A random Vaarn Settlement



Size Hamlet
Water Source Atmospheric Condensation Machines, but Slow, require repairs; spare parts rare
Majority Population Cacogen
Minority population Mycomorphs
Location Surrounded by Fungal Groves
Houses Clay Brick Huts
Local Landmark Broken Statue
Government Incompetent Technocracy
Technocracy: The settlement is ruled by the technologically adept. They may be a small caste of science-mystics who cow the populace with their knowledge, programmers of an ancient AI which makes all the actual decisions, or simply a group who know how an ancient machine works and leverage that knowledge into political power.
Industry Agriculture (Seven-Fruit Trees)
Dominant Faith Seekers of Eyeless Wisdom
Hypergeometric Building
Asset

The settlement is famed for a hypergeometric building, the magnum opus of a long-perished hypergeometrician. Paradoxical architecture can take many forms, from innocuous looking-houses which are cavernously large on the inside, to aqueducts where water runs uphill or inverted ziggurats where gravity has no purchase. The building may be in active use, or it may be con- sidered dangerous or cursed, shunned by all right-thinking citizens.

Banditry
Problem

The settlement is harried by a group of bandits, who make their camp (p.xx) somewhere nearby. The bandits are cutting off trade to the settlement, and may even make raids inside the walls to take what they please.

Buildings

Industrial Building or Workshop
NPC: Septi, Neobloom Confessor
  • Irritable manner
  • Voice: Raspy
  • Drive: Create Great Art
  • Bond: Grandfather
  • Faith: Church of the Everbleeding Wound
  • Reputation: College of Indigo Tigers (Hated)
  • Items: Purple Robes (11 AV), Book of Confessions, Absolving Oil
Minor Government Building
NPC: Pomory, Mycomorph Daemonologist
  • Extravagant manner
  • Voice: Monotone
  • Drive: Religious Pilgrimage
  • Bond: Adopted Child
  • Faith: Binary Devotion
  • Reputation: Faa Nomads (Traitor)
  • Items: Ritual Dagger (d4), Ritual Chalk, Book of Quantum Daemon Names
Religious Site
NPC: Morey, Newbeast Professional Lamenter
  • Assertive manner
  • Voice: Breathy
  • Drive: Forbidden Love (Different Ancestry)
  • Bond: Spouse
  • Faith: Church of the Everbleeding Wound
  • Reputation: Lithic Lyceum (Loved)
  • Items: Somber Garb (AV 11), Lachrymax Pills (3 doses, induces intense grief), Liquid Sunshine (3 syringes, induces manic euphoria)
Residential Building
NPC: Coma, Cacklemaw Exile Chromepriest
  • Stern manner
  • Voice: Raspy
  • Drive: Searching for Fabled Lost Location
  • Bond: Own Clone
  • Faith: Brotherhood of the Black Sun
  • Reputation: Brotherhood of the Black Sun (Hated)
  • Items: Mirrored Robes (AV 11, half damage from Beams), Random Cybernetic Implant, Random Cybernetic Implant
Commercial Building
NPC: Moneflower, Synth Professional Lamenter
  • Quiet manner
  • Voice: Smooth
  • Drive: Find Cure for Rare Disease
  • Bond: Grandmother
  • Faith: Ghoul Cult
  • Reputation: Seekers of Eyeless Wisdom (Beloved)
  • Items: Somber Garb (AV 11), Lachrymax Pills (3 doses, induces intense grief), Liquid Sunshine (3 syringes, induces manic euphoria)
Residential Building
NPC: Brazen, Planeyfolk Slave (Escaped)
  • Daring manner
  • Voice: Gravelly
  • Drive: Religious Pilgrimage
  • Bond: Childhood Friend Simulating Hologram
  • Faith: Ghoul Cult
  • Reputation: Court of the Jigsaw Autarch (Hated)
  • Items: Broken Chains (d6)