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When you're taking it back to basics, you can't stop halfway. You can't just stop with a knife and a dead deer skinned and hanging in your garage. That's not really the same thing, now is it? Nope. It's not really rewilding until you're dropped down into one of the reserves in nothing but your skin, with nothing but your nails and teeth to start out. I understand that those who come back out really appreciate everything to a degree that is unseen. Many of them become motivational speakers or therapists or gurus.


Inspiration: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/29/firemaking-roadkill-cooking.html
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Could be a neat setting for something else, though.
On the mountain, there was an old stone temple that had been abandoned for so long that the lichen crawling over its surface made it look as if it had just grown there. When the Truth Speakers came, they destroyed the churches and the cathedrals, the holy springs and the sacred wise-men, but they missed the old stone temple. At first, the people still scorned it, for they had not worshiped there for generations, not since their great-great-great-grandparents had moved down out of the hills, where they lived lives hardly above those of the animals that surrounded the town, and became civilized. A few holdouts still roamed the hills, but they daren't come into town. Being spat on was the least of what they should fear. They were hardly better than animals, and they were treated worse.

Inspiration: "Shake 'Em On Down" - R.L. Burnside, and a NYT.com slideshow of pictures from Bali.
Story Potential: High?
Notes: Returning to the old ways, dealing with those one has scorned. Could be interesting.

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