A random Vaarn Settlement



Size City State (Smaller settlements nearby pay tribute)
Water Source Flows From Hypergeometric Gateway, but Gateway capricious; sometimes closes up
Majority Population Mycomorphs
Minority population Newbeasts
Location Shores of a Toxic Lake
Houses Hang From Wires
Local Landmark Shunned Shrine
Government Gloomy Tyranny
Tyranny: The settlement is firmly under the boot of a sole tyrant. All decisions are made by this individual, who allows no dissent. All military, legal, economic, cultural, and religious institutions serve the will of the tyrant.
Industry Hunting and Scavenging
Dominant Faith Vaa, Blue Goddess of Empty Spaces
Vault Entrance
Asset

Adventurers do not have to travel beyond the settlement’s walls to find an ingress into the fabled vaults of Vaarn: the chrome caverns that honeycomb the Urth lie close to the surface here. The vault entrance may be almost forgotten, accessed by a set of cellar stairs that descend much further than one would expect, or else it may be a vast and imposing structure, equipped with enormous blast doors that open only at the command of the settlement’s rulers. The citizens know the vault lies beneath them, but none venture there. You seem like bolder types.

Shared Nightmares
Problem

The inhabitants are troubled at night by a shared dream, which has been worsening as the days go by. They believe there is some psychic malevolence at work, but have been unable to discover the source. PCs who sleep in the settlement also begin to experience this nightmare.

Buildings

Commercial Building
NPC: Symeon, Cacklemaw Exile Professional Lamenter
  • Stern manner
  • Voice: Smoky
  • Drive: Searching for Fabled Lost Location
  • Bond: Eldest Child
  • Faith: Vaa, Blue Goddess of Empty Spaces
  • Reputation: Hegemony (Hero)
  • Items: Somber Garb (AV 11), Lachrymax Pills (3 doses, induces intense grief), Liquid Sunshine (3 syringes, induces manic euphoria)
Commercial Building
NPC: Moneflower, Neobloom Woodcarver
  • Quiet manner
  • Voice: Shrill
  • Drive: Craves Power
  • Bond: Father
  • Faith: Church of the Everbleeding Wound
  • Reputation: Lithic Lyceum (Hated)
  • Items: Knife (d6), Chisel, Wooden Animal
Industrial Building or Workshop
NPC: Isandrea, Cacogen Bookbinder
  • Religious manner
  • Voice: Sonorous
  • Drive: Addicted to Drug (p.xx)
  • Bond: Uncle
  • Faith: Binary Devotion
  • Reputation: Faa Nomads (Outlaw, Wanted By)
  • Items: Marbled Paper, Awl (d4), Random Book
Disreputable or Abandoned building
NPC: Crow, Lithling Hangman
  • Assertive manner
  • Voice: Mumbles
  • Drive: Craves Knowledge
  • Bond: Aunt
  • Faith: Church of Promised Sun
  • Reputation: College of Indigo Tigers (Loved)
  • Items: Black Hood, Long Rope, Pack of Cigarettes
Industrial Building or Workshop
NPC: Ferrater, Synth Woodcarver
  • Extravagant manner
  • Voice: Whispers
  • Drive: Seeks Downfall of a Rival
  • Bond: Aunt
  • Faith: Brotherhood of the Black Sun
  • Reputation: Hegemony (Hero)
  • Items: Knife (d6), Chisel, Wooden Animal
Residential Building
NPC: Awasad, Mycomorph Science-Mystic’s Apprentice
  • Vain manner
  • Voice: Drawls
  • Drive: Craves Knowledge
  • Bond: Childhood Friend Simulating Hologram
  • Faith: Fungus Cult
  • Reputation: Faa Nomads (Traitor)
  • Items: Stolen Beam-pistol (d6, beam), Random GIFT, Random Drug