dangerous high school girls in trouble!

Why am I at work now, reading about what could possibly be the most amazing game ever (at least on the casual front), when I could be at home PLAYING THE FUCKING DEMO??!!!

Fuck me! And since I haven't played it yet, I don't really have much to say beyond the above, and while I might update with some impressions once I actually have, I'll leave it to the developers to do the explaining:

1. First RPG of literary, social satire.
2. Re-imagined combat systems are the heart a new kind of RPG: Taunt, Fib, Flirt, Expose Secrets, and Gambit. Mix in branching dialog, powerful prizes, and stat leveling for complete RPG nutrition.
3. Build a party of adventurers from high school girls inspired by classic cinema divas: Mae West, Marlena Dietrich, Myrna Loy, Barbara Stanwyck, Clara Bow, etc.... Unleash them upon the intolerant and hypocritical elders of their hometown. Flush out Brigiton's absurd secrets and crazy power-brokers. Win, use, and discard a dozen boyfriends along the way. (or keep some around for pleasure.)
4. Set in 1920s small town USA, your girls begin by making a pet project of their school's new maintenance man. They first expose his crimes and then fight to save him from the gallows. The full epic pits 'girl-rilla' subversion against cultural tyranny. It's "Planescape: Torment" meets "Peyton Place" as if told by Sinclair Lewis.
5. The world is presented as a beautiful but vintage board game. Battle from the halls of their high school, through downtown businesses, across suburb streets, to wilds beyond city limits. It's the parlor game your great-grandmother will deny ever playing.
6. Designed for folks who love RPGs and for advanced, casual gamers.
7. This is the game with girls that ISN'T about courage, friendship, trust and the joy of discovery. It's more like--survival of the sassiest.

Survival of the sassiest? I am so fucking there it's ridiculous - it's like Rose & Camellia times like a hundred million. Anyway, the demo for Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!, a current entry in IGF 2007 (that's Independent Games Festival, for you n00bs), is available at mousechief.com. Counting down the hours...