Tanglewood

After I posted today’s Blaugust prompts, especially the bit about the origin of most of my characters’ last name, “Tanglewood”, Bhagpuss commented that there was actually a game by that name, back awhile ago. I had absolutely no idea. It was kind of funny that he’d also considered “Tanglewood” as the name of his druid. The 80s-era game was for the Amiga and the Atari ST, and looked like a pretty standard adventure game of the era, with some rather nice graphics to go along with the gameplay. This is back when adventure games were a genre – a genre that no longer exists. ...

I at first didn’t want to write anything about fear, the topic of the first Blaugust Promptapalooza prompt. I’d much rather talk about the second one, which was easy, and all prepared. But, I came into this Blaugust thing determined to write a post for each writing prompt. Just because something is hard doesn’t mean I get to skip each. The things that are hard, are the things on which I should focus. ...