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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8101520" data-attributes="member: 5948">I ran a brief Gothic Earth (basically victorian-era Ravenloft on Earth) campaign a long time ago - PCs were part of a secret cabal inside the british government who were trying to prevent Dracula (who had come to Britain) from finding Excalibur, at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders.  Yep, hitting ALL the gaslight cliches!  One of the NPCs they had to work with quite frequently was the pitiable, twitchy ruin of Jonathan Harker, deeply scarred and driven half-mad by his experiences - not only had he escaped from Dracula in Transylvania, but he'd attempted to kill the Count once he arrived in England, failed miserably, and witnessed his wife Mina turned into Dracula's spawn.  The precise details escape my memory now, but I think he had some sort of psychic connection to Dracula due to having been fed on, so he was kept around as an intelligence source and lead to Dracula's location.We never got to finish the campaign (it was a one-semester thing at a university RPG club and i got seriously ill and missed a bunch of sessions), but i did get to run the big reveal, where the PCs discover that Harker was the Ripper - he'd failed to destroy his wife when she first arose as a vampire, and she'd taunted him with his cowardice and failure, and he'd gone quietly, murderously mad and started killing other women in her place.  And of course the PCs seniors in the Cabal had known about this all along and let it go, because "cheap lower-class gin-sodden hoydens are a dime a dozen really, dontcherknow, but we need Harker for now, can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, what what?"</blockquote>

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