Golden Gate Bridge
The General Idea
Historic, iconic bridge is a great place for a safe and anonymous meeting between supernatural factions
Aspects
The Tales this Bridge Could Tell
The Face
Address
Golden Gate Bridge
Description
It's the Golden Gate Bridge - one of the most iconic structures in the world. This bridge carries Highway 1 and Highway 101 north from San Francisco to Marin country, passing over the Golden Gate strait, which is the inlet to the San Francisco Bay.
The massive flow of water through the strait (by some estimates, as much as 2.3 million cubic feet per second) and the height of the bridge (average 245 above water at the top of the arch), combined with the vast distance to solid ground on both ends and the sea floor, tends to ground magical energy. It is extremely difficult to perform any sort of spellcasting on the bridge - it acts as a threshold. This will actually also impair a number of supernatural creatures, particularly spirits, constructs, and vampires.
A point of interest and tragedy is that this is the most popular location for suicide in the world. The distance to the water, the water temperature, the high current, and the lack of a net combine for a suicide rate of about 1 every 2 weeks. That means there's well over 1000 souls lost on this bridge; fortunately the aforementioned magical dampening effect means that the restless spirits, if they linger, are generally reduced to impotence. There are relatively few ghost stories surrounding the Bridge, unusual in a city that has as many spooks as San Francisco.
Over the course of the construction of the bridge, 19 men fell and were caught in a then-innovative safety net. Those who fell dubbed themselves the "Halfway-to-Hell club", and generally would not talk about the experience. It's unknown if the name was merely rhetoric, or something more literal...
