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Creature Feature - The Recursion Codex
Creature Feature - The Recursion Codex
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by Charles Ryan
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Foci: Conducts Weird Science, Entertains, Is Licensed to Carry,
At a glance, Creature Feature might be
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indistinguishable from an Earth of the 1950s–albeit an
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Earth almost entirely lacking in color. While it isn’t a
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truly black-and-white world, brilliant colors are non- Grows weird plants
References Connection to the Strange: Various Gates.
existent; almost everything is painted in desaturated Channels Savage Psionics
Connection to Earth: Various Gates.
shades of near-gray. Dense fog or the darkness of
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The inhabitants of Creature Feature dress, speak, and
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follow the cultural norms of ’50s. More accurately, they
follow the norms of American society in that era–in The Red Lantern
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non-American regions, cultures generally reflect a What A Recursor Knows About Creature Feature
1950s Hollywood version of themselves. Although the
Magic and Mad Science both work here, but they aren't a Random Foci
geography of Creature Feature is greatly condensed, its
common part of day-to-day life. Has a Mechanical Companion
inhabitants generally believe they live on Earth.
Creature Feature is a pleasant and bustling world very much
Creature Feature is ruled by the laws of Magic and Mad like the America of the 1950s. Recursions By Tag
Science, though in a very low-key manner–so much so It's a world of progress, in which society is a bit more formal Alien Ancient changers
that their presence isn’t generally obvious. Indeed,
(and chauvinistic) than that of modern Earth. But it has its detective dinosaurs
while a researcher might labor away at a device that
share of seedy bars, rusty old freighters, and dingy labs as
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the night (or a lab escapee) might terrorize those it
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comes across, most inhabitants of Creature Feature
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find such occurrences as astonishing as Earth’s
inhabitants would. 99.9% of day-to-day activity is gliding Gods holmes
completely compatible with standard physics.
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While the majority of Creature Feature’s inhabitants live what appears to be mundane lives, there are always expeditions jump kro london
setting out to black lagoons, skull islands, or the center of the Earth. There are creatures being irradiated in Pacific waters or
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the desert Southwest, and rogue scientists building teleportation machines gone awry or attaching disembodied arms to jar-
enclosed brains. And the night is prone to the predations of both old-world wolfmen and vampires, along with new generations madness magic moriarty
of slime from space or horribly large spiders. Almost invariably, the people of Creature Feature who find themselves face-to- Mutants no glitter
face with these dangers start out completely ignorant of the threat.
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