As I write these words, Julian has just published a feature about Signet City, the new “fungalpunk” RPG from Citizen Sleeper and In Other Waters developer Gareth Damian Martin, in which you are a soulful parasite moving between the minds and bodies of an entire urban population. Doubtless, it is a splendid account of what is very likely a masterpiece of post-anthropocentric poetics, assuming I’m clocking Gareth’s current theoretical preoccupations correctly. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to read the article because there is a horrible mushroom in my foot that’s trying to eat my brain.
The infestation literally squelches beneath me, as I haul myself between the floors of an apartment block decked with mouldy pizza and rusty chains. The more it spreads, the more… textured the squelching, and the louder the groans of my avatar as I shamble from door to door on a desperate quest for lotion.
