Demon City Blues Oracle

… for “In a Wicked Age”

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1,Awakening buried in a coffin beneath six feet of earth 1,Bloody footprints in a back alley that seem to walk through the wall of a restaurant 1,Down in the Quarter, they’ll pay a thousand dollars for a werewolf’s teeth, but only a hundred for a vampire’s 1,Down in the sewers, a strange convocation is gathering 1,Drunk on hex-gin, an old sorcerer conjures his heart’s desire 1,Grandma’s old brownstone contains more than just cats and stacks of newspaper 1,In the basement of a certain building in a certain public housing project, there’s a circle sprayed on the floor, and Enochian tagged on the walls, and trapped inside it is the Angel sent to destroy the world for the second time, not with water, but with fire 1,In the heavy rain, residents of an unmarked inner-city graveyard begins to shake off their dirt naps 1,On St. Patrick’s Day a small visitor from the old country takes offense at how his people have been mischaracterized 1,A city’s back alleys, plagued by shadowy beasts and ghostly howls 1,The fog has come and offers communion. Those who breathe deep of it shall surely hang. Who hates the wind enough to partake? 1,The gang of children who never grow old prepare for war. Armed with sticks and stones, they become deaf until the feud is over 1,The grove in the middle of the park, where druids had once practiced their rituals 1,The only practicing wizard in the Chicago phone book 1,The Smiling Man who stalks and watches, but never shares the joke 1,There’s a clinic down off MLK where you can get bullets removed, no questions asked, or have the hand of a Kell grafted onto a stump, or an eye taken from one of the Ili’orden implanted into your empty socket 1,A man in Little Korea will sell you a mummified pig fetus you can use to talk to the God of Boars 1,They say anyone who jumps from the roof of the Chambers Building spends three days in hell, then rises from the grave 1,They say the rabbi at the big synagogue downtown has constructed a golem 1,Two rival gangs still fight, although they all died long ago 1,Werewolves are being hunted for their body parts, as some believe they hold regenerative properties 1,When the dead man opens his eyes, it is like the world finally makes sense and he can see
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1,antiques store, where all the goods come straight from Hell. The marked prices are very reasonable—but there are other prices which must be paid 1,auction where dreams, destinies, and fates are sold 1,bare-knuckle boxer wakens to find his body isn’t his own—in fact, his body doesn’t seem to belong to any one person anymore 1,big shipping container down at the docks that holds only a skeleton with a wooden stake in its ribcage 1,black cat with the power to possess the mind of its owner 1,book bound in human skin 1,burnout ex-cop sees the face of a man he killed walk past him on the street 1,carnival owned by a demon 1,cherry ’73 Dodge Charger blacker than Satan’s hoof tears down the rain-slicked streets, the woman behind the wheel working the gearshift like a wizard works his wand 1,closet door that leads to another world, with a body lying halfway across its threshold 1,comic book called The Wrath said to contain the Last Name of God 1,crossroads where a demon can be summoned to grant any one desire 1,cursed bluesman whose music haunts the living and stirs the dead 1,drug which causes ecstasy when a werewolf shifts shape and vampires have acquired a taste for 1,elderly caretaker, armed only with a shovel, facing down the restless dead 1,french bulldog of uncanny intelligence, greatly frustrated 1,gorgeous blonde, dead, with a silver bullet in her heart 1,group of teenagers dare one another to vandalize the headstones in a secluded graveyard 1,half-demon on the run from the more unpleasant side of her family 1,half-eaten body with an unconscious person lying beside it 1,half-open Zippo bearing a laughing skull, lying in the ashes of a burnt and ruined home 1,human skull carved with elaborate sigils; the final resting place for the spirit of a sorcerer who had … unusual appetites 1,ice-cream shop with many unusual flavors, and its grinning proprietor 1,labyrinth of twisting narrow streets, all unnamed 1,man who can find anything is himself in desperate need 1,mental hospital, now abandoned and condemned, inhabited only by two lonely security guards and madness that leaks from the very walls 1,mysterious note, written in a long-dead language, nailed to the door of the cathedral on 2nd ave 1,pair of brothers, armed to the teeth, seeking the demon that killed their mother 1,pistol traced with glowing runes that fires arcane rounds of the bearer’s desire 1,poet who wrote a love-ode to ‘Nature’ and who was rewarded by that Lady with immortality—as the Green Knight 1,quiet little bar that serves the best ‘Bloody Mary’s’ in town 1,roving blackout that weaves a rune of darkness across the city 1,scalpel containing the imprisoned soul of Jack the Ripper 1,spell you say before sleeping on someone else’s pillow lets you dream what they dreamed 1,spirit awakens with no memory of how it came to possess the body 1,spirit tied to an Ouija board, eternally spelling out its name 1,tattoo shop where the ink contains unpredictable magic 1,underground casino where the bets are for passion 1,unseasonable snowstorm on its third day, with no sign of relenting 1,vampire sick of killing, decides to save a life for every one he took 1,woman sells her soul to revive her true love
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(contributions from an rpg.net thread)