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SOME INTERESTING IDEAS TODAY: REAL WORLD AND GAMING AND FICTION
THE HOLE TO EVERYWHERE
Had some interesting ideas today, for both Real Life and for fiction and gaming scenarios.
The first inspired by this post: https://www.abandonedspaces.com/public/deepest-hole-discovery.html
In Real Life I’d just like to descend/spelunk/vad it.
In a fictional/gaming scenario I’d present it as an immensely deep hole with structure(s) along the inside edges like a spiral descending staircase. (no one knows who built it or by what means.) For fantasy it would be dungeons/ruins (maybe even a Reverse Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, inhabited by never before seen totally unique creatures, monsters, and beings – not all physical), for sci-fi abandoned alien complexes (the hole would be of alien origins and not dug or excavated but consumed by something), and for action/adventure/pulp it would be a deserted (or wrecked, or perhaps even partially alien) abandoned or destroyed governmental complex with special labs.
If you made it to the bottom then in fantasy you would find a portal to the Outer Planes (which runs in both directions), in sci-fi a strange anomaly or singularity (like a split off part of a Neutron star, this splinter would be called a neutrestor, than can bend dimensions – this might be how it is first detected, by the strange energy or signal emanations), or in pulp you’d find a further abandoned complex of very different designs than above. Or, would it be abandoned? Anyway in scifi and pulp you would find bizarre labs dotted around the entire hole and complex.
THE AMPLIPHON
Another idea I had was the Ampliphon, that is a Wizard’s Tower (abandoned or secretly inhabited) that can rotate at the base and be pointed at different directions from the inside. When this is done it either amplifies magic found in another region of the world and/or amplifies magic at the Tower itself (sometimes it transmit magical power, sometimes it receives or “recovers magical power,” sometimes it is a transceiver or magical force) so that entirely unique magics, items, relics, spells, etc. can be obtained. You can also then, depending on how it is pointed, use the Tower to communicate over huge distances with another aligned point and at some settings allow the bending of time and/or dimension, such as to Other Planes or astrally/ethereally.
I intend to build a real Wizard’s Tower (Theurgical Tower actually) at my Oikos-Villa site but it need not rotate (but maybe it should) and of course it will not amplify or moderate magical energies but rather electromagnetic radiation and likely communications signals. I may also attach it to my Observatory or have it sitting close enough by that they are of mutual benefit to one another.
Anyway I have long dreamt of doing the same things with large high rise buildings. To create them so that they can do this secondarily to their architectural design.
As regards sci-fi and pulp such a tower would operate as being consistent with their genre, though you could blur or blend genres or even turn this idea to horror as well. As you could with the Hole, of course.
In addition to gaming scenrios and ideas for Real World projects I may turn these ideas into various genre-based short stories or use them partially or intact as scenes in oen or more of my novels…
#RealWorld #fantasy #gaming #scifi #pulp
https://www.abandonedspaces.com/public/deepest-hole-discovery.html
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