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Session 1 (5/07/2003) Taylor and Crystal Session 1 (5/07/2003) Taylor and Crystal Taylor dropped the broom for the third time, and nearly gave up trying to sweep up the broken glass. She was having a hard time holding the dustpan in her left hand because of the injury in her shoulder, and she...

Session 1 (5/07/2003) Joe Session 1 (5/07/2003) Joe Joe Empire was surprised…and a little annoyed. Well, admittedly, he should be thankful. The policeman had dropped him off at his shop, now some three hours later, without so much as a glance back. He had managed to survive the library...

Session 1 (5/07/2003) Session 1 (5/07/2003) Post-Combat Brother Cooper was dizzy, and his stomach was a maelstrom of pain. “Call 911…please” he choked out, as he knelt down beside Willie. Blood has soaked his pants and the wound on his thigh was jagged, deep, and ugly. “I already tried, my...

Session 1 (5/07/2003) Combat Brother Cooper stood up rapidly for a man of his size, and his hands came up in a calming gesture, “Son, hello there…Now I don’t know what’s going on here, son, but I don’t think you should be waving around that knife--” The thug with the knife grinned wider and...

Session 1 (5/07/2003) Session 1 (5/07/2003) Brother Cooper tried to maintain some semblance of dignity as he barreled through the glass double-doors of the library, momentarily wrecking the sanctum of silence within the place. The storm and wind followed him in, and his long coat and white...

Brother Guyzell Cooper Brother Guyzell Cooper You didn't sleep well last night. You had a bad dream. You were in church on Sunday. You were taking up the collection like you always do. You were passing the offering basket around, but nobody was putting anything in. Everybody was just looking...

Crystal "Little Wing" Lassiter Crystal "Little Wing" Lassiter You worked a closing shift last night. Late and exhausting. The Kudu may have closed at two since it was a Saturday night, but it was another half-hour until all of the regulars had filed out the door, and you were still cleaning up...

Joe Empire Joe Empire The newsletter is going to be late this month. You were up last night working on your special exposé (about how the Canadian government is using SARS as a cover-up to explain shutting down Toronto, when their real purpose is far more sinister…) when you saw that the...

P.I. Willie Lamar P.I. Willie Lamar You hate the rain. Okay, you hate the rain, and you hate Sunday nights. Okay, fine, you hate rain, you hate Sunday nights, and you hate Councilman Jim Slate. It would be bad enough, stooping to these little, petty, is-my-husband-cheating-on-me jobs...

Prologue (5/07/2003) Each of the players was given a prologue hand-out. What follows are the actual handouts delivered at the table, which is why they are written in second person. I tried to convert them to third or first person for publication, but they seemed to lose something in the...

Episode 1: "Pilot" Setting: Birmingham, Alabama, USA. May 2003. The biggest current local news story is the SEC investigation into the financial dealings of giant corporation South-Medical, and its philanthropist founder, Dick Scorse. The company has just laid of over a hundred people in...