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<title>Story Hooks: Golden City</title>
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<h1>STORY HOOKS</h1>
<p>
When bringing Golden City into play, the GM may use the following points
to enrich the story by introducing artifacts, Villains, discoveries, and
rewards.
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<h2>The Celestial Gardens</h2>
<p>
These magnificent vertical gardens climb up into the sky. Vibrant and
gargantuan flowers of unusual colors, meandering vines, and other plants
with incomprehensible genetics embellish streets and walls, but hidden
within are the sad truths of a lost civilization. There isnt even a drop
of water.
<strong
>What is the secret of these plants vitality? Why does flora look so
different in this place?</strong
>
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<h3>The Unliving</h3>
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These mannequin-like creatures have been deprived of humanity. With
pale and expressionless features, they aimlessly wander through
streets and alleyways.
<strong
>Who are these creatures? For what purpose were they
created?</strong
>
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<h3>A Cruel Experiment</h3>
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Forced to wander eternally, a hybrid similar to a shapeless chimera
slowly walks every path of the gardens. They have no defined shape,
looking more like a heterogeneous mass of animal limbs. Their eyes
look almost human and show sadness and resignation. If the PCs try to
speak to them, a human head and torso rise from beneath the skin. The
hybrid isnt evil and fights only in self-defense (their attacks are
unpredictable and their Affinities change every turn).
<strong
>What is the true nature of this experiment? Which animals made up
their amorphous body?</strong
>
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<h3>A Harsh Reality</h3>
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Paintings and frescoes decorate the gardens inner walls. Studying
them for a while, Player Characters may discover a terrible truth
about this experimental greenhouse: it was the theater of macabre and
obsessive experimentation. Here, a now forgotten culture manipulated
life itself and molded nature and humanity according to a very
detailed plan.
<strong
>Who were they? What was their ultimate goal, and what interrupted
their plan? Which of campaigns main antagonists made such an
obsession their own, to the point of trying to complete the work of
these merciless visionaries?</strong
>
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<h2>Not All That Glitters Is Gold</h2>
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The glow of the Golden City shines beyond the clouds. Thousands of
luminous particles shimmer among the ruins, residuum of the essences that
have returned to the stream of souls. And yet, the heart of the city is
grim and dark. The secret of its civilization must remain buried and no
living being should ever set foot in the Golden City.
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