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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.