Move some of my objects to the university area, like the drafting board, and check my posessions for a typewriter. If one is found, move it over as well. Complete setting up some office area by purchasing a lockable file cabinet, some paper, stamps, and envelopes, as well as buying a typewriter if one was not found. After the orb arrives, put it in the file cabinet along with a drafted image of it's sigil, along with the books it likes.
Name: Sean O'Malley, Phd.
Appearance: A trim, short man in his mid-40s, with a jovial expression and short reddish-brown hair.
Backstory: After completing his doctorate in Philosophy, he found his life unexpectedly limited after promoting some rather nonstandard views, after discovering and investigating some minor secrets. His position was since removed, and he no longer commands the respect he once had among his peers.
Physical stats: (list in order)
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d8
Endurance: d8
Awareness: d10
Guile: d6
Knowledge: d12
Willpower: d6
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 1
World Stats:
Connections: d6
Possessions: d8
Money: d6
Standing: d6
Inventory:
$450
Bicycle
Drafting Board
Datsun Maxima
Canon T-50
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You move the drafting board, your typewriter, and some other things over to the university room. You buy a file cabinet for 80 bucks, a ream of paper for 5 and some envelopes for 3. After the Eye arrives you carefully trace out the sigil and place the eye, the sigil and the books the Scholar seems to like in the top drawer of the file cabinet, making sure to lock it.
*yawn* "Well, now I know how all my fleshy bits are put together. All of them, somehow. Well, it's a start.
I am going to bring the eye to the place we've rented. Should give the Scholar a look at the place."
Put the orb in my bag and bring it to the basement we rented. If nobody's watching, take the orb out and give it a tour of the place.
Name: Ailn
Appearance: Wrinkly, frail, and raggedy. She's actually not very old, and much faster than she looks, but certainly has an unhealthy look about her. Dark hair and eyes.
Backstory: Child of wealth, persistent illness, oddly unbreakable will. She left, of course. She doesn't see much use in money, though her family makes sure she has plenty of it. She'd like to be able to cure her illness, and maybe make some sense of this crazy world. Maybe going a little crazy will help, if that's what it takes.
Physical stats:
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Awareness: d6
Guile: d10
Knowledge: d6
Willpower: d12
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 0
World Stats:
Connections: d4
Possessions: d6
Money: d12
Standing: d4
Inventory:
old messenger bag
coffee mug
pair of dice
key ring
notebook
pen
$897
As you take the Eye around -before it is secured in the file cabinet- you get a tingling sensation. It grows to one of absolute ecstasy before finally receding.
Get to stalking! Wait for the Target at the gas station. If I don't spot him until the evening, get back to his home and stalk him there.
Name: Helen Hywater, though she insists on calling herself "The Recorder" during cult related activities
Appearance: A young girl with short dark hair and green eyes. Tends to wear a dark brown trenchcoat and fedora during cult related activities to avoid suspicion.
Backstory: Has a fascination with recording stuff for posterity and specifically cameras. Makes her way through life doing odd jobs and videotaping things, sometimes things she probably shouldn't record. She's even managed to make some short films. She's a bit weird and she knows it but she doesn't care. As for why she's with the cult, she mostly just wants to record stuff and then sell them for fame and loads of momey. Maybe she can make the world's first real found footage film.
Physical stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d10
Endurance: d8
Awareness: d12
Guile: d8
Knowledge: d6
Willpower: d6
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: d4 (The Scholar in Red)
World Stats:
Connections: d10
Possessions: d4
Money: d4
Standing: d8
Inventory:
Clothes
A high-end handheld camcorder with flashlight and infrared nightvision capability
Rented grey sedan
90$
You wait, but do not see him. By the time you return to his home, his car is already there and he is, presumably, inside.
(note you just used up most of the day so....I might ignore a post or two as everyone catches up)
((*Rolls eyes at Guile*. Alexis wants to use a little Guile, not a minuscule Guile. Big difference! 
))
"This is a perfect setup for Our Lord and Educator," Alexis said jokingly. "Now to spruce it up with decor."
Using possessions, Alexis will go home to see if she have any curtains, rugs and other scholarly decor she'd kept during her years as a school teacher. She will also clean up her house and cook her husband's food before getting more money from him.
Name: Alexis Ledbetter Cromwald
Appearance: Early thirties. Comely appearance and figure. Back-length curly blond hair. Coppery eyes. Wears an apron with pockets on the front.
Backstory: A former teacher who is the housewife of a domineering businessman, Alexis oftentimes fantasized about dealing with her husband Michael in brutal but creative ways. However, murder is social suicide in the age of improved forensics and profiling and divorce is out of the question as her husband provides her 'income' in the form of allowances. However, her chance encounter with the darkest mysteries of the world may very well give Alexis the power she craves... or it could send her plunging into a fate much worse than slaving to her idiotic brute of a husband.
Physical stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Awareness: d8
Guile: d12
Knowledge: d10
Willpower: d6
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 1
World Stats:
Connections: d10
Possessions: d6
Money: d4
Standing: d8
Inventory:
$129
Purse
You return home and fix your husband's meal, carefully extracting 400 dollars from him. That done you begin gathering things under the guise of cleaning but as you do so you get a feeling. A feeling like someone their hand a top your head and digging their fingers into your skull. You get the feeling that...this is not what the scholar wants for his temple. Rugs and curtains are...easily stained.
"A being named Canis is served by dogs. I suppose that makes sense."
Keep reading the journal
Name: Walton J. Murphy
Appearance: A man of 64 years old. Walton sports a bald head and a grey beard. Not as fit as he used to be. His body is marked with a variety of scars.
Backstory: Walton joined the military when he was 18 years old in 1939, just in time for WWII to ramp up. He has since served in the pacific theater in WWII, the Korean war, and the Vietnam war. It was in 'Nam where he was gravely wounded for the last time, effectively ending his military career. He currently works a desk job for the local government, a fact that does not particularely please him.
He's been in a world war, a cold war, a drug war and a gang war. Now, seeing the appalling amount of respect veterans get from younger generations, he's decided that he wants to add a holy war onto his résumé.
Physical stats: (list in order)
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Awareness: d8
Guile: d10
Knowledge: d8
Willpower: d12
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 1
World Stats:
Connections: d8
Possessions: d8
Money: d4
Standing: d8
Inventory:
299$
Leatherman multitool
Notebook&Pen
Bicycle
Duct Tape
Flashlight
A bible
unlabeled black leather bound book, some kind of diary
a pencil
a crucifix
about a dozen Morgan Dollar coins
At this point the man starts feeding the dogs on his own. He says he isn't exactly sure why he started but it seems only reasonable, as they keep pests away from the church. He then talks about his increasingly odd dreams along with distinct feelings of Enochlophobia. He has difficulty handling his duties as a preacher and his sleep is often interrupted by dreams of things being cut, severed, or separated, along with odd views of earth sunken in ice. He says he feels as though the world is disassociating from him; it becomes increasingly unreal.
Yawn. Roll over. Check the - wait what, that late? Dammit, overslept again. Well, it was a late night. Better hop to it, then.
Go out and buy a decent-sized blackboard and set of coloured chalks ("for my nephew", if anyone asks), then return to the abandoned building and set it up.
Along the top:
Hey all, figured we could do with something like this since we're all coming and going at different times. I've set this up here for now since we haven't moved in to the lab yet; I hope it proves useful. See you all later - Alex.
Beneath it, to the left of the board:
AGENDA(Things to talk about this evening, please add to!)
- New HQ - Moving In, outfitting, etc.
- Canis site at the church - cleanse and use? Bring the sphere to? leave alone?
- General course of action for the short/mid term.
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Name: Alexander Sill
Appearance: A well-built man in his late thirties, who walks with a slight limp.
Backstory: A career soldier, though that career was brought to an abrupt end after the invasion of Grenada left him discharged with a shiny medal and a leg wound which will probably never fully heal. Since then he has struggled along, through a series of short-lived, dead-end jobs, searching for a new purpose in life. He now seems to have found one.
Physical stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d12
Awareness: d8
Guile: d6
Knowledge: d6
Willpower: d6
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favour: 0
World Stats:
Connections: d8
Possessions: d6
Money: d6
Standing: d8
Inventory:
Murphy's Shotgun (Remington 870, shortened barrel, pistol grip; loaded), pocketfull of shells.
Toolbox (wrench, pliers, jeweler's saw, tire iron)
Kaiser Jeep M715 (dark blue)
$497 cash
Lance is going to hitch a ride with Alexander and help move/set up the blackboard.
Don't pay for anything though. Lance is a cheap bastard.
Name: Lance Robbins
Appearance: Bruised and batter, a shaved head, a smile like a serial killer, he's nearly the text book definition of "thug"
Backstory: Lance grow up in household with lower expectations, and managed to not even reach that. He spent his years boozing, smoking, and brawling his time away. He overheard a drunk in the alley talking about type of "ritual thing" and decided to check it out. Not as if he has anything better to do with his life.
Physical stats:
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d12
Speed: d10
Endurance: d8
Awareness:d6
Guile: d6
Knowledge: d4
Willpower: d6
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 1
World Stats:
Connections: d4
Possessions: d12
Money: d8
Standing: d4
Inventory: [Money roll: 1] [Possessions roll: 4]
$91 U.S dollars
Spanner
Flask of Alcohol
Carton of cigarettes
Zippo lighter
Cooler full of ice and beer
Magazines found around my house
You spend 120 bucks on one of the classroom style chalkboards, that can be written on both front and back. You set it up at the (Are you sure you want it there and not in the new room under the school?) abandoned building.
Give her the location of the university basement and tell her to go there tomorrow for a meeting. Go to a nearby library and search for medicine and anatomy books as well as occult books that contain references to the Scholar and his sigil.
Name: Richard Reed
Appearance: A well dressed man in his mid-twenties, he sports short brown hair and a well kempt mustache.
Backstory: Richard discovered the cult when one of his less prestigious connections informed him about otherwordly beings and of the knowledge these beings possess. Intent to learn this secret knowledge, he set out to join the cult.
Physical stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Awareness: d8
Guile: d12
Knowledge: d10
Willpower: d8
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: d4
World Stats:
Connections: d12
Possessions: d4
Money: d6
Standing: d8
Inventory:
Notebook
Pen
Drawing of the sigil and the visions.
$694
You let her know the location of the basement and then tell her to show up the next day around sunset.
That done you head over to the library. And search through it. You find plenty of medical and anatomical books, manuals of surgery, toxicology, parasitology, the works. And plenty of occult books, however information on the scholar is thin, mostly what you infer to be references about him connected to Thoth, ancient surgeons, Necromancers, and....a reference to someone called H.H. Holmes.
+1 Favor to all members of the Cult.
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