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“They used to come here to scrub off the blood. Now it just clings tighter.”

Location: Union Stockyards
Established: Circa 1880s, during the first major Stockyard expansions
Access: Abandoned, partially collapsed, but unsealed
Connected Factions: Uncle Carm’s crew (ritual drop site), Fear Crew (initiation ground), CPD Arcane Division (marked as soft boil)

Description - Exterior

The building squats behind a chain-link fence lined with razorvine and rusted signs that read "DANGER – STEAM LINES." Brick walls sag with moisture, their mortar blackened and bleeding in the rain. Steel exhaust stacks jut from the roof like broken spears. A weathered sign still clings to the front archway: BATH & BARRACKS – YARDS DISTRICT A. The windows are either shattered or weeping condensation. Moss creeps along the walls like it’s watching.

Description - Interior

Inside, the bathhouse smells of mold, metal, and long-decayed soap. White tile is cracked and yellowed, and every mirror is warped or spiderwebbed. The showers still drip, and when the steam rolls in, it’s red-tinged and warm—even with no power running. Beyond the bathing hall, long dorm-style sleeping rows stretch into shadow, each cot frame tagged with stamped metal numbers. Rats avoid the boiler room. The lockers at the far end rattle sometimes when no one’s touched them.

Public Face

Abandoned. Most locals believe it was condemned in the late ‘40s after multiple fatal accidents and complaints of scalding pipes. It isn’t patrolled, and no demolition has been scheduled.

What's Really Going On

The bathhouse serves as a liminal chamber—where the boundaries between body and spirit blur. Carm’s crew uses it to “wash” Veil-affected items before they hit the black market. The Fear Crew runs initiates through here blindfolded, daring them to find the warmest faucet. Some rooms trap echoes—walk in alone, and you might hear yourself scream before you open your mouth.

Notables

Carmine “Uncle Carm” Lucchesi – Claims the building “wants to be useful,” but won’t say for what.
Richie “Mans” Mancuso – Uses the site for quiet disposal, both mystical and otherwise.
Sister Arnette (Arcane Division Field Witch) – Logged three breaches here. Refuses to return.
Marta Dell – An unlisted cleaner seen humming in the steam, vanishes when followed.

Rumors & Hooks:

• Some claim the steam itself is sentient—wrapping around trespassers like fingers and whispering names in Polish and Latin.
• One of the locker doors won’t open unless you’re bleeding. Inside? Nobody knows.
• Fear Crew says anyone who lasts an hour alone in the east shower hall dreams of the Stockyards as they were—only everyone’s faces are wrong.
• On cold mornings, the windows fog in the shape of old union symbols—ones long outlawed.
• Three bathhouse deaths were ruled accidental scaldings, but no burns were found on the bodies—only frostbite.
• A boiler deep in the sub-basement whistles jazz when no one's down there. Always the same song.
• The PCs are asked to retrieve a charm box hidden here in 1942—but it may have “grown.”
• A young Hooded Lad claims he saw his own corpse floating in the main shower drain.
• CPD offers hazard pay to anyone who can install a functioning Veil monitor in the locker corridor. No one’s made it more than halfway.