Howdy, and welcome...to the Ratverse

You can call me Rat or Carr(he/it) and I'm writing interactive fiction. My current projects are:

Tag: WW

A body horror/psychological thriller story about trauma and people just being people. You play as a shapeshifter who has been thrown into this world in your early 20s after you learn that your parents didn’t tell you the whole truth about yourself… Work with a team of inhuman and human allies and your older sibling to save the town, or turn against them and help another shapeshifter tear down life as you know it. Game includes a fully customizable player, 13 romance options, 3 possible hookups, and a lot of crying.

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Tag: WCA

You’ve lived in these slums your entire life, fighting for enough food to just survive. Those at the capitol don’t care about you or your plight, so you’re going to make them care. What happens when a city is owned by a private corporation? Join a terrorist group and save your friends! Game includes a fully customizable MC(including age group), 4 romance options, a lot of fire, and the chance to change the world, or just change your life.

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Matthew 7:15

Tag: M715

Do you have religious trauma? Me too!

You work full time overnight at a gas station to rent their apartment in town; you moved there to escape their smotheringly religious family, only to find yourself smack in the Bible belt. But it's quiet and cheap to live here, and people don't ask too many questions. But when one day a young man goes missing, two detectives show up in town looking for him. Since you're the only one here that isn't local, and doesn't seem to be involved with the strangely aloof town preacher, they recruit you for help navigating the waters of Cherryville.

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Untitled Smut Game(18+)

Tag: USG

I don't need a title to write monsterfucker smut. And if you're here, you're too much of a degen to care about that. This game features graphic sex scenes with 10 different dragons, 6 other interests, and random hookup options scattered around. You can even buy the opportunity to add a hook up option on my patreon for $30.

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Art blog: @hyperfixationinc

If you want me to see something, please just @ me

God I forgot asks were even a thing lmao, it's been so long. Uh yeah, okay.

Alex’s younger sibling will still exist, and they will be referenced a few times. No major plot relevance, but it was just sort of supposed to be a nod to you guys. The clock has sorta been turned back a bit for them and it's back to when they weren't exactly in a great place, and when the IF MC would have been in high school.

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Alex will never get along with Aim, Crow, and Dax.

They aren't a massive fan of Lux, Kel, Bethany, or Gliss.

They are pretty close with Drew, Ezra, Lukas, Gliss, and Bayle.

And they're a REALLY big fan of Seline 😏

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Most of the ROs have been changed, not as characters just how their stories will play out. Most of the changes are just changing their relationships with Alex, because they've lived in Wolfwater for years and work at the only real restaurant in town, so they would have at least met Lukas and Bethany.

Drew has been moved in with Alex, they're now roommates. They are still going to be pining.

There's been some pretty massive changes to Crow, Dax, and Kel as the "evil" characters, but the details changed were never public and remain secret.

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Given how much you guys have been here for, I'm probably going to employ you all to help me make plot decisions, when I eventually remember how to type words again.

In middle school iirc

Okay, I need you guys to help me i can't tell if I'm just being a hater or if they're just bad

Someone tell Ivan if I'm too lazy to make an IF I am far too lazy to make a pixel art game

I can do whatever I want

But if you INSIST the other blog is @hyperfixationinc and I post little midwest gothic snippets and some art stuff

You can also follow my personal blog @theopossumboy if you just want to be spammed by my reblogs.

You can also do whatever you want. Follow both, follow neither, unfollow all three of my blogs, go nuts. You have free will.

Well what in tarnation-

Um hello 👉👈 funny seeing you guys here...uh...come here often? Still wondering about my silly little writing? Oh haha...yeah...about that...

Crazy how fast time flies when you have time blindness.

So let's get the big stuff out of the way. I am no longer writing Wolfwater, WCA, or M715 as interactive fiction. I am still writing the stories, but no longer as interactive fiction.

No one knows what's happening with dragon smut because it was just a silly little side project so as of right now it's on indefinite hiatus/canceled.

But the other three are still deep in the holes of my brain. These characters mean a lot to me at this point. But I've lost the passion to make them IFs. Not only is it way too much work for my Swiss cheese ADHD brain to stay focused on, writing is also something I can just kinda do mindlessly. But with IF I have to pay WAY closer attention, and that makes it a stressful thing, not a fun, relaxing form of expression.

To put it simply, it's way too much work that I don't want to do.

So where does that leave the stories? Well, as novels.

I've already started rewriting chapter 1 of Wolfwater, and I'll post it in it's entirety here when I'm finished. Some things have been changed, like now Alex is the protagonist. And given Alex obviously isn't interested in a lot of the romance options, one of the subplots will finally be Ezra and Aim kissing all on their own. Big day!

WCA will be split between Casey and Quincy’s POV's mainly, but there will be no serious changes to the plot, other than the fact that...well...you aren't there.

And M715 will be changed so that Zelda is the main protagonist. Again, very little to change in that story, other than shifting who things happen to.

The original playable IF version of WW ch1 will stay up forever if you ever want to reread it. And nothing is being deleted or changed on the patreon, all the original drafts will stay up. But they are not going to be edited again.

I know Wolfwater especially has been in the works for like 4 years, but unfortunately I used all my dopamine up writing Far Cry fanfiction when I was in middle school, so I'm now a very slow writer.

If you've been here a while, get ready for some deja-vu because: I'm leaving my job at the gas station soon and starting basically my dream job driving a truck. Just me and my dog in a truck all day, not a single customer interaction to be had. Hopefully around the end of summer I'll be there full time and can quit the gas station, which will be better for me. (I feel like I've seen this movie before....)

Um I struggle with genuineness but ummmm thank you to those that have stuck around while I was doing absolutely nothing. But I am writing again, I am back, everything is sorta back to normal.

Now stop looking at me 😖

Unfortunately my laptop has killed itself 😔 I can barely run Stardew Valley on it without it overheating and crashing.

I HAVE been trying to work on the games, but not in the way you think 😏 they're being completely reworked, so don't think I've forgotten about the pain and suffering I plan on causing you all

Guys help i haven't stopped playing Baldur's Gate since Monday I've started having turn based dreams

The demo isn't super long, it's only like 8k words, but my favorite part is probably choosing to flirt with both Quincy and Casey, because Casey is just so tired of it already and be just met you. I also love the quincy sex scene quite a bit, it had to be shortened for my sanity but if you want to fuck the terrorist, you can!!

Hello!! I come to you with good news!! I have finally finished chapter 1 of WCA!! 😭

It's going to be edited right now, then it'll go to Ivan, and then released to the Patrons. BUT!! If you want to help with beta reading, here's how you can!

You can join the Discord and DM me. As of right now it's just grammatical stuff and whatnot, but later on I will be encouraging:

Jewish people

Aroace people

Nonbinary people

Sex workers

People who are/have been homeless

So if any of those things apply, feel free to still join!! I value your input even if you don't want to beta!!

Drew is IN the candy aisle trying to decide between two of the big bulk mixes of candy

If Tollhouse really didn't want me to eat raw cookie dough why would they make a travel tube of it that I can take on the go?