I have permission from Cobalt to create a roleplay area based on his comics universe / the planet Boink.
(He was also nice enough to give me permission to use art clipped from his comics for it. Thanks, Cobalt!)
It’s a very scifi setting, but also very '80s in some ways. I’m thinking a strip mall with a zero-g gym/Foozball ring, and a few stores like a Porno Hut outlet (buy Lewb! Wet Dream! Vektron tapes!) and an arcade with Irata games and such, with space for other stores to move in.
Where would be the best place to wedge this cul-de-sac into the map?
What is the goal design-wise for the area? Are you designing a planet or just a couple buildings? Are the buildings in question dedicated and designed to service one/two particular interests more than others? Answers to stuff like that could help determine what direction to go with linking and if we need to engineer to handle things.
@Accipiter will likely need to weigh in on suitability and share what his ideas for Sinder are since this project seems to be city buildings mostly and we only have the one city mapped so far at this stage in map building.
Sinder - Light role play area in fairly contemporary town theme. Sex okay, but nothing extreme.
Sinder’s neighbor town across the bridge (no name yet) - More dark themed. When players want prostitution streets, slave trade, bdsm parlours, etc., this is where I’ll send them
Forest - Foresty things! I let the fennec take care of that one.
So, it feels like Boink would be suitable for its own area, right?
Where would you imagine it being located? An orbiting moon? Somewhere on this world? Maybe through the Sinder Town Hall’s Chamber of Portals?
I actually wasn’t thinking anything as grandiose as an entire planet - I considered the ‘rifting’ aspect of the setting, and was thinking a suburban-type strip mall, with the ‘gym’ being the anchor store (similar to how many strip malls are anchored by a grocery store) and a few other stores, got pulled in.
The concept of a Portal to Suburbia somewhere does make me giggle, though.
However, I could also see the potential of a hub area as ‘Boink Town - Light-hearted, sex-encouraged role play area’ and design around that concept?
I’d say the forest is dark and deep. It’s home to peaceful, winding trails. Log cabins. Nimbat villages. But further, there are lakes and mountains. Countryside. Open wilderness. Nature. Room for Very Large Things like dragons and giants. But who knows how far the forest winds, or how tall the trees get… there could be whole villages amongst the trees which never touch the ground nor see the sun, glowing with bioluminescence and foreign to the flame.
Sounds good to me!
We would need some gym/strip mall area. Sinder Crossing, and the road north, could work for that. But then we might need to build that gym as well.
I figured I’d build the parking lot, the gym/zero-g ball area, and the Porno Hut store, and that’d leave more mall spots open for whatever people would like to put in a strip mall.
I am still struggling with this a little. A combination of being busy, dealing with some depression, and… er, still writer’s block. I did commission art for one of the stores, though! I’ll likely tackle it on my next weekend.
I, uh, am finally almost done with this. Have one more room to describe, really.
But everyplace I thought of putting it has something there now, and I haven’t been able to find another good spot.
Suggestions on where to put a well-maintained, brightly-lit, upbeat strip mall? As opposed to the run-down, depressing ones I’ve found around? A seedy / run down / crime-riddled area isn’t really a good fit. : /
Woodford already has a strip mall, and an adjacent/included one there would seem a possibility. The vague goal for the area is ‘slightly more modern things than the homey old-town feel of Sinder’, and this might work there.