((Wait a minute. I set the alarm for early in the morning. And I had a horrible night. I bet I'm not going to enjoy this...))
"Hey Guile. Everything went well last night, I hope? Sorry, I don't have a lot of time right now, I've got to go to work. But I trust you'll be able to take care of things here and inform everyone else of what happened? I can leave you a spare set of keys if you want to go out."
Still, no time to waste! It's time to wake up and face the music.
First of all, I need to inspect myself, see how I've changed.
Second, I need to check to make sure Guile didn't do anything stupid with that guy while I was asleep.
Third, I need to have a big breakfast. Also make breakfast for Guile and the guy I saved last night. Though I don't have time to babysit them, I trust Guile is a good enough guy to take care of that.
Fourth, I need to drive to the target's house to begin my stake out. Try to make a stop to drink lots of coffee if I can squeeze that in.
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 (though that might have changed due to recent events). 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 (7 days left)
80$
You wake up, feeling very tired and lethargic but you force yourself to get up anyways. You check yourself over: You look older, not hugely so but maybe 5 years older. There are lines starting to appear in your features and you just don't look quite as youthful as before. You walk out and find the man tied to the chair, asleep, with some vomit on his chest and on the floor in front of him. Lovely. You clean it up as best you can before you cook breakfast. You make enough for everyone in the house, intruder and all and leave the extra on the counter with a note.
That done you grab your stuff, including the camera that Guile left pointing at the man, and head out. You get several large coffees on the way and put yourself into a caffeine haze before reaching the target. Then you sit and wait. It will probably be a bit till he shows. His car is still there though.
First thing in the morning is to check my car for damages. Effing moth. After that, take a close examination of that moth I took. Does it look unusual in any way, or is it just one that's common to this area?
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: d6
Money: d6
Standing: d6
Inventory:
$450
Bicycle
Drafting Board
Datsun Maxima
Metal Rod
The moth did damage the car...though not too much. It put dents and holes in the metal where it set its feet and cracked one of the back windows. However, the car seems fine mechanically and there's no sign of damage to the engine or anything like that. You take out the moth you grabbed and look at it. [1] Its green. Uh. You haven't seen one like it before....but you're not a moth watcher or nothing.
The appointment! Don't be late and head to the library right now!
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
You drive down and reach the place just in time for your appointment. You get ushered into a climate controlled reading room where the book is laid out for you on a cloth. You're given a pair of gloves to handle it with and told various rules to handle it without damaging it. Then they leave you to it, telling you that you have three hours.
Ailn wakes up in the temple, a little sore from lack of a bed, but still with a strange feeling of comfort.
"Hello, world. It's good to have purpose. The day feels different from all the others I've spent before. I'm healthier than ever, and the sun shines brightly, for I approach a goal I could only dream of before."
Say good morning to the eye!
Head out and catch a seagull via the same method as before, bringing it back to the temple.
First though, bring it to my house and keep it from making a noticeable amount of noise by taping a cotton ball inside its beak. Also grab some strong cording or tape. Also feed it a small amount of strong liquor as a sedative.
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!)
trash bags
$774
You head out and use the same method to capture a seagull. That done you carefully take it home and gag it. The gagging isn't the easiest matter, it gets loose in your house and you have to chase it around for a while but you manage to get it done. You soak the cotton in strong booze and then head out to the temple.
By which I assume you mean the underground lab, not the abandoned building.
Study the surgery book again, position the orb near me while I'm learning how to properly remove organs.
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
$694
As you read the book, you feel a tingling approval across you like a warm, slightly prickly blanket.
Wake up from the pleasant dream of my time during the Tet Offensive.
Then take a looksie around my house to see if I didn't happen to bring home any books or other materials that have some connection to the Scholar in Red or Occult stuff it might be interested in. Walton vaguely remembers looting at least one of thing like that from either Tojo or Uncle Ho
Name: Walton J. Murphy
Appearance: A man of 64 years old. Walton sports a bald head and a grey beard. Not as fit as he used to be. His body is marked with a variety of scars.
Backstory: Walton joined the military when he was 18 years old in 1939, just in time for WWII to ramp up. He has since served in the pacific theater in WWII, the Korean war, and the Vietnam war. It was in 'Nam where he was gravely wounded for the last time, effectively ending his military career. He currently works a desk job for the local government, a fact that does not particularely please him.
He's been in a world war, a cold war, a drug war and a gang war. Now, seeing the appalling amount of respect veterans get from younger generations, he's decided that he wants to add a holy war onto his résumé.
Physical stats: (list in order)
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Awareness: d8
Guile: d10
Knowledge: d8
Willpower: d12
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: 2
World Stats:
Connections: d8
Possessions: d8
Money: d4
Standing: d8
Inventory:
299$
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
[4] You find a few books on the occult. However, none of them contain anything really new in terms of information, at least in regards to everything else that has been found already.
Waking from the strange dream, Alexis turned to look at her still sleeping husband and wondered what he thought of her escapades. Either he is unchalant about it so as long as the food is cooked and the house is cleaned or he is getting suspicious of her activities. Oh well, shed cross that bridge when she gets to it. Right now, he will surely be expecting breakfast soon.
Cook breakfast and brew coffee. Also, tidy up a bit.
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
As you get the house cleaned and breakfast made you hear something on the local news. Apparently a large section of the coast has been badly damaged and flooded by a "Freak wave" and many sink holes have opened up around town.
Check the outside of the house, and my car - does it look like anyone tried to break in during the night? Then head off to the YMCA for the first aid training.
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: 1
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)
Newspaper
$376 cash
You walk outside and find that your street is a river. Seriously, the entire street in front of your home is a flowing river of water. Luckily your house is higher up than the street but the water has come halfway up your driveway and it looks like it washed your mailbox away. You look around but there's no sign of heavy rain or anything like that...it must be some sort of burst water pipe or something...Several of your neighbors are outside on their porch, looking at the flowing water with the same confusion as you.
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