Board Thread:Planning/@comment-5870856-20141021211540/@comment-1743498-20141025005247

Unfortunately, I will be going on hiatus again soon so I won't know how much I can actually contribute, but I'll offer a few ideas for a rebooted HM:

From a first impression view, HM seems a lot like ET but with a dark, edgy skin added over it. There's a lot of fantasy elements when really, horror can extend to a number of other genres such as sci-fi, historical or modern day. In my opinion, there should be at least one mundane location within HM that is similar to our world. Maybe some kind of Earth-like setting. Perhaps it doesn't have to span the entire world; it could even be just confined to some kind of laboratory or underground cultist hideout. Part of the reason we find things scary is because we don't understand them, and to have a sane location that we can relate with, it would serve as a contrast to just how otherworldly and unnerving the more horrific creatures are.

As for cosmology, what if the different hallows were some kind of series of dream-like nightmare worlds based on various human fears? There's the traditional ghosts, spiders, zombies and whatnot, but what about things such as embarrassment, being trapped or just fear itself? Something along the lines of a twisted version of Alice in Wonderland? I'd be curious to see a take on surreal horror which in my opinion can be a heck of a lot more frightening than any of the latest horror thrillers to grace theaters.

Lastly, one thing that I have put out before, but I'll just offer it again anyway, but a collab story involving two or more users. There's GC's Chaos Crisis and ET's Mask of Bara. What would HM have? Maybe to get started, some individual stories could be put it just to see what most users write. A collab story would have a major theme involving how all the worlds connect together and what the significance of human fear would be.

In the end, it may be easier to stick with the cosmology you already have, but I just wanted to offer my two cents.