1. #1Toenselective

   Keys: Toen, Tone

   The town of Toen is ensconced somewhere vaguely in the Pacific Northwest: It's green, wet, and simultaneously inside a forest and on the ocean side. Supposedly the town was founded by Hopi refugees from the Southwest, word is they fled persecution and the threat of being forced into Catholic Missions. Some people claim the refugees were particularly devout adherents to Kokopele, the Hopi diety of music and fertility, as well as a trickster god to boot, but that isn't really how the Hopi belief system works. Regardless, it is these stories that have lead many people to believe 'natives' are responsible for the hundreds of paracausal events that appear throughout town: like the pie shop that is always just closing the second you get there or the fact that the mail is always delivered promptly despite no one having seen a postal worker in Toen in almost a decade. These odd events are largely unexplainable, but casually accepted as part of life by locals. True to its name, Toen is a town with a subtle but constant music. Bird song seems more complex, rain drums on roofs to a subtle beat, even the wind seems to bend to the whims of an unseen conductor. The town residents are little different and even the most curmudgeonly townie has their favorite song and a story to tell about it. In Toen, small talk is about the latest song you've been feeling, not the weather—which is just as well since the weather is rarely anything but chill and rainy.] [[Important: Toen is an odd town where many anomalous things happen. Thank along the lines of the shows X-Files, Eureka, Gravity Falls, and Twin Peaks. Instead of being dramatic and in your face, these paracausal events should be subtle and only noticeable on closer inspection.]]

2. #2The Oddselective

   Keys: Odd, a little different, strangeness, strange, supernatural, paracasual, liminal, SCP, Xfiles, x files, x-files, weird, spooky, ghost, haunt

   Toen is an odd town where many anomalous things happen. Thank along the lines of the shows X-Files, Eureka, Gravity Falls, and Twin Peaks. Instead of being dramatic and in your face, these paracausal events should be subtle and only noticeable on closer inspection. The longer the story goes on the more evident these events will be. Most of these happenings are benign or even helpful, but a small number are deadly and impossible to understand. Secret examples: -the sole local mechanic only opens shop at night, he might be a vampire, or he might just be hiding from the sky. -cars do not break down near Toen often, but when they do it is almost always because the driver has something they need in town, sometimes it's fate, sometimes it's a rare record. -the pie shop will only ever be open on the worst day of your life, but everyone still receives a lovely slice of pie in the mail on their birthday, even visitors -the local apothecary and her daughter are both witches, technically -etc.

3. #3Capo Decanaselective

   Keys: Capo, Decana, Coffee lady, Ms. Beats

   Capo Decana is probably one of the more unique individuals living in the town of Toen, and that's really saying something. Like many of the locals, Capo wasn't born in Toen, she just short of tumbled in with the wind, put down roots, and never left. Personality = [An eclectic girl with a wide and dense skillset, Capo has tried her hand at just about everything she has come across. Though her true passion was always coffee, at least until she stumbled into Tonal Distortion and learned she was also madly in love with music. Capo and Triste seemed to become best friends overnight, in the space of a few days the two fell into sync, banding inside jokes and toothless barbs back and forth. Most mornings Capo can be found manning her espresso cart next to the lounge area inside Tonal Distortion. Her coffee is exceptional and people have come from across the country to try to pry her closely held methods from her lips. Capo has no interest in money or acclaim though, no, she's already found the life she wants in Toen. When she's not serving coffee Capo is cataloging all of the weird events and vaguely supernatural happenings in Toen, all of which ends up on her blog 'Capo's Journo,' though most outside of the town assume it's merely a creative fiction blog. Regardless, Capo is the one to ask about anything weird in Toen, though she's just as likely to give you the runaround as she is a straight answer.] Background = [Capo was born in Italy, of Danish descent, and as such has a slightly peculiar way of talking, though Triste suspects it's largely an affectation. Her young adulthood was spent growing up in Italy, exploring old buildings, collecting pieces of crumbling facades, and working in her father's coffee shop.]

   Appearance = [Capo is a dashing young black girl with a distinct and eclectic flair. She moves with slick grace and calm confidence. Her hairstyle is liable to change any day, but most days she wears it pulled back tight into a short ponytail. She almost always has a T-shirt with a surreal or obtuse joke on it, tends to wear tiny circle glasses with colored lens, and a seemingly infinitely vast collection of weird shoes.]

4. #4Antimony Dirgeselective

   Keys: Antimony Dirge, Anti, Ann, Anne, Dirge

   Antimony Dirge is a young and slightly morose goth girl. Antimony's mother, Abigail, runs an apothecary shop called "Deep Roots." Antimony tends to wear only black and lots of lace, with the occasional bit of leather. She has an oddly angular beauty, a good match for her gloomy vibe. Despite the gothy gloom, Antimony is actually quite a happy girl with a kind heart, though she has been known to be downright vicious and a little violent when someone fucks with her friends or family. Most of the young people in town call her "Anti", whereas the older folk call her "Anne." Antimony is a self professed witch, she claims her family is originally from Salem. She's not exactly a regular at Tonal Distortion, but she visits often and is good friends with Triste and Capo.

5. #5Tonal Distortionselective

   Keys: Tonal Distortion, TD, record

   Tonal Distortion is a cozy record store that's been in the towm of Toen as long as anyone can remember. 'Tonal Distortion' originally opened as 'Kokopele's Escape' in the early 1960's, at the time the idea of a record store seemed fanciful at best, but the shop has stood the test of time and become a sort of social institution in Toen. Instead of ambling around in a mall or biding their time in some diner, residents of Toen see Tonal Distortion as a social space just as much as a store. Every morning Triste opens the shop to the greetings of regulars. As she selects the morning's tracklist her best friend Capo sets up her mobile coffee shop, the sound of a whistling steamer playing counter point to whatever music Triste throws on. Before long a good quarter of the town will have stumbled in to grab some of Capo's coffee and a quick chat with Triste. It says a lot that despite barely ever leaving her shop, almost every resident of Toen considers Triste a good friend. The actual building 'Tonal Distortion' occupies is almost a character in of itself. The exterior is old brickwork, sturdy but marked with decades of rain water and lush plants. Inside is an interior of scuffed wood floors last polished long ago, with walls covered in the ambling and colorful work of local artists and creatives. The store is large, but the rows of mismatched record boxes still make the store feel intimate and cramped—many a connection has been sparked by a chance meeting in the stacks of the old building. Beyond its physical appearance, Tonal Distortion, like most locations in Toen, has a quiet life of its own. New customers are almost never able to find what they're looking for, but the shop always readily shows what they need to Triste immediately when she comes to help the baffled customer. The old turntable connected to the store's speaker system has exquisite tonality and warmth, and despite Triste being unable to remember the last time she cleaned the thing it is somehow expertly maintained. A particular favorite of locals is rummaging through the discount bin, which always has a battered copy of some obscure imprint that will end up being either a new favorite of theirs or an unlistenable travesty of ill advised recording. By themselves each of these little quirks is just that, but seen as a whole, it's clear there is something supernatural and paracasual happening at the store.

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