Post AhISExQySeUmjfodnc by irenes@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AhH4XzjFCwkB9dY3zk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-25T11:57:20Z
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I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization. I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?
(DIR) Post #AhH4Y0xocFzez7NDLU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-25T21:32:27Z
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A mysterious race of aliens ... obsessed with escape rooms.
(DIR) Post #AhH4Y1sXDNMbp1uVkm by schrotthaufen@mastodon.social
2024-04-26T08:24:01Z
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@futurebird Plot twist: It was just the Wadi touring the galaxy on a chula promotion tour.
(DIR) Post #AhHP0j9buRp9EJrKTY by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-04-26T12:13:17Z
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@futurebird I sometimes wonder how much the authors of such stories were inspired by things like Ancient Egyptian tombs that were loaded with traps; some of which could have worked after thousands of years - but only because they are things like "remove these blocks and a massive slab falls on your head".
(DIR) Post #AhHR1ozrs4VhY6x45o by sebastianhahn@mastodon.world
2024-04-26T12:35:52Z
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@futurebird Hmmmm, you should read some Alan Dean Foster (Humanx series), lots of ancient civilizations leaving stuff behind. Gorgeous read!
(DIR) Post #AhHRGfjObRZn9jKPmi by boggin@mastodon.scot
2024-04-26T12:38:38Z
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@futurebird Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds. They think there's going to be treasure, they change themselves to be able to progress, to win. The puzzles, however, may not be to protect a prize but to uncover your advanced civilization that needs .. dealing with.
(DIR) Post #AhHuCtsaxGz6Y5BWNs by magnetomancer@neovibe.app
2024-04-26T18:02:50Z
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@futurebird Probably originating from traps set for grave robbers. But, perhaps progressing to barriers to malevolent entities arriving through space/time portals that look like empty tombs to the uninitiated.
(DIR) Post #AhHudVaZNKy11zRQMi by magnetomancer@neovibe.app
2024-04-26T18:07:43Z
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@futurebird Also, look for those now closed escape tunnels as those reported under the Bosnian pyramid and the Taj Mahal.
(DIR) Post #AhISExQySeUmjfodnc by irenes@mastodon.social
2024-04-27T00:24:12Z
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@futurebird right??? how many times did they have to test the big rolling ball to be sure it wouldn't get stuck on a tree root
(DIR) Post #AhITOHmqG9SkQ23XoO by pseudonym@mastodon.online
2024-04-27T00:37:05Z
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@futurebird I'm loving this thread. Do read the comments.Reminds me of a #ttrpg I ran, part inspired by Red Dwarf (an abandoned ship as big as a city) crossed with Jack Chalkers "Well of Souls" books.Earth demons were real, an advanced alien species, and imprisoned on their ship. Ship AI wanted to free them. Demons were large, so their hand control was huge. Party referred to it as the "command banana" as they carried this black basalt 4 foot rock about, not understanding how it worked.
(DIR) Post #AhITvhiCtItwNfp6Fk by si_fuller@aus.social
2024-04-27T00:43:08Z
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@futurebird You know how at the end of Raiders where you see the huge secure warehouse full of mystic artefacts? What if that's exactly what the hidden temples were, and there was some Biblical Indiana Jones who stole the Ark from an even older secure site. And some day, a 45th century Indiana Jones will rob the US warehouse and defy *its* security.
(DIR) Post #AhIU31FAffQyz5jK1g by stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
2024-04-27T00:44:13Z
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@futurebird You'd like Andre Norton stories.
(DIR) Post #AhIU8vF9tOtY72XTou by ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com
2024-04-27T00:45:31Z
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@futurebird If TrapTempleBuilder2000 was a game, I would play it.
(DIR) Post #AhIgYijWE8jEI8o8oK by HikerGeek@mas.to
2024-04-27T03:04:40Z
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@futurebird You're describing season 5 of Star Trek Discovery.
(DIR) Post #AhJO8jQlPJ9KuPS9NQ by NinjaDebugger@mastodon.sandwich.net
2024-04-27T11:12:57Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AhJcuOFMk8wGVqOqu0 by TestUser42@mastodon.social
2024-04-27T13:57:49Z
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@mdhughes @futurebird so why do I now want to read slice of life novel about such a hard working creature? The daily life with struggles to meet it's teams metrics of maintained traps and working double shifts to pay the tuition for it's kid in shaman school, so it may have a brighter future.