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People talk of seeing a man in the park, a man covered in dead birds. The man will attack anyone who gets too close, and the smell of him is unbearable. The Stomp Streeters who claim this as their territory won’t go anywhere near the place or the man, believing them both to be cursed. It is said that tragedy will befall any who see him. Parents warn their children that if they are disobedient he will steal them in the night and devour them.
The man is known only as The Coocooey. It is said the man is the ghost of the woman depicted in the statue in the park, that he was cursed to roam the earth after he killed her. Still others say she was murdered by another, and that he uses the birds as his eyes, and he seeks the ones who murdered his beloved… unable to rest until he finds them.
There have been a few groups who have tried to hunt the man down, but he eludes them every time. People who go after him alone are usually never seen again.
(The Statue appears in Night City Stories from Ianus Games)
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| Written By Deric Bernier, images from
Transient Man
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Between the buildings and
beneath the canopy of overgrown trees and in the small
triangle just southwest of the old chemical warehouse,
bordered by MLK, Ellis and 52nd Street, is
a small forgotten park. In this park lies a
crumbling fountain with a statue of a nude woman
reading as its centerpiece. Even people who have
lived in the Zone for years are unaware of its
existence. Those who are stay well away from
it.