Adepts should be that darling of Keepers everywhere, the annoyance NPC. Interaction with Adepts should result in immediate fear and loathing by the Investigators. They are the shabby Characters that the PC's would *like* to kill but can't.

Each should have their own private Quirk Skill. Each should have some serious or hilarious emotional disfunction. Each should be designed specifically to push the buttons of the PC's. Be sadistic.

Adepts should also be innocuous, sad and pathetic. Those rumpled people who we more normal folks deliberately try to forget or avoid. This allows them to slip through the cracks in our socially programmed perception and into those surreal places that lost sock puppets and treasured childhood toys always seem to end up.

Adepts dwell in welfare gutters lining forgotten urban sidewalks. They are intimate with the rust of failed industry and the crumbled brick of quiet despair. Adepts are vanishing faces seen through dirty and often broken glass. Wandering well-littered streets, they pick and kick at the supernatural trash that other, better-dressed people leave behind.

They should be the darlings of Keepers everywhere.


SAMPLE ADEPTS:

Krazy Ivan: Grigori Ivanovich Koloff is a Ukrainian emigre who drives a taxi in NYC. He is a huge hairy muscular man who served in the Naval Spetsnatz. He habitually wears a Bearskin cap with the Hammer and Sickle prominently displayed. He bathes infrequently, smokes cheap nasty cigars, and regularly threatens his passengers with physical violence. He always has a fully loaded AK-74 in his trunk. Naturally, his glove compartment
is filled with various small arms. QS: Threaten Passengers 61%

Mr. Magot: A crusty old frenchman. This senior citizen and entymology buff habitiually lurks on brownstone rooftops with his telescope and binoculars, hoping desperately to catch a glimpse of young female flesh. He is always eating live snails, mealworms and crickets, which he keeps in a rusty coffee can. He will gleefully advocate an insect only diet to anyone who is foolish or desperate enough to watch as he drools and slobbers over his latest meal. QS: Catch Crawling foods 85%

Anders Drek: This skinny unsanitary white dude is always cracking sarcastic remarks about tasteless subjects. He makes a meager living with his repulsive underground cartoon strip "Drek." Anders likes to wander about aimlessly, eventually following people who practice personal hygiene in an effort to discover their day to day problems so he can mock them. Anders has heard about a bunch of pretentious fuckers called the Secret Senate and is trying to join so he can ridicule and humiliate them. QS: Mock Other's Pain 92%

Teena & Lizard: Teena is a malnourished underage prostitute. She suffers from mild schizophrenia and likes to dig through garbage dumpsters in order to find "treasure" which she piles about her stained and smelly mattress. Lizard is her vile "business manager." Lizard likes money and crack cocaine. Teena likes crack cocaine. QS: Teena - Seduce Older Men 72%, Lizard - Ooze Machismo 38%

Marjorie the Trash Heap: Ol' Marge pushes her shopping cart (a steel one, not those crappy plastic ones) around the city and collects cans, bottles and other recyclables. Sometimes, she peers through her cataracts at strange and unbelievable events that she ascribes to encroaching senility. She likes the slim dark man who sometimes gives her money for telling him about the weird graffiti that changes color and appearance. Marjorie has somehow managed to save $250,000 which she keeps in a garbage bag wrapped up in multiple layers of her filthy undergarments. QS: Hoard Wealth 50%

Kent Scrope: Mr. Scrope is a avid player of role-playing games. He is so avid that he cannot hold a steady job and lives in his mother's basement, where he dreams of employment in the glamorous and exciting gaming industry. Kent is planning on one day attending college and publishing his home-brewed RPG "Dielander: the Squickening." He is constantly corresponding with the employees of Severed Dog Head Games for their publishing guidelines, much to their chagrin.

Kent is currently doing research for his D:tS supplement "Black Conspiracy." This research seems to involve inserting himself into legitimate criminal investigations and making a giant nuisance of himself. Kent is obsessive about dice. He has often stated that he will stop buying dice only after they stop making them and he can't afford collector's prices anymore. It is ill-advised for anyone to touch his dice as he will throw a violently immature temper tantrum in the event of such a cruel violation. Kent is a sometimes paying member of SaucerWatch. QS: Write RPG's 02%


Credits: The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins