Solace Anomaly
An environmental puzzle rather than a combat threat—a piece of the city phasing out of sync with reality, surfacing contradictory evidence and memory glitches that require the team...
A piece of this city that has no business existing — a building that wasn't there yesterday, a door that opens onto another decade, a face turning up in everybody else's old yearbook. Not something you punch. An environmental puzzle the team has to map before it makes sense.
Signature moves: surface in a witness's account, contradict a teammate's memory, offer up impossible evidence, leak something out of its own time.
Defeated by: the team Assess the Situationing again and again until the rule underneath the Anomaly finally holds still.
Appearance: A shape that never quite resolves — a doorway that flickers between two buildings, a silhouette a half-step out of sync with its own shadow. Colors bleed slightly at the edges, like reality's still catching up.
Tier Iconic Environmental · Scale Phenomenon · Labels Freak +2 · Mundane -3
Common drives
- whatever bound the Anomaly here
- preserved instruction from an old crisis
- broken rule
Narrative hooks
- Centers on a building in Old Solace Cemetery
- Knows a teammate by a name they have not used
- Was created by the City Veteran's previous team