Wonderland - Jags

Construction
On Chessboard Two things appear frightening. Once familiar, warm
buildings now loom with broken, dark windows and graffiti-stained
walls. Storm clouds gather. If the characters are in a Normality Zone
then things that you will need to decide are:
Element Notes
Monsters
Movement
Damage
Valuable Things
Messages / Relevance
Normality Zones are abandoned and are homes for monsters in many
cases. How high the threat-level is often mimics the real-world area to
some degree (dangerous neighborhoods tend to be worse).
How movement is restricted will be a big deal on Chessboard Two.
Doors may be fake if they are locked on Chessboard Zero (i.e. you
might need to batter down the wall). Corridors that are guarded might
be filled with garbage (or watched by monsters).
Is the place abandoned? Streets may have burnt-out hulks of cars.
Store windows are smashed and trash blows by, caught in the wind.
Determine what kinds of damage have been done.
Some places will still have valuable things. Usually not very valuable
things—but a grocery store might have some food still on a few of
its shelves. A TV-Repair store might have one or two good units
displaying static.
Many places on Chessboard Two will contain messages for people who
come there. Some say that the person’s subconscious mind actually
re-shapes the world when they arrive. But there is some evidence that
meaningful messages have been in a given place for ages, waiting to
be discovered and being meaningless to those who pass them before
the person for whom they are meant. There is also evidence that some
“beings” may wish to communicate with journeyers and can do so
through the terrain.
If the Zone is Warped then you will need to determine how it has
mutated.
Type of Mutation Notes
It’s A Nightmare/
Funhouse Mirror
Version
It’s Relevant
It’s Under New
Management
Things might be upside down, pictures might be lurid caricatures of
themselves, the place may reflect pornographic, cultish, or murderous
sensibilites. There seems to be a dark sense of humor at work in the redesign
of the place.
Maybe the mutation somehow encapsulates a “true nature” of the place
(note: what exactly the true-nature of a place is might be up for debate
between any two given people. Wonderland has one, though).
Sure, the physical structure might change but if the Monks of Mourning
have turned the place into a monastery then it’s gonna be significantly
different from whatever it was before.
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