WHISPER STREET

Whisper Street is the secret name for the network of information that flows from person to person in an urban setting. Who are the people who make up Whisper Street? They are the invisible and nameless men and women who deliver your mail, shine your shoes, pour your coffee, sweep your streets, collect your garbage, and so much more. When someone says, “Word on the street is…” they’re talking about Whisper Street. 

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Assassin Masks

Legends tell of a royal court, where a mysterious usurper had seized control of the kingdom.  To celebrate the usurper’s ascendency a grand carnival and masquerade ball was held. A group of seven assassins smuggled poisoned weapons into the masquerade ball. To better their chances of escape the assassins did not know exactly who the other assassins were. They would only know one another by the masks they wore, which followed a theme – the seven deadly sins (Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth. 

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Death’s Head Spider

These strange creatures are often found amid ruins, bone piles, burial grounds, shrines and temples sacred to the Great Old One Atlach-Nacha. They are small, eight legged creatures, with sharp fangs and venomous bites. While they do produce silk they do not use it to spin webs to hunt, but to create lairs, nests, and line burrows. They also employ silk to create a tether lines, allowing them to silently descend from heights, often onto unsuspecting targets.

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Mahicantuck Tomahawk

Named after the Native American name for the Hudson River, this beautiful weapon was, until recently, on display at the Museum of the American Indian in New York (founded in 1922). This beautiful artifact dates back to the French and Indian Wars, and is in remarkable condition considering its age (between 150 – 160 years old). It has a broad head on one end and a spike on the other, with a steel head, a wooden handle wrapped in deer hide, and a three tassel tipped with bear claws as a decoration on the bottom of the hilt. It is thought to have originated with the Oneida people, who were part of the Iroquois Confederacy.

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Nya’kwaehe’h, The Naked Bear

Known by many names to different tribes of Native American peoples, this creature appears to be an enormous hairless bear, with an oversized head. Legends say these creatures are created when a normal bear makes a habit of feasting on human flesh. This causes their heads top enlarge, their fur to fall out, and grants them immunity from harm. This gives them a terrifying appearance but also makes them formidable adversaries.  

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Hellfire Hound

Despite historical sightings going back to the dark ages very little is known about these strange creatures. Some say these creatures are the products of ancient magic, elemental forces given shape and will. Others say they are natives to another dimension who take on a terrestrial shape to contain the unstable energies that their made of. Whatever their origins these fast moving, frightening creatures can be as dangerous as they are mysterious.

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Daughter of Shub-Niggurath

These beings are incredibly rare scattered across a dozen bloodlines originating in the Severn Valley from before the Roman Empire invaded the British Isles. Their considerable powers are passed from mothers to their daughters, although birthing a daughter brings doom to the mother. This limits their number to a single Daughter of Shub-Niggurath per bloodline at a time, unless twin girls are born.  

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The Ghost of John McSorely

Appearance: This ghost usually only appears as a moving shadow, accompanied by a drop in the surrounding temperature and the smell of stale alcohol. While no real features are discernable those seeing it get the distinct impression that the ghost is male and sorrowful. The shadow most often appears between 1 am and 3 am. Those who have seen this ghost call him The Shadow Man, The Bartender, or 2am Charlie.

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Valor, An Enchanted Weapon

This weapon appears as a finely made trench knife, a long blade mounted onto a hits that includes a pair of brass knuckles. The knuckle duster of weapon is inscribed with the word “Vitrus”, Latin for Valor. It’s a superior weapon, in excellent condition with a razor sharp edge never seems to need sharpening. It is, or course, enchanted. The weapon does 1D6+1+db points of damage, and any punch made with it receives +2 to damage on the attack roll.

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The Flying Head

This creature from Native American folklore appears as a huge head, the size of a grown man, which flies through the air on nightly hunts with a ravenous hunger for human flesh. While all reports of these creatures depict them as horrific, with wide maws filled with sharp teeth, other details vary. Some appear to be male, others female, some appear rotted while others seem freshly severed. Some flying heads have long hair, or the wings of bats or ravens where their ears should be. They are often seen emerging from or returning to bodies of water where they lair in the murky depths until nightfall.

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