"Well, I'd say that went well."
Grab some big plastic trash bags from home before heading back to the university basement and depositing the orb. Look through the literature others have gathered until I feel tired.
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: d4
World Stats:
Connections: d4
Possessions: d6
Money: d12
Standing: d4
Inventory:
old messenger bag
coffee mug
pair of dice
key ring
notebook
pen
tools (v. sharp and professional!)
$777
Instead of forcing a possession roll I'm just gonna say you go buy some for 3 bucks. Safer that way.
You read through the books that others aren't using, learning basically exactly what they have till this point.
((*Something something* "vibrating fists" *something something* "d12s in allll the right places"))
Be very polite and gracious to Helen, and ask her about what she's been up to lately, especially in relation to the cult. Ask what she wants out of it, what she'd be willing to do for her new god, generally get to know her and her goals. If questioned on why he's asking, he'll lie and say he just wants to know who he can trust in the cult, since religious groups can have some unfortunate interpersonal conflicts.
Name: Guile
Appearance: Guile Backstory: A former United States Air Force major who was forced to retire after uncovering deep corruption within the organization. He's since dedicated himself to exposing corruption and taking down criminal syndicates--which has left him with a staggering number of both allies and enemies, though even his enemies tend to have a healthy respect for his ruthless dedication and merciful nature. Recently, his family was murdered gruesomely
because syvarris doesn't want to bother with them because he had called police on several high-ranking members of an occult organization (after beating them senseless, as Guile is wont to do). Ever since he has been singlemindedly pursuing any hint of the occult, as a personal vendetta, which has left him homeless, penniless, and inventory-less. Of course, Guile has never needed anything more than his fists to fight the good fight.
Physical stats:Strength: d12 (+)
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d8
Endurance: d8
Awareness: d6
Guile: d12
Knowledge: d4
Willpower: d6
Occult stats:Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 0
World Stats:Connections: d12
Possessions: 0
Money: 0
Standing: d12Inventory: His sonic fists are all he needs!
See what's on the news for a while. If there's nothing interesting she'll switch to something more interesting. Maybe I can find some rerun of the Twilight Zone.
Set some snacks or drinks for Guile, no reason to be impolite.
Helen will say that she's into this mostly for fun. It's like a game or an adventure. And something fun to record. If this also results in something profitable it would be even better, but she doesn't have high hopes for that. What the Scholar can do with all that medical stuff is certainly interesting but not really what she's interested in. Maybe the Scholar also has other interests like exploring interesting places or making fun drugs or something. That's something she could get behind. Until then she'll stick around merely because it's interesting. I mean, how often does one get to experience something supernatural? Unless the orb is some super advanced alien egg or something. But even then, it would be interesting.
((Why are we discussing via actions 
))
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: d6 (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 (7 days left)
80$
Thats a good damn question Helen.
Helen gets some popcorn from the cabinet and splits it into two bowls before returning to the couch.
The tv signal suddenly cuts out, replaced with a blue screen and a familiar screeching alarm. White text scrolls across proclaiming "WEATHER ADVISORY".
The room would be for a lockable room with some extra soundproofing that's large enough for the cult to dissect a human being in, while the cult watches, along with stowing the developing gear.
Anyway, head home, eat a meal, look at the moon for some time, and then rest.
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: 2
World Stats:
Connections: d6
Possessions: d8
Money: d6
Standing: d6
Inventory:
$450
Bicycle
Drafting Board
Datsun Maxima
Would you be willing to convert a room in your house into it or are we looking to build an extension/a free standing room or basement or something?
You head home. The moon is out and bright. You stop at a street light, leaning your head against your hand and resting your elbow on the door of the car, waiting for it to change. As you sit, you look around. Its not that late, maybe around 9 or 9:30, but the streets seem utterly deserted. Its bizarrely quiet outside of the hum of the streetlights and the clicking of your turn signal. The only movement is the erratic swarm of moths around your headlights. There are a lot of them, a lot more than you've seen like this before. Dozens, maybe hundreds. Suddenly you hear something. Its...like a wave of unsound, like someone swinging a pillow down at your head, just a rush of air as ambient sounds are snuffed. The light around you takes on an tinge of green and what look like tiny fluffy motes of dust start drifting down from somewhere overhead and landing on your windshield and hood.
Read an autopsy book if I have one, then go to sleep.
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: d6
World Stats:
Connections: d12
Possessions: d4
Money: d6
Standing: d8
Inventory:
Notebook
Pen
Drawing of the sigil and the visions
Borrowed anatomy and medical books
$694
You don't have one; you only grabbed things about cutting up the living. Hmph.
Setting the items and foodstuff into their proper placed, Alexis decided to:
Spruce up the place by cleaning up whenever necessary. Afterward, she will spent the night at her house.
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: 2
World Stats:
Connections: d10
Possessions: d6
Money: d4
Standing: d8
Inventory:
$429
Purse
You spend about a half hour obsessively cleaning and organizing the underground room.
Using my connections, get an appointment with the other library to be able to read the source book. Ask if I would be allowed to copy some of it's contents in a notebook for an investigation.
Name: Micolash Cage
Appearance: A man with messy curly black hair and an eternal grin on his face.
Backstory: He used to work as a librarian, in which he found a book about the occult, and decided to join a cult for fun and knowledge. Fascinated in learning and gaining insight of the world and the cosmos.
Physical stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Awareness: d8
Guile: d8
Knowledge: d12
Willpower: d10
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 0
World Stats:
Connections: d10
Possessions: d12
Money: d4
Standing: d4
Inventory:
$197
Notebook
Pen
Flashlight
"Necromancer" Book
Many partly read Books
[6] You arrange for a time slot to read the source book. They tell you that you can copy the text by hand or take pictures of it, though they have rules for how to take pictures. Mostly "No flash". When the slot is, what day and what 4 hour time slot, I'll let you choose.
Well, that's too bad. Check if I can find info the church around the time this guy started going completely off the rails and died, and/or other instances of people around here going through the same kind of paranormal breakdown.
If it gets to be real late by the time I did, go home and sleep.
Name: Walton J. Murphy
Appearance: A man of 64 years old. Walton sports a bald head and a grey beard. Not as fit as he used to be. His body is marked with a variety of scars.
Backstory: Walton joined the military when he was 18 years old in 1939, just in time for WWII to ramp up. He has since served in the pacific theater in WWII, the Korean war, and the Vietnam war. It was in 'Nam where he was gravely wounded for the last time, effectively ending his military career. He currently works a desk job for the local government, a fact that does not particularely please him.
He's been in a world war, a cold war, a drug war and a gang war. Now, seeing the appalling amount of respect veterans get from younger generations, he's decided that he wants to add a holy war onto his résumé.
Physical stats: (list in order)
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Awareness: d8
Guile: d10
Knowledge: d8
Willpower: d12
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 2
World Stats:
Connections: d8
Possessions: d8
Money: d4
Standing: d8
Inventory:
299$
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
You look through records regarding that time period and find a few interesting things. A rash of disappearances began maybe a few months before the mans death and continued a few months beyond. Most of the victims were homeless, vagrants, low income workers, and runaways, and little was made of it. You find an article talking about a "Plague of stray dogs" that complains of a massive number of stray dogs residing in the city and surrounding area. There are also several reports of sudden deaths and one that talks about the construction of a new room in the local hospital to hold "Insensible" patients.
It is night.
You feel like someone is watching you.
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