Heart House

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Found by the Wandering Monster, deep in the Student Ghetto in Wizard City Hexcrawl.

The Student Ghetto is a nasty and depressing place on even its best day. The narrow wending streets are caked in layer upon layer of garbage grime - broken bottles, rotting furniture, cheap food, vomit. Follow the trail of garbage and regret from fraternity to fraternity and inevitably it shall lead you to the district's center, Heart House.

Murders of dire ravens feast upon impaled bloody hearts, some nailed to surfaces high and others left to rot in the street. Sometimes they're impaled and tied together in pairs, like bloody bolas, and thrown over trees and other sharp lips.

It’s quiet, but for the subtle writhing of viscera as they protest the scene. It smells like death - death and fun drugs. Brothers of the Fraternity stand in every corner, cloaked and hooded in black, watching for signs. One offers you trinkets at the cost of hearts, no questions asked.

Cursed Objects and Their Prices

d20	A(n)...		Bearing...	Containing a Curse of...	With a Price of a...
1	Crystal	Slipper	the image of a mistress	Poverty	Child’s Heart
2	Golden	Locket	dandelions	Impotent Prophecy	Beast’s Heart
3	Rusty	Dagger	a troubling effervescence	Terrible Luck	Widow’s Heart
4	Obsidian	Sphere	false refractions	Violence	Widower’s Heart
5	Silver	Hand Mirror	a scent of elders	Ignominy	Scholar’s Heart
6	Keen	Blade	thirsty rose thorns	Tactlessness	Champion’s Heart
7	Acute	Mask	a cruel aristocratic aura	Forgetfulness	Peryton’s Heart
8	Hand-worn	Journal	an impossible seal	Age	Elemental’s Heart
9	Unaddressed	Clock	oily fractals	Paranoia	Lover’s Heart
10	Ancient	Gentleman’s Cane	lingering coldness	Metamorphosis	Frozen Heart
11	Inscribed	Ring	a faint heartbeat	Pneumonia	Broken Heart
12	Machine-woven	Pentagram	odorless black mold	Villainy	Beating Heart
13	Shriveled	Tongue	heat to the touch	Recklessness	Philosopher’s Heart
14	Slashed	Portrait	zounds of worms	Frivolousness	Sailor’s Heart
15	Teething	Handkerchief	a closed eye	Rot	Aristocrat’s Heart
16	Pock-marked	Cube	a pyramid inscription	Zealotry	Student’s Heart
17	Bleached	Braid	a torn feather	Blasphemy	Raven’s Heart
18	Burned	Doll	grains of foreign spices	Despair	Dog’s Heart
19	Bloody	Tooth	no shadow	Pain	Bard’s Heart
20	Jarred	Eye	slight anti-gravity	Damnation	Wizard’s Heart

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Loitering Weirdos

A table to accompany The Low Moon in Wizard City Hexcrawl

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So you want to wizard-watch for a while? It’s your funeral.

d20	Loitering Weirdos
1	A ragged tin man is eating a ragged tin can. He’s not willing to share.
2	A dark hooded watching figure is really just a prop. On touch it becomes apparent, and business cards spill out for “Marvin’s Misanthropic Mannequins! Find us at The Mall!”
3	There’s a guy who is casually on fire.
4	Flautist playing an awful asynchronous melody like a 3rd grader improvising with a recorder. Can’t stop and won’t stop, but why?
5	Woman feeding fistfuls of garbage to a pack of cats… Wait, no, small dogs… Wait, no, giant rats… Wait, no, opossums. Yes, those are opossums.
6	Umbrella man’s reflection without accompaniment in a nearby murky puddle. Doesn’t respond to anything except sign language. Walks away in the reflected world after 2 attempts.
7	Crotchety old dude chewing something gross and periodically spitting into a distillery setup. He’s distilling his chew with who-knows-what. The resulting liquid is crystal clear. Drugs??
8	Kids playing jacks. The number of jacks they’re picking up is now at 17. They only do prime numbers. It keeps climbing. And climbing. And climbing. We are at 83 jacks and climbing...
9	A woman in high heels is waiting for someone. Won’t say who. She’ll be there night and day, literally forever.
10	A man is performing coin tricks, for himself, apparently. He’s even oohing and aahing, like he’s pleasantly surprised with each reveal.
11	There’s a person cheerfully watering a row of hats, “to help them grow big and strong.”
12	A child with no eyes is gazing at clouds, making up what she sees… Or is she?
13	There’s a guy wearing a frog mask, squatting.
14	Plainclothes old woman wields a halberd like it’s a walking stick. Says she’s holding it for someone. Who the hell needs a war halberd??
15	A man with a pointed cone hat drinks an ugly chartreuse liquid from the bottle. He says he’s not sharing.
16	It’s empty. It feels like someone’s watching, though. It feels like there’s someone here.
17	Right next to you! Ahh!... Oh wait, it’s just a party member. Whew.
18	There’s a child that’s throwing things up into the air that aren’t coming down. Things aren’t going anywhere, they’re just disappearing into thin air. He asks for things to throw.
19	A buff shirtless guy riding on a horse.
20	Crouching person with wide-brimmed hat and heavy robes is actually dead. Nothing but a skeleton under there. Empty pockets.