Tales of Perpetual Peace/RDDloresheets

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Starting Entanglements

• Characters may access two District Loresheets free.

Dancing Red Demon

The Disease Itself

The Quarantine

Only Six Devils: Ground Zero?

Although the Dance has not yet come to Perpetual Peace, the Demon nevertheless looms large. How has it affected you?

Vile Rain Cult Legend

Few among the Wulin -- and few more outside it -- think that the Vile Rain Cult is anything but a legend, a bogey used to scare the credulous and the naive. The notion of a corrupt society that practices human sacrifice, cannibalism, demon summoning, and worse(!), all while managing to escape the notice of the Martial Brotherhood at large can't help but appear preposterous. Now, some admit that such a baneful cult might once have existed, perhaps in the chaotic days at the end of the Han dynasty, or more recently perhaps in the Long Winter, but even then it is most often alleged that the so-called Cult was really just a few poor, deluded souls trying to emulate the tales of evil told around campfires.

Yet there are those who do believe -- and not without reason, either.

• 2+ Fortune: You have a contact, either in the Wulin or the Imperial Bureaucracy, who believes as you do, and -- while no more informed than you overall -- may be able to provide new information or insight into the existence of the Vile Rain Cult.
• 4+ Fortune: Once per story, you may declare that an NPC knows something of great importance about the existence and/or nature of the Vile Rain Cult, and its connection to the Dancing Red Demon plague. While your Wulin Sage is the ultimate arbiter of what the NPC knows, the information will be of great value.

Why is it you believe that the Vile Rain Cult exists? You may pick one of the following options, or work with your Sage to design a new one.

• They tried to recruit me! One night, while walking the streets alone, a figure cloaked in shadow approached you; his (her? its?) skin was sallow, with pale milky eyes, and foul breath. You were asked "Do you wish to be baptised in the Vile Rain?" and, whether out of incredulity, indignation, or disgust, you refused -- and before you know it the figure was gone. Perhaps, as you seek out this wicked creature, you may ask yourself why they tried to recruit you.
• You have read The Gospel of Corruption. You picked up the scroll in a dusty corner of the library; was it simple curiosity that led you to read it, or was a deeper destiny at work? Whatever the reason, your mouth went dry and your stomach soured as you read the perverse tale -- a cosmogony of degeneration, a metaphysics of abjection, and a promise of salvation through evil. Whoever professes such a philosophy, to say nothing of the perverse soul who composed it, is a danger to all Shen Zhou.
• You have witnessed their rites.
• You just know it to be true.