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It was a nice quiet year, The Vampire High Council was happy, the werewolves were playing nice. You thought the world was
safe, until the day your friend John Hex turned up missing. It all started when Delaney dropped in to see her big brother John.
She was told by the Majordomo, she was allowed in, and the staff was to call the police when she showed up. She was told the
Master started to act odd after he received a visit from his father’s Attorney the day before. Later that night Doctor Dana
stopped by to pick John up for their date and John told her to get out or he was going to cut her heart out and eat it; and he
ran out of the room.
The same day Mr. Tull and Jamie were attracted by wererat in the bathroom they shared at Escott’s. Shortly after the fight
with Tull broke out, Jamie kicked the bathroom’s door open; and the wererat disappeared down the toilet just as Seline and
Momma walked in. As Mr. Tull tried to explain to Momma and Seline why they were naked in the bathroom, the maid walked
in. The maid said she had a letter from John for them. The letter said they were fired from the Raven nightclub.
The same day Cathy was fired from heading the Research and Development department at HexCorp. She walked into her office
and found a lawyer named Robin Graves sitting at her desk. He said she was no longer needed, and had five minutes to be off
Hexcorp’s property. Then two big goons picked her up and dumped her on the steps of the Lab. One of them tossed a bag of
shredded paper next to her, and said it was the books from her office. The lawyer walked out of the Lab and said Jonathan
would not be giving her a letter of reference, and sorry about her car. She turned to see smoke coming from her parking spot.
That night Lisa got a call from Iggy saying that something bad was going down with her buddy John. He said the word was;
that for the last two weeks Hexcorp has been in the market for Blood Mages, and homeless people were turning up missing, all
of their blood in dumpsters around HexLab. Jenette from the Council wanted John’s head on a pike, the homeless were put off-
limits by Jenette, and the Boss gets what she wants. Harry got a call from Willy the Rat that night. He was told someone at
HexCorp has put a contract out on Escott. Willy said the Rat Pack (Wererat Assassins) were out for blood. He said one of the
packs made his way into the mansion, but was scared off by Escott’s cat. He said the Pack was not backing down, and was
going after Escott sometime in the next couple of days, and they were staking out the mansion waiting for Escott to go out.
Parson Sean received a call from Jenette Ducharme, of the Vampire High Council. She said Hex has Brocken the Council’s
rule about killing the homeless for blood. She said he had two days to turn Hex over, or it would be open season on Hex. She
said the Council was not looking to start a war with Escott, but Rules are Rules and she could not play favorites. She said to
tell Escott he could not stop it, and it would be bad if he tried. If he turned Hex over she would make his death quiet and with
as little pain as possible.
The team compares notes at Escott’s the next day, and decided to go to John’s house. At the house the Majordomo, said you
were allowed in, and he said he was going to call the police per the Master’s instructions. He told Delaney, she was not to use
her key to the backdoor, and he was going to have code changed, it was on his things to do list.
At the back Delaney put her code in and the little green light turned on, and her key still opened the lock on the gate. The back
door was open and a plate of triple chocolate chip cookies, still hot from the oven were on the table. The door going up stair
was open, and Delaney said big brother’s room was up stairs, but she could not go up stairs when big brother was not home.
Dana talked Delaney into going up stairs after some cookies and milk. In John’s room on the bed, in a burned out line of a
suitcase you found an open golden box. The box was full of burned herbs, and bones. Cathy said the marking on the box was
for a trap, the soul spell for Jonathan Hex. She said if John opened the box his father’s soul would have jumped into John’s
body and could have taken him over. You looked over the room and Lisa found John’s trench coat under the bed. Lisa said
John would not go out of the house without his trench coat as you saw her try to slip a pair of panties into her back pocket. In
the pocket of the coat you found John’s lighter and Black Russian cigarettes, something John could not live without.
Harry said he found John’s laptop in the office and it was still up and running. You found over two hundred unread messages
in his email; the last ten were death threats from Cathy over being fired and blowing up her car. Dana wanted to know why
some of the emails were from Lisa; they agreed to talk it over with John when they got him back. John’s cell phone was still on
the changer and had a voice mail from Robin Graves, saying he had some of John’s father’s old papers he needed to drop off,
and wanted a call back to setup a time. Tull checked the number and it was for a pre-paid cell and could not be trace. From
out in the hall you heard a cough, it was the Majordomo. He said there were two men watching the house from a car across the
street.
After a short fright, you got they were working for the rat pack, and the cell phone they used to check in. Tull called the pack
and setup a meeting. The meeting was set at an old warehouse by the docks. Jamie setup an ambush at the warehouse, and the
Pack did not count on silver bullets and a rocket launcher. With a little of Mr. Tull’s gentle persuasion, you know they were
working for Robin Graves, and were to kill Escott. Sammy said he’s the one who made it into Escott’s, and if it was not for the
Cat Goddess they would be back in Vegas at the card table. When Tull asked what did he mean by Goddess, he laughed and
said didn’t you know you were living with Bast the Cat Goddess? Tull said “he needs to have a long talk with Seline when dis
was done did”. As you talked over what to do with Sammy, Jamie got a call from Jonathan Hex. Jonathan said it was time for
a meeting. The team decided to go back to Escott’s, you dropped Sammy at a bar called the Wolf’s Den, the werewolf were
happy to see Sammy one of them said something about B.B.Q today at Zack’s.
Back at Escott’s with a little help from Momma Tull, Cathy got the soul spell box reset for Jonathan. Mr. Tull got an ear full
from Momma about messing with The Voodoo, but she did make some calls to get all of the herbs, and bones needed for the
spell. It was decided Cathy and Dana would have the box in outer office and Tull, Jamie, Lisa, Delaney, Lovecraft and Parson
Sean would go into face Jonathan.
At Hexcorp the guards were no were to be seen, and all of the doors were open. The light made a pass by John’s office, and in
the outer office a table was setup with food and drinks. From out of John’s office you heard John’s voice with a French accent,
saying you had nothing to fear. In the office Jonathan said we needed to talk. He said that his new body was being made, and
he would be more than happy to move in to it. He said John would not be hurt if you let him finish the body and transfer his
soul to it. He said there was no need for your little box, and he doubted someone like Cathy could get it working by herself. He
said after he got his new body he was going to retire to the South of France and give up trying to take over the world.
Mr. Tull without a world tried to land a haymaker on Jonathan, and was toast off like a ragdoll. Jonathan moved like a cat,
and was acting if he was playing with the big man as Tull tried to land a hit. Jamie landed two good hits back to Jonathan and
the fight was over. Cathy and Dana use the box to trap the soul spell for Jonathan, and Delaney cried out “I can feel the
Demon in John too”. She said how the Demon was running John’s body acting like he was Jonathan. Parson Sean said the
Demon could have used the mask of Jonathan to fool us into setting him free by trapping John by mistake.
The team of Dana and Sean remove the Demon from John’s body, and send it back to Hell. When John regained himself, he
wanted to know why Jamie hit him and how he got to his office. Delaney got her cards out and after reading said he big brother
and only big brother this time, but father is not in the box, he got out somehow. Cathy checked the box and found it had an
escape door on one side made to be open from inside. The Team checked the building from top to bottom and you found the
lab Robin Graves was using to make Jonathan’s new body. You found a note from Jonathan saying he will be seeing you, and
he may be too young for retiring, and who goes to the south of France this time of the year.
The next day John got a call from one of the corporation accountants saying that she transferred 200 billion to your fathers
account in the north of France, and 400 billion of great-grandfather’s account in the south of France this morning per his
order. She said the 400 billion transfers to his grandfather account was held up and would go through by the end of the day.
John had her check and all of the money was withdrawn 5 minutes after the transfers, and the one for his grandfather did go
through and has not been withdrawn. John got a call from his father that day saying “have fun running the corporation for
now”.

2010 GenCon

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