March 24, 2026: City Center—Encounter Tables
Encounters in Midtown Station will be very different from those in the rundown residential areas of the neighborhood. The Midtown Station encounter table can also be used for the shops and government offices near the station.
Midtown Station is much less busy at night, and encounters will be extremely infrequent, even more so than most other parts of the city.
| Midtown Station | ||
|---|---|---|
| Daytime Encounters | Nighttime Encounters | |
| 1 | Commuter on their way to or from work | Guard |
| 2 | Businessman traveling for meeting or other work-related purpose | Team of 1d3 maintenance workers (25% chance that one of them is a wizard here to help renew or repair the ghostway's enchantments) |
| 3 | Lüm local traveling to a different neighborhood to visit relatives or a particular shop or site | Late night commuter |
| 4 | Prominent advertisement for some shop or service | Night janitor |
| 5 | Tourist | Late night traveler |
| 6 | Guard | Delivery workers bringing new stock for shops |
| 7 | Inspector from Department of Transportation checking status of train or ghostway track | Homeless individual who has found a place to sleep in the station that has so far escaped the attention of the guards |
| 8 | Foreign visitor to Lüm | Late night tourist |
| 9 | Worker giving out free samples to attract visitors to nearby restaurant or specialty food store | 1d4 wild dogs that got into the station by accident |
| 10 | Pickpocket | Otherplanar creature that arrived through the crepatures of the ghostways |
| 11 | Maintenance worker on emergency call | Spirit of haste |
| 12 | Train or ghostway accident! A train or ghostway car derails or collides with something on the tracks; even if the PCs themselves are not injured in the accident they may be called upon to help those who are or to assist with other tasks. | |
| Elsewhere in Lüm | ||
|---|---|---|
| Daytime Encounters | Nighttime Encounters | |
| 1 | 1d12 pigeons | Local resident, perhaps on their way to a late-night job or to patronize some establishment open at all hours |
| 2 | Worker on their way to or from work | 1d4 homeless people sheltering nearby |
| 3 | 2d4 children playing in the street | 1d4 wild dogs |
| 4 | 1d3 City Center locals walking perhaps on their way to visit an acquaintance or a local shop | 1d6 giant flies |
| 5 | Street vendor (roll 1d4 for what they're selling: 1: food 2: handicrafts 3: worthless trinkets with supposed supernatural powers 4: stolen goods) | Guard |
| 6 | Street preacher | 2d4 cultists performing some ritual |
| 7 | 1d4 homeless people sheltering nearby | Giant harvestman |
| 8 | Guard | Mugger |
| 9 | Trash fire | Glassbloom (a kind of camouflaging giant terrestrial cnidarian) |
| 10 | 1d6-3 (minimum 1) people possessed by demons or other otherplanar creatures | |
| 11 | Patch of starmold (a kind of extraplanar mold) | |
| 12 | The PCs run across a crime in progress! Will they help stop it? Roll 1d4 for kind of crime: 1: Mugging/robbery 2: Vandalism 3: Assault 4: Kidnapping | |