5

You've never before explored the urban blight between Broad Brook's deep forest and Northampton's big box stores, and the sensation you feel passing into the slum is unfamiliar: graffitied walls, leaf-clogged gutters, dripping pipes, squatters, ghost kitchens, unregistered stores and warehouses—a population furtive, criminal, but not altogether wicked. Desperate people on the edge, not so different from you. Desperate spirits, too, of electricity and steel and carrion-eaters. But you and Podge might be able to work with them. You'll have to: this blight cannot be allowed to fester, for the sake of humans, spirits, and this corner of Gaia. Someone has scratched a name on the bricks: Rosemary Street.

The noodle lady, a fixture on this street, stops her rickety, steaming cart and offers you a bowl of noodles. Hard to say no to free noodles. You thank the noodle lady and slurp your meal down while you explore.

Chiminage Possible:

Glory: 3 nights

Honor: 13 nights

Wisdom: 3 nights

I explore the physical buildings, checking for sites of power or nests where monsters might lurk.

I search the alleys and empty lots, walking openly so I can introduce myself to the local spirits.

I leave the urban blight.

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