Jul 20, 2021, 4:27 PM

On the subject of MU*s to not-make:

Oubliette. I'm actually a little surprised I haven't seen a MU* or even discussion here about it, it's such a fun and bizarre setting.

Imagine a place that is sort of between Heaven and Hell, where all forgotten souls, creatures, cultures, and even gods wind up after they disappear from the world of the living. Everyone has a living body but is basically immortal, and even if slain they simply appear again in a new body some time later -- but because the sheer scale of time in this place is so immense, many of the inhabitants are "broken" after eons of existence, and simply wander mindlessly or lay in piles on the streets.

The realm is enormous and made up of a strange mix of locations all contained within a boundary that is essentially impossible to escape, and includes vast deserts, hostile jungles, bizarre cities, a vast underground, etc. that is constantly changing, breaking down, and reforming. The whole is referred to as Castle Oubliette.

Because time is "a plate of worms" in the Castle instead of strictly linear, you could meet someone who died in 1346 and someone else who died in 1982 and have lunch with them, though more likely you'd all be working for the vampires who rule one of the districts, or running from goblins in a Labyrinth, or fighting for the honor of a mad god, or a million other things.

There's politics and adventure and horror and simple slice of life stuff all in a zany Purgatory place and you can play anything from a mutated rat all the way up to the living concept of hate, and boy I sure do love it.