Wonderland - Jags

Name: InNetwork Physicians WHIRL
PHY 10 STR 12 BLD 10 CON 10
REF 11 COR 11 REA 11 AGI 11
INT 13 RES 13 MEM 13 WIL 13
DP 11 Minor Major Critical
Wounds 4 11 22
To Hit 12-
To Be Hit -1
Armor None
Damage Varies
Creation: InNetwork Physicians are the product of a therapist’s psychological need to dominate a patient.
When a therapist starts hoping that a patient will get worse instead of better (and this becomes a source of
subliminal trauma for the therapist) a Whirl can spin off: another member of “the Network.” The Whirl will
almost immediately pounce on the therapist’s Shadow (when they regenerate one) and begin a warped sadistic
“therapy.”
The specifics of this are unknown but somehow the Physicians have learned a method to “breach” the connection
to the actual person. When they are finished with their Shadow Patient it will die and the real life Chessboard
Zero person will be “hollowed out.” The Whirl is now in control of them. This is one of the very, very few things
on Chessboard One that can “get” to Chessboard Zero without needing a bleed or relying on a Reflection.
InNetwork Physicians seem to be suave, expert psychologists, and psychiatrists. They are usually snappy
dressers. On Chessboard One they seem to have a dark corona about them, casting off “solar flares” of shadow.
Their eyes glow a penetrating shade of red.
Where They Are Found: Mental Hospitals (which, under their care become snake-pits), facility with mental
health services. The term InNetwork refers to being “in network for your health-care plan.”
Operations: They divide their time between trying to subtly and sadistically destroy their patients and
introducingother physicians to “the Network.” In this case they will find another therapist (usually a younger
one) who has a streak of arrogance and a touch of controlling nature in them: someone who has a need to be
needed. They will stoke it, showing them how to play with patients and slowly corrupt them. When the person
is too far gone, they will lay into their ward, trying to create the psychological fracture point that will “spin off”
the Physician Shadow. Then, later, when the student’s “therapy” is complete, there will be another one.
Reflection: The InNetwork Physician has no “Reflection.” It has a real human body that it “inhabits.” The fact
that this can happen at all is supremely scary. Fortunately, the phenomena seems to be very limited and nothing
else has really perfected it.
Drawn To: Other physicians and mental health patients. They are not especially knowledgeable about the
other Chessboards and are suspicious of Infecteds! For one thing, Infecteds can see them “for real” during their
Episodes. For another thing, they don’t really understand Unsanity and that bugs the hell out of them.
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