''Town''
Starting zone of the game. Home of the Mayor and Bird Boss.
Overview:
-> OLD town (logging town)
-> Rich history
-> Founded by a couple of entrepreneurs, sent to the fringes of society for
debt reasons. Eccentric husband, scholarly wife. They built the town up by discovering a wealth of natural resources and advertising the town for other people to settle in.
-> Rumor has it that there is a magical secret to the town, a material with magic properties deep underground which is the reason the founders chose this place of all places, deep in the woods.
-> Some of the old folk insist they’ve seen it deep underground, but only describe it in vague terms. Twinkling starlight underground that clears the mind.
-> But many people now think this was a myth. Nobody’s seen anything strange around—except for the mole man, who insists he’s seen the secret of the town.
-> Old roads, old infrastructure. Cobblestone streets, minimal electricity (wires running between buildings, a few public phones).
-> Gas lamp poles. The post office has electric lights around and is generally more modern. The further you get from it the further back in time you seem to travel.
-> There’s a historic society that tries to preserve some of the town’s history. (Old Mayor’s house, first school, the haunted hotel, etc.)
-> Some of these people are in the letters, chatting back and forth about the drama of the town. Not everyone appreciates it in the same way they do.
-> They are the ones that maintain the town’s older infrastructure.
-> Nowadays, the town has a small population. People have stopped moving in, except for rare edge cases. These edge cases are explored in detail through the letters, where we learn people’s circumstances and why they’d move their lives out here.
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Characters:
[[Mayor]]
[[Boss Bird]]
[[Post Office Assistant]]
[[Official Master of Views]]
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Locations:
[[Post Office]]
[[City Hall]]
[[Shop]]
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Missions:
[[Mission1 -> Forest]]
[[Mission2]]
[[Mission3]]
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Navigation:
[[Mountain]]
[[Underground]]
[[Welcome!]] ''Underground''
Final zone of the game. Home of the Mole Man.
Locations:
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Characters:
[[Mole Man]]
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Missions
[[Mission7]]
[[Mission8]]
[[Mission9]]
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Navigation:
[[Town]]
[[Mountain]]
[[Welcome!]]
''Mountain''
Second Zone of the game. Home of the Stargazer.
Locations:
[[Stargazer's House]]
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Characters:
[[Stargazer]]
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Missions:
[[Mission4]]
[[Mission5]]
[[Mission6]]
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Navigation:
[[Underground]]
[[Town]]
[[Welcome!]]
[[Town]] Boss Bird is here.
[[Secretary Desk]]
[[Closet]]
[[Town]] Your home. Can change clothes here. Can sleep to pass time.
[[Post Office]] Post Office Assistant is here.
[[Post Office]] Mayor lives here.
[[Town]]''Mayor''
- Doe, compassionate but authoritative
- Notices a sad vibe in the town, writes to a friend about it
- One of the first letters we get is from her
- Can talk to her about town lore
- Wants to improve the emotional state of the town
- “It’s not like it used to be”
- Complains to boss bird about post office dysfunction
- Thinks letters are getting lost
- In tune with her emotions
- Tranquil and grounded but kind and loving
- OLD, ties together the generations of the town
- Symbol of the state of the town
- The character that has the longtime parter
- Lesbian
- Professional in conversation, open in letter
- Love story
- City counsel stamp (sent to partner)
[[Town]] Stargazer lives here.
[[Mountain]] Stargazer
-> Lives at the top of the Mountain
-> capricorn
-> Destination house for the Snow levels (travelling to the snow)
-> Nerdy
-> ex-academia
-> Obsessed with space, but in an endearing way
-> When you’re there, he tries to talk to you about space stuff and complex astrophysics
-> Can have a moment where he lets you look through this giant telescope, an opportunity for cool art of the night sky
-> Seems aloof, but genuinely interested in you and wants you to stay safe out there
-> Has communications with the mole man, as they both seem to share similar interests in the wonders of the world. They are at odds about the magic, have different theories. The stargazer thinks the mole man is crazy, but they used to be close
-> There will be a level where you have to traverse from the highest point to the lowest point (a difficult task)
[[Mountain]]
Mole Man
-> Tutorial character (gives detailed hints on movement after Boss Bird gives the general overview)
-> Sees the world in the same way you do (highly imaginative)
-> Slightly off in his speech, uses weird idioms
-> Convinced that there is danger out there, and that you better listen to him
-> Later on, you have to deliver a letter to his home, which is deep underground (lowest point in the game)
-> He lives in a deep cave system, surrounded by crystals and gems, amongst strange ruins
-> Talks with the Scientist about Theories. Disagrees with him.
-> Is a Mole (With a little helmet)
-> Is convinced that only he can protect the magic of the town, forgotten by everyone else.
-> Steals letters from the townsfolk and stashes them underground near the source of the magic.
[[Underground]] Can aquire cosmetics here.
[[Town]] Boss of the post office. Annoyed that he has to work in a nothingburger town. Short tempered, wants you to work faster. Gets a complaint from the mayor that letters aren't reaching their destinations. This is a long-standing issue.
[[Town]] Secretary at the post office. Is a bird.
[[Town]] Can be encountered throughout the levels looking at the scenery. Offers dialogue about the town or environments. They document the declining magic of the town
[[Town]] -> You are a relatively new hire mail carrier in a small ex-logging town.
-> The vibes of the town are bad. The mayor notices things aren’t like they used to be. People are feeling bad and depressed.
-> The boss urges you to try extra hard to get the letters to their destinations. He’s been getting complaints from residents about missing letters.
-> In the tutorial, the mole man steals your letters (bag?) and alludes to a secret deep underground. He encourages you to use your whimsy, but is presented as somewhat of an aloof antagonist.
-> Throughout the course of the Town levels, you learn more about the history of the place and what’s happening to everybody. You discover some side stories and are introduced to some of the people in the town and the outskirts.
-> Eventually, in connecting enough of the townspeople, you are given a letter to deliver to the mountain. Going there, you meet the stargazer, a renowned scientist who retreated from academia to live alone near the town. He’s convinced there’s something strange going on, and compares it to a starry night sky. He thinks the magic is up there, but the mystery still eludes him.
-> You deliver some letters in the region and learn about the history of the mountains. At some point, time passes to night and the stargazer shows you what he’s talking about. We get an emotional art moment. He gives you a letter to deliver to a friend underground, the mole man.
-> Underground, you find the mole man. It turns out he's been stealing letters for years in an attempt to feed the magic underground. He’s a little strange! He believes he’s doing something that will save the town, but he’s slowly weighing it down by stealing people’s real mail, in turn causing emotional harm to the townspeople and offsetting the positive vibes fed to the magic.
-> In finding him, you convince him to open a pathway to the town, thus restoring the connection of the town with the magic underground and allowing it to be fed naturally by the emotions of the townspeople. This restores the flow between the two. People are reunited with their lost letters, and the vibe improves. This resolves the arcs of the mayor, stargazer (who finally learns the truth about the magic), and the mole man, who is reunited with the townspeople and is satisfied by the restored health of the magic.Other Characters to Add
City Council Potluck
Decoupage
Emergency landing plane
College student at the state college with shaky grades and a citation for underage drinking writing home
Failed (but trying) homesteaders
Guy with tractor underglowWelcome! This is an organizer for the narrative of MAIL CARRIER!
Navigation below.
[[Town]]
[[Things to Add]]
[[General Narrative]]