Making a guy is complicated

At least, it is when your guy wears queen size pantyhose. And this is about the Guy Fawkes guy I am making. I'm using pantyhose for the arms and legs, but they just keep stretching and stretching.

I was aiming for a guy reminiscent of RiffRaff but, seriously, this is like the Lovecraftian squid-guy. I decided to hyphenate "squid-guy" because frankly, the sound my screen reader makes for "squidguy" is evocative of...something spongy and wet and menacing, maybe a squeegee after the sorcerer's apprentice turned it to the dark side, transforming it into a multi-armed sinister squeegee (isn't there a synonum for multi-armed that begins with s???).

Would you like to play a game?

Now that Alexx has gotten me kind of addicted to Echo Bazaar, I'm looking for more friends to play with. I never come close to using up my daily allotment of actions, so having people to spend them on would actually be useful.

For my blind friends: Echo Bazaar is mostly accessible if you are the sort of person who is willing to do a bit of screen exploration and not stress when the occasional action card does something you can't see. I read the filename and it often gives me enough of an idea that I can learn to identify action cards, but most of the game is made of short text snippets, so it's pretty screen reader-friendly.

The start page for Echo Bazaar has a long non-intuitive URL, so I usually just go to google and type in echo bazaar and the top link takes me to the game. I sign in using my Twitter account--after you are signed up you can also sync your Facebook account, and if you allow Echo Bazaar access to your Twitter and Facebook accounts, it will find your friends who are also on Echo Bazaar.

To get started, I recommend checking out the help page, especially the "First Steps" wiki. The top of the Echo Bazaar page is navigational links, and the last of these links is "Help," so I usually do a control+f for help and then begin to arrow down. Going tot he "Story" page takes you to the game play, and the "Me" page gives you your stats. Clicking on the "Map" lets you access a list of links to various locations around Fallen London, the name of the city which is the setting of the game.

Oh, the silhouettes which are the avatars are kind of descriptive, but some require guessing. I chose "writer," which is a silhouette of a lady writer with a quill pen. I requested that more text description be added to the Echo Bazaar page, but perhaps some of my sighted friends could describe the silhouettes here?