How to Create Fantastical Narrative Threads Out of Real Things

"I like to take real things as a jumping off point for kind of creating my own mysteries," he says. "There's a persuasiveness, and again, because I'm a doofus who either hasn't heard of these things or didn't bother to Google yet." Some of the puzzles are based in real artifacts that you root your narratives in. There was a time where there was a lot of alchemy happening in Prague,. And there were tunnels that were created for them to also, like, escape the city if they needed to.