Nobody can hear a word the Whisper is saying in this Blades in the Dark game
A group of Syracuse, New York, residents have been enjoying a game of Blades in the dark for the most part, if it weren’t for the fact that none of them can hear a single thing that their Whisper is saying. “It started as a joke, I think,” says Brandon Hurley, the group’s GM. “Sarah was picking the playbook out, and was all like, ‘oh, I guess I should whisper a lot, huh?’ We all laughed about it, but then she started doing it for real and now we can’t play with he air conditioner on if we want her to be able to participate.”
From what the other players have said, Sarah Benson’s voice has gotten quieter and quieter each time they’ve played, until it reached its current volume, somewhere below a cat’s purr when it’s cuddled up in a blanket. “I think we’ve got a good system going for now,” says Ashley Hartman, the group’s Cutter. “I record a podcast in my closet, so we send Sarah in there with my microphone, and then we just bump the volume on my mixer. It takes a little bit of finagling, but it’s worth it to keep the group together.”
We wanted to get Benson’s word as well, so we joined her in the closet to get her take on the situation. Seated in the tight space, we could practically hear our own heartbeats. The cloth above seemed to capture every bit of ambient sound, but even so, Benson’s voice came through like two feathers brushing together. She either said, “The veil is parting. The other side has grown too full, and they will claw their way back to the sunlit lands,” or she said something about the Pale King farting and he’s making new summer plans. Whatever the case may be, we commend the Syracuse group for the amount of thought and care they’ve put into keeping their little group together.
