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Blood Money
Introduction
Blood Money is an unofficial scenario for the role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost.
It takes place in New York in 1992. The PCs will investigate a series of ritual murders which will lead them
across the island of Manhattan, to the edge of the underworld and into the Purgatory of a victim of Death
Magicians. When an evil cult ambushes them deadly, they will have to choose between selling their souls to
save their lives or remaining in Inferno for eternity.

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 Angels campaign published in 1994 by Metropolis
Ltd. At the same time there are no many ways to
Foreword describe a “Kultified” New York. Moreover, those
The fourth edition of Kult is finally what this game who played Fallen Angels will notice several
should have been from the start, a narrative game references such as the Theater Mondo and some
with rules you can forget about and dice rolls kept characters. I played the first scenario of this
to a minimum, only when chance is likely to add campaign about thirty years ago, if you can find an
tension or to have a dramatic interest. Afterwards, old copy and unless you are allergic to vampires, it
this is the way I see it, for your part you just do as is very good. I made the sequel myself so I never
you prefer. took the time to read the other two scenarios, so I
won't comment on them...
This scenario is intended for a GM and at least three
PCs, ideally four. It is well suited to players who I created Blood Money in the same environment,
have already practiced Kult a little and have an idea the New York of the early 90s, which has the
of what to expect, but as it doesn't require prior double advantage to propose a huge city with a
knowledge of the lore, so it is also suitable for great potential of events, at a time when crime was
beginners. Apart from the ending which will be still at its peak. And where the characters don't
violent and will leave little time to breathe (hey this have access to modern gadgets that are com-
is Kult), the pace of the story is slow. It is a real fortable (or bothering depending on your point of
investigation that the characters will carry out in view): no social networks or smartphones, no
their free time and which will extend over several cameras on every street corners. Cell phones are
days. They will have to go to work and mind of rare, expensive and basic and the GSM network is
their different business and gather afterwards to underdeveloped. In 1992, the Internet was still a
investigate. The scenario is long, it is not a "one nascent technology, the world wide web had just
shot", it will require several sessions, more or less been created and the number of websites could be
depending on the the players progression speed counted on the fingers of two or three hands. Only
and the GM's desire to rush or to enjoy the roleplay. a million computers are connected to it (compared
You can also add improvisations or additional to five billions in 2023), the Compact Disc is starting
scenes. Well, that's the basis of role playing games, to replace the audio cassette and for video we still
I'm not learning you anything... The ending, if you use large VHS cassettes. Game enthusiasts have a
play it as I wrote it, could also allow you to make a
sequel, or even a real campaign. This is unusual
enough in a Kult scenario to be emphasized.
Mega-Drive or a Super Nintendo connected to the
living room's cathode ray TV. For old people like
me, it sounds allright, it was our life. For young
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people it's another world, but you'll love it! Take the
If there are only three players, Richard's character time to watch some American films from this time
can be used as an NPC who will just give his to get in the mood. Predator 2, Terminator 2, the
company's computer password to Lilly and wait for paradise of sequels for sci-fi fans, I also think of
informations in exchange. The clues that he should Robocop 2 or Alien 3 even if these two are out of
bring will therefore be found in the newspaper's frame since they are anticipation. In a less fantasy
network by her. genre, everyone should have seen movies like
If all the players are men, unless you are Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, The Fugitive,
comfortable with "crossgender", transform Lilly Seven, Forrest Gump, Speed, Pretty Woman,
into Leny, Leonard Thomson (the appropriate Groundhog Day... And so many others.
images are in the appendices), especially on a To get in the mood, don’t miss the Hellraiser movies
virtual table with only voice, pronoun errors seem serie. The 3rd one was released in 92. Ah Hellraiser,
pretty inevitable and break the immersion. films that are so bad they are good, little horror
If there are several female players, feminizing Jack gems with somewhat outdated FX or cult movies
seem impossible to me, but Richard could become (who said kult?), everyone will judge.
Rebecca and why not change Max into Maria... I did
not make these illustrations but they are just
simple portraits that are easy to create with an
image generator (there is no reason that I should
be the only one to have fun with AI), or to draw
yourself if you are lucky enough to be an artist.
The first part contains a brief description of New
York city, inspired by that presented in the Fallen

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New York City
Children of the Night, creatures that are no longer
totally human and come out of their lairs once the
sun sets: Jackals, Nosferatus, cannibals, a few
The New York of the early 90s is a place of many Wolvens, ghosts and other more indescribable
contrasts. A man at the top floor of a glass and steel horrors haunt the dark corners of the city in search
tower can, with a single phone call, change the of their next victims.
destiny of millions of people on the other side of
This cocktail of inequality and violence attracts
the world. At the same time and a few hundred
dark energies and creatures from the four corners
feets away, another man just hopes he will be able
of Reality. The tears in the Illusion have multiplied
to have a meal today. And between these two
over the last twenty years and for those who know
extremes, more than seven million residents are
where to look, permanent portals to Metropolis,
living the American dream or just trying to survive
the Underworld, Gaïa or Inferno, opened by terrible
in the Big Apple.
events, await monsters and the unfortunates who
"The cover page on the clipboard hanging in Brooklyn's dare to cross them.
blood-soaked 75th Precinct police station said it all:
'Give us 22 minutes, we'll give you homicide.' »
Crime is endemic, murders happen daily, the police
are overwhelmed. Away from the main roads, the
Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn are lawless areas
where gangs rule the roost. Since the 1970s, the
administration controls the rents and prevents
building owners from increasing them. This has
encouraged the most indelicate among them to
burn down buildings to collect insurance rather
than to pay for renovations. The Bronx, cradle of
Hip-Hop, with its streets littered with wreckage and
its walls covered in graffiti, is one of the most
dangerous places in the United States.

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In the metro, a drug addict can stab you in broad

daylight for the few greenbacks you have in your
wallet. Other passengers will turn their heads or
bury their noses deeper in their newspaper
pretending not to see. Manhattan
At night it's even worse. The danger represented by Around the vast Central Park, the island is covered
the gangs, ultra-violent and armed to the teeth, with skyscrapers and residential areas. Manhattan
seems almost trivial compared to that of the is separated from the continent by three rivers, to

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 the west by the Hudson River, with New Jersey on The Metropolitan Museum of New York, located on
the other bank, to the east by the East River which the western edge of Central Park, contains vast
separates it from Queens and Brooklyn, and to the rooms where artifacts and treasures are stored,
north it's the Harlem River which flows between many of which are powerful relics ready to fall into
the neighborhood of the same name and the the wrong hands to awaken ancient powers.
Bronx. The Children of the Night are numerous
On either side of Central Parc, the Upper East Side
there, managing to go unnoticed in the middle of
and the Upper West Side are the neighborhoods
the dense population. At night, normal police
officers avoid the hoods, which is not always the
case with the Death Squad, police officers who
have become so violent that they are no longer
really human.
To the north, Harlem is the black neighborhood.
Blocks of thriving buildings sit alongside those that
are falling into ruin. The northern part, Washington
Heights, is a rundown place, plagued by gangs and
drug dealers. Here as in the Bronx, the youth shoot
first and ask the questions after. The rest of the
neighborhood is a little more peaceful although it
is wise to avoid it after the sunset, especially for
people who are not black. The spanish Harlem is
not verry better, it is a degraded and dangerous
neighborhood which nevertheless has bars where
after dusk, the Children of the Night who still have
enough humanity gather with the night owl
humans. There are also parks where Jackals hunt at Central Park
night: Inwood Hill Park and Riverside Park.

where the oldest Nosferatus and the most powerful

Death Magicians live. Jackals are absent from these
districts and Children of the Night do not come
there without a good reason. The small fry doesnt
dare to venture here.
To the south of the park is Midtown, the center of
Manhattan, lined with skyscrapers, the main
avenues see thousands of passers-by walking
during the day while the most inhuman Children of
the Night mingle with the homeless or wait for
sunset in the gloomy nightclubs of Time Square.
Frequented by drug dealers and criminals, Times
Square is the symbol of delinquency and

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A few years ago, Central Park was a wasteland

covered in trash and graffiti. Despite the munici-
pality's attempts to renovate it, it is still not really
an ideal place for a walk with family (which it will
become in the next century). At night, the park is
the hunting ground of Jackals who stalk lone
passers-by while evading heavily armed drug
dealers. The Jackals avoid some parts of the north
of the park, where it is changing, where too dense
bushes hide passages to Gaïa.

Midtown

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corruption that affects New York; there are mainly run by Lictors, while the second, dominated
numerous peep shows, pornographic theaters, by the Hong Kong Triads, has its own monsters. No
restaurants and arcades. non-Chinese Children of the Night are tolerated
there.
Below, the old New York is made up of the
neighborhoods of Chelsea, Soho, Greenwich Village And finally at the southern tip of Manhattan Island,
and East Village. It is the safest place at night in the financial district, with its famous World Trade
New York. Jackals are few in number and do not Center, is a world of offices teeming with tie-clad
hunt there. The Nosferatus are among the most employees during the day, and seemingly deserted
sociable and civilized, they prefer to use their at night. But appearances are deceptive, far above
power of seduction to obtain the consent of their the streets, out of sight behind the mirrored glass
one-night partners and rarely kill them. of the towers, private clubs and secret societies
bring together cannibals, murderers and Conjurers
Further south, Little Italy and Chinatown are cities
in sumptuous conference rooms.
within a city. The first, in the hands of the mafias, is

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 The Characters

Jack Peterson (Jack Thompson) decided to enlist and very quickly he met Sarah,
who became his wife and the mother of his
Jack Thompson was born in 1947 in a small town in daughter, Lilly.
Texas. He grew up in a modest family and has
always been appealed by the idea of serving his For years, Jack lived within the cult which provided
country and being part of something bigger than him the stability he needed to recover, but also
himself. At the age of 18 he enlisted in the United forced him to participate in increasingly disturbing
States Army and was sent to fight in Vietnam. activities as he climbed the ranks. He began to
doubt his beliefs when Jason Blackwood, the
Unfortunately, the war has been hell on earth for grandmaster of the Way of the Light, forced Jack to
Jack. He saw horrible things and was forced to participate in a long and strange ceremony over
commit atrocities he couldn't even imagine before. Sarah's unborn child. Supposedly to summon a
He was seriously injured and lost several of his guardian angel that would guide and protect her
friends in bloody battles. On his return, he was throughout her life. Jack would never truly
traumatized, depressed and suffered the full brunt understand what dwells inside Lilly's mind, but he
of the population's rejection of veterans. He could doubts it's an angel.
no longer fit into this society that he didn't reco-
gnize. Jack definitively lost his faith when his wife died.
Sarah suffered from a relatively mild illness, but the
It was in this context that Jack met "the Way of the members of the sect refused to seek treatment for
Light", an organization posing as a religious her, convinced that their faith would cure her.
community which achieved the miracle of bringing Sarah died in the arms of Jack, who was deeply
veterans like him and hippies to live together shocked and revolted by this situation.
fraternally, but which in reality was a dangerous
organization with sectarian practices. Jack was He then decided to leave the cult with his daughter,
seduced by their speech and their way of life, which but he knew that the members would not let him
seemed to offer a solution to his problems. He go easily. The situation became complicated and

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Jack had to kill two people, including William, 10-14: get 1 Edge,
Jason Blackwood's brother, to manage to steal a -9: Get 1 Edge, but you underestimate your oppo-
car and money, recover Lilly and run away with nents, who may be more numerous or skilled than
her. you first assumed. The GM makes a Move.
Edges :
He changed his identity and lived a new life with
- You parry one attack.
Lilly, regularly moving to different big cities to take
- A roundhouse strike against several opponents
advantage of the anonymity they offer. They have
surrounding you, counting as a single attack.
been living in New York for five years, a record
- A disarm.
which does not always reassure Jack, but he knows
- A throw, reposition an opponent or drop them to
that this stability is important for his daughter's
the ground.
education. He has done everything he could to
cover his tracks and remain discreet, but he knows Hardened
that the sect can always find him. You take +1 ongoing to Endure Injury.
Life has not been easy for Jack, post-traumatic Improviser
stress disorder still causes him nightmares and When Jack attempts to get out of a dangerous
flashbacks of the war. He had to work hard to situation by winging it, roll 2d10 + Coolness:
provide for Lilly and to keep a low profile. 15+: choose two options,
10-14: choose one option,
Now, in 1992, Jack is 45 years old and his name is
-9: your improvisation makes the situation worse.
Jack Peterson, he works as a handyman in a small
The GM makes a Move.
cinema, the Theater Mondo in the East Village,
Options:
which has a bar and is frequented mainly by
- come up with a convincing lie,
yuppies and other petty bourgeois. He is by turns a
- find something you can use as a makeshift
cleaner, a ticket seller, a bartender, a projectionist,
weapon (+2 harm),
and sometimes a bouncer on lucky days.
- hide from a pursuer,
He has managed to find some balance thanks to his - Set a trap that gives you a surprise advantage (+2
daughter and his work, but despite his best efforts, to your first attack Move).
Jack cannot forget his past. He is convinced that
Disadvantages
Blackwood is still looking for him and that he can
never truly be safe. He is also haunted by memories Nightmares. They are violent, Jack hardly ever
of Vietnam and what he experienced there. have good nights. Among other problems, these

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terrible nightmares have a tendency to deter his
Jack is a character deeply affected by the events of
girlfriends. When you fall asleep, roll 2d10.
his life. he is proud to have been able to escape his
15+: You sleep in peace,
demons and his pursuers for nearly fifteen years.
10-14: The nightmares torment you. The GM may
But he knows that they are still there, somewhere,
make a Move,
and that they have not forgotten him. He is more
-9: The nightmares take over completely. You are
determined than ever to protect his daughter and
trapped in the dream until you find a way to wake
give her a normal life, but he knows that he will
up, and everything that happens there also directly
always have to remain vigilant and sleep with one
affects your sleeping body.
eye open.
Stalker. Jack Killed William, the brother of Jason
Archetype Blackwood. He knows Jason will never forgive him.
The Veteran.
possessions
Dark secrets Jack rents a small apartment in Greenwich Village.
Guilt of having committed war crimes. Jack feels The rent is a bit expensive but Lilly can get to the
guilty and would like to atone for his faults. university and him to Theater Mondo in a few
minutes by bus or even on foot.
Guardian of Lilly.
In memory of Sarah and to prove to himself that he Jack always has with him a small bag containing
can protect what is most precious to him, Jack his EDC (Every Day Carry in survivalist language)
would do anything to defend her from threats. containing a lighter, a small flashlight, a Swiss army
knife, a solid short folding blade combat knife, a
Advantages mini first aid kit, his wallet with his (false) papers
Martial Arts Expert and a few bucks and hidden in the lining of his
Whenever Jack is fighting in close quarters, roll pants $200 in bills and four "Double Eagle", gold
2d10 + Violence: coins worth about $800 each ($2000 'Today).
15+: get 2 Edges. You may spend them any time
He has a Beretta 92 FS with a box of ammunition
during the scene,
hidden in his apartment.

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 He owns a Ford pick-up, parked in a secure parking who has two appealing good points: a devastating
lot which he has hardly used in recent years. He sense of humor when he gets tipsy and a real
still maintains it meticulously and regularly does a esteem for veterans. Jack meets Richard quite
few rounds of the neighborhood to be sure that it often, he is a regular at the theater where he works.
will start the day he has to leave quickly. He hid in a Each time Richard takes the time to have a drink
false bottom under the tray, survival equipment, a before the screening, his very strong political
hunting shotgun, money, false papers for Lilly and convictions and his salacious jokes amuse Jack very
him, and a few days' worth of provisions. much. When during a conversation Richard told
him that he was working on the series of ritual
Relationship with other characters murders, Jack put him in contact with Max and Lilly,
Lilly Peterson (Elizabeth Thompson) [Relation 2] wondering afterwards if it was such a good idea.
Jack would to do anything to protect Lilly and give
her a normal life after all the horrors he himself has
experienced. Jack is very proud of his daughter who
is now 20 years old. She turned out to grow into a
beautiful young woman, looking painfully alike her
mother. Above all, she is a real little genius, so
gifted with languages that she seems capable of
showing the way to a stranger, whatever his origin.
She recently graduated and now teaches at college
at an unsual young age. That same age where he
trudged through the jungle to commit atrocities.
She is idealistic but withdrawn and spends too
much time in her old books. She never goes out to
have fun with other young people. she never seems
to have really had any real friends, let alone
boyfriends.
Max Ramirez [Relation 0] Lilly recently become
captivated by a series of strange murders and
despite his warnings, she continues to investigate
it. This put her in the path of a private detective,
Max Ramirez. Forty-something, former cop, Jack
doesn't really trust this guy, he is afraid that his
daughter draws attention to herself and gets into
trouble one way or another. But Lilly takes this
thing so seriously, like a crusade, so he lets her do
it, just asking to be present when she goes
somewhere with Max.
Richard Hall [Relation 1] Richard is 35 but looks ten
years older. He is a fairly famous journalist, very
conservative, not to say totally reactionary, but

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Lilly Peterson (Elizabeth Thompson)
Lilly Peterson, whose true name is Elizabeth
when Lilly feels strong emotions. But she knows
that the Entity will someday seek to take the total
control to embody itself in our world and at that
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Thompson, was born in 1972 in the sect where her moment Lilly will disappear.
father, Jack, was enrolled. Jack is a former soldier
who served in Vietnam. He had to be repatriate As she was aging, Lilly began to notice signs that
because of a serious wound. When he left the something was wrong with her. She had
hospital, he realized that the population had inexplicable mood swings and times when she felt
nothing but contempt for veterans and Jack was disconnected from reality. She didn't understand
unable to integrate back into society. He gave in to what was happening. Every time she felt an
the lure of a religious group called “The Way of emotion that was a little too strong, she felt like
Light” which promised him a secure living she was going crazy, forcing her from her
environment in a caring community. There he met childhood to build a kind of mental shell.
his wife, Sarah, Lilly's mother. But the organization One day, when she was a teenager, some thugs
turned out to be a dangerous cult. Her mother died tried to assault her in a street. She felt an intense
when Lilly was very young and her father ran away fear and suddenly her body began to transform,
with her. becoming huge and bloated. Without even
Lilly grew up in this oppressive environment, but realizing it, she rushed towards her attackers and
she was unaware that something strange was savagely massacred them with her bare hands
happening inside her. Indeed, Jason Blackwood, without the slightest effort, inhuman thoughts
the guru of the sect, was manipulated by an evil mingling with her own. She managed at the last
Higher Power who used him to implant something minute to regain control, but then measured the
in Lilly's mind before her birth. For all these years, terrible power of the thing that had taken
this Entity has been dormant and only awakens possession of her.

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 She never told anyone about this incident, but it knows that people say behind her back that she is
had marked a turning point in Lilly's life. She autistic or psychopathic, but the few people who
realized that she had to find a way to free herself really know her know that she is an empathetic
from the grip of this Entity at all costs. In parallel of and caring person and a little too idealistic. She
high school and university, to searche for answers, considers in a rather Manichean way that her gifts
she spent most of her free time frequenting occult make her special, like the heroes of the American
bookstores and libraries, searching the dustiest series from the 80s, who must fight for what is
corners for the most hermetic books. Recently, right. She is very close to her father, Jack, and has a
most world's universities in the world as well as strong and protective relationship with him. She
some institutions have interconnected in a new never told him about the Entity, he knows there is
computer network, the Internet. Lilly accesses it something abnormal but not what. He has already
from the campus library and there too, she is very suffered so much and worries enough about her as
good at unearthing new information. it is.
Lilly and Jack have lived in New York for five years, In short, Lilly is a complex character who fells
this is the first time they have settled in one city for herself at the same time as a fragile little girl and as
so long. She can see that her father is not always a woman of autority, having to give lessons to
reassured but he knows that it is important for her students older than her. She has exceptional
education. intellectual abilities, undoubtedly the only positive
side effect of the presence of the Entity. Invested
Today, in 1992, Lilly is 20 years old, particularly
with a heavy responsibility, she is determined to
brilliant in her studies, she skipped several classes
use them to help others and protect them from the
and joined the New York University School of Arts
thing that lies within her. She dreams of becoming
and Science at 16 and has just obtained a Master's
a strong woman, a TV heroine who struggles
degree. She just won a substantial grant to write a
against the darkness and fights for justice.
thesis on ancient languages and civilizations. She
also obtained a teaching position for a few hours a New York is a dangerous city, assassinations are a
week, making her one of the youngest people to daily occurrence there, but when Lilly discovered
access these prestigious positions. Her gift for the existence of a series of very particular ritual
languages is almost supernatural, she speaks murders that had been going on for several years,
English, Spanish, French, German and Italian her instinct for occult sciences tickled in her head,
fluently, understands around ten others and as telling her to take an interest in it, so she began to
many dead languages that she learned alone with investigate.
his old grimoires. Over the years, she became more
and more educated in esotericism, nevertheless
Archetype
refusing two things: to talk about her knowledge to The descendant.
anyone, for fear of running into somebody that
could be related to the sect she she fled as a child,
Dark secret
and practice operative magic because she thinks Curse: Because of a ritual performed on her before
the Entity would take advantage of it to manifest her birth, Lily's soul harbors a powerful unknown
itself. Lilly knows for sure that if she loses control Entity.
or gets killed, something terrible will happen. Lilly seeks to know the nature of this being and
above all, a way to get rid of it.
Lilly may be a brilliant mind, she unfortunately is
also a sad and depressed young woman. She is very Advantages
frustrated not to be able to have fun like normal
young people of her age because since her Occult studies
adolescence she has forced herself not to feel Lilly studied the occult sciences. When she comes
anything, not to do anything that could make her into contact with a magical discipline, an entity or
lose control. No alcohol or drugs, no sex, no horror a phenomenon for the first time, roll 2d10 +
movies, etc. Even the rage that this self-forced Reason:
asceticism generates must be curbed. Even hatred 15+: take both options below,
for this Entity that is stealing her youth... She is 10-14: choose one option,
determined to find a way to eradicate this thing, -9: She has a hazy memory of something like this,
killing two birds with one stone, freeing herself and but can’t say for sure if it’s true or not. The GM
saving those around her from what she senses be a explains what it is she remembers.
mortal threat. Options:
- Lilly knows something about this. Ask the GM
Her depression and the mental barriers she what she knows and take +1 ongoing while acting
constantly erects to maintain control over the on the answers during this scene,
Entity give her a cold and detached appearance. It's - Lilly knows where she can find more information
been a long time since she had real friends and she about this.

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Expert in linguistics and history of ancient civili- Relationship with other characters
zations.
You can ask any question in these areas without a Jack Peterson (Jack Thompson) [Relation 2] Jack is
dice roll. When you are looking for clues about 45 years old and is a Vietnam veteran. He never
something related to these areas you can ask an talks about the war, but when Lilly hears him
additional question. screaming in his nightmares, she can only imagine
how traumatic the experience has been for him.
Mental Barrier Jack gave everything to protect Lilly and give her a
When you roll to Keep it Together, you have an normal life after all the horrors he experienced.
additional +1 bonus. He words at a theater called the Mondo.
In case of partial success (10-14) you lose a level of Jack is proud of his daughter and her multiple
stability but Lilly repels the associated emotion. talents and Lilly repays him, she adores her father
This additional effort costs her a -2 on her actions and reveres him, even if she doesn't always obey
instead of -1. him. She has never revealed to him anything
In case of failure (-9), you only lose one level of important about the Entity. He was there during
stability instead of two, but Lilly withdraws into the ritual and knows that there is something
herself, cuts herself off from her senses and enters abnormal about her but he doesn't know what and
a state of deep self-hypnosis which allows her to Lilly minimizes the facts not to worry him even
still keep the control. But she can no longer act or more.
react for several minutes.
Max Ramirez [Relation 1] During her investigation
Disadvantages in the ritual murders, Lilly disobeyed her father and
Depression. Lilly is constantly struggling with went to a crime scene alone. There she met Max
depression and discouragement. Whenever facing Ramirez, a former cop turned private detective,
personal setbacks, roll 2d10: aged about 35 or 40. He is also investigating these
15+: you remain in control, murders on behalf of a victim's family.
10-14: You experience temporary anxiety, decrea- Max initially took her for a pretentious and
sed self-confidence or lack of will. You take -1 on intrusive kid but he quickly realized that with her
your next dice rolls, an anxiolytic is effective in computer and her books, she could progress in
around ten minutes and helps relieve this state, ways that he would never have been able to
otherwise it fades in a few hours. exploit. Lilly developed a sincere friendship for Max,
-9: you succumb to the sense of hopelessness or fascinated by the luck she has to be able to interact
blame and punish yourself; reduce Stability (−2). with a real character from noir novels.
Your lethargy and self-destructive urges do not go
away until you numb your symptoms with a
neuroleptic drug pill and some rest.
Richard Hall [Relation 0] He's a journalist, quite
famous from what she's heard. He must be in his
forties but, being bald and skinny, he looks older.
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Stalker. Lilly fled the Way of the Light cult when she He regularly goes to watch films or plays in the
was five or six, Jack thinks they're still looking for theater where Jack works. Jack likes him and often
you. chats with him, but Lilly doesn't really appreciate
his salacious humor and his very conservative
possessions opinions.
However, the other day she saw him talking with
Jack and Lilly rent a small apartment in Greenwich
Max and learned that he too was investigating the
Village, quite close to the university and Jack's
ritual murders for his newspaper. She resolved to
work. As she now has an income, she is proud to
tell him about her findings and in return Richard
help her father pay the rent and make their life a
gave her access to the digitized archives, accessible
little easier.
via the Internet, of his newspaper's computer
Lilly comes out with a backpack containing her network. These contain in particular (which
notebook, a sketchbook, pens and pencils, and a Richard seems to ignore) investigations that had
book or two. A box of anxiolytic pills. On the advice never been published because they are compro-
of her father, a pocket in her bag contains a Swiss mising for people in high positions.
army knife, a small flashlight, her wallet with her Although finding him very unprepossessing, Lilly
(false) papers and always at least $100 in bills, as must admit that Richard is charismatic, pugnacious
well as a small tear gas canister. Though she is and talented in his profession.
supposed to keep it in her pocket, but it bothers
her so she puts it here.
At home, Lilly has a collection of esoteric books,
manuscripts and thousands of pages of carefully
classified photocopies of ancient writings.

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 Max Ramirez men and politicians.

Max Ramirez was born in 1955 to a working-class After being kicked out of the police force, Max set
family in Brooklyn. He grew up in a tough up as a private detective. The very day after he
neighborhood where violence and crime were moved into his new office, a team of former
common. His father was a factory worker while his colleagues rushed in. Max didn't have time to react,
mother worked as a cleaner. Despite the difficulties they kidnapped him and took him to an aban-
inherent in this unfavorable environment, Max was doned building in the Bronx. He recognized these
a brilliant and ambitious student. He worked hard cops who were part of what people call the Death
at school and made a scholarship to college. He Squad, lawless police officers who reign in terror
earned a degree in criminology and joined the New and resolve (or create) problems without a
York Police Department as a young officer. warrant, with heavy blows of batons. He knows
them because he had already seen them beat up
Max quickly demonstrated great talent in policing. thugs several times with incredible violence. These
He was courageous, determined and persevering, scum were drug dealers and murderers, so at the
ready to do anything to bring down the offenders. time Max didn't say anything, but he blamed
He worked in different units: drug squad, crime himself so much for letting them act and he blames
squad and then as a NCPD representant appointed himself even more now. If he had reported on these
by Department of the Treasury to investigate men, there is a -small- chance that they would have
Frauds and financial crimes. been stoped and would not be here today, breaking
However, one Max's investigation about influence- his ribs with tonfas.
peddling began to hit walls when it involved Max was beaten to death. In the shadow, a man in a
corrupted politicians and New York's high society. suit and tie with sunglasses watched his execution.
He faced pressures to abandon this inquiries and to He observed the scene with an expressionless face.
turn a blind eye to the criminal activities of the During his slow agony, Max saw this man changing
powerful. Max refused to stay silent and continued and deforming. As the entire room became darker
to work on this case. This put him on the police and even more dilapidated, the man grew taller
blacklist and he was eventually fired when he was and emaciated, his costume turning into the black
about to bring down a ring of corrupted business- robe of an infernal priest, open on his chest and

15 Le Prix du Sang
abdomen, revealing his torn skin and his oozing sulky face and her manners she was not the
organs, his eyes being nothing but two empty pretentious kid he had first thought. She was a true
sockets. The policemen themselves no longer little genius with an astonishing intelligence. They
looked human... shared their information and Max resolved to team
up with her even though he had promised himself
Max woke up in the hospital and stayed there for a
to always work alone. But to gain access to the girl
good month. It took him two more to get back on
he had to rub shoulders with the father. Jack is
his feet and miraculously, apart from scars and
extremely protective of Lilly and does not look
some stiffness, he had no physical after-effects
favorably on her new hobby and even less on her
from this attack. Psychologically it's another story.
new "friend". He demands to always be present
He thinks all time of the man with the sunglasses,
when they are together.
this monster he saw, searching for his identity. But
even today, his memories are blurry and he Max is a lonely man, courageous and talented but
wonders if it wasn't the pain that made him also bitter and disillusioned. He rarely ease off. He
delirious. has a great knowledge of the city and his contacts
in the area help him to carry out his investigations.
At the beginning of his installation as a detective, to
He looks like he is always tough and serious. He
earn a living, Max accepted all the incoming jobs,
dreams of revenge against the untouchable elites,
tracking cheating husbands and lost dogs. When
but he is also empathetic and caring towards the
his notoriety and his network grew, he only
victims. He has kept contacts in the New York
accepted jobs that paid well and if possible
police with former colleagues and friends who
involved real crimes.
continue to discreetly provide him with
Max is divorced from Carmen, together they have information, but with some other police officers,
an eight-year-old son, Mike, who lives with his the relations are extremely tense. They are even
mother. Carmen is remarried to a lawyer, Roberto tenser with unidentified powerful people who
Sanchez, who himself has two teenage daughters regularly cause him problems. Max knows that
from a previous marriage. Max has little contact with such enemies, he won't last long. If he doubts
with them. to be able to bring them down because they are so
well protected, he would at least like to understand
Max has a lot of work but he is trying to settle
what happened during his beating.
current cases because he has just been hired to
lead an investigation which promises to be long Archetype

1
and complicated. A woman named Rose Eisenberg
The Detective.
hired him to solve the death of her son Phillip. The
police investigation was botched and quickly Dark secrets
abandoned, leaving the mother in despair. Unable
Returned from the Other Side. Max was clinically
to bring herself to let this crime go unpunished and
dead for several minutes. No tunnel or white light
having the money for her ambitions, she offered to
for him, just a complete darkness and a noise, like
pay Max a good fee and all his expenses during the
the wind rushing into an open building lobby. He
time it will take to elucidate the circumstances of
was discovered by a local gang member who called
her son's death, finds the murderer and if possible
for help. Max should have stayed dead and the
gather evidences to force the police to arrest him.
emaciated creature who witnessed his execution
Indeed, Phillip Eisenberg was killed in a particularly
will do what it takes to fix that mistake.
sordid manner with strange mutilations remi-
niscent of a ritual murder. Max quickly realized that Advantages
at least fifteen people had been killed in the same
Network of contacts. Max has friends in the police
conditions over the past ten years, suggesting that
and informers on the street, when you are looking
a serial killer or a satanic cult was operating
for information on a person, roll 2d10 + Charisma.
throughout Manhattan.
15+: you may ask three questions from the list
A week later, Max learned that a new, identical below,
crime had just been committed. He ventured to the 10-14: You may ask two questions,
scene of the murder to see where the body had -9: You may ask one question, but the person
been found. He came face to face with a young you’re inquiring about finds out you’re snooping
woman, Lilly, who had the same idea of passing the around. The GM makes a Move.
police seals to gain access to the building. She Questions:
informed him that she was investigating the series - What resources do they have at theirdisposal?
of ritual murders. Max first wanted to chase away - Who do they have business dealings with?
this kid he thought about as welcome in a crime - Where can I find them?
scene as a thunderstorm at a picnic, but he - What do they want?
changed his mind when he realized that behind her - What are they most afraid of losing?

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 Crime Scene Investigator. Whenever you investig- been hurt because of your cowardice seek you out,
ate a crime scene, roll 2d10+Reason: demons and other creatures are attracted by your
15+: ask two questions, guilt, the dead haunt you with nightmares or
10-14: ask one question, visions, or you fall victim to anxiety and self-doubt.
-9: ask one question, but your investigation leads
you into danger or introduces additional problems
possessions
later on. Max lives alone in a small apartment in the center
Questions: west but he only sleeps there, and even then, the
- What was the chain of events? sofa in his office is often sufficient. His office is in
- What can I assume about the perpetrator? Murray Hill on 38th Street.
- Which mistakes did the perpetrator make?
In the briefcase he carries with him or in the trunk
- Quand le crime a-t-il été commis ?
of his car, Max has a Maglite, a notebook and a pen,
- When was the crime committed?
a compact camera, everything he needs to study a
- When was someone here last?
crime scene: gloves, plastic bags, tweezers,
- Does the crime remind me of something I am
necessary to take fingerprints, etc.
familiar with already and, if so, what?
- Who might know more about the crime? Max is lucky enough to have a gun license, some-
thing rare in New York. They tried several times to
Desperate. Whenever you try to make it through
take it away from him but his lawyer friend held
overwhelming odds, take +1 on all rolls until you’re
firm. He therefore carries a Glock 19 with a second
clear of the threat.
magazine in a holster on his chest. In the safe of his
Disadvantages office he also has a Colt 1911 in .45 acp which he
uses mainly for pleasure at the shooting range.
Nemesis. Cops, high-ranking people and especially
the man with the sunglasses. Max has made many His car is a gray Honda Civic, almost new, reliable
enemies, they almost killed him once and they and unremarkable.
frequently put obstacles in his way. At the start of
the game or when you let your guard down, roll
Relationship with other characters
2d10. Jack Peterson [Relation 0] Jack is 45 years old, he is
15+: you are safe from your nemesis for the Lilly's father. He is a former soldier. He works in a
moment, cinema and would be willing to fight a lion bare-
10-14: You have been careless and your nemesis handed to protect his daughter (and maybe he
moves against you. The GM takes 1 Hold, would win). Max can understand that, if he had a
-9: you have compromised your position and your daughter like Lilly he would do the same. On the
nemesis strikes against you in full force. The GM other hand, Jack is wary of Max because he thinks
takes 3 Hold. that hanging out with him could represent a
danger for her, which is undoubtedly the case.
The GM can spend Hold to make Moves on behalf of
your nemesis. For example, your nemesis may Lilly Peterson [Relation 1] Lilly is only 20 years old
strike when you’re alone, use secrets they’ve and is already a college graduate and researcher in
uncovered to extort you, intimidate you, hire ancient languages. With her old books and her
henchmen to capture you, or attack someone or Internet computer thing which she accesses from
something you hold dear. her university, she has access to knowledge that
could provide data that he would never have been
Guilt. While among the force, Max saw the Death
able to find with traditional methods. Max quickly
Squad members in action. He could have filed a
realized that behind her icy demeanor and her
report and tried to put an end to their acts, but he
sullen mood, she can be very sympathetic, with a
did nothing. He paid dearly for this inaction and he
spirit of justice that is still pure, contrasting with
knows that other people pay for it every day, not all
that of Max consumed by pragmatism and disillu-
of them being hardened gangsters, just kids who
sionment. Max likes working with Lilly, she has a
didn't have the chance to grow up in the good
lively mind, it’s stimulating.
neighborhood... Every time an event brings back
this guilt to your mind or Max is inactive and has Richard Hall [Relation 0] It was Jack who told
too much time to think, roll 2d10. Richard Hall that Max was investigating ritual
15+: your guilt isn’t on your mind at the moment, murders. Richard is 35 but Max would have given
10-14: you are reminded of your guilt. The GM takes him 50. He is a famous journalist for the New York
1 Hold, Post. A guy very right-wing politically but quite
-9: your guilt catches up to you. The GM takes 3 gifted at exposing the dark side of the city to the
Hold. population. He is intrigued by these murders and
for some reason he has offered to share his resour-
The GM can spend Hold to make Moves for your
ces to participate in the investigation.
guilt. For example, relatives of the people who have

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Richard Hall
Richard Hall was born in 1958 into a wealthy family
and the ineptitude of the NCPD, Richard got into
polititics and campaigned for the conservative
candidate for mayor, but this caused him to lose
1
in Manhattan. He grew up in a privileged environ- his job. A blessing in disguise because he was hired
ment, where he was encouraged to pursue his in the New York Post, a right-wing newspaper
passions and dreams. From a young age, Richard which was delighted to relay his positions.
showed a great interest in writing and started Specializing in sordid news stories, he became
penning his own stories at elementary school. famous for his vitriolic editorials and is now one of
After graduating from college with a degree in the best known journalists of this newspaper to the
journalism, Richard began working for a small local public. He is even sometimes invited to speak on
newspaper in New York. He quickly acquired a television on CNN. He actively participated in the
reputation as a talented and determined journalist, political life of the city by denouncing the laxity of
capable of going very far to reveal an inconvenient elected officials and promoting the opposing party.
truth. With each election result, Richard flies into a rage.
How long will this city have to hit rock bottom for
In 1980 Richard married a colleague, Shannon its residents to start voting correctly?
White, and together they had a son, John. The
following year, while Richard was traveling to A few weeks ago, visiting the scene of a horrible
cover an event, their apartment was broken into in homicide with strange tortures and mutilations
broad daylight. Shannon was raped, tortured and evoking a ritual murder, Richard had, as always,
killed; fragments of her body were crudely cut up flashes of the mutilated corpse of his wife. He
and apparently eaten. Little John was drowned in wants them, it helps him not to forget.
the bathtub. Interested in this murder, he followed the
Devastated, Richard stayed close to the police investigation, which the police once again
investigation which, despite the numerous finger- conscientiously botched. He noticed that many
prints found on site, never found the culprits. people had been killed in the same way over the
Disgusted with New York's unmanageable crime past years. Each time the police dispatched the

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 investigation and placed it in the unclassified case Advantages
file, in other words in the trash.
Notorious. Every reader of the New York Post
Later, while chatting as he did regularly with his knows the name and face of Richard Hall. When
friend Jack Peterson who works at a theater where you meet someone who has probably heard of you,
he often goes, he broached this subject without roll 2d10 + Charisma:
really thinking about it and to his great surprise 15+: they know of your reputation; you can decide
Jack picked up on it and told him that he knew a what they have heard. The GM will have them act
detective named Max Ramirez who was hired by a accordingly. You take +2 to your next roll to
widow to work on one of these murders. Richard Influence them,
made contact with Max and then met Lilly, Jack's 10-14: they know of your reputation; you can
daughter, a gifted child who works with Max on decide what they have heard,
these crimes. Here is an improbable duo, behaving -9: they know of your reputation; the GM decides
like the had been as thick as thieves buddies for what they have heard.
years even though they had just met.
Authority. Richard is a dreaded journalist. At the
Richard is a determined man. He is also very good start of each gaming session, roll 2d10 + Charisma:
at discovering connections between characters 15+: during this game session, choose up to three
and events. However, his obsession with high- options,
lighting the city's worst criminal activities has left 10-14: During this game session, choose up to two
him addicted to violence, blood and gore. He options,
always needs more, he needs to describe as bluntly -9: During this game session you may choose one
as possible the most heinous crimes, the most option, but you also attract unwanted attention
atrociously mutilated bodies in an attempt to like stalkers, professional adversaries, competitors,
wake up the public, this mass of sleeping sheeps. or hostile forces. The GM makes a Move for them at
Richard regularly takes alcohol and powerful some point during the session.
sedatives so that his rage does not come to the Options:
surface too much. This consumption and the - If you want to Influence someone who shares
sleepless nights ruminating on his hatred have your ideas and has heard of you, act like you rolled
aged him prematurely, everyone thinks he is 40 or a 15+.
even 50 years old. - You have access to resources from your news-
paper, premises, journalists, archives...
He often dreams of being a kind of macabre super- - You can make a statement about something or
hero, of going down to the slums to wreak carnage someone in your paper.
in the street gangs with a machine gun, of - You can gain access to people or places using your
crucifying one of these incapable cops or of going job as a pretext.
to plant bombs in the beautiful neighborhoods
overflowing with corruption... Anything to make Crafty. Whenever you manipulate an NPC in a
people finally open their eyes. But fortunately he longer conversation, roll 2d10 + Intuition:
has neither the physique, nor the means, nor even 15+: choose up to two options. You may save one
the courage for these fantasies. So he squeezes the until later during this scene,
handle of his .357 magnum until it imprints its 10-14 : choose one option,
patterns on his palm. Then he puts it away, he -9 : they’re on to you, the GM makes a Move.
imagines a dirty joke and laughs. Richard has a Options:
solid sense of humor and derision. This and the - They become suspicious of someone else of your
substances allow him to calm down and not do choosing.
anything irreparable... Until now. - They view you as their ally, for as long as you don’t
betray them (+1 to all rolls against them).
Archetype - They willingly do a favor for you.
The avenger. Disadvantages
Sombre secret Drug Addict. Richard must take psychotropic drugs
Victim of a crime. Richard's wife and young son to stand his life and not to go crazy with hatred
were murdered in gruesome circumstances. This against the world. A little alcohol is enough when
trauma is the driving force of Richard's life. He is everything is going well, opiates when the stress
tormented by fear, shame and anger. threatens to cause a crisis. Richard is ashamed of
participating in the financing of crime, but he has
to buy his drugs from a dealer.

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When the situation pushes Richard to take his pills, country with courage. Richard regularly goes to
roll 2d10. Theater Mondo, a small establishment in the East
15+: you are in control of the urge, for now, Village that has a cinema, theater and bar, as much
10-14: the GM takes 1 Hold, to relax as to chat with Jack who works there. Jack
-9: the GM takes 3 Holds. has a daughter, Lilly, with whom he is very
protective.
The GM may spend Hold to make a Move for your
Lilly Peterson [Relation 0] Lilly is 20 years old, she
addiction. For example, you cannot resist using the
nearly always has a closed face, probably a form of
drug, run out of drugs, become indebted to a
autism or depression. On the other hand, she is
dangerous person, put yourself in danger while
very intelligent, multilingual and holds a Master's
under the influence of drugs, or ruin something
degree in languages at her age, she is impressive.
important to you – like a relationship – while under
She is participating in the investigation into the
the influence.
ritual murders. She has computer skills, so Richard
Fanatic. Richard is convinced that politics is the shared with her his access to the New York Post
only solution to make things better. He is an network, she seems to find things with disconcer-
activist for the Republican party and has very right- ting ease, while he is quite clumsy with computers
wing ideas (but not fundamentally racist). He has outside of his word processing program.
difficulties to put up with people who are not
Max Ramirez [Relation 0] It was Jack who told
politicized and even more so leftists. He has
Richard that Max was investigating ritual murders.
difficulty coping with contradiction and does not
Richard noticed that he immediately regretted it,
allow his ideas to be called into question. When
he would prefer that his daughter stop playing the
someone questions your ideology, roll 2d10:
investigator, so adding her another sidekick to her
15+: you can keep your emotions in check,
may not have been the best idea.
10-14: you become angry, confused, or frustrated.
Max is in his forties, he became a detective after
You take−1 to your next roll,
being fired from the police for wanting to do his job
-9: you are forced to choose between taking steps
a little too zealously, which offended important
to changing the person or situation to adhere to
people. Richard, who doesn't like cops very much,
your ideology, or reduce Stability -2.
respects this guy who had the guts to follow his
Possessions convictions through to the end.
Richard lives in a beautiful high-rise apartment in
Sutton Place, in Midtown, with views of the East
River, Roosvelt Island and across the river, the
Queens. 1
Richard always has his box of pills, his cigarettes,
his lighter, his wallet and his keys in his pockets. He
has a small bag with a notebook, a cassette
dictaphone, a small flask of alcohol and chewing
gum to cover his breath. He also has a second,
larger bag with a professional SLR camera that he
only takes when he thinks he will need it.
Richard has a Colt Python .357 magnum revolver
and hundreds of rounds of ammunition because he
regularly goes to the shooting range. He does not
have a gun license, so he must keep it at home or
risk being in violation if he is arrested with it.
Richard's car is a metallic blue 1974 Chevrolet
Camaro LT, the same one from the final season of
the TV series Mannix. Pampered like a treasure, it is
a Pony Car with a V8 of nearly 200 horsepower.
Relationship with other characters
Jack Peterson [Relation 1]Jack is 45 years old, he
served in Vietnam. Richard is outraged by the
reactions of rejection that people have towards
veterans, for him they are heroes who served the

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 tters
The Illusion sha

21 Blood Money
 Background
The Way of the Light Kether. In exchange for his freedom, the Lictor
ordered Blackwood to create the Way of the Light.
The cult Lilly was born into is known as "the Way of War veterans, crime victims, drug addicts and
the Light." It is based in a small, isolated town traumatized people in general may easily become
called Ravenwood, located in the mountains of the awakens, capable of piercing the veil of illusion. Of
Northwest of the United States. The sect is very course, these cases can be managed: either by
secretive. Since its beginning of the 1960s, it has isolating them so that they do not contaminate
recruited among the excluded, the marginalized anyone, or making them look like they are crazy in
and the drug addicts. Members of the cult are order to intern them, or taking advantage of a
encouraged to detach themselves from their crime that they commited (or not) to imprison
families and friends, to abandon their material them, or just discreetly eliminating them...
possessions to refocus on their personal develop-
ment, that of the group, and to the search for the Another solution is to have them join a community
"Light". that will channel them. Historically it was the work
of Binah but this Archon is weak on North
The cult venerates Metatron, the archangel, father American territory. The Lictor therefore took up this
of angels. The operation of the sect is very secretive idea with a project in mind: to give these humans
and members are subject to a strict code of silence. the keys to contact the Chayot Ha Kodesh, the
Members are divided into different circles, each angels of Kether who have been vegetating in the
with specific responsibilities and tasks. The highest Archon's citadel since the disappearance of the
circles are reserved for the most dedicated and Demiurge. Asajanatiel would like the angels to
experienced members. The cult regularly performs come out of their catatonia and return to service in
occult ceremonies to communicate with entities helping to maintain the illusion. Asajanatiel's final
they call angels. ambition is to use children to be born into the sect
The cult guru's name is Jason Blackwood. He is to turn them into new Lictors.
charismatic and persuasive, and he has success- The first - and only - attempt was a failure. Jason
fully recruited many members. Blackwood is a Blackwood had prepared the parents as needed
mysterious man who doesn't reveal much about and set up the whole ceremony. But just before the
himself. He is considered a spiritual guide by end of it, which admittedly had lasted several
members and is revered as such.
Among the members of the Path of the Light, we
find Samantha, Jason's wife, half victim, half
tormentor. Sandy who is barely older than Lilly. She
1
was very young when her parents joined the cult
and became one of its most devoted members. She
is responsible for managing new arrivals and
training initiates. There's also Mark, a former police
officer who joined the group after losing his wife
and daughter in a car accident. He became an
important member of the cult due to his security
and surveillance skills. There is also Lionel, a former
helicopter pilot who is responsible for bargaining ,
espionage and external relations. Finally, there is

Jason
Rachel, a former hippie addicted to cannabis and
LSD who joined the sect after being seduced by
Blackwood's ideology and who assists him in Blackwood
organizing the and carrying out the ceremonies.

hours, this idiot stammered in the middle of a

sentence, while Asajanatiel was dictating every
The truth
word directly to his mind, he just had to repeat!
For its members, the objectives of the cult are Furious after himself for trusting this incompetent,
obscure and against all odds the creatures they Asajanatiel still waited for the birth of the child and
evoke are really angels. Jason Blackwood commit- was disappointed but not surprised to see it come
ted a crime that should have sent him to jail for into the world with a simple human soul. The Lictor
dozens of years. The night before his trial, a was just happy to no longer live at the time when
mysterious man came to visit him and offered him his Archon asked him for regular reports of his
a pact: life in prison or becoming his servant. activities; he would have been sad to tell him of
Blackwook agreed and the next day he was such a fiasco, especially since it was not the first
acquitted. This “man” is Asajanatiel, a Lictor of one. This sect did not bring him luck. Asajanatiel

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 therefore abandoned the Way of the Light and
went to other, more important activities.
Yet the ritual had worked, in part. Instead of oblite-
rating the soul of the unborn child, Shehiriah, the
Lictor in gestation was placed behind, in the
background, almost invisible, lost in the shadows.
Nature abhors a vacuum, when Asajanatiel left,
Habubna Hekmath, a Razide servant of the Death
Angel Thaumiel took advantage of the departure of
the Lictor to take the cult in hand. It would be a
waste to let such a beautiful little organization
decline or worse, survive in the hands of mere
humans.
The Razide had for a long time discreetly followed
the actions of Asajanatiel, sowing little glitches
here and there to hinder the Lictor's plans. At the
head of the cult, Habubna Hekmath replaced
Asajanatiel, imitating his voice in Blackwood's
head, pretending to be, as he did, the archangel
Metatron.
It was she who had made the human stammer, she
found that the image and sound were as good as in
who later asked him to poison Sarah, Lilly's mother,
the big theaters on 5th Avenue and they let it be
and transform her soul into a Purgatide's. She made
known. This and the presence of a bar on the
him place the discarnated creature into the child's
premises have made of the Mondo the favorite
body, between her soul and the one of Shehiriah,
theater for a new clientele who remain loyal to it.
out of perverse curiosity, just to see what would
As long as Elizabeth agrees to show this kind of
happen. The Purgatide preferred to attack the spirit
film.
of the Lictor, perhaps the challenge was more
stimulating, perhaps a shred of maternal instinct The theater is open 7 days a week and opens its
pushed her to preserve the one whom once has doors in the early evening. Jack arrives there mid-
been her daughter. afternoon to get everything ready and works there
until around 9 p.m., after starting the film or play.
When Jack ran away with Lilly, Habubna Hekmath
Then, at night and sometimes until early morning, a
deplored this loss, she would have liked to know
man named Wolf Steiner takes over. Marion
what her little experience had yielded. But she
Cooper, a student, comes as backup on busy eve-
consoled herself by taking care of her new toy.
nings as well as during play performances where
Never has the Way of the Light been so poorly
the cloakroom has to be manned and Elizabeth is
named.
busy with the actors.
When Jack needs a day off, Elizabeth fills in for him.
Theater Mondo He almost never asks for one but she insists that he
have at least one from time to time.
This is where Jack works, the Mondo is located in
the East Village. The neighborhood is one of the Jack likes Elizabeth, her first name reminds him of
safest in New York, but thugs and other parasites his daughter's real one and although she may be a
sometimes venture there. The shotgun under the little older and much more cheerful than Lilly, he
counter has never fired but Jack already had to take can't help but have a protective instinct for her.
it out several times to chase away the scum Elizabeth experienced a lot of torment before Jack's
(wrongly) unimpressed by his fists. The theater is arrival, but that's another story...
owned by Elizabeth Seymor, a 27-year-old who
Across the street from Mondo is James’ Diner, run
inherited the place from her father and renovated
by James Triptread, a friend of Elizabeth’s. It’s a
it, adding a projection booth, a screen and a
small French-style café bistro that is never full but
superb, state-of-the-art Dolby Digital Stereo sound
always has a few customers, just enough for James
system. The plays and films presented there are
and his employee to make a living from their
mainly esoteric works for intellectuals and great
business. This is the usual canteen for Mondo's staff
classics. Last year, under Jack's influence, she
members (except Wolf Steiner who is a Nosferatu).
agreed to broadcast a blockbuster. Some yuppies

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 Investigation

Clues and leads “wizard” who emigrated to the United States in the
1920s, it partially describes a ritual for summoning
The first part is not linear. If the players like to carry a creature from hell called “Nepharite”.
out the investigation, you can extend it at will by
giving additional clues, mainly to Max and Lilly, - If we talk to her about it, the name Richard
then let them explore more or less fruitful avenues. Chesterfield will mean something to Lilly. As she
Try to reward good ideas. The next paragraphs thinks about it, she will remember that it was a
describe some of the clues and the leads associated name that came up regularly on the cards
with them. If you have time and the players are accompanying esoteric books in New York
having fun, do them all, otherwise select the ones libraries. This gentleman borrowed the same books
you like. The only one that is truly essential and as Lilly, thirty years earlier.
should therefore be played last is the Sarah - Jack participates in a twelve-step support group to
Maxwell, Paul Lynch arc. treat his PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
- Richard found all the press articles of apparently People suffering from various traumas meet there
ritual murders, most of which were treated as every Saturday morning and share their experien-
minor news items of a few lines, it is difficult to say ces to relieve their pain. Since he has participated in
whether or not they correspond to the profile. In the group, his nightmares have been a little less
total there are 37. For eight of them we have photos violent, so he doesn't miss a session.
proving that it is indeed the same ceremonial. Once the investigation has progressed a little and
Bodies have been found all over Manhattan, the the PCs have exhausted the leads, Jack will hear
first in 1984, each time in a deserted place, a testimony that will echo their case. A young
disused warehouse or abandoned building. Richard woman, he remembers her because her name is
will make phone calls to speak with the journalists Sarah like his late wife, will share that she has been
who wrote these articles. One of them is interesting captured but was able to flee from men who
and worth meeting, Nick Wiley. wanted to assassinate her. They had drawn strange
symbols on her body. Jack thinks they should talk
- Richard (or Max if there are only three PCs) also to this Sarah.
asked his contacts if there were people in New York

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who were known to practice this kind of magic and
got a name: Richard Chesterfield. He was advised The truth
not to approach this man, those who pronounce
his name do so in a low voice and shivering. Leonard Lewinsky is the founding chairman of
WhiteStone, a hedge fund company that manages
- While the other characters work, Max maintains billions of dollars in assets. Lewinsky and two of his
his network and goes through the files of the last apprentice wizard employees, Allen Colson and
ten assassinations forensic and police reports that James White, use any means to make money and
he obtained from an officer friend. They are very stay on top, including magic to bully their
meager, especially for those, the most numerous, competitors.
whose victims have not been identified or are
without a known address. He will find two avenues Leonard Lewinsky is a Death. Magician. He did not
to explore. Of course his client Rose Eisenberg who learn magic for the love of the Art but as a tool of
didn't tell him everything and a man named Joe domination. So he just knows a few rituals that he
Clark, spouse of Mike Hamilton murdered eight considers useful. Usually, people who use such
months ago. powerful powers without being fully prepared
quickly end up very badly, but Lewinsky is
- Lilly researched out of the drawings that Max fortunate to possess a powerful Voodoo talisman
made from the photos of the corpses of the from East Africa, a bone pendant that protects him
symbols engraved with a blade and drawn with a against creatures of the Inferno, up to a certain
marker on the skin of the victims. She managed to limit that he has not yet reached.
find similarities in the photocopies she had made
of a book from the library of the Metropolitan His most useful ritual is the invocation of Nepharite
Museum. She went back to look at this book and which he uses excessively to punish his enemies
reading it reminded her of a page from a and get rid of competitors hardened to more
manuscript that she had bought for a pittance with traditional methods. Luckily for Max, Lewinsky
a handful of others from an antiques dealer when didn't yet master these powers at the time he
she lived in Rhode Island. Written in German by a wanted to kill him and "just" had him beaten to
death by the Death Squad.

Investigation 24
 the first time he can talk about it without sounding
crazy (or drunk). He says that they must not go
Nick Wiley, journalist down, that monsters live down there and that
Nick Wiley will meet Richard and the others on sometimes they come back up. Nick hears them
68th Street near Central Park. He is a nervous sometimes and once, he saw one. It ran after him
character, paunchy and sweaty, he smells of and almost caught him. He shows them the
alcohol in the morning. He will welcome the drawing painted on the wall next to the hole, a kind
characters warmly with feverishness and hopeful of complicated pentacle. “I don’t know who drew this
excitement. but the monster was not able to pass through there
and enter the cave, it backed away like it's been
He takes them into a beautiful, opulent building
burned.” If the characters plan to take the stairs,
and explain to them that the building has just been
Nick will not want to follow them.
renovated but that last year, when the crime
occurred, it was still under Use Nick's fear and an ominous
construction and nearly empty. description of the gate to
He wants to show them the dissuade the PCs from going
location of the murder, in a through, but if they do, it's a
cellar. He knows the code for long descent. There are many
the front door and will pick the steps and the staircase finaly
lock to access the basement in opens onto a room from which
two seconds. He goes down and dozens of corridors and other
walk through the corridors. staircases come out. Some
They are quite convoluted with leads to the Labyrinth and
more than fifty cellars and beyond, frightening noises and
technical rooms, but he strides inhuman screams are heard. If
along them as if he knows them they insist on exploring, have
by heart. At the end of a corridor them meet one of the Purga-
are placed two trestles with a tides stuck there or why not a
heavy plank on top and two Cairath or another creature
others across. Nick explains that from the underworld. Make
the residents put this up to keep them really, really regret com-
children from going near the ing down here but try not to kill
"haunted" cellar. them right away...
The journalist pass the obstacle,
climbs on a box, switch on a
flashlight he had in his pocket
The truth
and use it to look through a thin The staircase leads directly to
gap between the top of the door and the frame. He the depths of the Underworld, with in a corner a
says “it’s okay, it’s here” with a voice cracking with shortcut to Inferno, since closed. The Nepharite
emotion. He pulls a key, unlocks the padlock and summoned here did not appreciate. He opened this
open the cellar. The side walls are cluttered with passage to allow Purgatids to kill the summoners.
old objects and the floor is still covered in dirt and Leonard Lewinsky repelled the creatures with his
brown stains of dried blood. He shows them the protective talisman and drew the seal on the wall
back wall which has a strange drawing made with to prevent access to them. His magical skills were
black ink near a large hole. The characters have to insufficient to close the portal.
roll a See Through Illusion. For those who fail or
have partial success, all they see is a wall of good
solid bricks, covered with plaster, with no hole. For Richard Chesterfield, Death
those who succeed, the irregular opening is three Magician
feets wide and six high. It exudes a slight warm, dry
breeze with a distant smell of mold and rot. Those Richard Chesterfield is one of the most powerful
who have achieved a partial success see the and best known Death Magician in New York. He
IIllusion tear in the shadows and the cavity appear, owns a building on 72nd Street on the Upper East
they lose Stability (-1). Nick lights the interior to Side. The entrance is a beautiful engraved door of
reveal a flight of steps carved into the stone. For heavy wood and steel which slides perfectly on its
those who still only see the wall, it's at this moment hinges. The interior is a black marble hall with
that the IIllusion shatters and the cavity appears several doors and an elevator at the end. There are
before their eyes in full light, they lose stability (-2). two men inside, muscular, in suits with a white
Nick is relieved, he explains that when he comes shirt that doesn't hide well a bulletproof vest. One
here with a resident of the building, a colleague or is standing behind a counter and the other is in
the cops, the hole is not there. He's overjoyed, it's front of the elevator. The latter has a submachine

25 Blood Money
gun in his hands, the one at reception carries a for which he feels guilty. He will then suffer from
heavy pistol in a chest holster that is poorly hallucinations caused by the Nepharite which will
concealed by his jacket, which with no doubt is push him to kill himself. The creature will then lock the
intentional. They both ostensibly wear an earpiece, soul of the deceased in a personal purgatory where it
which is linked to a communication device they will torment him until it considers that he has
can use to talk to their client or the security sufficiently atoned for his faults to earn the "right" to go
company that employs them. If the characters to Inferno."
don't have an appointment, the security guards
Chesterfield has a keen sense of magic, he will
won't let them in, they'll give them a card and tell
observe Lilly with curiosity, noticing that she is
them to make an appointment.
"inhabited", he will know by probing imperceptibly
the young girl's mind that she does not know the
nature of the Entity. He himself would be curious to
study her case because he feels that it is linked in a
certain way to the magic of Death, without it being
a creature or a spell that he knows. If Lilly talks to
him about occult books he will be very interested
and he will be ready to offer a tidy sums for certain
manuscripts. If Lilly is enthusiastic and manages to
flatter or surprise him, he may go as far as offering
her to become his student. Even if Lilly doesn't give
him a reason to be interested in her, he will still be
curious to learn more about the Entity and he will
propose her another meeting to be able to study it.
If she accepts, Chesterfield will put her through a
very strange session, halfway between a medical
examination and a voodoo ceremony, which to his
great perplexity will not help her much. Lilly will be
appalled at the idea of seeing true magic in action
but Chesterfield masters his art, the Entity will
remain silent.

The truth

If the PCs manage to come up with a brilliant idea

It was Richard Chesterfield who taught Death Magic
to Leonard Lewinsky.
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to sneak in or wait for Chesterfield outside, they Already well-off, Chesterfield became extremely
will find him dressed in simple pants and a shirt, wealthy thanks to his student. He will never betray
looking deep in thought. He has small bloodstains him, nor will he warn him that someone is looking
on him. If asked about it he will say that it is for him. They split up years ago and and act as if
chicken blood (which is true) because he was they didn't know each other. The agreed that for
cooking (which is not true). the rest of their lives they would never meet again.
If the PCs phone him or meet him and they manage
to interest him, he will arrange to meet them the
next day. If he feels threatened, he will discreetly Rose Eisenberg, Max's
press a button on his watch, alerting the security employer
company who will immediately dispatch the two Rose Eisenberg explained to Max that her son
entrance guards and a car with two other heavily Phillip had stopped studying medicine two years
armed gorillas. ago. He could not bear the death of his father, who
On the day of the meeting, Chesterfield will receive was also murdered. This crime was solved, it was a
them on the 6th floor, in a lounge decorated in thug who hit him on the head in the middle of the
Victorian style. Behaving like an English gentleman, street to knock him out in order to steal his wallet.
he will offer them refreshments, listen to them Unfortunately the blow was fatal.
attentively and answer their questions as long as Phillip started going out in the evenings, later and
they remain fairly general. Asked about the ritual later. Rose suspected him of taking drugs. The more
and the Nepharites, he will explain: “A Nepharite is time passed, the more he became marginalized. He
an inhabitant of Inferno, hell if you prefer. The purpose rarely came home, mainly to ask his mother for
of the ritual you are talking about is to summon one of money. Finally, after a few months, Phillip came
these creatures in order to haunt a given individual. back to live with Rose, he considered getting
For this to work, the victim must have committed acts treatment for his drug addiction and re-enrolled at

Investigation 26
 she wanted to drop him, but as he was hanging on,
she got rid of him by drugging him and selling him
to a guy who she knew needed guinea pigs for
“experiments”. She doesn't know the guy in
question, a big, burly guy who drives a taxi. But
when he opened the back door to put Phillip in, she
saw another man whom she recognized. She will
go through a pile of old newspapers and pull out
one, open the finance page to show a photo of a
blond man with long hair "he's a star" she will say.
The article is about Allen Colson, a financial genius
who wrote computer programs that made him a
millionaire and made billions for his company, the
hedge fund WhiteStone.

Allen Colson,
genius trader
Allen Colson lives alone
in a huge duplex apart-
ment with terrace and
swimming pool in a
luxurious and hyper-
secure tower on Park
Avenue. He has every-
thing delivered and
almost never goes
outside, he only travels
by car in his armored
black BMW with or
without a driver, leaving
the parking lot of his
college. He still sometimes went out in the evening building to enter that of
and one of these outings was his last. Police found his company's skyscra-
his body in an abandoned apartment in Spanish per. It is impossible to
Harlem. Mrs. Eisenberg doesn't know the identity of get his phone number
her son's associates. But if asked she will remember or get an appointment
one exception. Once Phillip came to the house with him. In short, he is
accompanied by a woman. She remembers that he unattainable.
called her Cecilia. Rose
Eisenberg kept the video Allen is very similar to the protagonist of the film
surveillance camera tape American Psycho. He is an emotionless psychopath
from the entrance, Max with a cynical sense of humor. On the other hand,
can extract a photo from he is very submissive to his boss Leonard Lewinsky
it to launch a search. and does not kill anyone if his mentor didn't ask
him.
If the players have a bright idea to approach him,
Cecilia he will try to call security. If they miraculously
Max's contacts will find manage to approach and question him, he will
Cecilia. She works in a deny knowing a Phillip Eisenberg (which is true, he
shady bar in Spanish doesn't know his name) or having been to Harlem
Harlem, el Perro loco. If for years... He lies with aplomb, a player success-
the characters question fully rolling of Reading a Person and using well-
her she will deny asked questions can see through him but not
knowing Phillip. If they threaten her, she will enough to obtain confessions or certainties.
scream and Lorenzo, the owner, will pull a sawed- If they follow him by car, after a while a police car
off shotgun from under his counter to kick them will tailgate them to stop them and allow him to go
out. If they bribe her or somehow convince her, she away. Max will recognize the cops in the car, they
will admit she was dating Phillip because he paid are members of the Death Squad. One of them will
for her dope. When he started to run out of money stare at Max with killer eyes for several seconds

27 Blood Money
and then the car will leave. The cops won't take someone buys it
more action unless provoked, but that will put an from him for
end to the chase. $20 ($10 if nego-
tiated). The en-
There you have it, the players have a suspect, now
graved initials
they have to find evidences. And if they haven't
are A.C.
been discreet enough, they also know that they
have been spotted.

Joe Clark, victim's partner

Joe Clark lives in Soho. He lived with Mike
Hamilton. Mike was a musician and that evening he
was playing at the Metropolitan Opera. Joe waited
for him all night and in the morning he called the Lionel Lewis, rep for the Way
police to report his disappearance. They found his of the Light
body two days later, in an abandoned garage on
56th Street, a few hundred meters from the opera. At a moment of hesitation in the game, bring in
Seeing that the police were doing nothing, Joe Lionel. The PCs (at least Jack and Lilly) will come
investigated himself. He questioned Mike's across him in the street or a public place and Lionel
musician friends. They told him that around ten of will pretend to recognize them and be surprised.
them had gone He will be very friendly: “Jack old brother, it’s been a
for a drink after while, how are you? » He will take him in his arms.
the concert in a “And don’t tell me that beautiful young woman is
bar nearby, as Elizabeth? It’s incredible, she’s the spitting image of her
they often did. mother! ".
The bulk of the
group headed to
the metro station,
and a few, ones,
including Mike,
preferred to take

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a taxi. Joe is sure
that Mike got into
the taxi alone,
one of his friends
saw him doing so.
Joe doesn't have
any more details
of what happe-
ned between then and when Mike's body was
found. Joe learned through an indiscretion from a
police officer that Mike's body was discovered by a
vagrant named Bradley or "Old Brad" as people call
him, but Joe was unable to find him.
If players want to follow the taxi's trail and have an
idea of how to find him, it will also lead them to
Allen Colson. This is the same taxi that Cecilia
mentioned. Colson pays him dearly to help him
find victims.
By talking with Lionel, they will learn that he still
works for the cult. He is Jason Blackwood's envoy
Old Brad every time they need to buy, sell or negotiate
something. He travels across the country to run
If players are looking for Old Brad, Max should find various errands for the sect, make contact with
him easily. He will tell them that he found a gold other religious groups, etc. Lionel will tell Jack that
cufflink at the crime scene. He tried to resell it to a Blackwood was very angry after him for the death
fence who didn't want it because he said this had to of his brother but that in his opinion he has since
come in pair, and that there are initials engraved on moved on. Lionel will swear to Jack that he will not
it. Bradley will not agree to show the button, only if tell Jason or anyone else that he met them.

Investigation 28
 But even in these two cases, Jack will only save a
little time. Indeed, Samantha Blackwood was
The truth piqued by such an irrepressible curiosity that she
Samantha Blackwood is Jason Blackwood's wife. did not want to wait for Lionel to go to New York.
She assiduously reads Newsweek magazine. A few She made the trip to see Lilly with her own eyes.
weeks ago, the New York University School of Arts She also followed her and recognized Jack. She
and Science graduated. A journalist from the obviously talked to her husband about it.
magazine attended. She wrote a short article about
Lionel is used to negotiating and lying, it’s his daily
it and illustrated it with a photo of Lilly Peterson,
life. He lies for Jason, he lies to Jason… He knows all
the young prodigy of the year. Lilly did not really
the non-verbal language tricks and applies them
mind the journalist to whom she only said three
naturally, which makes him very difficult to crack. If
words and did not notice that she had been
someone tries to Read a Person on Lionel, on a 10-
photographed. Samantha, on the other hand,
14, he will notice and adapt his communication
remained hung up a long time on this photo.
accordingly to remain elusive, the GM can lie to the
Doesn’t this young lady incredibly look like Sarah
PC. On a 15+ Lionel will not notice anything but
Thomson? And she is the same age as her daughter,
even then, the GM will have to answer the PC's
Elizabeth, would be... She showed the page to her
questions in an ambiguous way.
husband who made the same observations. Jason
Blackwood tasked Lionel Lewis, who was due to go
to New York some time later, to check it out. Lionel
spotted Lilly leaving college, he followed her to her
Sarah Maxwell, the survivor
house in front of which he stayed at a stakeout. When Jack approaches Sarah at the end of the
When he saw Jack, his doubts were lifted. He had support group, she will be very embarrassed,
found the fugitives. especially if he is not alone. The support group is
supposed to be anonymous. But understanding
Lionel also served in Vietnam but as a helicopter
that he is trying to find the culprits of her
pilot, he never killed anyone directly. He was
kidnapping, she will agree to tell her story.
discharged before the end of the war due to a
severe tropical illness and joined the Way of the Sarah was born in Brooklyn, she moved to
Light around the same time as Jack. For these Manhattan to look for a job. The only one she found
reasons, he really feels close to him, even if they which pays a little more than the rent was escort-
were not really that close because of their different girl in a seedy club in Time Square. Prostitution was
evolutions in the sect. As he is rarely on site, Lionel not her childhood dream but it allowed her to put
has not progressed in the hierarchy like Jack. money aside while waiting to find something
Although he is now considered a trusted man by better.
Blackwood because of his seniority and loyalty, he
still doesn't have access to the ceremonies and
secrets of higher-rank initiates. He is therefore also
not really aware of the radical change in the
ideology and ceremonials of the cult since it fell
under the influence of a servant of a Death Angel.
Lionel will therefore hesitate to denounce Jack
because he knows that Jason will want him dead.
He is also intrigued to understand why he fled after
killing two people while he was well placed in the
cult, in a circle quite close to Jason. Everything will
therefore depend on Jack's attitude. If he is unfrien-
dly, suspicious and distant towards Lionel or if he
threatens him, he will report. If Jack is friendly and
tries to convince him to leave the sect, Lionel will
tell Blackwood that it is a false lead and if Jack is
very convincing he might even really think about
imitating him and regaining his freedom. If Jack
kills Lionel, he will of course not be able to divulge
anything.

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One evening a wealthy yuppie offered her a few Paul Lynch, manager of Union
glasses of champagne, which she pretended to
drink but discreetly spilled on the carpet as usual, Paul Lynch lives in a rich apartment at the top of a
then he accompanied her to his car, a beautiful tower on 58th, near Central Park. When the PCs go
black BMW. She knew she was in trouble when she there, they will meet his wife, Laura, who will
saw that there were two other men sitting in the receive them with pleasure, she is very upset and
shadows on the back seat. They seized her and held needs to speak. She tells them that she is very
her tight in the car. They took her to North Harlem, worried because her husband did not come home
pulled her out of the car, dragged her to an last night. For the past month, Paul has been
abandoned warehouse, beat her and threw her to behaving strangely, much more than the usual
the ground, half knocked out. Then they undressed stress of his work, he has become paranoid, saying
her. One of the men painted cabalistic symbols on that people are watching him and that they want
her body with a marker. They prepared tools, him harm. He acted as if he was possessed. He
blades like those used by surgeons, but then they refused to see a doctor and forbade Laura from
heard a noise. Two of them went to see. The third calling the police or anyone else. She says that
stayed to watch her but as it took time he tied her yesterday morning Paul left for work saying he
up with an electric wire that was lying around so would come home late. But he didn't come back at
he could go see what the others were doing. all. He does not answer the phone, his secretary
Luckily the knot was not thigh enough and Sarah says that he is locked in his office and that he has
managed to get it loose and ran away. ordered not to be disturbed. Even the security of
the building is not allowed to enter without
She never set foot in Time Square again. She now permission from him. Laura will give the PCs a key
works in Little Italy as a waitress in a Pizzeria, it and a magnetic badge. Will explain to them that
doesn't pay well but it's less dangerous. with the badge they can enter the Union Tower.
She has difficulties to describe the men, but with This evening after 8 p.m., most employees will have
good question, she will give quite precise answers: left and the tower should be practically empty,
two were young, a blond with long hair whose first apart from the cleaning ladies who will not ask
name is Allen and a dark-haired, very tall man questions. They will be able to enter discreetly into
whose name is James. The third was older and he the underground car park, take the elevator which
stayed further back, he didn't talk to her. The others has direct access to the management floor and
called him “boss.” with the key open the door to Paul's office.

What she remembers well, however, is Paul Lynch.

While they were “preparing” her they repeated this
name to her numerous times and showed her his
photo over and over again, telling her that he
The truth
Paul Lynch is the manager for the USA of Union, a
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would be her client. She doesn't know client for large international insurance company. It is
what but the characters will have a good idea of it. Precursor, one of WhiteStone's main competitors,
who earned the market of asset management of
Sarah will ask the characters to keep her informed the pension funds of the American employees of
of their investigation; she has become a little Union while Lynch had promised it to Leonard
paranoid since her attack and would be relieved to Lewinsky. To take revenge on Lynch, Lewinsky
know that her tormentors are put where they can't performed his favorite ritual on him. The whore
harm her. having fled, he had to start again with another
sacrifice, some hobo picked up by Allen.

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 It's at this moment that the Illusion brutally
shatters around the characters. The light fades
to a sickly red, the wallpaper shrivels, the
carpet becomes a spongy organic matter. The
door to the corridor slams shut violently
behind them and as the room falls into Inferno,
the vaporous form takes substance, it is the
Nepharite. The creature extends an arm toward
the characters, chains and barbed wire emerge
from corners, from the ground, from every-
where and hinder them, strangle them, cut
through their flesh, putting them in agony. They
pass out.

The scene is so fast and brutal that nobody will

have time to react, not even to lose stability...
For the moment... This won't last.

Play the purgatories in any order you want, if a

player looks bored, let them go first.

Inside Union's building

Upon entering Lynch's office, they will see him
sitting in his chair. He looks devastated, with
dark circles around his eyes like he hasn't slept
for a week, grumbling and clawing his face. He
has a pistol in his hand which he points
alternately at his head then at a wall. The
characters have to roll a See Through Illusion.
Those who succeed will see a wispy humanoid-
shaped shadow in front of the said wall. Only
then noticing the intrusion of the characters,
Lynch will point his weapon vaguely in their
direction, telling them not to approach, to leave,
to flee. Then he'll point it again at the shape, then
at his head, he'll yell "noooo" and pull the trigger,
throwing his brains spreading on the window.

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 a t o r y
purg at o r y
purg

Jack's purgatory
Jack is curled up in his cell. A bamboo cage,
too small to stand up or lie down, planted in
the ground at the edge of a rice field, offered
to the elements: oppressive sun, biting wind
and tropical rains. Jack has already expe-
rienced this situation, days without eating,
being tortured daily. But the scene is not as
he remembered. There is only one cage, the
ones that should contain his brothers in arms
are not there. The environment is different
too, the sky is gray with glimmers of an
unhealthy red, like the setting of a sick sun. A
reddish gray mist prevents him from seeing
more than twenty or thirty yards away.
Time passes and after many hours, a group of
four Viet Cong soldiers staggers out of the
fog. They look like walking corpses, their
cloths and battledress are in tatters and their
Kalashnikovs are rusty. They open the door
and remove Jack from his cage. Too weak to
stand, he collapses to the ground. The
soldiers shout at him, kick him with their rifle
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butts, cut his skin with their knives and carry
out a frenzied beating on his bruised body. At
the end of this endless torment, they put him
back in his cage which they close, then they
leave back in the mist. Alone in his cell for
perhaps five or six hours, Jack will feel his
pain diminish somewhat, his bleeding stop
and his wounds close. The disgusting sunset
will not move.
The Vietnamese soldiers will then emerge
from the fog again, start beating him again,
put him back in a cage, his wounds will heal
and this will happen again, and again...

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 She opens her eyes again. She's in a basement. A
reddish, nauseating light coming from two vents
illuminates the room. There is an altar against the
wall in front of her. Lilly recognizes it, even though
she was very young the last time she saw it. It is the
one of the Way of the Light. Next to her, a woman
is on her knees, praying and crying. Lilly is stunned,
this woman looks exactly like her, with shorter and
darker hair. It's Sarah, his mother, it can't be
anyone else. When Lilly opens her mouth to speak,
Sarah interrupts her prayer and turns her gaze to
her. Her eyes widen in horror as the white hands
with sharp claws come out without Lilly being able
to hold them back. They grab Sarah by the neck,
sinking into her flesh, cutting the carotid artery, the
veins and tendons in her throat.
Helpless, Lilly watches her own deformed body
massacre that of her mother, then that of Kasey,
then that of Sarah, again, and again...

Lilly's purgatory
When Lilly was 15, she was in love with Kasey
Wingfield. They were in the same class in 12th year.
He was 19 and so tall and handsome. Of course at
the time he never looked at her except when they
made fun of her, calling her the “freak” of the class,
the curious beast. And yet now he is here, in her
high school bedroom, sitting on her bed. He looks
at her with those eyes that made her heart sink so
much. He approaches her and kisses her, she feels
her body melting. He caresses her, begins to
undress her. Lilly no longer controls herself and
gives in to sensuality. She is pulled out of her
ecstasy by a gurgling sound. She opens her eyes
and does not recognize her own hands, her fingers
are long and pale, with nails like knife blades,
sharp as razors. They cut deep furrows into Kasey's
throat, his blood running down his chest and out
of his mouth. Lilly's hands begin to twirl, tearing his
chest, his face, pulling his guts out of his abdomen,
transforming the teenage bedroom into a
slaughterhouse. Lilly closes her eyes and screams
at the top of her lungs. When her cry stops there is
no longer a sound.

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 Max's purgatory
Max is tied to a chair in an abandoned
warehouse, dirty and cluttered with trash. The
air stinks of rotten meat, it's cold, and the light
emanating from the broken windows is a
sickly red. A man in a suit and tie with
sunglasses observes him. Three police officers
appear in his field of vision, coming from
behind. They look like wild beasts, with dead
eyes, teeth like sharks, black claw-shaped
nails, their uniforms are dripping with blood.
In their big hands they carry large metal
batons covered with rusty nails. Max receives
the first blow to his floating ribs which break
cleanly. The pain is unbearable and the
suffering from the following blows is even
worst. They attack him until his body is
nothing but affliction. Then they slowly go
back somewhere behind his back. The man
with the sunglasses then picks up a book from
the ground and start reading. It's Alice in
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Wonderland. That Max can hate this story! As
the man recites the text in a monotone voice,
chapter by chapter, Max's wounds slowly heal.
After a long time, when he begins to think that
the pain is getting tolerable, the police
monsters return and start their cruel work
again, and again...

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 Richard's purgatory
Richard returns home whistling, he is happy red glow
despite the remaining hangover from the day coming from the
before. He gets out of the elevator and walks, patio door. The furniture is
hopping towards the door of his apartment, overturned and on the carpet, two
eager to see his wife again. He takes out his keys men with bear-like builds, wearing shaggy
and... The door is already open. Shannon forgot beards and dressed in rags are holding down
to close it again. He enters and his smile fades. A Shannon who is struggling. She looks at Richard
gigantic man grabs him and punches him to the begging, pleading him to help her. But richard can't
ground, picks him up off the floor and drags him move an inch, he is half suffocating under the choke
through the apartment to the living room. Passing hold and has no choice but to watch as the men
by the bathroom, Richard sees another man, one beat her, rape her, bite into her flesh and chew,
hand in the bathtub, the other turning on the tap, reveling as her blood runs through their filthy
he hears the cry of a baby screaming in terror. beards. And John will continue to scream and
John? The bully throws Richard face to the ground, gurgle as he drowns. Shannon will continue to
sits on top of him, puts one arm around his neck cry and beg, her wounds healing as her
and pulls his head back with his other arm, attackers inflict her new ones and they will
forcing him to look at the scene in front of rape her, beat her, devour her, again, and
him. His living room is bathed in an oily again...

The mental stability of the characters plummets.

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 Sto
p!
Stop!
This word sounded like a clap of thunder in the
night. The characters are once again in the hellish
version of Paul Lynch's office, he is the one who just
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screamed. He is immobilized by chains and barbed
black steel cables tearing through his body, like the Once in the corridor, the door will close and the
characters. The Nepharite, standing in the middle world will return to normal. They still have wounds
of the room, turns towards him. Paul spits in her on their bodies but less deep than in the Purgatory.
face “you’re here for me, you dirty bitch, I don’t know The fact of having been able to negotiate their
who these people are but they have nothing to do with release and especially the return to the good old
this, you have no right. Let them go." The Nepharite Elysium has a reassuring effect on their psyche.
turns to them and asks “why?” A negotiation They all roll a Keep it Together and, depending on
follows between Paul, the PCs and the creature. The the result, lose two, three or four levels of stability
Nepharite will have to admit that the characters compared to their entry into the Purgatory.
are still alive and that she does not have the power
to kill them until she has finished her task, since
she has been summoned to exercise her "art" on
Paul only. She therefore cannot keep them in her
purgatory any longer. She will free them from their
bonds and the door will reopen. Paul will then tell The characters will need a few days to recover from
them the names of Leonard Lewinsky, Allen Colson this ordeal, both physically and mentally. They will
and James White. “They are the ones responsible for need a visit in a hospital or a dispensary and to
this horror, go and avenge me, make them pay.” gather together to talk about it. If someone has
descended into “critical stress,” they will definitely
need to see a therapist who will prescribe
medication, returning them to the “neurotic” level.

Stop ! 36
 hypnotized, they will attack without hesitation as
soon as they are given the order or if Blackwood is
injured, they know no fear and will just have a few
Let the players rest for a few minutes. In addition to
moments of confusion when Sheasariah appears.
looking after themselves, their characters must find
evidence to incriminate Lewinsky, Colson and Blackwood attempts to threaten the characters to
White. It is when they meet again to plan their next make them put down their weapons. He will talk to
move that Jason Blackwood's revenge will occur. Jack, promise him to spare Elizabeth and the others
if he surrenders, that his only desire is to kill him to
avenge his brother. If Jack surrenders, Blackwood
The Way of the Light attacks will force him to his knees to shoot him in the head.
He will stick the barrel of his gun on his skull but
Six armed men, storm in the room where the instead of shooting, he will tell him to look up and
characters are gathered. Blackwood enters after. command his men to open fire on Lilly and the
He is armed with a .38 revolver which he will only others. In any case, a shootout is inevitable. When
pull out as a last resort. Two of his henchmen carry a first character is injured or killed, Lilly will
assault rifles, the others have submachine guns, completely be overwhelmed, play the paragraph
shotguns and heavy pistols. “The Second Awakening”. To manage the combat,
Blackwood and his men are protected by a spell treat her like a Purgatide equipped with edged
that grants them the equivalent of +1 armor. Only weapons (page 326 of the rulebook).
Blackwood speaks, the others are as on drugs or The goal of this scene is for the PCs to all be killed
or seriously injured, either by Blackwood's men or
by Shehasariah, who will of course also be the
target of heavy fire.
If there are survivors among the attackers or
characters, Death Squad police officers, who were
discreetly following them, will intervene and finish
the job, killing everyone.

The second awakening

To the other players, describe the metamorphosis
of Lilly:
you see Lilly curl up on herself, then suddenly stand up,
screaming. Blackish wisps emanate from her body and
swirl, forming a dark aura around her. All of his joints
start to creak as they dislocate and then snap back into
place after her bones lengthen. Some of the volutes
turn into iron wires which wrap around it, forming in
places a sort of armor of cables and scales. Her skin
whitens and cracks, shards of metal and black plastic
pierce her epidermis to form as many spikes and
thorns on her face and body. Her long white fingers
end in nails as long as knife blades, sharp as razors.
Lilly's blue eyes, which no longer contain an ounce of
humanity, scan the scene, look at the men of the Way
of the Light, then settle on you, expressing nothing but
contempt and disgust.
Read the following paragraph to Lilly's player:
Shehiriah grew up in the dark, sometimes seeing
images, hearing sounds, or thoughts from Lilly, his host.
Arriving in return only with the greatest difficulty to
instill, weakly in the child's mind, his desire for
freedom. Shehiriah knew he was a Lictor. Although he
did not know what this meant precisely, he knew that
it destined him to become a powerful being in the

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service of an even greater power. He should have led a end of his tether, the Lictor devoured the Purgatide,
large company or administration, become one of the becoming a hybrid being, half himself, half the other, a
shepherds of humanity. But that won't happen. previously unknown creature called Shehasariah.. She
Especially with this demon who was constantly lost her mind forever, cursing Lilly and all humans,
harassing him. This thing had once been Sarah, Lilly's crying and screaming in silence. She no longer had a
mother, who had been transformed into a Purgatide, a goal, no more hope. Part of her would like to find a
creature from hell, by Jason Blackwood, under the way to kill her host to take her place, another part
orders of a servant of the Death Angels. This monster would rather die. It was in this state of despair, many
had no direct power over a superior being like a Lictor, years later, that Lilly gave her the control again.
but she spoke to him, belittled him, insulted him, she
You are Shehasariah, what are you doing?
spoke to him again and again, incessantly, until she
drove him crazy. One day Lilly gave control of her body
to the Lictor. A gang of thugs wes attacking her. He
Sit down, settle in, the following should be a great
killed them all, but was sent back into the shadows
moment of role-playing and violence...
again by the girl's will. Weary, desperate and at the

The second awakening 38

 Inferno
As blood flows from the
their wounds, the burning of the bullet newcomer.
wounds gives way to the icy coldness of death. She wanders among the bodies, observing each in
Their soul is swallowed up in a bottomless pit turn while tilting her head thoughtfully. As she
where the darkness is gradually replaced by a passes in front of the characters, she points a bony
kaleidoscope of light, colors, noises, screams, tears, finger at them and her servants take them down.
emotions, fear, anger, despair; then sensations, first
of discomfort then dryness, burning and pain. The
colors take the form of abstract images of flesh, The scenery changes.
blood and bone, of tortured, dislocated, flayed,
shattered bodies...
The truth
They are in a large room located on a very high
floor of a huge building. One of the walls is open to The men of the Way of the Light who were killed
what must have been a glass wall and which is now represented the living forces of the cult, with these
nothing more than a gaping opening into which an deaths, including the grand master, the sect is
icy wind rushes. Outside, an immense and devas- condemned to disappear. The magic of Habubna
tated baroque city spreads out under a gray sky lit Hekmath through Jason Blackwood broke the link
by a black sun emitting an unhealthy red light that between Elysium and Inferno during the shootout.
makes them feel nauseous. All those killed in this location will go directly there
and be marked by this magic. It is through this
The wounds that killed the characters are gaping,
mark that Habubna Hekmath will find the charac-
grotesquely exaggerated. Their blood flows as if
ters. Her idea is to give them a fate worse than hell
there was no limit to the amount their body could
to take revenge for breaking her toy. But by probing
contain, their suffering is terrible. The huge room is
their minds, she was seduced by their strength and
littered with corpses, but like them, none is truly
their will, she said to herself that they could be
dead. Everyone move, moan, crie or beg. About ten
more useful alive and perhaps become new toys
humanoid creatures with tortured, flayed and
worthy of her interest. She will therefore create a
mutilated bodies enter the room. They begin to
purgation for each of them, a variant of purgatory
grab the corpses of the undead with their clawed
in which the soul of the deceased, instead of atone
hands, lifting them to hang them on butcher's fangs
for its sins, frees itself from its passions, or in the
that hang from the ceiling. One by one the
case of the characters from their dark secrets. She
characters are hung like this, their feet above the
will even lend them her favorite toy to help them.
ground so they cannot relieve the pain of the hooks
Thus their souls will be purified, like blank pages in
tearing their flesh under their own weight.
which she can write the rest of their story.
After a time that seems like an eternity, an Purgations are not just illusions. Jack will truly
immense creature of vaguely feminine appearance change his past, Lilly will destroy Shehasariah, Max
enters, four or five meters tall, composed of bones, will kill Lewinsky, Colson and White and finally
flesh, tendons and organs appearing to hold Richard will truly rid the streets of New York of
assembled by a mesh of metal parts. The flayed three thugs.
who, after having suspended everyone, passed
among the tortured to cause them various Play the purgations in the order you want, if a
player seems bored, move them first.
torments, cease their sinister activity to bow before

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Inferno 40
 Jack's purgation
Jack is curled up in his cell. A bamboo cage, too
small to stand up or lie down, planted in the Jack knows how it happened, he's been through it
ground on the edge of a rice field, offered to the before. The Viet Cong came to get him and his six
elements, oppressive sun, biting winds and captured comrades, dragged them in turn into the
torrential rains. Placed next to ten identical cages, house, interrogated them in a language that the
spaced eight or nine feets apart from each other Americans did not understand, and they responded
and behind a wooden building which served as a in English that the Viet Cong did not understand
school and a room for all occasions when the neither. This experience lasted for days, days
inhabitants of the village needed to gather. Today without food, a few bowls of stagnant water,
the children no longer go to school, the villagers beatings, humiliations and the GIs dying one after
no longer meet. The men were requisitioned by the the other from the blows, left to rot in their cage.
Viet Cong, only women, children and old people Jack was the last and on this night that he thought
remain. Only four enemy soldiers live in the village would be the last of his life, a duo of marine
to take care of the prisoners. commandos sneaked into the village, silently
eliminated the four Vietnamese soldiers and freed
him. Seeing the fate of his comrades, they decided
to avenge them. They gave Jack a knife and a pistol
and then the three of them sneaked into the small
houses of the village to slit the throats of the
inhabitants in their sleep. When inevitably a
scream rang out, waking the villagers, they shot
them down like dogs, only a handful managed to
escape into the jungle. Later, with this "experience",
the command enlisted Jack in a special unit
responsible for clearing villages that supported
enemy fighters. The cleanup in question consisted
of gathering the villagers into their homes and
setting them on fire.
Jack looks around. Evening is arriving. The cage to
his left is empty, the others contain the corpses of
his friends. This means that Clarence is still being
“interrogated”. They are about to kill him and take
his body back to his cell. Tomorrow Jack will be
freed and the horror will begin again. He's been
having nightmares about that night for years but
this isn't a dream, it's real, he's back in the past. His
hollow stomach, his wounds, he really feels them.
He closes his eyes and clenches his fists, of all the
days of his life it was the last one he wanted to live
again. When he reopens them he notices that
something is not like the first time. His cage is not
locked. He opens it and a sparkle catches his eye. It
is a weapon lying on the ground, a huge revolver of
very large caliber made of a dark metal, stained
with rust and blood, strange symbols are engraved
on the stock and the frame.

Jack, what are you doing?

Jack will probably kill the soldiers and free Clarence

who will gasp his last breathe in his arms.

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Lilly's purgation
Lilly is standing in a cellar dimly lit by a line of light
coming from two vents. Between the two, in front
of her, against the wall stands an altar and behind
it, a few rows of chairs. She recognizes the altar
although she was very young the last time she saw
it, it's that of the cult of the Way of the Light. The
prayer room is empty, but on her left, coming from
the next room, she hears a female voice speaking.
The words are crude, even cruel. Lilly approaches.
In the room, there is a woman kneeling before an
obese and ugly child. Lilly looks at the woman's
face, it's her spitting image, the hair shorter and
darker, it's Sarah, her mother. She looks about
twenty-five, the age she died. Her cheeks are
covered with tears and an expression of hatred
animates her eyes. And she insults this child, utters
demeaning and humiliating words to him. He looks
at his feet, he has dark rings around his eyes and
snot is running down his nose. Suddenly noticing
Lilly's presence, Sarah straightens up, stands in the
doorway in front of the child as if to hide him.
"Elizabeth? It's you? » She wipes her tears, she looks
scared and embarrassed. “Stay away darling, this is
no place for you. » The child tries to poke his head
past Sarah's legs, he looks at Lilly like a puppy and
says "Lilly please let me go... Deliver me... Please. »
Sarah turns around and spits a tirade so violent
that Lilly didn't think one could unleash so much
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grief with words alone.
The child starts to cry, he screams, throws himself
at Sarah and bites her throat. (If Lilly tries to
unhook him from his mother, to hit him with her
bare hands or with a tool, he pushes her away with
the strength of a horse). Sarah screams in pain, her
blood flowing freely from her wounds, the child
chews, swallows, then bites again. Lilly, helpless, She will probably kill the child under whose body
puts her head in her hands when a metallic shine Sarah stopped screaming but also stopped
catches her eye. Right in front of her, on the ground breathing.
lies a huge dark steel revolver, with stains of rust
and blood, some kind of runes are engraved on it.

Lily, what are you doing?

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 Max's purgation
Max is in an office, sitting in an
uncomfortable metallic chair.
His hands are handcuffed
behind his back. In front of
him stand two men wearing
expensive tailor made suits. He
recognizes them as Allen
Colson and James White, the
Nepharite summoning traders.
They look at Max smiling while
waiting for the third man. who
then enters the room, closing
the padded door behind him.
This is Leonard Lewinsky,
founding director of the
powerful investment company
WhiteStone. Max has a shock,
a massive shock. It's him:
Lewinsky is the man with the
sunglasses, the one who
turned into a monster when
he was beaten up by the Death
array of surgery instruments, scalpels and blades of
Squad. Lewinsky walks up to Max, takes off his
all sizes. He grabs one and uses it like a paintbrush
glasses and says “Hey, hey, I know that one." He turns
towards his accomplices “it’s the cop who wanted to to trace letters in the air. He laughs and puts it
have me arrested." He chuckles and leans towards down.
Max again “Detective Martinez, something like that? The three men move back to the end of the room,
It's good to see you again, cowboy. I think we both open a sport bag, take out gowns and shoe covers
have work to finish." He steps back and nods at and begin to put them on. Probably not to stain
Colson who walks towards a cart left there by the their beautiful costumes with Max's blood. Mean-
cleaning lady, grabs a broom and approaches Max, while, Max feels that the handcuffs seem to have
presses his face to his and whispers to him "so it loosened. He manages to extract his left hand,
wasn't enough for you to get your ass kicked las time? bruising his thumb a little. He gets up with the idea
You keep on fucking up with the boss? Are you a of attacking the three men; he might be lucky
headstrong, ex-cop? Let's check this." He makes one enough to grab a blade before they turn around.
step back and violently swings the broomstick, But as he is about to start, an object catches his
breaking it on Max's skull. Max is stunned, his split eye. On the ground, right in front of him, lies a large
scalp begins to bleed. Roll for Endure Injury. If you dark metal revolver, it is covered in rust and blood
fails, Max will fall unconscious. If successful, Allen stains, as well as occult symbols carved into the
Colson will go and get another broomstick and say wood and metal. At the same time, James White
“you indeed have a strong head, Officer. Hey look, this turns around with a gasp of surprise, he makes a
one is made of metal." Then he will strike and strike stride, bends down and grabs a scalpel.
again until Max passes out.

He is awakened by the cold. He is naked, lying on

the floor in a room obviously underground, in a Max what are you doing?
basement. His arms are tied to a pipe by handcuffs.
The three men are there. James White is drawing
He will probably kill all three men. Colson and
symbols on his skin with a marker. He grumbles:
White will try to fight but Lewinsky will do
“He’s waking up. Not a problem, I’m done.” As he pulls
everything so that Max does not kill him, get on his
back, Colson leans over Max with his insufferable
knees, beg, offer money...
smile still hanging on his face. He exclaims “you
hold up well with blunt tools, pig, how about trying
with sharp ones? » He steps back, shows off a small
tool bag which he unrolls on the floor, revealing an

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Richard's purgation
Richard is sitting in a subway train, it's dark. He is
reading a novel with his Walkman on his ears when He takes off her jeans and tears off her panties.
he feels his neighbors getting up, he raises his head Then he pulls down his sweatpants, grabs his cock
and sees the other passengers going to sit at the and starts rubbing it to make it hard.
very back of the car. He hears a scream, removes Richard feels a mix of anger and fear rising within
his headset and turns his head around. Three thugs him. This is the moment he has been waiting for all
are grabbing a young woman. They laugh and his life, to be able to do justice. If only he had his
insult her. One of them restrain her by one arm and 357... He should have gone to live in Texas or
holds a knife near her neck. A second painfully Arizona, there at least he would have had the right
twists her other arm while the third undresses her. to carry his gun. But in New York, this damn city of
leftists with their stupid anti-gun
laws that prevent honest citizens
from defending themselves... All he's
going to achieve if he stands up is to
get stabed. But if he remains seated
like the other passengers, it would
mean that he is just a coward, that
he is like them, like these people he
hates so much.
Richard has a flash of Shannon's
corpse, he gets up, takes a few steps.
The thug holding the knife points it
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in his direction “Hey you, what are
you doing, motherfucker? Go back
to your seat or I kill you, son of a
bitch. »
Richard shivers, stops, lower his
eyes. His stunned gaze falls on an
object placed on the seat next to
him. It is a very large revolver in
dark metal, stained with rust and
blood, the ebony wood of the stock
and the metal of the weapon are
engraved with cabalistic symbols.

Richard what are you doing?

Normally it's the happiest day of his

life, Richard should be glad to
explode the thugs. The metro will
stop at the next station, all the
passengers will run out, including
the poor girl, half naked, covered
with blood and traumatized.

Purgation 44
 The black revolver huge window overlooking the New York night.
They are at the top of a skyscraper, judging by the
The black revolver is an Astaroth's incarnate. It is landscape it may be the World Tarde Center. A
not really black but made of a dark metal. It is the woman sits at the head of the table. Behind her, a
cherished possession of Habubna Hekmath. She magnificent painting represents the Ouroboros, the
lives to have fun, she obviously likes power games serpent that bites its own tail, symbol of the infinite
but also powerful toys, cults, servants and artifacts. cycle of life, death and resurrection. She stares at
She finds it amusing to share her toys with her them curiously. She is stroking the black revolver in
servants to help them understand what power front of her with a fingertip, tracing the symbols
is and to what extent, unlike her, they engraved on it with her fingernail, without looking
lack it. One of her scariest toys is at them, as if she knew them by heart.
this gun.

No need to roll
the dices to
shoot the black
revolver, if its user
wishes to destroy his
target, the weapon will
point in the right direction
practically by itself and will
never miss. Likewise, the trigger is
so hard that it is impossible to pull
it, but if the intent to kill is there, it
will become as light as a hair.

Describe each shot from the revolver as an event.

The sound of the detonation is deafening and will
cause tinnitus. The flash coming out of the barrel is
blinding. The recoil shakes the shooter's entire
skeleton and makes the walls tremble (a weak
person like Richard will have very sore arms, Lilly
will have a sprained wrist and will be unable to
make a second shot). The effect on a human body is
catastrophic: an impact as big as a soccer ball, with
a spray of blood, shards of bones and organs that
spreads several dozens feets away. A shoulder shot
will tear off the arm. At the top of the bust, the head
will bounce against a wall, and if the projectile hits
the head, it will explode like a watermelon.

Stephany
Once the four purgations have been completed, the A successful roll of See Through Illusion will show
characters will find themselves, once again without the true aspect of Habubna Hekmath. In case of
really understanding how they got there, in a partial success, the two images will be
meeting room, seated in comfortable leather superimposed, causing a strong discomfort. It will
armchairs, around a table, finely crafted in a only last a few seconds but Stephany will notice it
precious wood. Three of the white walls are and smile.
decorated with master paintings. The fourth is a

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 If one, or several characters, is friendly or deferential
towards Stephany, she will behave warmly with him,
she will go so far as to reveal her real name and say
that she is in the service of the angel Thaumiel. If
they are distant, she will be too. If one of them
pretends to get up or appears threatening, he will
notice that the black revolver will turn towards him,
without Stephany having to touch it, showing its
large frightening muzzle. If the character insists, she
will grab the weapon in a fraction of a second,
sending the character back into Inferno, for good
this time, with a noise like thunder and a spectacular
shower of blood and bones projected against the
glass.
She will offer a choice, a pact: become her devoted
agents or return to Inferno.

To those who accept, she will hold out her hand to

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show them a symbol on her wrist, half tattoo, half
When the characters break the silence, Stephany will scarification made with a hot iron. The characters
introduce herself under this first name. She will will realize that they have the same one. Stephany
explain to them that the cult of the Way of the Light will tell them that they are now brothers and sisters,
had become one of her "toys" for several years and under the "protection" of the Death Angel Thaumiel.
that its loss pains her greatly. But she is not resentful
and to prove her good faith to them, she freed them If you wish to continue playing these characters, you
will need to add the dark secret Pact with Dark
from Inferno, resurrected them and offered them the
Forces to them, add a disadvantage and perhaps
purgation of their inner demons. Indeed, all
change archetype.
characters are now free of their main dark secret and
the associated disadvantage.

Now you know that

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Kult is a horror game, so it's scary. If you are too young or too sensitive, don't play it. The themes
addressed in this scenario are physical and moral violence, sectarian drifts, black magic, torture, war,
drugs, depression, rape, cannibalism, as well as violence and murder of children. The GM will need to
ensure that all players are comfortable with these themes or adapt the scenario accordingly.
The places, situations and people mentioned (apart from New York and some places which really
exists) are inventions with the only objective of allowing players to embody characters in the fictional
universe of the role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost.

Technical stuff
I only use free software as much as possible: Gimp, LibreOffice, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive... Thanks to
the free software community and those who support it.
The illustrations were generated by IA, some by Stable Diffusion and most by Wombo, some are more
or less retouched but they are all royalty-free, do what you want with them, no need to ask.

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