Salem

by | Dec 12, 2014 | Recursions

The Salem Witchcraft Trials were a dark time in the early history of the United States.  The deep feelings of paranoia, fear, and treachery were strong enough that it invested itself upon The Strange.  Without anyone to foster it, the recursion grew.  Today the recursion consists of the town of Salem, as well as some of the surrounding wilderness.  By day, the citizens of the town go about their business, ever wary of Witches that may be lurking nearby.  But at night, all citizens lock themselves up within their houses, for fear of things that prowl the dark.  The witches themselves are real, and have dark monstrosities in their employ.  The majority of witches are awakened, and seek to find the means to either leave the recursion, or to bring in artifacts powerful enough to grant them complete dominion over it. Witches-on entering the recursion, a recursors choice of foci determines their race.  If the foci only relies on standard physics, they come into the recursion as a human.  However if their foci requires Magic, they are branded a Witch upon entering.  Somewhere on their body will be a strange birthmark, signifying their difference according to the beliefs of the townsfolk.  However, just because a recursor is not a witch will not protect them from being accused of being a...

OHUNKAKAN: THE LIVING MYTHS

by | Dec 3, 2014 | Recursions

See Ohunkakan PDF for full text. In Ohunkakan, the old stories still live. Taletellers practice their art throughout the recursion, the constant flux of their tellings and retellings weaving an ever-changing tapestry of myth that shapes the fabric of reality. Landmarks, villages, and even the patterns of stars shift across the landscape, the familiar freely mixes with the mythic, and elements of dim ages stubbornly persist alongside images pulled from modern Earth. Even today, a tale told powerfully enough might just become...