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NODE 7: HARRIS CHEMICAL PLANT

(4121 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis, MN)

• Located along Minnehaha Avenue, which runs between downtown Minneapolis and Minnehaha Falls.
• A Milwaukee Road rail line runs behind the chemical plant, servicing other factories and grain silos that run up and down the western side of Minnehaha Avenue.
• A rail spur runs into the Harris loading dock, it’s not unusual for 1-3 tanker cars to be parked there (loading or unloading chemicals).

BACKGROUND

• Founded by Ezra Harris in 1895.
• Ezra Harris died in 1905 and the company was inherited by his son Clarence.
• Clarence died in 1923 without heir and the company was acquired by John Barca. (Clarence was actually poisoned by Tanit cultists specifically so that they could acquire the company.)
• Harris Chemicals has a contract with the federal government to denature alcohol: Although banned by Prohibition, alcohol still has a wide variety of necessary uses in industry. When it became clear that this industrial alcohol was being used to create illegal liquor, the government began denaturing the alcohol — adulterating the alcohol with foul-tasting additives that wouldn’t affect its industrial uses, but made it unpalatable for drinking.
• Under Barca’s direction, some of the denatured alcohol is also adulterated with Tanit parasites. This alcohol is then dropped off at an otherwise abandoned warehouse a few blocks south on Minnehaha Avenue, where Oleg Andersson picks it up and takes it to Node 6: Davis Farm to be renatured and turned into Minnesota 13.
• The secret section of the denaturing plant where the Tanit parasites are added to the alcohol is also being used as a convenient holding facility for kidnapped kids before they are taken to Node 8: Minneapolis Federal Reserve.

SURVEILLANCE

Workers: The plant employs nearly fifty people. It operates twenty-four hours a day in three shifts, although the night shift is a skeleton crew.

Security: There are four security guards on the day shifts (one at the front desk, one at the loading docks, and two on patrol). At night this is increased to six security guards. (This seems like an unusual amount of security for a business like this.)

Loading Dock: There are usually 1-3 tanker cars on the Harris rail spur, which are filled or emptied with special pipes and hoses before being picked up. Trucks arrive throughout the day, loading and unloading barrels.

Secure Denaturing Facility: External surveillance will note a special freight elevator on the loading dock that requires special keys to access. (This freight elevator leads to the denaturing facility.) PCs who gain access to the plant interior (getting hired, posing as inspectors, etc.) will be able to identify the location and public function (denaturing alcohol) of the secure facility.

John Barca: Barca will intermittently stop by the facility. He’ll visit the management offices and then go into the secure denaturing facility (on his way to the Tanit infusion area). Streetwise or Bureaucracy pegs him as out of place (his suit and shoes several tax brackets above anyone else working here). He can be followed back to Node 8: Minneapolis Federal Reserve.

Company-Owned Truck: Harris Chemical Plant has a single company-owned truck, which can be noticed as distinct from the other trucks coming and going from the loading dock. Following this truck will reveal a handful of local deliveries, but also notably:

• Being loaded with barrels of denatured alcohol that’s dropped at an abandoned warehouse a few blocks north. (Oleg Andersson then picks these barrels and takes them to Node 6: Davis Farm.)
• Transporting kidnapped kids (see below).
• Leaving empty to pick up tophet serum from Node 8: Minneapolis Federal Reserve and bringing it back here.

Moving Alex Griffin: During the night shift on Sunday, November 15^th, Alex Griffin is moved to Node 8: Minneapolis Federal Reserve by four Tanit cultists in the company-owned truck. (He’s brought down the secure elevator and loaded into the company truck.)

QUESTIONING WORKERS

Drivers: The Harris drivers can give details about their normal delivery schedule and the secure freight elevator used for processing denatured alcohol.

• They also intermittently pick up crates from Node 8: Minneapolis Federal Reserve, which are sent up the secure freight elevator to the denaturing facility.
• Any Interpersonal 1 / Credit Rating 1: The Harris drivers will reveal that they intermittently drop denatured alcohol at an abandoned warehouse a couple blocks north of the chemical plant. They don’t know, but they suspect what happens to it after they drop it off.

Other Workers: Any Harris worker can tell the PCs about normal plant operations, layout, and the secure denaturing facility.

ENTRANCES / GETTING IN

Front Entrance: On the corner of the building. Leads to the Front Office.

Loading Dock:

• Front Office: A door leads from the Loading Dock to the Front Office.
• Factory Floor: Large doors lead from the Loading Dock to the Factory Floor.
• Freight Elevator: Goes up to the Testing Labs on the 3^rd Floor.
• Secure Elevator: Goes up to the Denaturing Facility on the 4^th Floor.

Windows: 1^st Floor windows are barred (except in the Front Office). Windows on the higher storeys are unbarred (except for the 5^th Floor, which are heavily secured and cannot be opened).

INTERIOR

1st FLOOR

1st FLOOR – LOADING DOCK

• Trucks can drive into the rear loading yard from the street; there’s an entrance gate and an exit gate.
• The rail spur leads directly across Harris Chemical’s yard and into the loading area.
• There are two freight elevators — one leads to testing labs on the 3^rd Floor; a secure freight elevator leads to the Secure Denaturing Facility on the 4^th Floor.
• Large loading doors lead to the Factory Floor.

FRONT OFFICE

• Located on the corner of the building.
• Staff here manages customers and processes shipping documents brought here from the loading docks.
• Stairs lead up to the Management Offices on the 2^nd Floor; and down to the Basement.
• Bureaucracy: There’s plenty of evidence to be found here of John Barca’s ownership of the company, although he seems to take little interest in the day-to-day management, except for the denaturing contracts.

FACTORY FLOOR

On the far side of the loading docks from the Front Office.

• Various vats, pressure vessels, and the like.
• The ceiling is two storeys high with windows primarily on the upper level.
• Stairs lead down into the Basement; and up to the Testing Labs.
• The Management Offices overlook the factory floor; there’s a balcony and also large glass windows. A staircase leads from the offices down to the factory floor.

BASEMENT

• Non-volatile storage.
• PCs can waste a lot of time down here, but there’s little of interest.
• File Cabinets: Digging through these dusty records with Bureaucracy will reveal the factory’s history of ownership (including John Barca’s current ownership). It will also reveal that the 4^th Floor was heavily revamped to accommodate the federal denaturing contracts, and further construction work was done up there following Barca’s acquisition of the company.

2nd FLOOR

MANAGEMENT OFFICES

• These offices overlook the Factory Floor. (There’s a balcony and a glass wall. Stairs lead down from the balcony to the Factory Floor.)
• In the corner of the building directly above the main entrance, there’s a spiral staircase leading up to John Barca’s office (which is on the top floor of a tower). Bureaucracy in Barca’s office both identifies him as the owner of Harris Chemical and reveals that chemical shipments are being made from Node 8: Minneapolis Federal Reserve which he’s personally overseeing (which doesn’t make a lot of sense, although they’re tied to the federal denaturing contracts).

3rd FLOOR

TESTING LABS

• Chemistry reveals that these labs are conducting perfectly mundane testing and development work; exactly what you’d expect from an industrial chemical plant.
• Well-secured doors limit access to the 4^th Floor.

4th FLOOR

SECURE DENATURING FACILITY

• Can be accessed via well-secured stairwells from the 3^rd Floor or via the secure freight elevator from the Loading Docks.
• Evidence Collection / Bureaucracy: John Barca has left detailed instructions on the specific quantity of denatured alcohol which, instead of being directly shipped out, should be redirected to the 5^th Floor. (These instructions explicitly identify John Barca.)
• Entrance to Tanit Infusing Facility: The entrance to the secure facility on the 5^th Floor is hidden, requiring a 1-point spend to find. (Any leveraged clued pertaining to the secure facility — records of the facility, noticing the 5^th Floor windows on the outside of the building, etc. — removes the requirement for the 1-point spend.)

5th FLOOR

TANIT INFUSING FACILITY

• In this special chemistry lab, Tanit parasites — stored in glass bottles containing purplish liquid — are carefully infused into the denatured alcohol.
• Chemistry: Procedural notes here reveal that the Harris Chemical denaturing process has been carefully designed to prepare the alcohol for infusion with the “tophet serum.” (Infusing raw alcohol would apparently “sterilize” the serum.)
• Crates: Labels on empty and half-empty crates indicate that the “tophet serum” is shipped here from Node 8: Minneapolis Federal Reserve.
  • Bureaucracy 1: The markings indicate that the crates were stored in the vault at the Federal Reserve Building.

HOLDING CELL

• Alex Griffin is held in a small, heavily soundproofed cell on the far side of the Tanit Infusing Facility.
• Alex Griffin: Alex was kidnapped from Node 4: Harriet Tubman’s Asylum for Colored Orphans and brought here several days ago. He doesn’t really understand what’s happening, he’s very scared, but he’s just barely managing to keep it together. Any show of human kindness or a suggestion that the PCs are going to take him somewhere safe triggers an emotional breakdown (Reassurance can help pull him back together). Alex notably overheard someone say that he was going to be “taken to the Fed,” although he doesn’t know what that means.

NPCs AT HARRIS CHEMICAL

HARRIS CHEMICAL SECURITY: Athletics 5, Mechanical Repair 4, Scuffling 6, Fleeing 4, Weapons 5, Health 8

Alertness Modifier: +1 (Careful Eye)
Stealth Modifier: -1 (Uniforms stand out)
Weapons: .38 revolver (0), Billie Club (-1), Fists (-2)

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

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These revelation lists are a master reference document for Left Hand of Mythos, providing a list of the conclusions the players need to make while pursuing their investigation and all the clues pointing to each of those conclusions (including the locations where those clues are found).

For more information on how to use revelation lists while running an investigation, check out Node-Based Scenario Design and Using Revelation Lists.

REVELATION LIST – NODES

NODE 0: HILL HOUSE

NODE 1: 13 BLACK CATS

• HILL HOUSE: 13 Black Cat Flyers
• HILL HOUSE: Questioning Rachel Hill
• HILL HOUSE: Alicia Corey’s Corpse

NODE 2: MINNESOTA 13 / BOOTLEGGER

• HILL HOUSE: Liquor Bottles
• HILL HOUSE: Questioning Rachel Hill
• WHISKEY DEATH: Liquor Bottle
• 13 BLACK CATS: Questioning Gladys Roy

NODE 3: ALICIA COREY’S BOARDING HOUSE

• HILL HOUSE: Alicia Corey’s Corpse/Purse
• HILL HOUSE/RACHEL: Gladys Invited Rachel to Hill House
• GLADYS: Invited Alicia to Hill House

NODE 4: HARRIET TUBMAN ASYLUM FOR COLORED ORPHANS

• BOARDING HOUSE: Alicia’s Diary
• FATIMA’S SHRINE: Letter from Alicia to Gladys Roy
• FATIMA’S SHRINE: Map of Minneapolis

NODE 5: FATIMA’S SHRINE

• GLADYS: Following Gladys
• BOARDING HOUSE: Alicia’s Diary
• BOARDING HOUSE: Questioning Owners / Return Address

NODE 6: DAVIS FARM

• BOOTLEGGER: Questioning Oleg
• BOOTLEGGER: Bootlegger’s Address Book
• BOOTLEGGER: Following Oleg
• HILL HOUSE/HAND ON STREET: Minnesota 13

NODE 7: HARRIS CHEMICAL PLANT

• ORPHANAGE: Chemical Residue
• ORPHANAGE: Canvassing Neighborhood
• DAVIS FARM: Labels on Chemical Barrels
• DAVIS FARM: Questioning Ellie and Billie Davis
• BOOTLEGGER: Picks Up Denaturalized Alcohol
• KID CANN: Questioning Kid Cann (Hooked up Plant w/Oleg Andersson)
• FATIMA’S SHRINE: Address on Pad of Paper

NODE 8: MINNEAPOLIS FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

• TANIT CULTISTS: Federal Reserve Business Cards
• BARCA: Following/Researching Barca
• HARRIS CHEMICAL: Shipping Crates
• HARRIS CHEMCAL: Questioning Drivers/Alex Washington

REVELATION LIST – NPCs

RACHEL HILL

• See Node 0: Hill House.

OLEG ANDERSSON

• HILL HOUSE: Questioning Rachel Hill
• HILL HOUSE: Questioning Lucretia Gray
• DAVIS FARM: Questioning Ellie/Billie Davis
• KID CANN: Hooked Oleg up with Harris Chemical’s ethanol
• HAND ON THE STREET: Questioning Estranged Son

GLADYS ROY

• HILL HOUSE: Flyers for 13 Black Cats
• HILL HOUSE/RACHEL: Gladys Left Early
• HILL HOUSE/LUCRETIA: Sent the invitations
• FATIMA’S SHRINE: Letter from Alicia to Gladys Roy
• FATIMA’S SHRINE: 13 Black Cat Flyers (Printed Here)

KID CANN

• BOOTLEGGER: Questioning Oleg
• GLADYS: Questioning Gladys
• RESEARCH: Bootlegging

ELLIE DAVIS / BILLIE DAVIS

• See Node 6: Davis Farm.

JOHN BARCA

• HARRIS CHEMICAL: Instructions from John Barca
• HARRIS CHEMICAL: Observing Harris Chemical
• FATIMA’S SHRINE: Map of Minneapolis

REVELATION LIST – MISC.

KIDS ARE BEING KIDNAPPED

• FATIMA’S SHRINE: Letter from Alicia to Gladys Roy
• ORPHANAGE: Missing Kids
• GLADYS: Knows what Alicia reported

TANIT TAINTED ALCOHOL

• HILL HOUSE/RACHEL & GLADYS: They weren’t drinking
• HILL HOUSE & DAVIS FARM: Chemical Analysis of Whiskey
• HARRIS CHEMICAL: Tanit-Infusing Process
• GLADYS: Questioning Gladys (knows liquor was tainted)

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NODE 6: DAVIS FARM

• Located in Stearns County near Holdingford (the “moonshine capital of Minnesota”).
• About 90 miles north of the Twin Cities.
• Bootlegging is, in fact, rampant up here. The biggest moonshine-brewing operation is run by the monks of St. John’s Abbey, but a lot of local farms (currently mired in the middle of the Agricultural Depression that lasted from 1920 through 1934) get in on the action.

THE DAVIS FARM

• They farm corn and have a small number of cattle. The fields are harvested now, so there are just stubs of corn stalks jutting up here and there like a primitive, haphazard cemetery.
• They’ve had some light snow up here and the fields are dusted with it (although you can still see the raw, frozen dirt between the small drifts).
• The buildings are set back from the road, with a narrow drive running between the shields and then dropping over a small rise.
• It’s a simple farm: There’s a house, a barn, and a machine shed.

THE HOUSE

• Ellie Davis and Billie Davis live here.
• Living room and kitchen on the ground floor.
• Bedroom and bathroom upstairs.

THE BARN

• Stalls for a half dozen milk cows and mounds of hay for their winter feed.
• Hidden Kegs: Kegs of Minnesota 13 whiskey are hidden under the hay mound. (See Node 2: Minnesota 13 for analysis.)

THE MACHINE SHED

• Crowded with two tractors (one no longer working) and the Davis’ pick-up truck, along with corn hooks, plows, hay rakes, harrows, and grain bins.
• Fake Wall: The back wall of the machine shed is fake. There’s a hidden room in the back with Ellie’s still.

THE STILL

• Chemistry: It’s a sophisticated set-up. Ellie is re-naturing the denatured alcohol and then using bubblegum to hide the lingering flavor.
• Ethanol Barrels: Label coding on the bottom of the barrels indicates that they came from Node 7: Harris Chemical Plant.

ELLIE DAVIS

APPEARANCE

• Prop: Photo of Ellie Davis

ROLEPLAYING NOTES

• Witty and uncouth.
• Big grin.
• Thumbs through her suspenders.

BACKGROUND

• She’s the brains of the operation. The only bootlegger in Stearns County who can deal with the denatured alcohol Oleg gets from the Harris Chemical Plant.
• Went to college, but had to come back home when her mom got sick. Ended up marrying “that big goof” Billie and settled down to the happy life of a farm wife.
• Got into bootlegging because it seemed like everybody else in Stearns County was doing it, and with the chemistry courses she took in college she’s got a knack for it.

CLUE

• Reassurance: She knows the source of Oleg’s denatured ethanol is from the Harris Chemical Plant. (Label coding on the bottom of the barrels.)
• Reassurance: They sell their Minnesota 13 through Oleg Andersson (who runs it into Minneapolis and St. Paul).

NOTES

• Ellie Davis is inspired by the story told by Elaine Davis of her grandmother, a central Minnesota farm wife during Prohibition, who leapt into bed and pretended to be sick when a bunch of G-men spilled out of their cars into the front yard. She delayed ‘em long enough for her husband to make sure the kegs were safely stowed under the hay mounds in the barn.

ELLIE DAVIS: Athletics 6, Driving 4, Firearms 4, Fleeing 5, Scuffling 7, Weapons 6, Health 8
Alertness Modifier: +1 (eyes open)
Stealth Modifier: +1 (Hides in plain sight)
Weapons: Fists (-2), Whatever’s Around (0), Shotgun – while at the house, (+1)

BILLIE DAVIS

APPEARANCE

• Prop: Photo of Billie Davis

ROLEPLAYING NOTES

• Cool, dry sense of humor.
• Ignorant, but not in a willful way.
• Speaks slow. (And gets slower if you’ve pissed him off.)

BACKGROUND

• Billie is a farmer who helps Ellie with her work on the stills. He can keep the fires lit, and knows what you can drink and what’ll make you blind, but not much more than that.
• He’s never left Stearns County.

CLUE

• Reassurance: He knows the source of Oleg’s denatured ethanol is from the Harris Chemical Plant. (Label coding on the bottom of the barrels.)
• Reassurance: They sell their Minnesota 13 through Oleg Andersson (who runs it into Minneapolis and St. Paul).

BILLIE DAVIS: Athletics 12, Driving 4, Firearms 4, Fleeing 2, Scuffling 6, Weapons 2, Health 12
Alertness Modifier: -1 (focused on work)
Stealth Modifier: 0 (unskilled)
Weapons: Fists (-2), Farm Implements (+0 or +1, depending), Rifle or Shotgun (+1)

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NODE 5: FATIMA’S SHRINE

(169 Page Street West, St. Paul, MN)

• Across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Paul.
• Couple blocks off the streetcar lines.

THE HOUSE

Back Door: Leads to kitchen.

Front Entry: Front door leads to a small coat room. Stairs lead up to the indoor garden and front room.

• Gardening boots on the mat, but no coats on the hooks. (The boots, on closer inspection, are unused.)
• Architecture / Evidence Collection: There’s a secret hatch in the wall behind the coat rack. (You can grab the rack and pull the whole wall away.) Behind the hatch is a staircase leading to the basement.

Indoor Garden: Opens from the front room.

• Glass walls let in the sun.
• Tiered platforms hold numerous flowering plants.
• Biology: The flowers growing here are Rosa richardii, acacia, willowherb, dragonwort, and Crinum lilies. These are all species notably native to Egypt. (Medicine 1 / History: Historically, all of these species had medical applications in Egypt and, later, the Mediterranean in general).

Front Room: Opens to the indoor garden. Doors to the kitchen and two bedrooms.

• Well-accoutered. A sofa, two chairs, and a coffee table.
• The coffee table has a magazine rack on one side with several magazines in it.
• Evidence Collection: The magazine are all from January 1925.

Kitchen: Backdoor leads to the backyard. Another door leads to the front room.

• Everything looks normal at first glance. But casual inspection reveals that the cupboards are empty and the food packages on the counters are also empty.
• Icebox: Empty. There’s no ice.
• Kitchen Table: There’s a stack of Prop: 13 Black Cats Flyers on the table.

Bedrooms: Each has a door leading to the front room.

• Single Beds: The quilts
• Bedside Table: Drawer empty.
• Closets: Empty.

Basement Shrine: Stairs down from the hidden panel in the front entry.

• Basement has been converted into a work space, with a large table in the middle of the room.
• Letter: Prop: Letter to Gladys is lying on the table.
• Photostat Machine: With more Prop: 13 Black Cat Flyers next to it.
• Shrine: On the far wall, there’s a shrine built around a Hamsa made from lapis lazuli. Stubby white candles covered in melted wax surround the hand. (If the Hamsa is removed, the Eye of Ra can be found carved into the wall behind it.)
• Map of the Twin Cities: Thumb-tacked to the wall. (Prop: Map of the Twin Cities)

GM Background: The map shows locations Alicia Corey was investigating for possible Tanit cultist activity. The only non-eliminated location on the map (labeled “Harriet”) is the Node 4: Harriet Tubman’s Asylum for Colored Orphans. The name “John Barca” has also been written on the map, perhaps allowing the PCs to research him.

MAP OF THE TWIN CITIES

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LETTER TO GLADYS

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NODE 4: HARRIET TUBMAN’S ASYLUM FOR COLORED ORPHANS

• During Jim Crow era, major orphanages would not accept black children.
• In 1905, two Quaker sisters named Anna and Hannah Glass opened Harriet Tubman’s Asylum for Colored Orphans.
• Located in a formerly abandoned hotel in the Rondo neighborhood west of downtown St. Paul.
• Anna died of typhoid in 1913, the same year that Minneapolis finally acknowledge that their municipal water was the source of the typhoid outbreaks and opened a water purification plant to solve the problem.
• There are currently 47 children.
• Small staff of female attendants (of which Perlie Coleman is representative). Marcus Washington serves as a maintenance man and is now the best thing they have to a security guard.

TANIT CULTIST ACTIVITIES

• 5 kids have been kidnapped from the asylum by Tanit cultists. (They’re taken to Node 7: Harris Chemical Plant.)
• St. Paul Police have taken cursory reports, but have concluded that the kids are just run-aways.
• The staff has been similarly unable to get the local press interested.
• If either of those things were to change, the Tanit cultists would back off and leave the other children in the asylum alone. (They assume this will happen at some point, but aren’t surprised it hasn’t yet: They picked an asylum for black children for a reason.)

INVESTIGATING

• Evidence Collection: New locks have recently been placed on the windows.
• Evidence Collection: There’s a chemical residue on the carpet Alex Griffin’s bedroom.
  • Chemistry: It’s a patented polysaccharide created by a Minneapolis company called Harris Chemical (see Node 7: Harris Chemical Plant).
• Streetwise: Canvassing the neighborhood will discover that a Harris Chemical Plant truck has been seen parked near the orphanage during the time of each disappearance. (See Node 7: Harris Chemical Plant.)

MISSING KIDS (DATE TAKEN)

• Thomas Young (August 30^th) – missing from his bed, window unlocked (staff did, in fact, assume he was run-away)
• Millie Clark (September 8^th) – snatched from the street
• Edward Robinson (October 10^th) – was missing during a headcount following a recess period
• Frances Allen (October 31^st) – missing from her bed, cheap old lock had been jimmied (staff replaced the locks on all the windows after this)
• Alex Griffin (November 11^th) – missing from his bed, window was broken, other kids in his room were slow to wake up (Medicine: they were gassed)

HANNAH GLASS

APPEARANCE:

• Prop: Photo of Hannah Glass

ROLEPLAYING NOTES

• Weary; in body, spirit, and voice
• Clasps her hands and wrings them with very small movements
• Fervently protective of the children

BACKGROUND

• Grew up in Pennsylvania. Her father was a frequent pastor in a “programmed” branch of Quakerism.
• She and her sister, Anna, became disillusioned with the program, believing fervently in the non-hierarchical structures of the faith. This estranged them from their father.
• In 1905, they opened the asylum.
• Anna died of typhoid in 1913, the same year that Minneapolis finally acknowledged that their municipal water was the source of the typhoid outbreaks and opened a water purification plant to solve the problem.
• She intends for Perlie Coleman to take over the asylum.

CLUES

• Knows the names and dates of the missing kids. (Very angry about the police and press being dismissive of it.)
• Can introduce PCs to Perlie Coleman and Marcus Washington.
• Reassurance 1: To get access to the kids.

HANNAH GLASS: Accounting 1, Bureaucracy 2, Oral History 4, Reassurance 6, Theology 5, Health 4
Alertness Modifier: +0
Stealth Modifier: +0
Weapons: fists (-2)

PERLIE COLEMAN

APPEARANCE:

• Prop: Photo of Perlie Coleman

ROLEPLAYING NOTES

• If all the investigators are white, she will be painstakingly polite until reassured that they don’t pose a danger. (This deferential self-defense also means that the PCs won’t get anything useful from her.)
• Always keeping one eye on the kids; will randomly shout out cautions to them or a kid might run up and she’ll scoop them up.
• An incredibly warm smile if she trusts you.

BACKGROUND

• Perlie is an African Methodist Episcopalian.
• She grew up in Duluth.
• Her father was lynched by a white mob when she was seven years old. Her mother immediately took Perlie and her three sisters and moved to Minneapolis.
• Her mother has gone mostly blind and can’t work any more. Perlie depends on her job here at the asylum to support her.
• She is a caretaker and teacher for the children.

CLUES

• She discovered that Alex Griffin was missing. She remembers a sort of chemical smell that was lingering in the air.

PERLIE COLEMAN: Assess Honesty 5, First Aid 5, Library Use 5, Reassurance 8, Health 4
Alertness Modifier: +0
Stealth Modifier: +0
Weapons: fists (-2)

MARCUS WASHINGTON

APPEARANCE:

• Prop: Photo of Marcus Washington

ROLEPLAYING NOTES

• Very protective of Hannah Glass and her reputation.
• Slow, powerful movements.
• A voice that sounds like a quiet river.

BACKGROUND

• An African Methodist Episcopalian.
• Began working for “the Missuses Glass” in 1906, so he’s been with the asylum almost from the beginning.
• He lives in the Rondo neighborhood. He usually walks six blocks to work.
• He’s been staying at the asylum overnight since Frances Allen was taken, acting as a sort of security guard to try to keep the kids safe. He’s incredibly angry with himself for not being able to stop Alex Griffin from being taken. He feels like he’s failed the children and Hannah.

KEY INFO

• Leveraged Clue: If the name “Harris Chemicals” is mentioned, he’ll say that there’s been a Harris Chemicals truck parked in the neighborhood recently. (He doesn’t think it’s significant and hasn’t connected it to the kidnappings, which is why he doesn’t mention it otherwise.)

MARCUS WASHINGTON: Assess Honesty 2, Athletics 5, Fleeing 2, Oral History 4, Scuffling 8, Sense Trouble 5, Streetwise 4, Health 6
Alertness Modifier: +1 (on edge)
Stealth Modifier: +0
Weapons: fists (-2)

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