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Come to my waters and bleed for a wish Health: N/A
I shall dish out your Dread Powers: Miracle
dreams like a fat wriggling fish Vanishing Hitchhiker
But if my waters are
ever drained down I just need to find my dad. Can you give me a ride?
Background: Lucas Kight was struck and killed by a car
I won’t dawdle nor on a moonless night three years ago. He was out looking for
dally when killing your town his father, who had gone out to get dinner seven hours before
and never come back. The whole thing was a tragic accident,
Storytelling Hints: The swimming hole works as a stressor with nobody to blame, but with Lucas’ father missing the boy
for any kind of story of small-town drama and petty politics. had no next of kin, so the city buried him in a potter’s field.
As interpersonal conflicts grow, slights are committed, and Lucas’ spirit did not rest easily, though, and he now haunts
tragedies befall the townsfolk, that certainty that it could all the blind curve where he was killed. He appears occasionally
be better if you just went down to the swimming hole and to passing motorists and asks them for a ride.
made a wish grows in your mind, like a fat little tick feeding Provided the drivers are willing to go along, Lucas leads
on your insecurities. Eventually someone will make a wish, them on a circuitous route past the power station (his father’s
and the whole thing will explode. One person wishes for job), the local dive bar his father liked to hang out at, an out-
revenge on a cheating spouse — the wish kills the philanderer, of-business Thai takeout restaurant (the place his father was
but takes his sister with him. The sister has a family of her supposed to be getting dinner from), and
own, friends, people who miss her. Maybe they finally to the now-vacant house where he
wish for revenge in turn, or maybe they just and his father lived. The way the story
wish her back. Either way, it ends bloody goes, this is usually when the driver gets
as old grudges and family feuds suddenly fed up and demands to know what’s go-
have the backing of deadly magic. ing on, only to discover that there’s no
Alternately, for a more outwardly- one in the car with them. It’s an old
focused story, perhaps a new company story, and one found all over
has bought the old quarry. They’ve the world. Most
got some fancy new pumping system people who
they say will drain the swimming en -
hole right down and let them start
mining again. It would bring jobs
to the area, revitalize the local
economy, but enough of the locals
have read the message in the cave
to figure that’s a bad idea. In this
scenario, the players might take
the roles of the locals trying to
protect the hole, or they might
be the engineers and surveyors
coming in to restart the min-
ing operation.

Best At (10 Dice):
Enticing people to make
wishes, dragging people
under and drowning them.
Worst At (2 Dice):
Affecting anything outside
the hole itself.
Willpower/Scene: 6
Initiative: 5
Defense: N/A
Speed: 0

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