PROACTIVE NODES
PROACTIVE 1: HAND ON THE STREET
- Can be seen anywhere (driving by, outside the boarding house, etc.)
PROACTIVE 2: TANIT CULTISTS
- Sent by Barca at any point where PCs have been identified
PROACTIVE 3: WHISKEY DEATH
- Contacted by Fred Watson at any time concerning the death of the one of the cops who had been at the James J. Hill House.
PROACTIVE 1: HAND ON THE STREET
SEEING THE HAND
- Can happen at almost any time that the PCs are walking or driving along the street.
- Shouldn’t be a busy street (the hand doesn’t want to attract a crowd or anything).
TRACKING THE HAND
- Survival: The hand appears to have tracked through some talc powder and telltale traces can be followed back to a nearby apartment (it dropped out of the open window).
- Streetwise: Can find a couple of kids bowling with bicycle rims who, with a little Reassurance, saw the hand drop out of the window.
- Library Use/Simple Search: A day or two later a small item will appear in the Minneapolis Star about a body being found in the area without a left hand.
THE APARTMENT
A single-room apartment with yellowish, nicotine-stained plaster walls.
- A rumpled Murphy’s bed.
Kurt Nordberg lies dead with his head down on a plain wooden table with two chairs that’s shoved up against the wall against a partially open window.
- His left hand is missing.
- A half-empty bottle of Minnesota 13 Whiskey is on the table next to his right hand.
Streetwise: Kurt has a son named Erik. They had a screaming argument two nights ago.
ERIK
- His father was a drunk (that’s what the argument was about).
- His father had been suffering from a muscular dystrophy.
- GM Note: This is why the full transformation failed and the hand wandered off on its own.
- He knows that his father bought his liquor from a man named Oleg Andersson.
CRAWLING HAND OF TANIT: Athletics 2, Fleeing 6, Scuffling 4, Health 4
Hit Threshold: 4 (tiny, quick moving hand)
Alertness Modifier: +1 (10% eye by volume)
Stealth Modifier: 2 (tiny skittering hand)
Weapons: eye gouge, scratching, unpleasant probing (-3)
Stability Loss: +1
Eye of Tanit: Pupil twists into a curlicue. Stability test (no loss). On failure, establish trance like state. On second failure, can issue a hypnotic compulsion that will last until trance ends. Being controlled has a potential of 4-point Stability loss.
PROACTIVE 2: TANIT CULTISTS
CULTISTS: Dressed in very nice suits.
- Each has an Eye in their left palm.
- They carry Minneapolis Federal Reserve business cards.
TANIT CULTISTS: Athletics 5, Firearms 4, Scuffling 6, Weapons 5, Health 8
Alertness Modifier: +1 (three eyes are better than two)
Stealth Modifier: 0
Weapons: dagger (0), fists (-2), small caliber pistols (-1)
Stability Loss: +0, if seeing the eye
PROACTIVE 3: WHISKEY DEATH
OFFICER OSCAR LUNDSEN: Stole one of the bottles of whiskey from James J. Hill House and then died while drinking it in his small St. Paul flat later. When he didn’t show up for a shift, a patrol car found his body.
- Left hand is missing.
- Prop: Minnesota 13 Whiskey
