1001 Hunter Story Hooks

[Shock]

Task Force: VALKYRIE again: Word's come in. Somebody object's to Benjamin's alchemy or his policies. Either way, presidential candidates are under VALKYRIE's protection.
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Kinda have to wonder what Old Abe thinks if you have him running TF:V.

[Darkhunter]

Kinda have to wonder what Old Abe thinks if you have him running TF:V.

Might be his mandate considering what happened with the Secret Service Agent that "protected" him that night.

[Flyboy254]

Actually the Secret Service was created long after Abe got Booth's review of his presidency.

[Darkhunter]

Actually the Secret Service was created long after Abe got Booth's review of his presidency.

True. Before the assassination of McKinley they were Treasury related and the President had a different group by a different name protecting him while Abe was in office.

[Flyboy254]

Anyway, back to topic...

75: (Task Force: VALKYRIE, VASCU) Oklahoma City? Guess what, there was a John Doe II. He was one of yours, and he went off the res in a bad way. Contacts your organization had kept the truth about Doe II buried, but recently the grapevine has picked up chatter about a man matching his description planning something big in one of America's worst snake pits; Elohim City. Practically every white supremacist group in the country sends their shiniest shit to Elohim for training, and your man is here. Records on why he went of res are still sealed, and no one who knew him is able to speak about it. What was Doe II's role in the bombing, and more importantly, why do it? Because whatever excuse he might give, there's 168 empty chairs that want answers.

76: (Null Mysteriis) Something isn't sitting right with your latest research. Bluntly, it's going too well. Every test gives you the same results, every lab runs back the same numbers, and even your interns are chipper and unnervingly helpful. You know you were researching how witches were able to affect people's very probability on a whim when the lab was empty, is that what's happening? Is a witch trying to drive you insane by giving you the world's best luck for a scientist? How much longer can you live a perfect life?

[The Kings Raven]

A little context on #75 for us non Americans please

Kinda have to wonder what Old Abe thinks if you have him running TF:V.

"It's personal"

[Flyboy254]

75 is related to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1993.

77: Your group of storm chasers/hunters has a rivalry with a pack of wolves in your area. You try and capture the storms on tape, they try and appease the storms by throwing innocent people into the funnel cloud. You're sure they're actually causing the tornadoes somehow, but to convince the other hunters in the area, you need to get them on tape.

78: Nearly every Civil War battlefield is haunted. Don't look surprised, it was a modern war with classical tactics, of course there'd be a lot of angry dead. Everyone focuses on Gettysburg or Lincoln's ghost, but there's now a very disturbing story coming out of the South, near Vicksburg. Somehow, a Neo-Confederate group has found a way to communicate with and rally the unquiet dead, and in Vicksburg that means a lot of rebel soldiers that died half-starved and near-crazed against the Union. You've seen it before with ghosts, but never on this scale. There's a lot of militia movements in the US, and if they found out that someone's managed to get in contact with honest Confederate soldiers, all bets are off. Nip it in the bud, and keep the South from rising from it's graves.

[The Kings Raven]

79: Times are hard for professionals like Tabby. After centuries of familiar work for one witch after another a dry spell forced him to choose between working as a "domestic affection provider" and going hungry. Exactly how Mrs. Millicant found herself at a Goblin Market is a mystery for the ages, but the lonely widow thought that hiring a talking cat was a wonderful idea to brighten the days; now centuries of occult knowledge is sitting there with only a harmless grandmother's white picket fence for protection.

Variant, The Union: Forget that occult knowledge. Mrs. Millicant is the apple pie baking pillar of this community. If you can't protect an old woman from catnappers what's the point of calling yourself hunters?

80, Long Night: A group of witches think the rapture is coming, sounds good? Well not so much. They beleive that no matter how bad they are God's going to accept them if they have a pure soul, so they've been stealing souls of good Christians. Now you don't believe the Lord is so easily fooled, but they're still praying on the congregation.

[Quanutmshard]

81: A man has appeared claiming descent from Emperor Norton (google him) and has made several proclamations including that he is the rightful heir to the Imperial throne. The media is eating it up, and Norton II hasn't done anything to justify the police getting involved.

What concerns the Hunters is that several supernatural movers and shakers from many different factions have been seen meeting with him. Norton's influence helps puts a stop to several supernatural conflicts, making the night much safer for ordinary people. The supernaturals really seem to like this guy for some reason, and little by little, everything seems to be just a little better in the city.

Then orders come in from the higher ups of half the compacts and conspiracies in town - put Norton in a grave, no matter what it takes...

[Nyrufa]

82: Seven Vampires, two Werewolves, six Changelings, and four Witches, all in the last two weeks. Something is causing the number of supernatural attacks to escalate faster than is comfortably acceptable. Whatever is agitating the supernaturals needs to be eliminated before they cause a full blown riot and destroy any chance of upholding a masquerade!



83: Three days ago, all the livestock died and the meat in the city became rotted. Two days ago all the water become polluted and undrinkable. One day ago people began to manifest disgusting sores across their body. Somebody decided to unleash the Plagues of Egypt, and you need to stop them before they decide to uncork the Plague of Death!

[The Kings Raven]

84 Null Mysteriis or Cheiron Group: You thought it would be just a quick paycheck. Some anti-vax nutters were making a lot of noise locally and the newspapers paid the closest scientists to do a short observational study to see if vaccines did cause autism.

Imagine your horror when you found a strong correlation, well desperate times. There was a couple of witches you were on good terms with, and both confirmed it independantly. The vaccines were magically tampered with. Now who's trying to discredit vaccinations?

[Killer300]

85: You still don't believe it. Last night, every single other Cell in the city except yours disappeared. Even the Conspiracies are gone, in another country at the moment it appears. And now, the local monsters are rather aware of it, and why, your now one of the lucky guys who gets to deal with what happens when all of a sudden hundreds of creatures are trying to snuff you out. Hope you're ready...

[Flyboy254]

86: (Loyalists of Thule) You found a leader of a cell of white supremacists in your area, itching to cause trouble. Well that can't be allowed. You followed him to his job, to his meetings, to his favorite bars. You learned everything about him, up to the day when he earned his red laces by kicking in the face of a homeless gay teen. You knew that the time to pull the trigger was closing, but then the man decided to remind you that you still had a conscience. You followed him to a local carnival, and watched as he played with his son, held his wife, greeted old friends as if they were siblings. The tattoos of swastikas and runes tell one story. The actions say another. Is this man so damned? Or can he be convinced of redemption?

So, would anyone object to story hooks involving some of the fan made groups?

[The Kings Raven]

I've already used the Sons, Stewards and the Athenic Church. Speaking of which.

87: You wake up with an awful hangover and realise that you spent last night trying to outdrink a Leprechaun. You didn't do anything stupid did you, like offer "your new best friend" hospitality?


(I just watched Fool's Gold, which while a comedy is a good portrayal of how I see hunter vs faerie fight going)

[Flyboy254]

88: (Section 9, Skin & Bones) Your attempts to try and infiltrate the Russian anti-war movement have been stymied by a collection of witches, claiming that they are the protectors of the common people. Good for them, bad for you. They're wedged deep inside the Smolensk counter-culture, and typical methods of infiltration by your conspiracy won't work. Infiltrate the counter-culture, and find out what the witches plan.