This month has been a great opportunity to flesh out pieces of my setting that I hadn't really thought about.
One thing that I thought was clever was my reference to "podcasts" as a sort of live public discussion back on Day 12.
This was inspired by a couple of social media posts.
So the idea of "podcasts" continuing older social and storytelling traditions seemed like a fun thing to bring to a post-apocalyptic society.
But as I was thinking about it, I remembered that there were local television and radio stations. And with radio and music turning up in Fallout 3 (which I recently completed), I think I want to take some time to develop and explore that.
One of the fun things about basing your setting on a real place is that you can do research and look things up. Which just puts the parts that are completely made up into perspective. Specifically, the Bigfoot rulers of Squatch-ville.
On top of the challenge of making up Sasquatch society from whole cloth, I know there are certain threads I clearly want to avoid. Mostly trying to avoid the sort of "Native American fetishism" that is easy to fall into when you're trying to build an "ancient culture that lives in balance with nature."
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I am really glad you enjoyed this Challenge and I've been following all your entries - great stuff!
For some reason this entry reminded me of that scene in the post-apocalyptic movie with the dragons...Reign of Fire?...where the guy is telling a campfire tale/oral history about Star Wars. He's telling the story of Star Wars as if it were a fairy tale, with movie or pictures, similar to how C-3PO tells it to the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi.
Looking forward to next year and thanks again!
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