But not before an unplanned detour into some ancient ruins teams her up with a magical walking, squeaking die of her own, which she names ‘Dicey’. Even – that’s you – sets out to reunite with her lost sibling, on a journey that will take her through every district.
Onecroft-born sisters Odd and Even are separated when Odd rolls a six and is whisked off to the top town. The kingdom is divided into six towns, from the lowly Onecroft to the apparently prestigious Sixtopia, and all children are forced to roll the queen’s decisive die on their 12th birthday to determine where they’ll spend the rest of their lives.
It doesn’t seem fair on anyone when every district, high or low, is stifled by oppression, and is as awful in its own way as the next.īut it’s a good setup for a dark fairy tale. In Lost in Random’s Victorian-style fantasy world, chance has replaced freedom, as everyone is assigned their social status by the roll of a die, under the watch of a tyrannical queen. Just as long as we didn’t end up like the kingdom of Random. READ MORE: Welcome to the Wonderlands: reinventing the ‘Borderlands’ formula in ‘Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands’.At least we’d all feel like we were in the same boat. But when you look at the way things are going, maybe it’s worth the gamble. What if leaders were chosen at random? Or political policies were as likely to upset those at the top as please them? Chaotic? Sure. There’s a certain fairness in leaving the workings of society to chance.
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