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Written by Zaster   
Thursday, 01 February 2007
This short, strange videotape is useful as a plot device rather than an information source. It provides the only known record of the activities of a cult centered in Bucharest and known as the "deaders". The grainy tape begins with a group of young people (late teens through twenties) gathered in a poorly lit room.

A man (the cult leader) is talking to a frightened woman, attempting to convince her that the body is not real and that no actual harm can come to her. She timidly repeats his assurances as she lays down on a bed in the center of the room. The others in the room are chanting softly as well. The man places a revolver in the woman's hand, and she continues to mumble to herself as she works up her courage. Then she fires a round into her head. The chanting stops.

After a few moments, the man grabs the woman's limp form and begins kissing her. On closer inspection, it appears he is actually breathing into her with great physical effort. Finally he backs away, exhausted. Within moments, the woman opens her eyes and rises from the bed, grateful and astonished to be unharmed. However, it is obvious that she still bears the grisly wounds of her ordeal, and the look in her eyes is disturbingly glassy and remote. Abruptly, the tape ends.

Romanian language, -0/1D3 sanity; +1 Mythos; Spells: none; one afternoon to study and comprehend

It is up to the keeper to decide the significance of the tape. But if you don't mind some spoilers to a bad movie, here is what happened:

SPOILERS:
In the movie, the videotape was mailed to the office of a newspaper editor in order to lure a particular reporter into the cult's grasp. The return address on the videotape was a run-down apartment where the sender's body lay garroted. In the apartment were clues leading eventually to the cult headquarters -- a very old mansion with a labyrinthene cellar. There the reporter found herself trapped between the world of the living and the world of the dead, as the Deaders belonged to neither realm entirely. In this weird nether-realm, the cult leader forced her to face her worst fears in hopes that she would submit through an act of suicide and become one of his own. In this way, the cult leader hopes to gain control of an object (the infamous Hellraiser puzzle box) which the reporter had unlocked.

 

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