> without significant differences to them and the plot.

This has exercised my world-building muscles in a very different way to the organic way such things usually develop. Thinking about how I create the a background that will generate the same emotional notes in a very different place.

A surprisingly large amount stemmed from the fact that the plot required ruins and caves and explorers, and the kinky happenstance that Oviposition involved an unknown tentacle monster invoked a kind of>