Numenera is a game published by Monte Cook Games. Its setting is the Ninth World, and this list has ten rumours for that setting. The rumours, which are similar to the Hearsay that can be found in the official books, can be used as adventure hooks or as simple misinformation.

1. Boss Melyndwr took control of Delend a couple of decades ago in a bloody coup, but since then most people have come to accept her as the community’s leader. Most is not everyone, though, and it’s rumoured that there’s an underground movement dedicated to removing Melyndwr from power.
2. It takes skill to navigate the Changing Moon after a shift, and it’s rumoured that this is a skill that’s becoming harder to get. Some say explorers of the moon are finding it harder to navigate, as if the changes the Changing Moon undergoes are becoming more severe.
3. Observer Efreya runs the Halls of Change and she wears a series of heavy lenses over her eyes, claiming that these give her insights into the Changing Moon. Some wonder if the lenses do something different to what Efreya claims, especially as she never shares any of her supposed insights.
4. Red rain occasionally pours from the Changing Moon onto Delend. This “rain” consists of tiny cube-shaped creatures made of animate crimson cube that tear down what they come across to turn them into strange slabs. Some wonder if this is a type of repair mechanism for the Changing Moon that has malfunctioned.
5. The Halls of Chance in Delend are where books and journals that belonged to explorers of the Changing Moon are kept. Though the Halls are accessible to anyone who can get a pass, there’s a constant rumour that some of the books and journals are kept hidden away.
6. The Observatory in Delend is used to keep an eye on the Changing Moon through the telescope mounted in it. It’s rumoured that users of the telescope over the years have seen things through it that they have never shared with anyone else, for varied reasons.
7. Those who cross Boss Melyndwr, even by such as suggesting minor improvements to the status quo, can end up being sent on a forced trip to the Changing Moon prior to a shift. It’s rumoured that the percentage of those who are forced to do this, rather than anything lesser as punishment, has been increasing, with some wondering if Melyndwr is becoming increasingly paranoid over time.
8. Though red rain can be a disaster, or at least a potential one, when it falls down on Delend from the Changing Moon, there are some who think that, with access to the right technology, the cube-shaped “insects” that comprise the rain could be reprogrammed to use in a beneficial way, and such are willing to pay for any that can be gotten.

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