A rumor for you:
This city is old. Whole boroughs have been burned down, buried, and covered over with new construction. But nothing stays dead in this world we live in. Ghosts of the city’s past can still be found.
Talk to certain people and they’ll tell you. Take a left at Byhook, another at Eastwash, and head north past The Four Roses and when you turn you’ll find yourself amidst a series of burned out tenements which aren’t on any map. Another route can get you into a walled community that hasn’t existed since before the bombing. I heard a guy mention The Bizarre Bazaar once. Follow the blue paper lanterns, he said. These shadow districts and tomb boroughs must be littered with treasures from the city’s past, ripe for the taking.
All of these places are dead. Buried in the city’s history and twisting streets. And like all things that die now, in this broken world, they have not faded away. They have become ghosts, and, like all ghosts, they’re hungry.
Is this the Main set up or one of sample settings for your hack?
This was a rumor I had scribbled down for the core game long ago.
I like the idea of making this truth, and a framework for hundreds of rumors about what ghost districts are where, how they can be found, what might be in them, and what happened to people who know about such things.
Really excellent flavor, I will use this in my setting.
Very nicely done!
Andrew Shields That sounds like the manifestion of the dreadful city of Carcosa, apearing in small parts at random places of pain and suffering.
I used this idea last night!
https://fictivefantasies.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/blades-in-the-dark-the-professors/