First of all, let me tell you what I knew of LizardBite's universe that he created with these blogs, known as The Great Game Verse. It is a beautiful idea. It's a game of eldritch chess that not only can human understand due to the Fears' Blue and Orange Morality, and it works so damn well!. It sets up alliances between the Fears that we cannot understand, and as insignificant, non-Eldritch mortals into playthings for the Fears' competitive amusement. There's a reason why I base all my independent, unconnected blogs around the Great Game Verse. Okay, now back to the topic of Eccentrically Bored. It starts off simple enough, with some random unexplained post about someone describing their death. It's honestly really creepy, and the "life goes on" at the end is confusing, and very satisfactory. Then we're introduced to our own resident cynic, Joseph Steward, and his beautiful choice of introduction.
"Sup, bitches?" ("New Blog Ahoy!" Eccentrically Bored)
He goes on a couple paragraph rant about how his life is all humdrum in the most dickish melodramatic way possible, and then talks about his awesome adventures. And in the next post, he starts bitching about the color pink and how the resolution on his laptop morphs. I'll just say it here. I hated both of the protagonists. Joseph Steward is a chauvenist, pessimistic asshat who can't find a speck of good and the upcoming character is well-meaning and kind but is so officious and obtrusive that it hurts. Finally, he goes on and hears a faint scratching around the house. He goes outside and sees that it was a dog, but then again may not. Then he hears the scratching again. It's cliched as hell, and if he never saw what was outside, it would have made it so much creepier, added suspense. Either way, it's cliched, but honestly, this was the part that was the shit that tarnished this otherwise well-written blog. From this point on, it's an uphill climb to a satisfying and greatly rewarding conclusion conclusion.
Okay, now this is when he starts using out-of-blog material, which adds to the immersion of the blog so well, using an artical from the Virginian Pilot about a young woman beaten and drowned, foreshadowing events to come and, honestly, it's kind of creepy. Sadly, the link is broken. Two days after that, he finds out that the victim is from the nearby are. The foreshadowing thickens even more, and I must admit that you are wondering what the hell Joseph Steward's about to get his stupid ass into, and what kind of murderous monster he's about to run into.
Then he goes back to bitching and moaning for a while, which is honestly a bit of a disappointment in my eyes; I thought he would at least be a little on edge, but life goes on. First he bitches about work, then about school, then about the fact that he has followers. Goddamn, I honestly hate Joseph Steward's character. He is never satisfied, never pleased, always complaining to the whole damn world. Then another person gets killed by whoever caused the first death. Joseph Steward is two parts intrigued, three parts scared shitless, and Peter Rivers' comment reminds me to add his blog to the list. FINALLY, after seven or so posts, good ole' Joey finally posts those construction pictures. And it has all the good locations for a Slendervlog, and it's chock full with Operator Symbols and Twin Triangles (the calling card symbol of the Archangel). Makes sense, though, considering it was originally intened to be a vlog. He also mentions a glitched up picture.
Then he complains about his allergies (and/or Slendersickness), and then posts a glitched up picture, that is actually quite creepy on second glance. I swear I see tentacles between those two freight containers. And he feels drawn to this picture, like it's calling out to him in some strange manner. And his Slendersickness gets worse.
And then, next post, his Slendersickness goes away... LizardBite, understand that I still like this blog, and most of what I say is just nitpicking and hating on the character's personality (not because it's badly written, but it's intentionally written so that he's a bad person), but you wasted a fairly good opportunity here, bro. Also, he takls about how he's now without friends and families, and he's getting lonely, and explains why he's started blogging. Honestly, this is the first time I felt legit sympathy for the human garbage that is Mr. Steward. Okay, so this part of the blog was not... good. Honestly, I do enjoy it. It sets up exposition, sets up some characterization for Joseph Steward (the fact that he's a cynical asshole who drives people away for personal reasons and out of loneliness and the fact that he is
"...a socially retarded 19 year old virgin with a blog." ("A Little Self Reflection". Eccentrically Bored.)
Finally, I am honestly interested in what happens next. LizardBite may have cut a few corners, and this blog is one of his earlier works and it shows, but it helps me feel for the character, understand the cahracter, and makes me want to follow along with it.
This was the part of his Joseph Steward blogs that are more on the crappy side, the first four posts being the worst, but from this point on, shit's about to get real, and the Archangel's about to strike hard.
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