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. Holding on the Estate’s campuses is a facility with a variety of different cells where individuals who are dangerous, for one reason or another and including operatives who have been adversely affected, are safely kept. Though escaping from Holding is difficult to say the least, it’s said that a number of individuals have managed to do so over the years.
2. The Armoury on the Estate’s campus is, naturally, where weapons are kept. Most of the weapons are fairly normal, but there are some unusual ones. There are also said to be weapons that haven’t been properly figured out yet; not dangerous enough for the Vault, but still even more dangerous than a weapon normally is.
3. The Estate gathers many hard to find, and often expensive, books and documents on recursions in its campus library, material that predates the internet. The organisation is always looking out for more, but there are rumours that it has been sniped a number of times recently at auctions, both online and off, by purchasers outbidding the Estate’s agents at the last minute.
4. The Estate has been having problems with the September Project recently as the organisation’s spies inside the project have been disappearing and dying. It’s also rumoured that the Project has managed to slip a few infiltrators inside the Estate’s own campus. Though these have been caught, there are worries that some operatives may have slipped through the net.
5. The Estate keeps an eye on recursion miners that aren’t affiliated with other groups. Some recursion miners never call attention to themselves, but more often than not most do something that does call attention to them. It’s rumoured that the number of recursion miners who have been drawing attention to themselves has declined, and it’s unlikely this is because that the number doing attention-drawing activities has also declined. It could be that someone is making sure they don’t appear on the Estate’s radar.
6. The Estate pays out Morrison Fellowship Prizes to people working in any field who demonstrate remarkable talent. The prizes are used as a reason to investigate strange events to make sure they are what they are supposed to be, and as a recruitment vehicle, but it’s rumoured that a few recent investigations have gone sour, with Estate field teams being attacked, and some are wondering if one of the Estate’s adversaries is using the prizes as a cover of their own to lure field teams into the open.
7. The Gate House on the Estate’s campus is covered by strict security and contains several permanent recursion gates, most of which require a key or password to operate. Despite this security, there are rumours that some of the recursion gates have still been used without permission, though it’s uncertain how such could be proven to have happened.
8. The Recursion Lab is where the Estate studies recursion gates and related topics, including how to seal recursion gates both quickly and permanently. It’s rumoured that one of the last attempts to do so involved a technique never before used, and that the outcome of this was unexpected, and not in a good way.
9. The Vault on the Estate campus is where items are stored such as artefacts from other recursions brought through inapposite gates and items that translate whilst still remaining incredibly dangerous. It’s said there’s a secret part of the Vault, deep below the ground, where the really dangerous things are kept. Given what’s normally stored in the Vault, such would be items of unbelievable danger.
10. The Visitor’s Centre at the Estate’s headquarters is where members of the public can learn about the Morrison Fellowship Prize. The centre is located off the main campus and is staffed by people who don’t know anything about the true purpose of the Estate. Staff in the know do still keep an eye on the place and there are rumours that a number of visitors recently seem to know too much about the real purpose of the Estate, inferring from questions they’ve asked.