From yardwork to eldritch horror?
Some yardwork this afternoon (yesterday was too wet), mostly trying my turn with the new, more powerful weedwhacker: getting the jump on second growth where D cleared beside the driveway a couple weeks ago, back by the AC, and more round where the woods are trying to encroach on the edges of the lawn. Hacking through this jungle made think of the book I'm listening to these days on the commute, David Grann's Lost City of Z (not to be confused with the audiobook from a couple months ago, World War Z :-)
And listening to Lost City of Z has been really, really making my think of the Starkweather-Moore Antarctic expedition from "Beyond the Mountains of Madness"; totally opposite kind of hostile environment, of course-where the Antarctic is too barren and lifeless, the problem in the Amazon is too much life-and Fawcett and Starkweather are about as opposite as classic English explorer stereotypes could be. But considering what Fawcett was looking for, and the way his expedition simply vanished, it's just crying out for a similar treatment. At least, it's got my campaign-design juices running again for the first time in a long while. For now I'll just keep listening to the Grann book and see how it goes, but I'm also getting out some of my game system books and rereading.
(Heh, the other Z book could also tie in, come to think of it.)
And listening to Lost City of Z has been really, really making my think of the Starkweather-Moore Antarctic expedition from "Beyond the Mountains of Madness"; totally opposite kind of hostile environment, of course-where the Antarctic is too barren and lifeless, the problem in the Amazon is too much life-and Fawcett and Starkweather are about as opposite as classic English explorer stereotypes could be. But considering what Fawcett was looking for, and the way his expedition simply vanished, it's just crying out for a similar treatment. At least, it's got my campaign-design juices running again for the first time in a long while. For now I'll just keep listening to the Grann book and see how it goes, but I'm also getting out some of my game system books and rereading.
(Heh, the other Z book could also tie in, come to think of it.)