In certain spots in the sewer, there are warning signs, handwritten, posted about death, plague, and curses. It is beyond these that the few entrances to Boston's infamous catacombs are. In 2014, the red plague hit. One of the fastest spreading diseases known to man, it hit especially hard in Boston. Medicine tried to cope with it, but it was one man, Alexander Eissel, who discovered a cure for it. He lived in Louisiana, and practiced Voodoo and many other black arts. A simple fusion of voodoo and a catholic blessing involved in exorcism was all that was needed to cure it. The catholic church jumped at this opportunity, and began sending faith healers onto the streets. By then, they had enough power to overthrow the government, as the people had given up at that time. The most infamous event in that revolutionary time was when the president, Luke Wilcof, had the stadium where he was making a speech invaded. It was on live television when the now Arch Bishop Peter Maliante Beheaded him.
This discovery also paved the way for magic to enter common acceptance, and allow research to be done on it's nature and it's application.
As fast as the Catholic church was at getting the cure out, Boston had already suffered over 150,000 deaths. The Pileup had happened, and the Catholic Church deemed that it was necessary to store them far underground.
At first, the catacombs was simply a pile of bodies. However, When certain people decided to make it their home, Things were rearranged, Parisian style. The place is now a maze of body parts, many with Flesh still rotting on it. Only the very brave, or suicidal go down into the catacombs.
