[Torg] the lands below

[Kansas Jim]

Crabshtick wrote:

>                     ive also been working on the lands below. here are 
> my current ideas .......

> cyber-papacy - purgatory (as hell is already part of the realm) endless 
> empty crypts but what else?
> also the godnet has a hell and a purgatory so would they all link?

I would not let the Land Below link to the GodNet, except maybe as a
one-time thing, they're just too different.

Actually I would say to take the description of Inferno from the Land
Below's section on the caverns beneath the Cyberpapacy and expand it
into a domed world writeup.

> aysle - maze world lots of warped realitys and traps -like the dragon 
> comic strip if you remember that far back.

A maze-like dungeon underneath the fantasy realm may be a bit too much
of an in-joke with gamers; oh of course there's a monster-filled
dungeon beneath Aysle, I bet there will be 10' x 10' rooms full of
monsters and treasure too! (Even worse if they remember the Dragon
comic strip and keep bringing it up.)

As the LB book indicates, the Ayslish are already familiar with
underground realms in the form of their own Land Between, a domed
world similar to the Land Between may them form beneath the realm.

> nile empire - very much underground tombs to raid but is this too 
> similar to nile empire as it stands?

Not to sound like a broken record, but maybe the Underworld mentioned
in the Land Below book as being beneath the Nile Empire could be
turned into a domed world?

> nippon-tech - endless access tunnels but what to fill it with?

Giant monsters! Yes, as already mentioned in the Land Below book.

It's not that I'm looking at the LB book and saying "it's already in
there", I'm coming up with these ideas on my own and then looking
at the LB book and seeing that they've already thought of the same
things.

> tharkold - an AI is incharge here and keeps pumping out bots - like the 
> film screamers or terminator if you dont know where im at (but again is 
> this too similar to the realm?)

A problem there is that the domed worlds have the axioms of the Land
Below and you can't really do AIs and robots with Tech 8.

At least no broken record here since the LB book came out before
Tharkold. :)

> space gods - havnt got a clue!

Maybe something out of Incan mythology rather than trying to base
the domed world around the Akashans?

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