Hysteria

Hysteria is a town in the far west of the southern continent, west of Ashwell. It is known for its "fright stripe": some years ago ghosts appeared, and every townsperson, and one row of buildings, now bears a white shock stripe. Because ghosts can't abide water, a well was built over the place they escaped from. The town has three churches: the Tabernacle of the Beast Lord, which is the Huntmaster's church under the local name for him; one to the Lady of Ravens; and a shrine of the Celestial Weaver on "baby island", reached by ferry (see The New Gods). The Caravansery (the handwritten notes' "Caravaxery") is the space around the Tabernacle. The party learned that idiots go missing through the Lady of Ravens' influence, and that all three of the town's gods are, in effect, taking sacrifices.

The party arrived through a repurposed tin mine and climbed out of the dry well, where they met Askmedeous of Glassier's Pride. Townsfolk they dealt with include Ferryman Randol, Inspector Corin and his assistant Halfson, the old elf Saev Althene-Rho, and Meat, a restaurant that buys hunt catches from Taz'Or Ka and sells aberration meat. Beneath Hysteria lies one of the zones of The Necessary Wildness, the Amber-Grey Ashbeds.