Rochester has been a very strange little city lately.
It has always had its ghost stories, just like any other place, the most notable of which is the 'White lady' She is apparently a ghostly apparition that is said to haunt either of the two major cemetaries in town, several burned out civil-war-era houses, and a few piles of rubble in Durand-eastman park. All of which are referred to as 'the white lady's castle' when her tales are told.
Her story is familiar to anyone with occult 1. it's the most well known ghost story in the US, and pretty much every major city has it's own 'white lady' story which is, of course, believed to be unique to the area. Woman marries man. Man is slime, wants the money, burns the house with her in it... sometimes he burns the children and then kills her with a variety of weapons. It's all the same story, and is probably bunk. Rochester's addition seems to be the castle aspect, but Rochester architects seem obsessed with castles, so this make sense, too.
There is also your usual assortment of phantom hitchhikers and escaped psychopaths.... always escaped from RMHI (Rochester mental Health Institute - I know it doesn't exist in RL... it does in my game)
First: Some history
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Re: First: Some history
Lately, though. things have gotten wierd.
Aside from people seeing Jesus in a tree, there have been random occulty symbols showing up in grafitti near crime scenes. The disappearance rate has gone up 40% overall and 120% among 20-25 year olds. White lady and phantom hitchhiker sightings are common enough to have made the news. Arrested murderers claim to have heard voices telling them to commit their crimes, but psychologists find no other signs of scizophrenia in them. Top this off with freak thunderstorms (3 tornados in the area in the last 6 months, up from 0 for the five years previous) and you have a damned odd summer.
OH... and the ATF raided a blood cult of Set worshippers in Canandaigua about 8 months ago.
Gypsies and fortune tellers have moved in in force to make a profit from the new believers of the city.
In short. Rochester has gotten wierd in the last year.
Aside from people seeing Jesus in a tree, there have been random occulty symbols showing up in grafitti near crime scenes. The disappearance rate has gone up 40% overall and 120% among 20-25 year olds. White lady and phantom hitchhiker sightings are common enough to have made the news. Arrested murderers claim to have heard voices telling them to commit their crimes, but psychologists find no other signs of scizophrenia in them. Top this off with freak thunderstorms (3 tornados in the area in the last 6 months, up from 0 for the five years previous) and you have a damned odd summer.
OH... and the ATF raided a blood cult of Set worshippers in Canandaigua about 8 months ago.
Gypsies and fortune tellers have moved in in force to make a profit from the new believers of the city.
In short. Rochester has gotten wierd in the last year.