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   Ben Chandler (threeohfour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:11:00 JST Ben Chandler

   What section of a game world did you want to explore more deeply than allowed by the game? One of mine is the Hive in Riven - iconic enough that it was the box cover art, and such an evocative design, but we only get to see the smallest section of it.

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     vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:11:00 JST vga256

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     @ThreeOhFour this is far less engimatic than the hive, but this location in ultima viii captured my imagination for a decade

     in a cave near mythran's home, there is a set of massive, locked, double doors. i searched under every skeleton and behind every chest for months, trying to find a way to unlock them. my buddy at school and i talked for months about what we thought might be behind them.

     we graduated, and never figured it out.

     15 years later i found out that the doors could only be opened by summoning a golem, using a single pixel of dirt in the area. the golem pries the doors apart and it leads to....

     ... a big empty room 😆

     this was supposed to be a teleport/transition area to the Lost Vale expansion, that never got used in the final game.

     some things are best left to the imagination i guess.