Bastaphol's Demense
"Real wealth is inside." Could be a metaphor for understanding the mysteries of the world, or could be about the wealth inside the hoard. Go out dressed simply, bring back jingle. Dragon boss can shapechange to wander around undercover boss style, no one knows their human form. There's annual festivals where the dragon assumes its true form and comes out to party and everyone goes absolutely wild. Relatively recent in the cities history. People always have a particular shade of green when they go out into the city to show affiliation. There's a cult called Bastaphol's Blood that claims to be selling (at high price) Bastaphol's actual blood. Bastaphol curiously silent about it. A neighborhood. Used to be located where the Wyirde is, but was bought out in a deal to take its present spot. Some believe Bastaphol killed the dead god Jotenheim.
<thead> </thead> <tbody> </tbody>| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | |
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1 |
Belief | Real wealth is inside | All are welcome for a price | The world is mine to manipulate |
Knowledge is power | We will make the world ours | Chaos is a version of hell | The world turns because of us | If the rules were fair, we would win |
2 |
Faction | Bastaphol's Blood | The House of Customs |
Pandimensional Amalgamated Union of Wizards | Dimmer Gang | The Rampant Griffin |
L'Ambassade Gorget du Fromage |
Black Chamber of the Commerce Guild | Early Morning Kabaddi Club |
3 |
"Religion" | Unique Collections |
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. | Explaining the Unexplainable |
Revolutionary Punk Ideology |
Being Seen for what you Want to Be |
Old Money | Pecking Order | |
4 |
Main Industry | Tourism, Cult stuff | Transport and Trade |
Arcane Academia |
Smuggling and journal papers |
Culture and Ley Energy |
Cheese and Technology |
General goods | (Approved) extraplanar goods |
5 |
Aesthetic | Shen Yun, Falun Gong, outwardly normal, secretly cultlike. Generational, similar to the reserve. The hill is idyllic garden, the cave city below is a mazelike hive. The entry zone is beautiful and open, tourable. Strange animal taxidermy museum. | Industrial, things are always moving, underground and undersea, all society mixes, high security, multistorey long term stay hotels, vertical, transience, heavy smells, styles from every continent and every plane, tourist sari, overalls, business clothes | "Prove to these fools that my magic is Masterful". Crowded hallways, escherian, doublebooked boardrooms and yelling at people to get out when they go over time. Stacks of paper spilling everywhere. Lousy with experiments. Overlapping magical message selivery systems. Strange handshakes to indicate safety or show membership. | unknown cracks, MC Escheresque geometries, Phantom noises & apparitions, Subsumed Chamberside neighborhood, Remnants of Chamberside remain, Mourners of Chamberside, |
Run down, bohemian, punk, migrant workers, ghoulish, old but well made, reclaimed old fancy stuff, squalor and splendor mixed, ironic royal fashion, Comedy Club name: Funny Bone | Unique, orderly, successful but hated, offworld goods, conspicuous consumption, regulated image, 90 degree angles, wealth, respectabililty, particular, passionately precise, Daily Trends you buffoon. Comedy Club: The Cheese Stands Alone | Hierarchical, these walls were built for a reason, well-dressed for commerce, equal before the law, a place for everything and everything in its place, flashy | self sufficient family businesses, bonds of loyalty. the great race to the top, folksy, it's a maze bring a guide, Merchant's Cant, The Great Race to the Top |
6 |
Music | Heavy, trance-like rhythm. Percussion. Power Metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w77Je3WAMc | "World music," metal, Eluveitie | Pipe organs, dirges, erie vocals |
Music chaotic with uneven tempo, dissonant music on prepared piano, | Punk, | Math rock, | mariachi, steel drums, various folks music (pan pipes, etc) | techno, hip hop, steel drums |
7 |
Exports | • Happy Tourist• Propaganda• Bastaphol's Blood |
• Illicit goods • Off-world cuisine• Immigrants |
• Magical discoveries • Wild new theories• Subcomittees |
• Smuggled Goods, Trafficked People • Horrible ghost things• Traumatized Grad Students |
• Heady Concept Albums • A tiny handful of Superstars• Restored antiques |
• Fashion Icons • Renowned Cheeses• Lifestyle Newsletters |
• Weathy Scions • Priviliged teens• failed business owners |
• Hungry entrepreneurs • white, grey, and black market goods• competitive Kabaddi teams |
8 |
Imports | • Critters for Taxidermy• Knowledge Seekers• Artifacts of great power |
• Immigrants • Criminal Bottom Feeders• Dockworkers |
• More paper than reasonable• Multidimensional bureacracy• Apprentices and Abbettors |
• Knowledge to lose • Things or people that wish to hide• Vindicated tHoCA agents |
• Aspiring Musicians • Undead• Mid Life Crises |
• Fashion Designers • Milk• Tech Bros |
• Andorith goods • Privileged Teens• Pickpockets |
• Extraplanar Goods • Immigrant Merchants• Con artists |
9 |
Key Locations | The tourist throne room, the True Throne, the beautiful green | House of Custom's Authority Dock Precinct Building, Immigration Plaza, The Great Launch Platform, The Fuming Stacks (those hotels) | Dining hall, Rose Garden, Kapel's Office, The Deans' Office, The Interdimensional Review Board, The office chess game. The food carts. | Militarized tHoCA outpost, broken down remains of wallTravelling Cafe (unstable and creepy)Forgotten Ones Memorial |
The Rampant Griffin, Ghoulish Fellowship Hall (The Leywell), The Old Kitchens community kitchen, The Sugar Lump Club | L'Ambassade Gorget du Fromage, The Promenade, The Office of Technological Compliance, The Outlets (upscale strip mall), Labyrinth Funhouse | Griffins, Unicorns, and Rocs Oh my!The HoleOminous Holy Sacred Notary & Butchery |
Carakole Plaza The Pocket Dimension |
10 |
Talents• Broad• Deep |
Talents• Broad• Deep |
Talents • Appraisal• I Know a Guy |
Talents • Cantrips• Wield Reality Bending Power |
Talents • Uneasy Presence• Channel Forbidden Power |
Talents • Repurposing• Unstoppable Message |
Talents • Order• Cheese Pairings |
Talents • Make a Sale• Lawyer Up |
Talents • Haggle• Devastating Gossip |