{{https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5a/0f/60/5a0f6099c6ae83206ab88bafa05f28b2.jpg?300}} ====== Chicago - A Cold Wind Blows ====== The Earth-side part of the [[:dark_conspiracy]]: A Midwestern Moon campaign. Something is affecting the people of Chicago, and it's getting worse. Can it be stopped before disaster occurs? ---- ---- ===== Player Characters ===== [[Chronica Insidea:Character Template]] ---- ^Player^Character^Codename^Description^ |Char|[[Dark Conspiracy: Mai Lewandon]]|Aurora|A good PI, who has developed very special abilities.| |JP|[[Dark Conspiracy:Leonard Maxwell]]|Leon|Leo Maxwell, a young and headstrong DEA field agent with a strong moral compass (code of conduct).| |Sabe|[[Janessa Iyer]]|Manx|Blight farmer and community defense organizer| |Char|(Real name unknown)|[[Astra]]|Ex Delta-7 | |Andrew|[[Peri]]|Peri|A talented hacker| |Pete|[[William Lee|William "Old Bull" Lee]]|Quincy|Exterminator, drug connoisseur, and conspiracy theorist| |Lee|[[Math Cornish]]|Antic Rash|Movie theater ticket ripper and black-mask anarchist/activist| |Aaron|[[Alex Raiss]]|Deco|TojiCorp reporter.| |Kirk|[[June Forte]]|Red|Research engineer, partner of the Professor| |Chris|[[Ezra Hawthorne]]|Sloyd|A folklore student and radio show DJ.| |Daumantas|[[:Fred M. Lane]]|NA|Statistician with family problems looking into disappearances at his old employer. | |JB|[[Maxine Moretti]]|Max|A youthful courier/errand girl for the mob.| |Chris E|[[Cas Vandal]]|NA|A curio shop owner who gets calls from the dead. On phones.| ---- ===== Non-Player Character Profiles ===== Not a few NPCs have been shuffled off this mortal coil. To see the list of those who are no longer amongst the living (or even pretending to be), see [[Dark Conspiracy:The Graveyard|The Graveyard]]. By category: * [[dark conspiracy:General NPCs]] - characters related to the PCs outside of the Underground * [[dark conspiracy:Case of the Missing Girl]] - Mai's first (and still unsolved) case. * [[dark conspiracy:Empathic Underground]] - the members of the group dedicated to fighting the darkness. * [[dark conspiracy:Order of the White Circle]] - an order of sorcerers who had become corrupted, and are now largely defunct. * [[dark conspiracy:The Destined]] - known members of the Destined, and those they've affected. For an overall list of NPCs click [[dark conspiracy:Dark Conspiracy NPCs|here]]. This will not be updated going forward, and so the data on the page should be considered obsolete. ---- ---- ===== AP Notes ===== ==== Synopses ==== * [[Chicago Synopsis|Synopsis 1]] - play from spring of 2015 through spring of 2016. * Chicago Synopsis 2 not yet written (need to go back to IRC logs) * [[Chicago Synopsis 3|Synopsis 3]] - play from Sep 2017 to Dec 2018. * [[Chicago Synopsis 4|Synopsis 4]] - play from Jan 2019 to Jul 2019. * [[Chicago Synopsis 5|Synopsis 5]] - play from Jul 2019 to present (incomplete). ==== Investigation Stubs ==== Ask the GM if you need more details on any of these. === TojiCorp/Serpent Folk Issues === * Check the basement of the Toji PR building to see if anything from the Fae world was left behind * Follow up on finding the parents of the three metal boys whose parents are Toji execs * Talk to the folks at the lab near Rush Medical center about the bio-computer * Look into the COO of MAXDigital, rumored to know about the bio-computer deal parts deal with Toji * Break into, or bribe your way into, or otherwise infiltrate the [[Dark Conspiracy:CCEHV]] * Find the Toji CEO Tohiro McMasterson, who seems to have disappeared * Talk to Ezra's mom about her last lead * Go back to the airfield to snoop around, or take a snake-person for interrogation * Figure out what BioChem is doing in the SoDeer marsh factory === PC and NPC Issues === * The upcoming meeting with conspiracy elements high up in the DEA (Leo) * Check out the Vishanti facility in Burr Ridge (Alex) * Perform more experiments at the Center for Synchotron Radiation Research (June) * Break in to use the accellerator at Argonne National Laboratory to perform the special experiment thought up by June and the Professor (June) * Checking in with the kids and unicorn on the farm, and checking on the weak inter-dimensional spots Faith left. === Rumors and Follow-up === * Craft Bar neighborhood: dimensional paintings by the Prophet, and the things that live under Union Cemetery Memorial Park * Where did the thing from under the cemetery end up? * Return to the scene of Lt. Rodriguez's attack, or grill Sahashradala about it * Investigate Masters's lake shore home * Find Matt, the were-bear (brother of Ann, the wear-bear killed in the park), before he finds them * Return to the Black Chamber with promised goods * Return to Axe's Kids for more leads * Alien in Skokie * The Airborne Type Two Anthrax (ATTA) epidemic * Analyze the data from Darcy connecting to Judy, or do further experiments ==== Details ==== * [[Rosa's Emails]] * [[The Buzz]] * [[Ancient Egypt]] * [[Jacob's Description of Life as a Ballotman]] === Danger Clocks === == Active == * The Buzz 1/6 * Snaky Airfield 1/4 * Something Lurks 0/4 == Defunct == * Sorcerous Ritual 0/5 - threat eliminated with the destruction of the mummy at the field museum * The Bog God 0/4 - threat eliminated with the detonation of the Fuath at Volo ---- ---- ===== Visual References ===== Chicago downtown dreamlands skyline: {{https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a8/95/da/a895da819fd4cd4dedf39eedad6714ea.jpg}} Featuring the TojiCorp North American headquarters off in Lake Michigan to the upper right. ---- ==== Visual Tours ==== * [[General Visual References]] * [[Dark Conspiracy:Base|The Base]] * [[Dark Conspiracy:CCEHV]] * [[Dark Conspiracy:Doomsday Club]] * Otherworlds * [[Dark Conspiracy:The Changing Lands]] * [[Dark Conspiracy:The Black Chamber]] * [[Dark Conspiracy:The Fae Realm]] * [[Dark Conspiracy:Cheeseburger Paradise]]