The Court of the Silver Censer
The Honrei Mausoleum
The largest cemetery in Little Asia rests snugly between the district and the Smithville Woods. The people know it as the final home for more than a thousand citizens of Little Asia over the past century. The cemetery alone speaks for the ethnic diversity of the district. Traditional Buddhist grave markers and posts are seen near tombstones and crucifixes. Mausoleums, Buddhas, and Statues of Mary mingle through the grassy fields and hills of the expansive -- and ever-expanding -- graveyard. Several acres of peace and quiet bear the occasional visitor by day, but by night the place is typically avoided. A fog tends to hang on the land most evenings and legends of kuei and other spirits seem to be true. Little Asia is like a tiny reflection of Zhongguo, so no one wants to disturb the dead. And the shen know that the Quiet Knolls Cemetery is an unsafe place for the unwise.
One building, a mausoleum, stands near the heart of this graveyard. For the senzo of the Court of the Silver Censer, it bears special importance. This is the Honrei Mausoleum. The Honrei were an honorable family that immigrated decades ago and brought with them much of the sturdy corporative business the Japanese now have in Kansas City. However, rumors say that they refused to bend their necks to the yakuza that accompanied the financial reaching. In a bloody massacre, the gangsters shot and stabbed everyone -- even the women and children -- of the Honrei family to death. They were interred in this grandiose mausoleum topped with sculptures of tigers carved from marble and dragons of ebony. Flowers always surround this squat building made of solid concrete, and it is both beautiful and grand by day...and glorious and frightening by night.
OOC: There is no gate around the cemetery, but there are warning signs not to enter the cemetery when there is no watchman (i.e., night-time). It's considered trespassing. Police are the least concern; this is prime Little Asian wraith territory. At least one guard from the Fist of Nippon team is set at the Honrei Mausoleum at all times. Clumsy (Western?) necromancers receive the worst imaginable welcome. The Honrei Mausoleum is considered a Level 4 Haunt.
Cemetery Wall Rating: 6
Mausoleum Wall Rating (inside the sealed doors): 4
Other Haunts
The Inner Chamber (night-club back room)
On the top floor of the 1000 Hells Club in town is set aside a room for “VIPs” only. No mortal has ever seen past that door. Few immortals have, either. Past that door is a room exempt of most of the night-club’s diabolic décor. The room is painted a shadowy black nonetheless while its furnishings are all bone-white, made of plastic designed so finely they could be mistaken for bone. A long meeting table accompanied with chairs that are never pushed in sits in this Inner Chamber and nothing more. Only the Court of the Silver Censer frequents this chamber, especially when they wish to discuss matters of importance on neutral ground with Skinland necromancers of any sort (Kuei-jin, chi’n ta, Reborn Dead, and other shen).
OOC: Though this room is not guarded per se, club security will eject anyone who violates the sanctity of the room uninvited. And naturally, if occupied with the normal wraithly denizens, intruders will receive a nastier welcome. The Inner Chamber is considered a Level 2 Haunt.
Wall Rating: 6
