Modern Horror/Action/Secret Fantasy in Boston

[Icelander]

Questions to ponder...

A) Why was John Hancock buried in a lead coffin? And what are the consequences of that coffin having possibly been dismantled, revealing whatever was in there?

B) Aside from Lizzie Borden, what other famously ghoulish crimes have happened in Massaschuttes?

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by Icelander

B) Aside from Lizzie Borden, what other famously ghoulish crimes have happened in Massaschuttes?

Famous Boston Crimes.

Massachusetts natural disasters.

More disasters. Specifically effecting Boston.

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

Famous Boston Crimes.

Massachusetts natural disasters.

More disasters. Specifically effecting Boston.

Yes. Yes.

Good.

Jessie Pomeroy seems like a nice boy.

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by Icelander

Yes. Yes.

Good.

Jessie Pomeroy seems like a nice boy.

Massachusetts Cold Cases. Most of them are more depressing than useful, as can be expected of the real world, but there might be something you can use.

[capnq]

Originally Posted by Icelander

1) If one studied in either Jerusalem or Tel Aviv and one is an expert on the influences of Zoroastrian mysticism on Judaic, Islamic and Christian mysticism; has written monograms on kabbalah rituals; knows Avestan, Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Aramaic, Koine Greek and Classical Arabic; and one is a tenured professor at Harvard; what is one a professor of?

My first thought would be Comparative Religion.

The individual entries on the Harvard Divinity School faculty page list a wide variety of titles and specialties, such as Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Professor of World Religions, and Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion.

[Þorkell]

Darn, that sounds like a game one would want to take part in.

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

Darn, that sounds like a game one would want to take part in.

Happily, you're in the right part of the world, yes?

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

Happily, you're in the right part of the world, yes?

Yeah, but that's not the only consideration.

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

Darn, that sounds like a game one would want to take part in.

Happily, one could, if one were prepared to come up with a character that has a reason to know one or more of the following:

a) Richard Ambrose Lawson, attorney at law. Educated at Harvard and Columbia, comes from a prominent Virginian family whose money was initially made in tobacco. His father is respected attorney and Washington lobbyist, his younger brother an up-and-coming star in Boston art circles and he has a sister attending Harvard. Became an ADA after passing the bar and made contacts among policemen and prosecutors. First case after switching to the other side was a wrongful imprisonment suit based on improper actions of several policemen. Won a one million dollar settlement after developing a source inside the police department. A very high flyer, recently hired by a prominent Boston law firm after several firms bid for him.

Handsome, witty and much sought after by women. In his high school and college years, he was a brilliant athlete who could have gone professional in more than one sport. His best sports were Saber Fencing and Track and Field, particularly the 400 yard dash.

b) As yet unnamed, PI, Mst Sgt (Ret.). A former military policeman who entered the Boston PD after his military service. Quickly made detective on the basis of his skills and experience learned in the service. His innate decency led him to supply information about fellow policemen to Lawson. His superiors could not fire him for it, but made it impossible for him to work in the department. Left under a cloud. Has been trying to make ends meet as a private detective, but is too decent to trawl garbage and spy on wives and looks too bad in suit to be successful with the lawyers that mostly employ detectives. Married to his childhood sweetheard, has one daughter aged 14. Catholic and attends church regularly. His father is a dockworker at Conley Terminal in South Boston.

c) Professor David Reynard. A relatively young man to be a full professor at Harvard University, Reynard holds a dual citizenship, US and Israeli. He is educated in Israel, where he served his mandatory military service (and where he uses the name David ben Yitzchak). He is a Professor of Religious Anthropology and his field of expertise is Zoroastrian influences on the major monotheistic religions, with a subspeciality in Kabbalah mysticism. Reynard is charming and debonair, but increasingly unfulfilled in his life, and has begun to court disaster with secret relationships with students and other risk-taking behaviour.

[rosignol]

Originally Posted by Nymdok

You select your locations well! THere has been much unusual just this year in Massachusetts!

[...]

Elected a Republican senator for the first time in 40 years and there are already whisperings of a Presidential Run. (no doubt the focus of this malignant force as it attempts to conquer the hearts and minds of the greater US).

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