Here's a look at our town in its infant stages:
In the center of our town is a fountain. The town is mostly bare otherwise, the lone exception being a small house on the outskirts of town. In this house lives an elderly gentleman named Harris. He's a retired adventurer and likes to tell anyone willing to listen about his glory days of dragon-slaying. He goes to bed early and rises with the sun each day. Sadly, his wilder years have left him homebound and he needs help getting fresh groceries every week. But right now, he doesn't have neighbors, and even if he did, there's nowhere to buy food.
This is where you come in. We need to populate the town, and at least one person per household needs a job (except our man Harris, who is retired).
Here are some things to consider:
- Where does your villager live, and who lives with him/her?
- What is the villager's daily routine like? Where is he or she likely to be at any given hour of any given day? Feel free to make him/her complicated and spontaneous (maybe she likes going for walks in the park or gazing at the fountain).
- Who are his/her friends? Who does he/she not get along with?
- What does he/she like to talk about?
You don't have to answer all of these. At the very least, though, you should give your villager(s) a name, somewhere to live, and an occupation.
To participate, post a paragraph about each person in your household, then edit the town image with any new buildings or features you've added.
What's the point? Besides this being an interesting exercise, I'd eventually like to put our creation into a game file. Perhaps at some point in the future we can use that game file as the basis for a contest. For now, though, let's just make a little world that's interesting for the player to explore.
