tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78192116368232171412024-03-12T18:12:31.468-07:00Roll a RoleRobafetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295593069659149475noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7819211636823217141.post-89860499121494150862017-08-05T14:02:00.003-07:002017-08-05T14:03:23.101-07:00Basic Intro<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="PL" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: PL;">It is ST1618. You are of the Red Cow clan (by birth or allegiance),
a member of the Cinsina Tribe in the Jonstown Confederation, a city of the
Kingdom of Sartar in the Region of The Dragons Pass. Sartar is a subject nation,
on the far edge of the Civilised Emipre of the Red Moon Goddess. She sits in
the sky day and night Red has she faces and black as she looks into other
realms. Before her on the skyline the
great Phallus of the sky god thrusts deep into the Earth Goddess body. Kerofin
is a great mountain that appears through the sky from the Sky Realm, it is
confirmation of the great sky god Orlanths might and his consort Ernalda's earthly
realm and can be seen from anywhere in these lands (cloud permiting). It seems
strange then the Lunar Empire has made his worship outlaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="PL" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: PL;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="PL" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: PL;">The Lunar's first invaded in 1602, 16 years ago so only
the older generation remembers a time without them but many have been effected
by that event. Some such as the puppet King Tamerlain see the </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">worth</span><span lang="PL" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: PL;"> of Lunar occupancy.
Others
do not. The Red Cow however are but a tribe trying to survive and The Hero Wars
has begun. How will you protect and even encourage to thrive, your clan, your
people?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="PL" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: PL;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="PL" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: PL;">Things to concider in chacter creation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">What is yout role in the tribe/clan?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">How experienced are you outside of the clan?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Are you a blood memeber or has your situation made you
alligent to the clan and why?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Yes, alright and what mount did you want, but more
importantly are you of that tribe or did you get it some other way (i.e. raiding or a gift)?</span></li>
</ul>
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Robafetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295593069659149475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7819211636823217141.post-64944783470027100522013-10-31T17:26:00.000-07:002013-10-31T17:52:38.287-07:00<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Secret Service Typewriter"; font-size: 18.0pt;">You MUST
have the Codeword authorisation 'Blue ROOT 9' to read this document. IF you do
not and you believe that you have received this document in error or have found
said document you must report it to Security NOW. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial-Black; font-size: 39.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-Black;">In Action <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial-Black; font-size: 31.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-Black;">BLUE ROOT 9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h2>
<span lang="EN-US">The House of Re</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">-</span><span lang="EN-US">embodied Enlightenment
(Blue Root 9), also previously known as The Seventh Temple.</span></h2>
</div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US">Origin</span></h3>
</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;">A
lost Blue Hades cult (see password material: Blue Hades). One of many who's links to the deep were
severed by the Benthic Treaty. There are
a number of known cults that have developed from the breakaway of Blue Hades
from its traditional activities. To current knowledge on Blue Hades part the
severance has been complete although there has been a possible occurrence
unauthorized connection in the Abingdon Rig Affair (See password material:
Abingdon Rig). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;">Some
break away cults Root 3 for instance are known to have dissolved and are no
longer current as its brethren became embittered with the betrayal of their
'gods'. Others of which Root 9 seems to
be one have forsaken Blue Hades as false prophets and developed their own off
shoot religious activities from them. So
far this particular off shoot has remained benign in nature and no further
action has been seen necessary to take against them, however ever mindful of
their origin a check should be maintained that they remain so.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;"><br /></span></div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US">Identification</span></h3>
</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;">They
look and dress a little like blue and olive coloured Harry Krishna's. Although they leave their buildings in normal
arraignment and most seem to have normal respectable jobs they are often seen
walking and chanting a low hissy hymn within the quite large area of the
Ravisham Manor and reported swiming naked in the small lake on the grounds.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;"><br /></span></div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US">Belief Structure</span></h3>
</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;">Their
belief is in many ways Buddhist like in that they believe in a series of
rebirths (although generally through their offspring rather than a random
resurrection) the major difference being that their concept of Buddha is more
aquatic and has a tentacled of face. The achievement of this seems to be
through chanting and becoming more aquatic divesting themselves of their land
skins (clothes) and taking long swims into the deep ocean. They often support this activity with
charitable events. More than 5 are known to have made sponsored swims across
the channel and many more across the Irish Sea. Although carefully monitored no
attempt to reconnect with Blue Hades known to live near Hang-Man's Isle off the
northwest coast have been made.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;"><br /></span></div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US">Public Face</span></h3>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;">They
are fronted by the Shayling Nun (she has no known name only a title). This weird presumably woman may in fact be a
type 2 Blue Hades but this has never been proven and if she is, she has never
returned to her home, indeed to known knowledge she never leaves the Estate
except by helicopter for the purpose of fronting the Cult.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;"><br /></span></div>
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US">Threat Level</span></h3>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%;">Believed
low, though continuous checks need to be maintained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Robafetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295593069659149475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7819211636823217141.post-11896096041371540052013-07-28T08:20:00.001-07:002013-07-28T08:20:18.950-07:00<h2>
Laundry 01 - GM: Tuesday 20th August</h2>
<div>
<h4>
Early Morning - Code Blue</h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Early morning: Wards have been broken at a secure site in
Middlehampton and follow up shows the guard missing and other key personnel not
arriving for duty. The team are gathered
given a basic brief, kitted up and despatch by RAF flight to Carlyle and by car
to Middlehampton. It is early afternoon when they arrive.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<h4>
Early Morning - A Trap</h4>
<div>
Tyres meets Fooler at Cryingford and turns him into a trap for anyone following her trail.</div>
</div>
<h4>
Early Morning - Shahn leaves Home</h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Blue Root 9 intercept and try to capture Kupka Shahn on route
for The Between Nations Offices. His car
is driven off the road and contact is lost.
He is only one of a number of people who have not signed in after the
mornings alarm.</div>
<h4>
Mid Morning - George Peckard's Memory</h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Group 9 agents following up instructions by Stephanie Tyres
track down George Peckard and subject him to a mind wipe. </div>
<h4>
Early Afternoon - Initial site investigation</h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It is an old style four story building that has been
done-up, modernised and restored and in some parts not very well. It adjoins
the building to its right and has an access wide enough to allow a car
transgress to the rear where a private car park is located. The ground floor houses the shop and
interview areas while out back is an extension with a large old printing press.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The first floor is the publishing section and houses offices
for the various magazines. The staff
room and security desk are also located here. On the second floor is the
research and archivist section while on the top floor are the managers offices
and secure rooms for finds etcetera. Here there is the known safe used by
Between Nations and in Joyce Whitakers office is the Laundry Safe.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Met at the door by Jimmy Target, who does not really know
what's going on, he is not Laundry but is the Publishing Editor and is trying
to sort things out on a business level. They are quickly intercepted by
Cornelius Bridges the assistant manager and acting manager while his boss Joyce
Whitaker is on active duty somewhere.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He takes the group up and gives them an update while they
check out the building.</div>
<h4>
Update</h4>
<div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">
</div>
<ul>
<li>Wards where blown in the early
hours of the morning. First the ones around
the safe including the office door and then the ones on the backdoor.</li>
<li>Bridges and Ted Chance the other
security officer arrived to find the back door ajar and Tom Fooler the on-duty
guard missing . </li>
<li>The safe has been 'eaten' by some
kind of corrosive agent which has been sampled and sent to Carlyle where the
Laundry have a laboratory. </li>
<li>Only one item has been taken, an
object handed in yesterday early afternoon to Kupka Shahn one of the laundry
staff working with the archivists and researchers on the Between Nations team.
He recognised it as 'strange' and filled in a report then placed in the
safe. It is known that this object was
placed in the Safe as Kupka had not direct access and Bridges himself had to
open the safe for him. However being
busy at the time he had not examined it, he does remember it was handed in by
George Peckard, a semi honest nighthawk who is often seen in the offices.</li>
<li>The computer record has been
wiped and the paper record removed.</li>
<li>The CCTV had been tampered with
but not by an expert and someone is working to retrieve pictures as they talk.</li>
</ul>
<br /></div>
<h4>
Group examination of the site</h4>
</div>
<div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">
</div>
<ul>
<li>A thaumic check was made on the
ground floor with no result</li>
<li>Another made on the first
floor. A result was found around the
security desk. It was intense enough to
suggest a strong but short term event.</li>
<li>A detailed examination of the
area found that the desk had a spilt coffee cup and a dropped opened book.</li>
<li>A security head piece (not unlike
a large blue tooth device) is found in a waste paper basket on the research
floor.</li>
<li>No evidence of tampering has been
found with the coffee but a sample to be sent to the labs to confirm.</li>
<li>The book seems to be a standard
second hand novel (by Bernard Cornwall).</li>
<li>The third floor was not thaumicly
checked at this time but the team went on up the office wherein the safe was
resident.</li>
<li>This is a Laundry safe it is
house in the centre of the building with no external walls and wards to both
hide and protect it. It has been
partially dissolved by an agent that was strong enough to break the wards.</li>
</ul>
<br />
<h4>
CCTV footage available</h4>
<div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
There has not been time to go through the whole set and a
more detailed analysis will be made by in house agents during the remainder of
the day but a quick viewing shows the following events</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">
</div>
<ul>
<li>Tom Fooler sat drinking coffee
starts dropping his coffee.</li>
<li>After some hesitation he leaves
his desk for a desk on the second floor where he retrieves something but his
back is to the camera.</li>
<li>There are no cameras in the
stairwell and the next time he is seen is on the top floor entering the safe
room.</li>
<li>He tries at first to man handle
the safe door then produces a jar from his pocket and pours the content onto
the safe which it grasps and eats.</li>
<li>He takes the object and leaves
the building via the back door.</li>
</ul>
<br />
<h4>
Follow up questions and finds</h4>
<div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">
</div>
<ul>
<li>The start event did indeed
coincide with a telephone call.</li>
<li>Upon leaving the office an
appropriately moulded piece of brown paper is found on the stair well that
would have fir the jar and something flat against it.</li>
<li>It is noted that Fooler's car is
still in the parking bay.</li>
<li>A second check of the video does
not show who put the package on the desk but does show that it came from the
desk of Shahn's assistant Stephanie Tyres who is among those not in work today. </li>
</ul>
<br /></div>
<div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It is surmised that the guard was somehow processed,
triggered by the phone call but there is no evidence of the power grid needed
to make the transference. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Requests have been made for street CCTV from the Highways
Agency and local security monitoring company's.
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
An attempt to locate Peckard proved unfruitful but reports
suggest that this is not uncommon during the day and he can usually be found at
his local after 7ish in the evening. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
An attempt to locate Mr Shahn at home showed he had left as
usual that morning. Mrs Shahn was given
a cover story that he had been called away on an unexpected emergency and might
be in a bad signal zone so not to worry if she cannot reach him by phone. He lives at Clearthorpes.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Stephanie Tyres is not answering her phone, mobile or
landline. She lives alone out of town on
the Blessings Estate between Littlethorpe and Ravisham. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Clearthorpes is the furthest away so it is decided that it
would be last possibly tomorrow as it is already late afternoon and will be
well into evening before anywhere is reached.
The guard Tom Foolers is closest and so the first stop. </div>
<h4>
Stake Out</h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Unable to find Jackie Scott both his home and his
girl-friends (Jenny Willobie) homes are watched by Safety Inc teams.</div>
<h4>
The Fooler Residence</h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tom Fooler actually lives in Middlehampton and so fairly
quick to get to. It is an Edwardian terrace converted into four flats. His is
the ground floor back and accessed through a common door and short hall. The outer door is unlocked and the inner door
easily broken into (note to security). He has a hungry cat but there is no
evidence that he returned to the house after leaving for work the previous
afternoon. Some Laundry related
materials where found which would construe a minor breach of protocol but
nothing to raise any alarms about.</div>
<h4>
The Tyre Residence</h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Stephanie Tyres is a nice 1960's style. Large three
bedrooms, double garage good size garden.
Inside everything is pristine, it is obviously lived in but kept
immaculate. Family photos of Stephanie,
her presumably husband and child are in prime position but the child's play
room looks unused, upstairs the child's bedroom has no clothing and there are
no clothes belonging to the male. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Thaumic readings suggest a very low level background noise,
which upon walking around the house Agent Piers believes may originate from
outside. They continue to check inside
first. The attic shows an alter and
devil worship paraphernalia but not the real thing the sort of stuff you'd get
in any Goth shop or Heavy Metal boutique.
The thaumic reader does however pick up one object a black velvet
flannel size piece of clothe that looks like it was dropped rather than put
there on purpose. Also in the attic are
the vacuum packed clothes of the man and child stacked in a corner nice and
neat.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Outside the thaumic response seems to come from a large
church a block away to the rear of the house.
Not being put off my this the party head toward it only to discover that
it is something beyond the church. The
well protected walls of a great estate block the centre of activity.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A quick Google maps and search shows the estate to be the
House of Re-Embodied Enlightenment. A
cross reference to the Laundry data-base replies </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
RESTRICTED,</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
PASSWORD REQUIRED.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A request is duly
sent in.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Deciding not to continue without more information and
realising it was well pass 7pm they decide to track Peckard.</div>
<h4>
George Peckard and Jenny Willobie </h4>
<div class="MsoNormal">
George Peckard is in his local as usual for quarter to eight
any evening. He is also quite friendly
and once engaged in conversation happy to talk about his finds, but when he is asked about any finds he has
handed in lately he cannot remember handing any in for weeks in fact he has
trouble talking about anything in the last few days. It does come to light however that he usually
works with a partner who should be here by now wonder what's keeping him? Asking about Jackie Scott, Peckards partner
in detection they find out that he works for Deep Space Research as a low level
techie, repairs maintenance, that sort of thing. Jackie also supply's all the detector
equipment which he keeps in the back of his Volvo Estate and he lives not far
away with his girlfriend Jenny.</div>
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Outside Jenny's The Dog's are barking immediately, Piers
notices a car parked further up the street watching the house, he steps behind
a post box and ignites his hand of glory.
Next to the car window he taps sharply on the window and uses his
warrant card. The two watchers turn out to be members of Safety Inc sent to
pick up Jackie Scott and recover some stolen items for Deep Space Research.
They are invited to drive to Birmingham and having failed their resistance do
so. </div>
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Back at Jenny's she is scared and talks through the chain on
the door. He becomes apparent that she is lying but unlike Peckard , she is
doing so of her own violation. The
warrant card is pulled again and she admits to having seen Scott, that he is in
hiding believing he is being watched.
He'd come back for money and left yesterday morning.</div>
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At this point in the game one of the players had to leave
and was already late so they sort of wrapped things up quickly saying as it was
now past 10pm they would find a hotel and start fresh next session. </div>
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<h3>
NPC Groups summary</h3>
<h4>
1. Permian Green</h4>
At this stage the Permian Green agents working through Deep Space Geographic and Safety Inc are just there to introduce the company's ingame. They have no idea that the object has been found or that Blue Hades are involved all they know is that a machine developed for tracking Permian Green trace metals unknown to man has gone missing. Their security checks indicate that Jackie Scott has 'borrowed' said item and they wish 1. to regain the detector, 2. to interview Scott over his use of the machine and where it was used and indeed if it was successful. Unable to find Scott they have discovered (through ransacking his home) that he has been spending most of his time at the home of Jenny Willobie and have stacked her address out.<br />
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<h4>
2. Blue Hades</h4>
<div>
Stephanie Tyres had situated herself at Between Nations for exactly this eventuality and had set up a plan to extract anything that the archeology group found. She is not aware that this is a Laundry operation and did not know the existence of the second safe, she merely ordered Foller to seek and retrieve the object luckily for her he did know of the safe and went straight to it as ordered breaking all the wards on route. She has now set up a trap for the unwary followers using Fooler during which he will kill himself and both close the trail and take the blame as the only identifiable operator in the hiest.</div>
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<div>
The object is now ensconced in the Blue Root 9 base building while the BR9 techs try to decipher it. Their agents have been sent out on cover up operations. The Peckard one has gone smoothly although they never discovered that he had a partner. The Shahn one has not gone so well and Shahn will turn up in hospital in the early hours of the 21st having avoided capture but been wounded in the resulting affrey. Other members of the company have been through similar mind wipes as Peckard and have been returned home unaware that anything has happened other than a mild illness. Tyres herself is no more than a controlled pawn in these events herself and will undergo the same treatment before being returned home that evening (after the group had checked her home out). She is still under Blur Root 9 control but is unaware of it or that it is based on a verbal hypnosis controlled by her husband the real Blue Root 9 agent.</div>
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Robafetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295593069659149475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7819211636823217141.post-62695413683427164272013-07-27T22:05:00.000-07:002013-07-27T22:05:03.007-07:00Laundry 01 - all: Tuesday 20th August<h3>
Player Events for</h3>
<h4>
Tuesday 20th August</h4>
<h6>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Code Blue</span></h6>
<h3>
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Early morning: Wards have been broken at a secure site in Middlehampton and follow up shows the guard missing and other key personnel not arriving for duty. The team are gathered given a basic brief, kitted up and despatch by RAF flight to Carlyle and by car to Middlehampton. It is early afternoon when they arrive.</div>
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<h6>
<span style="font-size: large;">Initial site investigation</span></h6>
<h3>
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It is an old style four story building that has been done-up, modernised and restored and in some parts not very well. It adjoins the building to its right and has an access wide enough to allow a car transgress to the rear where a private car park is located. The ground floor houses the shop and interview areas while out back is an extension with a large old printing press.<br />
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The first floor is the publishing section and houses offices for the various magazines. The staff room and security desk are also located here. On the second floor is the research and archivist section while on the top floor are the managers offices and secure rooms for finds etcetera. Here there is the known safe used by Between Nations and in Joyce Whitakers office is the Laundry Safe.<br />
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Met at the door by Jimmy Target, who does not really know what's going on, he is not Laundry but is the Publishing Editor and is trying to sort things out on a business level. They are quickly intercepted by Cornelius Bridges the assistant manager and acting manager while his boss Joyce Whitaker is on active duty somewhere.<br />
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He takes the group up and gives them an update while they check out the building.</div>
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<h4>
Update</h4>
<h3>
<div class="MsoSubtitle" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Wards were blown in the early hours of the morning. First the ones around the safe including the office door and then the ones on the backdoor.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Bridges and Ted Chance the other security officer arrived to find the back door ajar and Tom Fooler the on-duty guard missing . </div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>The safe has been 'eaten' by some kind of corrosive agent which has been sampled and sent to Carlyle where the Laundry have a laboratory. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Only one item has been taken, an object handed in yesterday early afternoon to Kupka Shahn one of the laundry staff working with the archivists and researchers on the Between Nations team. He recognised it as 'strange' and filled in a report then placed in the safe. It is known that this object was placed in the Safe as Kupka had not direct access and Bridges himself had to open the safe for him. However being busy at the time he had not examined it, he does remember it was handed in by George Peckard, a semi honest nighthawk who is often seen in the offices.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>The computer record has been wiped and the paper record removed.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>The CCTV had been tampered with but not by an expert and someone is working to retrieve pictures as they talk.</div>
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<h4>
Group examination of the site</h4>
<h3>
<div class="MsoSubtitle" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>A thaumic check was made on the ground floor with no result</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Another made on the first floor. A result was found around the security desk. It was intense enough to suggest a strong but short term event.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>A detailed examination of the area found that the desk had a spilt coffee cup and a dropped opened book.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>A security head piece (not unlike a large blue tooth device) is found in a waste paper basket on the research floor.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>No evidence of tampering has been found with the coffee but a sample to be sent to the labs to confirm.</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>The book seems to be a standard second hand novel (by Bernard Cornwall).</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>The third floor was not thaumicly checked at this time but the team went on up the office wherein the safe was resident.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>This is a Laundry safe it is house in the centre of the building with no external walls and wards to both hide and protect it. It has been partially dissolved by an agent that was strong enough to break the wards.</div>
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<h4>
CCTV footage available</h4>
<h3>
<div class="MsoSubtitle" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
There has not been time to go through the whole set and a more detailed analysis will be made by in house agents during the remainder of the day but a quick viewing shows the following events</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Tom Fooler sat drinking coffee starts dropping his coffee.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>After some hesitation he leaves his desk for a desk on the second floor where he retrieves something but his back is to the camera.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>There are no cameras in the stairwell and the next time he is seen is on the top floor entering the safe room.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>He tries at first to man handle the safe door then produces a jar from his pocket and pours the content onto the safe which it grasps and eats.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>He takes the object and leaves the building via the back door.</div>
<div class="MsoSubtitle" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
Follow up questions and finds</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>The start event did indeed coincide with a telephone call.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Upon leaving the office an appropriately moulded piece of brown paper is found on the stair well that would have fir the jar and something flat against it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>It is noted that Fooler's car is still in the parking bay.</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>A second check of the video does not show who put the package on the desk but does show that it came from the desk of Shahn's assistant Stephanie Tyres who is among those not in work today.<br />
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It is surmised that the guard was somehow processed, triggered by the phone call but there is no evidence of the power grid needed to make the transference.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
Requests have been made for street CCTV from the Highways Agency and local security monitoring company's.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
An attempt to locate Peckard proved unfruitful but reports suggest that this is not uncommon during the day and he can usually be found at his local after 7ish in the evening.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
An attempt to locate Mr Shahn at home showed he had left as usual that morning. Mrs Shahn was given a cover story that he had been called away on an unexpected emergency and might be in a bad signal zone so not to worry if she cannot reach him by phone. He lives at Clearthorpes.<br />
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Stephanie Tyres is not answering her phone, mobile or landline. She lives alone out of town on the Blessings Estate between Littlethorpe and Ravisham. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
Clearthorpes is the furthest away so it is decided that it would be last possibly tomorrow as it is already late afternoon and will be well into evening before anywhere is reached. The guard Tom Foolers is closest and so the first stop. </div>
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<h6>
<span style="font-size: large;">The Fooler Residence</span></h6>
<h3>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
Tom Fooler actually lives in Middlehampton and so fairly quick to get to. It is an Edwardian terrace converted into four flats. His is the ground floor back and accessed through a common door and short hall. The outer door is unlocked and the inner door easily broken into (note to security). He has a hungry cat but there is no evidence that he returned to the house after leaving for work the previous afternoon. Some Laundry related materials where found which would construe a minor breach of protocol but nothing to raise any alarms about.</div>
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<h6>
<span style="font-size: large;">The Tyre Residence</span></h6>
<h3>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
Stephanie Tyres is a nice 1960's style. Large three bedrooms, double garage good size garden. Inside everything is pristine, it is obviously lived in but kept immaculate. Family photos of Stephanie, her presumably husband and child are in prime position but the child's play room looks unused, upstairs the child's bedroom has no clothing and there are no clothes belonging to the male.<br />
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Thaumic readings suggest a very low level background noise, which upon walking around the house Agent Piers believes may originate from outside. They continue to check inside first. The attic shows an alter and devil worship paraphernalia but not the real thing the sort of stuff you'd get in any Goth shop or Heavy Metal boutique. The thaumic reader does however pick up one object a black velvet flannel size piece of clothe that looks like it was dropped rather than put there on purpose. Also in the attic are the vacuum packed clothes of the man and child stacked in a corner nice and neat.<br />
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Outside the thaumic response seems to come from a large church a block away to the rear of the house. Not being put off my this the party head toward it only to discover that it is something beyond the church. The well protected walls of a great estate block the centre of activity.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
A quick Google maps and search shows the estate to be the House of Re-Embodied Enlightenment. A cross reference to the Laundry data-base replies</div>
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RESTRICTED,</div>
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PASSWORD REQUIRED.</div>
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An access request is duly sent in.</div>
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Deciding not to continue without more information and realising it was well pass 7pm they decide to track Peckard.</div>
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<h6>
<span style="font-size: large;">George Peckard and Jenny Willobie</span></h6>
<h3>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
George Peckard is in his local as usual for quarter to eight any evening. He is also quite friendly and once engaged in conversation happy to talk about his finds, but when he is asked about any finds he has handed in lately he cannot remember handing any in for weeks in fact he has trouble talking about anything in the last few days. It does come to light however that he usually works with a partner who should be here by now wonder what's keeping him? Asking about Jackie Scott, Peckards partner in detection they find out that he works for Deep Space Research as a low level techie, repairs maintenance, that sort of thing. Jackie also supply's all the detector equipment which he keeps in the back of his Volvo Estate and he lives not far away with his girlfriend Jenny.<br />
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Outside Jenny's The Dog's are barking immediately, Piers notices a car parked further up the street watching the house, he steps behind a post box and ignites his hand of glory. Next to the car window he taps sharply on the window and uses his warrant card. The two watchers turn out to be members of Safety Inc sent to pick up Jackie Scott and recover some stolen items for Deep Space Research. They are invited to drive to Birmingham and having failed their resistance do so.<br />
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Back at Jenny's she is scared and talks through the chain on the door. It becomes apparent that she is lying but unlike Peckard, she is doing so of her own violation. The warrant card is pulled again and she admits to having seen Scott, that he is in hiding, believing he is being watched. He'd come back for money and left yesterday morning.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The team decided at this point that they would book into a local hotel and pick up the thread next morning. </span></div>
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The BLUE HADES
civilisation is several million years older than humans. They are <span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">–</span> or, to be more
precise, the observed members of their civilisation are <span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">–</span> aquatic
humanoids, resembling shambling frogs. BLUE HADES (traditionally known as Deep Ones)
claim the oceans as their domain and they are supremely well adapted for this
environment. They can breathe at any depth, and are apparently immune to the
ill effects of pressure and cold. Their scaly skin gives them limited
protection against conventional weapons, although living at the bottom of the
ocean makes the use of such weapons against BLUE HADES improbable at best. On
the surface, they are more vulnerable and there have been incidents where
humans have inflicted casualties on BLUE HADES shore parties.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;">Biology<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The
classification BLUE HADES covers multiple related species of creature. Some are
known to be cross-breeds or engineered constructs; there are likely other forms
of BLUE HADES in the deep ocean. Given their mastery of creating new life forms
for particular tasks, it is possible that all BLUE HADES encountered up until
now are servitor creatures and we have yet to encounter the true form of the
species. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Type I BLUE
HADES (<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">‘</span>Deep Ones<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span>) are amphibious humanoids, standing approximately 1.5 metres tall.
They have bulbous yellow eyes with nictitating membranes, webbed hands and feet
and stubby but powerful tails. Their gills are located on the neck and are
easily visible (and quite vulnerable to precision attacks). Despite possessing
advanced technology, many BLUE HADES attacks have involved the use of claws and
teeth. Internal organs include two respiratory systems, a circulatory system
that appears to use capillary action instead of a pump, a highly adaptive digestive
system and several unidentified organs. Their closest living relative is the
crocodile. They can speak, but their vocalisations are intended for use
underwater. A few BLUE HADES know English but most produce only untranslatable
whoops and bellows. Diplomatic relations are carried out through Type II or III
interpreters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Type I BLUE
HADES are capable of mating with humans. Only a subset of the Type I's have appropriate genitalia (either their
anatomy alters in response to some biochemical signal or they are capable of
producing and grafting suitable implants). In several places around the world,
BLUE HADES made contact with isolated coastal communities and coerced or
persuaded them into mating with the sea-creatures to produce Type II (<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">‘</span>Hybrid<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span>) creatures.
It was previously theorised that BLUE
HADES share a common ancestor with humanity, due to their ability to crossbreed
with our species (see INNSMOUTH, WITCHES' HOLE and HADES EXPEDITION);
subsequent analysis of BLUE HADES samples and genetic material has disproved
this theory. BLUE HADES ancestors
diverged from our own approximately 200 million years ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Type II BLUE
HADES or Hybrids are the offspring of a Type I and a normal human (or two
hybrids or a human and a hybrid <span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">–</span> the BLUE HADES genetics are dominant,
but can lie dormant until activated). Hybrids appear comparatively normal in
early life but, if the BLUE HADES genes are activated, the hybrid becomes more
and more like a Type I until it undergoes a metamorphosis into an aquatic
being. Typical hybrids are bald, with pale or scaly skin and bulging eyes,
similar to an advanced case of Grave's Disease. The precise activating
conditions for BLUE HADES transformation are unknown, but common triggers for
transformation include:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Long-term
residence in a coastal location.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Drowning
or extreme stress in close proximity to water.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Exposure
to thaumic fields.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Exposure
to BLUE HADES individuals or artefacts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Type III BLUE
HADES are silvery humanoids, with a physiology similar to Type Is but with much
more human proportions. Type III BLUE HADES are fully amphibious, unlike Type
IIs who have only a limited aquatic reach and Type Is who prefer to remain in
the deep ocean. Type IIIs were created as ambassadors and interpreters for use
during the second and subsequent Benthic Treaty negotiations.<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">Employee Note: </span></b>If you test positive for BLUE HADES
residual genetic code during a standard medical evaluation, consult with Human
Resources. Activation of BLUE HADES genetics can be controlled with medication
and simple precautions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The BLUE HADES<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span> reasons for
creating Type II crossbreeds is unknown, but the widespread nature of the
phenomenon suggests it is of great importance to their civilisation. Theories
include:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">The Benkett
Hypothesis</span></b>: BLUE HADES
are biologically long-lived, perhaps even immortal. They therefore must
reproduce exceedingly slowly to avoid over-expansion. The few hybrids produced
every year are the only offspring produced in the entire BLUE HADES
civilisation. Critics of this theory argue that BLUE HADES predates humanity<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span>s evolution
by millions of years; how did the species reproduce before that? The appearance
of Type III creatures also suggests that BLUE HADES are capable of reproducing
without human incubators.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">The
Crick-Omstead Hypothesis: </span></b>BLUE
HADES are engaged in a long-term genetic engineering process. The <span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">‘</span>taint<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span> remains
dormant in all carriers; some estimates suggest that up to 40% of the
population are carriers for BLUE HADES genetic material. This project might be
intended to merge <i><span style="font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">homo sapiens </span></i>into BLUE HADES or to avert CASE NIGHTMARE
GREEN or some other cosmological threat. The Benthic Treaty forbids using
humans as test subjects.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">The Allen
Hypothesis: </span></b>The
primary purpose of the BLUE HADES interactions with coastal communities is to
gather intelligence about events on the surface. The Type IIs are effectively
spies for the undersea civilisation; when the change brings them into the oceans,
they carry the information they have learned down with them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">Culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Most of what
is known about BLUE HADES culture comes from the few interactions involving coastal
communities and the Deep Ones; these accounts are necessarily coloured by the
beliefs of either the BLUE HADES hybrids or, more commonly, the beliefs of
neighbouring communities who feared and mistrusted the hybrids. BLUE HADES
worship or serve ancestor-deities called Dagon and Hydra (who may be elder Deep
Ones). In several cases, adopting Dagon worship was part of the bargain struck
by BLUE HADES with coastal communities (see also BABYLON FILE).<o:p></o:p></div>
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BLUE HADES are
urbanised, with most of their population living in cities on the ocean floor.
Most of these cities are on the abyssal plains but there are smaller
settlements in shallower waters. These shallow-water settlements are usually
close to hybridised communities (cf Innsmouth in Massachusetts and DEVIL'S
REEF, Dunwich and DANTE EAST). Whether the BLUE HADES settlements were built to
monitor the surface operations or if the Deep Ones simply made contact with the
closest humans to their settlements is a mystery.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">Technology<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Without the
ability to use fire and work metals, BLUE HADES have followed a radically
different technology path to that of humanity. They use servitor creatures
(including shoggoths) instead of vehicles and much of their technology involves
biological engineering, sorcery or psychic effects. They also manipulate
condensed matter states using abstruse physics; one side effect of this technology
is high levels of neutrino emissions, which have allowed us to partially map
BLUE HADES colonies. BLUE HADES<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span> offensive capabilities against the
surface are surprisingly extensive. In previous encounters, they have
demonstrated the ability to sink ships by creating bubbles of methane underneath
the keel, removing the vessel<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span>s buoyancy. A larger methane release
could massively accelerate climate change, rendering the surface virtually
uninhabitable within a comparatively short time (clathrate gun hypothesis).
They are also capable of producing earthquakes and tsunami on demand. Their use
of biological agents suggests a capacity of biowarfare beyond our capacity to
contain. Furthermore, BLUE HADES is virtually immune to counter-attack <span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">–</span> we currently
have no effective weapons that could target their cities, as even a nuclear
depth charge would be severely limited by the pressure at the ocean floor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;">Diplomatic
Relations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Up until 1957,
encounters with BLUE HADES were extremely limited and usually hostile. During the
20<span style="font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">th </span>Century, the
advent of mass communication and transport made it harder for isolated coastal
communities to conceal BLUE HADES presence. After several incidents (Dunwich, England
in 1889, Innsmouth, MA in 1927/8, Port Pegasus, New Zealand in 1938) where
human authorities intervened to prevent further contact and multiple
retaliatory strikes by BLUE HADES (Witches<span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span> Hole, Bermuda Triangle), the decision
was taken in 1943 to attempt peaceful contact<o:p></o:p></div>
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with the
sea-dwellers. Using formulae derived from Order of Dagon scriptures and the
Chain Home Low radio stations at RAF Dunwich, SOE managed to call up BLUE HADES
emissaries. Initially, BLUE HADES assumed that SOE desired the standard bargain
(gold and eventual immortality in exchange for mating rights), but diplomacy
prevailed. In retrospect, it is likely that the discovery of<o:p></o:p></div>
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the Turing
Theorem proved a decisive factor <span style="font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;">–</span> now that humanity had the capacity to
accidentally wipe out all life on Earth, the BLUE HADES civilisation <i><span style="font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT;">had </span></i>to take notice of us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Journal; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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This initial
hesitant contact was followed in 1953 with the Benthic Treaty of the Azores.
There is a large BLUE HADES colony close to the Azores and emissaries from that
colony met with representatives of the British Government about <i><span style="font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT;">HMS
Eagle. </span></i>From this
meeting, the groundwork for a treaty between our two species was established.
Both sides agreed to meet again six months later. During this intervening
period, the British government contacted NATO allies and briefed<o:p></o:p></div>
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them on
AZORIAN BLUE HADES. After the second meeting (which was attended by the first
Type III BLUE HADES), this briefing was extended to all signatories of the
Helsinki Protocol including the USSR and its satellites and a draft treaty was
circulated to all parties.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Benthic
Treaty (also known as the Agreement of the Azores) was signed in October of
1954. The treaty covers relations between the Deep Ones and humanity, outlines
their respective spheres of influence and establishes limits on the actions of
both sides. The penalties for breaking the treaty are severe; they are enforced
by geasa on the signatories. (This actually penalises the immortal BLUE HADES
signatories more than the human ones, as an individual human representative may
be long dead before his side breaks the treaty; this is balanced by the BLUE
HADES policy of answering treaty violations with extreme force.) The treaty has
also become the cornerstone of post-Helsinki occult diplomacy in the developed
world. As no human power wishes to anger the Deep Ones, the Benthic Treaty is
the ultimate court of appeal. Subsequent additions to the treaty define
communications channels between the various human occult intelligence agencies,
allowing them to observe each other and ensure the Benthic Treaty is not being
violated. So far, the Benthic Treaty has survived four revisions; the next
summit meeting is in 2013, by which time we will be well into CASE NIGHTMARE
GREEN and it may all be academic anyway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 6.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">1 </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT;">Certain paranoids have
suggested that the whole Benthic Treaty is a huge bluff on the part of BLUE
HADES and that when the Stars Come Right, the Deep Ones will side with their
squid-like masters and eat our brains. According to this theory, Articles 6 and
7 are a nefarious scheme to retard our development of the occult weapons that
might stop the cosmic horrors. Supporting evidence for this: pretty much none,
although the regular late night poker games in the Azores do show that Deep
Ones are really good at bluffing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">The
Benthic Treaty for Bluffers!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
1</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Both species have the right to exist on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
2</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Everyone agrees to abide by the terms of this treaty. The treaty
can be revised by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">subsequent
agreements and both sides agree to attend future meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
3</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Remedies and punishments for treaty violations, which can be
summarised as ‘we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">reserve the
right to sink your country’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
4</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Sets the limits of both sides; humanity is limited to one
kilometre below mean sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">level and the
Deep Ones agree not to encroach upon the land, unless they feel like it.
Humanity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">is not to
bother the Deep Ones; the Deep Ones will consider not swatting our civilisation
on a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">whim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
5</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: The Deep Ones agree not to take our women without permission;
establishes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">communications
protocols for interactions outside the scope of the treaty and ensures that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">Type II
hybrids are permitted to exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
6</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Both sides agree not to summon Azathoth or any other cosmic
horror that might<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">eat the planet
without written notification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
7</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Do not mess with anything in Appendix Two. It is mostly a list
of sites on the ocean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">floor and
Antarctica where Thou Shalt Not Go but also includes several incantations and
gate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">destinations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Article
8</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Gives the Deep Ones observer status at the UN (they do not use
it) and a legal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">standing in
international affairs – but the existence of an alien hyper-civilisation is to
be kept<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">secret as much
as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Appendix
One</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: Legal and linguistic definitions for both sides, plus the
binding geasa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Appendix
Two</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: The list of things humanity is not meant to meddle with, in case
we blow up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Appendix
Three</span></b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">: More legal stuff that the Deep Ones could
not be bothered reading, so it is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">stuffed into
this appendix and ignored by everyone except lawyers. The relevant bits cover<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;">relations
between Helsinki signatories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ComicSansMS;"><br /></span></div>
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<i>The details above have been taken from the Laundry rulebook
for player information only and are not intended as an infringement of copyright.</i></div>
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Laundry - GM: Sunday 18th August</h2>
<h4>
Evening - Hawking</h4>
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Scott and Packard do some metal detecting at The Clefts with
detector equipment borrowed from Deep Space Geographic. They find and strange oddly uncomforting
object that they cannot identify and decide to hand it in at the local archaeology
centre.</div>
<h3>
Monday 19th August</h3>
<h4>
Afternoon - Handover</h4>
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Packard hands in the strange object at Between Nations. It
is handed to Kupka Shahn who recognising its importance places it in the
Special Safe upstairs. Stephanie Tyres
and Jacob Tavish witness the handover. Shahn asks Cornelius Bridges for access
to the other Safe and they place the object within.</div>
<h4>
Afternoon - Safety Inc visit Scott</h4>
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Scott narrowly misses the Safety Inc ransacking his home and
goes back to his girlfriends where he has been staying recently. He borrows some money and goes into hiding
arranging to meet her again on the 22nd.</div>
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Afternoon - Tyres at work</div>
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Tyres is a Hades Root 9 agent and has recognised the object
as a Permian Green artefact and contacts Hades Root 9 base. She later leaves the office for a smoke break
and picks up a small plastic bag left under her car. She removes a package which she leaves on her
desk. She then removes the unused
security headset from its charger and replaces it with another taken from the bag. She stuffs the bag in her pocket and after a moment's
hesitation dumps the good headset in a nearby waste paper basket and returns to
work.</div>
<h4>
Night - Robbery</h4>
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Fooler taking the only charged headset has taken the one
placed by Tyres. At just after midnight
he receives a call from Tyres that triggers the grid inside the casing of the
replaced headset. He takes the package
from her desk, unwraps it on the stairs discarding the paper and proceeds to
the safe where he uses the content of a jar taken from the package to dissolve
the safe and remove the object. He then
leaves catching the last number 47 bus using a day bus pass bought that
afternoon.. He leaves </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Middlehampton Locations</span></h2>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">Clearthorpes</span></h5>
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Large industrial town once dominated by its shipbuilding
industry gone to rack and ruin.</div>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">The Clefts</span></h5>
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A series of deep caverns that duck down between two outcrops
of basalt. </div>
<h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Cryingford </span></h3>
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A small run down hamlet of cottages on the River
Darkling. These were abandoned for no
recorded reason in the 1950's but are still registered to owners all of whom
are members of the Re-embodied Enlightenment.</div>
<h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Littlethorpe</span></h3>
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A fishing village known for its shellfish and the great
shingle arm that reaches out from the River Shrill that protects the sand beds
where the shellfish are harvested. </div>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">Middlehampton </span></h5>
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A small county between Wales and England that has at various
times belong to both country's to such an extent that it now claims an almost
autonomous state with allegiance to Britain but nether England or Wales. </div>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">Pickworth</span></h5>
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A modern town dominated by the UFR complex with a number of
subsidiary industrial units around its outskirts.</div>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">Ravisham </span></h5>
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Small town near Littlethorpe where the House of Re-embodied
Enlightenment have its estate.</div>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">Thredford Estate</span></h5>
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Council estate with a large Ghoul residence in Clearthorpes.</div>
<h4>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Rivers</span></h4>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">River Shrill</span></h5>
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Runs through Ravisham and Littlethorpe</div>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">River Tears </span></h5>
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Rivers through Middlehampton and out to the Irish Sea at
Clearthorpes. As the Darkling's strange
properties desolve into the greater river they maintain large 'drops' as if of
a slightly different nature to the water around it. As they slowly break up they sparkle like
tear drops in the river hence the name.
Although the Darkling joins the Tears just outside Pickworth it doesn't
start to break up until it passes over a natural weir at Cryingford, a now
quant little run down hamlet that once was the major river crossing until the
local lord decided to build at bridge at Middlehampton itself. This was after the Darkling Witch Trails back
in the 17th century. A local legend says
the Tears are from the bodies of the drowned witches. In reality the River Tears has been so named
from much further back in recorded time.</div>
<h5>
<span style="font-size: large;">The Darkling</span></h5>
<br />
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Emerges in the lower Clefts and joins the Tears near
Pickworth. Named for its odd darkish colour which seems to retain a crystalline
sparkliness that can still clearly be seen as a strong current down the centre
of the Tears before it breaks up at Cryingford. </div>
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