Dark Conspiracy: a Midwestern Moon

Welcome to the conspiracy!

This game uses a system named Chronica Insidea.

The game is actually comprises two separate campaigns:

A Cold Wind Blows

Nowhere to Hide

Player Characters

Dark Conspiracy Character Template

Chicago Investigators

Daumantas' Character - Fred Manasseh Lane

Paper-pushing gov statistician with family problems discovers children are disappearing and their parents don't know a thing. Doubtful but doesn't let a lead go. His lack of willingness to fudge numbers to make his department look good recently got him fired from a corporation (Coca-cola?) to which his parents have sold their votes for subsistence living. His wife, who liked their corporate lifestyle, divorced him. He really liked being married. He now works for the Department of Gorvernmental Administration.

Character sheet for Fred M. Lane

Mai Lewandon (Char)

Mai was a good PI, working cases that slipped through the cracks or just weren't big time enough for the police. Everything changed one day, when she got a package delivered by an anonymous person when she was walking home one night. She opened the box, and inside was just a simple, yet intricately folded, origami flower. That spoke to her, in her mind, about the “Empathic Underground.” And now she can hear people's thoughts and feelings. ALL THE TIME.

Things that should not be seen: There's a drug people have been taking that makes them happy (and also compliant, so it's encouraged by the corps) but the people don't seem the same afterwards, they seem to be changing… into something else, on the inside. Their brains don't feel the same as non-users.

Character sheet for Mai Lewandon

Leonard "Leo" Maxwell (JP)

Leo Maxwell, a young and headstrong DEA field agent with a strong moral compass (code of conduct).

Character sheet for Leonard Maxwell.

Maxine "Max" Moretti (JB)

Maxine “Max” Moretti, a youthful courier/errand girl for the mob. Smart, fast, talented at seeing which way the political wind is blowing. Possibly marked for a hideous transformation into a demonic being.

Bonds: area mob, “Mr. Jones”

Character sheet for Maxine Moretti

Cas Vandal (Chris)

Character sheet for Cas Vandal

Moonbase Characters

Adrian's Character

Escaped cyborg, seeks to deliver any in bondage to freedom. The logic is not quite human, however, so the results aren't always what one would expect.

Corporate Asset #24601 "Mr Byrd" (Nate)

An operative for a corporation known as NSA, which are enemies of TojiCorp.

24601

Shreyas' Character

Devlin (Lxndr)

Escaped alien abductee, trained neuropath. Used to do covert ops for the aliens, now on the run.

Devlin

Non-Player Characters

Chicago Area

General

Marcus - owner of a bar with no name (and not much decor, either) near Mai's office. The few people who know of the bar refer to it simply as Marcus'.

Case of the Missing Girl

Pablo Verasante - a client who contacted Mai about finding his missing niece Rosa.

Rosa - missing niece of Pablo Verasante, a custodial worker (not resident) at the Coca-Cola Employee Village (CCEV) in Chicago. See the notes about her emails

Maria - Rosa's room-mate, a nurse at the CCEV before her murder, which occurred shortly before Rosa's disappearance. She worked in the Creche.

Victor Dalechenko - Rosa's boyfriend, Victor helped Rosa gain access to a file regarding a couple who had been involved with adopting one of the children from the Creche at the CCEV. Was told by somebody not to talk to anyone with regards to Rosa's disappearance.

Judy - cyborg who ambushed Mai and Leo when they came to check on her and her husband.

Sorcerers

Emil Andersen - Sorcerer that had created an out of control Tupla, who was rampaging all over the city, and stalking Max. Now dead.

Spenser - Sorcerer who was looking for something in Emil's apartment. Later tried to recruit Mai. When Leo and Mai followed him through a graveyard, he escaped.

Anna - were-bear associate of the society, killed in the graveyard when Leo and Mai followed Spencer.

Underground

“Snapshot” - code-name of the closest thing to a leader the undrground has.

“Beta Three” - code-name of a member who seems to specialize in security.

“Benny” - code-name of a psion member who approached Mai to train her.

Doreen - code-named “Veronica,” Doreen is an elderly mystic who approached Mai after Benny, and introduced everyone to the underground.

“Panix” - code-name of a sorceress “affiliate” of the underground.

“Axe” - code-name of a burly shotgun-toting biker member.

“Loris” - code-name of an Asian male member.

“Professor” - code-name of a member who seems to be missing or on sabatical.

Dr. Pahail Farouk - code-named “faith”, missing member.

Moonbase

Root - NSA executive apparently interested in finding Devlin. Sent CA #24601 to find her.

AP Notes

Rosa's Emails

Visual References

Chicago

Chicago downtown dreamlands skyline: https://tieryas.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/chicago2055.jpg

Car Mai saw in her dream below the street outside of Cas' shop: http://car-from-uk.com/ebay/carphotos/full/ebay315814.jpg

Chicago Sewer Department workers: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/12/18/us/18CNCPIPES/18CNCPIPES-articleLarge.jpg

Moon

Moonbase: http://shiftboston.org/images/2010moon/finalists/MOON2010_029/MOON2010_029.jpg

Helium Extraction Plant: http://sliximg.com/Post/16/moon%20base.jpg