Modern Horror/Action/Secret Fantasy in Boston

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by rosignol

Yeah, that's a definite sign of supernatural forces at work. Dunno which side, tho. XD

I heartily encourage speculation about Scott Brown, possible connections to dark supernatural forces and/or any power groups that would seek to help or hinder him.

It is all but inevitable that he'll enter into things in some way, after all. He's changing the balance of power all by his lonesome, which in an Illuminated setting means he almost can't be unconnected to them.

[Cornelius]

Originally Posted by Icelander

Finally, does anyone have any suggestions for a mystery set in Massachusetts in 2010? A monster that would be cool? A conspiracy that might extend there?


I heartily encourage speculation about Scott Brown, possible connections to dark supernatural forces and/or any power groups that would seek to help or hinder him.

Let me have a shot.

One of your students, let's call him John, has gone missing. Normally you wouldn't care (you're their teacher, not their mother), but the guy happens to have borrowed your copy of "Lexicon of early Mazdeism", a rare and expansive book that have a personal importance for you being a gift of your late uncle. Besides the student is among your best.
He hasn't shown up at lesson for nearly a month and his friends don't know where he could have gone. His roommates tell you that he left three weeks ago must have gone back to home, but when you call up at his home, his mother tells you that he hasn't heard by him for a while.

Later the head librarian calls you for what he claim to be a "rather messy affair". The librarian, a really devout man, up to the point of bigotry, proceeds to scold you for allowing one your students into the restricted section to consult some of the "most hideous books ever written".
Of course, you're dumbfounded: what the heck the old bat is talking about? What permission? When you go down to the library, you discover that someone has counterfeited your signature to be allowed to consult books as the "Delomelanichon", the "Pimander", the "Gayat al-Hakim" and the spanish version of the "Necronomicon". And the one who have forged the permission is no one other than your dear student John...

Sensing that something is really amiss, you decide to unravel this mystery. Not only you want to know why one of your more apt students has gone so far to read some old useless grimoires, but you are also afraid for you. In the cuttthroat, backstabbing enviroment of high academia, a scandal could be lethal. And you know that some of the other professors are after your post.

Since you don't know how to act, though, you ask for help to one of your american friends, Richard Lawson. He send you to a privat investigator, which he used in several occasions and that he trust completely. The investigator discover quickly that John didn't have a lot of socail life: his only intersts were ancient religions and politic. He was a staunch repubblican supporter and he was one of the volunteers that helped in the recent elections. The P.I. shows you a photo, thet the boy had framed and kept over his desk at his place. It shows a radiant John alongside with the recently elected Massachusetts governor, Scott Brown...

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Cornelius

Let me have a shot.

Thanks for that.

As it happens, I've decided that the PI is the one who initially gets involved and he brings the lawyer into it when he needs him to make heads or tail of some legal documents he finds.

Those will be a hand-written valuation of several bronze and flint artifacts by a Professor Charles Eliot Norton in 1888 for a man named William Monaghan (he concludes that although their style is exotic, they appear to be recent fakes), a claim made by Andrew Jackson Borden against the estate of William Monaghan in 1891 for the burial services, records of an auction in 1918, the last will and testament of one Cornelius E. Rawlings (d. 1941) made in 1938 and a single page written in some form of cuniform script.