This contains some spoilers for Toxic Alleys. Read the rest at our own risk.
Toxic Alleys looks like it should be a lot of fun to run. But knowing my game, just leaving countless shedim holding tea parties in Arlington Graveyard isn't going to go over all that well. And in fact, I think it may stretch suspension of disbelief if there is no sense of urgency about this from NPC.
So I'm trying to understand what is going on with that. I think what I understand of canon is that when the Watergate rift opened and many shedim spirits came in, a bunch of them somehow penetrated the ground at the Arlington Memorial (cemetary, graveyard, whatever the name is), and inhabited the bodies buried there.
And have stayed there since?
Because they were smart enough not to replay night of the living dead? Because they tried that, had their host bodies shredded, and went back to the graves to hide in whatever else they could find? Because someone is commanding them and has persuaded them to bide their time all these years?
And the powers that be know about this, but haven't done anything about it? Because they don't want to scatter the spirits and haven't figured out how to handle this in the years since? Because everybody is passing the buck? Because actually the people with power to plan something haven't been told? Because somehow nobody has noticed?
When a shadowrunner with too strong a conscience tries to warn people-who-could-do-something about the problem, they'll polite thank him, agree that this is concerning, and not do anything?
Mages near central Washington avoid astral projection?
