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What Causes Endless Night? Anyone know?
meg_evonne:
remember that the initial question refers to only a city being blacked out? Some really neat ideas--love little lists of possibities
Monkez:
Have the city teleported to the north pole during winter....
meg_evonne:
So SlimMason.... did you find your solution to your delimna? :-)
bookivore:
To black out just the city - and be spooky -
One set of ideas, for actually preventing the light from getting there:
1) Light bending field effect that distributes the sunlight elsewhere.
2) Invisible Sunlight eating monsters floating above the city
3) The city has somehow become repulsive/super reflective to sunlight (very similar to 1 but the magic has been cast on 'the city' rather than 'above the city')
Spooky ways to have the populace see no sunlight
4) Illusion that sunlight does not exist has been cast upon people in the city. Their plants, pets, etc have no such problem. Then there's the question of whether their disbelief in sunlight leads to protection from sunburn, etc.
5) Experimental Protection spell has been misapplied and the people are now protected from sunlight, direct or reflected.
Hell's Belle:
High fantasy, huh?
Some very, very clever and determined (and OLD) Vampires have collaborated and found a way to put this particular city into eternal night. Nobody knows how they did it, the wizards are frantically trying to undo it, but the Vampires are very sneaky and have managed to hide, thus avoiding answers.
That makes the townsfolk remaining extremely wary. And paranoid. Sales of vampire-Be-Gone are through the roof.
That way, you neatly sidestep having to explain anything, providing the reader with a good hook to suspend his/her disbelief, right off the bat.
No pun intended. (Bat, vampire, get it? Huh? Huh?)
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