Creating an anti-monument.

[jadasc]

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a

Comments

[signsoflife]

that's pretty neat, thanks for posting.

[jadine]

Wow, that's really interesting.

Fools

[etherial]

Every single place, in the history of mankind, from a previous age, with signs warning about death and danger was looted in the extreme. Thousands of people will die if they put up these signs.

Re: Fools

[jadasc]

Well, yeah. Overcoming that is the premise of the piece.

Re: Fools

[etherial]

You can't overcome it by doing the same thing everyone else did.

Re: Fools

[jadasc]

Right. Which is why they're trying to do the intentional opposite of what they did.

[zebediah]

Sadly, it doesn't fit in the game I'm running now, or at some point our heroes would encounter a massive structure that, when mapped out, is revealed to be the outline of a man dying from horrible illness. This is a practical use of mythological thinking...