See if I can find some homeless people who prefer to hang out by themselves. Return to the university basement and have one of my contacts supply me with sedatives.
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: d8
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
$809
[8]
You manage to find some homeless people that like to hang out alone...the only problem is that you seem to make too good of a connection with one of them and he won't leave you alone. He follows you straight back to your car and as you get in, he gets into the passenger seat.
Record everything!
Hopefully I'll get to record their faces as they leave.
Or scenes of violent cult warfare I can later sell to the highest bidder.
Or cops getting bribed or mind controlled.
Or some weird demon being summoned.
Or some other interesting thing.
Name: Helen Hywater, though she insists on calling herself "The Recorder" during cult related activities
Appearance: A young girl (that looks more like she's in her late 20s) with short dark hair and green eyes. Tends to wear a dark brown trenchcoat and fedora during cult related activities to avoid suspicion.
Backstory: Has a fascination with recording stuff for posterity and specifically cameras. Makes her way through life doing odd jobs and videotaping things, sometimes things she probably shouldn't record. She's even managed to make some short films. She's a bit weird and she knows it but she doesn't care. As for why she's with the cult, she mostly just wants to record stuff and then sell them for fame and loads of momey. Maybe she can make the world's first real found footage film.
Physical stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d10
Endurance: d8
Awareness: d12
Guile: d8
Knowledge: d6
Willpower: d6
Occult stats:
Corruption: 0
Madness: 0
Favor: d4 (The Scholar in Red)
World Stats:
Connections: d10
Possessions: d4
Money: d4
Standing: d8
Inventory:
Clothes
A high-end handheld camcorder with flashlight and infrared nightvision capability
Rented grey sedan (6 days left)
80$
You get your camera up to the window and film everything in a rather obvious way. For several minutes nothing happens and then more cop cars show up. Then an ambulance. The members of the group are lead out in hand cuffs and carted away in cop cars while their victim is carried out on a stretcher and to the ambulance. Its a pretty calm affair, with all the members of the group coming out without any obvious struggle. Most keep their heads down; which doesn't completely block their face but does make it somewhat harder to identify them. You get video of everyone involved, making sure to get as good of a look at their faces as possible.
I just gave Sean $1500. I'll let Dev figure out how much his shit costed.
Now, Going to return to the temple because it makes me feel warm and safe. Do research on good fishing spots!
...There are places to fish around here, right? Can never tell with these insane west coast places.
Ideally I want to find a fishing place in my range, and that's probably unlikely to happen unless I have access to a car. So check if I own a car real quick. Possessions roll.
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: d6
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
$294
[5]
Are you looking for open ocean fishing, shore fishing, lake fishing, river fishing, or something else? Shore fishing is closest and easiest assuming you wanna do the ocean instead of a lake. If you take CA-1 down to Garrapata State park there are both rivers and a good shore fishing area. And luckily you do have a car. A Chevrolet Camaro in bumblebee black and yellow.
Just keep translating the rest of the text.
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 (Contains part of the german book "Geschichten des roten Gelehrten". Partly translated.)
Pen
Flashlight
"Necromancer" Book
Many partly read Books
Alright, I'm gonna say you've spent enough time to get it done.
It was $475. Bumping it up to $550 for the fabric walls, peroxide, miscellaneous stuff and delivery costs.
If I can develop all my pictures, do so now and give the eye a good view. If I can't, I'll take it easy tonight. Do two things:
Buy a local roadmap and see if the eye likes any locations in the city or near the city. Also, hit the books and try to discover what kind of moth I found.
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: d6
Money: d6
Standing: d6
Inventory:
$1400
Bicycle
Drafting Board
Datsun Maxima
Metal Rod
Green Moth.
Fair enough. Its not gonna be delivered for a day so you wanna wait on developing the pictures or go turn them in to a 1 hour photo place? Considering the nature of them it might or might not be acceptable depending on your cover story.
You buy a road map and show it to the eye, pointing at different places, mostly at random. The church that the group investigated before delivers a tingle, as does Garrapata State Park and the Big Sur area. Not sure why.
[11] You realize that searching for this thing's species on your own is the hard way to go about it, so you just find the nearest professor with a "Lepidoptery" credit and ask them. You are informed that it is a Luna moth. Should have seen that coming.
"Hah... hah..."
The brutal death of the annoying frog felt ecstatic to Alexis, even more so than she'd expected. In fact, she felt her good hand drift downward pass her navel before she caught herself and quickly withdrew it. Looking at the mangled remains of the hapless amphibian, Alexis resisted the urge to lick its innards before dispose of it. Cleaning up, Alexis went over to the nearby sink and splashed some water onto her face. It wasn't the frog's fault for any of this, she reasoned. Just like any other living thing it didn't want to die and thus struggled as she would've done had she been in its position.
Drying her fact, Alexis reflected back on the strange pleasure she derived from killing the frog, knowing that such things cannot be normal. Could her proximity with this cult and the Scholar in Red caused this to happen to her or was this always present in her heart and this had only provided an outlet that she'd never had. What would her husband think? What would her parents think? After all, her father did chastised her for cutting apart that mouse when she was a kid after all even though she'd felt good about it.
Shaking the thoughts out of her head, Alexis made sure her wound was well bandaged before:
Meeting up with Helen to see what she was up to.
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:
$349
Purse
I'll assume you somehow know where she is and can find her in the parking lot.
"Dang it Bobby, you're breaking my balls here. 300$ for this shrunken dog fucker? Come on man, remember who pulled your shrapnel filled ass off of Hamburger Hill. How'sa bout 150$ for the tattoo'd one?"
Haggle with Bobby. Try for 150$ for the tattoo'd head. I'm willing to go up to 225. Remind him who pulled his shrapnel filled ass off of Hamburger Hill in '68.
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 settle on 200 after a lot of haggling. Bobby doesn't know how to haggle. His price keeps going down and then back up. Its mostly just a process of randomly getting him to offer something and then jumping on it when a good price comes up.
Buy a cheap street map of the city and a pen, and mark the affected roads on it. Gossip with people, listen to the news etc to find out if any other groups of hydrants have flooded.
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
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You use the map, news reports, and gossip to figure out the effected streets and areas. Much of the shore area is damaged in some way, and there's a sort of "Ground Zero" for the effect out near the beach, with the damage lessening as you go out from that point.
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