The Singing Mountain, Part I (Introduction)

One of the reasons that I decided to set up shop again, intermittently posting random thoughts on games and miscellany, was that I wanted a place to host an aimless project that I'd been tinkering with mentally for a while. At the moment it's little more than disconnected character sketches and location concepts; I've been unable to lock down the exact method for telling the story.

It'd serve as an RPG itself, but the labor is prohibitive; a comic or visual novel is just as problem-laden, as I'm not in the right place for hiring somebody anymore (and partnerships are... I'd as soon not go down that road again any time soon). A Twine game or a prose novel, then, but it's a fundamentally visual idea, so I don't know if those media can support what I'd try to do. Even the scraps and inklings I have thus far are enough to let me know that much.

It's a story of where the heroes go after it's all over. I call it "The Singing Mountain," after this one: