{"id":30395,"date":"2026-09-19T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/?page_id=30395"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:34","slug":"underground-h5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/underground-h5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haven Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<style>\n@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Libre+Baskerville:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&family=Playfair+Display:wght@400;700;900&display=swap');\n.ugz{max-width:900px;margin:0 auto;padding:40px;position:relative;\n background:linear-gradient(135deg,#f9f7f1 0%,#f5f3ed 50%,#f1efea 100%);\n box-shadow:0 0 30px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);color:#2c2c2c;line-height:1.6;}\n.ugz::before{content:'';position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;\n background-image:radial-gradient(circle at 25% 25%,rgba(0,0,0,0.02) 1px,transparent 1px),\n  radial-gradient(circle at 75% 75%,rgba(0,0,0,0.015) 1px,transparent 1px);\n background-size:50px 50px,80px 80px;pointer-events:none;opacity:0.6;}\n.ugz .masthead{text-align:center;border-bottom:4px double #2c2c2c;\n margin-bottom:30px;padding-bottom:20px;position:relative;z-index:1;}\n.ugz .newspaper-title{font-family:'Playfair Display',serif;font-size:3.5em;\n font-weight:900;margin:0;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;\n color:#1a1a1a!important;}\n.ugz .newspaper-subtitle{font-size:0.9em;margin:5px 0;font-style:italic;\n color:#5a5a5a!important;}\n.ugz .issue-date{font-size:1.1em;margin:10px 0 0 0;font-weight:bold;color:#2c2c2c;}\n.ugz .article{margin-bottom:40px;padding-bottom:30px;border-bottom:1px solid #d0c8b8;\n position:relative;z-index:1;}\n.ugz .article:last-child{border-bottom:none;}\n.ugz .article-headline{font-family:'Playfair Display',serif;font-size:1.8em;\n font-weight:700;margin:0 0 15px 0;line-height:1.2;color:#1a1a1a!important;}\n.ugz .article-text{font-size:1.05em;line-height:1.7;text-align:justify;\n hyphens:auto;overflow-wrap:anywhere;color:#2c2c2c!important;}\n.ugz .article-text p{margin:0 0 1.2em 0;text-indent:1.5em;color:#2c2c2c!important;}\n.ugz .article-text p:first-child{text-indent:0;font-weight:500;margin-bottom:1.5em;}\n.ugz .drop-cap{float:left;font-family:'Playfair Display',serif;font-size:4.2em;\n line-height:0.8;padding:4px 8px 0 0;font-weight:700;color:#2c2c2c;\n text-shadow:1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);}\n.ugz .navigation-buttons{display:flex;justify-content:space-between;\n align-items:center;margin-bottom:20px;position:relative;z-index:2;}\n.ugz .nav-button{background:#2c2c2c;color:#f9f7f1!important;border:none;\n padding:8px 16px;font-family:'Libre Baskerville',serif;font-size:0.9em;\n border-radius:4px;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;transition:background 0.3s ease;\n flex:0 0 auto;height:auto;line-height:1.4;white-space:nowrap;}\n.ugz .nav-button:hover{background:#1a1a1a;color:#f9f7f1!important;}\n.ugz .nav-placeholder{width:100px;height:36px;}\n.ugz .publication-info{text-align:center;margin-top:40px;padding-top:20px;\n border-top:2px solid #2c2c2c;font-size:0.85em;position:relative;z-index:1;}\n.ugz .publication-info p{color:#5a5a5a!important;margin:0;}\n@media (max-width:768px){\n .ugz{padding:20px;}\n .ugz .newspaper-title{font-size:2.5em;}\n .ugz .article-headline{font-size:1.5em;}\n .ugz .article-text{font-size:1em;}\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"ugz\">\n<header class=\"masthead\">\n<h1 class=\"newspaper-title\">The Haven Underground<\/h1>\n<div class=\"newspaper-subtitle\">Three thousand whispers, one verdict: everyone is talking<\/div>\n<div class=\"issue-date\">Issue 7 &mdash; October 30, 2026<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"navigation-buttons\"><a href=\"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/underground-h5-archive-6\/\" class=\"nav-button\">&larr; Issue 6<\/a><div class=\"nav-placeholder\"><\/div><\/div>\n<main>\n<article class=\"article\">\n<h2 class=\"article-headline\">Around Town<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-text\">\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\">S<\/span>evaht was the most influential person in town this week, according to what got overheard: &#x27;he&#x27;s a cool, cool dude.&#x27; Three thousand people, and that&#x27;s the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher holds the title of town&#x27;s main fashion critic this week, or so the overheard lines say: &#x27;My home boy has been really working on those abs!&#x27; Ten thousand four hundred twenty-two people apparently agree that this counts as criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Serena was the town gossip this week, and the scrambled rumor going around is all we got: &#x27;d22a2aSo mand43335y juicyd63c40 secretd9454bs at &#x27;Tdb4e56he Anatdd5761omy ofe0606c a Monse26977ter&#x27; lee47282sson ate77b8d the Ge98499reystonec8da4e Instiee96aftute. Nf09fbao wondef3a8c5r therf5b1d0e was af7badb campusfac3e6 confesfcccf1sor lurffd6fdking&#8230;&#x27; Two words in, nobody can tell what it means.<\/p>\n<p>Karma held the most successful social event this week, with 15 people in attendance. Fifteen. Somebody had to show up.<\/p>\n<p>Concepcion is the social butterfly of the week, attending 2 different social events. Two. Not a lot of wings, but they got around.<\/p>\n<p>Gossip places Logan as the most eligible bachelor in Haven. Nobody has said why. Nobody has to.<\/p>\n<p>Gossip places Concepcion as the most eligible bachelorette in Haven. Same whispers, same source, same shrug.<\/p>\n<p>People are saying Concepcion might just be the richest person in Haven. Might. Nobody is checking the books.<\/p>\n<p>There are jealous whispers about Serena and plans to steal their partner away. Who is stealing whom, and from where, the grapevine has not said. Watch your plus-one.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of this issue are stapled and going round the goblin market. This one carries 3 write-ups. It is also up at https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/underground-h5\/.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article\">\n<h2 class=\"article-headline\">The Hand Takes Nine of Eleven<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-text\">\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Hand led nine of the eleven categories this week. Nobody else came close on most of them. Resources: 57610. Alchemical resources: 3390. Operations attended: 12, against 6 for The Order and 4 for The Wildwood Collective. The Hand also created 1 operation, ran 2 big game hunts, finished 11 arcane tasks and 2 diplomatic tasks, thwarted 1 scheme and logged 1 society conflict. The Hand has a population of 10. Draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildwood Collective took the other two. They ran 3 out of town missions, one more than The Hand managed, and built 2 roads. Their resources came to 12370, second on the sheet. They also logged 1 diplomatic task, as did The Order. The Order, population 5, brought in 11250 in resources and attended 6 operations. That is the whole of its entry.<\/p>\n<p>The Temple, population 1, tracked nothing this week. The sheet has a line for it and the line is empty.<\/p>\n<p>That is the board. Read it and keep moving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article\">\n<h2 class=\"article-headline\">Two Students, One Mushroom, One Howl<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-text\">\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\">W<\/span>ord going round is that Liesel and Sevaht went out in the dark and came back with something. Not many seem to know what, and the ones who do are not saying much. Here is what people are saying. A man called Mister Grey drove the two of them out past the Highway in a white SUV, and nobody could describe his face afterward. He left them at a shimmer in the air. Past it, a wagon, a driver who smelled of drink, and a dog too big to be a dog. People say Sevaht was already hurt going in, his arm bad, and that he sang and danced and cracked jokes to keep Liesel upright. People say Liesel went down on the road and told everyone she had just skipped breakfast. Sevaht went down after her, coughing. Then there are the bugs. Talk is of a black swarm, of Liesel going under it, and of Sevaht throwing her toward a patch of pale glowing stalks and following with his shield. She got her hand on one. A light came, and everyone agrees it hurt him worse than it hurt her. She tore the mushroom free and the dark came back. They ran. Behind them the driver was in pieces and the big animal was standing over him. It howled. What the howl meant is a matter of taste. Liesel is said to be badly wounded and holding on to the mushroom. The lines under her skin have gone dull. People say that is temporary. Nobody agrees on how it ended, or on what she plans to do with the thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article\">\n<h2 class=\"article-headline\">Three Volunteers Walked Out of the Harlow House<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-text\">\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Harlow farmhouse was supposed to be a closed file. Searched, declared derelict, crossed off. Then the screams started coming from it after dark, and recovery crews were too stretched to go back, so the job went to volunteers. Serena, Kai and Sevaht got the call. Sevaht wore a skeleton costume to it, which tells you what kind of night he thought he was having.<\/p>\n<p>What people are saying is that the three of them went in with whistles and headlamps and came out with a story nobody wants. Down in the cellar there were bodies in dark robes and a clipboard with a girl&#x27;s name on it. The name was Emily. The notes mention an unmooring. They stop mid-line.<\/p>\n<p>Talk is that Emily is alive. Talk is also that she is not all the way anything. The version going round says Sevaht tried to reach her with a Swedish lullaby and a word about cake, and for a second it seemed to land. Then Kai&#x27;s silver dagger came into the room and whatever listened in her went quiet. It turned ugly after that.<\/p>\n<p>Serena got the cellar door open. Kai covered the stairs. Sevaht came up last with his shield cracked. The door got locked on her, and Sevaht left a photograph on it so the next people through would know a child was behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Serena texted a deputy. The deputy asked if it was a prank and whether she had tried the whistle. Nobody agrees on how it ended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article\">\n<h2 class=\"article-headline\">Karma Walks Haven Through Elias Rook<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-text\">\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\">K<\/span>arma ran a ghost tour through Arkwright Cemetery on Thursday night and called it the first, the last and the only. Fog machines hid in the paths. Sage sticks and lanterns went round. Two things were on the table: a man named Elias Rook, who burned his wife and four children alive, and the town that hanged him that same night with no trial. Actors played out the fire among the graves. Then somebody screamed, and Evelyn, Kai and Katalin all took it personally. Evelyn held on to Concepcion for most of the walk and did not throw up, which counts as a win. Concepcion tried to take her own arm out with a lantern and invited an invisible Pilar to link arms with her. Karma split the crowd into three groups and made them argue guilt. Christopher said the doctor played Elias for a pillar of the town. Spring said he was no monster unless too much lamp oil is a crime. Concepcion went with plague and the Inquisition. Lacey went with vampires. Kai went with vibes. Karma&#x27;s verdict: a plague, a secret committee burning households, and a man who chose fire over letting them be taken. Monster or victim, she said, both. Spring left early looking green. Daphne walked off with her bandaged hand and her opinions. Karma says members get more intimate events soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/main>\n<footer class=\"publication-info\"><p>Printed on a borrowed machine. 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