217: Many Nights a Whisper (with Flora Merigold)

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Join Dave and special guest Flora Merigold (Epilogue Gaming, Left Behind Game Club) as they discuss Many Nights a Whisper (Deconstructeam, Selkie Harbour, 2025). Many Nights a Whisper puts you in a high-pressure situation and asks you to make tough choices that will have an impact on whether you make the climactic shot or not. We discuss the marriage of narrative and mechanics, our approaches to granting or denying wishes, the shot, and much more. As always, there are no spoilers for a while.

Guest info: Flora Merigold (she/her)

• Check out Epilogue Gaming https://epiloguegaming.com/author/flora-merigold/
• Check out Left Behind Game Club https://leftbehindgame.club/
• Follow Flora on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/floramerigold.bsky.social

TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 Title
• 0:16 Introductions
• 3:53 Personal Histories with Many Nights a Whisper
• 5:44 Top-Level Thoughts
• 13:09 Story Setup and Wishes
• 20:29 Wishes, Tension and Thematic Explorations
• 38:53 Practice Makes Perfect
• 44:45 Music and Visuals
• 46:35 Who Should Play?
• 49:15 Flora's Creative and Artistic Work
• 53:41 Spoiler Wall & Patron Thank-Yous
• 55:56 Spoilers- Pink Cats and Healthy Tobacco
• 1:06:39 Spoilers- Removing Animal Souls and Making Gender Irrelevant
• 1:20:46 Spoilers- No More Work and Wanting a Nemesis
• 1:41:33 Spoilers- Mounting Pressure, No More Sleep, No More Religion
• 1:56:04 Spoilers- The Last Wish
• 2:09:53 Spoilers- The Shot and Final Musings

Music used in the episode is credited to fingerspit. Tracks used: Many Nights a Whisper, Ten Years Ago You Were Chosen, Doing My Best Is All I Can Give Them, New Strength, My Heart's Faint Call, The Ceremony, Into the Moonless Night

Cover art by Jack Allen- find him at https://linktr.ee/JackAllenCaricatures