


Michael W. Moss | michaelwmoss.com
Writer, maker, and designer. Writer of fantasy, cyberpunk, science fiction, steampunk, horror, and hardboiled noir fiction. Typeface/font designer. Maker of 3D printed, laser cut, and microelectronics projects. Friend of cats and crows.





All the good dungeon real estate got bought up by early adventurers with their collected loot, so now they are located in gated communities or expensive adventuring resorts. Everyone else gets the roadside discount dungeon experience with plastic monster chotchkes for loot drops and pugs and chihuahuas dressed up in skeleton and dragon costumes.


But which one? Zombie killer, scifi vampire, perfect alien, blood queen, monster hunter?


You throw water on the fiery plane when you land at the airport.
But seriously, I would imagine the hangar would need to be constructed of a material that was neutral or resistant to the elements, maybe even composed of them altogether to have immunity to destruction by them. So a prismatic hangar that has all elemental resistances. Or you could go with a fifth element like aether. Or heart if you’re playing the Captain Planet RPG. Or Milla Jovovich.
Who’s to say alien snot isn’t geologically identical to a rock?
This is my favorite gift from my crow buddies: 
I feel like this is too general. I’d want to customize based on specific IRL traits or jobs or hobbies.
You feed and befriend crows? Druid with animal skills focus.
You’re some kind of a carpenter, engineer, craftsman? Artificer.
Phlebotomist’s assistant? Vampire thrall backstory.
Retail salesperson? Bard with psychic damage skills.
Live in a basement? Homebrew troll obviously.
Software and coding? Sounds like arcane languages and warlock pacts to me.


About 18 years ago when I was a dispatcher, I had someone call 911 to report their drug dealer stole their laptop because they couldn’t afford to pay for the drugs they wanted to purchase. I asked them a few times if they would like to file a police report that states that they intentionally purchased illegal drugs. They didn’t seem to understand the angle of the question and we asked them to stay where they were so a deputy could go out and take a statement.


NES and SNES were much more ubiquitous and often the exclusive consoles for a lot of games, so Sega was coming up with it’s own line of games that weren’t as likely to enter collective memory or later have movies made out of them.