Mystery is important, and so are stories

Most who played The Longest Journey will probably remember unexpectedly stumbling across the name of its writer inside the game. At the entrance of a movie theater, the player can look at a movie poster for “A Welsh Ghost Story, written and directed by Ragnar Tørnquist”. I always wondered whether this was a reference to something he had actually written, foreshadowing something to come later or simply his way of inserting his name into the story.

Then some years went by, the sequel Dreamfall was released, and while I eagerly await Dreamfall Chapters which is due to be released this fall I had mostly forgotten about this little cameo. Then here the other day, Ragnar Tørnquist posted a link to a screenplay called “In the Dark Places”. And the interesting part is that the working title had been “A Welsh Ghost Story”! So not only does it exist, but we’ll get to read it as well. He also posted another story, “Rules are Rules”, which he now considers a sort of precursor to The Longest Journey. I’ve only skimmed parts of them so far, but both look like interesting reads.