AN UNUSUAL DELIVERY
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
– Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
In An unusual delivery we meet Marcus LaHabra, Kathryn Petersen and Melinda Williams en route to Las Vegas. The events occurring in this episode are happening ten years after the adventures in the UK. That being said, this episode opens up to new players.Everyone just knows that the roads aren’t safe these days. Psycho killers stand along the edge of obscure routes, searching for prey as they thumb for a ride, while carjackers stalk the back roads in fake cruisers and stolen uniforms, more than willing to part honest folks from their vehicles. It’s a sick, convoluted tapestry, woven out of countless miles of asphalt; as dark, strange and twisted as anything that happens among the labyrinthine alleys of any crumbling metropolis, or within the walled palatial estates of the jaded rich. Along certain stretches of road, people occasionally go missing. Often they’re the sorts whom no one misses: runaways and prostitutes, transients and criminals. Perhaps the monsters that infest the shadows take them, whether to drink their blood or to feed on their souls, or perhaps some alien consciousness seeping up out of the land itself desires them. Most of the time, though, it’s just mundane human evil that makes people disappear.
Using the trope of "a bump in the road" we meet the trio in the middle of the road halfway to nowhere with an engine malfunction. After being in contact with each-other, the three former colleagues are on a trip to Las Vegas to catch up - and maybe decide to finish up some loose ends. Further characters will be woven in as the story proceeds.
The stink of stale sweat and human waste is saturated into the walls, and the only light she can make out leaks through the tiny space between the reinforced steel door and the cold concrete floor. She flexes her fingers and toes to try to get some feeling back into them, but her pallid flesh remains numb with the pervasive chill. Her hair was caked in blood and filth, but all she could do was stare at the door and that thin ray of light.
She’d start crying, but that didn’t solve anything the last ten times. She’d scream, but there’s no one to hear. She’d struggle in her shackles, but the bruises already circling her wrists and ankles prove how futile that is. If she had a way to kill herself, she’d probably have used it days ago. She heard a conversation between two of the men, awhile back, somewhere far down the hallway. They talked about “moving the product,” which she assumed meant her, but it didn’t sound like where she was going would be anywhere better than this.
It won’t help anything, but she starts crying again anyway.
Characters from the past:
Marcus LaHabra, ex-L.A. SWAT sniper.
Kathryn Petersen, ME
Melinda Williams, punk rocker
New character ideas:
PM me for suggestions, please.
This scenario is published for World of Darkness RPG. The name, is... a dead give-away so I can't print it. It's written by Stephen Michael DiPesa.
I will obviously change things in the scenario to fit my game.
Preface to the game is The L.A. Skinner and The Dreaming Man chapters for the characters from the past. Not required reading for new players.
Game system is Call of Cthulhu.
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/Dave
