Location – Page 3

Location Seed: Frostways.

Frostways

You’ll find these high-fantasy magical highways anywhere that has both a high mana level, and a climate that averages below freezing for half the year. To create a Frostway: first, make a road between Point A and Point B. Over it, construct a lattice of stone or brick arches spaced regularly so that they cover (with large gaps, of course) the entire road. Then, cover the road surface itself with ice, and the lattice with either packed snow or ice blocks or whatever other form of solid water local custom favors. Then cast a particular spell.

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Location Seed: Mirror Mazes.

Mirror Mazes – Google Docs

Mirror Mazes

Most people don’t realize this, but any mirror maze — you know, one of those amusements where you have to navigate a maze made out of mirrors and clear panes of glass — is also an interdimensional portal. Every time someone goes into one, they come out in another universe. Infallibly.

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Location seed: Maxinkuckee Township, Indiana.

Maxinkuckee Township, Indiana – Google Docs

Maxinkuckee Township, Indiana

Located — unsurprisingly — on the eastern shore of Lake Maxinkuckee in North Indiana, this township (population 6,000) harbors a dreadful secret. Starting in 1973, Maxinkuckee’s water supply was tampered with by agents of a nigh-obligatory sinister corporation (McKinley-Shreck Biological Solutions) for flagrantly illegal purposes. The entire town was regularly dosed with an experimental, untested heart disease prevention drug that was absolutely not cleared by the FDA before it was indiscriminately tested on everyone. No corner was left uncut. No safety precaution was not ignored. All worries about possible side effects and unforeseen results were airily brushed away as meaningless.

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Location Seed: The Zaparinqui Disruption.

Zaparinqui Disruption – Google Docs

The Zaparinqui Disruption

Twenty four hours ago, every person who lived in the village of Zaparinqui, Argentina disappeared in a flash of light, for approximately forty-five minutes. For those without Google Maps up: it’s a village in Chaco Province, population around 700 or so. It is not a particularly notorious place, Weird Worldly speaking, with no major manifestations or events or incidents involved. At least, up until yesterday.

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Location seed: Kikimi Crash Zone.

Kikimi Crash Zone – Google Docs

Kikimi Crash Zone

Three days ago, something that officially was not an invading starship officially did not engage in orbital combat with a fleet that officially does not operate under the jurisdiction of the North American Orbital Navy (which itself does not exist). After that battle did not happen, the invader absolutely did not crash land about thirty miles north and west of Kikimi, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Because of that, obviously there have been no actions by forces loyal to either what passes for the DRC’s government, or the People’s Republic of China (which is doing its level best to turn the DRC into a mining colony), in order to secure the crash site.

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Location Seed: Tallahassee.

I should probably note that there is a difference of opinion over what an actual Elder Sign looks like.

Tallahassee – Google Docs

Tallahassee

It surprises some occultists to find out that Tallahassee, Florida has the potential to be the single most dangerous city in North America, supernaturally speaking. That it is not is mostly due to the unsung (deliberately so) efforts of generations of magicians, priests, shamans, psychics, spiritualists, and people with steady hands. And it’s sometimes been a close-run thing, at that.

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Location Seed: Route 72 Woodland Exotic Materials Anomaly.

Route 72 Woodland Exotic Materials Anomaly – Google Docs

Route 72 Woodland Exotic Materials Anomaly

This site used to be an illegal industrial dump located in Woodland Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Well, technically the site still is, but the EPA swooped in once they got word that Woodland was emitting unsafe levels of gamma radiation. Officially, the site’s cleanup and restoration progress is moving right along. Officially.

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Location Seed: Gintaurel’s Overlook.

Gintaurel’s Overlook – Google Docs

Gintaurel’s Overlook

This particular wizardly ruin can be found in any even half-civilized or advanced fantasy realm. It was once the home of Gintaurel the Wide-Eyed, an archmage who specialized in vision spells (and dabbled in bodily alteration cantrips; hence the epithet). Gintaurel was obsessed with being able to see, as clearly as possible, and with as much detail as possible; he spent an entire decade of his very long life to learn how to see objects by the shadows that they cast in the dark. Eventually he started looking inward, and nobody was really surprised when, one day, he apparently looked inward so keenly that he and his tower disappeared into their own gaze.

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Location Seed: Lodewick, Idaho.

Lodewick, Idaho – Google Docs

Lodewick, Idaho

At least, that’s what the records in the town all say. The site was discovered by hikers in Idaho’s Salmon-Challis National Forest about three weeks ago, and the panic button was hit almost right away. The Lodewick ruins had literally (and this is not an abuse of the term ‘literally’) appeared overnight; the two hikers in question had walked the same trail the day before, and saw nothing but Idaho. And, as it happened, one of the hikers had the kind of job that would allow him to drop a governmental Cone of Silence over the entire site.
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Location Seed: Kingkiller Cave.

Kingkiller Cave – Google Docs

Kingkiller Cave

The lack of an apostrophe and ‘s’ there is rather important, in fact. The ‘official’ name of the place is Judges Cave; it’s a place in Connecticut that once sheltered a couple of judges who had been part of the group that sentenced Charles I of England to death. As one might imagine, post-Restoration England was far too hot for them, and even the colonies weren’t exactly safe. But they eventually got away, died in exile, and never were hanged, drawn, and quartered. So, merely a mildly interesting local legend, right?

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