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

Character Template

Player	Character	Codename	Description
Char	Mai Lewandon	Aurora	A good PI, who has developed very special abilities.
JP	Leonard Maxwell	Leon	Leo Maxwell, a young and headstrong DEA field agent with a strong moral compass (code of conduct).
Pete	William Lee	Old Bull	Exterminator
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.
Sabe	Janessa Iyer	Manx	Blight farmer and community defense organizer
Char	Astra	Ex Delta-7
Andrew	Peri	Peri	A talented hacker

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 The Graveyard.

By category:

General NPCs - characters related to the PCs outside of the Underground

Case of the Missing Girl - Mai's first (and still unsolved) case.

Empathic Underground - the members of the group dedicated to fighting the darkness.

Order of the White Circle - an order of sorcerers who had become corrupted, and are now largely defunct.

The Destined - known members of the Destined, and those they've affected.

For an overall list of NPCs click here. This will not be updated going forward, and so the data on the page should be considered obsolete.

AP Notes

Synopses

Synopsis 1 for a synopsis of the story through the spring of 2016.

Chicago Synopsis 2 not yet written (need to go back to IRC logs)

Click Synopsis 3 for a synopsis of the story from Sep 2017 to Dec 2018.

Click Synopsis 4 for a synopsis of the story from Jan 2019 to Dec 2019.

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 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:

Featuring the TojiCorp North American headquarters off in Lake Michigan to the upper right.

Car Mai saw in her dream below the street outside of Cas' shop:

Chicago Department of Public Works (DPW) sewer workers:

Tours

The Base

CCEHV

Doomsday Club

Otherworlds

The Changing Lands

The Black Chamber

The Fae Realm

Cheeseburger Paradise