Charlie Stross@cstross@wandering.shop
DERANGED MORNING URBAN FANTASY HIGH CONCEPT:
What if all of Scotland's lochs were replaced overnightβwith liches?
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@alanfleming@mastodon.me.uk
@cstross@wandering.shop All the sea lochs also?
Great, not only do we have a heap of liches turning up, we've got salty ones too.
John Robinson@johnelalamo@mcr.wtf
@cstross@wandering.shop liches? What is this?
Charlie Stross@cstross@wandering.shop
1/ Obviouslyβand immediatelyβall trains in and out of Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, are going to be delayed, because the nation's second busiest railway station, Waverley, was built on the drained Nor Lochβ"a noxious swamp" where they used to drown witchesβin the early 1840s. Obviously they tried to drown more than witches there, and a very peevish (and somewhat moist) undead sorcerer is awakening and will ruin the day of Edinburgh-Glasgow rush hour commuters.
Colin Coghill@mugginsm@cloudisland.nz
@cstross@wandering.shop Loch Dungeon is a good part of the way there, namewise at least.
Glen Malley@glen_malley@mstdn.ca
@cstross@wandering.shop Latenight Loch Lich Lark
Charlie Stross@cstross@wandering.shop
2/ That eldritch and terrifying thing you can see rising from the waters of Loch Ness is not an antediluvian sea monster: it's a necromancer's palace, complete with necromancer-in-residence.
Presently a company of spectral warriors mounted on nightmares will going to ride forth along the A82, sent to report back to their undead master about what ilk of giants built this uncannily wide, smooth road.
There will be a Range Rover accident β¦