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Controlled dose for 1 hour: +2 to Strength, Dexterity, and Charisma checks and saves; -2 to Constitution, Intelligence, and Wisdom checks and saves. When the effect ends, make a DC 13 Constitution save or gain exhaustion; the DC increases by 2 for each failed Boost comedown save within 24 hours. A green shimmer gives disadvantage on Deception checks to appear sober within 10 feet. Uncontrolled Boost vapor, gas pits, mushrooms, or contaminated atmospheres can poison rather than empower, applying the downsides without the benefits.
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Controlled dose for 1 hour: +2 to Strength, Dexterity, and Charisma checks and saves; -2 to Constitution, Intelligence, and Wisdom checks and saves. When the effect ends, make a DC 13 Constitution save or gain exhaustion; the DC increases by 2 for each failed Boost comedown save within 24 hours. A green shimmer gives disadvantage on Deception checks to appear sober within 10 feet. Uncontrolled Boost vapor, gas pits, mushrooms, or contaminated atmospheres can poison rather than empower, applying the downsides without the benefits.
Controlled dose for 1 hour: +2 to Strength, Dexterity, and Charisma checks and saves; -2 to Constitution, Intelligence, and Wisdom checks and saves. When the effect ends, make a DC 13 Constitution save or gain exhaustion; the DC increases by 2 for each failed Boost comedown save within 24 hours. A green shimmer gives disadvantage on Deception checks to appear sober within 10 feet. Uncontrolled Boost vapor, gas pits, mushrooms, or contaminated atmospheres can poison rather than empower, applying the downsides without the benefits.
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Gravenhurst
Gravenhurst is the Queefdom district where corpses, rumors, refugees, postal politics, gang pressure, old VQU fallout, and a suspicious number of useful side streets all seem to find the same map.
locationQueesum Cemetery
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locationGravenhurst Lawful / Governance Index
The Gravenhurst Lawful / Governance Index gathers the district's checkpoint lockdowns, barracks pressure, magistrate authority, consent disputes, Thieves Guild counterpressure, and street-level informant web into one guide entry.
locationGravenhurst Thieves Guild / Street Contacts Index
The Gravenhurst Thieves Guild / Street Contacts Index gathers the district's quieter routes: guild pressure, favor networks, informants, rival crews, hidden stash rumors, and the named contact leads that keep appearing around the Lawful and the market streets.
locationGravenhurst Sublocation Index
The Gravenhurst Sublocation Index gathers the district's checkpoint, plaza, tavern, markets, alleys, apothecaries, and hidden trouble-spots into one guide entry until each street earns its own page.
locationDimoggio Territory
Dimoggio Territory is the New Goblin City district shaped by Mo Dimoggio's clan network, where collectors, family pressure, safe-passage bargains, and undercity politics all know each other's names.
locationEmrites District
Emrites District is a New Goblin City faction district tied to Emrite figures and Wingkin-linked culture, one of the undercity's livelier leads for diplomacy, rescue work, and route control.
locationGloomspire
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locationIron Row
Iron Row is a Gravenhurst subdistrict of hard streets, repair work, guarded storefronts, junk counters, and working pressure, giving the cemetery-shadowed district its most practical public face.
locationNew Goblin City
New Goblin City is the smoking undercity beneath Queefdom-side trouble, where toll law, black markets, Moe Dimoggio collectors, Emrites, Wingkin leads, and Boost-spider danger all braid into one descent.
locationNew Goblin City Black Market
The New Goblin City Black Market is the undercity's criminal market district, where risky vendors, quiet doctors, faction buyers, and things that should not have receipts all compete for trust.
locationQueefdom
Queefdom is the map-core of the state: the visible city-state marker where VQU's public power, Gemma Goldgrace's postal politics, and the post-Titian shell fallout meet the streets.
locationRunner Landing
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locationVelvet Cross
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locationGoblin Stock Exchange
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