The Neverending Forest

What can I say? I found the theme particularly inspiring. I thought back to old black metal albums, like Immortal's Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism.

Buried beneath the mountains of frost
Years of silent sorrow grim and dark
My winterwings of evil sleeps in eternal nights
In death cold crypts of snow

While I enjoyed coming up with and making the scenario, I did have one worry at the end: is it..."Mörk Borg enough"? I feel like it could be argued that it is not. There's no gore, no vicious creatures, nothing disgusting happening.

But I would argue it is. It's an incredibly bleak and miserable situation that is (at first) completely unescapable. It's bitterly cold, a brutal wind yet absolute silence. It's lonely, yet the folks you encounter have accepted their miserable fate long ago. And although the scenario encourages you to solve the super simple puzzles by helping folks out, an option to escape the situation is by mercilessly slaughtering everyone. Seems grim enough for me.

At the end, I had fun making it, and hopefully it makes for an entertaining enough ~1 hour long encounter in the bitter cold.