This was a great thread!

Hrm.  Never did get to a full 101.

91. Handmade missing child flyers stapled to trees. They read "if you find my girl, please leave town. Do not call the police." Any inquiry into this results in townsfolk dismissing it as an annual teen prank.

92. The public areas of town are pristine...except for the churches which are all abandoned, overgrown with weeds, dead leaves, obviously unused and not visited for decades.

93. Why is everyone in town wearing a name tag? A closer look reveals there are innocuous symbols (like dots, stars, lines, etc) on the tags and some people have more symbols than others...and appear to receive more deference from the other townsfolk.

94. Here's one for a big city: a cannibal cult has taken over a local mortuary. They skin the dead, eat the meaty bits and drape the skin over manikins for the funerals. They spread their faith through a local diner. As people eat at the diner, they develop their own love for man flesh and it results in a rash of cannibalistic murders randomly around the city with no apparent ties.

Quote from: Spinachcat;89336191. Handmade missing child flyers stapled to trees. They read "if you find my girl, please leave town. Do not call the police." Any inquiry into this results in townsfolk dismissing it as an annual teen prank.

Whoa, that's beautiful.

Anyway ...

95 .  Every so often, radio frequencies are broken into by a slurred male voice.  The transmissions are brief, rambling, barely comprehensible, and sound as if the speaker is loopy or high.  Regardless of the content, they always end with "We are the Underground.  Pray for our brothers.  Chant for them.  Unnnnnderrrrrr ... unnnnnderrrrr ... undddderrrrr ..."

(This actually happened one night when I was driving in Plymouth in the 70s; WBZ's feed was broken into with this.)

96. The local butcher is a really affable fellow, and he sells the best meat you've ever eaten. So good you just can't get enough of it. Really can't get enough of it.

Quote from: Rincewind1;89348896. The local butcher is a really affable fellow, and he sells the best meat you've ever eaten. So good you just can't get enough of it. Really can't get enough of it.

Soylent Green is HOBBITS!!!

97. You hear chants whenever you lie down to sleep. The chants stop when you get up to check the roof, from where they seem to be coming.

98. A man accuses the PCs of having abused him for years. After they assure him they weren't born back then, he gets extremely agitated. As soon as he (mentions rituals and) grows agitated, the locals take him away. The next day, they see him by accident - he's the barber, but he doesn't seem to remember them.

99. You see a kid staring at a pile of roleplaying books on the ground in front of her. She wants to read them, but doesn't dare to open them, because the pastor warned them that the monsters will come out and eat the kids that dare read them. She objects to the PCs trying to open them for her, saying other girls had disappeared after she loaned them "Vampire: the Bloodsucking", the anniversary V30 edition.

100. People react... strangely, when you say specific word (s). For example, "Jesus", "police", or "women".

Quote from: JesterRaiin;893559100. People react... strangely, when you say specific word (s). For example, "Jesus", "police", or "women".

I can think of real world places like that:).


101. A big white dog with black spots seems to be following you everywhere. Nobody else seems to see it, nor hear its wailing;).

102. The PC's have to turn in their 6 shooter/swords and shields while in town, but all cutting and chopping tools from steak knives to axes and plows are made of brightly polished bronze.

103. There is a twice weekly local market that issues its own currency, it's accepted and even preferred in many of the local shops.  On one side it a corn maze with the motto "the soil nourishes us and we nourish the soil"

104. There are no old people past 50 - 70 in the town. A look at the town's graveyard proves it to be oddly small for a town that size, and the only graves belonging to people who died at age 50 or over are at least 200 years old.

105.  The only factory in town, a car manufacturing plant, is known for producing excellent cars. Every month however, there is a truly gruesome freak accident at work, after which, a new line of cars starts to roll off the conveyor belts, better than anything else on the market. The owner of the factory has not been seen for the past 20 years.

106. There are no birds in town. None whatsoever.

107. Everything is so ... normal.