Polygon.com / 20.12.24

Cinch up your waders, Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is open for business

The National Park Service, tasked with protecting Americas most important ecological treasures, like the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, and several hundred linear feet of stainless steel-reinforced Mississippi River shoreline, has an even more unusual plot of land to maintain beginning in 2025. Its a place thats fairly dark, extremely moist, and entirely fictional, called Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. The viral art project, which blew up on Reddit during the COVID-19 pandemic-era lockdowns, is finally being turned into a tabletop role-playing game. Polygon sat down with the creators to learn more. As it turns out, Flesh Pit is largely Texas fault.  I am from West Texas, admitted its creator, Trevor Roberts, in a recent interview with Polygon. [Specifically a place where its] very rural, very sparse, [with residential areas] mixed with the oil industry and fracking activity.  Coming from such a large, flat, mixed-use area where the community was very concerned about all things under ...
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