as it is known on Isla Verdes and its settlement of Vista del Soul™, was once just a more commercialized brand of Hedonites. Bored and enamored by the wealth and luxury of the Hills, with its “limited-time offers” of Merchandising, eventually this group culturally consumed the Have Nots of the coast. Not as feared for radical theology like the local Telling Visionaries, their “Sinfluencers” actively market their wares to the starving masses who feel they deserve…more. Want to massage the same fancy creams onto your face as the Pure Bloods of the Hills? Or eat the same Devoted delicacies of the Telling Visionaries? By all means…go towards the Light.

The Light,

Faiths accepted at Vista del Soul™ without prior story approval:

Light of Hedon, Telling Visionaries, Kings & Queens Court, The Nuclear Family

ACCENSORITE:

As long as true believers follow the tenets of Sinfluence and the Sponsor, they're welcome at Vista del Soul™. We always need wielders of faith to help keep the dead clear from our holy paradise. Those—other beliefs—can still find a place amongst us by, I dunno, copying our benedictions or something?

Light of Hedon, Telling Visionaries

  • Variants: Civic, Standard

RED STAR:

I thank the Seven every day I wake up and don't have to deal with the *shudders* actual dockhands. If it weren't for the Red Star of Wetside, misguided as they are, we would never have access to the finest of imports the wastes have to offer. Their means of security— *shudders again*

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

UNBORN:

Their mere Mortis-worshipping presence makes me queasy. Imagine thinking you can draw breath in the same holy Hedonite settlement that I oversee. It's probably for the best that they don't. Unless they're the Son of fuckin Frankenstein come to glorious life, let them all die silent.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

PURE BLOOD:

Pfft! As if we ever lost a step in the evolutionary ladder like our lessers claim. So we didn't grow horns or slough off our skin. Doesn't mean we weren't born for great things! Show me a Solestros or Red Star who can balance business and pleasure the way only our blessed kind can!

  • Variants: Civic, Standard

DIGITARIAN:

The Maytags! I cannot express how thrilled I am that they evolved to service our aging tech and remind us why the Holy Wood Hills had it all before the Fall. If it weren't for them, we'd still be living in the Dark Ages of fireside folk tales. Where *do* they get such wonderful toys...?

  • Variants: Civic, Standard

SOLESTROS:

Well, who doesn't need a good Solestros when it all goes tits up? And they so greedily serve the needs of Vista del Soul™ we didn't even have to ask twice. Still. Sometimes I see their family elders look at me like I should lock my door when pissing at home around the help.

  • Variants: Civic, Standard

IRONS:

I don't understand why they're so angry. *I* didn't enslave their people or wage war with them. The standard-issue ones work hard at least, moving that from this to there. I do worry that so many have gone missing. I have nightmares now of red glows rising from green grass like flames.

  • Variants: Standard

RECLAIMERS:

A what now? Anything that's left to claim we already have. I jest. I know what they are. Eyes to get lost in and muscles for days. We've only seen a couple come through here, but they don't sign on to the system well. It may be because--just kidding, I don't care why.

  • Variants: Standard

UNSTABLE:

Absolutely NOT. You think harboring some leaky psions who don't see zombies as a threat lends to lasting prosperity at Vista del Soul™? I wasn't assigned by the hallowed Hierophant to oversee a settlement full of failed experiments! They may still be of some use. Hmm…

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

FULL DEAD:

The Full Dead on the other hand, I don't mind so much. Sure, some are truly disgusting to see. And smell. And they're as close to zombies as I've ever gotten. But they have a knack for knowing what's of real value to the Sponsor and Merchandising as if they remember the actual Signal.

  • Variants: Civic, Wastelander

SEMPER MORT:

A few have approached me during my stay, covered in veils or gloves to not scare the straights, and offered to provide long-term medical services. We have our share of workplace incidents like any other settlement, after all. And they all obey our laws like their lives depend on it.

  • Variants: Civic, Standard, Wastelander

LASCARIAN:

One more mention of those cave dwelling anarchists and my Accensorites of War--ning will have a word with you. I'd cover this entire agricultural accolade in concrete if it meant never having to worry about one of—them—bursting out from the ground beneath my expensive shoes.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

MERICAN:

I see why the Church calls Mericans the Viewing Audience. In one silly moral puppet play I witnessed their entire range of emotions...and lived to tell the tale. If only they weren't so unpredictable as laborers, or susceptible to the lies of the infidels and rebels. Yee-fuckin-haw: PASS.

  • Variants: Civic

NATURAL ONE:

Where?! By the Seven, don't do that. Those ungrateful saboteurs spat in our faces when we offered them an opportunity to build this settlement. Now they hunt the local game to extinction and poach our livestock. Watch the shadows. Look for their symbols. Report *all* sightings. Hmph!

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

QUIET FOLK:

Aren't they the absolute best? They show up eager to perform and produce, they mind their manners better than most, then they go home. Even if they're mostly loyal to the Family, they give praise to the Seven and the Sponsor and will come to our defense. Great listeners too!

  • Variants: Civic, Standard, Wastelander

REMNANT:

Siiigh. Okay, okay. I adore Remnants. No, I *do.* Once you get past their...unsightly and useless mutations, their barely subdued addictions, and their--no. That's it really. You make a "friend" with one of these needful mutants and you've got a devoted follower and worker for life!

  • Variants: Civic, Standard, Wastelander

RETROGRADE:

*Fakes retching* Have they never heard of aloe? Or treating themselves to a facial? *shudders* Tell you what, you ever find one that doesn't sweat rads or slough its face off while I watch, AND can enjoy a drunken Revel, send them my way. Until then, they can go die over there.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

TAINTED:

*Backs up slowly, signaling their Accensorite bodyguards to advance* You think that's funny? Do you know what just one of those raging Raider rejects could do to Vista del Soul™ if it lost its temper? They're the poster Strain for why you should give your Remnants a forever home.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

DIESEL JOCK:

They're kind of sexy, in that rugged, leather-y smelling way, aren't they? Greased up, tattoos, strong hands, rolling up in their fast rides then taking their helmets off to reveal—not in my settlement! Great for a quick transaction, sure, but you wouldn't let them sleep over or settle in.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

ROVER:

Nosy, self-righteous gang of extortionists if I've ever met one. You won't find them here unless they've pulled one over on me. Which is impossible. Even so, I've got twenty eyes on the lips of all of my workers at all times. They won't corrupt *my* assets with their faraway gossips.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

SALTWISE:

Blech. Is it me, or do they always smell like low tide and sadness? I'll admit, if it weren't for them and the docks we wouldn't have nearly as many riches from across the wastes that we do now. But they have no reason to deal with me or my settlement directly, shady as they are.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

BAYWALKER:

A what now? Those are the snooty know-it-alls from the East, right? For all I know we have some here, but it's not like I'm asking the workers their life stories. I'm sure we're too high up from the ocean for them anyway. If they're as scarred and muscly as you say, I'm conducting...private interviews.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

YORKER:

Like Old York? How quaint! What happens when the city they're named after falls into the sea though? Awkward. If they're anything like those oldcestor sports fanatics on Isla Gardena, let them stay on that violent island. Keep the attention of all the Raiders there on them please and thank you.

  • Variants: NOT INVITED

VEGASIAN:

I can respect those who don't enjoy laboring and choose to manage people instead. Next to the Solestros, who you can't shake a stick without finding a designated "leader", the Vegasians have risen in the ranks of Sinfluence and Vista del Soul™ the most. Enemies closer, and all that.

  • Variants: Civic, Standard