[TML] Weird jump phenomena (was jump weapons)

[Grimmund]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Leonard,

> I mention this because there are two adventures therein which are very
> similar to what you posted.  The first is a town that exists outside
> time.  The characters find a "Deliverance" style hick town . . . then
> find they can't leave it.  Turns out the local "rich weird eccentric"
> made a deal with Something back at the start of the Great Depression,
> a deal that would "protect" everyone from the disaster befalling the
> rest of the world.  The further the PCs get from town, the stranger
> and more dangerous/monsterous everything becomes.

Neil Gaiman did a riff on this in _American Gods_

http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Novel-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0060558121/

Don't want to plop out more of a spoiler than that, though.  It was
easy enough to leave twon, but why would you want to?


Dan


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