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# Death, dismemberment, and abstract horror comes to Twitter
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/death-dismemberment-and-abstract-horror-comes-twitter/
- Published: 2015-01-13T16:06:23.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:13:59.000Z
- Description: If your relationship with Twitter is anything like mine, you might welcome the addition of a bloodthirsty mystical beast to your timeline. That’s exactly what developer Terence Eden has done with @wnd_go, a brief and deeply abstract Choose Your Own Adventure that uses the social media service as its
- Author: Clayton Purdom
- Tags: News, choose your own adventure, Eldritch, Horror, terence eden, Twitter, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

If your relationship with Twitter is anything like mine, you might welcome the addition of a bloodthirsty mystical beast to your timeline. That’s exactly what developer Terence Eden has done with [@wnd\_go](https://twitter.com/wnd%5Fgo?ref=killscreen.com), a brief and deeply abstract Choose Your Own Adventure that uses the social media service as its platform.

The game begins *in media res*:

> — A dreadful start (@wnd\_go) [January 11, 2015](https://twitter.com/wnd%5Fgo/status/554396798631313408?ref=killscreen.com)

There’s a hint of the comic to that start, but as the story continues it adopts a more magisterial tone. Almost every path ends with something like this:

> — Soon (@wnd\_soon) [January 11, 2015](https://twitter.com/wnd%5Fsoon/status/554397887937802240?ref=killscreen.com)

Eden’s commitment to Twitter is absolute. While the famous 140-character limit leads to, obviously, terse little dispatches like those above, he develops the mood further with apocalyptic header photos, mordant Tarot-card user-photos and colorful “real” names, such as “Fear itself fears me.”

Snake your way through the postapocalyptic hellscape and you’ll wind up, natch, linked to [an ebook for *The Wanderer* by Timothy J. Jarvis](http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LWFKW82/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00LWFKW82&linkCode=as2&tag=wndtwt-21&linkId=V7PUDVYKA32KM6G2&ref=killscreen.com). Still, [over at his blog](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/01/writing-a-choose-your-own-adventure-story-on-twitter/?ref=killscreen.com), Eden describes this all as less a case of “viral marketing” and more of an earnest tip of the hat. The idea to make a choose your own adventure game via Twitter had hit him, and, since he’d just gotten done reading Jarvis’s eldritch horror novel, he gave the author’s style a go. “I thought I’d try my hand at creating a viral ‘teaser trailer’ for Timothy’s book,” Eden writes. “With his blessing, I got cracking.”

The result is better and weirder than whatever else you’re supposed to be doing this Tuesday morning. And anyway, Twitter could use a touch of the fantastical.