#locations

Location Ideas:

A building in the middle of a large natural area away from civilization, e.g.: a desert, a camp in the mountains, an abandoned town.

An actual space station, like hinted at in V3.

A mansion.

A hotel.

A prison.

A moving train with the windows walled off similar to Hope's Peak in the first game.

A cruise ship on the sea with either the captain deck closed off or not functioning.

Underground shelter or underwater building.

Room Ideas:

Interview room. Can be used for interrogating students who the others find suspicious. If we have another twist that the students signed up for the game it can be implied that the game eunners used that exact room to interview them.

Camera observation room. Can lead to cases where students have to find out how the killer managed to kill someone when the whole class has access to cameras.

Space observatory.

Morgue or cemetery.

A particularly observant reader or follower might have noticed already that a few details have shifted already across posts about Summer With the Silverwood Wolves, my upcoming werewolf romantasy in the vein of Fruits Basket and The Inheritance Games. One of these details being the location of the story.

My first summary describes the characters as being in upstate New York which was a grievous error. I always intended for my werewolves to be beach werewolves, mixing in influences from The Summer I Turned Pretty (we'll talk about werewolf aesthetics and that whole mess later). I recalled vaguely that upstate New York has been a place where the East Coast rich lived in certain historical fiction I read as a child, but forgot that upstate New York is landlocked.

Oops.

I switched then to Newport, Rhode Island, where American economic and political dynasties such as the Vanderbilts and the Kennedys have their summer strongholds (inspiration for the set-up). However, as I've started drafting my story I've come to realize that Newport isn't quite right either.

In Summer With the Silverwood Wolves, I want the freedom to create settings as I see fit without worrying about the pesky facts of Newport, a place I have not been and will not be able to simply visit on a whim for my book (unfortunately). I thought about switching to Nantucket or elsewhere to get the vibe that I wanted, but have instead decided on creating a new location for the story.

However, I want to allude to my historical inspirations and the original bios by stating that this beachside village, the charming romping ground of my werewolves, is merely near Newport.

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sometimes i think that’s why i keep ending up near the water. not because i am looking for anything in particular, but because the waves never seem bothered by the idea of leaving. they throw themselves against the shore over and over again. only to disappear and return like nothing ever happened.

maybe some places aren’t meant to answer all your questions. some places are just there to remind you that it’s okay to keep going, even if you don’t know where you’re headed yet.

The Null Museum

NEIGHBORHOOD: Harborside

When an asteroid impact destroyed his farm in Gatlin Fields, Neil Murphy refused to let it deter him. Rather than move out of town, as many farmers affected by the impact chose to do, Neil gathered up as much material as he could from the area surrounding the impact and used the insurance payout from his farm’s destruction to purchase a small building in Harborside. That building became the Null Museum, a museum dedicated to the asteroid impact and the stories and superstitions surrounding it. 

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The ‘exhibits’ in the museum have evolved significantly over the years. While Murphy set out to have the museum be strictly educational in the beginning of his endeavor, his intentions seem to have shifted since. Some claim that the aura of the null impact asteroid infected his mind, possessing him and turning him into its unwitting vessel. Others point out that there’s more money to be made in the supernatural, and the museum attracts more tourists when the exhibits are more fantastical. Murphy himself has made no comment, though he has been known to charge tourists extra if they’re wearing any sort of scifi or alien memorabilia. 

The central exhibit in the museum is the Nullified Chunk, an affectionate nickname given to a large piece of the asteroid that Murphy was able to collect before the area was roped off by officials. It’s the largest known piece of the asteroid still around, and is about five feet by five feet large. 

The Chunk is what attracts the bulk of the crowds to the museum, with different groups having different superstitions and beliefs surrounding it. Even supernatural patrons of the museum often view the Chunk with a good deal of respect; undead, shifters, and fae alike carry strong opinions about the Chunk’s supernatural abilities and what it represents. 

Naturally, a few local cults love the museum (and the Chunk). It isn’t rare for them to facilitate large outings. On more than one occasion, security has thwarted attempted heists in which these cults have arrived with the nefarious purpose of stealing the Chunk. Many of these attempts fail before they even begin due to the Chunk’s size.

Besides the Chunk, there are a handful of other exhibits. These include a specimen Murphy claims to be the remains of an alien lifeform whisked away from the Impact Crater (it looks a lot like a worm), a piece of an alien spaceship (which happens to resemble the bumper of a 1998 Nissan Altima), and a photo exhibit of images captured around the Impact Crater both at the time of the impact, and in the years since. A few of these photos do seem pretty incomprehensible, displaying some of the supernatural lifeforms that exist around the Impact Crater, though most who don’t believe in that sort of thing easily shrug it off as photoshop.