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It was Friday the August, 15th 2008; a man you knew by reputation only, invited you to his mansion for a
party. The mysterious man was Charles Escott and he seemed to know more about you, than you would
like him to know. On the guests list you found, Cathy Black an occult book store owner from New York
& Blackjack her Irish Wolfhound; Jamie of the Clan Blackrose, a jet setting Scottish Lord, who was
down on his luck; Michael Brown, who can bring anyone or anything “within the law’ together for a
price; Delaney who seems like a nut case; Lisa Eizo an ace reporter for weekly news magazine; John Hex
the son of a multibillionaire; Harry P. Lovecraft, he looks like a bad 1940’s detective; Parson Sean O’
Leary he seems to be a man of uncommon faith, but also knows the value of a good cigar, and Patrick J.
Tull 280# of Cajun.
At the party you talked to the other guests and found the only thing you had in common with them was
none of them knew Escott personally. As the party progressed and you tried to find some link with
others, and you discovered you all have talents and unusual skills. When you finally met Escott, he
offered you a position as a freelancer for his detective agency, or PRIVATE AGENCY, as he put it. As
you were talking over his offer, Escott was called away to take a call.
The call was from a member of Chinatown Tong who owed Escott a debt of honor. The caller told
Escott that his friend Annie Develan had been murdered, and her body was in an alley on the edge of
Chinatown. Escott asked the caller to watch over Annie's body until he could send people in. Your first
case for Escott was to solve Annie’s murder and bring him the name of the person responsible. Escott
told you he did not think Annie had an enemy in the world and all that knew her loved her. He told you
all about Annie, including the fact that she was a 500 year old vampire who only drank the blood of
animals.
In the alley, you found Annie’s body next to one of the dumpsters behind the Bamboo House
Restaurant. She had a stake in her heart and her head was a few feet from the body under one of the
dumpsters. When you looked the body over, you found that her canines were pulled out, and her blood
was like water. Blackjack found Annie’s purse next to one of the dumpsters. As you looked for more
clues, you saw Delaney talking to an old trashcan. When you asked her, she told you she was talking to
the old man setting on the trashcan. As you talked to Delaney, you discovered she was actually talking to
a ghost who was setting on the trashcan. The ghost told her a big man dressed all in black dumped the
body. He also told you the man walked like a man in pain, and he dropped to his knees as he dumped the
body. The ghost gave you part of the license number of the car.
The group decided to go to Annie’s house. At the house, you found Annie had made a mansion out of
three adjacent brownstones. The first thing you found was the body of her guard dog in the entry hall.
The dog’s skull was crushed in by one punch. Jamie said it looked like his bother work, but would not
say more about it. Looking through the house, you found Annie’s office. It took the team of Lovecraft
and Jamie to bypass her security on the computer. The computer contained Annie’s diary, it told of her
life from her first days as a vampire to her more recent life of making new identities for other vampires.
The computer also contained her client’s list, as well as her will. Using the office phone, Mr. Tull ran
down the license number of the car from the alley. The car was registered to St. Patrick a small Catholic
Church on the edge of Chinatown. Annie’s will leave all of her money to St. Patrick. In the trash you
found a first draft of a letter to a Father Michael asking for his help to end her five hundred years of
pain. Upstairs, you found Annie’s bedroom, where she was killed. In the floor were four iron spikes and
rope where Annie was tied down. From the pattern of blood on the wall, Lovecraft and Mr. Tull could
tell her head had been cut off before she was dead. You also found a spot of dried blood in the middle of
the room next to two small candles and the imprint of a heavy book. By the candles you found a small
coin, John said it was a security token for Hex lab. After Delaney looked at the token she said the pattern
on the back of the coin looked like her tattoo on her backside, and she was happy to show it to all. It was
the pattern and under the pattern was a barcode. She said she always had it and she did not know how
she got it.
The group decided it was time to talk to the good Father. At the Church, you found the old black dodge
the ghost told you about parked in the back. The back of the driver’s seat had dried blood on it. Annie’s
blood was all over the inside of the trunk. Due to the late hour, the group had to wake up one of the
other priests. Father Sean told you Father Michael had been in a very bad accident and had to be rushed
to the hospital. It took a great deal of persuasion, and a little help from John’s hypnosis to get the name
of the hospital.
Jamie kept the nurse busy while the group slipped into Father Michael’s room. When you confronted
him with the evidence, he broke down crying. After he pulled himself together, he told you how for
months Annie had begged for his help. She needed his help to end her curse, to free her from being a
vampire. He told you Annie had found an old spell book, a very old book that held the secrets of cueing
vampirism. He told you of how Annie stolen the book for Hex lab, and how she thought her life would be
in danger. He told you he was in the middle of reading the spell when he heard the guard dog howl. The
next thing he knew, he was in the E.R. and young Sean was giving him the last rites.
After talking to the priest, the group decided to go back to Escott’s. As you left the hospital, Delaney said
something bad was out in the parking lot. When Mr. Tull peeked out, he saw the face of a man he knows
he had already killed, he know he put three .44 in his hart. The face belonged to a voodoo priest that had
tried to kill Mama Tull. A short battle between the voodoo priest and his submachine gun-wielding
zombies versus the team broke out. The team captured the priest, and with Mr. Tull’s gentle persuasion,
he gave you the name of the man who hired him, Jonathan Hex. John told you Jonathan is the head of
Hexcorp and his father. He told you Hexcorp are slowly taking over the world by buying it bit by bit. He
told you Hex lab’s main US office was located outside the city. He also told you he knew Hex lab was
doing a great deal of research toward stopping the aging process by modifying the structure of human
blood and that a working spell book would be invaluable to them.
The team decided to take the voodoo priest back to Escott’s. On the way to Escott’s mansion, the priest
began begging not to taken to Escott’s. At the moment the car entered the estate, the priest howled out in
pain and you saw him age 30 years in 30 seconds. In the mansion, you found two members of the
Vampire High Council waiting to take the voodoo priest off your hands. One of the vampires told you
they were not going to kill him. In fact, he said, they planned to keep him alive for a very long time.
The team decided to get some rest before going on to raid the lab. Sometime around noon that day the
team became active, but Sean was nowhere to be found. The housekeeper told you he left shortly after
you went to bed. He took a bag of wooded stakes from the armory in the basement and asked her to
make a pot of coffee and some sandwiches. He said he had vamps to do and things to see. She said he
had a long list of names and addresses. Over brunch John told you it would be best if he didn’t go on the
raid. He told you because of his family, they could sense him coming. But he gave you the overall layout
of the lab and told you the secret lab would be somewhere underground. He warned you magic might be
part of the security systems. He said he would set up a distraction at Hexcorp main office, to draw off as
many guards as possible. He also told you that not all of the guards would be human. It was decided to
raid the lab at midnight. At five till twelve, six vans tore out of the parking lot. They were heading in the
direction of a red glow. One car was left in the lot, and the building was dark.
The team made its way to one of the small doors on the back loading dock. Lovecraft took one look at the
lock and told you the lock and security system were from his time. With more than a little help from
Cathy, he bypassed the security and the lock. The warehouse was empty and the team made its way to
the main part of the building. On the way, Harry noticed pentagrams ultraviolet on the floor inside each
door. Lovecraft told you the pentagrams were used to summon and hold demons in front of the doors.
Cathy told you it would be very bad to break one of the lines of the pentagram. The lack of guards made
you a little nervous as the team made its way to the main elevator. In the elevator you saw two buttons
marked down behind it.
Lovecraft hit number two; in a cloud of smoke and flames he went flying across the elevator, landing at
Mr. Tull’s feet. Tull laughed, thanks I needed a light, as he picked Lovecraft up and lit a Camel off one
of the small fires. Cathy yelled, he set off a magic trap, and found a concealed panel to plug in the
security token. The elevator began to move down pass level two, and open to an empty office, empty
except for a large all-black crystal desk.
Behind the desk was a door marked Top Secret. Lovecraft noticed with his cyber eye the desk was
actually a flattop computer. The computer was set up so you could only see it in ultraviolet. After ten
minutes Lovecraft said, I’m in, but all this corporate mumbo jumbo is out of my league. Michael said, let
me at it, after finding a pair of UV glasses, he began to dance his way into the date base. Michael pulled
the book’s location from the computer, a small safe in the back of Laboratory Blood I. Mr. Tull said (I’
m going to open that there safe like a beautiful girl opens an old man’s wallet, I guar-un-tee.) It was
decided it would be faster to split up Michael at the computer, and the others to go for the book.
Lovecraft was looking over the lock on the door and said I have no way to open it.
As if in a trance, Delaney walked up to the Top Secret door. As the door slowly opened, a machine-like
voice said, welcome back number five, and are you here for your check up? Is long overdue you know.
Vacant-eyed, Delaney began to slowly move down the hall, as if she knew where she was going. She
walked past door after door, until she stopped at a door marked Genetically Engineered Life Forms. The
voice sounded again, welcome as the door opened with an icy hiss. The room was covered in ice, and had
the smell of death was heavy in the air. It looked like a mad doctor’s laboratory. In the middle of the
room, you saw a man put together by committee strapped to a table. He was a giant, over nine feet tall,
heavily muscled, a living Frankenstein's monster. Lovecraft cried out My God! A Golem! Delaney
untied the creature. He coming with me was all she said. The golem was like a very scared child, but did
whatever Delaney told him to do. With baby in tow, the team made its way to Blood One.
The lab’s door opened for Delaney, like all of the other. Inside you saw two women and a man hanging
from the ceiling by their ankles. A machine on the floor was drinking in their blood. Jamie and
Lovecraft got the three down. Mr. Tull opened the safe like an old man’s wallet in no time. The safe
was empty; Mr. Tull found a small ring in the bottom. He gave it a pull, and the bottom popped up, the
book was within. Michael was slowly taking Hexcorp apart bit by bit. From across the room he heard the
elevator moving up. When the elevator moved down, and the doors opened, six guards in body armor,
carrying pump shotguns ran out. They ran through the outer office nonstop. It was a good thing for
Michael, as at the time he was hiding under the desk. The moment they were through the door, He
popped up and began calling Hex call phone; six men with guns are on their way! Was all he could get
out, before he passed out from fear?
Jamie quickly set up an ambush in the hall. Jamie popped out of a lab, and with one blast from his
shotgun; he took off the head of one of the guards. As the other five turned to face Jamie, the golem
threw his lab table, cutting four of the guards in half.   Lovecraft walked up to the remaining stunned
guard, and putting his .45 to the guard’s head, said isn’t that gun getting heavy?
The gun hit the floor and the guard pleaded for his life. When Delaney and the Golem came out of
hiding, the guard horrified, gasped; Dear God! They put it back together! And you're the kid, the one that
ran away! They don’t pay me enough for this! Hex made down just in time to walked up to the guard,
and said you’re right we don’t pay you enough, it would be best if you started looking over the want ads,
then the guard was told to go home, in Hex’s special way. Jamie told Delaney to go around, and open all
of the lab doors and jam them open. She had the Golem pull the doors off their hinges. Jamie started
mixing chemicals, he told Lovecraft to go and open all of the gas jets. The team quickly made its way out
of the building and into the car.
From over a mile away, you could see the laboratory burst into a ball of flame. Then the ball turned into
a demonic shape pointing a finger at Hex. Back at Escott’s the team gave he a rundown of the night’s
fun and games. It was decided to give the book to Escott for safekeeping. Lovecraft asked if he could
give the book a going-over. The moment he touched the book, he vanished in a cloud of smoke. Escott
said, “I think has gone back to his own time, and I think its best if you all returned to your normal lives,
and if I need your help in the future”.

2008 GenCon

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