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So tell me, what’s your overall thoughts on Mummy: The Curse, and what are these off-canon ideas you mentioned?

God this has been sitting here a while.

Long story short: Mummy is one of my favorite games. I think that the time travel/alternate continuities aspect of it was absolutely genius, there's so much you can do storywise with it. The powers are satisfying and well-designed, I love how cults are baked into the gameplay, it's just generally a really solid and underrated game.

Also, the Mummies on Mars setting? Literally the coolest fucking thing that has ever been done in Chronicles of Darkness and it has so much competition for that title.

However.

I really don't like they gave a concrete history of Irem. I think that both ruins the mystique of it and having a one true history undermines the uncertainty of Mummy. I think part of the horror comes from not knowing what kind of world you'll wake up into, or if it's even close to what you think you should know. I'd have preferred something like the story seeds that you see in a lot of other games, and I really like the idea that even when you get a bunch of high-Memory mummies together, they're always going to have details of Irem that just don't quite line up together. To me that also helps emphasize how genuinely lost Irem is.

...oh, also I just think if someone is deep into Sybaris, they should perceive the mummy that inflicted it either as having aspects of the Judge they serve, or as the animal representative of their Decree. No reason other than it's cool.