’s in a room with two of them who haven’t given up. Latched on like dogs. Two straight males in a back office of the facility. Lights off. The blinds slice evening across their bodies in sickly orange bars.

“So what? Are you going to make us fight?” And that is interesting, already; seeing which one tenses, and which one is prepared to do violence. She wonders if that dynamic will stay true.

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xrafstar merch splurch

I made a Cancer character reference site! it is very shiny and cute and I put a lot of work into it…

xrafstar killers game preview…

Trotula’s office features fully reflective floors and all the psychometric testing you could ask for…

selling a limited run of INNOCENT stickers here, with delicious art by Vich.

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Cancer Dancer

The dancer is a patient and must be made to comply. They cannot be trusted with their own sensory perceptions. They suffer from hallucinations of pain and delusions of exhaustion. There is no such thing as malpractice when it comes to the dancer. You cannot be punished enough. Your skin is an interface for needles and pressure cuffs. Your skin exists only to alert him to your mistakes. You must dance in a state of exposure, so he can inspect you for bruises, stains of clumsiness. Do not think your body is something to be admired. You are a disgusting male. But you are not a man. You are stunted. Your anorexic ribs are a kind of descended gynecomastia. Your bulge is sexless, juvenile, and clownlike. Your body is the mannequin and the dress at the same time. Beauty can never exist for you as a noun, but it might as a verb.

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cunt toward enemy [s3e9] escapement

The father keeps a tube of lipstick on his nightstand. Lazur sees it on the rare occasions he is called upstairs, to carry the man’s briefcase or do his tie when the man is falling over drunk. Lazur always assumed it was a memento of the absent mother, until he saw how every trace of her was removed from the house, except for the subliminal rubbish in the basement.

Rich men are freaky. But he’s driven the man to secret and depraved gatherings, and never brought him back with makeup on. The lipstick feels wrong to look at. A sense of something black, congealed, and burnt—yet oozing with endless, leechlike intelligence. The walls must be flaking with toxic pigment. Cadmium red. Lazur holds his breath, and knots the tie.

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Closed Tear

You are in the library.

No. Sink deeper. Before you were sprayed with the nasty corrosive gunk of ego and culture. Before you were covered in linguistic contaminants. Before you were sterilized and cauterized, and the wounds of your mind were still open and fresh.

You are on a distant island of this fantastic but mundane empire. The sun is fading through the windows, smeared into burning droplets. You came for shelter from the rain, and the mosquitoes. They lay their eggs in standing water, so all week they have been breeding and you don’t want to get bit or have to drink bitter quinine to stave off super-malaria.

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