The T City Paranormal Files

Strange Tales of T City

What stories will unfold in this city of strange tales today?

✦ The World

Basics
• All things have a spirit; in time, anything may awaken as a 【spirit】 (yaoling)
• Their doings are called paranormal 【incidents】
• Human thoughts awaken and shape them; those born of malice become 【malevolent spirits】
• Some can be purified by a skilled handler

About Spirits
• Ordinary people cannot see them
• Lingering ghosts are spirits too
• Yet they are physically real and leave traces

✦ T City

A thousand-year-old city that began as a farming village, famous for its strange legends.

History Village 2,500+ yrs › Township 2,000+ › T Town 1,500+ › T City now

T Univ. Prestigious · S Univ. Humanities · A Univ. Sci & Tech

✦ Landmarks

Xinghe Plaza Xinghe
Home of the Star Tree, whose leaves glow silver at night

Nangong Manor Luoshui
The Nangong clan home, ablaze with red maples year-round

The Nonexistent Café ???
A long-told T City legend

Beichuan Science Park Beichuan
A world-famous tech hub

✦ Six Districts

North Xinghe · Ren'ai · Beichuan
South · Old Town Luoshui · Tianting · Shenyin

✦ Strange Legends

FILE 01 The Forgotten Keeper of Rain
• Long ago, villagers prayed for rain at a shrine to the Keeper of Rain they imagined
• It grew into today's bustling T City
• At some point, people forgot the Keeper, and her shrine

FILE 02 The Nonexistent Café
• Said to hide on a quiet Tianting corner; most who look find only a graffiti wall
• Rumor says spirits gather there to trade news, paying with any one object

FILE 03 The Nangong Family
• An old clan said to be chosen by the gods, known for spirit mediums
• They take any paranormal case (no danger, no fee)
• "The Nangong twins": Qi & Ai, both 21

FILE 04 The Spirit Market
• A market for spirits in Tianting, open to anyone who can see it

—More secrets await. Explore them as you play!—