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That was actually the first thing I did, but I evidently missed the part that explained about having to physically go there in the game world.

Interesting. Thanks for the response. Lol, I guess I've gotten so used to being able to just access stuff.

So there's no way to access them without first finding them in the actual game world?

Xbox Series X player here. I've just bought and downloaded the DLC, and...I cannot for the life of me figure out how to access it. I've been over everything, tripled checked that everything is properly downloaded, and I can't find the Far Territories or the Tales. I thought maybe I could access it via a new game in Survival, but the map only shows all the original regions. If there's some way to switch over to the new map with Forsaken Airfield and the others, I don't know how to do it. It's probably something really obvious, but if anyone would be willing to help point out what I'm missing, I'd appreciate it.

Yeah definitely. As it continues it just becomes "OMFG I'm so sick of this story I'd rather die than keep writing it and I just start a new project?". The Hedonic Treadmill of being a writer.

Maybe yeah. Although I've gotten so terrible about being able to do anything short. Every project I begin balloons into a 150,000+ nightmare that takes a year of work to finish if I'm lucky.

Unfortunately I feel too guilty to do this. I feel like even if one person comes across it and gets invested, then I'll feel like crap if I decide to discontinue it and they're basically stuck with not getting to finish reading the story forever.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. I have to admit that my feelings did change somewhat when they introduced the Darkwalker. The idea is definitely something to consider, although I didn't even get to the point of mentioning that this is all largely academic because I'm so busy with other writing projects, it feels irresponsible to start up something new at this point. But I don't know, maybe I might be tempted enough to just start writing something more low-key and simple and posting it here, though I'm not sure how active these message boards are. Would people see it? As for my profile banner, I genuinely can no longer remember if I actually took the picture, or I found it somewhere online.

Thanks! I'd definitely say 'a doomed atmosphere', hell with rules, an doomed sounds stupid. I've had the inclination to write something related to The Long Dark ever since I picked it up in late 2017 and fell in love with it. The thing is, I'm a horror kind of guy. As in, 'scary monster stalking you' kind of horror. Which I feel is antithetical to the base experience of The Long Dark. The game largely seems to be almost a meditation on existential horror of entropy and slow, irreversible decay that is 'the long dark' of the universe grinding away without care or compassion, because it is literally incapable of either, as well as what it means to be a sentient human grappling with such an existence while simultaneously dealing with such mundane but absolutely necessary tasks as drinking water, eating food, and finding shelter. And it just feels kind of downright disrespectful to write a story in that setting that boils down 'OMFG there's a scary monster trying to kill us shoot it and run!'.

Last year, I briefly toyed with the idea of writing a horror novel set in the sandbox survival mode of the game, and even got as far as putting together some cover art. I figured people might find it interesting, so here it is.

It's probably already been considered, but would it ease the burden if it was reduced to a monthly session? Maybe just have one day or even half a day set aside out of every month for this more direct method of interaction with the community?

I gather songs (particularly ambient songs) to help with my writing, and The Long Dark OST has provided some good material. I particularly like Desolation, Trepidation, Discordance, Firmament, and especially Terminal. Terminal sounds so intense. The new one from Ash Canyon is up there for me. I wish we had a way of downloading it. Honestly I'd buy it if it was available on Amazon or Bandcamp.

My wife and I played Oblivion for like two years, literally HUNDREDS of hours, before ever realizing you could actually pick stuff up in-world.

Ha ha, yeah. Although, except for the portable part, it's just as easy to download through Xbox Live. That's how I initially got it, as a digital download.

Yeah, finally found it. It's LT. I can't believe I've been playing this for over a year and never knew that. I don't know if I should delete this thread or not?