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[camwyn]

I've been rereading The Night Land: A Story Retold on the bus and train rides to and from work, and entertaining the possibility of dropping a post set there in one of the sandbox RPGs I occasionally post at. It's the setting I'm interested in more than the characters, although I did eventually find myself very fond of Naani and Andros and Cartesius, and trying to float a character from the Great Redoubt or the Lesser Redoubt somewhere in an extant RPG wouldn't really convey the full sense of what that world's unbelievably far future was like. 'Course, the question then becomes whether anyone else would be all that interested in paying a visit, especially since the two Redoubts are both sealed habitats and simply appearing somewhere in the darkened world itself is a great way to attract a Force of Evil (that's not me handwaving, that's how the people of the story refer to the malign influences that don't have physical bodies, capitals and all) or an unspeakable far future monster, either of which would stand a powerful chance of eating the new arrivals and possibly destroying their souls before they ever encountered a human being.

At least The Night Land has a decently open setting. The last time I got really interested in a fundamentally different-from-Earth-as-we-know-it setting, the whole thing was so strongly tied up in the prophecies about what the central characters were going to do that there just didn't strike me as much to be done outside of the central quests, other than maybe wandering around going "Oh, hey, blue people!" or what have you.