Gloucester: 25 Cromwell Street
Between 1967 and 1990, Fred and Rosemary West are known to have murdered 12 young women, including two of their own children, and buried them in their backyard. Fred West claimed to have killed more than 20 more. He said that he had hidden the bodies all over Gloucester. He committed suicide before he revealed the location of any of them. Fred and Rosemary West’s house in Gloucester may have been pulled down, replaced by a landscaped footpath, but in the spirit realm it still stands, pale and bloodied, the center of a Wound that affects the whole area of the town. In the physical realm, the area used to be part of the territory of a pack of Ivory Claws. They’re gone now. No one has claimed the place. No one wants it.
In the Other, the street is completely silent. There seem to be no active spirits here at all. There is only the spirit of the house, malevolent and triumphant and unbowed, master and consumer of all that surrounds it. The door of the house gapes open like the maw of a diseased shark. Inside — nobody knows for sure. No one material has gone inside for 30 years or more. The house had gorged for so long on the spirits of fear, pain, perversion, lust and death that the inhabitants produced that the house has become a massively powerful sinkhole of all of these concepts. The house has consumed the spirits of the surrounding area. The house is the surrounding area. And it’s getting bigger.
Although the murders have stopped, the Wound’s influence is growing. At some point, the house will have to be faced and cleansed. Right now, the Uratha who live in Gloucester are ignoring the house, hoping it’ll go away. In the meantime, they’re keeping out of its way.
This is a mistake. Soon the house is going to be able to invade the material realm. The house could, if it isn’t stopped, become a bridgehead for the final invasion of the material realm by the Shadow.
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