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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8009156" data-attributes="member: 63">Mistwell, clearly our advertising game needs to improve.Hm, lemme see, from your list:Factories can certainly be haunted by workers who die there. And the way the 'feywild' (named the Dreaming in the setting) works is that different countries have different flavors of fey that match the national mood. One region is inspired by northeastern Europe/Russia, with dwarven gulags and a lot of old genocide nobody talks about these days, where whole villages can be forced to work in a massive subterranean factory complex. But in the right conditions, a pathway to the Dreaming can open up when the workers are all singing and toiling as one, and the factory's items can come alive. Magical clothing: We have two different magical tophats, now that I look into it.Streets with opinions: There's one city where a bunch of psychic creatures died, and the genius loci has begun reaching out to people to be its representatives, letting them make warlock pacts to fulfill its desires. In the physical world, though the actual geography doesn't move, but that's common in the Dreaming.Time management: Hadn't thought of that, but if the workers found out they'd probably riot. Communication: Not magical. There's actually a telegraph network, though in one country the thieves' guild controls it, in another fey sabotage it unless the wires are mounted on fancily decorated poles, and in another demonic spirits can possess the wires and tempt telegraphy operators.Pacts: Hm, nothing specifically about that. Though there are a type of creatures called gestalts where seven or more people willingly (usually) merge their minds, though the process drives many mad. One nation has formed a governmental pact with the fey Unseen Court called the Rites of Rulership so that the monarch derives magical powers from the support of the public. Golems: Actual honest to goodness golems with their powerful 'magic immunity' are expensive, but there are witchoil golems which use dark magic to create a type of oil that traps the soul of anyone who dies nearby, instead of letting it go to the afterlife. The oil can burn for months, making it a wondrous power source for rusting steaming constructs; if you're close enough, you can hear the screams of the souls in your mind.</blockquote>

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