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 +# Seeing Things Which Are There
  
 Seeing Things Which Are There is a nonlinear self-contained DOOM megawad about unreality, trauma, struggles with vivid memories and dreams, living through an apocalypse, and loneliness. Seeing Things Which Are There is a nonlinear self-contained DOOM megawad about unreality, trauma, struggles with vivid memories and dreams, living through an apocalypse, and loneliness.
  
-# MECHANICS 
 Unlike many Doom wads, the game is not a boomer shooter, or a bullet hell, but a survival horror game. Combat is slow, methodical, and often more of a puzzle than a skilled encounter. It's also nonlinear, more like Heretic or Hexen, with qualitative storytelling elements. Unlike many Doom wads, the game is not a boomer shooter, or a bullet hell, but a survival horror game. Combat is slow, methodical, and often more of a puzzle than a skilled encounter. It's also nonlinear, more like Heretic or Hexen, with qualitative storytelling elements.
  
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 ## Weapons ## Weapons
-### Journal 
-Summons the Storytelling screen, which tracks as qualities and lists their current status - although not their number! 
  
-### The Knife +- [[stwat:weapon:Journal]] 
-A raven-headed knife (photographed from my real one) which Termite used to remove her left and right arms. Melee range, can kill Easy enemies in about five hits. Capable of destroying props, tape, etc.+- [[stwat:weapon:The Knife]] 
 +- [[stwat:weapon:His Shovel]] 
 +- [[stwat:weapon:Your Glasses]] 
 +- Your [[stwat:weapon:lefthand|Left]] and [[stwat:weapon:righthand|Right]] hands
  
-Killing an enemy with The Knife raises __Cut By The Blade__ by one.+## Walkthrough 
 +The player starts Beneath the Second Sky, below The Crucifixition, with Mulberry nearby. They have a short dialogue, where they are instructed to head down to the base of the mountain, to the shrine of [[stwat:characters:matron|The Matron]].
  
-UNLOCKS: Caution tape+You descend holy mountain and get the raven headed dagger. From there you can go to the frontrooms and the escarpment. The frontrooms hold the lair of [[stwat:characters:jabberwock|the jabberwock]]. You can't get there without the broken glasses. The broken glasses you need to get from [[stwat:loc:sky1:the poolrooms]]. Also in the poolrooms is a shrine to Abaddon. however if you collect the spurned candles from the village you can talk to Anacra at the shrine. Using the glasses you can reach the lair of the jabberwock, where you can kill it to fight March. once you have March's shovel you can descend.
  
-### His Shovel +## Characters 
-Earned by killing [[stwat:characters:march|The March]]. +### Mortals 
-Does bonus damage against Rebel Against Judgement. +#### Termite 
- +Termite is the player character, an ambiguous black shadow with androgynous shape. She is intersex and when she was twelve she sprouted two extra arms. Two of her arms are "masculine" and two are "feminine". It is not relevant to the story which were her original arms, and that question will never be answered.
-### Your Glasses +
-Equip/un = taking off / putting back +
- Makes jabberwock haze visibly +
- Attack closes eyes to absorb jabberwock +
- +
-# WALKTHROUGH +
-The +
- player starts Beneath the Second Sky, below The Crucifixition, with Mulberry nearby. They have a short dialogue, where they are instructed to head down to the base of the mountain, to the shrine of [[stwat:characters:matron|The Matron]]. +
- +
- You descend holy mountain and get the raven headed dagger. From there you can go to the frontrooms and the escarpment. The frontrooms hold the lair of [[stwat:characters:jabberwock|the jabberwock]]. You can't get there without the broken glasses. The broken glasses you need to get from [[stwat:loc:sky1:the poolrooms]]. Also in the poolrooms is a shrine to Abaddon. however if you collect the spurned candles from the village you can talk to Anacra at the shrine. Using the glasses you can reach the lair of the jabberwock, where you can kill it to fight March. once you have March's shovel you can descend. +
- +
-# Qualities +
- +
-__Cut By The Blade__: +
-2 = You started here, when you removed them. +
-4 = And you hoped that if you removed more you'd feel better. +
-8 = But cutting didn't help. +
-16 = You just felt more empty. +
- +
-# CHARACTERS +
-## Mortals +
-### Termite +
-Termite is the player character, an ambiguous black shadow with androgynous shape (me). She is intersex and when she was twelve she sprouted two extra arms. Two of her arms are "masculine" and two are "feminine".+
  
 She cut off her masculine arms with a raven-headed knife, and offered them to Abaddon in exchange for a night without dreams. Instead, she woke up here. She cut off her masculine arms with a raven-headed knife, and offered them to Abaddon in exchange for a night without dreams. Instead, she woke up here.
  
-### Mulberry+#### Mulberry
 A vulture with an acidic disposition. It doesn't trust the walls. Speaks like an old Shakespearean player. A vulture with an acidic disposition. It doesn't trust the walls. Speaks like an old Shakespearean player.
  
-### March +#### March 
-See full article: [[stwat:characters:march]]+*See full article: [[stwat:characters:March]]* 
 A long-forgotten player from a previous era. Failed father, failed masculinity, A long-forgotten player from a previous era. Failed father, failed masculinity,
  
-## She+#### She
 Termite's dead lover. They last spoke in a horrible argument, when She was deeply unstable and Termite said something that caused her to storm off. She then killed herself.  Termite's dead lover. They last spoke in a horrible argument, when She was deeply unstable and Termite said something that caused her to storm off. She then killed herself. 
  
 I'm not quite sure what capacity she is going to be here yet, but it feels important I'm not quite sure what capacity she is going to be here yet, but it feels important
  
-## Goetia +### Goetia 
-Those who must be reunited to escape this place. Each must be found in their unreal moor, confronted, defeated, and reintegrated.+Dwellers of the abyss, native creatures who live here.
  
-### Correspondents 
 #### A DEVOTION OF FIRE #### A DEVOTION OF FIRE
 A vulture skull with candles for eyes atop a black robed body without any limbs. A vulture skull with candles for eyes atop a black robed body without any limbs.
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 The narrator. Only visible in dialogue trees and corrupted spaces. Most often a sigil, sometimes a gendeless figure with only the top half of their head. The narrator. Only visible in dialogue trees and corrupted spaces. Most often a sigil, sometimes a gendeless figure with only the top half of their head.
  
-### Remnants +### Abyssals
-Termite must regain what she lost. +
- +
-#### The Left Hand +
-> You cast me out, so I cast you down. You are less without me. I hate you. I need you. +
- +
-#### The Right Hand +
-> I cast you down, so you cast me out. Maybe it was for the best. I love you. You don't need me. +
- +
-## Abyssals+
 Denizens of [[tower:planes:abyss|The Abyss]], and its infinite layers of madness and unreality. Denizens of [[tower:planes:abyss|The Abyss]], and its infinite layers of madness and unreality.
  
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    - [[stwat:characters:anacra|Anacra]]    - [[stwat:characters:anacra|Anacra]]
  
-### Anacra+#### Anacra
 DOMAIN: L5 DOMAIN: L5
  
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