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Hidden Areas

Ideas for small hidden areas in the overworld

Unused

  • A house boat on Nolin Lake

  • An abandoned or repurposed lock & dam on the Green River

  • Canoe rental/boat launch & firewood shop

  • Model train museum in the woods

  • Mammoth Caverns (tourist trap)

  • Carrington’s art car (location changes?)

  • Low-traffic college bar in Bowling Green (only regulars)

  • Weigh station turned impromptu truck-show

  • A plant owned by The Consolidated Power Company

  • The bottom of Nolin Lake Dam

  • Damkeeper’s cabin

  • Shack full of lightbulbs

  • Kids sitting on the ruins of a huge brick building, watching some kind of concert on the other side, backs to conway

  • Rest stops with people & historical notes, different pieces of a story in aggregate

  • Medical travel agency on route zero that organizes transportation/itineraries (to central/south america?) for medical needs. Medical tourism could be a good topic for medical debt/tourism in act 2

  • World’s Largest Gun Show after closing

  • Picket line at power company

  • Return to Dragonfly house from act 1 and find more insects gathered there.

  • Horse doctor

  • Man trimming grass in cemetery with barber’s shears

  • A large dance party where everyone but Conway/Shannon/Ezra/Junebug is wearing headphones. (was: people in a field, dancing in silence)

Used

  • Late night petting zoo

  • Overturned boat in wooded creek

  • Drive-in movie theater

  • Hitch-hikers. Pick them up and drop them off to hear their stories. Or bus stop people?

  • Bus stop with people waiting for the night’s last bus, which they’ve missed.

  • Pond where cows gather

  • Return to museum from act 1, and find people there cleaning up after Conway, and installing a new exhibit.

  • Ezra plays old folk games with strangers

  • Nameless museum

  • A country church. Conway and companions can see lights and shadows in the windows, and hear gospel singing from outside, but can’t enter.

  • Two men pushing their light aircraft along the highway toward Grayson County Airport

  • Guitar-picking hobo by overgrown railroad tracks

  • The wreck that Joseph references

  • A moonshiner’s still, out in the hills.

  • A traffic jam near the end of a road that looks like a dead-end on the overworld view. Conway gets out of his truck and walks past several cars that are waiting in stalled traffic. At the front of the line of cars, he finds a construction site where workers are building the road. The workers complete a new section of road (just a few yards), and the cars all creep forward onto it and then stop again as the workers begin on the next section.

  • A small hill which affords a clear view of the moon & the night sky. If the player stays long enough, they can see a meteor strike nearby, which unlocks a new location: the meteor crash site.

  • The meteor crash site, surrounded by folks in their nightclothes speculating about the nature of the meteor

  • A family sneaking the furniture and appliances out of their home to avoid repossession in the morning

  • Abandoned van full of sheet music and fast-food wrappers

  • Overgrown abandoned subdivision

  • Pickup truck graveyard