GLÅUGUST Challenge 5, #1: Write a location where roughly 80% or more of the language is directly lifted from a single author or poet (they can't be a ttrpg writer, don't be dull).
The following almost entirely uses paintings & text pulled directly from the works of surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington. (A word or two has been added here and there, mainly some word tenses changed and some sections mixed around or re-arranged.)
But it's not just some of her works that I pulled from. I have tried to stuff aspects from every one of her published short-stories into one 117-node point crawl.
Players act as debutantes and sisters of some great family, with the collective goal of trying to figure out how to most intensely upset your mother at the upcoming ball in a few hours.
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Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse), 1938
Misc Thoughts
I debated editing things more, to try and work in more game-able elements, challenges, motivations, etc., but figured it's not quite as in the spirit of the challenge to make broad sweeping changes. Besides, as Carrington was a surrealist, often these stories are abrupt or dreamlike after all.
As such, if one were to actually use this, a lot of improvisation and detail-filling would likely be needed for a more playable experience. Reading the short stories that these actually come from also likely would help.
In the laid out Scenario, each character is assumed to be a mundane-but-capable young woman with some level of education and training befitting a young socialite.
After adventuring around a while, the game enters its finale either: A). when the party is put into an inescapable / deathly situation, or B). most players feel like it's a good time to start wrapping things up.
At that moment: the dinner bell rings and everyone somehow hurries home to Crookhey Hall at once- along with any would-be captors & pursuers, any friends invited as guests, etc etc. Then, play out stirring as much chaos as possible before the curtain falls.
This post is a fan work, with no affiliation to any legally representative parties or rights holders.
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