IN THE DOMAIN

OF THE MARINER
Learning. Duty. Honor. Protecting those in need Suggested Characters: Aashi Chaudhri, Reggie
is part of the American Dream — a dream the Laroux Cole, Anaru Kamara, Kayla Justine Proffit,
Unknown twists for its own ends. When the truth Emily Montgomery, Thomas Simpson
surrounding a desiccated corpse in the morgue
comes to light, the envoys are sent to a sleepy town Major Menace: Lawrence Daniel Reilly, a unique
with a dark secret, and come face-to-face with North American Vampire.
despair turned to vengeance.
Minor Menace: The hollowed, human beings
Important Traits: As with most Chill scenarios, infected with the vampire’s blood.
information-based skills (Research, Investigation, and
Interview) are critical. Characters skilled in com-
puters (hacking, computer forensics) and medicine
(forensic pathology) will be useful. This case also
carries a high physical risk, and so some characters
with expertise in combat or Protective disciplines of
the Art should be included.

Author: Chris Spivey

Developer: Matthew McFarland
Editor: Michelle Lyons-McFarland

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Alexandre Torres (Order #34421939)
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SETUP
Founded in 1621 by Europeans on Wampanoag land,
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts has always been a small
town. The colonists named it after the “buzzards,”
numerous osprey found on the shore. In current times,
the “town” is a Census Designated Place (CDP) with
a population nearing 5,000 souls. It is tucked into
the city of Bourne, which is composed of four addi-
tional and smaller CPD just north of Cape Cod. The
Cape Cod Canal connects it to the bay and out to the
Atlantic Ocean.
Buzzards Bay is 28 miles long and 8 miles wide.
The township’s main businesses are tourism, fishing
and boating. Both the National Marine Life Center
(NMLC) and Massachusetts Maritime Academy
(MMA) call it home.The MMA was founded in 1891
and is the second oldest maritime academy in the
United States.
THE DOOM THAT CAME TO BUZZARDS BAY
The town was largely untainted by the Unknown
until 2003, when the Buzzards Bay Disaster destroyed
the local sea life. The disaster occurred on April 27th
of that year. An oil tanker, Bouchard 120, traveled
down the wrong side of a navigational marker and
struck rocks. The hit ripped a foot-long gash along
the bottom of the vessel and spilled almost 100,000
gallons of oil that washed ashore for a fortnight. The
damage destroyed the surrounding wildlife, marshes,
shorelines, beaches and shellfish beds, the impact of
which is still felt today.
Lawrence Daniel Reilly served in the US Navy
Band for six years before returning home and working
in the family fishing business for a year. He was then
hired as an operations analyst at MMA and happily
left the family business behind. He didn’t notice the
desperation in his father’s eyes when the elder Reilly
begged Lawrence to stay. The job didn’t pay well, but
it kept him off the ocean and allowed him time to
work with the 7th Company Band.
Lawrence stayed in touch with his family over
the next two years, but didn’t intervene as it fell
apart. The Buzzards Bay Disaster destroyed the busi-
ness. Lawrence’s father filed for bankruptcy, reveal-
ing how close to the edge the business had been for
years. Lawrence’s mother then filed for divorce against
his father and left the city. His younger brother Allan
was arrested after snapping and holding oil company
personnel at gunpoint. His father attempted suicide
and wound up on life support. Lawrence, the only
member of the family left alive, out of prison, and
still in Buzzards Bay, found himself responsible for the
shreds of his family’s legacy.
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On New Year’s Eve of 2004, Lawrence was des-
perate, enraged, and drunk. He snuck aboard the
USTS Enterprise and made his way to the bottom
of the vessel. There, in the ship’s bowels, Lawrence
cursed everything: the banks, his weak father, and life
itself.The town, the oil companies, and the world had
sucked the life out of him; if he had his way, he’d do
the same to the world. The last thing he remembered
from that night was falling down a flight of stairs and
hitting his head. As his consciousness faded and his
blood spread over the metal floor, Lawrence promised
whatever dark power was listening that if he got the
chance, he’d kill everyone that had wronged him and
his family. Something heard. Lawrence died that night
and rose as a vampire.
Upon rising, Lawrence immediately set to work
making good on his promise. His first kill, Charles
Jost, was head of the bank that had foreclosed on the
family business. Lawrence drained him dry, leaving
the husk in bed with Jost’s husband and wiping
the man’s mind of the event. From there, Lawrence
went on a rampage, killing Jay Inman (a ship retailer),
Ashley Washington (a local business owner), Mandy
Newman (a deputy), and Richard Kent (a fisherman):
all people that Lawrence felt had harmed his family
or contributed to its troubles. He did not pursue the
oil company employees, perhaps because they were
not local.
It took almost a month for Lawrence to learn to
control his hunger after his initial targets were dead.
SAVE envoys from Boston looked into the rash of
deaths, but couldn’t determine what caused them.
Lawrence noted the attention and adjusted his tactics.
He settled into a plan for power that included groom-
ing MMA students and helping them ascend to posi-
tions of influence. He began feeding without killing
and kept control of his dark urges enough to become
to Dean of MMA.While his feeding left few bodies, it
did cause an epidemic of “chronic fatigue syndrome”
in the community, and the hospital began keeping
more detailed records.
In the few instances when Lawrence killed a victim
and could not dispose of the body, he relied on one of
his hollowed who worked in the morgue to quietly
get rid of the report and dispose of evidence. That
worked until Amanda Welsh, his most recent victim,
caught him feeding on her roommate and tried to
stop him. The brief incident caused too much noise
and brought a crowd before he could dispose of the
body, so he fled. Unfortunately, Lawrence’s hollowed
was on a mandatory training when his latest kill
arrived in the morgue. Instead, Faith Williams began
her autopsy of the corpse and instantly noticed the
unnatural state of the desiccated husk.
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SAVE
Faith Williams has brushed against the Unknown a
few times in her life. Her last encounter occurred in
Las Vegas, five years ago. It forced her to move from July 31, 2003: Mark files for bankruptcy and
her hometown after helping a SAVE agent, who pro-
vided her a number to call in the future. She called
the number within moments of opening up the body
and left a voicemail. If she survives, Faith could be an
excellent NPC contact or be taken on as a PC.
SAVE provides transportation (flights and/or August 2, 2003: Linda Reilly leaves and files for
rental cars) in addition to hotel accommodations at
the Eastern Inn. SAVE knows that Unknown activ-
ity occurred in the town about 12 years ago and that
no occult groups operate out of the town. Any infor- August 4, 2003: Allan is arrested and jailed for
mation related to the town can be accessed before
the envoys leave their HQ. The Cape Cod office
is the closest, but as Faith contacted the Las Vegas
office, it’s possible that a team from anywhere could
be dispatched.
TIMELINE
August 29, 1991: Hurricane Bob inflicts massive
damage to Buzzards Bay fishing businesses.
Mark Reilly takes out a large loan from the
bank to keep his business afloat.
July 16, 1996: Mark Reilly purchases a new
boat to replace the current one in hopes of
improved revenue.
March 16, 2000: Mark pays off his youngest son
Allan Reilly’s debt from the collapse of the
tech bubble.
March 27, 2000: Reilly Fishery and Shells misses
the first of many payments on the loan and
trouble with the bank begins.
June 30, 2000: Lawrence is honorably discharged
from the Navy and returns home to work at
the family business. Mark keeps the family
money troubles to himself; even his wife Linda
doesn’t know.
February 14, 2002: Lawrence is hired on at MMA
and has a blow-up with his father, who needs
him to stay but doesn’t say why.
April 27, 2003: The Buzzards Bay disaster occurs
when an oil tanker strikes rocks.
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May 2003: Clean up of the Buzzards Bay disaster is
ongoing, but the disaster decimates a number
of businesses.
receives a 30-day notice to vacate his home,
which he put up as collateral for one of his
loans. Mark finally informs the family of their
financial situation.
divorce, unsure what other secrets her husband
may be keeping.
threatening oil company personnel at gun-
point after learning the bank is going to seize
the family business and foreclose on the Reilly
house.
August 17, 2003: Mark tries to commit suicide but
fails, leaving himself in a vegetative state and
dependent on a respirator. Lawrence places
him under constant care by the hospital.
December 31, 2003: Lawrence becomes a vampire
after dying at the bottom of MMA training
vessel USTS Enterprise.
January-February, 2004: Charles Jost is found
dead at home and his spouse is commit-
ted to an asylum. Over the next few weeks,
four other people are found dead in similar
circumstances.
March 21, 2004: SAVE envoy team responds to
newspaper clippings about the rash of strange
deaths. After a week of unsuccessful investiga-
tion, they leave town and place the area under
a two-year alert.
May 7, 2004: Amanda Tobin, 25, graduate of MMA
in computer science, becomes a hollowed and
the head of hospital IT at the nearby medical
center. She is responsible for transferring hard
records into digital files. She burns all paper-
work related to Lawrence’s victims and puts
faked reports into the hospital system.
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December 31, 2004: Lawrence begins his annual
ritual of draining a victim dry. Sam Grayson, a
traveler from Ohio, 22, was driving through
Buzzards Bay on his way to visit a friend.
Sam’s body is never found, and his family still
holds out hope he will come home someday.
February 3, 2005: Lawrence becomes dean of
MMA after a recommendation from the pre-
vious dean. There is gossip about blackmail or
an affair, but it is quickly hushed up and never
mentioned again. A few copies of the school
paper in the library mention it.
December 31, 2005: Annual ritual. John Helm, 38,
a local fisherman whose family believes he
moved away and stopped talking to them after
a massive falling out.
March 28, 2006: The SAVE alert and records are
put into archives.
December 31, 2006: Annual ritual. Marilyn
Olson, 33, a Bourne police officer who caught
Lawrence feeding on a victim and shot him
multiple times. Covering up her murder with
Lawrence’s intended target, Marshall Ross, he
puts Marilyn’ blood on the other man and
leaves him for the police to find. Marshall is
sentenced to life in prison.
December 31, 2007: Annual ritual. Devin Mitchell,
27, a tour guide. His brother Daniel believes
he was killed. Daniel thinks frequently about
Devin but doesn’t talk about him unless asked.
2008: MMA receives a Vestas 660-kilowatt wind
turbine and continues to install solar power
panels. The installation of these features forces
Lawrence to move his haven to the bottom of
the new MMA training vessel, USTS Kennedy.
April 17, 2008: Alex Zelmer, 24, is hired on at the
morgue as the new coroner, with the task of
covering up any accidents that Lawrence can’t
hide.
December 31, 2008: Annual ritual. Stacy Fallon, 55,
a writer that lives on her boat. No one notices
when she goes missing other than her pub-
lisher. The boat turns up two years later in
Florida.
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December 31, 2009: Annual ritual. “Old Jake,” 49,
a homeless drifter.
December 31, 2010: Annual ritual. Sierra Peters,
80, was a shopkeeper in town. Her grand-
kids spend the next year trying to find any
evidence of what happened to her. A $1,000
reward for anyone with word and proof of her
whereabouts is still on offer.
December 31, 2011: Annual ritual. Ted Moody, 19,
an MMA student whose frozen, desiccated
body is found in the spring. The police report
it as an accidental death.
December 31, 2012: Annual ritual. Theresa Byram,
35, a traveling sales rep.
December 31, 2013: Annual ritual. For the decade
celebration of his “birth,” Lawrence kidnaps
a couple, Tim and Tammy Donnelly, both 44.
He terrorizes them for the night in the woods
before killing them.
December 31, 2014: Annual ritual. Ron Ward, 53,
the town drunk. Ron was assumed to have
fallen into the water and frozen to death. The
body is never recovered.
December 31, 2015: Annual ritual. Kristy Murphy,
41, a photographer who was scouting the
northeast for her next passion project. Her
husband Mike is still looking for her.
December 31, 2016: Annual ritual. Jimmy Allen, 9,
runs away from home to find out if Santa was
real. His parents, Darryl and Diane, are still
heartbroken. The couple moved away to try
and distance themselves from the tragedy. They
can be reached by phone with a little research.
December 31, 2017: Annual ritual. Fred Millar,
47, a long haul driver for J.B. Hunt Transport
Services. He is reported as missing by the
company when they come to reclaim the
truck.
January 11, 2018: Reilly kills Amanda Welsh while
feeding on her roommate, Abby Stinson. Faith
Williams comes on duty and deduces the
unnatural nature of the corpse.
January 12, 2018: Faith Williams leaves a voicemail
for SAVE.
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START OF THE SCENARIO FOR PCS
January 14, 2018: The envoys arrive.
January 17, 2018: A hollowed attacks Faith, but she
escapes and reports it to the police. Unless the
envoys follow up, the report will be “lost.”
January 19, 2018: Lawrence decides that it’s time
to take action against the SAVE envoys. He has
a student leave a voicemail saying they have
evidence about what is going on and needs to
meet with them. The meeting site is an aban-
doned and unused wharf. Once the envoys
reach the decoy, a band of hollowed attack.
January 20, 2018: Lawrence attempts to convert
one of the envoys and use them for intel.
January 22, 2018: Lawrence attacks the envoys
when they are separated, using his mole (if
any) to assist him.
THE CASE
The investigation begins with two entry points for
the envoys, previous save files and speaking with Faith.
Each of these reinforces Vital clues and provide a
springboard for the case.
BUZZARDS BAY 2004 SAVE INVESTIGATION: RESEARCH
The previous case files from 2004 were zipped and pass-
word protected before being sent to the envoys’ HQ.
While not very detailed, they do provide a few clues.
The report contains what data the SAVE team could
find about the deaths of Charles Jost (bank employee),
Jay Inman (a ship retailer), Ashley Washington (a local
business owner), Mandy Newman (a deputy), and
Richard Kent (a fisherman). The envoys from the
2004 investigation might also be available if the PCs
want to reach out, but they can’t provide any insight
that’s not already in the report.
• False Lead: It’s reported that three of the
victims (Jay, Ashley and Richard) suffered
from severe skin discoloration. The other
two may have but the report is missing pages.
This has nothing to do with the case and
comes from helping with the disaster relief.
• Vital: The case files contain the names and
professions of the five murder victims. All of
the victims seemed to have suffered some
severe localized bodily trauma.
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• Interest: Charles Jost’s autopsy resembles
the details provided by Faith’s voicemail.
Nothing of interest was reported from talks
with local law enforcement (the police
took the cases seriously, but they weren’t
equipped to investigate this kind of case.
Over time, the case grew cold). Four of the
five victims’ bodies appeared to have suf-
fered more severe physical damage resulting
in shattered bones.
• Esoteric: The force of the damage done to the
bodies was estimated to equal a high-speed
car crash. This explanation was dismissed,
as the damage was too localized. An X-ray
of Ashley Washington’s body shows a shat-
tered leg, but no damage of equal force any-
where else. All of the bodies show advanced
decomposition to varying degrees.
FAITH WILLIAMS: INTERVIEW
Faith’s a slim African-American woman in her late
30s. She’ll be helpful in her answers, if a bit short, as
she wants this handled quickly and quietly for fear of
losing another job because of these “incidents.” Her
previous experience with SAVE grants a +10 to the
target number for Interview checks.
• Vital: The body’s advanced state of decay is
not that of someone who died three days
ago. The usual coroner, Alex Zelmer, is out-
of-town on mandatory training.
• Interest: Alex has never missed a day of work
or gone on vacation. It’s kind of a running
joke because it’s been almost a decade.That’s
kind of surprising given the town is known
for chronic fatigue over that same period
of time (if the envoys ask her for more on
this phenomenon, she tells them it’s widely
accepted to be a side effect of the lack of
sunlight in the area. A doctor named Isaiah
Jackson is researching it if the envoys want
to talk to him).
• Esoteric: Faith comments that Alex looks
much younger than he actually is; he gets
mistaken for a student often. One of the
onsite technicians claimed he saw what
looked like a handprint on the corpse’s
broken arm, but the advanced decomposi-
tion destroyed the evidence while moving it.
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AMANDA WELSH’S BODY: INVESTIGATION
A desiccated husk is all that remains of Amanda Welsh. Alex Zelmer is unreachable during this scenario. He
The body has been cut open (Faith’s work), granting a
+10 to an Investigation check Forensics or a similarly Lawrence. The envoys may decide to search Alex’s
relevant Specialization is used. Faith runs interferenceoffice or apartment (Investigation), or go through
for the team, granting them an hour to investigate.
• Vital: Amanda’s body has the same kinds of
wounds as Charles Jost and the other victims
described in the SAVE archive—the body
is desiccated and shows signs of advanced
decay far out of sync with the amount of
time Welsh has been dead. In addition, her
body shows signs of extreme blunt-force
trauma (most of her ribs are broken, as are
her legs).
• Interest: Welsh appears to have been in a fight.
She has defensive bruising on her knuck-
les and flesh under her fingernails. The flesh
doesn’t have any trace of blood, however, as
though she scratched a completely blood-
less corpse.
• Esoteric: The cell structure seems to be have
broken down at an accelerated rate. The
process has stopped, which is the cause of
the corpse’s current state.
ABBY STINSON: INTERVIEW
Abby is Amanda Welsh’s roommate at MMA. She is
preparing to leave town and go back to Michigan
with her family, but if the envoys act quickly they can
talk to her before she goes. Abby caught Lawrence
Reilly’s eye at a Christmas concert on the Kennedy.
He hunted her down to feed on her. Welsh walked in
on the vampire and attacked him, resisting his disci-
plines due to the cross she wore. This didn’t work in
her favor, though; Reilly simply killed her, drained
her dry, and escaped using Time Stop.
• Vital: Abby woke up to find Amanda dead
on the floor, her dorm room door open, and
people running to the room reporting some
kind of fight. She has no memory of any
fight or anyone else in the room.
• Interest: Abby hands the envoys Amanda’s
silver cross necklace; she took it off Amanda’s
body. She says she couldn’t bear to have it
get lost and she didn’t know if the EMTs
would be careful. Amanda always wore it.
• Esoteric: Abby attended a concert on the
USTS Kennedy right before winter break.
She met the band leader, Jim, while he was
talking to the Dean, Mr. Reilly.
Alexandre Torres (Order #34421939)
ALEX ZELMER: RESEARCH/INVESTIGATION
has gone into hiding and is awaiting orders from
his work computer to gain some insights (Research).
Zelmer was a skilled hacker and tracking his activi-
ties is difficult. Without a Specialization in Computer
Forensics or something equally appropriate, the
Research check to look into his files suffers a –40 TN;
even with such a Specialization a –20 applies.
• Extraneous Clues: Alex has notepads with
times, names and office numbers of differ-
ent people in the building with a red line
crossed through each one. The twelve differ-
ent people all confirm that they called him
for IT support, as it’s faster than waiting for
the real IT. All of his work is above board.
• Vital: While the computer casing matches
all the others in a building, it’s obvious
that Alex has stripped out the old hardware
and replaced it with state-of-the-art pieces.
Searching through the stored folders and
hard drives turns up an email address that
has been contacted repeatedly at MMA.
• Interest: All of the content in the emails are
either encrypted or deleted, but the envoys
can at least confirm dates. Every year since
2008 he gets an email from a different MMA
email address on New Year’s Eve.
• Esoteric: The emails can be decrypted but it
will take more time than the envoys have,
likely many months of dedicated work. If
done, it provides an outline of the missing
people from the annual ritual killings; only
the name and age. It also provides the loca-
tion of Alex’s underground shelter in Maine,
though that is beyond the scope of this case.
ALEX ZELMER’S APARMENT
Zelmer lives in a small, cluttered-but-clean one-bed-
room apartment about eight miles away from
Buzzards Bay. The apartment building houses a total
of 20 apartments, all on the cheap side. Neighbors are
always present, ranging from drunk fishermen cur-
rently out of work to local college students. Once
inside, it appears Zelmer had an active online life
based on empty hardware boxes, but no computer
is present.
• Vital: The walls are lined with pictures from
his time at MMA and as part of the 7th
Company Band. The USTS Kennedy is pic-
tured in several of them.
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• Interest: In the couch there’s a business card
for Amanda Tobin, IT director for the hos-
pital where Faith works. A three-week-old
newspaper with a story about a missing
truck driver, Fred Millar, sits amid a pile of
yellowing old papers. The story about Millar
is circled in red.
• Esoteric: A set of well-used one-arm weights
are under a towel; each weight is 400 pounds.
Alex is of average height and weight in all of
the pictures.
DR. ISARAH JACKSON: INTERVIEW
The envoys might get referred to Dr. Jackson after
asking about the “chronic fatigue syndrome” common
to Buzzards Bay. Jackson is a fit African-American
man in his early 40s. Obviously brilliant and some-
what frustrated, he has not been able to find the cause
of the communal chronic fatigue. He brightens when
speaking to other medical professionals, but anyone
else suffers a –10 target number to Interview checks.
A successful Sense the Unknown reveals that Isaiah
has recently been in contact with the Unknown.
• Vital: Isaiah is more than happy to discuss
the chronic fatigue syndrome gripping the
town. He’s a specialist in the field and has
spent the last seven years stumped by it. It
seems to randomly crop up and has no set
pattern. It infects people who have never
had it; family members are fine one week
and then a month later suffering from it.
People suffering go into a form of remis-
sion for months and then they are back in
the office.
• Interest: He’s less inclined to discuss this but
lets it slip: people who are infected seem to
suffer minor to moderate cellular damage.
When investigated, it appears to be some-
thing that has lifelong implications, but
when people go into remission, the damage
vanishes.
• Esoteric: Isaiah mentions he’s also started to
see signs of chronic fatigue syndrome in
himself.
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AMANDA TOBIN: INTERVIEW
Amanda is a white woman in her late 30s who is
standoffish at best. She plainly states she’s not a people
person and that’s why she works with computers. Any
Interview check with her suffers a –30 TN. Sense the
Unknown (+30 to TN) or use of Communicative
attunement reveals her to be a creature of the Unknown
(subject to whatever you decide about curing hol-
lowed; see Running In the Domain of the Mariner).
• Vital: She graduated from MMA. She looks
much younger than her age would indicate.
She attempts to rush the interview and get
the envoys out of her office, but she’s not
very savvy at doing so.
• Interest: Amanda talks a bit about her days
at MMA and says that she remains close to
some of the staff, including the dean.
• Esoteric: If the envoys ask questions about the
USTS Kennedy or if they bring up Lawrence
Reilly, Amanda’s protective instincts kick in.
This should be a horrific moment as she hurls
the massive oak desk at the envoys. If they run,
she doesn’t chase them (but does seek out
Lawrence, who hides her until he can figure
out a good way to dispose of her). If they
remain, she continues her attack. She only uses
her bare hands, but as a hollowed she is more
than capable of killing an envoy unarmed.
HOSPITAL RECORDS: RESEARCH
Amanda will not allow the envoys access to her com-
puter without direct, in-person instruction from a
senior staff member (like Dr. Isaiah Jackson). If the
characters sneak into her office after hours, they can
attempt to access her computer, but suffer a –20 to
the TN to get through her security and filing system.
• Vital: The envoys find frequent emails
between Amanda, Zelmer and someone at
MMA with “j.conner” as the email prefix
(this address belongs to Lt. Jim Conner, the
7th Company Band leader, which the envoys
can easily discover).
• Interest: The emails are all encrypted. The
hospital records regarding anyone who has
come in with chronic fatigue syndrome
have been copied and altered.
• Esoteric: The envoys find a file with a list
of all the people killed on New Year’s Eve
(listed in the timeline as “annual ritual”).
Each victim “file” has home addresses, the
case numbers from the local police, and is
color-coded based on whether the case is
open or closed. If any of them came to the
hospital, the times and dates are noted.
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BUZZARDS BAY DISAPPEARANCES: LAWRENCE REILLY: INTERVIEW

RESEARCH/INTERVIEW Lawrence is an athletic white man, apparently in his
mid-30s. He is pale, but not deathly so. He’ll be invit-
If the envoys get hold of Amanda’s notes and data, ing and excited to talk about MMA, the history of the
they know the names and identities of the people that town and how drive coupled with determination will
Reilly has killed and might be able to find evidence make America great again. He oozes a kind of sickly
of their deaths if they look. This kind of investigation fake charm. He is, of course, a vampire, meaning that
would be a long and protracted undertaking, however, if a character successfully uses Sense the Unknown
and is beyond the scope of this case. If the envoys start (+50 modifier), they can recognize him as a creature
looking into missing people in Buzzards Bay, they can of the Unknown.
find the following: • Vital: Shaking hands, he is very warm. He
• Vital: Researching into missing persons has hand-picked every bandleader since
turns up the known people from the time- taking over as Dean. His love of music came
line, and whatever is publicly available about from his time in the Navy, and he wants to
their disappearances or deaths. In some share that with his students.
cases, the envoys might be able to interview • Interest: When Lawrence talks, he makes
families or employers, but the information direct eye contact, rarely seems to blink,
doesn’t change much. and his breathing appears very shallow. The
• Interest: All of the disappearances seem to office is also very warm.
occur around New Year’s Eve, but the police • Esoteric: If asked about his interest in the
have not taken any precautions, nor do they USTS Kennedy, he smiles, saying revelations
appear to take these cases seriously. and the sense of coming home occur in the
• Esoteric: Only during one year have two strangest of places.
people gone missing. For a serial killer, this
would mean some sort of monumental or LAWRENCE REILLY: RESEARCH
important moment for them. The envoys might decide to look into Reilly’s history
without (or before) talking to him. If they do, they
LT. JAMES CONNER, will probably be surprised at how much information
7TH COMPANY BAND LEADER: INTERVIEW is available.
• Vital: The Reilly family owned a success-
Lt. James Conner, 18, is the student leader of the 7th ful fishing business for generations, but
Company Band. He is also hollowed and is much it went out of business in 2003 follow-
more socially adept than Amanda Tobin. He responds ing the Buzzards Bay Disaster. Allan Reilly
politely and lies to avoid suspicion. When they find was arrested and imprisoned after he held
him, he and the band are moving boxes (which means some oil company employees at gunpoint
he has to be careful what he says; if he says anything (no one was harmed, fortunately), and Mark
obviously untrue as far as the band members know, Reilly attempted suicide shortly thereafter.
they might call him out). Interview attempts suffer Lawrence Reilly had left the business some
a –10 TN, and as with Amanda, Sense the Unknown time before hardship befell his family.
(+30 to the TN) or Follow the Threads reveals his • Interest: Lawrence Reilly is not a graduate
true nature. of MMA; he served in the Navy (specifi-
• Vital: Both Amanda and Alex were previous cally the US Navy Band). His education is
bandleaders. James states that he has con- in management science, and there was some
tacted both of them for advice about the controversy when he became dean of MMA,
position. as some felt that he was unqualified.
• Interest: Dean Reilly likes for them to prac- • Esoteric: Reilly is a very public figure at the
tice aboard the USTS Kennedy so the entire Academy. He is heavily involved with the 7th
campus can hear them play. It raises spirits. Company Band and frequents practices and
• Esoteric: The envoys notice that Conner is performances held on the USTS Kennedy.
moving the heavy boxes with ease. However, he has never once attended the
band’s annual banquet, nor does attend
fundraiser dinners and other such functions.

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CONFRONTING THE UNKNOWN and he suffers Injury normally if he is attacked

Lawrence is a calculating, political, powerful villain both
in mundane and supernatural terms. Being the Dean of
MMA has made him the backbone of the community
simply for the number of jobs the Academy provides.
Local law enforcement may intimidate the envoys or
suggest they leave town instead of harassing innocent
people if they’re too overt in their tactics.
Reilly would rather not act himself and uses his
hollowed to carry out actual violence against the
envoys, unless confronted directly. If confronted in
such a manner, he summons the closest hollowed to
his defense. Reilly is, of course, more than capable of
killing the envoys on his own—if he needs to fight, he
uses his superior strength and disciplines of the Evil
Way to attack.
Lawrence allows the envoys to investigate for a
few days before turning his attention toward them;
he is hoping that they will go away if they don’t find
anything. If they get too close to him, he first has
Faith killed as a show of force. He then attempts to
lure them to an unused wharf, where his hollowed
attack while Reilly watches. If the envoys survive, he
attempts to turn one of them into a hollowed, and
then attacks them when they are cut off from help.
LAWRENCE REILLY
EWS: 117
REF: 80 STA: 95
(Deadly)
Injury: Superficial, Minor –10, Serious –20, Major –30,
Critical –50, Lethal
Disciplines: Blackout, Change Form (fog), Erase
Memory, Influence, Illusion, Stifle, Time Stop
(Unique)
Aspects: Bane (garlic, mint, religious symbols), Master,
Parasitic, Special Weakness (salt, wood and below
sea), Supernatural Speed, Sustenance, Unfeeling,
Unkillable, Unliving
below sea level.
THE HOLLOWED
STA: 95 EWS: 50 REF: 55
Specializations: Whatever their career occupation is.
Amanda Tobin has Computers E70, for example.
Drive: Follow orders from Lawrence and protect him
at all costs.
Aspects: Resilient and Bloodless
The hollowed were once humans but now exist
beyond us. They remember their past lives, friends
and family but feel detached from those memories.
Everything other than Lawrence is a shadow of exis-
tence waiting for his light to bring warmth.
As written, the hollowed are incurable. If you would
rather give the envoys a chance to cure the hollowed,
think about how this might be accomplished—do
they return to normal if Reilly dies? Is the Protective
School of the Art necessary? Do the hollowed need to
be purged of Reilly’s blood somehow?
At present, Reilly has three hollowed servants:
Amanda Tobin, James Conner, and Adam Zelmer.
If he feels he needs more backup, he turns another
member of the 7th Company Band into a hollowed.
Reilly is uncomfortable with too many hollowed
running around.

Hollowed: Lawrence can create loyal and power-

ful servants to do his bidding as part of the Master
aspect. He must force them ingest his blood and
then sing them a haunting song he learned from the
Unknown. The music begins the week-long process.
If the prospective hollowed is taken more than 10
miles from Reilly, the effect is broken, but from the
initial note the victim feels connected to him and
has no wish to be “cured.” (Whether or not the hol-
lowed can be cured is up to the Chill Master.)

Special Weakness: While Lawrence doesn’t know it,

his Unkillable and Unliving aspects do not function

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This scenario is appropriate for experienced envoys
and will probably take several sessions to resolve. The
creature in question is powerful both in terms of
supernatural ability and mundane influence. Reilly
doesn’t have to meet the characters on their terms—
he’s an influential, well-respected man, and the local
police will protect him whether or not he’s used the
Influence discipline on the chief (which he has).
The horror of small-town culture should be
ever-present in this case.The locals are nice enough at
first, but if the characters do something to call nega-
tive attention to themselves, then everyone, from the
students at MMA to the barista at the local coffee
shop, looks sideways at them. This feeling of constant
surveillance should be used with the background
horror that something dark is festering in the town
and no one wants to see it. When the violence hits,
it should be portrayed as grisly and inhuman, hap-
pening in plain sight but with no one willing to call
attention to it.
The other important consideration in this case is
the hollowed. They are no longer human, but they
appear human, meaning that unless the envoys are sure
that they are incurable, harming them might cause
Trauma (particularly if an envoy has the Reluctant to
Harm Drawback). If the hollowed can be cured, do
they retain their memories of their time as servants
to a vampire? If so, they are almost certainly severely
traumatized and will require SAVE’s help to recover.
If the hollowed can’t be cured, what the envoys pre-
pared to do? Hunt them down and kill them? Where
will they dispose of the all-too-solid corpses? The
police would love to close out some of the missing
persons cases in the town, and the envoy that gets
caught over Amanda Tobin’s dead body is probably
going to find a very convincing serial murder case
hanging over his head (right before he’s found dead
in a cell).
Another point of consideration is that Reilly
doesn’t act like what the envoys might think of as a
“vampire.” He doesn’t mind sunlight, he’s gregarious
and charming, and he’s warm to the touch. The char-
acters have their work cut out for them simply under-
standing what is happening in Buzzards Bay.

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