SUPERNATURAL OCCURRENCES
Every Wednesday, usually beginning around 6 in the evening, a fog rolls in from the coast to enshroud the city in a dense veil. Most of the residents know to stay indoors during this time, typically not making plans or reservations. All business in town ceases at 5pm at the latest on Wednesdays. Police patrols cease due to the severe drop in visibility, leaving those who wander vulnerable to whatever it is that lurks in the mist. At 4:30pm, there is a siren, akin to a tornado warning, to remind people to move indoors where they are safe.
The origin story of the fog varies from person to person with the general outline remaining consistent. One night during a blood moon, a thick and impenetrable fog rolled off of the sea and crept through any exposed corner of the colony. Anyone who was caught within the fog vanished, never to be seen again. Urban legends crept through the colony, all manners of whispers from a cult of vampires that lived underneath the colony, to the souls of the dead rising from the cemetery. In later years, those rumors shifted from objects of fantasy into more modern cryptic warnings, such as Jersey Devils and Bunyips. Some denizens of the city think it is the arrival of the Sluagh (slu-ah), evil spirits of the restless dead.
Whether or not the rumors are true, no one who has seen what lives in the fog has lived to report it. Modern cameras and videography hardware flicker and the footage becomes jumbled and unusable. Magical traps and alarms set remain undisturbed once the fog rolls out of the city, and those sensitive to magic and the ethereal have never reported anything out of the ordinary. From all speculation, it seems like mere rumor and perhaps a sickness or plague had taken the colony, or perhaps they had simply up and left, but there is always the seed of doubt that there is something more going on here.
SEASONAL FESTIVALS
Spring Equinox
First Week of Spring
Celebrating fertility, new life, and new beginnings.
Summer Solstice
First Week of Summer
Celebrating light. The highest point of energy for the year.
Typically this is celebrated with festivals that are seafood-centric.
Autumnal Equinox
First Week of Fall
Celebrating the harvest season and the last light before the darkness of winter.
Usually associated with Halloween. An important time for many supernaturals.
Winter Solstice
First Week of Winter
Celebrates the rebirth of the sun. Believed to hold a powerful energy for regeneration, renewal and self-reflection.
