Bastaphol's Demense

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"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.

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A B C D E F G H I
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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
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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
Green Youth Corps
Stable Capitol
Bastaphol's Blood
• Illicit goods
           • Off-world cuisine
• "World music"
• Custom's investigations
• Immigrants
Magical discoveries
           • Wild new theories
Accredited Wizards
Unliscenced Casters
Subcomittees
• Smuggled Goods, Trafficked People
           • Horrible ghost things
• Conspiracy theorists
• Lost knowledge
• Traumatized Grad Students
• Heady Concept Albums
           • A tiny handful of Superstars
• Transient workers
• Burned out creatives
• Restored antiques
• Fashion Icons
           • Renowned Cheeses
• Order Ideologies/Manners
• Tech Experts
• Lifestyle Newsletters
• Weathy Scions
           • Priviliged teens
• Trembled goods
• Commerce Law
• failed business owners
• Hungry entrepreneurs
           • white, grey, and black market goods
• Buskers who get shows
• Scandals for the morning paper
• competitive Kabaddi teams
8
Imports Critters for Taxidermy
Knowledge Seekers
Fine Goods
Artifacts of great power
• Immigrants
           • Criminal Bottom Feeders
• Tourists / Travelers
• Extra-planar cast-offs
• Dockworkers
More paper than reasonable
Multidimensional bureacracy
Takeout
• Spell components
• Apprentices and Abbettors
• Knowledge to lose
           • Things or people that wish to hide
• Desperate plane jumpers
• Arrogant, skilled, loose cannon "casters"
• Vindicated tHoCA agents
• Aspiring Musicians
           • Undead
• Transient workers
• Social Cast-offs
• Mid Life Crises
• Fashion Designers
           • Milk
• Well to-do individuals
• Maze Enthusiasts / Perverts
• Tech Bros
• Andorith goods
           • Privileged Teens
• liscenced buskers
• Diplomats and Wealthy Consumers
• Pickpockets
• Extraplanar Goods
           • Immigrant Merchants
• Sport Enthusiasts
• Food Journalists, hungry people
• Con artists
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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 wall
         Travelling Cafe (unstable and creepy)
Chamberside Clock Tower
Known Paths
Dimmergang Hideout
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 Hole
Ominous Holy Sacred Notary & Butchery
Carakole Plaza
The Pocket Dimension
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Talents
         • Broad
• Broad
• Common
• Deep
Talents
         • Broad
• Broad
• Common
• Deep
Talents
           • Appraisal
• Casual Familiarity
• Cut a Deal
• I Know a Guy
Talents
           • Cantrips
• Academia
• Ritual Training
• Wield Reality Bending Power
Talents
           • Uneasy Presence
• Smuggle
• Step Between Worlds
• Channel Forbidden Power
Talents
           • Repurposing
• Disobedience
• Energy Siphoning
• Unstoppable Message
Talents
           • Order
• Discipline
• Fashion
• Cheese Pairings
Talents
           • Make a Sale
• Deep Pockets
• Know the Right sort of people
• Lawyer Up
Talents
           • Haggle
• Tight Lipped
• That's My Family
• Devastating Gossip