I had been nibbling on this for a bit, but i finally had the time to sit down and properly take it in.
I spent the whole time grinning like an damn idiot.
The game itself has really brilliant takes on the more well trodden mechanics of TTRPGs, the class system of You Will Die being one of my favorite aspects of a game in a while. But its everything else that makes this stand out and really resonate with me so much.
I was lied to when this was recommended to me, this is no game, its fucking art. You've done a breathtaking job weaving so many fantastic ideas into the setting and the metanarrative's storytelling, and as someone who thinks everything is about her this part in particular felt very personal to me, some of the work this references i was familiar with and the feelings this draws from are things that i had been mulling over for a while. It felt almost validating(?) to read a work that took someone else's version of the horrible virus i had been infected with, and created a piece of art that is such an eloquent melding of existentialism, consciousness, art, communication, and hell, transness all together. It was something that i found exceedingly hard to articulate to even just myself, but here you managed to do so in such a spectacularly awe-some fashion.
I hope you know that you've made something really (really!) beautiful and special, and that me and so many other little freaks are going to obsess over this for a good long while.
Your benign neurological parasites are doing just fine.
(P.S. The amount of books you've made me add to my reading list is both a wondrous blessing and a damnable curse!)