exquisite corpse (jcpanache)

You are Ismene, called home after the death of your brothers to your awful uncle's manor. One brother's ashes are already scattered to the winds, and the other sits in state in the parlor, cruelly displayed as an act of punishment. Your sister Antigone is determined to defy your uncle's wishes and lay him to rest--but what will you do? 

• A reimagining of the Greek tragedy Antigone in which you enter the text as Ismene, and through your choices create, shape, or reimagine the tragedy itself. 

• A means to think about gender, death, and transition, and all the gray spaces in between. 

• An adventure that includes 3 talking deer who are openly plotting your demise.

Content Warnings: transphobia, violence, death. 

Crash Course in Antigone

Two brothers, Polynices and Eteocles, kill each other in battle during a civil war. Creon buries Eteocles and leaves Polynices out to rot. 

Antigone, their sister, wants to bury Polynices. She asks her sister Ismene for help and Ismene refuses. Creon declares if Antigone does funeral rites for Polynices, she will be put to death. She does the funeral rites anyway and is buried alive in a cave, eventually dying by suicide. 

(A lot of other things happen with gods and stuff, but this is the gist and all you really need to know for the game.)