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Forum user collaborative threads are the best, so let's start one for odd setting details that GMs can throw into their games for flavor purposes. Or maybe use them as plot seeds, I dunno, the universe is a crazy place. I'll start.
1.) By far the most popular sport in the Pact Worlds is a game called Wizardball. It's played in a 0-G arena with teams of 5 players and 1 ball that starts in the center. There is 1 hard-and-fast rule: players cannot touch the ball with their physical bodies. They can only move it using supernatural powers and spells. Most players are mystics and technomancers, though there are a few players who have spontaneously developed psychic powers that play as well (reading an opponent's mind to figure out their strategy is totally legit). Famous wizardball players can become famous Icons in the Pact Worlds, with fans falling all over themselves to help their home team's star player.
2.) All My Nanites is one of the most watched holovid soap operas in the Pact Worlds. The entire cast is made up of androids, and their flat affect means that they have to overact all the time to get any emotion across at all. Some viewers see the show as an intricate drama; others think that it's cheesy as heck but watch it to see what happens next anyway.
3.) The Debt Collectors are a branch of AbadarCorp which officially doesn't exist. They are a group of operatives who do the dirty work that the holy company needs done but doesn't want to acknowledge due to PR problems. Most of AbadarCorp's corporate structure doesn't even know that the Debt Collectors even exist; no doubt there are many who would be horrified that such a brutal organization is sanctioned by the highest executives in the company.
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4) Stan Lee.
6) Eating at the Golarion Arches. The food is lousy but cheap, and you'll find a restaurant next to every docking port on every civilized world. People will make disparaging comments about the franchise, but will invariably start jonesing for a bag of fries.
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7. Discount Dan's Defense Depot: For all your self-defense needs, look no further than Discount Dan's. A weapons and armor franchise, Discount Dan's is an unholy amalgamation of the worst aspects of all the current day retail outlets at once. Pushy employees, mediocre selection, noticeable price markups, dingy stores, a rewards card that doesn't actually reward you anything, and more. The franchise only stays in the black because they have (somehow) managed to corner the market on used weapons sales, buying just about anything at 10% market value and reselling it at 90% market value. Almost everybody hates them, but for some reason they just keep coming back.
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8) "Like the gods made them" A highly valued Magazine which has a wide variety of tasteful Erotica with females (and in a spinoff magazine males) of many different species, sometimes largely unknown aliens or outsiders. Some finds let historians assume the magazine existed already pre-gap. The owner is surprisingly availible if you seem interesting for him (PCs, especially high Cha and Icons) and always seems to make generous offers.
The magazin itself is availible for a few credits in digital, paper printed or durable plastics (easy to clean)
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2.) All My Nanites is one of the most watched holovid soap operas in the Pact Worlds. The entire cast is made up of androids, and their flat affect means that they have to overact all the time to get any emotion across at all. Some viewers see the show as an intricate drama; others think that it's cheesy as heck but watch it to see what happens next anyway.
Cheesy over the top super expressive soap acting, I would totally watch this show! Reminds of the patron saint of Star Ship Captains, James T. Kirk, Speaking of Kirk..
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10) Come one come all to The Goblin Salvage Yard! We have weapons, armor, engines, you want it, we have it! We don't have it, we will find it! Everything must go go go!
You need bullets, and a gun
We have plenty, have some fun
You need armor made of lead
Come to us or you be dead
You have money, spend it here
We Be Goblins, it is here!
all sales are "as is" all purchases are final, the buyer excepts all legal responsibility for property damage, injuries, death, and other legal claims that may occur due to malfunctioning equipment.
11) Qwik-E-Charj automated battery recharging stations are almost as ubiquitous as the Gobblin' Arches (above), in no small part due to the presence of these obnoxiously pastel-hued nigh-unhackable machines inside every 'restaurant'. "Recharge your batteries while refueling your biomatter conversion furnace!" Recharge three or more batteries at once, or a high-capacity battery or higher, get a Euphoria Meal for free! Sales, meals and charging taxes not included. Do not feed Euphoria Meals to members of underage species.
12) The Love Liner is a popular romantic sit-com detailing the antics of Captain Stewbeing and its semi-competent crew aboard the Vaylen-Narani Industries' sponsored flagship luxury star-cruiser. This show is a hybrid of pre-Gap reality holovid, scripted romantic entanglements and the occasional live-feed boarding attempts by space pirates. When a cast member is killed during a boarding attempt, auditions are held on many of the Pact Worlds to fill the replacement cast at the beginning of the following season, sometimes proving more popular than some of the regular episodes from the following season.
13) Our Evil Overlords is a crudely animated series of shorts with a massive cult following. Follow the antics of a varying number of tentacled one-eyed constantly-drooling aliens that speak fluent Common as they endeavor to follow - while usually failing - the nearly 20,000 line-items from the Evil Overlord List.
14) My Little Tumors: Symbiosis is Magic is a popular animated product-pimping tri-D young species' show featuring the adventures of a fantasy genre symbiosist and their collection of symbiotic tumor-creatures as they demonstrate the success to found working together in the bizarre fantasy land of Sequestria, thought to depict long-lost Golarion. The show's positivity has drawn a far larger fan base than the producers ever expected.
15) Ye Olde Flautists is a very popular, albeit bizarre, audio-only digital album of wind instrument performers with a decidedly unique vocalist singing in a language that no one in the Pact Worlds, or the Azlanti Star Empire, understands, even with the aid of known magic. The recording label collects their royalties, yet the performers never make public appearances or tour. It is not known if there will be a second album.
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Cheesy over the top super expressive soap acting, I would totally watch this show!
2.) All My Nanites is one of the most watched holovid soap operas in the Pact Worlds. The entire cast is made up of androids, and their flat affect means that they have to overact all the time to get any emotion across at all. Some viewers see the show as an intricate drama; others think that it's cheesy as heck but watch it to see what happens next anyway.
There's a rumor that the lead actor of the show sold his soul to Robot Asmodeus for his UNHOLY! ACTING! TALENT!!!
16.) Though AbadarCorp undoubtedly runs the biggest bank in the Pact Worlds, one of its main competitors is Hoard Securities LLC. The bank is primarily owned by several dragons who figure that growing their hoards through interest rates is a lot safer and more profitable than raiding cargo ships. Because they don't ask a lot of question of people who apply for loans, they tend to do a lot of lending to shady people.
17.) The Sons of Torag are a radical splinter group of dwarves who believe that Angradd killed his older brother Torag, the original god of dwarves, during the gap. Their goals are to find a way to revive their dead god and to unseat Angradd from his current position as head of the dwarven pantheon.
18.) After the end of the Silent War, as a way to try and strengthen the uneasy peace between their respective systems, the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium agreed to the Soldier Exchange Program. Members of the Stewards (the main peacekeeping force in the Pact Worlds) and the Veskarium Military swap positions in each other's organizations, as a way to learn from each other. There is also the unofficial mission that each exchange officer has of trying to gather military intelligence on their former enemies. Oddly enough, though, this does appear to be working and is why many Vesk seem content to remain in the Pact Worlds even after the end of their compulsory military service.
16.) Though AbadarCorp undoubtedly runs the biggest bank in the Pact Worlds, one of its main competitors is Hoard Securities LLC. The bank is primarily owned by several dragons who figure that growing their hoards through interest rates is a lot safer and more profitable than raiding cargo ships. Because they don't ask a lot of question of people who apply for loans, they tend to do a lot of lending to shady people.
Evil Dragon Banks, that is easily one of the evilest and scariest things that has come up yet!