The Strange is a game published by Monte Cook Games. It is, at least in part, set in the normal world, but there are other worlds out there, in the Strange. This list has ten  rumours for that setting, similar to the various different adventure hooks in the books, and these can be used as adventure hooks or simple misinformation.

1. A small group of Ruk’s inhabitants are said to be promoting only natural birth and claiming that family connections are far more important than the inhabitants believe. Their beliefs, in fact, seem to have been influenced by Earth humans’ approach to children and family, and those factions who are less keen on Earth are proclaiming that the group has been tainted and needs eradicating.
2. Devotees of the All Song of Ruk say that the All Song arose as a way to repair the damage done to the True Code by whatever accident Ruk suffered in the Strange. There are claims, though, that as a patch, the All Song is flawed, and it is now at the stage where it is causing more damage to Ruk than it is solving.
3. It’s believed that some sort of accident in the Strange damaged Ruk severely, compromising both its structure and the True Code on which everything depends. There are claims that this accident wasn’t an accident, and was instead the result of deliberate action by malign forces, but no-one seems to know just who or what said forces might be.
4. Most believe that the inhabitants of Ruk did not originally look like humans from Earth, as they do now, but reshaped themselves so that they could better interact with the people of Earth. Not everyone of Ruk believes this, but there are rumours of a small faction who not only believe it but believe that the people of Ruk should seek to regain their original form, blaming Earth humans for them having changed from their rightful shape.
5. Perhaps half of Ruk’s population doesn’t experience natural childbirth, instead being grown in vats. There have been rumours of problems with some of these vats recently, with those being born from them coming out… wrong. No-one seems to be clear at how they are wrong, but something just doesn’t feel right about them.
6. Ruk was built as a lifeboat fleeing the consumption by a planetovore of its originating civilisation, eventually getting wrecked on the Shoals of Earth, though little more is known about the event or the origin. There are rumours that Ruk wasn’t the only lifeboat constructed by the civilisation, and that there may be at least one more out there somewhere.
7. The Church of the Embodiment is the largest of Ruk’s factions and believes that adhering and preserving the True Code will result in the arrival of a messiah. It’s rumoured that some members of the faction believe that the All Song is preventing their messiah from arriving, and are planning to take action against followers of the All Song.
8. The walls of Ruk are massive spars of organimer that pierce and protect the landscape, though some also lie shattered. It’s rumoured that the organimer spars are starting to break, though, and break at an increasing speed. None claim to have seen this happen, but it’s said that the factions are trying to discover if this is true and, if it is, discover a way of stopping it.
9. Those of Ruk seek to find fragments of their lost genetic code that are represented in the True Code. There are rumours that, somewhere, perhaps hidden on Ruk, in the Strange nearby or even upon Earth, is a repository of the True Code that contains much of the missing knowledge, and there are many factions that would love to get their hands on such a repository.
10. Though those of Earth only recently became aware of Ruk, those of Ruk have known of Earth since before recorded history. It’s believed that a number of historical figures may have come from Ruk, and some suggest that Ruk has been gradually shaping Earth’s history of its own ends.