![]() They were a receptive audience for their unusual ninth roommate. (The last names of many of the students have been withheld at their request.) Another roommate, Isabella, went through a bad breakup soon after Larry arrived. Claudia and Santos had both struggled with depression. There was Daniel Barban Levin, who had begun exploring his sexuality. (“We’re different, so are you,” goes one of the school’s slogans.) They were also sensitive and, in ways common to 19-year-olds, searching for guidance. The residents of Slonim 9 were in some ways typical Sarah Lawrence students: an artistic, bookish group of introverts with good grades. The school’s head of security once sent out safety alerts because a small fox had been seen on campus. It can feel whimsically sheltered, even more so than most liberal-arts colleges. ![]() Located just above the city limits of New York, Sarah Lawrence looks as if it had been plucked from a New England town and plopped 15 miles north of Times Square. At night, he’d retire to an air mattress in Talia’s room or the common-room couch. He screened Carl Sagan’s Cosmos in the common room, where the students watched from pillows on the floor, and followed it with an impromptu lecture on the nature of the universe. “He did all of our cleaning and definitely took on the dad role in the house in a big way,” says Juli Anna, one of the Slonim 9 roommates. He was a good listener and engaged the group on heady concepts like truth and justice. “Can you defend yourself? You look really weak.” “Do you work out?” Larry would ask Talia’s friends. ![]() His machismo was out of place on the liberal-arts campus. He had a clean-shaven head and favored polo shirts cut to make his 50-year-old frame look hulking. Larry was of average height and overweight, yet he could be intimidating. He loved to preach the values of the Marine Corps and dropped references to his relationships with high-ranking American military officers. While they ate, he told them stories in a nasal Brooklyn accent about his long and decorated history as a government agent, his former work as an international CIA operative, how he recovered Stinger missiles off the black market and engineered a cease-fire in Kosovo. He planted himself in the common area, cooking steak dinners and ordering expensive delivery for Talia and her seven housemates. Within days of his release, Larry Ray moved onto Sarah Lawrence’s campus. So in late September 2010, at the beginning of sophomore year, when Talia told her housemates that her father was getting out of prison and needed to crash with them for a while, they were mostly unfazed. Talia, who had grown up in New Jersey, was old for a freshman and had become the de facto leader of her group of friends, organizing their housing for the next year at Slonim Woods 9, a drab two-story brick dorm in the middle of campus. He’d been sent to prison for his heroic efforts to save her and her younger sister from their abusive mother, and his incarceration was the result of deep-seated government corruption. He was a truth teller, she’d explain, who’d been silenced by a group of powerful, vindictive men. Apparently 1259 is also the year when Japan's Shōka era ended, which is a right shocker.Anyone who spent time with Talia Ray during her first year at Sarah Lawrence College heard her talk about her father. 1259 is, I'm told, a highly cototient number - which sounds pretty spooky to me. People in the USA get to rock out with a pure kvlt price for Halloween, see. ![]() Night In The Woods is very slightly on sale on Steam, down to £12.59/€16.79/$16.66. But I guess they'll be bundled together tidily. Those two are currently pay-what-you-want from Itch, with no minimum price, so you can play them right now anyway. The Weird Autumn Edition will also give folks the two little side games Longest Night and Lost Constellation. New and improved things? A good game getting better? Okay! ![]() What exactly the update will bring is something of a mystery for now. Promising "new weird", "new crimes", and "old tales", they say to "think of it as the Night In The Woods director's cut." I've just about come to terms with the initial coming-of-age crisis so sure, I should be up for more when the free update hits on December 13th. The wonderful Night In The Woods will receive "a whole bunch of new content" later this year with its 'Weird Autumn Edition' update, developers Infinite Fall have announced. ![]()
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