Out of Character (OOC):
San Diego:
Notable Locations
Written and designed by Lucas Powell
Notable Locations
Sanctums
University of San Diego: College
of Alcalá Park
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In 2003 the College of Alcalá Park was moved into the Donald Shiley Center.
Archivum Censoreum - The Archivum Censoreum is a hidden location known only to the Hierophant and the Censor of the Mysterium.
The El Cortez Hotel
El Cortez is a landmark hotel in San Diego, California. Built from 1926 to 1927, the El Cortez was the tallest building in San Diego when it opened. It sits atop a hill at the north end of Downtown San Diego, where it dominated the city skyline for many years.From its opening in 1927 through the 1950s, it was the most glamorous apartment-hotel in San Diego. The large "El Cortez" sign, which is illuminated at night, was added in 1937 and could be seen for miles. In the 1950s, the world's first outside glass elevator was built at the El Cortez. During the late 1960s and 1970s, the El Cortez fell on harder times. The El Cortez closed as a hotel in 1978 when it was purchased by evangelist Morris Cerullo to serve as an evangelism school. Cerullo sold the property in 1981, and the El Cortez was threatened with demolition until the San Diego Historic Site Board designated it as a historic site in 1990. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Site of the final battle between Stavros and David (the leader of San Diego's Seers of the Throne), and the site of the death of Kethes and the World Enders. The El Cortez now belongs to Stavros, Magister of the Silver Ladder, who maintains a penthouse at the top of the hotel. He is rarely seen coming and going. Deep in the bowels of the building where the battle against the Abyss was won it is said something festers that Stavros explores as his personal Mystery.
Symphony Towers
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| Symphony Towers |
Former headquarters of the Seers of the Throne. The towers are now apartments for Mages. The rooftops are still power Hallows due to the mystical architecture of the buildings and surrounding streets.
Deer Park Monastery
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| Meditation Hall |
Deer Park Monastery (Vietnamese: Tu Viện Lộc Uyển,) is a 400-acre Buddhist sanctuary in Escondido, California. It was founded in July 2000 by monastic and lay practitioners from Plum Village, France. The monastery is under the direct guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh and his Order of Interbeing in the Vietnamese Zen tradition. Deer Park follows the same practices and schedule as Plum Village and its sister monastery Blue Cliff Monastery in New York and Magnolia Grove Monastery in Mississippi.
Since its founding the monastery has grown to be very active. In addition to its regular monastic schedule, Deer Park hosts twice-weekly days of mindfulness which are open to the public as well as a variety of themed and general retreats. Deer Park hosts an annual retreat when Thich Nhat Hanh travels to North America. Over the years the ordained Sangha has been growing and currently consists of 14 monks and 23 nuns. Lay practitioners also live at the monastery.
Navy Information Operations Center (NIOC), San Diego
A decommissioned building, looking like a gutted corps on the inside used to be flex area. No one can say anymore what mission or events occurred in the building but it would appear to have been some kind of intelligence operations center. Why a hallow kindled here is anyone’s guess, Coronado island has all kinds of ley lines running through it which could provide further answers.
Balboa Park
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| Museum of Man, Balboa Park |
Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre urban cultural park. In addition to open space areas, natural vegetation zones, green belts, gardens, and walking paths, it contains museums, several theaters, and the world-famous San Diego Zoo. There are also many recreational facilities and several gift shops and restaurants within the boundaries of the park. Placed in reserve in 1835, the park's site is one of the oldest in the United States dedicated to public recreational use. Balboa Park is managed and maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of San Diego.
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Other Attractions
· Spreckles Organ Pavilion· Ruben H. Fleet Space Center
· The Old Carousel
· Natural History Museum
· The Timken
· San Diego Museum of Art
· The Minghei Museum
San Diego New Central Public library
The New Central Public Library is a massive structure tripling the size of the previous Central Library. It houses a Charter School operated by the Incunabulum Cabal.Gathering Locations
Del Mar Fairgrounds
The Del Mar Fairgrounds is a 370-acre property that is the site of the annual San Diego County Fair. Its Del Mar racetrack was built by the Thoroughbred Club in 1937 by founding members Bing Crosby and Pat O'Brien with Paramount Studios as corporate sponsor. The fairgrounds is owned by the State of California and is managed by 22nd District Agricultural Association, a state agency that hosts more than 300 annual events. Its staff organizes four major annual events, including the annual San Diego County Fair, and runs Surfside Race Place, the year-round satellite horse racing facility. The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club leases the facilities for their live meets each year.
Twiggs Coffee & Bakery
The local “Mage Baby Night” is a relic now. There are very few newly Awakened in San Diego and the number of new Awakenings seems to be decreasing every year. Most who are here came from other parts of the country with their own agendas. Lately it's become a hang out for students at the Pentacle Academy looking to get off campus and blow off steam. Sometimes members of Parabola will check in.
The Stingaree
The Stingaree was a neighborhood of San Diego between the boom of the 1880s and the cleanup of 1916 and is generally considered to be San Diego's old redlight district. The reason for the neighborhood's fame was its role as the home to the city's "undesirables", including prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers and gamblers.Now The Stingaree is the name of a supernatural nightclub located in the Gaslamp District. It exists in its own quasi-realm and is protected by a being of god like power, Eliot the Orphan Lord. The entrance to the club is always a bright red door of patent leather that is found at the bottom of flight of stairs in south of Market Street.
Strongholds of the Enemy
Self-Realization Ashram
The Encinitas Temple is a branch of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), an international religious organization founded in 1920 by PYeParamahansa Yogananda to disseminate the universal teachings of Kriya Yoga, a sacred spiritual science originating millenniums ago in India. The Temple offers a full program of inspirational lecture services, meditations, scriptural reading and meditation services, kirtans (devotional chanting), Sunday School and Teen classes, and other activities to introduce truth seekers to the timeless teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and help them deepen their spiritual practices. The nearby Encinitas Ashram Center and Meditation Gardens were established by Paramahansa Yogananda during his lifetime, and have become a center of pilgrimage for thousands of people each year, who come from all parts of the globe to visit the site where this great world teacher lived, worked, and communed with God.Legendary Banisher Fra Chav is said to stalk the Self-Realization Ashwam on Oceanside.
San Diego Mormon Temple
Rumors persist that the San Diego California Temple is home to a particularly fanatical cell of Witchhunters.
Point Loma Nazarene College
Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a Christian liberal arts college. Its main campus is located on the Point Loma oceanfront in San Diego. It was founded in 1902 as a Bible college by the Church of the Nazarene.It is also a suspected foothold for a Seer Pylon of the Paternoster Ministry.
Mystic Sites
The Desert View Watchtower & the Salton Sea
In truth, the original tower was built by Ancient Thyrsus to watch over the Salton Sea centuries before, underneath which is some bound spirit of thirst.
Old Point Loma Lighthouse
The original Point Loma Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located on the Point Loma peninsula at the mouth of San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. It is situated in the Cabrillo National Monument. It is no longer in operation as a lighthouse but is open to the public as a museum. It is sometimes erroneously called the "Old Spanish Lighthouse", but in fact it was not built during San Diego's Spanish or Mexican eras; it was built in 1855 by the United States government after California's admission as a state.This decayed tower is a focus of the Acanthus Stormbringers, The Hallow here is dormant.
Mount Soledad
Mount Soledad is a prominent landmark in the city. The mountaintop is the site of the Mount Soledadcross, the subject of a 25-year controversy over the involvement of religion in government, which concluded in 2016.
As a result of these events and local leylines its also now a Hallow flavored with faith and controversy.
The Whaley House
The Whaley House is an 1857 Greek Revival style residence, a California Historical Landmark, and museum located in Old Town. It is currently maintained by Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO). In the 1960s, the Whaley House was designated as an official haunted house by the United States Commerce Department. The Whaley House was the home of Thomas Whaley and his family. The house was built where a graveyard once was. At various times it also housed Whaley's general store, San Diego's second county courthouse, and the first commercial theater in San Diego.The house has "witnessed more history than any other building in the city" and sports an Avernian Gate.
Old Town Graveyard
A lot of spiritual activity is said to occur here. One possible spirit is Yankee Jim Robinson, a man who stole San Diego's only row boat, and was hung at the nearby Whaley House. Afterwards he was buried in this cemetery. It also has an Avernian Gate.
The Presidio
At Anvernian Gate at the Old Mission. There is a crisscross of semi-dormant ley lines and hallows that ebb and flow with the stars over the entire park.
Torrey Pines
Flat rock is actually a Locus.
Hotel Del Coronado
Hotel del Coronado (also known as The Del and Hotel Del) is a historic beachfront hotel in the city of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. It is the second largest wooden structure in the United States. When it opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world. It has hosted presidents, royalty, and celebrities through the years. The hotel has been featured in numerous movies and books.It's also a very haunted Hotel. The beach nearby also has a locus that few know how to access.
Mysteries & Forbidden Places
Chicano Park, Barrio Logan, & San Ysidro
Chicano Park is a 8 acre park located beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan, a predominantly Mexican American and Mexican-immigrant community in central San Diego, California. The park is home to the country's largest collection of outdoor murals as well as various sculptures, earthworks, and an architectural piece dedicated to the cultural heritage of the community.
Barrio Logan is a neighborhood in south central San Diego. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of East Village and Logan Heights to the north, Shelltown and Southcrest to the east, San Diego Bay to the southwest, and National City to the southeast.
San Ysidro is a district of the City of San Diego, immediately north of the U.S.-Mexico border. It neighbors Otay Mesa West to the north, Otay Mesa to the east, and Nestor and the Tijuana River Valley to the west; together these communities form South San Diego, a pene-exclave of the City of San Diego, thus making it possible to travel (by water) between central San Diego and South San Diego without ever leaving the city limits. Major thoroughfares include Beyer Boulevard and San Ysidro Boulevard.
All these places held by the Hijos, while the territory is not recognized by the Ruling Council, it is effectively held by them.
The Deep Bay Hallow
The Bay is dredged, there is a powerful Locus deep at the base of the bay antithetical to humans. The Locus also “sings” and every few weeks when the pitch changes a human eventually climbs the Coronado Bay Bridge and commits suicide. Attempts to discover the source or dampen its effects have failed.
The Salton Sea
Fluctuations in the water level caused by variations in agricultural runoff, the ancient salt deposits in the lake bed, and the relatively high salinity of the inflow feeding the sea are all causing ever-
increasing salinity. The body was initially a freshwater lake, but by the 1960s its rising salinity had begun to jeopardize some of the species in it. With a salinity now exceeding that of seawater, most species of fish can no longer survive there. Additionally fertilizer runoffs have resulted in eutrophication, with large algal blooms and elevated bacterial levels. By 2014, large swaths of lake bed were exposed and salt levels drastically increased due to mandated water transfers to metropolitan areas along the coast and other factors, limiting the water inflow. Besides the resulting fish kills, the shrinking lake interrupts the bird migration, causes dust clouds, and impacts local tourism negatively.Now the Salton Sea is an eerie desolate landscape of abandoned resorts, dry cracked salt beaches and dead fish. There are myths among the Awakened that the sea was the site where an ancient Thyrsus bound something under the lake. Something that was the antithesis of life, an Abyssal entity or something stranger.
Tijuana Estuary
The Tijuana River Estuary is an intertidal coastal wetland at the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County bordering Tijuana Mexico. Storms send muck and sewage down canyons, into channels, and finally gets discharged into the Tijuana River and the Pacific Ocean, prompting pollution warnings and beach closures in both countries. Contamination and cross-border pollution has been a fraught topic for years.Pollution spirits are know to gather here at this poisoned Locus. Being a borderland between the Concilium and the vampire menace of Tijuana the problem is being largely been ignored.
The Kelso Dunes
Kelso Dunes, also known as the Kelso Dune Field, is the largest field of eolian sand deposits in the Mojave Desert. The region is protected by the Mojave National Preserve and is located near the town of Baker, San Bernardino County, California, and the Preserve Visitor Center. The dune field covers 45 square miles and includes migrating dunes, vegetation-stabilized dunes, sand sheets, and sand ramps. The tallest dunes rise up to 650 feet above the surrounding terrain.
It is also home of the Singing Dunes. They are said to drive mages and other supernatural beings to madness. Shamans sometimes use the dunes for dreamwalking, able to cross some kind of sympathy with the dreaming and one can wander through dreams while awake by just wandering the sands.
Warlock Mine
Roughly a mile down the Old Banner Toll Road, hook a sharp left to follow the trail down to what remains of the Warlock Mine, one of San Diego County's most productive and prolific mines. San Diego's mining history dates back to 1869, when Fred Coleman spotted gold in a creek bed. The subsequent gold rush boom and bust left a lasting mark and culture in the back country, where the mountains are literally laced with mines. Many have been abandoned, but there are still active claims being mined today.
The Lost Ruin
This is where saga of Succoth-Benoth began. At the edge of the continental shelf westward of San Diego is an Atlantean ruin where Kethes first activated the six-sided obelisk. It is guarded by both the Mysterium and the Guardians of the Veil.
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