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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
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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
Click Synopsis 1 for a synopsis of the story through the spring of 2016.
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 January 2020.
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
Talk to the folks at the lab near Rush Medical center about the bio-computer.
Look into the CEO 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.
Mount expedition to the Changing Lands to look for Mary from the farm community (Janessa).
Rumors and Follow-up
Craft Bar neighborhood: dimensional paintings by the Prophet, and the things that live under Union Cemetery Memorial Park
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
Pull Judy apart and see what makes her tick
Details
Danger Clocks
Active
The Buzz 1/6
Snaky Airfield 1/4
Something Lurks 0/4
Defunct
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