Dreamdrift Finale Early Access (Youtube) (Patreon)

CW: [characters playing a horror D&D oneshot, including:][flickering images][horror themes and atmosphere throughout][references to spirits, violence, deaths][sounds of and descriptions of violence, pain][auditorily and emotionally intense][raised voices/yelling][aggressive tone and language][arguing][sudden loud noises][various monstrous sounds (arachnophobia)][references to flooding/drowning][characters in danger both knowingly and unknowingly]

NOTE: There might be a loud beep at 8:15 for a few seconds! I removed it with the Youtube editor tool but it may not have fully finished processing that update if you watch right when this goes up, so please be mindful of that.

we’ll go with “Halloween is a mindset rather than a specific date” lol, given the time this is actually releasing. I wish it didn’t come out so late, but it’s a monster of a video in and of itself, and non-channel life has been absolutely spinning out lately. But I’m proud of the final result, and I hope you all enjoy! This thing has stretched every creative muscle I’ve got and made me learn all kinds of new skills and stuff for the audio and video composition, which is great, but I’m officially exhausted (and to be perfectly honest, really sick of hearing my own voice lol). I’ll definitely be taking off the first week of November.

This video set has become so much more than I ever imagined it would, and I’m glad so many of you have enjoyed it! Thank you again for all the kind words, it’s been a big motivator.

P.S. I found a hundred and one little errors in the D&D gameplay I’d mapped out at each step of the writing, recording, audio, and video editing processes, all the way up to the very last pass through the finished video. I tried to fix all of them and keep this aboveboard, but like a real life game, it’s distinctly possible I still missed some kind of rule or miscalculated a total. If I did, I chalk it up to Elliott’s house rules. Or my own sleep deprivation XD One of these days I might have to do a behind-the-scenes-ish kinda thing on this whole process, it’s been a wild one in many different ways. But I digress.

P.P.S. this is only tangentially related, but I’m stuck waiting for the render to finish as I write this anyway, and it’s on the mind: such a gut punch to hear about Patrick Stewart passing away. I know I shove Star Trek references into my writing all the time, but I truly mean it when I say I would not create the way that I do or probably even have made this channel without Star Trek being in my life, Next Generation especially, as it was the one that opened the door for me to the entire franchise. And Patrick Stewart was such a huge part of what made that series resonate with me. Sometimes I’ll just watch compilations of Captain Picard speeches because they’re just captivating. Even when I’ve heard them a dozen times, they still hit, and while that’s of course a testament to the writing as well, it was brought to life by his performances, and his passing has got me thinking in reflection of just how much those shows have meant to me and how much they’ve impacted my life. Even the idea for Dreamdrift, specific an example as it is, came about, in part, from watching holodeck-goes-wrong episodes of the series. Rest in peace.