Curse of the

O'Tolley's Burger
Curse of the O'Tolley's
Burger

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Credits Special Thanks to:
Written By: Joshua Heath Daron Regan, for pushing me, for telling me when to push
Developed By: Joshua Heath on and when to be thankful for my friends.
Edited By:Yup, Joshua Heath Quinn Moerike, for all the support and encouragement.
Cover Art: Andrea Payne

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2 TITLE OF THE BOOK

 Curse of the O'Tolley's
Burger
Herrick’s Groceries
Established in 1898, Herrick’s is one of the older
Pentex Subsidiaries. They have been selling
groceries and general home good products for
the last century and though they are not in the
10 ten grocers in the United States, they still do
well enough in the markets where they sell their
products. Known for low cost, and low quality,
produce, Herrick’s has been close to going out of
business several times in their history. When they
were purchased by the Board, most assumed they
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would eventually be liquified… However, they have
rebounded recently with their push to sell organic
foods which they seem to be producing at a faster and
better-quality rate than any other similar company.
Though there are some that remember their lower
quality history, many have begun to assume that
Herrick’s equals tasty, fortifying, ORGANICS ™.
A recent disruption in the growing cycle has thrown
everything out of whack for the company though,
but thankfully Pentex Corporate was able to step
in and help them get their products to market.
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What in the hell have you been eating?! growing within the produce which then die.
When they do so they temporarily release a
Food Poisoning? massive amount of Taint that when mixed with
What started off looking like simple food poisoning an O’Tolley burger, cause massive flu like illnesses.
appears to have spread throughout the entire Sept’s What had the Kinfolk all had when they fell ill?
population of Kinfolk. Fifty-seven human beings, An O’Tolley’s birthday party for a young Kinfolk.
young and old, are all incredibly ill with major
flu-like symptoms. The Theurges of the Sept have What Other Demons Await?
been trying their hardest to stem the tide, but
nothing they are doing appears to be effective. So what happens now? The Kinfolk are still
At first there are no signs of Wyrm taint, there are sick and not getting better. Killing the Bane
no Banes attracted to the Kin, and there is nothing hasn’t done anything, what does the Sept do?
to indicate the influence of the Wyrm… but it isn’t
hard to guess that the Kinfolk were directly targeted Fallout
somehow. No one else in the area is ill. The few Kin • Older and young kinfolk start dying
that went to the hospital, instead of seeking out • The local O’Tolley’s is shut down for
their Garou family, are being held for observation, health violations and Herrick’s is exposed
but the human doctors are just as baffled. as non-Organic, but these only cause
The Grocery Store momentary disruptions to the business.
The only new source of Wyrm Taint in town is • One of the Garou falls ill with the same
the local Herrick’s Grocers (A Proud Subsidiary of symptoms
Pentex International). Having recently gone totally Options
ORGANIC (™) with their produce, they chain has • Find the cure: The Characters have to
gotten a lot of positive attention from the market seek out someone in O’Tolley or Herrick
place. However, the Garou have a very different leadership to get a cure
opinion of the benefit of Herrick’s policies. As • Totemic assistance: An Incarna or
everyone knows, anything can be labeled organic Celestine is needed to save the Kinfolk
and the use of the term in Herrick’s marketing is • Call in Help! Vampires, Mages, something
actually a copyrighted trademark that doesn’t legally needs to be tried
require any parameters. It’s simply their brand name.
As the trucks carrying this new swath of produce
arrived in town, the stench of the Wyrm followed.
The store has a strong Wyrm taint, but the taint
is spread throughout the store and seems to be
permeating EVERYTHING. Destroying the store
is an option, but it doesn’t handle the issue for long.
Tracking The Taint Back to the
‘Source’
• Find the shipping manifests
• Wait for the trucks to arrive and then
follow them
• Use Computers to search out the routes
that Herrick’s trucks follow
• Call in spirits to help track the Taint

Regardless of how they do so, the characters will

push to find out where this taint is coming from.
When they do so, they will discover a group of
innocuous warehouses that stink of the Wyrm.
The Umbral reflection is a gigantic bane that
is pumping out tiny bane seeds that are slowly

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Putrefactory
The Putrefactory is a powerful, but sluggish bane. It
devours other spirits over time and grows larger and
larger. As it does so, it slowly begins the process of
reproduction. To reproduce the Putrefactory larvae
have to travel through the digestive system of Fera
Kinfolk. These larvae are microscopically small, and
they do not emit any Wyrm taint once they have
been ingested. Herrick’s has been behind in the
production of their ORGANICS ™ produce, so, when
their parent company, Pentex International, offered
them a special set of factories to help them process
additional produce they jumped on the chance. There
are currently five Putrefactories that are producing
ORGANICS ™ around the world.
Rage 20, Gnosis 20, Willpower 15, Essence 55-80
Charms: Armor, Blighted Touch, Corruption, Plant
Growth* Umbraquake
Plant Growth
The Adult Putrefactory may spend a point of essence
to increase crop growth within 10 miles of it’s primary
location. The Putrefacotry than eats about 10% of the
produce that it helps to generate, which appears as
crop blight in small sections of the farm area. Many
farmers that have a Putrefactory see this as a small
curse in a greater blessing that they often assign to the
Herrick’s brand fertilizer that they purchased the year
previously.
THE PLOT
Image: The Putrefactory looks like an immense pitch-
black shadow roach. It has hundreds of articulated
arms and legs that end in various cutting and pinching
tools. As adults they are the size of two story homes.
As elders they can be the size of a small mountain.
Larvae are nearly microscopic, which is what makes
them perfect for introduction into food products. It
takes years, sometimes even decades for a Putrefactory
to reach adulthood, but when they do they find a solid
source of food and stay attached to it for significant
periods of time.
Background: These banes are ancient, but since the
industrial revolution they have gained more and more
power and have been utilized by Pentex over the
last 60 years in greater numbers. They can be used to
encourage the growth of crops, because they spend
their essence to increase growth.
Storytelling Notes: The Putrefactory cannot move
very quickly when it has reached Elder status, like
the ones that are running these factories for Herrick’s.
What they can do is make a Blighted Touch attack
three times per turn, each at a different initiative
number. This represents the various arms and legs it
uses to defend itself. That said, at this stage they are
like massive ticks which barely put up a fight. At times
(and if the characters are stronger than usual starting
characters) there will be additional, smaller, adult
Putrefactory in the same area who are much more
resilient and speedier than the Elder Putrefactory.
Derease their essence by 20 points, but they can race
around as if they had spent 2 points of Rage every turn.
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 Curse of the
O'Tolley's Burger
Darkness Strikes Too Close to Home
The firstin a series of One-Page Chronicle Jumpstarts forWerewolf:The Apocalypse, Curse of
the O’Tolley’s Burger is a jumping off point for Storytellers can use to generate a chronicle
Kinfolk
Keeping kin safe is hard for the Garou, particularly in the modern world. Magical and mun-
dane illnesses are a terror the Garou struggle to combat. Banes are easy to fight but what if they
aren’t the source of the illness at hand? What if they are... but they are something... worse?