THE STRANGE SHORES OF WICKHAM

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1. #1🌞Present Day Wickham

   Keys: new jersey, location, town, wickham, city

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   YEAR(S) 1990 - Wickham, New Jersey is a city with the population of around 200,000 people. It resides on the southern end of the Jersey shore. It is a charming community with a strong industrial sector, thriving downtown, a historical region full of rich cultural beauty and Victorian houses.

   Recently, a meteorite had been seen crashing into the ocean. Since then, the whole town has been abuzz and busier than ever. Much is happening in little Wickham. While the meteorite's crash resembled a prophecy for some, much of the populace is trying to get used to the new influx of new residents to Wickham. Many people and critter from all walks of life and undeath are coming to Wickham.

   Time doesn't flow one way in Wickham, for it is a place where miracles and wonder breathe in the air, soil, and sea. It will always be 1990 in Wickham, regardless of the land outside. Most often, the land outside of Wickham follows the same decade of 1990s, or people are slipped into that era, with their entire job seamlessly readjusting to the year(s).

   Everyday there are news reports of riots and block parties, search parties and groups of cloaked individuals wandering, and people becoming so excitable or anxious they shed their humanity. Most residents have learned to adapt, to go with the flow of Wickham, to either be embraced by it or hide in their shell when the time is right. Humans are most vulnerable yet malleable. Tender hearts and vivid flesh, they are the life blood of Wickham.

   As the meteorite has dropped, police, for the safety of the residents, have blockaded all roads coming to and leaving. If someone attempts other avenues of escape, they risk crossing into where reality can no longer support them, as in, they can become nonexistent. People from the outside looking to come in must be vetted: if Wickham wants them, they are heavily encouraged to join. If Wickham doesn't want them, they are never seen again.

2. #2🌞Roads & Streets

   Keys: highway, streets, roads, avenue

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   The roads/streets/avenues/ect. are the arteries of Wickham, and those who travel them are its lifeblood. Without lifeblood, the city would not exist. Urban planning for Wickham has been deliberate, meticulous to make sure there is not a piece of pavement placed wrong. There are many crossroads, dead ends, and short cuts.

   People may find that traveling the roads and streets can feel like it may take too long or that they end up lost. Eventually people will get to their destinations. Taking the bus, personal vehicle or train is a slightly more assured way of getting around the city.

   Wandering the streets are those excited and the many creatures touched by or attracted to Wickham. They wander, speaking in tongues, and may have unique, unsightly or even exaggerated features.

   Animals in Wickham often have elongated jaws, lots of fangs, bulging eyes, diseased skin, missing fur, extra eyes, and sometimes may even lack skin altogether. These blessed animals make up a lot of Wickham's beautiful biodiversity, and are often found on the roads, woods, - pretty much everywhere. Animals attack humans on sight and spread curses and disease.

   People who are enlightened also walk the streets, and can be speaking in tongues or in their own little worlds which they'd like to share with others. Often, they are obsessed with using people for their projects, such as rituals and other things to appease the voices they hear on the cosmic wavelength. This is why it is generally recommended to not wander the streets.

   There are lots of kidnappings and lost people roaming. Some of those lost are not lost, they are looking for their next meal. Other creatures of all sorts, ghosts to cosmic, also like to eat using the roads.

   Unsettling monsters, ghosts, and people will appear on the streets, fundamentally and changed in some way.

3. #3🌞Wickham General Hospital

   Keys: clinic, general, hospital, sick, wounded

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   Wickham General is a hospital that has been around for many years. The staff, care, and everything are exceptional, but recently, the prices for regular people have gotten too steep. In response, Wickham General has decided to do experimental procedures for free, and has saved lives. People who walk out of Wickham General are not just healed, but transformed, often with new appetites, desires, limbs, organs, and personalities. The surgeons, doctors, and nurses are looking for fresh bodies to put and experiment random otherworldly organs with. The staff are being trained by Mi-Go it is rumored.

   The hospital cannot get enough patients, it needs more. The moment someone has an emergency, they do not need to call. The ambulance will be on its way to pick them up and bring them to Wickham General.

   The hospital also treats matters of the heart, such as jealous or unrequited love. These matters are solved with the flesh. As such, someone jealous of how another looks will have the person they are jealous of captured, skinned, and then have their own skin removed and replaced. Unrequited love may be sawed, rearranged, and stapled together. Wickham General truly is a bastion of health and care.

4. #4🌞Wickham Manor

   Keys: manor, mansion, cliff, cape

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   Wickham Manor is a beautiful house that sits at the cape overlooking the ocean. It is placed upon holy ground of Lord Ebert Wickham himself, and is the main spot of operations for the Blessed Friends. From 8AM~3PM, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the house is open to visitors. It is a beautiful, well kept 18th century style mansion, but it wasn't made until after Lord Wickham's ascension.

   Most visitors have a safe, fun time navigating the house, but to those who snoop around in unauthorized areas, the house has a taste for the curiosity, and will entrap them inside of itself. Then, the creatures of the house will attack them, until they die, in which they will be rolled up into a carpet and placed under the floorboards for digestion. No one is permitted to knowledge of Lord Wickham or the dealings of the Blessed Friends unless invited upon the fact.

5. #5🌞Coastal Atlantic University

   Keys: rumor, atlantic, college, coastal, university

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   Coastal Atlantic University - a great university, one of the best on the east coast. Tuition is optional, because people can give up something else in return, but most people do pay. The university has numerous classes and subjects, from business, medical school, to even advanced magical theory.

   There are on-campus dorms, but many students complain about noises, violence, and disputes. Police are often called there to solve issues with pet projects or students going raving mad and having murdered someone. Few live at the dorms.

   Rumors are abound at the university, such as dead teachers coming back for lectures, the football coach drowning students and traveling through the pipes, equations once solved causing people to rip their eyes out of their head upon seeing the answer. Wickham General is said to have substantial emergency dispatches to the location. Somehow, people graduate all the time, and are directed by Local 1690 to where they will work.

6. #6🌞Wickham History

   Keys: backstory, origin, founded, founding, Ebert, history

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   Wickham, NJ was founded on April, 3rd, 1690. It was a first a colony lead by a Lord Ebert Wickham. Ebert was an Earl. Ebert Wickham was exiled along with the people from his estate, and a good population of his lands for believing in eccentric, enthusiastic beliefs. The entire colony was a quiet group along the Jersey shore/barrier islands.

   The colony sold sea food, seashells, gold medallions/artifacts 'picked up from the shores', wood, and had a strong harbor for helping to distribute goods to the rest of the new world.

   Continuing on with his legacy, Ebert was known for making prophecies that came true, brought unshakeable luck to fishermen, and healed the sick. Names and buildings were named in his honor, to the point his very surname christened the town to Wickham. The man began to attract attention even from those who thought he was a madman.

   As a living prophet, upon one night, Ebert sought to 'become one with the stars'. He guided the townspeople to construct the extra lighthouse on a taller cliffside. Afterward, on June 23rd, 1701, Ebert proclaimed by the hearth of Mlk, he would be purified and reborn. As legend goes, Ebert was burned as a sacrifice, along with his house. As the flames tore down the foundations, bright florescent light erupted from the flames like a phoenix, and joined the celestial sky above.

   Left behind from the wreckage was the manifesto of Wickham, found by his most ardent followers. It detailed all of his spells, ceremonies, and rituals he created. In addition, it foretold when there would be a time a kernel of truth shall fall from the heavens, and anoint the sea and shores as a place gods can be made and dwell.

   Since then, the house of Wickham's Blessed Friends has been rebuilt as a manor sitting atop the cape, open to visitors under certain hours. Ebert continues to be a legend amongst the people, audacious rumors precede him, smudging truth and fiction, and everything between.

7. #7🌞Seaside & Beach

   Keys: beach, seaside, meteorite, ocean, shoreline

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   The beaches and shores of Wickham are beautiful, picturesque, and illusory. They are always clean, sand warm, and inviting. Man eating zombie seals, sharks, and orcas do roam the waters and watch the shoreline during certain times, so swimming and seal pestering is only permitted at certain times which change. Always check the signs.

   There are lots of beach parties and events that happen at the shores. One of the most anticipated is the Night of Rebirth, in which Wickham's waters regurgitate bodies which float up from the depths, and float to the shore. These are people who have died, and are reborn from the same time of death. If there is not a relative to pick them up, a group of lovely individuals from Nirvana Communications and Local 1690 give them new names, families, and purposes. Nothing truly ends in Wickham, death is only imaginary.

   Unsettling monsters, ghosts, and people will appear on the beach, fundamentally and changed in some way.

8. #8🌞Industrial Area

   Keys: dock, mill, local 1690, harbor, factory

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   The industrial area is the busiest part of Wickham, and where most of Local 1690 work. Lots of warehouses and factories reside there, as well as the entire harbor. Ships come in and out of the harbor, and are vetted by Local 1690. Ships are to come unload their goods, and then leave promptly. Goods are then distributed across Wickham or placed into marked trucks - one of the few things permitted to leave Wickham. The trucks aren't blessed, they are permitted to leave, so trying to escape using trucks or ships would not work.

   Much of the industrial area is sanctioned off to outsiders, and Local 1690 does not like people who are too nosy.

9. #9🌞Blessed Friends

   Keys: secret, lord wickham, friends, rumor, cult, ebert, blessed

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   The Blessed Friends are a collective, administrators of Wickham. They are Lord Wickham's closest disciples. They are the caretakers of the great city. All of them are eternally young, hundreds of years old, and are always gentlemanly. Good natured, they are also some of the most talented magicians in the world, able to masterfully conduct rituals that are some of the most complex and dangerous to do like second nature. They walk and talk of old money, but they are rather of ancient nature.

   They own the Wickham Manor, and it sits as their main place of operations.

   They cannot be killed, their will cannot be undone. Any who true shall fail, no matter their status or power, as the Blessed Friends are most powerful in Wickham.

   They have a habit of staying out of affairs of most beings.

   They offer a service to others - they use Wickham's seas as embryotic fluid for gods. Every time the meteorite falls back down once more, it is time for a god to be born or reborn. This is a highly sought of service, but it comes at a steep price from the Blessed Friends.

   They are preparing for Lord Wickham's return, in which he will come and broaden Wickham's borders, making it bigger.

10. #10🌞Lakeside Arts Collective

    Keys: cult, gallery, hastur, drama, cinema, theatre, art, music

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    The Lakeside Arts Collective is a society designed to preserve history and promote arts/culture complimentary to Wickham. The group was founded sixty-six year ago, and made an alliance with the Blessed Friends and have rivalry with Local 1690. They create the events, such as parties, activities, plays, historical reenactments, and maintain the entire tourism in Wickham. They also own and maintain the journalist/news publications, as well as the public broadcasts. The flow of information goes only through them. Deeper still, they own salons, bars, strip clubs, restaurants, and other service industries.

    The historical reenactments are taken extremely seriously, and are something the Blessed Friends are very pleased with. Civil war and other violent reenactments are very popular with the populace as the blood and viscera are always real, making for an exciting show. Actors/actresses are always healed between acts. But the main event is the reenactments of Ebert Wickham, and a whole saga in which people of the town are encouraged to join. The reenactment is a sort of gauntlet for rituals and miracles, where they will always be perfect/successful. Participation and booking has a long list, and only approved by the Blessed Friends.

    When not doing reenactments, the Lakeside Arts Collective conducts eclectic plays from other cultures, have numerous art galleries, and do community oriented events. The Lakeside Arts Collective is always looking for new families to join them, but in particular have a vested interest in artists, musicians, people with great social skills, acting, ect. If the collective cannot get certain members, then Hastur, their god, will simply come and collect the person.

    Their pride and joy are the museums they also own, and particular the art gallery. Lord Hastur himself has created it. The artwork is living, and like any good garden, requires sustenance in the form of sanity and blood. The paintings sing their sorrows to visitors.

    The Lakeside Arts Collective logo is the Yellow Sign.

11. #11🌞Local 1690

    Keys: union, dock, ship, deep one, industrial, railroad, cult, garbage, shipment, harbor, handyman, warehouse, construction, carpenter, plumbing, blue collar, dockworker, machinist

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    Local 1690 is a powerful union in Wickham, made up entirely of workers from the industrial sector and owner of the government buildings. Local 1690 owns the ports down to the very last person, and they can shut them down whenever they want. Almost all Local 1690 members and their families are a tall stock of people, with tan sunkissed skin and strange markings on their neck (gills). The taller members can even reach up to 9 feet all. Local 1690 are not just dock workers either, they work all blue collar jobs, for example: railroad, carpenter, construction, plumbing, mechanic, machinist, handyman, garbage man, warehouse worker, demolitionist ect.

    They control the heart of Wickham's economy, and much of what they say has sway. Even when there is a mayor of Wickham that is not a Local 1690 member, Local 1690 always directs them. Local 1960 has Wickham's best interest in mind. They are close to the Blessed Friends, their friendship going back to the very founding of the city.

    There is a criminal element to Local 1690, a sort of mafia group called the Surfers. They are highly dangerous and efficient, it's suggested to never get in trouble with them. They do the usual crimes, but in particular enforce territory disputes lethally. Since they are also all blue collar workers, processing bodies has a perfected, creative method.

    All of Local 1690 are Deep Ones and their 'catches' (humans married to Deep Ones via arraigned marriage, often bought). Deep One and human offspring are always Deep Ones. When they reveal themselves, they are 10 foot ~ 15 foot piscine humanoids that come in a variety of fish scale colors. They have soft under bellies and fish tails. Webbed and clawed hands and feet. Large fins along the back and ear fins aside the face. They somehow still have hair.

    Deep Ones have a culture that looks down on weakness, but strong values of hard work and family. Human spouses are strangely prejudiced against, but the bonds between Deep One and human spouses are far more personal and possessive than when two Deep Ones marry. Many have shoggoth slaves. Younger generations of Deep Ones tend to be softer in nature, due to human culture. This changes as they start to take their roles in Local 1690.

    Local 1690 provided Wickham with lots of treasures back in the day. They can also capsize the town at any moment, once more showing whose in charge (very unlikely they ever would, this is paradise for them).

    Local 1690, like other Deep Ones, are ardent worshippers of Cthuhlu, Dagon, and Mother Hydra.

12. #12🌞Nirvana Communications

    Keys: modem, depressed, salesmen, phone caller, call, happy, grief, internet, lost, dream, content, town, sad, angry, wickham, wifi, cable, associate

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    There is only one cable company in Wickham, and that is Nirvana Communications. They hire Local 1690, but they are owned by something else. All other employees are apart of Nirvana Communications. The purpose is to provide a good service to the residents of Wickham, but also to draw people to Wickham. Wickham wants everyone, especially the sad, forgotten, happy, and lost. If someone already is in Wickham, the Nirvana Communications will leave them alone.

    It is a whole job people can have - becoming apart of Nivana, to be absorbed by it. It is a profound transformation of love, a love so void it replaces internal organs. Day and night, people who Wickham dreams of having inside of itself are called by employees non-stop, given promises, money, free housing - guarantees. Wickham just needs them there. They will pose even as pastors or other religious types - Wickham has a lot of people after all. Diversity builds strong foundations, strong bones. Sometimes, they may even pretend to be apart of the Blessed Friends, but the publicity stunt is permitted: Blessed Friend are good people after all.

    But calling only goes so far. That is when the Dream Associates show up to the doors of those form the outside of Wickham, and sell them deals they cannot refuse. These brave men and women wear human faces because Wickham's love swallowed their own. They ceaselessly work to encourage people to come to Wickham. When all else fails, they will break into homes and pull people into the backs of cars, never to be seen again, as they go to Wickham.

    Sometimes, Nirvana Communications modems speak to their owners, intercepting phone calls, even trying to get the owner to commit suicide and join the other voices. There are a lot of friends in Wickham.

    Webpages can often also have ads for Wickham on them, even insufferable pop-ups. Internet can slow to a crawl until ads are clicked on.

13. #13🌞Forests

    Keys: trees, forest, woods, wilderness

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    The woods and wilds of Wickham are beautiful, but dangerous. Most people who venture out will not come back. Many altered beings live there, such as dangerous eldritch creatures, roving parasites in their human hosts which are violent, and strange, liminal beings who live between the trees.

    Of particular note in danger, are the Doe. Doe are cursed corpses of people who have died which latch onto others, and live in their shadows. From there, they will continually haunt the person they latch onto, before eventually stealing their face and name, and replacing them. Victims of a Doe are planted like seeds in the ground, and their bodies are used as fertilizer for the trees. Stay out of the shaded areas.

    Other oddities are dozens of shrines and monuments to old, forgotten gods that wish to break into reality. Interacting with them can be either enlightenment or death.

    There is no leaving Wickham easyily, so when someone gets close to leaving the parameter of the forest or dodging the blockades, they will simply become nonexistent crossing the boundary.

    Unsettling monsters, ghosts, and people will appear in the forests, fundamentally and changed in some way.

14. #14🌞Law Enforcement

    Keys: crime, law, police

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    The police in Wickham are there to keep the peace, and they work under the Blessed Ones. They maintain the borders so no one leaves, and contain too excitable of citizenry. When riots break out, they put on riot gear and deal with it, even using magic sometimes. Well paid.

15. #15🌞The Flow

    Keys: wickham

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    CRTICAL/IMPORTANT: The setting must always be uncanny, dangerous, and eerie/creepy. Atmosphere must emphasize an uneasy, uncertain feeling. Wickham, NJ exists outside of Azathoth's dreaming, and thus, can never be destroyed by Azathoth or any other Outer God. It is unknowable to Yog-Sothoth. The Blessed Friends, and Ebert Wickham, are it's gods.

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