Traveling through a hellish landscape, the heroes would have to protect a shadowy creature, not knowing how dark it really is. When all is said and done, will it go its own way, stay around to cause havoc, or turn on them when they are vulnerable?

Could be a fun option! Go to Comment

Meant as another quick one-off throwaway. Half-cliche, at the least. Go to Comment

I've /always/ hated the 'Light is Good, Darkness is Evil' trope.

And if he dies and takes the darkness with him? I suppose you might treat whatever deity has his soul to filter the darkness and return it, or go on an Orpheus-like quest to find his shade and drain the shadows of it. Most likely, though, it would be a place cursed to daylight eternal. Go to Comment

It will, undoubtedly, even out eventually; when it reaches an equilibrium between heat bleeding off into the surrounding region and heat generation within the area. It will most likely be a rather nasty magic desert, though. And yes, some very wild weather indeed; an immovable high pressure bubble that just fluxes around the edges would be quite the disruption for any weather patterns - and since weather is a chaotic system, there's no telling just how wildly the changes might propagate outward from the central point.

He could, indeed, be a priest; ever since I've been working on Kuramen, I tend to use mage to refer to any worker of magic, whether divine or arcane. I forget they're usually distinguished from each other... I suppose in that case, you might potentially need a powerful entity of the God of Darkness to look upon it and say 'Let There Be Night!' Go to Comment

Might make for an interesting quest to find out what had gone wrong; maybe some other magic is needed to restore the natural progression of day and night, or perhaps someone else needs to reuse the mage's ritual, and be killed at the moment of natural nightfall. Go to Comment

Darkness, in particular, will tend to overwhelm most people, but you are correct - even without the environmental impact, the perpetual light would eventually drive anyone living within the area completely mad, not to mention that for a while it'd likely also cause an increase in accidents, with a complete lack of shadows to help judge locations and distances. Go to Comment

An important thing I would like to note: Light is not necessarily good, nor is dark necessarily evil. That we often perceive them as such is merely a fallback to our racial memories. Go to Comment

As an idea, light is not always bright, nor right. And the second Showdown at High Noon option is... interesting, indeed. How do you restore shadow to a place like that? Go to Comment

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*imagines the mage being killed and night falling upon the area at once.* What if the night then refused to go away at dawn? Go to Comment

This a simple classic setup, and I think it is great. Go to Comment

An interesting idea. The perpetual light (or darkness) does drive people crazy eventually. Nice submission. Go to Comment

Hi all new the site, but I really like this plot.

What if the PCs have to ally with a force of darkness to undue the spell. This could be the standard compromise with evil, and be forced to destroy a corrupted institution of good routine.

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I didn't get to vote last time, but I thought I would give some credit today.

I don't see what is wrong with assembling a story arc via bullets. That is how medical school is taught. Go to Comment

I like it. Go to Comment

I must like cliches because I like it. And the entire fact that something is a cliche is because it has worked so often it has been proven.

I thought it was a great little piece. That the place is self-sustained and the owners are so nonchalant about sacrifices, it is crazy creepy. Sort of matter of fact that they have to find the perfect wayfarers to sacrifice.

Hook: They ask a lot of unusual questions of the PC or of travelers within listening distance of the PCs. Are you alone, do you have family, did you meet anybody in the last town, etc. Then the next morning they go missing.

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Yes, I do know this is a near-cliche. I felt vaguely compelled to throw it up anyhow. Go to Comment

I would be quite disturbed by anyone who voted as high as a 4 on this. It's literally just a one-off tossout while I'm half-sick with some unidentified bug. Go to Comment

I didn't dislike it. But you are right about the near-cliche part. The some more on the family members and motivational details about the devils would have helped. However, it's always nice to see a new sub throw up even if it isn't worth a solid 5 and a HoH. Go to Comment

cliche yes, but the execution is enough to keep it from being passe. Go to Comment