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One minute into the seventh hour, an older man in vestments tapped Mace on the shoulder. "Are you here for confession?" "No, Father, I'm just here for the atmosphere. Soaking up the culture, as it were." "Are you sure, a little confession might be good for you." "I'm okay really. Just a...

It didn't take long for everyone to see what the problem was. In the waning moments of the darkest hour of night, the stone almond began to smoke. It gave off no additional light, it just began to put off an inky, oily smoke. The kind you get when you burn old plastic. It swirled around Gary's...

"I have eaten better men than you." Mace smiled. "I'm not the one trapped like a rat." He checked his watch. "Sunrise is in two hours and fifty-eight minutes. First question: What do we call you?" The creature stirred, cocking its head to one side the way a poodle might. Then its mouth split...

The Man appeared under the overpass exactly at 3 in the morning. Mace was already there. Rossini kept the car hidden and running. Nick was flanking a hundred yards downwind. Mike Smith was ready with the cage. The Man arrived holding a small wooden crate, cradling it the way one would cradle an...

It took Mace a few days to work out a plan. But when he came to it, it seemed so obvious. He'd contact The Man. [2 point Tradecraft spend] set up a time and place for the phone call to happen. And between now and then, Mace went to church, washed himself in holy water and set the phone in a...

The team assembled in the safehouse. Mace was holding court. MikeSmith's theory was a good one, and Mace knew it. In the time it took the team to assemble, he did some digging around [2 point Occult Studies, 2 point Research, 1 point Vampirology spends] and it was possible. But first he had to...

Garrett's bar is a quiet neighborhood's worst nightmare. It's grimy, dingy, poorly lit and looks like it should be condemned. Garrett was a war vet, though no one was sure which war. MikeSmith liked the place. It was quiet. There was always something to watch on TV, and for eight bucks he...

I've had some requests for the Vampire spreadsheet. It's attached below. I hope fellow Directors find it useful.

[Mechanical Notes are in braces] ((Director Notes are in double parentheses)) ((This is what happens when the players ask about how far reaching the Conspiracy can be)) They didn't go to a police station. They didn't even stay within the city limits. The team was all [captured] and taken to a...

[Mechanical notes are in braces] ((GM Notes are in double parentheses)) Time to break out the usual war chest. Stakes, grenades, flashbangs, sharp blades and lots of ammunition. Thanks to Mace's friend [3 point Network spend] at the local police supply depot, they had access to body armor, but...

Billy was a special kid afterall. But it wasn't discovered at first. It took Carter three different batteries of tests [Medic 2 point] to figure out Billy hadn't been drugged, chemically altered or implanted with any devices. He was a healthy kid. His special talent came up after the tests...

[Mechanical spends are in braces] ((GM Notes are in parentheses)) Father Craig was midway through Paul's second letter to the Corinthians when the phone rang and that sad little boy called. Craig knew he was sad, the tone was so clear, but it lay buried under excitement. "I think it's time...

[Mechanical notes are in braces] ((GM Notes are in double parentheses)) While the team worked at keeping the "doors of their minds" closed, they were treated to this scene - revealed to them as a shared dream experience...((meaning they were all observers within this one particular...

[Mechanics are in braces] ((GM Notes are in double parentheses) In his dreams, Rossini was often either the center of attention -- everyone in his dream would stare at him, no matter what he did -- or he was a helpless observer to bad things: a school burning down, a monster eating kittens, a...

For the curious, I'm co-running the DexCon Night's Black Agents Tournament with Ken Hite tomorrow afternoon. I just wanted to lay a little teaser out there for the interested. 1. There's a new kind of monster, called a "Spider-Zotz". 2. There are 6 preliminary scenarios....they are named...