Sutro Baths

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Main Storyteller: Batty and HARDAC

Timeline

• The 2000s (Mage): A small node in Sutro Baths becomes a known entity to the Awakened community, but it is scarcely ever utilized. There's a goddamn monster that lives inside the caves, and the caves themselves flood on the regular with the tide. Too much of a hassle. Since there is not any incidence of violence or missing persons attributed to the node, San Francisco's awakened collectively decided to let the issue lie, facing other priorities.
• April 2021 (Traditions): New arrivals to the Golden Gate Chantry swiftly find the Sutro Baths node and learn that the local mages neglected this node because of the perfectly-not-monster-infested node in Clarion Alley providing them what they need. New mages resolve to take the node. The monster is confirmed to be sentient and has warned others to stay out.
• May 2021 (Mage): Hermetic Kealia Mae Onno is murdered brutally by the monster, with 'STAY OUT OF MY HEAD' carved into her face. The Advocate Council determines that they should continue to not fuck with the goddamn monster who was previously bothering nobody.
• June 2021 (Public): The Cliff House restaurant, on the same property as Sutro Baths, evicts the Contreras family, which have run the property since the 1970s. They could not reach a new lease agreement with the site's owner, the National Park Service. The Contreras have been facing an expensive, personal medical hardship within the family, leading to working with outside management that has changed the nature of the restaurant to the detriment of its bottom line. Federal officials have found a new tenant to continue its legacy, but the Contreras are scheduled to move out.
• July 2021 (Public): Haunted SF partners with The Cliff House to start running Ghost Tours. The new management team announces its aims to "resurrect" the intrigue of the property's past, bringing attention to the Sutro Baths and its haunted history.
• August 2021 (Traditions): Members of the Golden Gate Chantry (Corinna, Khoi, Lauren, Liliana and Karina) attend a Ghost Tour and verify that there is a Technocratic presence at Sutro Baths.

News Coverage

• Body Found And Identified At Stanford, May 08, 2021
• History Preserved As NPS Shuffles Cliff House, Jun 25, 2021
• Haunted Seacliff Tours, July 06, 2021

Chantry Communications / Announcements

The following information is only available to those who have access to the Golden Gate Chantry.

• Corinna posts a notice (in July) in the chantry that she recovered some technocratic items that have -- or have had -- power in them. She's set up a ward against scrying to house them, but it'll only slow Them down. I need psychics, seers, people who can look back in time and study the mind and fate to examine them. I'll destroy them in 5 days; they could be found if I keep them around too long.
• Lauren posts a notice (in August) that the node has been drained of the water that used to flood it, and that the Union is slowly sanitizing the Resonance, from sad/haunted/suffocating to touristy, unserious, and almost silly.
• Karina posts a notice (in November) that she's "been working on snatching their little hidey hole out from under them. They don't GET to have territory here, the Baths are going to be ours. I'm looking for a bit of help with that too, though. If anyone's good with mapping and finding out structural weaknesses then I'd be up for trading a bit of the good old Sa to have some help getting more detailed info for the area, I've got maps, but I want better ones." She provides her IC contact information to the chantry.

Organizations / Businesses

• Cliff House
• Haunted SF

Ideas, Questions, Clues, Leads

Stuck? Need a hand, or some inspiration? The clues are strewn throughout the news articles, 'website', and other IC materials. That said, Here are some hints to help you get somewhere.

• Mess With The Ghost Tours: Lauren and Corinna proposed that the Mages thwart the Union's plans with the Sutro node by messing with the ghost tours. Lauren wrote: "Probably the most subtle way would be review bombing the tours and otherwise giving them a bad reputation in terms of customer service and the tour experience itself. Bad luck on the tours is also an option to help with this. A more extreme option would be to actually "hire" a ghost or spirit to fuck with the people on the tour (people go on these to get creeped out in a fun way, not genuinely terrified), but that would also damage Shade and probably bring the Union down on us."

Get Involved

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