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Title Page ............................... 1

Credits .................................... 2

Table Of Contents ................. 3

List Of Characters ................ 4

Player’s Introduction ............ 5

The Victims ............................ 7 Guy Leclerc ..................... 7 Alponse Molyneasux ....... 7 Christine Garnier ............. 8 Renee Pierpont .................. 8 Vincent Bodine ................ 8 Mary Pressman ................. 9 Dr. Gerard Rousseau ........ 9

Keepers Background .............. 11

Game Location ....................... 13

Game Overview ...................... 14

Game Conclusions .................. 15

Special Props Notes ................ 16 Money ............................... 16 Weapons ............................ 16 Arcan Relics ...................... 16 Templar Documents ........... 16 Absinthe ............................ 17 Lioa ................................... 17 The Hound Of Tindalos ..... 17

Characters ............................... 19 Jules Duvernois ............... 19 Guy Maurey .................... 21 Marie Lupesco ................ 22 Elise Noel ........................ 23 Valerie D’aubigne ........... 25

Margaux Champrey ......... 26 Sabine Clare .................... 28 Anne Bontecou ................ 29 Camille Follett ................ 30 Gabrielle Belmont ........... 31 Constance Maigny .......... 32 Eva Strauss ...................... 33 Henri Durant ................... 34 Professor William Milius . 36 Max Reynold ................... 38 Dr. Reinhard Von Sydow . 39 David Sulley .................... 40 Bentrand Pomeroy ........... 41 Etienne Legard ................. 43 Jacques Deville ................ 45 Pascal Bruyere ................. 46 Mr. Wang ......................... 48 Robert Gordon ................ 50 Serge “Stinky” Aiton ........ 52 Sebastian Vasser .............. 54 Xavier Case ..................... 55 Pierre Beauvais ............... 57 Nicole Fasset ................... 59 Yves Bovie ...................... 60 Maurice Devereux ........... 61

Bottle Labels ........................... 63

Electronic Products ................ 66

Analog Products ...................... 68

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The Green FairySetting: Paris, 1898

Characters

Jules Duvernois ............................................ Owner / Operator of The Green FairyGuy Maurey .................................................. BartenderMarie Lupesco .............................................. WaitressElise Noel ...................................................... WaitressValerie D’Aubigne ....................................... Celebrated Cabaret DancerMargaux Champney ................................... Noted ActressSabine Clare ................................................. MadameAnne Bontecou ............................................ Fille de JoieCamille Follett ............................................. Fille de JoieGabrielle Belmont ....................................... OccultistConstance Maigny ....................................... Successful WriterEva Strauss .................................................. OccultistHenri Durant ............................................... Police InvestigatorProfessor William Milius ............................ OccultistMax Reynold ................................................ Professional GamblerDr. Reinhard von Sydow ............................ OccultistDavid Sulley .................................................. Professional Gambler (Undercover Pinkerton)Bertrand Pomeroy ........................................ Wealthy IndustrialistEtienne Legard ............................................. Impoverished ArtistJacques Deville ............................................. Professional GamblerPascal Bruyere .............................................. Impoverished ArtistMr. Wang ...................................................... Opium SupplierRobert Gordon ............................................. Impoverished WriterSerge “Stinky” Aiton .................................... Impoverished ArtistSebastian Vasser ........................................... Art DealerXavier Case ................................................... Famous IllusionistPierre Beauvais ............................................. Crime BossNicole Fasset ................................................. Companion to BeauvaisYves Bovie ..................................................... ThugMaurice Devereux ........................................ ThugSam

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Player’s Introduction

The Montmartre district of Paris is a haven for artists, writers, actors, and musicians of the bohemian movement. It is a crowded, lively hotbed of unbridled creativity and passion, no stranger to countless human vices and amusements.

One of the more notorious bars in the Montmartre district is “The Green Fairy.” It is owned and operated by Jules Duvernois and conveniently situated between cabarets, artist communes and a large immigrant community. The Green Fairy caters to the needs of bohemian revolutionaries, criminals, and the morbidly curious seeking oblivion or inspiration in alcohol, absinthe, drugs, and sex.

A grim specter haunts the district, oozing an undercurrent of terror beneath the music and revelry. Blood flows through the gutters and cobblestones from a series of gruesome murders ripping through the belly of Montmartre. There have been seven known murders during the last three months; most of the victims were talented and aspiring artists. The press has named the killer “the Raptor,” as he strikes without warning, rends his victims apart, and disappears again into thin air as if some great bird of prey.

The police have no solid leads but dozens of theories. Some victims were known to have money problems and debt with the local underworld. A number of them were talented but undiscovered artists whose works now command outrageous prices in the most exquisite galleries of Paris. Affluent but unscrupulous dealers are now investing in other bohemian artists, speculating on which of them may become the next victim of the Raptor.

There are also those who point fingers at the immigrant communities: the Orientals, the North Africans, and the Gypsies. They whisper of territorial battles or heathen, foreign rites. A few have speculated that perhaps London’s famous Ripper, or an ambitious imitator, is actively slaying ten years after the Whitechapel murders. Even more theories can be found, but no solid thread connects all the victims save their presence in Montmartre and the grisly manner of their deaths.

Many details of the murders have been kept out of the media, but it is known that all the victims were savagely torn apart. The wounds were not clean cuts from a blade, but ripped through skin and flesh as if from claws or hooks. Some pieces of the bodies were missing. Other details have been carefully kept from the public but every other person

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has his own “source” for murder details, each one more outrageous than the next.

But even the fear of the Raptor cannot crush the spirit, creative energy and the libertine revelry of Montmartre. Tonight, just like every night, The Green Fairy is full of patrons seeking inspiration, pleasure, oblivion or whatever questionable purposes draw them to this establishment.

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The Victims

Durant, Sulley and Duvernois know all of the following information about the victims. Other characters know some of the victims or some information related to them. The Keeper may consider making multiple copies of a victim’s data but black out sections given to specific players as he sees fit. A few characters will have some additional information noted in their personal backgrounds.

The known victims of the Raptor are:

Guy LeClerc – Artist The first victim slain three months ago, LeClerc was only 24 years old and an exceptional painter of ordinary Paris life. He was originally from the countryside, and had been in Paris for three years. In the months before his death, his art began to transform into something much darker than his previous work. People in the street scenes bore seeping boils and leprous eruptions. Malevolent shapes lurked in the shadows. In some paintings the walls of buildings began to curve and twist into impossible angles. In his last paintings there was a sinister black shape within the building shadows that moved closer and closer into the foreground with each subsequent painting. He was alone when he died, torn apart in his studio apartment in the dead of night.

Alphonse Molyneaux - Artist The second and third victims of Raptor died just over two months ago. Molyneaux was an artist who specialized in sentimental portraits of some of the dancers and prostitutes of the Montmartre district. He was 42 years old. Beginning about a month before his murder; Molyneaux’s portraits transformed into a succession of graphic “deconstructions.” The beautiful, melancholic women began to come apart. Ragged scraps of skin and muscle began to float like bloody satellites around his subjects, revealing gleaming bones and raw tissues below. The deconstruction of the women increased as bones began to separate, and organs and slick webs of blood vessels and nerves hung amidst a fine mist of bright blood. The last painting showed a dark shape

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with baleful, inhuman eyes behind the subject, glaring with pure hatred through the suspended clutter of bones, entrails and gobbets of flesh. He died late at night in his studio in the company of Christine Garnier, whom he had painted on several occasions.

Christine Garnier – Fille de Joie Garnier died in the company of Alphonse Molyneaux, an artist for whom she had posed on many occasions. She was 26 years old. The two seemed to be affectionately intimate, although Garnier had confided with friends how Molyneaux had become increasingly erratic, jittery, and bizarre in his art. She died late at night in his studio, her torn and mangled corpse mixed amidst the remains of Molyneaux’s.

Renee Pierpont – Cleaning Woman & Waitress The fourth victim of the Raptor worked at The Green Fairy as a cleaning woman and occasional waitress. She was 34 years old. A tragic individual, her body was contorted and spastic from defects at birth. With a dragging leg, clutching fingers and difficulty speaking, she was often the victim of jokes and abuse. Nevertheless, Renee had a sweet personality, and was loved by most of her coworkers and those who knew her well. She was known to indulge in alcohol and opium to deaden the misery of her off-hours. Pierpont died alone on the street in the early morning hours while heading back to her apartment after work. She died six weeks ago.

Vincent Bodine – Writer The Raptor’s fifth and sixth victims died together. Bodine was a novelist and playwright and one of the founders of The Grand Guignol, a popular small theater that opened last year. The Grand Guignol is renowned for its repertoire of short plays of terror, murder, and horrifically graphic violence. Bodine was proudest of his works which had less jaded members of the audience fleeing the theater in revulsion. Despite the nature of his plays, Bodine was personally jovial and an informed conversationalist. After the publication and subsequent government ban of the play Le Roi en Jaune four years ago, Bodine was obsessed with developing a play of his own that would cause such a reaction and uproar that he would earn himself eternal notoriety. He spent months before his death consorting with members of the criminal underworld, the most bizarre artists, and even inmates of the Sainte-Anne Asylum. He accumulated significant gambling debts during this time and spent long nights drinking and chasing the dragon. He was murdered three weeks ago alongside the American heiress Mary Pressman in a dark alley following an evening at the Guignol. Bodine was 47 years old. Attendance at the Grand Guignol has only increased since his murder.

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Mary Pressman – Heiress Slain with the Grand Guignol playwright Vincent Bodine, Mary Pressman was the daughter of the American industrialist Arthur Pressman and heiress to an immense fortune from his steelworks and railroad. She was 31 years old. She had been living in Paris for seven months in a luxury apartment on the outskirts on Montmartre. Pressman had been having the time of her life amidst the bohemian arts community, spending time in their bars and cafes, as well as attending numerous theater events and cabarets. She selectively revealed her background and wealth only to a trusted few, and most believed her to simply be a moderately well-off American woman trying to catch some of the excitement of the Parisian arts community. She had apparently begun dating a playwright of the Grand Guignol named Vincent Bodine. The two were ripped apart in a dark alley near the Guignol three weeks ago.

Dr. Gerard Rousseau – Occultist Rousseau, the seventh and most recent victim of the Raptor, was a medical doctor and a noted occultist. He was 53 years old. An early member of the Theosophical Society, Rousseau’s occult studies focused on the mysteries of Tibet, India and the middle-east. He published several speculative works on the Djinn and Atlanteans. He often traveled between London and Paris. He became a member of the Golden Dawn and a close friend of Wescott and Mathers. He had been spending the last years almost exclusively in Paris, although he maintained far-flung correspondences. Mathers and his wife planned on moving to Paris next year to build the Rite of Isis movement, but Rousseau declined the invitation to participate citing important research of his own. He was seen frequently in Montmartre where he spent a great deal of time amongst members of the Chinese and North African communities. He was found in a garret apartment just over a week ago; the brutal mutilation clearly the work of the Raptor. Rousseau had apparently rented the apartment a week prior and had been working hard to refinish the rooms, apparently as a harmonic, curvaceous, soft-edged location from which to continue his occult research.

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Keeper’s Background

The truth behind the Raptor and the brutal slayings can be found in an innocent-looking white powder.

The owner of The Green Fairy, Jules Duvernois, takes pride in supplying all manner of diversions for his clientele. Many come to The Green Fairy for inspiration and expansion of their consciousness. Others seek merciful oblivion or to feed their jaded appetites on new and exotic sensations. In addition to wines, beers, and liquors from across Europe, Duvernois buys prodigious quantities of morphine, hashish, opium, and even more exotic drugs from both the local underworld and his contacts within the foreign immigrant communities in Montmartre. His establishment has become a crossroads of criminal enterprise as

well as a destination for those seeking chemical revelations.

About five months ago, Duvernois heard a drunken patron speaking of a rare and highly exotic drug called Liao. He had recently returned from travels in French Indochina and claimed the drug was produced from indigenous flowers and herbs by certain Asian tribes. The drunk said it was unlike any other drug he’d experienced and opened up the mind to the most amazing dreams and visions. Knowing the drug

would bring top franc from some of his bohemian patrons, Duvernois pressed his opium supplier, Mr. Wang, to find him a supply of this Liao.

To his surprise, Mr. Wang refused. From Wang’s barely comprehensible French and sign language, Duvernois gathered that there were some Indochinese immigrants in Paris called the Zsou-Zsou who used Liao in their religious rituals. But Wang adamantly refused to have any dealings with them and warned Duvernois that their own business

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relationship would be at risk should Duvernois pursue any independent dealings. Not one to take directions from a Celestial, the bar owner wrote it off as Wang’s attempt to maintain the lion’s share of drug traffic from Asia. Duvernois asked local French crime boss Pierre Beauvais to set up contact with the Zsou-Zsou and serve as a middleman for the purchase of a drug called Liao. Beauvais understands his role in the operation (Duvernois doesn’t want to jeopardize his opium supply from Wang) but doesn’t mind making a few easy francs.

To maintain a local monopoly on Liao, Duvernois has never acknowledged the drug to his patrons. Instead he masks its effects as a “unique and personal recipe” of absinthe. Duvernois claims to have several bottles of homemade absinthe he bought off a monk outside Paris. Needing a name for the product, and allegedly remembering the old, bald warty monk who sold him the absinthe, Duvernois labeled the bottles as “St. Toad’s Reserve.” (The lie makes a good story.) He sells glasses of this particular absinthe at exorbitant prices, typically to select clients by personal invitation to sample the unique blend.

The absinthe is actually just locally distilled liquor, but Duvernois infuses the Liao into his patron’s glasses by substituting the usual sugar cube with a compressed measure of the Asian drug.

Duvernois has never tried the Liao himself, as his personal tastes run to whisky and gin. His more than satisfied patrons describe the most amazing visions. They see the space and other customers around them bend and twist, and catch flashes of the distant past as if through the eyes of their ancestors. They more they imbibe, the further into the past the visions take them and the more of the “true world” around them they see.

Selling the drug doesn’t trouble Duvernois. What does bother him is that four of the Raptor’s victims were all faithful devotees of Liao. LeClerc, Molyneaux, Bodine and Rousseau had all become faithful imbibers of “St. Toad.” He suspects Wang may have learned of his traffic with the Zsou-Zsou and has had his customers and even one of his own staff murdered by some of his barbaric Chinese goons. He has no idea why Wang hasn’t confronted him directly and is still supplying his opium, but who can understand the logic of the Celestials. The uninterrupted supply of opium has kept Duvernois from challenging Wang about the Liao, but the brutality of the murders is getting under his skin.

The murderer is not human, but a Hound of Tindalos. Unaware of the dangers of the Plutonian Drug, the minds of the heaviest users have pushed so far back in time that they came to the attention of a

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member of this ancient and utterly alien race. The victims awoke from the nightmarish confrontation soaked in cold sweat, unaware that a Hound was now tracking them across time. An increasing dread gnawed at their sanity and reason as they felt the Hound grow nearer, its lean and loathsome form bounding across the eons like so many hills and valleys, unerringly tracking the psychic trail left by the victim.

Garnier and Pressman were unfortunate bystanders who happened to be present when the Hound materialized. Pierpont’s death was another tragic turn of her unlucky life. She had discovered Duvernois’ stash while cleaning his office and mistook the Liao for an opiate she could use to numb the pain of her existence. She stole a single dose of the Liao, but took so much in her single use that the Hound immediately began to track her.

Etienne Legard, another young artist and regular Liao user, has attracted the attention of the Hound. The Hound has picked up his scent and is quickly closing in on him.

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