Your basic escape the pocket dimension type adventure. Its SOOOO long, so if anyone actually takes the time to read and give me feedback, I owe you a nice sandwich.
Nevertheless, here it is… pasting in my draft marketing blurb/back cover:
Unveiling the
Thither Ruins of the Dimlit Downlands
“All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
Gentle Reader, weary of your work-a-day life and yearning for pilgrimage? Cast aside your concerns and descend into the depths of the Thither Ruins of the Dimlit Downlands, a realm where the Player Characters are tested amidst the grotesque beauty of decay.
What town of any antiquity or note hath not been once, again and again, defaced, ruinated, and left desolate?
Principally a…
A CITY CRAWL
Traverse crumbling Boroughs, each a testament to the ephemeral nature of worldly glory. Encounter the peculiar Populace— beings fashioned from the very clay of this dimlit expanse.
Also occasionally a…
A DEPTH CRAWL
Navigate the treacherous roads between Boroughs, braving the Library Rifts and crossing the Lake of Regret, while engaging in repartee with Fellow Pilgrims and deciphering cryptic graffiti.
“In morbo recolligit se animus”
- In sickness the mind reflects upon itself.
While seeking a Way Out to return to the banalities of the Uplands, the pilgrimage through The Downlands will forever alter those that visit. Embrace the bittersweet allure of The Downlands, where poetry, song, melancholic musings, and absurd encounters abound.
