Design a MUD area based on works of Edgar Allan Poe, primarily "The
Fall of the House of Usher". This will be a very literary area
emphasizing plot and atmosphere. Use Poe text in descriptions. Player
exploring area should receive similar impression to reading Poe
story.
* Direction
- Be fun for current players and attractive to new players.
- Appropriate for low-level characters, levels 5-20
- Concentrate on atmosphere, puzzles, plot
- Steady-state (house doesn't fall except as special event)
* Subareas
- Approach: wilderness & tarn
- Roderick's studio
- Bedroom
- Crypt
- Library: books are portals to other similarly themed or off-themed
areas (King in Yellow, Sesame Street, ...)
- Cask of Amontillado
- Hop Frog's swinging flaming orangutan puzzle
* Mobs
- Roderick
- Madeline
- doctor
- servants: numerous and strong enough to be moderate leveling
challenge.
- Fortunato
- Eight orangutan maskers
- (PC is in role of Usher narrator, Montresor, Fortunato(?), Hop
Frog)
* Sights and Events
- White crypt painting
- Snatches of ballad "The Haunted Palace" (name area for it?)
- Sound of Madeline breaking out of crypt.
- fall of house (special event (Halloween?))
- Berenice's teeth (not sure I want to make area a Poe pastiche, but
also doubt my ability to make a satisfactory area drawing on only a
single Poe story.)
