World rules
The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis StevensonThe cheaper the miracle, the harder it is to pass on
Keep a powerful solution from removing suspense: each successful transfer should leave its next owner fewer ways to escape the cost.
Keep a powerful solution from removing suspense: each successful transfer should leave its next owner fewer ways to escape the cost.
Turn hospitality into confinement by showing which everyday choices the host controls and which exits the visitor actually tests.
Reveal a strange society through discoveries that force the visitor to change both their explanation and their plans.