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Deeper Mysteries - Chessboards 158 Name: Bonfire of Abject Misery Description: A bundle of dried leaves waiting to be burnt; the smoke from them causes incapacitating sorrow to those who inhale it; it’s ash is a poison and torment to the soul The smoke from the fire acts as PWR 14 Terror (the emotional effect is sadness, not fear) to those in a 30 yard radius. The ash acts as PWR 16 to 22 if ingested or injected. Reflection: Incense or narcotics Name: Sigil of Mourning Description: A locket in the shape of an upside down heart; contains a picture of sentimental value representing a great loss, and is filled with the ash of crying leaves Wearer will not progress in grieving; time will not heal wounds – a character wearing a sigil will feel reluctant to remove it as though doing so would be a betrayal of the one lost. Also note that the character will not realize or admit that the sigil is responsible for the absence of healing Reflection: Locket, jewelry, or some small, wearable memento of personal relevance Fortune is reflective metal; ill fortune being an iron-black, while blessings are platinum in color. Fortune is found naturally under the sands of the great wastes in small perfect spheres (sizes range from those of tiny bearings to softballs). The sands themselves represent fate or myriad destiny – all the moments or incidents that add up to nothing. Name: Deal Breaker Description: An oversized six-shooter forged of black metal: ill fortune; has a terrible, sinister feel to it. Heavy. Cold. Fires rounds made of pure bad-luck; jet-black spheres packed in polished brass casings. Rounds cause instant, catastrophic tragedy to those hit; almost always terminal. Acts as PWR 22 Death Ray; The Deal Breaker is expensive, the rounds even more so. Note that when the gun discharges, the round burns in the chamber; there is no bullet (the ray will penetrate any cover a .357 magnum round doing 13pts damage would pass through; as with a normal death-ray effect, armor will not provide cover). Note that killing a shadow with a deal-breaker will affect the casting character as if he were strongly bound (i.e. it’s usually fatal for the shadow’s caster). Deal breakers are extremely rare, extremely expensive. Reflection: A broken hand mirror (becomes more broken with each “shot”) – shoots by showing one’s reflection
Name: Lucky Quarter Description: A bicentennial quarter (United States) or other ironically recognizable coin (100 Yen, etc.) made of highly distilled blessings or good fortune. Seems especially clean and shiny – never dull. Lucky Quarters don’t lose coin tosses; if put in a pot, they add +10 to the owner’s gambling skill for that hand. If put in a slot machine, they’ll win the jackpot. A lucky quarter’s luck runs out eventually – they can modify between 10 and 100pts worth of rolls (a coin flip costs 1 pt, a gambling hand, 10. Winning the lottery requires rolling a “0” three times on 4d-4; and costs enough points to bring each roll to 0 – using your lucky quarter to buy a lottery ticket risks losing the quarter without ensuring you’ll be rich); once a lucky quarter is spent or used up, it’ll (probably) never be lucky for the owner again… but it will recharge and will be useful to someone else a few years later Reflection: An iconic piece of change Society The society that exists on Chessboard Four is one that we are luckily cannot get to Chessboard Zero directly: human-kind is the raw material that is used in every ritual, every factory, every mill. Humans are a mass of dreams, wants, needs, consuming desires, and internalized lies. Since all of those things (and more) have physical essences on the lower Chessboards, humankind is a resource, a fuel, and a currency. The Naughts The predominant form of life on Chessboard Four are the Naughts. They appear as human beings (usually, but not always, trim) whose faces are a smooth, round hole that extends all the way through their heads. Their dress usually says something about their place in society and they are very conscious of their uniforms. Naughts can “speak” in a whistling, pipe-like language that after a time is understood in the listener’s native tongue. Almost the entirety of the Naughts lives is somehow devoted to in the trade in deep elements. They buy and sell and extract a fluid that is human vice incarnate. They study the architecture of Awe and fill books with their dissertations on almost imaginary edifices written in a strange tongue. They buy and sample human dreams, taking the 159 Deeper Mysteries - Chessboards
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LOOKING-GLASS MAKER 1 Introduction
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Cycle 55 Trigger 55 Depth 55 Notice
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110 The Linear Maze 110 Topology 11
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Effects Of Unbelieving 213 Manageme
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A WORLDBOOK OF ABSURD HORROR FOR TH
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ine them imagining that you can ima
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gauge-energy experiment had somethi
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Outer Circle that the team was now
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eport itself failed to alert the Co
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Characters range from normal people
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People who are Infected as a group
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the first person to change their mi
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“Pills don’t work. They can dul
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“That’s what we call it, anyway
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and configuration standing like sil
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have a hard time infecting anyone i
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MOONEY: “He’s in the program. N
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get them open or they’re locking
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If you’re gonna play Wonderland,
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going crazy or on drugs. The damage
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Reality Is Composed of Eight Chessb
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an Episode? You see all your friend
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Chessboard Two Some of it looks lik
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The Stages of CPD CPD is said to ha
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themselves Shadows are caricatures
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I stood in the room as Christina lo
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the building you could step through
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Avg. Length This is a very rough ti
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Descent to Chessboard One Level of
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taking chances for Controlled Desce
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Usually the GM will call for WIL ro
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Notice: Something’s Looking for Y
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TwistedTwisted One can’t look int
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it’s a bizarre maze you are trapp
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69 Deeper Mysteries - Overview
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On Chessboard Three It’s even mor
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Chessboard Four At this point Disas
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There are several gradients of the
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Minor Disassociation: At this level
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Reflection Disassociation vs. Actio
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Disassociate but the break would be
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People’s Shadows say and do deepl
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But what if you’re Disassociated?
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The Crest of the Fin: Monsters Down
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Imagine you’re out at night and t
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GM’s Notes on Mastery The gaining
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For a high-empowerment game we sugg
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Advanced [4] Description: The chara
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Avoiding Disassociation: The Standa
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Situation Depth Character is in fea
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Mastery Level Modifier Novice -2 Pr
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Technique Modifiers -1 to the roll
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little work or an excuse (“I had
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Page 111 and 112: Topology ‘At any rate I’ll neve
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Page 115 and 116: The Major Organizations Project Pag
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Page 127 and 128: Name: The Orange Peel Men WHIRL PHY
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the subject who often leaves after
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(of course they may be doing hereti
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Therapist or Counselor This is a ge
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eport you, and the officer on the s
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Do the Characters Start Infected? A
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haunted house, when the monsters ju
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That’s very bleak—and intention
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How To Control Empowerment How char
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Dr. Faustus You are an explorer in
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Inquisitive Innocence [2] Descripti
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Linear Maze, The The Linear Maze is
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