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 locations: rotglen, ashville ruins, elephant grave locations: rotglen, ashville ruins, elephant grave
  
-gods: squidboots, the masked dreamer+gods: squidboots
  
 autostrippers dispute autostrippers dispute
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 revenant football team- dismemberments revenant football team- dismemberments
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-unusual necrotech applications (exoskeleton, chainsaw, telecommunicators) 
  
 hunter's lodge initiation hunter's lodge initiation
  
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-In the generally undifferentiated swampy tangle of the Mucklands, there is only one mountain. The natives had a name for it that's now been forgotten; everybody just calls it The Mountain now. No other name is needed, or even appropriate now that its spirit has been killed. +
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-Climb up to the caldera and you can see the ruins of the old temple there, where the ancient people threw in their sacrifices and the monks walked barefoot on warm stone. Visiting is not recommended at the present time, however, since you'd first have to get past all of The Mountain's children vying for their dead parent's mantle. There are a lot of them, and their battles are fierce. +
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-A bit further down the slope you can find a much more contemporary ruin: Highcastle Hot Springs Resort. A luxury getaway catering to the ultra-wealthy built around The Mountain's most beautiful hot springs, situated high above   the smell and the dirt and the heartseekers in the swampland below. There was just one unforseen problem: when the rainy season begins, every pool on the mountainside becomes decidedly more caustic as dissolved sulphur flows in. When the resort's owner turned to soup, so did its funding. +
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-There are known to be immensely valuable treasures in both the temple and the resort- the little stuff was looted, but the big fancy pieces of art and the valuable heavy construction machinery should still be mostly intact. If there were a powerful spirit with sway over the mountainside, they could theoretically control many aspects of The Mountain- even maintain the springs' purity and allow the resort to open again (or at least allow the pools to be looted and explored during the rainy season). The previous mountain spirit was uncooperative with the resort, and that's why they're dead now. +
  
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 As the Neozodiac's power grows, more traditional cults petitioning them for power directly have also begun to spring up. The Imperial authorities do not frown on or persecute this activity the same way they do worshippers of the Old Gods, and so the Neozodiac's tendrils have begun to permeate popular culture. You can buy Lucky Rabbit cosmetics, deposit your leftover money into your local branch of the Ratking bank, and see a Badger Power sticker on the back of several other cars on your way home. As the Neozodiac's power grows, more traditional cults petitioning them for power directly have also begun to spring up. The Imperial authorities do not frown on or persecute this activity the same way they do worshippers of the Old Gods, and so the Neozodiac's tendrils have begun to permeate popular culture. You can buy Lucky Rabbit cosmetics, deposit your leftover money into your local branch of the Ratking bank, and see a Badger Power sticker on the back of several other cars on your way home.
  
-Though they wear the likenesses of animals, the Neozodiac are close enough to being actual demons as we understand them that the differences are purely semantic.+Though they wear the likenesses of animals, the Neozodiac are close enough to being actual demons as we understand them that the differences are purely semantic. They are cyberpunk social decay personified... and then deified.
  
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   * Turtle feeds off fatigue and apathy. Turtle whispers that there is nothing you can do, so trying is pointless. Turtle is a missed call from your mom that you will never return, the way you avert your eyes from hobos begging for change, the pillow you put over your head when you're woken up by screams in the night. While you spend your limited energy resisting every other member of the Neozodiac, Turtle sits patiently and waits to bring you back into the fold when you can't fight any more.   * Turtle feeds off fatigue and apathy. Turtle whispers that there is nothing you can do, so trying is pointless. Turtle is a missed call from your mom that you will never return, the way you avert your eyes from hobos begging for change, the pillow you put over your head when you're woken up by screams in the night. While you spend your limited energy resisting every other member of the Neozodiac, Turtle sits patiently and waits to bring you back into the fold when you can't fight any more.
  
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 +Limithresh is a strange spirit. For one, it doesn't go by a title and will cheerfully tell its name to anybody that asks. The fact that nobody has successfully used this fact against it means that it is either exceedingly lucky or exceedingly powerful. Second, Limithresh has clearly not tailored its appearance to be more attractive or relatable to humans, meaning that it either doesn't understand us or doesn't particularly care to. Third, nobody has ever seen an avatar of Limithresh in the flesh (so to speak): it exclusively appears in dreams.
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 +Sometimes it shows the dreamer its home: a strange yellow city of impossible spires and strange geometries. Limithresh pleasantly whispers in your ear while you walk the streets of its domain, telling you of all the secrets that come to rest here. Whatever you desire to know, to touch, or to become can be found just around the corner. All you've got to do to get a taste is to let the city get a taste of you, too. Fair trade. This is usually the part where you wake up screaming, the exact memories of what happened vanishing quickly from your addled mind.
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 +Most people shake it off and put the whole thing behind them, but a few are intrigued. Nobody finds Limithresh's city a second time without seeking it out of their own will. They are the ones who become its warlocks and learn to delve hidden knowledge and make the imaginary real, even as they themselves slowly become more imaginary until one day they simply vanish in their sleep.
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 +You yourself have already accepted the first tenet of Limithresh, by the way. The mere fact that you're spending time on here reading about an imaginary world means you've accepted that imaginary things can have value and meaning. Are you absolutely sure you would be able to resist the temptation, given the opportunity?
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 +Theurge info for Limithresh:
 +Boon Portfolio: Scholar, Faceless, Manifestor
 +Observances: Fall unconscious (or asleep). Tell a lie that someone believes. Crack from Stress.
 +Taboo: Damage art.
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 +Wandering Merchants
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 +Moon Priestess Jasmine: Roving cleric of the Moon Church, traveling between outlying villages. Offers Healer and Helsing keystones for 1 Dosh each (has 0-2 of each in stock at any given time), will also give you 1 Dosh for 2 Provisions. Will heal anybody that needs it for free so long as she still has the Provisions necessary.
  
 +Tinker Charlie: Female vampire junk peddler. Has 
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