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So, if you live in the world of darkness and have a run in with the supernatural, what are the strangest conclusions you could come to?
-Vampires are the Illuminati- you followed the money, and every time you did, it led back to the so-called "All Night Society". they have their hooks in business, religion, politics, organised crime, the media, everything. They have genetically engineered super soldiers who can take on animal traits and shrug off gunshots. They use super-potent drugs to addict people into service. They can exploit subliminal messages from media to control minds and emotions. And there's evidence they've been controlling us since the days of ancient Rome.
Luckily, you found their home base, their "Elysium". You set up a hidden camera there. Once it starts filming, you'll blow this whole thing wide open
-Werewolves are servants of the Demiurge- you have seen angels, come down to earth. And when you did, the hounds of hell came forth to rip it apart. Immortal, wielding dark magic and able to pass as human or beast, these elite soldiers of the Demiurge work to keep heaven separate from earth, denying us our spiritual existence. They speak freely of how they killed The Father and sealed off the spiritual dimension- some with shame, some with pride, but none deny it.
You can't stop them, but you've found something that can. An archangel, sealed on the moon for aeons before it broke back to earth. It is powerful, and you will find it, and serve it, and bring down the False Moon God.
Mages are possessed- He went mad, rambling about a strange land of wilderness and monsters. Now, he has strange powers and supernatural phenomena occur around him and he ignores his old friends and refuses to answer to his old name. Clearly, one of those "great beasts" hitched a ride in his body. His powers don't work properly when you're around, which makes sense. Presumably the presence of his friends are inspiring his original personality to resist the controlling force.
It's hanging out with other possessed- some by monsters, others by demons or angels or ghost or honest-to-god faeries, apparently. So you got your holy water and your bibles. They're meeting next Tuesday. It's time to save them all.
-Prometheans are infiltrators- you found something that looked like a woman, but wasn't. The ground sickened around her, and sometimes you'd look and she'd have skin of clay or strange glyphs on her forehead. You followed her, and she stood on the mountain and glowed with light and then she was just...a woman. No matter what you did, you couldn't find any evidence of anything but normal human anatomy inside and out. Which means...something's making humans. They're sending in the prototypes and then upgrading them until they're indistinguishable from anyone else, for who knows what nefarious purposes
You found another one of the things that look like humans..Once you catch it, you'll make it tell you who made it, and you'll get to shut down this whole thing once and for all.
-Changelings are undead- They died. Dead. You were there, saw the car hit them, saw them fall down. And then you saw them again a week later. Not even a scratch. You tried to go talk to them, but they paled and ran, Everyone told you that you were delusional with grief but you know it was them. You even dug up the coffin, and found only rags and dead bugs. You've been following them a while. They hang out with people who match long-cold missing people reports, and can go to some inhuman forest from any door. Is that the afterlife?
Luckily, you met an agent of death. It says it rules the land they went to. Just bring the poor lost soul to it, and it'll take them back there. It promises.
-Sin-Eaters are eldritch abominations- The house was haunted. Not a bad ghost, as these things go, and you thought you could ask it about some ancient horror haunting the area. And then you got there, and this creature was eating it. It looked human, but it's shadow was of some twisted monster and where it was cut the wound showed only fog. You shot at it, and it pulled off it's human face, revealing some horrifying mass of formless tendrils.
Steve went mad, but not you. You've been reading Lovecraft, elder signs and summoning rites. When you see the soul-eating monster again, you'll be ready.
-Mummies are angels- it radiated power and authority. It did miracles- parting the lake and calling forth fire from the sky. It shrugged off mortal weapons and drove those who saw it mad with awe.
Alas, it could only survive in this world for so long before it's powers guttered and it collapsed. Presumably, mankind's lack of faith drove it back to heaven.
But! The man who called it forth, he used a statue of a jackal to do it. He was a heretic, but you're not. If you steal the statue and take it to your church, the congregation's true faith should let it stay and purify the world. You have a gun and some of your friends. You storm the temple tonight
-Demons are aliens- It was some kind of super-advanced robot of no human design, and it straight-up stole her skin to wear. Now it walks around pretending to be her, but it still has psychic powers and advanced technology and some kind of universal translator. And it keeps going to report to mysterious masters. Who knows how many other people have been replaced by these body snatchers? You know when you went to the police, the officer you talked to just disappeared. No-one even knew he worked there.
You've found a building but, if you pull away one of the paintings, there are these strange alien machines underneath. You touched them and they burnt some kind of silver, twisting mark into your hand. Now you can read thoughts, and you know what's going to happen. But you aren't going to be replaced. You have a pipe bomb. Once you take down this place, this mothership, the invasion will be over, and she'll be avenged.
-Beasts are thought-forms. They went a little odd, after the break in. Swore the burglar was a literal giant and that they have been chosen to smite it. They asked you to come along on one of their hunts, and you decided to humour them. And lo and behold, an actual giant. Throwing cars and smashing through walls. The only explanation? Your friends obsession literally brought the creature to life. They thought about it so hard it became real. It even talked about wielding nightmares.
The giant died, but now they're talking about how some kind of sea-monster is after them. You don't know how long they have to keep thinking this before it becomes real, but you're not taking any chances. You've been focusing on angels. When the sea monster appears, they'll be there to ward it off. It'll all be fine.
-Vampires are the Illuminati- you followed the money, and every time you did, it led back to the so-called "All Night Society". they have their hooks in business, religion, politics, organised crime, the media, everything. They have genetically engineered super soldiers who can take on animal traits and shrug off gunshots. They use super-potent drugs to addict people into service. They can exploit subliminal messages from media to control minds and emotions. And there's evidence they've been controlling us since the days of ancient Rome.
Luckily, you found their home base, their "Elysium". You set up a hidden camera there. Once it starts filming, you'll blow this whole thing wide open
-Werewolves are servants of the Demiurge- you have seen angels, come down to earth. And when you did, the hounds of hell came forth to rip it apart. Immortal, wielding dark magic and able to pass as human or beast, these elite soldiers of the Demiurge work to keep heaven separate from earth, denying us our spiritual existence. They speak freely of how they killed The Father and sealed off the spiritual dimension- some with shame, some with pride, but none deny it.
You can't stop them, but you've found something that can. An archangel, sealed on the moon for aeons before it broke back to earth. It is powerful, and you will find it, and serve it, and bring down the False Moon God.
Mages are possessed- He went mad, rambling about a strange land of wilderness and monsters. Now, he has strange powers and supernatural phenomena occur around him and he ignores his old friends and refuses to answer to his old name. Clearly, one of those "great beasts" hitched a ride in his body. His powers don't work properly when you're around, which makes sense. Presumably the presence of his friends are inspiring his original personality to resist the controlling force.
It's hanging out with other possessed- some by monsters, others by demons or angels or ghost or honest-to-god faeries, apparently. So you got your holy water and your bibles. They're meeting next Tuesday. It's time to save them all.
-Prometheans are infiltrators- you found something that looked like a woman, but wasn't. The ground sickened around her, and sometimes you'd look and she'd have skin of clay or strange glyphs on her forehead. You followed her, and she stood on the mountain and glowed with light and then she was just...a woman. No matter what you did, you couldn't find any evidence of anything but normal human anatomy inside and out. Which means...something's making humans. They're sending in the prototypes and then upgrading them until they're indistinguishable from anyone else, for who knows what nefarious purposes
You found another one of the things that look like humans..Once you catch it, you'll make it tell you who made it, and you'll get to shut down this whole thing once and for all.
-Changelings are undead- They died. Dead. You were there, saw the car hit them, saw them fall down. And then you saw them again a week later. Not even a scratch. You tried to go talk to them, but they paled and ran, Everyone told you that you were delusional with grief but you know it was them. You even dug up the coffin, and found only rags and dead bugs. You've been following them a while. They hang out with people who match long-cold missing people reports, and can go to some inhuman forest from any door. Is that the afterlife?
Luckily, you met an agent of death. It says it rules the land they went to. Just bring the poor lost soul to it, and it'll take them back there. It promises.
-Sin-Eaters are eldritch abominations- The house was haunted. Not a bad ghost, as these things go, and you thought you could ask it about some ancient horror haunting the area. And then you got there, and this creature was eating it. It looked human, but it's shadow was of some twisted monster and where it was cut the wound showed only fog. You shot at it, and it pulled off it's human face, revealing some horrifying mass of formless tendrils.
Steve went mad, but not you. You've been reading Lovecraft, elder signs and summoning rites. When you see the soul-eating monster again, you'll be ready.
-Mummies are angels- it radiated power and authority. It did miracles- parting the lake and calling forth fire from the sky. It shrugged off mortal weapons and drove those who saw it mad with awe.
Alas, it could only survive in this world for so long before it's powers guttered and it collapsed. Presumably, mankind's lack of faith drove it back to heaven.
But! The man who called it forth, he used a statue of a jackal to do it. He was a heretic, but you're not. If you steal the statue and take it to your church, the congregation's true faith should let it stay and purify the world. You have a gun and some of your friends. You storm the temple tonight
-Demons are aliens- It was some kind of super-advanced robot of no human design, and it straight-up stole her skin to wear. Now it walks around pretending to be her, but it still has psychic powers and advanced technology and some kind of universal translator. And it keeps going to report to mysterious masters. Who knows how many other people have been replaced by these body snatchers? You know when you went to the police, the officer you talked to just disappeared. No-one even knew he worked there.
You've found a building but, if you pull away one of the paintings, there are these strange alien machines underneath. You touched them and they burnt some kind of silver, twisting mark into your hand. Now you can read thoughts, and you know what's going to happen. But you aren't going to be replaced. You have a pipe bomb. Once you take down this place, this mothership, the invasion will be over, and she'll be avenged.
-Beasts are thought-forms. They went a little odd, after the break in. Swore the burglar was a literal giant and that they have been chosen to smite it. They asked you to come along on one of their hunts, and you decided to humour them. And lo and behold, an actual giant. Throwing cars and smashing through walls. The only explanation? Your friends obsession literally brought the creature to life. They thought about it so hard it became real. It even talked about wielding nightmares.
The giant died, but now they're talking about how some kind of sea-monster is after them. You don't know how long they have to keep thinking this before it becomes real, but you're not taking any chances. You've been focusing on angels. When the sea monster appears, they'll be there to ward it off. It'll all be fine.
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