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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 10:19:11 JST myrmepropagandist

   I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.

   I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?

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     Pseudo Nym (pseudonym@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 10:19:15 JST Pseudo Nym

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     @futurebird

     I'm loving this thread. Do read the comments.

     Reminds me of a #ttrpg I ran, part inspired by Red Dwarf (an abandoned ship as big as a city) crossed with Jack Chalkers "Well of Souls" books.

     Earth demons were real, an advanced alien species, and imprisoned on their ship. Ship AI wanted to free them.

     Demons were large, so their hand control was huge. Party referred to it as the "command banana" as they carried this black basalt 4 foot rock about, not understanding how it worked.

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     Si Fuller (si_fuller@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 10:19:19 JST Si Fuller

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     @futurebird You know how at the end of Raiders where you see the huge secure warehouse full of mystic artefacts? What if that's exactly what the hidden temples were, and there was some Biblical Indiana Jones who stole the Ark from an even older secure site. And some day, a 45th century Indiana Jones will rob the US warehouse and defy *its* security.

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