DESIGN NOTES & CORE RULES

CORE SYSTEM: This adventure is designed to be played using Liminal Horror.
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TOUCHSTONES: BPRD: Plague of Frogs (comic) Re-Animator (film) Aliens(film)
CONCEPT
� There has been a rash of attacks happening within the city, leaving victims on
the precipice of transformation.
� Dr. Shelly has been using her health clinic as a front to experiment on the
houseless (using science and the occult) in order to try and restore an ancient
precursor race of frog-monsters.
� She has been releasing her failures into the tunnels where they continue to
mutate and change. They begin practicing rituals from a time long since
forgotten.
� Dr. Shelly’s work has been accelerated by the recent acquisition of a rare text
provided to her from a mysterious benefactor (The Archivist)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FACTIONS & THEIR GOALS
DOOM CLOCK
HOOKS
POTENTIAL CLUES
FROG MONSTER
FACTIONS & THEIR GOALS
To bring about the second coming of the primordial
DR. SHELLY humanoid frogs spoken of withing Ogdoad’s Well.
They are slowly becoming something new. Whispers from
FROG- the Old Power’s drive them to propagate and start the Ritual
MONSTERS of Incursion.
Used B&H deliveries to anonymously donate Ogdoad’s Well
to Dr. Shelly. Interested in seeing what Dr. Shelly corruption
THE ARCHIVIST will yield. He will add whatever results to his collection.
Prefers to take indirect actions/use others to acquire items.
Choose an organization for your game that awaits off
screen. They could be:
� A private company.
THE � A secret government agency.
AUTHORITIES � An ancient order.
This group cares more about acquiring power and
maintaining control than saving innocent lives. Example
3 factions can be found here. Example foes can be found here.
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DOOM CLOCK
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Actions taken by the investigators change the progression of the DOOM clock.
4 The progression below is what would happen if investigators don’t intervene.
Changes to the DOOM clock should consider the goals of the factions at play.
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NPCS 5
x A rash of attacks by released Frog-Monsters. Victims go catatonic with
bouts of delirium.
A Frog-Monster ascends to priesthood, creating a shrine of flesh and bone
to the Old Powers.
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Survivors of the attacks turn into frog-monsters over a single evening.

Images of frog-monsters picked up by the media.

A congregation of frog-monsters overtake the lab, taking Dr. Shelly and the
tome to the flesh chapel.

Frog-monsters complete the Ritual of Incursion - Dr. Shelly is the vessel.

The Authorities (see factions) come in to control the situation through

force and acquire assets. The party will be targeted for its involvement.
Massive casualties.

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 HOOKS NPCS
Below are potential hooks for your party. Make sure that the hook makes sense for SCIENTIST THE ARCHIVIST
the group (align it to the Party Questions)
Name: Dr. Shelly Name: Mr. Sims
� The party witnesses and is forced to intercede in a frog-monster attacking 8 HP 10 STR, 10 DEX, 14 CTRL 13 HP, 1 Armor, 14 STR, 14 DEX, 14 CTRL
someone. Direct stress through contact with the paranatural. Syringe (Dex save or incapacitate), � Impeccable gray suit, trailed by a
� The Archivist (either directly or anonymously) asks the group to look into the Gun (D6), reading Tome (D6 Stress) non-euclidian shadow.
attacks or offers payment for any evidence of the para-natural. � Face-cast: Tilda Swinton the scientist �Face-Cast: a much older Mads
� Postings about the “Attack of the Mole People” either online, on polls, in Street consumed by the occult. Mikkelsen.
Roots (alternative paper made by houseless population). � To continue her research, to complete � To collect, to corrupt, to unlock.
� One of the investigator’s connections gets attacked. her part, to ascend. � Can heal using drones as fuel
� Corpse of a mutated frog-monster is discovered. � There is no line she won’t cross in (drones). Can make more drones.
� The party gets contracted to investigate by the Authority faction (a dangerous order to bring about the Plague of � Delegated Magic: Can cast chaos
option that entangles the investigators with this faction). Frogs. magics through conduits, consuming
their souls and sundering their flesh.
POTENTIAL CLUES FROG-MONSTER
Stats range from: DRONES
Medical professionals have been Dr. Shelly is being consulted about a 4-8 HP, 0-2 Armor, 3 HP, 10 STR, 10 DEX, 10 CTRL
sending victims of attacks with no deformed corpse 13-16 STR, 12 DEX, 10 CTRL Hands or tools (d6)
insurance to Dr. Shelly’s clinic.
Claws (D6) Tongue (D8) � Currently there are two drones in
Frog-monsters have a distinct smell of � Humanoid frogs. Large, muscular. active use.
Sewer grime on victims & frog- medical antiseptic underneath the Some are able to hide their form �Coveralls with B&H embroidered on
monsters. sewer stink. the front, a large white van with B&H
� To remain hidden. To free their
master. To inherit the earth. Delivery.
A pattern in the location of attacks � Glassy look to them. Sometimes their
B&H delivery van spotted at various � Critical Damage: Victim becomes
surrounds an abandoned sewer color ain’t right (skin, hair, clothes,
scenes of attacks. expansion project. infected (Frog-Monsters pg. 4)
everything).
FROG-PRIEST � To follow. To be used.
Small flier for a medical study put on by Video cameras catch glimpses of frog- 8 HP, 2 Armor, 13 STR, 12 DEX, 15 CTRL � Can ignore the first instance of critical
Dr. Shelly is either on a frog-monster or monsters. damage. Does not retreat unless it’s
in a missing person’s home. Tongue (D8), Void Touch (D6 Stress) master wills it.
� Runes carved into its flesh (like those
upon the altar it created).
FROG-MONSTERS � To complete the Ritual of Incursion, to
� New frog-monsters are feral hunters Infection: If an investigator suffers uplift the frog-monsters, to lead.
drawn to infect others. critical damage from a Frog-monster’s � It is able to carve permanent marks
� The longer they survive the more tongue, they become infected. into it’s victim’s using it’s Void Touch.
intelligent some become. � Critical Stress: It’s own rune’s start to
� Inherent within them is a drive to � Infection can only be stopped bleed purple flames causing 4 stress
worship the Old Powers, which leads through cutting edge science or to all in the vicinity.
their violence toward becoming magical means.
more ritualistic and arcane in nature. � The victim slowly transforms POTENTIAL NPCS TO PREP
(increase Str & Dex by D6). Social Worker
� After the change they need to
succeed in a daily CTRL save or be Police Officer
lost to the party
Bartender
Sanitation
Mortician or Heath-care provider
Member of the houseless community

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 LOCATIONS THE SEWERS
EXTERIOR ENTRANCE: The main entrance to the sewers is an abandoned
DR. SHELLY’S CLINIC work site that has been fenced off and boarded up.
OUTSIDE: From the outside Dr. Shelly’s clinic is extremely nondescript. � Close inspection shows that (the fence has a large hole in it.
MAIN LEVEL: The inside is sparse. � The boards have been removed.
� There is evidence of heavy traffic in and out.
� Eggshell white waiting room with mint green vinyl chairs and an empty
reception desk. INTERIOR SEWERS: The sewers are dark, wet, and at times cramped.
� The back areas look to be surprisingly underused for how many people are � As the investigators explore the tunnels the more they become filled with a
listed on the sign in logs (many of the names seem fake). thick, sticky membrane (like from the chamber in Aliens).
� Large supply closet is empty except for a shelf (hidden stairway to below). � Use sound/shadow to indicate being followed, but actually they’re being led).
� There are cameras everywhere.
THINGS THAT CAN GO WRONG DEEP BELOW GROUND
[B] Sterile Operating Theater:
[A] Staircase: � Partially dissected person/frog. 1 Equipment lost or broken. 4 Caught in sticky membrane
The only way to get to the clinic from A � Large tubes with different stages of
the lower lab. frog-monster floating in viscous 2 Investigators get separated. 5 Getting lost/lose the path back
liquid.
3 Getting ambushed by a Frog- 6 Hear
HIDDEN � Multiple tables with heavy duty the cries of a person in
[D] Walk-In: restraints. Monster. distress deeper in the sewers.
LOWER LAB
� A freezer with � Extensive drills,saws, knives,
multiple bodies
syringes. CROSSROAD WITHIN THE DEEP: Eventually the investigators should reach a
stored within.
D B crossroads down deep within the sewer system. To the left is Dr. Shelly’s hidden
� A rack filled with lab -room [E], and to the right leading deeper toward the Frog-Priests altar.
tagged samples
on the back wall. C Provide Clues to what would be down either path.
� On the middle � Lab: A medical antiseptic scent, the drone of generators, fluorescent lights.
shelf are seven
large vials of � Altar: The flicker of flame, chant like droning, strange markings upon the
neon green wall, increased instances of membrane.
liquid (labeled in E [C] Office/Living Area:
an unknown � A large converted office area. After a choice is made: This crossroads is a perfect place for the Frog-Monsters
language). � Every inch of the room is covered in to set up a trap for when the party is trying to escape.
diagrams, photos, scientific notes
interspersed with ancient languages THE FROG PRIEST’S ALTAR
[E] Holding Pen/ Sewer Exit and occult iconography.
� A wide hallway with reinforced Off of a main sewer line is a side passage that curves into a chamber.
doors at either end � A small desk has a single old leather � The space is filled with candles that illuminate the sigils painted along every
book upon it (Ogdoad’s Well). inch of the wall
� Plexiglass holding pens line both
sides of the hallway. � Tucked in the back of the tome is a � Opposite the entrance is a large altar made from multiple frog bodies splayed
receipt from B&H delivery. open in impossible angles.
� One pen has 0-3 Frog-Monsters
� Behind two movable whiteboards � Close inspection reveals that all the bodies making up the altar are still “alive.”
� The other pen has 0-2 drugged is a small cot and hot plate.
humans � Kneeling before the altar is the Frog-Priest, often attended by two small Frog-
� There is a CCTV monitor and door Monsters, half the size of those they’ve seen before.
� The farthest door opens on to the control system in this room.
sewer. � Investigators witnessing things in this space will receive stress. Most likely it
� All doors in this area can be would range from: Contact (D4 Stress) to Exposure (D6 Stress).
controlled remotely from the office.
OGDOAD’S WELL (RELIC)
An ancient tome written in an
unknown language. Multiple diagrams
within the book of a race of primordial
humanoid frogs. Anything more than
flipping through the book causes D4
stress.

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