Some sort of body horror journaling game I almost made

I never settled on a name for this thing, maybe A Churning Body or Doomed Blood or my favorite (but still unsatisfactory) My Wretched Body.

Its (it's?) one of those solo journaling games where you just write things. This one is about turning into a horrible monster. I'm not sure if its any good especially since I have played almost no journaling games.

I got inspired to make it when I got back into body horror and watched The Fly (the 1986 film), Tetsuo The Iron Man (the 1989 film), and CHONDRIATIC a short game which can be played here (for free).

Anyways here is the game. 

What you need to play

Just something to write on and something to write with, and optionally a set of dice. 

Some tips for good body horror (from an amateur who doesn't really write at all)

Keep the setting grounded, it makes the body horror stand out all the more, modern settings are good for this

Describe things using all of the senses and don't overuse the sensation of pain

Keep it weird, even ridiculous things can be horrifying given the right context, the change and destruction of the body should never be standardized or clean

A lot of body horror has a sexual component to it so feel free to add that in if you want and if you don't then just don't, never feel pressured to write about something you don't want to do

To play the game start by answering the prompts in the prologue then answer the day 1 prompt and then the day 2 prompt and so on until all the days have been answered. You should probably read through all of the prompts before playing but you don't need to.

When answering a prompt if its a bullet point answer it with a paragraph (doesn't need to be a long one) if its a dash write a few words to a sentence. the order they are answered in does not matter, feel free to answer multiple at a time.

There will be some tables at the end of this post to give you some inspiration if needed

Prologue

•  What is the setting, the world and your place in it
• Who are you, name, job, personality
  - What is this person's best physical trait
  

 Day 1

• Describe your daily routine, make this detailed it will be very important

 

Day 2

• Go through your daily routine again
  - Describe some innocuous event that may or may not eventually lead to your horrible transformation
  

 

Day 3

• Go through your daily routine again
• You meet with someone who cares about you (family, friend, colleague)
  - You start to feel sick, as a footnote express your displeasure/annoyance/etc at this
  

 

Day 4

• Part of the way through your daily routine you become too sick to continue, you seek out treatment but the one examining you either does not recognize the sickness or that it isn't serious
  - Complain about how whatever medicine or treatment you received isn't working
  

 

Day 5

• The disease has left you incapacitated and unable to do your normal routine, complain about this
  - Describe how it feels to be sick
  - Describe your fears about how this might be serious or even life threatening
  

 

Day 6

• Either today you feel fine and not sick at all or you feel better than normal to an almost unnatural extent, either way explain how good it feels to be back to normal
• Go through your daily routine again
  

 

Day 7

•  Go through your daily routine again
• You meet again with the person who cares for you, they are worried about you
  - They spot something strange about your body, a prelude to the transformation to take place, ignore or deny it

 

Day 8

• You become horribly incapacitated by the disease, you cannot leave your home, describe the specifics of the pain and discomfort 
• Your body begins to change, either your skin becomes horribly transformed or you grow some new limb or body part, small enough at this point to be hidden
  

 

Day 9

• In a desperate attempt to end this curse you try and remove it physically or with medicine, it only ends up hurting you or causing you to transform even further
  

 

Day 10

• The person who cares for you sees you, at first they are horrified but after that they might remain horrified, feel pity towards you, or scorn you
• The changes continue, describe something mundane that has become completely different for you
  

Day 11

• Part of your body falls off, what is underneath it
  

Day 12

• Your best physical trait either gets removed or is made grotesque
  

Day 13

• Your body has lost, your last vestiges of humanity fall away, you are a monster, what do you look like, why do you hate this new body
  

Day 14

          - What were the last words you spoke and who did you speak them to, you may not have known they were going to be your last words

          - Choose one describe where you were last seen before disappearing or you died a dramatic death, where did it happen, how did it happen, and who saw it

Tables

Whats the setting d6

1 The streets and slums of a large city, grimy, full of the disrespected and disreputable 

2 Suburbia, everyone seems happy, all the houses look the same, the truly grotesque is not allowed here

3 Small rural town, weary of outsiders, quaint traditions and old grudges, quietly dying

4 Upper class part of town, lavish parties, men in suits, vicious competition, every word a lie or threat

5 A warzone, inevitable destruction, grass trampled to mud, reasonable and unreasonable paranoia

6 In the wilderness, nothing but nature for miles, you are almost always alone, its almost too green

Who are you d6

1-2 A nobody, you have no power or influence over the world

3-4 Normal person, caught up in events beyond your control

5-6 An important person, you have power over others, not over yourself

Theme of your daily routine d8

1 Lots of work, you hate it

2 Lots of work, you love it

3 Creativity

4 Boredom

5 Dehumanizing

6 Dangerous

7 Religious

8 Obsessed

Body parts d10

1 Eyes

2 Nose

3 Ears

4 Hands

5 Hair

6 Chest

7 Foot

8 Tongue

9 Teeth

10 Nails

 

The person that cares for you d6

1 A parent

2 Childhood best friend

3 A sibling

4 A grandparent

5 A lover

6 A coworker

 

Horrific Transformation d8

1 Wounds, blood, insides made outside, exposed organs

2 Insect like, compound eyes, flesh and exoskeleton, teeth and mandibles intertwine

3 Reptilian, scales under skin, blood cooling, endless hunger

4 Mechanical, wires replace veins, shrapnel grows from flesh, blood-rusted iron

5 Plant like, thorns sprouting through flesh, mold decomposing you, flowers you hate

6 Petrification, cracked stone skin, crystals piercing organs, teeth replaces with shards of flint

7 Withered, shrinking flesh, hollow chest devoid of organs, starvation

8 Exaggerated, arms stretched too long, a smile too wide with too many teeth, uncanny valley

 

Symptoms

1 Coughing

2 Vomiting

3 Sore body

4 Delirious 

5 Fever

6 Diarrhea

7 Internal pain

8 Bleeding from orifices

If anyone actually plays it I would love to hear about it, I myself have only played it once and it was pretty fun, I might do it again some time soon.