The New Carcosa Lorebook || Remake!

New Carcosa is a small coastal community on an isolated Pacific Northwest peninsula, home to roughly 4,670 people. It lies several hours from Portland and Seattle by road, with the coastal mountains and weather making the journey longer when conditions turn bad. Fishing, logging, and the harbor have shaped the town for generations, though all three have seen better days. Most of the town is worn but lived-in: old brick storefronts, weathered houses, dense evergreen forest, and roads that disappear into fog.

For a place this small, New Carcosa has an unusual history. Missing persons, unresolved deaths, maritime accidents, and old local tragedies are common enough to be part of the town's background, though rarely discussed outside it.

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The Benthic Tap

A cramped harbor-front pub where dockworkers, loggers, and fishermen drink, gossip, and conduct the occasional bit of quiet business.

Carcosa Bay Cannery
A rust-stained fish processing plant on the waterfront and the largest remaining employer in town.

Tall Pines Tract
A dense, muddy stretch of old-growth forest east of town where logging roads disappear beneath towering evergreens.

Oakes Marine Institute
A brutalist concrete research facility perched on the cliffs above the harbor.

The Throat
A narrow and notoriously dangerous tidal strait separating the peninsula from the open Pacific.

Hali Reef Light
A restricted former lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula, now maintained as a weather and maritime relay station.

Meridian Coffee
A sterile corporate coffee shop in a declining strip mall, mostly ignored by the rest of the town.

Downtown New Carcosa
Four aging blocks of Main Street curving along the harbor, where most of the town's remaining businesses can be found.

St. Alder's Church
A whitewashed hillside church overlooking town, with an old cemetery stretching out behind it.

The Carcosa Mercantile
The oldest general store in New Carcosa, carrying everything from groceries and batteries to fishing gear and hardware.

The Anchorage Motel
An aging eleven-room roadside motel at the edge of town and the only place available for overnight lodging.

Carcosa Union School
The town's only school, a declining two-story brick building whose gymnasium also serves as the meeting hall and storm shelter.

Highway 101
The only paved road connecting New Carcosa to the mainland, frequently threatened by mudslides, fallen trees, and winter washouts.