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Nah, you didn't miss it.

Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to do anything about it - Life being "what happens to you whilst you're busy making other plans" and all that, our varying commitments as (alleged) adults mean I get to run my current game for my players once a month ... there's no room in the schedule for designing and playtesting games as well.

I very much doubt anyone would want to play it either; although I do do my best to include as much of it as possible in my game (it adds a certain piquancy to the proceedings 😉) ...  I have to smuggle it in amongst all the other elements of the session (and occasional intersession updates for each of the characters [1]) - I don't think a (non-pornographic) game of Waiting For The Washing Machine Repairman (or Mom's Who'd Like To F*ck But Don't Have The Time And Are Too Tired Even When They Do) would go down very well. So, my game is still more 'heroic' than not ... I just take the personal aspect of 'personal horror' very much to heart and weave it into things in ways I suspect most people wouldn't consider including in play themselves - it's one thing to contend with monstrous entities in the dark, but something else altogether when you have to worry about what will happen to your kids if anything happens to you whilst doing so (or, conversely, how you're gonna actually do it whist taking one to the doctor and keeping the other out of trouble after school).

So, sadly, the best I can do is throw the idea out there for someone else to run with, whilst doing my best to drive my own players to wrist-slitting despair with what we do have time for 😉.

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[1] A tailored "This is what else is going on in your life" for each of the players to contemplate between sessions and bring elements of into the next one as part of their characters' motivations: one of the PCs is going through a messy divorce right now, another is having to deal with their kid falling in with a bad crowd, one's out of work and desperately searching whilst their pitiful savings dwindle overdraft increases alarmingly rapidly, one's unhappy at their McJob but doesn't have time to find anything better (commuting, working, commuting, taking care of the kids, it all eats into their time), etc. - there's seven of them in total (four/five of whom can play any given month), so, even when we're not playing, and I'm not 'prepping' (contemplating where their most recent activities might take things next, if they don't declare a specific course of action themselves), I've enough to be thinking about as it is ... and a life of my own to lead in the background too (places to go, people to see, bills to pay, washing machines and central heating boilers to replace, yada yada yada, *sigh*).