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Dark Conspiracy: a Midwestern Moon
Welcome to the conspiracy!
This game uses a system named Chronica Insidea.
Player Characters
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.
Devlin (Lxndr)
Escaped alien abductee, trained neuropath. Used to do covert ops for the aliens, now on the run.
Non-Player Characters
Chicago Area
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'.
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
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
