The Hidden
Overview
A town that erased itself from every map before the Cascade and has only gotten better at it since. The roads leading in are gone — not overgrown, removed, the asphalt physically torn up and the ground replanted. Drone coverage over this grid square shows anomalous gaps that could be terrain interference or could be something else. Signals intelligence detects nothing. Thermal imaging detects nothing. Satellite passes show forest canopy and coastline and no evidence of human habitation, which is itself evidence because the vegetation patterns are too uniform to be natural. Whoever lives here — if anyone lives here — has achieved what every settlement in the Sprawl dreams of: genuine invisibility. The drones patrol the perimeter but do not enter. Whether this is a technical limitation or an agreement is unknown.