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Gothic Coast / Fogbound Fishing Route
Dreadshore is a gothic fishing town wrapped in constant fog, where boats return with bells muffled, windows glow like watchful eyes, and even ordinary fishmongers speak as if the sea might be listening.
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In Dreadshore, everyone knows the fog is not the worst thing at sea. It is just the part polite enough to announce itself.
Widow's Cape, Driftwood Point, Suncoast Strip, Lonely Islands, Lorne's Lighthouse, Shipwreck Sea
Cynthiana of the Wilds, known as Boho, is an elven druid who serves as a bridge between Von Queef University and the untamed territories of the Wilds. Her Witchborn animal mimicry lets her borrow senses, instincts, and behaviors from the natural world, making her a subtle but vigilant guardian of ecological balance.
characterFinnian Varnsworth II, known as Commander, built the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery from old military discipline and a refusal to ignore what others dismiss as superstition. A decorated Geistatts veteran, he turned from battlefield command to supernatural investigation, leading his lodge against hauntings, occult threats, and dangers polite society would rather name coincidence. His danger sense gives him only moments of warning, but Finnian has spent a lifetime making moments count. Outdated or not, he is still watching the dark.
characterTheadora du Montclair, known as Cutlass, left aristocratic comfort behind for locked windows, moonlit rooftops, and duels worth remembering. An elven swashbuckler of the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery, she brings charm and unpredictability to the group’s investigations, especially when noble doors need opening from the wrong side. Her shapeshifting makes her a natural infiltrator, though she rarely lingers in any borrowed face. To Theadora, identity is a tool, freedom is the prize, and every secret has a weak point.
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characterHad a meeting with my supervisor and she said that when she pulled my data this morning she realized that the tracker that has been being used in my monthly meetings was set up incorrectly so that since she took over my numbers have been wrong And I basically was like “Well it’s obviously not your fault, since you’re…
characterGrease is a goblin ranger who’s lived alone in the cursed Whisperwoods since childhood, surviving on instinct, traps, and a total disregard for anything above four feet, including signs. A friendly menace, she’s a deadeye with a bow and a ghost-mushroom sommelier with serious opinions about bird espionage.
characterKaya is a quiet storm—disciplined, devout, and scarred by tragedy. Raised in a monastery alongside her beloved friend Kuzon, her life shattered when her adoptive monk family was slaughtered.
characterMaine — M. A. I. N. E. is a Hexelf/forged survivor of the M. A. I. experiments whose Whispering, warlock path, and detective instincts make them both investigator and living evidence of Centrum’s hidden failures.
characterDhaz Pelosh, known as Nightshade, is a human technogenius and noble heir of Stormcall rebuilt from an explosion that should have erased him. Once a promising alchemy student, he survived maiming, partial deafness, and the collapse of certainty by forging prosthetics, concealed weapons, and a colder way of asking questions. His ties to Yuri Pelosh, Andrea Pelosh, the Lawful, and My Alchemical Romance leave him caught between family duty and hard-earned suspicion. Dhaz does not chase power for glory. He wants truth, revenge against Solar, and tools precise enough to make whoever broke his life answer for it.
characterKuovena Bravespeaker, known as Ouija, is a minotaur warlock of Von Queef University and one of the First Five, carrying the dead with them in more ways than one. Raised in the Bravespeaker tradition after the fall of the Wingkin Mountains, they inherited a spiritual lineage shaped by pact obligations, ancestral voices, and survival under pressure. Their gravespeaking lets them commune with spirits, channel the dead, and bind echoes through ritual, but Kuovena seeks more than obedience to old bargains. Chaotic Good and determined to redefine their people’s path, Ouija treats death not as an ending, but as counsel from those still waiting to be heard.
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characterNorman Shankswell is a Geistatts gravespeaker and Benevolent Lodge investigator who reads hauntings, old violence, and the dead as evidence.
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characterVithyrex, known as The Eye, is the cyclopean deity of the Power Nine who embodies obsession, focus, and singular vision. Dwelling within the Singular Maze, he constructs labyrinths not to confuse wanderers, but to strip away distraction until only one truth remains. Where Trixie scatters chance and the Aboleth preserves all memory, Vithyrex narrows the world to purpose, stone, and fixation. Architects, maze cults, extremists, and certain Lawful sects invoke him when clarity becomes more sacred than mercy. His gaze can steady, harden, or consume. To follow The Eye is to see one path—and lose sight of every other.
characterM.A.I.T.N., known as Tono, was an M.A.I. experiment and Maine-variant-adjacent figure whose face tied him to the broader alternate-Maine mystery. He became Percival Pringle V’s partner and was killed by Greasetooth, turning PP5’s grief into direct opposition against Greasetooth, Evil, and the Point Pringle bomber network.
characterVala Gearsprocket, known as Toolbox, is a gnome artificer and cryptotechnologist of the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery, where unsolved hauntings meet field-tested machinery. Brilliant, eccentric, and Chaotic Good, she began building constructs in childhood and never stopped improving them. Her Witchborn technogenius lets her create small animated companions, repair equipment under pressure, and deploy “Mystery Machine” devices that turn investigation into controlled chaos. Within the Lodge, Vala provides the technological edge that ghost stories rarely expect. Some of her constructs behave beyond their design, but she insists that is only a problem after the case is solved.
characterSimon Baker, better known by the hexname Victor Shaw, is a human maskweaver from Rifleton whose life has been defined by deception, disguise, and the refusal to let the powerful go unpunished. After turning against the nobleman who exploited his mother, Simon fled into the Fey Realm and learned to survive through false faces, poison, humor, and misdirection. As a member of My Alchemical Romance, partner to Exaba, and companion to the dragon Walter, he hides vulnerability behind jokes and insists he would never lie even when deception is his sharpest tool. Simon looks out for himself first, but his hatred of exploitation keeps pulling him toward peasants, street kids, and anyone crushed under wealth or power.
characterMadame Sharza, known as Whispers-in-Smoke, is a gnoll oracle of the Sand-Shadow Caravan and a respected voice within the Smokeweavers Circle. Her divinations rise through ash, bone incense, and conjured smoke, revealing visions only to those whose destinies are tangled together. Sharza does not claim fate is fixed; she reads where lives cross, knot, and pull each other toward consequence. Travelers seek her before desert crossings, trade decisions, and dangerous bargains, though she refuses readings when the threads vanish into darkness. In caravan lands, her smoke is not entertainment. It is warning, witness, and judgment.
characterWhisperstep — Exaba is Trixie’s satyr paragon and collector, a chaotic agent whose life is tangled in cruel games, temporal errands, missing memories, and the lingering damage of Gertie’s forgetfulness curse.
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characterThe young green dragon beneath Aleklot’s Rest was a living dragon in an age where dragons were believed extinct, exiled, or crystal-trapped. Its presence transformed a tourist dungeon into a world-state crisis.
itemAction to summon randomized puppet within 10 ft; existing puppet replaced. Pirate puppet makes two scimitar attacks and can disengage; Viking puppet greataxe and nonmagical B/P/S resistance; Witch puppet casts/maintains Witch Bolt. Puppet lasts 1 minute; AC 14; HP = spellcasting ability modifier + proficiency bonus.
itemA historical artifact and in-world source rather than a combat item. Reading or citing the journal can provide context on Drakkuskan War-era travel, early student adventuring, cult activity, dragonborn involvement, relic rumors, old routes, and people who later became Centrum figures. Exact dates should be treated as provisional when newer canon disagrees.
itemWhile attuned, you can use an action to cast Mirror Image without expending a spell slot. Once used, this property cannot be used again until you finish a long rest. The sheet gives the wearer an eerie, ghostly appearance and subtly distorts their outline and movements.
locationThe Lonely Islands are the off-map Jericha places where Vithyrex Maze exits, void-scroll shorelines, old toll routes, discarded relics, cult danger, dragonborn pressure, Lawful accusations, and portal crossings keep proving the world did not end at the coastline.
locationThe Suncoast Strip is South Aerovia's bright, loud, and politically useful beach corridor: a run of resort towns, family beaches, gambling lights, haunted capes, ferries, boardwalks, and seasonal workers that make leisure feel like infrastructure.
locationDriftwood Point is the loudest stop on the Suncoast Strip, all boardwalk noise, cheap food, rides, summer festivals, and nightlife packed so tightly that the town seems to run on salt air and bad decisions.
locationWidow's Cape is the oldest surviving coastal settlement on the Strip, a town of mansions, lighthouse tours, romantic hotels, old cemeteries, and refugee spirits that turn history into weather.
locationLorne's Lighthouse is a lighthouse in the middle of the desert, its truesight beam shining in all directions for aircraft, airships, and travelers who need a landmark that can see through lies in the sky.
locationShipwreck Sea is a campaign-card location now reserved as a specific Jericha site, mapped provisionally so future story, item, and encounter references have a visible place to attach.