Knee Deep was just the beginning...

In November 2012, a natural gas pipeline explosion triggered a massive sinkhole that swallowed the small north Florida town of Cypress Knee. Only a few survivors know what really happened. None of them seem willing to talk about it. That didnt stop an ambitious playwright from crafting a ripped-from-the-headlines theatrical production full of weird Florida references and bizarre conjecture. The play was called Knee Deep. How does it relate to what really happened? Its utter goddamned bullshit, declared Jack Bellet, a journalist featured in the play. But I paid to see it twice. In the months after the disaster, the sinkhole filled with water from Cypress Swamp and became a lake large enough to be seen from space. They call it Little Okee, inspired by the states largest lake, Okeechobee. In May 2014, an investment group called the Golden Partnership broke ground on a new planned community called Cypress Knee, a series of residential villages, commercial strip malls, and play spaces designed to sprawl along the northern and eastern shores of the Little Okee. Bellet, using proceeds from a rather lucrative court settlement with the Church of Us (about which he was sworn never to discuss), established a new Cypress Knee Notice newspaper. Now hes the publisher and editor-in-chief of what has quickly become one of the Sunshine States most profitable community newspapers as tens of thousands of people from young families to widowed retirees swarmed to the town. And with them comes no shortage of strange. ------------------------------------------------------------ Now's your chance to create your own character and help shape the narrative for a new weird Florida noir adventure that evolves in real-time, picking up several years after Knee Deep left off! The text-based game is free to play, although supports of the associated Patreon are featured in news articles and could even have buildings and other memorable spots in town named after them. Here's the main website. Here's the Twitter account. Here's the Facebook page.

[ 2020-04-08 16:50:12 CET ] [ Original post ]