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Sand Castle
by Tyler
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Sand Castle is fueled by the fanciful stories of people The Authority

building sand castles across generations.  The School
Sand Castle Attributes Crime City
The recursion consists of a massive sand castle and its
Level: 4
Home inhabitants on a seemingly endless sandy shore near a Tribes of the Savaun
Laws: Magic
vast ocean with huge waves.  The inhabitants spend
Playable Races: Human
Recursions most of the day on frivolous pursuits but grow
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Foci: Carries A Quiver| Entertains| Leads| Looks For Trouble|
distressed as evening and high tide near.  Almost every
Foci Practices Soul Sorcery| Shepherds The Dead| Slays Dragons| Hears the Music of the Night
night, the castle is destroyed, along with its people, but
Wields Two Weapons At Once| Works Miracles (Vampire)
starts over in the morning.   The people have no
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memory of this cycle, instead referencing a fanciful Grows weird plants
References Connection to the Strange: No known connection to the
history that never actually happened.   Channels Savage Psionics
Strange.
Terms Of Use Connection to Earth: Various gates (translation and Live around the Gears
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Recursors willing to wait for high tide will commonly be

rewarded with a cypher, but little time to translate inapposite) that appear in tidal pools on coasts. Additionally, a Has a Mechanical Companion
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away before the world is reclaimed by water.   giant ring (lost wedding band) forms a translation gate to Earth
Hide a Clockwork Hearth
every evening, though its location could be anywhere in the
Submit Every day, the castle is different.  The core of its
castle.
Recursion residents remains the same, but additional characters
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and plot twists randomly appear.  Each evening, they Sugaria
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Submit Focus have a lavish banquet of giant exotic seafood.  The
Trait: Lucky
residents may seek help from the PCs or may blame
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them for the impending doom.
Channels Sinfire
The core residents are as follows:

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The King (typically a widower) What A Recursor Knows About Sand Castle
The Princess Alien Ancient changers
This is a recusion based on the fancy of all the sand castle
Ladies-in-waiting builders over generations. detective dinosaurs

The Knight Sand Castle operates under the law of magic and any fantasy dragon earth fantasy
Many guards focus is appropriate here. fictional leakage
It is very likely that a cypher washes up on shore or forms
The following are randomly determined characters frank l baum Ghosts
here at high tide.  
(chance in 20 in parentheses beside them) and affects gliding Gods holmes
on the plot (randomly select if the character appears):
horror ia ia john carter

The Wizard (5) – Prophesies that the world is ending in jump kro london
a great flood, king asks outsiders to help them
lovecraft machine god

(1-10) Believes the outsiders are from another world and shouldn’t be trusted madness magic moriarty
(11-15) Believes outsiders are from a distant land and can help them
Mutants no glitter
(16-19)Believes he can solve the problem, but others will have to do things
not a recursion official oz
(20) Has a cypher or artifact and offers it for help
Post-apocalyptic prehistoric

The Jester (3) psionic psychic ruk

(1-15) PCs receive a disadvantage whenever they’re around him sherlock singularity

(16-20) PCs receive an advantage whenever he’s around steampunk

Chance the castle survives another day (roll of 13+days castle had survived to survive another day Substandard Physics survive
Additional roll 19-20) – two cyphers are generated 
there wolf vampire

The Captain of the Guard (2) Video Game

wonderful world zombie

(1) Secretly a criminal and frames the PCs
(2-3) Plots with the knight to overthrow the king
(4-6) Love triangle with the princess, plots against the knight
(7-8) Loyal to a foreign power and rebels against the king

The Visiting Queen (1)

(1) Plans to the king (poison or captain of the guard), feast in honor, has a cypher to offer pcs for help or for looking the
other way
(2-3) Courted by king, but drawn to a PC, feast in honor 
(4-6) Courted by king, but secret affair with the knight, feast in honor
(7+) Courted by the king, feast in honor

The Strange Visitor (1)

(1) Priest of the drowned god here to destroy the castle unless the God is appeased by human sacrifice
(2-5) Charlatan posing as a suitor for the princess to get wealth (could cause issues with knight and/or captain of guard)
(6-10) Thief looking for the ring or a cypher (if one exists)
(11+) Dignitary negotiating visit of a foreign queen

A list of other complications to consider:

Rain
The king is missing
The princess is sleeping
The princess is sleeping and the PCs are blamed
The princess is sleeping and the knight is missing
The princess is missing and the knight rides out to save her
The princess is sleeping and the PCs are asked to save her
The Princess is sleeping and the Drowned God is responsible

Finally, here are some random possible locations for the wedding band/tranlation gate:

Possible ring locations:

1. King’s chambers
2. Princess’ chambers
3. Knight’s chambers
4. Wizards tower (whether there is a wizard or not)
5. Cellar
6. Dining hall
7. Grand hall (throne room)
8. Another tower
9. Guard room
10. Armory
11. Treasury
12. Moat
13. Wall
14. Prison
15. Servants’ quarters

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