Granite Picks Four Scaredy-Cats for an Evening Horror Watch Party

UNIRAID! — Granite of Uniraid! spent a Monday-morning chat stream, a *zatsudan*, announcing that he would host a horror watch party that evening. Four fellow Uniraid! members will play the co-op game The Outlast Trials while he watches without playing, a setup he called his “amusement room.”

He said he chose the four because they are bad with horror games. “I have to gather people who are weak at it,” he said, adding that he had gone through their past horror streams to decide. He described one as the likeliest to carry the group and another as the one who would scream the loudest, and told viewers who follow the other two that the loudest voice might drown out what they came to see. He made the thumbnail live during the stream, pasting in photos of the four. He also warned that the game shows plenty of blood and some gore, and asked viewers to look away if they needed to.

“I have to gather people who are weak at it. I looked into it.” — Granite, on choosing the four members for his horror watch party

Start time was not settled. He said the broadcast would begin at either 6 p.m. or 7 p.m., and that he was weighing whether to push the group through the game’s single-player tutorial on stream beforehand.

The stream began with trouble getting his voice to register on a new microphone. Over roughly half an hour he adjusted the settings in his streaming software and on the microphone, and concluded that a noise gate had been cutting out his lower tones. Later he told a story from his own life: struck by a turning car at a crosswalk, he rolled some 20 to 30 meters, ended up with scrapes, and then called the police when the elderly driver, a private taxi operator, tried to pass him off as his son to a hospital.

He also drifted through ideas for future streams, including a fast-food eating contest and Cocoforia tabletop games, and said he was looking forward to a tabletop game collection for Nintendo Switch 2 due out the next day. Near the end he said the stream’s title reflected a real wish: he wanted a clear name for the stretch between morning and noon. He ended the chat after about two hours and 40 minutes, saying he was hungry and would see viewers at the evening collab.