The Book of Knots - Jags

Book of Knots - The Caretakers
Name: MC-Squared Minion
PHY 11 STR 11 BLD 10 CON 11
REF 11 COR 12 REA 13 AGI 12
INT 12 RES 12 MEM 12 WIL 12
DP 21 Minor Major Critical
Wounds 7 21 42
48
To Hit 13-
To Be Hit -2
Armor None
Damage 1 IMP
Description: A young, trim, very handsome game-show announcer whose manner implies a
sharp, ironic sense of humor.
Bi-Locate: The MC-Squared can exist in two places at once, one of whom is not usually
visible to normal people in the area.
If the target is really
interesting (most PCs would
probably apply) then these
talent scouts may barter
anything from modest control
of one’s Infection to secrets of
power to money and goods.
The Intertainer has ways to get
these to people.
Disposition Towards
Man
Man is the raw material for
the ironic masterpiece that the
Intertainer is creating. Man is
the jester that dances for him.
Actors are commonly used
(and their programs range from simple atrocities to raw abominations of
cruelty and low-brow humor). But Actors aren’t satisfying. It’s Humans
the Intertainer needs and it would like to get all of them into its shows.
Security!: If attacked, the MC-Squared will summon security. Stats vary, usually they are
very large, very tough humans with no faces and audio-headsets attached to their ears (with
a mike running to where the mouth would be).
Encounter Threat
Medium. The Intertainer is always looking to cast you somewhere.
Maybe you’d be perfect for his “College Kids go out in the woods and
get killed” show. Maybe he’s looking for a new person for “Date from
HELL.” Whatever, you fit somewhere and when you meet him there’s a
chance he’ll be figuring out how to place you.
Being dull isn’t a good defense either. He hates the terminally dull.
Some people have used agents: having someone like a powerful
magician, another caretaker, or previous winner act as an Agent can
work. However, that’s far less satisfying; if you are willing but you have
backing and your price is high, he might move on.
If you are willing and you seem a reasonably good casting (dramatic,
maybe angsty or bubbly, or otherwise good TV) then he might ‘go easy’
on you: cast you in a show where, although you may think you are losing
your mind (hearing voices) for a while, you may come out of it okay.
Operations
Usually Infecteds encounter either a talent scout or an audition hall.
The scouts (talking blackbirds) might appear to someone having an
Episode and offer him “help with his pain.” A person wandering around
a deserted wasteland in Chessboard Two might find a fluorescent-lit
doorway with a personable (if strange seeming) girl inside who gives
you a clipboard with a weird questionnaire and asks you some questions
(has you read some lines) and then delivers you safely back to sanity (out
the back door). Later, the problems start.