Friends of a Friend

Eden's pathological lying makes her the ideal tabloid reporter for The Rumor Mill, but it's pretty inconvenient when those sensational claims end up coming true. When the urban legends she can't help but perpetuate end up manifesting in the real world, its up to her, eccentric pseudoscientist Sid and scandalous socialite-turned-sewer dwelling hermit Rafi to clean up the evidence, but not without leaving a little intrigue behind.

Eden is a person known as a "Friend of a Friend". A Friend of a Friend (or FOAF) acts as a bridge between folk and folklore--- that is, they are able to bring pieces of folklore, namely urban legends, conspiratorial thinking, and rumors, into the real world. While most people associate folklore with the Brothers Grimm or the Ancient Greeks, Eden's department is less gods and wizards and more welfare queens and dead rats in sandwiches.

The folklore of the series (collectively referred to as "Hearsay") is treated not unlike the mythology of ancient civilizations, with figures acting similarly to gods, taking on different forms and changing alongside the stories told of them. Hearsay is structured like this:

Urban Legends: Stories that fit within one's worldview, of dubious origins, that are spread far. In the world of FOAF, it is more or less the mythos.

Rumors: Pieces of urban legends, not full-on narratives, but rather anecdotes, factoids, and claims without narrative structure.

Speculations: More pejoratively "conspiracy theories": rumors of nefarious goings on based on the information one gathers from legends. Some conspiracies develop into fully fledged narratives, thus becoming similar to urban legends.

Factoids: Micro-rumors, simple, concise anecdotes that sound true enough

Format: Legend-of-the-week, the characters encounter an ostension they must keep at bay, using other ostensions they encounter along the way.

The 3 main characters travel throughout the Americas (mainly contig. US), similar to Supernatural?, similar to a show like Gravity Falls--- a conflict among characters or internal conflict paired with intervention from hearsay.

9 Episodes to a volume, each around 18-20 pages.

Looking at around 20 something volumes? so around 180 chapters

Episode 1: Does the Socialite Shit in the Sewers?

Tasked with hunting down the first ostension in a long while, Eden is instructed to bring Sid along as the two seek out a man who has been living in alligator-infested sewers.

Along the way, they must contend both with their respective impulses to spread lies (Eden mentions toilet snakes here), as well as with each other, as they argue about their respective views on the matter at hand. Eden is upset that another of her stories has come true, as it means her hopes of normalcy have been dashed. Nadia, on the other hand, has an unwaveringly positive view of the situation, believing these rumors to spice up life. She wishes to one day get Eden to leave an ostentation in the real world, rather than keeping it bound to the  The two's bickering leads them to carelessly getting into a scuffle with a toilet snake, the two must set aside their philosophies and find Rafi.

Legends referenced: Sewer alligators, toilet attack, deadly dog food

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