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I’ve got this worldbuilding project where a big chunk of land is cordoned off. I’m not sure what’s inside. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Vaguely poking at an alternate history type project where the USA fractured into multiple warring states in a multisided modern civil war.

Since I can’t help but inject some kind of weird horror elements I added “The Ohio Exclusion Zone”, an area roughly bordering Ohio that has been completely walled off. The wall is patrolled and watched. Whatever is beyond it is so serious that the warring states all agree the wall is off limits of the war.

I don’t know what is beyond it though. My first thought was skinwalkers. Shapeshifting weird spirits seems pretty ominous. Maybe instead f them, just a giant black orb hovering in Ohio and doing, something…

I don’t know. What weird paranormal thing would make the military patrol a border and is such a threat that enemies of that military agree the border is off limits in war.

(Yes I’m asking people to be creative for me…)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about it being a giant lake, black, where faces peak out occasionally, screaming? That it turns out that every person killed recently was is having their soul harvested and its being drawn to this place. Here there are also strange abominations who feast on the orb, devouring the souls inside. This is bad enough but what if there's evidence of cooperation with humans? Like tech that was made for them? Or some logo that's visible somewhere and recognizable. Or multiple logos of all warring factions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A single word glinted unmistakably on the underside of the orb. “IKEA”.

But yeah some beyond comprehension monolith objects that were made with company parts would bring up some implications. Maybe it was a project that got out of control and is now locked down because nobody knows how to clean it up.