The world has been changed, in ways we have yet to understand. Monsters are flooding the streets of New York City, London, Paris, and Tokyo, Giant Monsters have attacked Boston, Rome, Berlin, Los Angeles, Yokohama, and Hong Kong. A significant portion of the global population is no longer human, magic and ray guns are everywhere. …
The Bridges are all closed.
Due to the invasion of the “Gremlins” as people are calling them, the NYPD has closed the Bridges preventing people from entry or exit from the city, …
Subway is indefinitely closed.
The gremlins have taken the underground, the sewers, and the subway are no longer safe for people, Mayor Dinkins is calling for city leaders to find a solution for the Gremlins, to help restore the city to working order…
IT’s D&D
According to Reports from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin the Lorraine Williams CEO of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc) “This is all very much like the world has become a D&D adventure” …
The Milky Way is missing!!
Astronomers are stumped, the stars of the Milky Way have mostly vanished, there are only about 3k stars visible to radio telescopes and observatories, NASA scientist also say the CMB or Cosmic Microwave Background has changed, it now sounds like a person laughing. And it is only coming from one point in the sky. …
Minor news
Orange Troll attacks Trump Tower, yelling “I own this”, police have detained her at the Brooklyn Zoo.
President Bush signs National Emergency Orders, states, the transition of Power will happen unchanged. Urges people to not panic.
Bill Clinton is no longer fully human, “I Guess I’m a Half-Elf Bard” he says in a press conference, then he starts to play his saxophone.
Ray Guns, and Robots? How do these things work? Caltech professors make a call for tech salvage.
What is a Kaiju, and why are they attacking Boston?
((With the publishing of this paper, you have reached a Milestone and can Level up to the second level at your own discretion. From now on I will be posting level up using the Village Voice to give world news and the level up notifications. Radio and TV will be used for non-level up world news.))
NPC Stories:
Mary, the Dragon in a Sundress.
Jan 1991
(Saudi Arabia) Sargent Pendraig looked over the remains of the Iraqi 1st Mechanized Division, all these lives lost they thought, and for what? Oil rights. they joined the Marines to spite their old money family. They hated fighting for capitalism, but what choice did they have, it was this or go to some stupid Ivy league school and become the son their father wanted. Neither were good options, but they had hoped to god, the devil, or what ever cosmic powers there were that the Marines would make a man out them. Jokes on the world, sure the Marines were “hard core” “sharp as a knife” etc, and they could do the job perfectly.
But at what cost, that nameless feeling was always there, unchanged by situation by life, or finances.
Well, soon they would be leaving the Marines, Iraq wasn’t going to last long, and once they were back stateside, their time would be up, time to hang up the cammies and go civvies they thought, and who knows if what they had learned in Thailand was true, they could do something soon about it.
March 1st 1991
Two weeks before Sargent Pendraig was due to ship home and process to leave the Marines, they received a letter. Informing them their parents had died in a Boating accident. Their father apparently was drunk sailing and capsized their 100’ slope. The winter waters off the coast of Roade Island were too cold, and their parents passed before the coast guard could rescue them. The Lawyers had sent the letter informing them of the inheritance. It was not small.
June 1st 1991
Newly renamed Mary Pendraig had pulled off a massive victory getting a name change, and started her HRT before the year required social transition requirements. Money really did make things easier sometimes.
She had sold her families properties, stocks, and everything so she could purchase a block in Greenwich village. She opened a Small Bar and Grill, with a Hotel/Bed and Breakfast above the Bar. She also had a modest penthouse apartment on the top floor. It was a cozy place for her to become the woman she always needed to be.
December 31st Midnight 1992-1993
She had gone to Times Square, mostly to get outside air, and mostly because her staff, and patrons were being noisier than usual, which always played hell on her PTSD. So, taking a breezy walk even on New Years eve was the perfect cure.
Even if she was in a sundress, her imposing 6’5” was enough to keep her warm, and to keep her from being hassled. She made it to Times Square as the crowd yelled out “…4,3,2,1” that was when the world went black, then the Earthquake and the odd colored sky and odd hued lightning started up, curse her colorblindness. Once she stood back up she saw monsters everywhere, some of the civvies were monsters, and aliens, and things, but little green people started to attack, she reacted quickly knocking out a half dozen of the bity things, when she noticed she was flying. She flew up over the crowd, and then circled around and headed back to her bar, she had to protect her people and the bar. She landed outside the bar. When she noticed a few hundred of the critters skittering out of the sewers, and from behind the near alleyways. Just when she was trying to figure out how to protect the bar, and her patrons, several people, and a dog person showed up. They appeared to have also been fighting off the monsters. A few of them made some banter…
Edward the House Keeper
Edward the House Keeper was a quiet unassuming person, sure he looked like a punk rocker, he wore the NYC uniform of Black faded Jeans, and a Black Jean jacket with the sleaves cut off and with an added Smiths tee shirt stitched onto the back. He had gone to bed early the night before, as he seldom drank, and even though he talked like a stoner at times, he just didn’t want to put his job at risk, plus it made him feel worse than he often already did. His boss was great, paid well, and never held to gender roles, so he was given the job as House Keeper for the Bed & Breakfast above Pendragons Bar & Grill.
Fortunately on Saturday’s he wasn’t expected until 1pm, so he often left his alarm off to get the extra hour or too on Saturday.
As he woke, at 10 am on Saturday he shook his head in wonder over the insane vivid dreams. He set the coffee machine to on, as he would need his Folgers no cream no sugar, bitter burnt cheap coffee was it’s own reward, as it reminded him of his pain.
He walked over to the Philco Stereo he had purchased on his first paychek, pulled out the Joy Division Tape and pressed play.
“When Routine bites Hard and ambitions are low….”
He showered, shaved, put the gel in his hair, used the hair dryer to ensure the hair was perfectly messy and had that oily black sheen of his soul.
“But love, love will tear us apart again…”
Once the tape flipped back to side A he hit the stop button, then pressed the eject. And carefully he used a pencil to carefully pull the tape back inside the cassette.
“Ugh” he grunts as he finished. Looking at the tape he wonders if he should actually invest in CDs, knowing his luck he shrugs, there will be other pains with owning CDs, the universe is like that, always out to pain his daily life.
He walks outside to the glaring orb of death, and puts his new Ray Ban sunglasses on. He puts the headphones to his Walkman sport on and listens to Echo and the Bunnymen
“Under blue moon I saw you…”
He walks slowly to pendragons annoyed that the city seems extra hostile to his existence. He continues to just walk head hung low, black trench coat over his vest fluttering in the wind, glitter dust flys up coating his hands and face in tiny shards of diamond glitter. This increased Edwards gloom, he paused swapping Bunnyman out for Sisters of Mercy, for in his gloom he needed to express his anger.
“I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down”
He sang as he walked into Pendragons, the boss was not in, John must have also been out, all he heard was the sounds of a machine in the back room, he walked into the Kitchen, clearly Mary had purchased a new machine for the kitchen, he didn’t understand it, so he kept his head down and walked to the employee punchcard reader.
Then he walked upstairs, the day felt gloomier than usual. He walked to the Housekeeping office, Mary was a strange person to Edward, most Janitors would have a cloest just big enough for the supplies and fresh linen, maybe even the washer and dryer. But no Mary had to increase his misery by giving him a nice office, it even had a computer with Prodigy net on it. “Just incase you want to take a break and relax” she had said. He sighed, grabbed his key chain and clip board. Mary said she would keep the rooms open for any too drunk to make it home, so he fully expected the usual puke and other degradations to the room after a drunk part. There were only 12 rooms, in the BnB, but 6 of the rooms were permanently rented to some of the employees, and a few Trans kids who Mary rescued off the street. Technically he was one of the first Rescues. But he didn’t like to think about that, in his mind he had always been a man. And it was his manly right to be depressed about his good fortune. He grabbed his favorite work tape, The Cure- Faith/Carnage Visors good the tape was on Carnage Visors 30 minutes of blessed instrumental perfection.
He went to the first room, well someone slept lightly here, and left. Hardly a mess to clean. He went to the Second room, drunk guy still sleeping, snoring loudly, geeze, it’s almost 2pm dude.
Finally he got to the 3rd room.
Ugh. A mess, who slept here? Sheets were shreaded, as if a mountain lion or something decided Cotton sheets and wool blankets weren’t good enough. The small in room shower had dog fur splattered everywhere. And the small wall closet door had a hole punched through.
Edward sighed, he could do this, without thinking he waved his hand and the power of undeath mended the door, he walked to the bed and sheets, and summoned up the healing energies of the dead, as ghostly hands wove the fabrics of the sheets and blankets back together. He walked to the shower pulled out a sponge and put his cleaning gloves on and quickly cleaned the shower. He then made the bed and vacuumed the floor. Once done, he closed the door. Put his cleaning supplies back in their place. Walked down the stairs saw a massive Green man walking in at the same time a Dragon Lady walked in she was pointing at things talking to John, it was obviously John. The Dragon Lady was clearly Mary. Edward Coulson passed out as he realized he just use Cleric Magic.
((alright, this next post is intended to create a bit of a time jump period, so that you can RP the next week in game, while I set up the “Adventurers guild” which leads us into the “Chapter 1 portion of the game, as this was essentially the prologue which contains introductions of the characters, world, and the needed session 0 material, not everyone has given all the needed information on the session 0, but for the most part I have Most Player Pronouns (needed for direct player interactions), Most Character Pronouns, so NPCs and other PCs can interact with easier. We have a list of what you want from me: (in a random order)
Mary
Mary didn’t feel a bit tired as the sun came up, sure she had been up for more than 24 hours now, sure she even fought a battle on the streets for a bit against the Gremlins, also discovered that yes she did indeed have magic. She was sure her new physiology was why she has not yet felt tired, which was concerning. Because she had played D&D a few years back, as many Marines did while bored on Barracks duty, and she had read what dragons were like, she was afraid she might sleep for a hundred years if she took a nap. So to protect her city… she really felt like New York was Her City. Maybe it was her Dragon Nature, but damned did it not feel like she needed to protect the city and all the millions of people in it.
As she was musing her thoughts and cleaning the counter, the paper boy delivered the daily Village Voice. She was seriously starting to wonder if they weren’t actually all superheroes at the paper. John walked over with the small stack for the bar, while reading the headlines. “Boss, you’re not going to like this, but you should read it.”
Mary took one of the papers and offered the rest to the people sitting and sleeping in the bar's main room.
“Armageddon… maybe, but I doubt it, seems more like a violent rebirth to me.” She scanned the headlines, making faces, she then flipped the pages until she got the full article from the Mayor’s office.” She made a hmmph sound, picked up her phone, the strange beeping on the line made it clear the switchboard was still down. So, she picked up her trusty M Inmarsat Phone briefcase. If the phones were down, maybe the Satellite phones were working. She walked up the stairs to the roof of the building with the briefcase, plugged the phone into the power socket she had added to the roof for this, opened the case and set up the dish. She then picked up the handset, and dialed the most important number she had, her Lawyer. She had several calls to make before flying to the mayor's office.
Once she had arrived at City hall she found her lawyer, who now looked about 10 years younger, healthier, and most of his weight had shifted from his gut to his chest and arms. Her Banker, who was formerly a mousey nerdy lady with glasses thicker than coke bottles had turned into, for lack of a better description, an Incubus, although he was still wearing the same ill-fitting clothing and nerdy glasses. Like seriously, full body transformation, and still nearsighted?
“Hi guys” Mary said while landing, “Rob, looks like you’ve been hitting the gym and not the hoagies. And… Andrea... I suppose you have a new name?”
“Andy” he stated, and he pushed his glasses up, “Andy is just fine. Might try Andrew, but I need to go shopping, no way am I wearing what I saw in the case” He blushes cutely.
“Anyway, let’s make a suggestion to the Mayor. Andy, we’ll need to hire contractors and make some improvements to the Inn. If things go well.”
The next work day…
Although the Subways were still closed, and most everyone in the city was traumatized, New Yorkers were a resilient people, so life started to go back to a new normal. The roads had been cleared, contractors across the City were inspecting damage, and at Pendragons Bar & Grill several construction trucks arrived. Contractors started rebuilding the Bar along with the mostly boarded up other buildings in the block. Mary had always intended to do something with the rest of the block, but wasn’t sure how to make best use of the old building until now.
In Game Calendar:
Thursday December 31st 1993
Friday January 1st 1993 Mayor agrees.
Monday January 4th 1993 Trucks and Contractors arrive.
Friday January 15th 1993 Opening ceremony of the world's first Adventurers Guild. “Pendragon’s Adventurers Guild, Bar, Inn, and Support Center.”
Starting Wednesday January 6th, Radio and TV Ads start informing the People of NYC of the upcoming grand opening, and requests ‘anyone interested in paid work using their newfound abilities to help the city, and earn lots of money doing it.’
On opening day if you skip ahead: There will be a line, not as long as you would think, but long enough that it takes an hour to clear it. The doors open at 10am, There will be, however, a bit of a crowd watching from a distance.
John the Green Bouncer will show people to where the Bar used to be, there is a clerks’ desk with a computer, and The Red Skinned Bartender Shaye will greet you, she will inform the people joining Membership is free, and everyone will start at … Rank E, and will over time become Rank S (Higher ranks will be added at later times) The ranks are as follows:
E = Levels 1, 2, 3
D = Levels 4, 5, 6
C = Levels 7, 8 , 9
B = Levels 10, 11, 12
A = Levels 13, 14, 15
S= Levels 16, 17, 18
S+ = Levels 19, 20
From there she will guide you to one of 4 reception desks, where various employees will be doing the paperwork, and the hand scanner. The paper work is the usual Employment contract stuff, contracts for use of deadly force, application for use of deadly weapons, and an oath allowing for the adventurer to be deputized as a defender of the city from monsters, form there with the documentation done, the employee will us a biometric techno-magical hand scanner, which will certify the player ID, check personality traits and other things to issue a weapons permit, all while displaying these things in a Magical and technological hologram which at the end will displays the Player Character Sheet as a hologram. The information it shows is:
Name (with legal info ie birthday, gender based on self identity), weapons permit, Class as either (Martiall or Magical), Species, total Levels:
“(Personal Info) - Weapons and Vehicle Permit - Magic User - Tiefling Level 2”
Eventually the scanner will be more advanced, and show more information, but well, I think the highest level Artificer right now is maybe level 4. The Highest Ranker is not my Character, and well I’ll let Caios write that story.
Once the scanner is done, the player will receive an ID card which is an Official ID from the City and State of New York, and counts as Government ID for all ID purposes. It will have your photo Name Birthday, Weapons permit, Permitted Vehicle License, a serial number that has 24 alphanumeric characters and special symbols:
Example: ABC456!@#0123DEF&*(1234
For the math inclined: 7.890371113 E+12 possible combinations.
It is also bio locked so only the owner of the card can show the details. You will also get a set of Dog tags. The dog tag is made of non-ferrous metal and is best described as a Magical/Sci-Fi metal. Ie Adamantium/Buscar.
Once you have the ID, there is the main guild floor, it includes a much larger space, with tables. In one corner is a bar and grill, in another corner is a hotel front desk, and in the center is a massive board where jobs are posted. There are four clerk's desks at the job board to both register requests and accept jobs.
And at the far wall next to a Bank, is the job compilation desk, where payments can be done as cash, check, or direct deposit to the guild bank, if you sign up for that service.
Shaye
Shaye mussed over the changes over the last couple of years of her life. A few years ago, she was just another lost soul in Saint-Renan Brittany France. Her family was multilingual and proud of their heritage as Bretons. As such she learned her ancestral tongue Brittany, French as it’s the official language of France, English, because once you know Brittany, English is fairly simple to Learn, and Italian, because why not? When she spoke English, her accent however didn’t sound French, but more a mix of American and English. But that was probably because of her love of American Films, especially Star Wars.
Her Family were conservative Roman Catholics, she had issues with that. As she wasn’t interested in Marrying a man and having eight to ten snot goblins. Plus growing up in the 80s, and listening to Punk Rock from America and England, she knew she would not stay in France. As soon as she was old enough to travel, she moved to Paris where she got a Job working as a Waitress and Bartender, once she had enough to travel, and pay for rent, she got the Visa to move to the USA, the immigration process wasn’t as hard as she feared, but it wasn’t as easy as just showing up either. Fortunately she was able to get hired by Studio 54, which allowed her to get the green card. But sadly, the owners were massive tools, and the job paid poorly. Fortunately while walking around Greenwich Village she saw a Large very strong man putting up signs requiring staff for a Bar and Grill. Shaye was hired on the spot, after awkwardly discovering that Mary was in fact a woman. Shaye had heard of people like Mary, but this was the first time she met a transgender person, Mary was happy that Shaye grew up in a Medieval style inn. Not that she ever thought of her family restaurant like that, sure it looked just like the picture Shaye had on the wall. But her home was just the flats above the Restaurant.
Over the next several months Shaye was sent to several upscale Bars to learn how to mix top shelf drinks, Mary wanted to make sure Shaye was an Expert mixologist. She was nearly there, being raised as she was. But Americans had a massive list of mix drinks to learn, including regional variations, which was mind bending. During this, Shaye learned that she had a talent for memory. So by December when the Bar & Grill was fully up and Running, Shaye was considered one of the best Bartenders in NYC, a claim made by Mary nearly daily.
On the fateful night of the New Year, she was working the Bar with a small crew of bartenders and barbacks under her, with Mully the Head Chef/Chef of Engineering worked the kitchen. Mary as owner and general manager had stepped out for air, as large crowds tended to cause her PTSD to flair up a bit, but with John at the front door, she could control the crowd fairly easily.
Then all hell broke out, the world went black, flashes of purple and teal lightning flared in her head, the world shook like an Earthquake, and she nearly tripped over a strange sack at her feet in the bar.
When she looked up the crowd was panicking, almost half the patrons had changed into Elves, Dwarves, Green Aliens, and even a Wookie. In the back room it sounded like a fire alarm and R2D2 were in an argument, and John had hulked out his nice suit was ripping from his massive green burst of size. Although his face was as calm as ever, in fact it was his ‘chill’, as he said, that allowed her to help calm the patrons, and help them head home, as most just wanted to go home. She then noticed the collection of strange bags, tool boxes, and other cases littering the floor, she had John “Muertos dur Soulslayer” help her collect these items and put them in the back room. That was when she saw Mully, who beeped at her a bunch before flashing a Hologram with the words:
“Hey Shaye, it’s M3-21 now.”
Shaye smiled, “Well, pleased to meet you again M3-21”
Later that evening several people had a street war with little Gremlins in the street, and then slowly they came into the bar with Mary, who was now a Dragon. Eventually John put on his new gear, and laughed that it looked like bondage gear, but worked well with his large size and green tones. Especially with the oversized axe he had. Shaye looked into her bag to find robes, soft boots, white jeans and, and a double sided light saber with green light. She realized she understood what the weapon was, and how it worked, she understood she was of the Sith race, but not a Sith like Darth Vader. She was a Jedi somehow, but she had never seen a weapon like hers before, nor the robes, the jeans and boots however reminded her of what Luke wore in the first Star Wars film.
She didn’t feel tired the next day, when she would usually head home and sleep, so she stayed up to help the gathered lost souls, the Gnoll lady was especially frazzled when she came back down after sleeping for a few hours. Shaye asked Mary for advice, and Mary had her offer employment and a permanent residence in the Apartments on the third floor. As for work, Shaye using her force powers realized the “Joshua” would work well with John, as they needed more Security for the planned renovations, and Mary’s Adventurers Guild. Seriously how did Mary convince the Mayor to allow her to make a civilian monster hunting guild, with full government support and deputization of the volunteers.
Also Shaye needed to contact the Fashion lady to help design uniforms for the Staff, and have them made and ready in a week. The uniforms had to work for all the new non-human body types. And Mary sketched out a Steampunk looking version of Marine Dress Blues only with ruffled skirts more like a maids costume.
During renovation of the block, Mary had the staff, use their new abilities to patrol the Greenwich area, and keep the Gremlins from attacking the Residents of the Village. We would team up in groups of 4, Mary and John split the task of training the employees in combat tactics, as Mary was a Staff Sargent in the US Marines, and John was “Not a Gangster from the barrio” but a knew quite a few of them.
The parties we so the employees would get levels, but also make it so everyone had a better chance of living their best lives. This was what Mary wanted more than anything. By the grand opening Most of the team had gained their second level. M3 had designed a machine to make ID cards, and they sourced the making of the uniforms. They were surprisingly comfortable to wear, and easy to do battle in. Which was what Mary wanted, and why the design was based on uniforms from the 19th century.
On the opening day, Shaye stood proud at the desk, she was now officially the Assistant Manager of the Adventures Guild, and a Level 2 Jedi. She and the other employees had their ID cards and Dog tags. And the Mayor had sworn them in as government officials.
Also Mary had speed up paperwork allowing for Shaye to become a permanent resident. And she would be eligible to be a US citizen soon.
With John and (Joshua) at the Security office, and the doors opening, the first person she greeted was… a something. He…she…it…? Honestly, she had no idea if it even had a gender. Was a massive Reptilian Alien easily over seven feet tall, and was barely humanoid, only in that it had two arms and two legs. Physically it was more a massive dinosaur head inside an armored set of power armor. The top of its head was a hard shell, and the mouth was massive. The body armor and head made it look top heavy as the body armor crested over the top of it’s head. Giving the body an angry egg shape. It had a several weapons attached to it’s back, but it look like it could kill just by head butting someone.
Shaye greeted it, and in a pleasant masculine voice he introduced himself as (Qurlok John Cerna). Mary showed him to Edward who was nervously waiting for the first applicants.
Mully
Upon returning to the Bar & Grill, Mary strode her way to a particular back room where the resident mechanic lived.
“Mully” was more than a mechanic, however. Originally he was just someone Mary had contracted to set up some of their computers. She had been surprised to learn that in addition to his electrical engineering degree, he also had a PHD in quantum mechanics, which he considered a personal hobby. Right alongside his love of D&D.
She had hired Mully a few more times since then for various jobs. Until one night when their head (read: only) chef never came into work, having decided to simply quit without notice. At the time Mully was, by pure coincidence, finishing up a job on some of the building’s older wiring. He offered to fill in for a bit and did such a great job that Mary never bothered to replace him.
Personality wise, Mully hadn’t changed much since becoming a Droid. Though Mary decided they definitely became even more sarcastic than normal. They certainly seemed rather pleased at having done away with the messy organic bits in favor of their new predictable and reliable electronic body. The barely 4 foot tall Class II Astromech frame was a uniform metallic color somewhere between a dulled silver and a gunmetal gray. They were currently using many different servo arms coming out of their cylindrical body to work on some sort of project in the far corner of their room.
“Hello Mully,” Mary greeted him as she walked closer, “I just got back from the Mayor’s office and wanted to discuss with you some of the changes, renovations, and other potential devices we might need for what I had in mind.”
The top, almost trapezoidal shaped head of the droid rotated to look up at Mary even as their other implements continued their work uninterrupted. Mully then replied with a long series of electronic beeps, chimes, and other noises which apparently made perfect sense if you were a computer.
“I’m sorry I don’t understand what you’re saying.”* Mary told them. In response Mully let out a spew of additional, even more annoyed sounding, beeps and boops which Mary suspected contained some manner of sarcastic comment at her expense.*
Rather than try to continue the conversation in this manner, however, Mully’s primary interface lens began to glow before projecting light out of it. The light soon began to coalesce into a hologram of digitally created text, floating in better them and Mary.
YOU HAVE THE MAGIC TO PERFECTLY UNDERSTAND ME IF YOU WANTED TO. JUST USE THAT. IT WOULD BE FAR MORE EFFICIENT THEN CONTINUED USE OF HOLOGRAPHIC EMITTERS.
Mary thought about arguing the point but it simply wasn’t worth it. One wave of her hand later and she was able to clearly translate Mully’s Binary Droid language into understandable words.
“There, much better, as I was saying I wanted to discuss my planned renovations with you.” Mary continued.
about time too. all these other buildings have been just sitting there for way too long. do you have any schematics to show me?
“Of course.” Mary said, reaching into her briefcase to retrieve the paperwork they had worked up so far.
Mully stopped whatever they had been working on as they spun around on their three wheeled feet to face Mary before moving closer, the servo arms switching toolheads to basic grippers before taking hold of the paperwork. With a speed that one could only expect of a robotic existence, they flipped through the papers with inhuman speed before offering the stack back to Mary.
structurally it all looks good. i recommend keeping modifications to a minimum and renovations as simple as possible for now. in part to keep cost and schedule as small as possible, but mainly because we will, with 98.9758413% certainly, want to redo all renovations once we, globally, have a better understanding of new technologies - both magical and technological - that are now suddenly available.
“I’m fine with that, currently these renovations are more about taking advantage of the space we have available and making sure we have all of the facilities to support the Adventurer's Guild that I have in mind.” Mary explained.
speaking of which. if we intend to accurately, and safely, assign these adventurers to potentially dangerous assignments, we need to have a better method of analyzing their capacity and potential across various potential vectors. magic, psychic, tech, not to mention raw personal skill. any individual’s abilities can vary wildly amongst just those categories alone.
“I’ve thought about that. I know there are advanced scanners out there now that can help with that, and I know at least one spell that would be perfect for this as well. The question is how do we make it so any employee of the guild is able to gather this information for our records.”
…, Mully’s primary lens began to glow with a slowly pulsing orange light as they thought deep and hard about the problem until suddenly; Ding! That light turned green.
i have an idea. more specifically i have the beginnings of a schematic that i’m currently building in my memory banks. but i’m sure i will be able to manufacture a scanning device that anyone will be able to use to analyze and retrieve this information. you should contact some of your defense department friends about expanding certain networks. i would do it myself but they’re much less likely to charge you with treason just because they hold a grudge.
With that “said”, Mully gave Mary a quick wave with their servo arm as they turned towards their workstation in the back. The arms completely sweeping everything on the table onto the floor, apparently discarding whatever they had been working on before they started on this new project. Whatever his eccentricities, Mary was more than confident Mully would deliver on what they promised.
The Adventurers Guild Grand opening.
Although the world changed overnight , and the world is still coming to terms with the hundreds if not thousands of new humanoid species now on Earth, Magic, psionics, and all manner of sci-fi tech is now a reality. Giant monsters had attacked several cities, some had been killed by local powers, some ended up fighting against other giant monsters, and some decided not to do more damage and left those cities by their own means.
New York, by virtue of it’s own problems prior to the event, and because of how dense the population is, has settled into a new normal.
And a part of the new normal were the ads for the adventurers guild. Which was to be a voluntary deputized militia designed to deal with monsters, and help maintain public order.
There were a long list of perks being offered, good pay, housing, shops, food, banking, and other things. The work was going to be voluntary, as in you could choose which jobs you could take, and the general public could hire adventurers to help solve monster related problems.
As someone wishing to join. You find yourself in a line with maybe 200 other people, with thousands of people watching from across the road. There are TV cameras moving up and down the line, interviewing people at random asking questions like “why do you want to join?” “Do you think it is safe to do this?” etc.
At precisely 9:45am, on a little stage by the door set so the line can enter the door, but the crowds can see the stage, The Dragon Lady Mary, owner of Pendragons Bar & Grill, Adventurers Guild, and Related services. With Mayor David Dinkins Jr got up to a podium, where the Mayor officially recognizes the Adventures Guild Charter, and Makes Mary the Official Government Sanctioned Adventurers Guild Master of New York.
A quick speech is made, and then as the clock strikes 10am, Mary cuts a ribbon, and opens the door. (those who are residents of the Guild will have the option to be at the front of the line, otherwise you are where you think your character would be. For all I know everyone is close together.)
Compared to the first night, January 1, the bar and grill has been completely changed. What was once the Bar, is now a central reception area, with stairs to the Apartments and Hotel behind the main desk, to the right, is an area the looks more like a DMV with desks for signing up new adventures, and past that is a large food court with a large open atrium dining area, with a central desk and job board. Along the sides of the atrium are the Bar&Grill, a coffee shop, a pastry shop, a Kosher Deli, and Pizza Place. Each of these are independent Businesses that only service members of the guild. To the left of the reception desk is a Bank, a clothing and gear shop, and what looks like a pawn shop.
(Were you can sell loot found, and where you can buy magic items and other “used gear” using random rolls)
Food & Beverages will be common prices, on the cheap tax free side.
Bank for saving funds, and party funds, and safe deposit boxes (Other services as the story progresses)
Retail outlet is your basic survival store, sells normal modern clothing, survival gear, and various non-military grade weapons.
Adventurers Store “Pawn shop” will buy at ¼ the source books value for any gear found. And will sell such gear at book value. There will be a rareness percentage of if the gear is in stock.
Commongear, Weapons, and armor on a d20 roll 2-20 chance in stock, 1 roll per day in game time.
Uncommongear, weapons, and armor on a d20 roll a 10-20 chance in stock, 1 roll every other day in game time.
RareGear, weapons, and armor on a d20 roll a 19-20 chance in stock, 1 roll every week in game time.
Very Rare gear, weapons, and armor on a disadvantage d20 nat 20 chance in stock, 1 roll every month in game time.
Legendarygear, and Artifactgear is behind quests, and events. Even if sold to the shop these items are sold at auction to governments the highest bidder, unless Mary thinks they are too dangerous for anyone, she may even give them to members who earn her trust.
John the former Bouncer, now head of Security is sitting in an office next to the door smiling as people enter, odds are he is playing solitaire.
Shaye is manning the front desk, and greets everyone with a friendly smile, she is wearing an outfit that looks like a cross between a military uniform and maids outfit. In fact all the guild employees have the same uniform, you can see it’s intended to be gender neutral, but can be worn with a skirt or trousers. The Guild symbol is a stylized cross between the Welsh Dragon and the seal of New York City. The Eagle is replaced with the Dragon in Red, the “Dutch Pilgrim” is replaced with a person in the Guild Uniform, and the Mohawk Indian is now a female adventure with jeans and leather jacket. The motto is replaced with “fidelis ad Populum” meaning “Faithful to the people” I might try and photoshop this at some point.
The trouser version has the same top half, but has black trousers instead.
Shaye will point out one of the 4 desks, manned by newly hired employees, and residence people from the 3 floor (Not these people are all former at risk kids that Mary was protecting, they are all 18 or older, but this is clearly their first job) One of them is Edward from housecleaning, he is also now the Grounds Manager, but today is helping as there will be a high volume of people joining today. The other 3 include a Dwarf lady, and 2 others… no idea who yet, 1 come first serve for describing these employees.
You will sit at one of the desks, there will be a tax form, with a series of 10 alignment questions, these are random, and the paper it’s written on is magical and will not allow a person to lie. Misdirected truth is allowed. (you can pick the questions and answers) after that you will sign a simple deputizing oath:
"I do solemnly affirm that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of the adventurers guild, according to the best of my ability."
After filling out the paperwork, which will feel like forever, as government paperwork always feels like forever, you will be shown a machine. Imagine a palm biometric scanner done in a 70s sci-fi design with twisty dials, pressy buttons, and flicky switches.
When you put your hand on it, both magical and holographic lights and data will be seen, a basic version of your character sheet, will be displayed for you and the person at the desk to see. However no one else can see or read the data, as there is a privacy spell on the desks.
The display will show what will also be printed on your new Official Adventurers Guild Membership card.
Card number (24 alphanumeric characters and special symbols: Example: ABC456!@#0123DEF&*(1234
For the math inclined: 7.890371113 E+12 possible combinations.)
Name: _Surname, First Name, Middle names (names are self-identified names, and will change when someone’s identity changes. Not that this happens often, but it can. The magic adjusts to the current reality, it also protect aliases for superheroes.)
Gender: (Based on identity)
Birthday: Day Month (spelled out in English) full year, and Current age in bold red This number updates automatically as you age. Ie 15 January 1970 23
DMV info, ie Class C - no endorsements, Class A- trailer - HazMat, Motorcycle , or Class B - passenger etc.
It will also show weapons allowed to be used, this will be lifted from you class info.
It will have a picture of you on a white background as you are now (yes magical picture, auto updates to current clothing, and face.)
Under the picture you will have Race/Species/Ancestry as seen on character sheet, and Martial, Technological, Crafting, or Magical for class, and your total class levels.
At the bottom is the Guild Rank. E through S+
Guild Ranks are expressed in a letter code E through S+, you will get the ID Card, and a matching set of Dog Tags, the Dog Tags will auto update with the ID card. And no one can take the Dog tags off of you while you are living besides you. Both the ID card and Dog Tags have magic that allows you to summon them at any time to your hand. (provided you are on the same plane of existence) The Dog Tag Material will look the same as the rank material in the table. Both ID card and Dog Tag are indestructible, and conjured by the Biometric scanner.
Guild Rank Table:
Rank
Levels
E – Copper
1, 2, 3
D – Bronze
4, 5 , 6
C – Silver
7, 8, 9
B – Gold
10, 11, 12
A – Ruby
13, 14, 15
S – Diamond
16, 17, 18
S+ – Rainbow/Astral Diamond
19, 20
You are now an official member of the of the Guild. And yes, New York state will be implementing the bio scanner for their ID cards later in the Year, same with many national governments, as the ID cards are more secure, and cheaper to make.
You will be pointed to the atrium where in the center is the Job Desks and Job boards. The Job boards are a cross of stick up a wanted poster, and a digital scroll showing latest regional quests (ie Clear the local subway stations)
The wanted postings will have a few jobs, each will be rated with a letter Rank E through S+, you can always take a solo quest of your rank, or a 4 or more party can take a rank higher. Ie Rank E party of 4 can do a Rank D quest, if you have 8 or more in a party you can do 2 levels higher ie Rank E’s can then do a Rank C with 8 members. However, that is the limit to how much higher a party can request. A Party is always ranked by the member average. (But do to how levels are being done, this will only come up with NPCs, and honestly I don’t want to do DMPCs. So, you will have to run the NPC sheets if this happens.)
Current Rank E quests:
Clear Subway Station – (Kill, or Negotiate the gremlins to leave a subway station, party will split $500)
Current Rank D quests: (on second day and after)
Clear Subway lines between to previously cleared stations - (Kill, or Negotiate the gremlins, and other monsters to leave a subway lines, party will split $2000)
Current Rank C quests: Central Park (Various clear quests, always a giant monster, and randomly all over the place I’ll pick the monster based on who is in a party, based on total points and a fair but challenging monster)
With the grand opening of the New York Adventurers Guild “Pendragons Inn, Bar, Grill, & Adventurers Guild.” Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a Press Conference, that he and his business partners are opening an Adventurers Guild in Los Angeles, they will be linked to the same systems that Pendragons has and will be working closely with the New York Guild. They plan to have their Location at Flower and 11, as Arnold has purchased a property near the Los Angeles Convention Center and Arena. (More on page 5)
The Bridges are now all open during the day.
As the city goes back to normal, the mayor has stated that the NYPD has enough staff to ensure safety on all bridges, and the gang of trolls who had closed several bridges have been chased to New Jersey. (More on page 6)
Adventurers are making headway in the Subway.
According to Mary Pendraig, the dragon who runs the Adventurers Guild, the Subway lines and stations in Manhattan should be able to be reopened by the end of the month, several teams of adventurers have been working nonstop to push the gremlins out of the Subway. Unfortunately, it seems some street gangs have been working with the Gremlins to increase crime rates, and Chaos. (More on Page 6)
Are the Gremlins Human?
Scientists looking at the bodies of several new monsters, have noted that most monsters do not have any sign of human biology, but it seems the Gremlins are very much biologically human, although they also have some rat like biology. (More on Page 7)
The Milky-Way Back!?! But not really.
Astronomers are stumped, again, when the world changed, all the stars further than 500 light years away vanished from the nights sky. Last night, a new galaxy of stars has reappeared, both in visual and radio spectrums. “There is a new Galaxy surrounding us it looks Similar to the Milky Way, but the stars are completely different. Before less than 20% of the stars were Sunlike, now over 50% are sunlike. It’s almost like someone built a galaxy of Sun like stars with just enough other types of stars to make the sky interesting. (More in the Science section)
Minor news
NYC has a new power structure, once they were criminal gangs are now civic leaders.
President Clinton Sings his oath of office. Promises to make America a bastion of freedom and enlightenment.
Monsters are putting food production at risk; a call has been made for the military and people with power to protect Americas Heartland.
Fans of Adventurers creating a ranking list of the highest Ranked members of the Adventurers Guild.
Magi-tech what it means for the future of technology, and finance.
Opinion: The morality of Intelligence, what qualifies as human, to be covered by Human Rights. by James Coleman
The Congregation of Raleigh White Christian Church has declared Non-Humans to be cursed by god, and should be cast down, causing a massive stir and debate in the Fundamental Christian Community.
((With the publishing of this paper, you have reached the Milestone of Level 3.))
Proof of Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is Visible Above New York!
The giant alien mothership, named the ‘(
Fan fick big alien Carrier from a known video game series, I didn't name it
) ’, has arrived to Earth, orbiting the planet above New York. Reports from human representatives of these aliens have confirmed they are only interested in establishing contact with us. In addition they are currently searching for something around Pluto, something which they claim will help them return to their own section of space in the Milky Way. It seems dreams of space travel beyond our solar system will soon become a reality!
Adventurer’s Guild is expanding (with Portals!)
Recently the New York branch of the Adventurer’s Guild established a portal to another world, described as a world straight out of fantasy books. The world of Toril is now home to its own branch of the Adventurer’s Guild with a separate location in their city of “Waterdeep”.
In addition the Los Angeles branch of the Adventurer’s Guild, which had opened numerous smaller guild locations to service the entire Greater Los Angeles County, including parts of Ventura and Orange County, has successfully rolled out portals to connect all the satellite locations to their main branch. This local portal network quickly became a favored commuter system for the lucky registered adventures in Los Angeles.
With its success, the New York Guildmaster has confirmed that a similar portal between the Los Angeles and New York Adventurer Guilds will be opened soon, “and should be available by the time you read this”. This will allow instant travel between both coasts for all registered Adventurers!
The Guildmaster also confirmed plans to open a London location very soon, which will also benefit from the same portals.
The #1 Ranked Adventurer on a Monster Hunting Tour
Qurlok “John” Cerna, considered to be the top ranked adventurer in the world, has been on a monster hunting tour through the midwest of the country, killing the biggest threats to the agricultural center of the country in the form of the gigantic monsters roaming the area. When asked about what prompted this tour, he claimed, “Central Park’s not enough of a challenge anymore.”
A public wave of rebellion against the most conservative religions is taking place
Perhaps as a reaction to recent statements denouncing any now non-human persons, conservative Christian, along with other conservative and fundamentalist religious organizations, are finding themselves abandoned and powerless - literally and figuratively - as the country (and some would argue the world) is experiencing what can only be described as a religious revolution. New sects and churches are sprouting calling for more tolerance and understanding, and generally more progressive teachings.
Warm Winter
The warmest Winter, before the change, meteorologists predicted a cold winter, and all signs pointed to a Nor’easter this winter, but now scientists are not sure. (Note 1993 had the ‘Storm of the Century’ in March, due to the rather cold winter that year effecting all the way down to Cuba, it was a massive winter hurricane and one of the first Cat 5 winter storms.)
DM Notes: Level 4 Notice (official)
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there has been two massive threads happening, plus our live game is now set to this world from p2e. Which has taken a bunch of time away from the Overworld posts.
The Village Voice
January 1st, 1993
New Year's Armageddon!!! or something!!!
The world has been changed, in ways we have yet to understand. Monsters are flooding the streets of New York City, London, Paris, and Tokyo, Giant Monsters have attacked Boston, Rome, Berlin, Los Angeles, Yokohama, and Hong Kong. A significant portion of the global population is no longer human, magic and ray guns are everywhere. …
The Bridges are all closed.
Due to the invasion of the “Gremlins” as people are calling them, the NYPD has closed the Bridges preventing people from entry or exit from the city, …
Subway is indefinitely closed.
The gremlins have taken the underground, the sewers, and the subway are no longer safe for people, Mayor Dinkins is calling for city leaders to find a solution for the Gremlins, to help restore the city to working order…
IT’s D&D
According to Reports from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin the Lorraine Williams CEO of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc) “This is all very much like the world has become a D&D adventure” …
The Milky Way is missing!!
Astronomers are stumped, the stars of the Milky Way have mostly vanished, there are only about 3k stars visible to radio telescopes and observatories, NASA scientist also say the CMB or Cosmic Microwave Background has changed, it now sounds like a person laughing. And it is only coming from one point in the sky. …
Minor news
Orange Troll attacks Trump Tower, yelling “I own this”, police have detained her at the Brooklyn Zoo.
President Bush signs National Emergency Orders, states, the transition of Power will happen unchanged. Urges people to not panic.
Bill Clinton is no longer fully human, “I Guess I’m a Half-Elf Bard” he says in a press conference, then he starts to play his saxophone.
Ray Guns, and Robots? How do these things work? Caltech professors make a call for tech salvage.
What is a Kaiju, and why are they attacking Boston?
((With the publishing of this paper, you have reached a Milestone and can Level up to the second level at your own discretion. From now on I will be posting level up using the Village Voice to give world news and the level up notifications. Radio and TV will be used for non-level up world news.))
NPC Stories:
Mary, the Dragon in a Sundress.
Jan 1991
(Saudi Arabia) Sargent Pendraig looked over the remains of the Iraqi 1st Mechanized Division, all these lives lost they thought, and for what? Oil rights. they joined the Marines to spite their old money family. They hated fighting for capitalism, but what choice did they have, it was this or go to some stupid Ivy league school and become the son their father wanted. Neither were good options, but they had hoped to god, the devil, or what ever cosmic powers there were that the Marines would make a man out them. Jokes on the world, sure the Marines were “hard core” “sharp as a knife” etc, and they could do the job perfectly.
But at what cost, that nameless feeling was always there, unchanged by situation by life, or finances.
Well, soon they would be leaving the Marines, Iraq wasn’t going to last long, and once they were back stateside, their time would be up, time to hang up the cammies and go civvies they thought, and who knows if what they had learned in Thailand was true, they could do something soon about it.
March 1st 1991
Two weeks before Sargent Pendraig was due to ship home and process to leave the Marines, they received a letter. Informing them their parents had died in a Boating accident. Their father apparently was drunk sailing and capsized their 100’ slope. The winter waters off the coast of Roade Island were too cold, and their parents passed before the coast guard could rescue them. The Lawyers had sent the letter informing them of the inheritance. It was not small.
June 1st 1991
Newly renamed Mary Pendraig had pulled off a massive victory getting a name change, and started her HRT before the year required social transition requirements. Money really did make things easier sometimes.
She had sold her families properties, stocks, and everything so she could purchase a block in Greenwich village. She opened a Small Bar and Grill, with a Hotel/Bed and Breakfast above the Bar. She also had a modest penthouse apartment on the top floor. It was a cozy place for her to become the woman she always needed to be.
December 31st Midnight 1992-1993
She had gone to Times Square, mostly to get outside air, and mostly because her staff, and patrons were being noisier than usual, which always played hell on her PTSD. So, taking a breezy walk even on New Years eve was the perfect cure.
Even if she was in a sundress, her imposing 6’5” was enough to keep her warm, and to keep her from being hassled. She made it to Times Square as the crowd yelled out “…4,3,2,1” that was when the world went black, then the Earthquake and the odd colored sky and odd hued lightning started up, curse her colorblindness. Once she stood back up she saw monsters everywhere, some of the civvies were monsters, and aliens, and things, but little green people started to attack, she reacted quickly knocking out a half dozen of the bity things, when she noticed she was flying. She flew up over the crowd, and then circled around and headed back to her bar, she had to protect her people and the bar. She landed outside the bar. When she noticed a few hundred of the critters skittering out of the sewers, and from behind the near alleyways. Just when she was trying to figure out how to protect the bar, and her patrons, several people, and a dog person showed up. They appeared to have also been fighting off the monsters. A few of them made some banter…
Edward the House Keeper
Edward the House Keeper was a quiet unassuming person, sure he looked like a punk rocker, he wore the NYC uniform of Black faded Jeans, and a Black Jean jacket with the sleaves cut off and with an added Smiths tee shirt stitched onto the back. He had gone to bed early the night before, as he seldom drank, and even though he talked like a stoner at times, he just didn’t want to put his job at risk, plus it made him feel worse than he often already did. His boss was great, paid well, and never held to gender roles, so he was given the job as House Keeper for the Bed & Breakfast above Pendragons Bar & Grill.
Fortunately on Saturday’s he wasn’t expected until 1pm, so he often left his alarm off to get the extra hour or too on Saturday.
As he woke, at 10 am on Saturday he shook his head in wonder over the insane vivid dreams. He set the coffee machine to on, as he would need his Folgers no cream no sugar, bitter burnt cheap coffee was it’s own reward, as it reminded him of his pain.
He walked over to the Philco Stereo he had purchased on his first paychek, pulled out the Joy Division Tape and pressed play.
“When Routine bites Hard and ambitions are low….”
He showered, shaved, put the gel in his hair, used the hair dryer to ensure the hair was perfectly messy and had that oily black sheen of his soul.
“But love, love will tear us apart again…”
Once the tape flipped back to side A he hit the stop button, then pressed the eject. And carefully he used a pencil to carefully pull the tape back inside the cassette.
“Ugh” he grunts as he finished. Looking at the tape he wonders if he should actually invest in CDs, knowing his luck he shrugs, there will be other pains with owning CDs, the universe is like that, always out to pain his daily life.
He walks outside to the glaring orb of death, and puts his new Ray Ban sunglasses on. He puts the headphones to his Walkman sport on and listens to Echo and the Bunnymen
“Under blue moon I saw you…”
He walks slowly to pendragons annoyed that the city seems extra hostile to his existence. He continues to just walk head hung low, black trench coat over his vest fluttering in the wind, glitter dust flys up coating his hands and face in tiny shards of diamond glitter. This increased Edwards gloom, he paused swapping Bunnyman out for Sisters of Mercy, for in his gloom he needed to express his anger.
“I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down”
He sang as he walked into Pendragons, the boss was not in, John must have also been out, all he heard was the sounds of a machine in the back room, he walked into the Kitchen, clearly Mary had purchased a new machine for the kitchen, he didn’t understand it, so he kept his head down and walked to the employee punchcard reader.
Then he walked upstairs, the day felt gloomier than usual. He walked to the Housekeeping office, Mary was a strange person to Edward, most Janitors would have a cloest just big enough for the supplies and fresh linen, maybe even the washer and dryer. But no Mary had to increase his misery by giving him a nice office, it even had a computer with Prodigy net on it. “Just incase you want to take a break and relax” she had said. He sighed, grabbed his key chain and clip board. Mary said she would keep the rooms open for any too drunk to make it home, so he fully expected the usual puke and other degradations to the room after a drunk part. There were only 12 rooms, in the BnB, but 6 of the rooms were permanently rented to some of the employees, and a few Trans kids who Mary rescued off the street. Technically he was one of the first Rescues. But he didn’t like to think about that, in his mind he had always been a man. And it was his manly right to be depressed about his good fortune. He grabbed his favorite work tape, The Cure- Faith/Carnage Visors good the tape was on Carnage Visors 30 minutes of blessed instrumental perfection.
He went to the first room, well someone slept lightly here, and left. Hardly a mess to clean. He went to the Second room, drunk guy still sleeping, snoring loudly, geeze, it’s almost 2pm dude.
Finally he got to the 3rd room.
Ugh. A mess, who slept here? Sheets were shreaded, as if a mountain lion or something decided Cotton sheets and wool blankets weren’t good enough. The small in room shower had dog fur splattered everywhere. And the small wall closet door had a hole punched through.
Edward sighed, he could do this, without thinking he waved his hand and the power of undeath mended the door, he walked to the bed and sheets, and summoned up the healing energies of the dead, as ghostly hands wove the fabrics of the sheets and blankets back together. He walked to the shower pulled out a sponge and put his cleaning gloves on and quickly cleaned the shower. He then made the bed and vacuumed the floor. Once done, he closed the door. Put his cleaning supplies back in their place. Walked down the stairs saw a massive Green man walking in at the same time a Dragon Lady walked in she was pointing at things talking to John, it was obviously John. The Dragon Lady was clearly Mary. Edward Coulson passed out as he realized he just use Cleric Magic.
((alright, this next post is intended to create a bit of a time jump period, so that you can RP the next week in game, while I set up the “Adventurers guild” which leads us into the “Chapter 1 portion of the game, as this was essentially the prologue which contains introductions of the characters, world, and the needed session 0 material, not everyone has given all the needed information on the session 0, but for the most part I have Most Player Pronouns (needed for direct player interactions), Most Character Pronouns, so NPCs and other PCs can interact with easier. We have a list of what you want from me: (in a random order)
Mary
Mary didn’t feel a bit tired as the sun came up, sure she had been up for more than 24 hours now, sure she even fought a battle on the streets for a bit against the Gremlins, also discovered that yes she did indeed have magic. She was sure her new physiology was why she has not yet felt tired, which was concerning. Because she had played D&D a few years back, as many Marines did while bored on Barracks duty, and she had read what dragons were like, she was afraid she might sleep for a hundred years if she took a nap. So to protect her city… she really felt like New York was Her City. Maybe it was her Dragon Nature, but damned did it not feel like she needed to protect the city and all the millions of people in it.
As she was musing her thoughts and cleaning the counter, the paper boy delivered the daily Village Voice. She was seriously starting to wonder if they weren’t actually all superheroes at the paper. John walked over with the small stack for the bar, while reading the headlines. “Boss, you’re not going to like this, but you should read it.”
Mary took one of the papers and offered the rest to the people sitting and sleeping in the bar's main room.
“Armageddon… maybe, but I doubt it, seems more like a violent rebirth to me.” She scanned the headlines, making faces, she then flipped the pages until she got the full article from the Mayor’s office.” She made a hmmph sound, picked up her phone, the strange beeping on the line made it clear the switchboard was still down. So, she picked up her trusty M Inmarsat Phone briefcase. If the phones were down, maybe the Satellite phones were working. She walked up the stairs to the roof of the building with the briefcase, plugged the phone into the power socket she had added to the roof for this, opened the case and set up the dish. She then picked up the handset, and dialed the most important number she had, her Lawyer. She had several calls to make before flying to the mayor's office.
Once she had arrived at City hall she found her lawyer, who now looked about 10 years younger, healthier, and most of his weight had shifted from his gut to his chest and arms. Her Banker, who was formerly a mousey nerdy lady with glasses thicker than coke bottles had turned into, for lack of a better description, an Incubus, although he was still wearing the same ill-fitting clothing and nerdy glasses. Like seriously, full body transformation, and still nearsighted?
“Hi guys” Mary said while landing, “Rob, looks like you’ve been hitting the gym and not the hoagies. And… Andrea... I suppose you have a new name?”
“Andy” he stated, and he pushed his glasses up, “Andy is just fine. Might try Andrew, but I need to go shopping, no way am I wearing what I saw in the case” He blushes cutely.
“Anyway, let’s make a suggestion to the Mayor. Andy, we’ll need to hire contractors and make some improvements to the Inn. If things go well.”
The next work day…
Although the Subways were still closed, and most everyone in the city was traumatized, New Yorkers were a resilient people, so life started to go back to a new normal. The roads had been cleared, contractors across the City were inspecting damage, and at Pendragons Bar & Grill several construction trucks arrived. Contractors started rebuilding the Bar along with the mostly boarded up other buildings in the block. Mary had always intended to do something with the rest of the block, but wasn’t sure how to make best use of the old building until now.
In Game Calendar:
Thursday December 31st 1993
Friday January 1st 1993 Mayor agrees.
Monday January 4th 1993 Trucks and Contractors arrive.
Friday January 15th 1993 Opening ceremony of the world's first Adventurers Guild. “Pendragon’s Adventurers Guild, Bar, Inn, and Support Center.”
Starting Wednesday January 6th, Radio and TV Ads start informing the People of NYC of the upcoming grand opening, and requests ‘anyone interested in paid work using their newfound abilities to help the city, and earn lots of money doing it.’
On opening day if you skip ahead: There will be a line, not as long as you would think, but long enough that it takes an hour to clear it. The doors open at 10am, There will be, however, a bit of a crowd watching from a distance.
John the Green Bouncer will show people to where the Bar used to be, there is a clerks’ desk with a computer, and The Red Skinned Bartender Shaye will greet you, she will inform the people joining Membership is free, and everyone will start at … Rank E, and will over time become Rank S (Higher ranks will be added at later times) The ranks are as follows:
E = Levels 1, 2, 3
D = Levels 4, 5, 6
C = Levels 7, 8 , 9
B = Levels 10, 11, 12
A = Levels 13, 14, 15
S= Levels 16, 17, 18
S+ = Levels 19, 20
From there she will guide you to one of 4 reception desks, where various employees will be doing the paperwork, and the hand scanner. The paper work is the usual Employment contract stuff, contracts for use of deadly force, application for use of deadly weapons, and an oath allowing for the adventurer to be deputized as a defender of the city from monsters, form there with the documentation done, the employee will us a biometric techno-magical hand scanner, which will certify the player ID, check personality traits and other things to issue a weapons permit, all while displaying these things in a Magical and technological hologram which at the end will displays the Player Character Sheet as a hologram. The information it shows is:
Name (with legal info ie birthday, gender based on self identity), weapons permit, Class as either (Martiall or Magical), Species, total Levels:
“(Personal Info) - Weapons and Vehicle Permit - Magic User - Tiefling Level 2”
Eventually the scanner will be more advanced, and show more information, but well, I think the highest level Artificer right now is maybe level 4. The Highest Ranker is not my Character, and well I’ll let Caios write that story.
Once the scanner is done, the player will receive an ID card which is an Official ID from the City and State of New York, and counts as Government ID for all ID purposes. It will have your photo Name Birthday, Weapons permit, Permitted Vehicle License, a serial number that has 24 alphanumeric characters and special symbols:
Example: ABC456!@#0123DEF&*(1234
For the math inclined: 7.890371113 E+12 possible combinations.
It is also bio locked so only the owner of the card can show the details. You will also get a set of Dog tags. The dog tag is made of non-ferrous metal and is best described as a Magical/Sci-Fi metal. Ie Adamantium/Buscar.
Once you have the ID, there is the main guild floor, it includes a much larger space, with tables. In one corner is a bar and grill, in another corner is a hotel front desk, and in the center is a massive board where jobs are posted. There are four clerk's desks at the job board to both register requests and accept jobs.
And at the far wall next to a Bank, is the job compilation desk, where payments can be done as cash, check, or direct deposit to the guild bank, if you sign up for that service.
Shaye
Shaye mussed over the changes over the last couple of years of her life. A few years ago, she was just another lost soul in Saint-Renan Brittany France. Her family was multilingual and proud of their heritage as Bretons. As such she learned her ancestral tongue Brittany, French as it’s the official language of France, English, because once you know Brittany, English is fairly simple to Learn, and Italian, because why not? When she spoke English, her accent however didn’t sound French, but more a mix of American and English. But that was probably because of her love of American Films, especially Star Wars.
Her Family were conservative Roman Catholics, she had issues with that. As she wasn’t interested in Marrying a man and having eight to ten snot goblins. Plus growing up in the 80s, and listening to Punk Rock from America and England, she knew she would not stay in France. As soon as she was old enough to travel, she moved to Paris where she got a Job working as a Waitress and Bartender, once she had enough to travel, and pay for rent, she got the Visa to move to the USA, the immigration process wasn’t as hard as she feared, but it wasn’t as easy as just showing up either. Fortunately she was able to get hired by Studio 54, which allowed her to get the green card. But sadly, the owners were massive tools, and the job paid poorly. Fortunately while walking around Greenwich Village she saw a Large very strong man putting up signs requiring staff for a Bar and Grill. Shaye was hired on the spot, after awkwardly discovering that Mary was in fact a woman. Shaye had heard of people like Mary, but this was the first time she met a transgender person, Mary was happy that Shaye grew up in a Medieval style inn. Not that she ever thought of her family restaurant like that, sure it looked just like the picture Shaye had on the wall. But her home was just the flats above the Restaurant.
Over the next several months Shaye was sent to several upscale Bars to learn how to mix top shelf drinks, Mary wanted to make sure Shaye was an Expert mixologist. She was nearly there, being raised as she was. But Americans had a massive list of mix drinks to learn, including regional variations, which was mind bending. During this, Shaye learned that she had a talent for memory. So by December when the Bar & Grill was fully up and Running, Shaye was considered one of the best Bartenders in NYC, a claim made by Mary nearly daily.
On the fateful night of the New Year, she was working the Bar with a small crew of bartenders and barbacks under her, with Mully the Head Chef/Chef of Engineering worked the kitchen. Mary as owner and general manager had stepped out for air, as large crowds tended to cause her PTSD to flair up a bit, but with John at the front door, she could control the crowd fairly easily.
Then all hell broke out, the world went black, flashes of purple and teal lightning flared in her head, the world shook like an Earthquake, and she nearly tripped over a strange sack at her feet in the bar.
When she looked up the crowd was panicking, almost half the patrons had changed into Elves, Dwarves, Green Aliens, and even a Wookie. In the back room it sounded like a fire alarm and R2D2 were in an argument, and John had hulked out his nice suit was ripping from his massive green burst of size. Although his face was as calm as ever, in fact it was his ‘chill’, as he said, that allowed her to help calm the patrons, and help them head home, as most just wanted to go home. She then noticed the collection of strange bags, tool boxes, and other cases littering the floor, she had John “Muertos dur Soulslayer” help her collect these items and put them in the back room. That was when she saw Mully, who beeped at her a bunch before flashing a Hologram with the words:
“Hey Shaye, it’s M3-21 now.”
Shaye smiled, “Well, pleased to meet you again M3-21”
Later that evening several people had a street war with little Gremlins in the street, and then slowly they came into the bar with Mary, who was now a Dragon. Eventually John put on his new gear, and laughed that it looked like bondage gear, but worked well with his large size and green tones. Especially with the oversized axe he had. Shaye looked into her bag to find robes, soft boots, white jeans and, and a double sided light saber with green light. She realized she understood what the weapon was, and how it worked, she understood she was of the Sith race, but not a Sith like Darth Vader. She was a Jedi somehow, but she had never seen a weapon like hers before, nor the robes, the jeans and boots however reminded her of what Luke wore in the first Star Wars film.
She didn’t feel tired the next day, when she would usually head home and sleep, so she stayed up to help the gathered lost souls, the Gnoll lady was especially frazzled when she came back down after sleeping for a few hours. Shaye asked Mary for advice, and Mary had her offer employment and a permanent residence in the Apartments on the third floor. As for work, Shaye using her force powers realized the “Joshua” would work well with John, as they needed more Security for the planned renovations, and Mary’s Adventurers Guild. Seriously how did Mary convince the Mayor to allow her to make a civilian monster hunting guild, with full government support and deputization of the volunteers.
Also Shaye needed to contact the Fashion lady to help design uniforms for the Staff, and have them made and ready in a week. The uniforms had to work for all the new non-human body types. And Mary sketched out a Steampunk looking version of Marine Dress Blues only with ruffled skirts more like a maids costume.
During renovation of the block, Mary had the staff, use their new abilities to patrol the Greenwich area, and keep the Gremlins from attacking the Residents of the Village. We would team up in groups of 4, Mary and John split the task of training the employees in combat tactics, as Mary was a Staff Sargent in the US Marines, and John was “Not a Gangster from the barrio” but a knew quite a few of them.
The parties we so the employees would get levels, but also make it so everyone had a better chance of living their best lives. This was what Mary wanted more than anything. By the grand opening Most of the team had gained their second level. M3 had designed a machine to make ID cards, and they sourced the making of the uniforms. They were surprisingly comfortable to wear, and easy to do battle in. Which was what Mary wanted, and why the design was based on uniforms from the 19th century.
On the opening day, Shaye stood proud at the desk, she was now officially the Assistant Manager of the Adventures Guild, and a Level 2 Jedi. She and the other employees had their ID cards and Dog tags. And the Mayor had sworn them in as government officials.
Also Mary had speed up paperwork allowing for Shaye to become a permanent resident. And she would be eligible to be a US citizen soon.
With John and (Joshua) at the Security office, and the doors opening, the first person she greeted was… a something. He…she…it…? Honestly, she had no idea if it even had a gender. Was a massive Reptilian Alien easily over seven feet tall, and was barely humanoid, only in that it had two arms and two legs. Physically it was more a massive dinosaur head inside an armored set of power armor. The top of its head was a hard shell, and the mouth was massive. The body armor and head made it look top heavy as the body armor crested over the top of it’s head. Giving the body an angry egg shape. It had a several weapons attached to it’s back, but it look like it could kill just by head butting someone.
Shaye greeted it, and in a pleasant masculine voice he introduced himself as (Qurlok John Cerna). Mary showed him to Edward who was nervously waiting for the first applicants.
Mully
Upon returning to the Bar & Grill, Mary strode her way to a particular back room where the resident mechanic lived.
“Mully” was more than a mechanic, however. Originally he was just someone Mary had contracted to set up some of their computers. She had been surprised to learn that in addition to his electrical engineering degree, he also had a PHD in quantum mechanics, which he considered a personal hobby. Right alongside his love of D&D.
She had hired Mully a few more times since then for various jobs. Until one night when their head (read: only) chef never came into work, having decided to simply quit without notice. At the time Mully was, by pure coincidence, finishing up a job on some of the building’s older wiring. He offered to fill in for a bit and did such a great job that Mary never bothered to replace him.
Personality wise, Mully hadn’t changed much since becoming a Droid. Though Mary decided they definitely became even more sarcastic than normal. They certainly seemed rather pleased at having done away with the messy organic bits in favor of their new predictable and reliable electronic body. The barely 4 foot tall Class II Astromech frame was a uniform metallic color somewhere between a dulled silver and a gunmetal gray. They were currently using many different servo arms coming out of their cylindrical body to work on some sort of project in the far corner of their room.
“Hello Mully,” Mary greeted him as she walked closer, “I just got back from the Mayor’s office and wanted to discuss with you some of the changes, renovations, and other potential devices we might need for what I had in mind.”
The top, almost trapezoidal shaped head of the droid rotated to look up at Mary even as their other implements continued their work uninterrupted. Mully then replied with a long series of electronic beeps, chimes, and other noises which apparently made perfect sense if you were a computer.
“I’m sorry I don’t understand what you’re saying.”* Mary told them. In response Mully let out a spew of additional, even more annoyed sounding, beeps and boops which Mary suspected contained some manner of sarcastic comment at her expense.*
Rather than try to continue the conversation in this manner, however, Mully’s primary interface lens began to glow before projecting light out of it. The light soon began to coalesce into a hologram of digitally created text, floating in better them and Mary.
YOU HAVE THE MAGIC TO PERFECTLY UNDERSTAND ME IF YOU WANTED TO. JUST USE THAT. IT WOULD BE FAR MORE EFFICIENT THEN CONTINUED USE OF HOLOGRAPHIC EMITTERS.
Mary thought about arguing the point but it simply wasn’t worth it. One wave of her hand later and she was able to clearly translate Mully’s Binary Droid language into understandable words.
“There, much better, as I was saying I wanted to discuss my planned renovations with you.” Mary continued.
about time too. all these other buildings have been just sitting there for way too long. do you have any schematics to show me?
“Of course.” Mary said, reaching into her briefcase to retrieve the paperwork they had worked up so far.
Mully stopped whatever they had been working on as they spun around on their three wheeled feet to face Mary before moving closer, the servo arms switching toolheads to basic grippers before taking hold of the paperwork. With a speed that one could only expect of a robotic existence, they flipped through the papers with inhuman speed before offering the stack back to Mary.
structurally it all looks good. i recommend keeping modifications to a minimum and renovations as simple as possible for now. in part to keep cost and schedule as small as possible, but mainly because we will, with 98.9758413% certainly, want to redo all renovations once we, globally, have a better understanding of new technologies - both magical and technological - that are now suddenly available.
“I’m fine with that, currently these renovations are more about taking advantage of the space we have available and making sure we have all of the facilities to support the Adventurer's Guild that I have in mind.” Mary explained.
speaking of which. if we intend to accurately, and safely, assign these adventurers to potentially dangerous assignments, we need to have a better method of analyzing their capacity and potential across various potential vectors. magic, psychic, tech, not to mention raw personal skill. any individual’s abilities can vary wildly amongst just those categories alone.
“I’ve thought about that. I know there are advanced scanners out there now that can help with that, and I know at least one spell that would be perfect for this as well. The question is how do we make it so any employee of the guild is able to gather this information for our records.”
…, Mully’s primary lens began to glow with a slowly pulsing orange light as they thought deep and hard about the problem until suddenly; Ding! That light turned green.
i have an idea. more specifically i have the beginnings of a schematic that i’m currently building in my memory banks. but i’m sure i will be able to manufacture a scanning device that anyone will be able to use to analyze and retrieve this information. you should contact some of your defense department friends about expanding certain networks. i would do it myself but they’re much less likely to charge you with treason just because they hold a grudge.
With that “said”, Mully gave Mary a quick wave with their servo arm as they turned towards their workstation in the back. The arms completely sweeping everything on the table onto the floor, apparently discarding whatever they had been working on before they started on this new project. Whatever his eccentricities, Mary was more than confident Mully would deliver on what they promised.
The Adventurers Guild Grand opening.
Although the world changed overnight , and the world is still coming to terms with the hundreds if not thousands of new humanoid species now on Earth, Magic, psionics, and all manner of sci-fi tech is now a reality. Giant monsters had attacked several cities, some had been killed by local powers, some ended up fighting against other giant monsters, and some decided not to do more damage and left those cities by their own means.
New York, by virtue of it’s own problems prior to the event, and because of how dense the population is, has settled into a new normal.
And a part of the new normal were the ads for the adventurers guild. Which was to be a voluntary deputized militia designed to deal with monsters, and help maintain public order.
There were a long list of perks being offered, good pay, housing, shops, food, banking, and other things. The work was going to be voluntary, as in you could choose which jobs you could take, and the general public could hire adventurers to help solve monster related problems.
As someone wishing to join. You find yourself in a line with maybe 200 other people, with thousands of people watching from across the road. There are TV cameras moving up and down the line, interviewing people at random asking questions like “why do you want to join?” “Do you think it is safe to do this?” etc.
At precisely 9:45am, on a little stage by the door set so the line can enter the door, but the crowds can see the stage, The Dragon Lady Mary, owner of Pendragons Bar & Grill, Adventurers Guild, and Related services. With Mayor David Dinkins Jr got up to a podium, where the Mayor officially recognizes the Adventures Guild Charter, and Makes Mary the Official Government Sanctioned Adventurers Guild Master of New York.
A quick speech is made, and then as the clock strikes 10am, Mary cuts a ribbon, and opens the door. (those who are residents of the Guild will have the option to be at the front of the line, otherwise you are where you think your character would be. For all I know everyone is close together.)
Compared to the first night, January 1, the bar and grill has been completely changed. What was once the Bar, is now a central reception area, with stairs to the Apartments and Hotel behind the main desk, to the right, is an area the looks more like a DMV with desks for signing up new adventures, and past that is a large food court with a large open atrium dining area, with a central desk and job board. Along the sides of the atrium are the Bar&Grill, a coffee shop, a pastry shop, a Kosher Deli, and Pizza Place. Each of these are independent Businesses that only service members of the guild. To the left of the reception desk is a Bank, a clothing and gear shop, and what looks like a pawn shop.
(Were you can sell loot found, and where you can buy magic items and other “used gear” using random rolls)
John the former Bouncer, now head of Security is sitting in an office next to the door smiling as people enter, odds are he is playing solitaire.
Shaye is manning the front desk, and greets everyone with a friendly smile, she is wearing an outfit that looks like a cross between a military uniform and maids outfit. In fact all the guild employees have the same uniform, you can see it’s intended to be gender neutral, but can be worn with a skirt or trousers. The Guild symbol is a stylized cross between the Welsh Dragon and the seal of New York City. The Eagle is replaced with the Dragon in Red, the “Dutch Pilgrim” is replaced with a person in the Guild Uniform, and the Mohawk Indian is now a female adventure with jeans and leather jacket. The motto is replaced with “fidelis ad Populum” meaning “Faithful to the people” I might try and photoshop this at some point.
The trouser version has the same top half, but has black trousers instead.
Shaye will point out one of the 4 desks, manned by newly hired employees, and residence people from the 3 floor (Not these people are all former at risk kids that Mary was protecting, they are all 18 or older, but this is clearly their first job) One of them is Edward from housecleaning, he is also now the Grounds Manager, but today is helping as there will be a high volume of people joining today. The other 3 include a Dwarf lady, and 2 others… no idea who yet, 1 come first serve for describing these employees.
You will sit at one of the desks, there will be a tax form, with a series of 10 alignment questions, these are random, and the paper it’s written on is magical and will not allow a person to lie. Misdirected truth is allowed. (you can pick the questions and answers) after that you will sign a simple deputizing oath:
"I do solemnly affirm that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of the adventurers guild, according to the best of my ability."
After filling out the paperwork, which will feel like forever, as government paperwork always feels like forever, you will be shown a machine. Imagine a palm biometric scanner done in a 70s sci-fi design with twisty dials, pressy buttons, and flicky switches.
When you put your hand on it, both magical and holographic lights and data will be seen, a basic version of your character sheet, will be displayed for you and the person at the desk to see. However no one else can see or read the data, as there is a privacy spell on the desks.
The display will show what will also be printed on your new Official Adventurers Guild Membership card.
Card number (24 alphanumeric characters and special symbols: Example: ABC456!@#0123DEF&*(1234
For the math inclined: 7.890371113 E+12 possible combinations.)
Name: _Surname, First Name, Middle names (names are self-identified names, and will change when someone’s identity changes. Not that this happens often, but it can. The magic adjusts to the current reality, it also protect aliases for superheroes.)
Gender: (Based on identity)
Birthday: Day Month (spelled out in English) full year, and Current age in bold red This number updates automatically as you age. Ie 15 January 1970 23
DMV info, ie Class C - no endorsements, Class A- trailer - HazMat, Motorcycle , or Class B - passenger etc.
It will also show weapons allowed to be used, this will be lifted from you class info.
It will have a picture of you on a white background as you are now (yes magical picture, auto updates to current clothing, and face.)
Under the picture you will have Race/Species/Ancestry as seen on character sheet, and Martial, Technological, Crafting, or Magical for class, and your total class levels.
At the bottom is the Guild Rank. E through S+
Guild Ranks are expressed in a letter code E through S+, you will get the ID Card, and a matching set of Dog Tags, the Dog Tags will auto update with the ID card. And no one can take the Dog tags off of you while you are living besides you. Both the ID card and Dog Tags have magic that allows you to summon them at any time to your hand. (provided you are on the same plane of existence) The Dog Tag Material will look the same as the rank material in the table. Both ID card and Dog Tag are indestructible, and conjured by the Biometric scanner.
Guild Rank Table:
Rank
Levels
E – Copper
1, 2, 3
D – Bronze
4, 5 , 6
C – Silver
7, 8, 9
B – Gold
10, 11, 12
A – Ruby
13, 14, 15
S – Diamond
16, 17, 18
S+ – Rainbow/Astral Diamond
19, 20
You are now an official member of the of the Guild. And yes, New York state will be implementing the bio scanner for their ID cards later in the Year, same with many national governments, as the ID cards are more secure, and cheaper to make.
You will be pointed to the atrium where in the center is the Job Desks and Job boards. The Job boards are a cross of stick up a wanted poster, and a digital scroll showing latest regional quests (ie Clear the local subway stations)
The wanted postings will have a few jobs, each will be rated with a letter Rank E through S+, you can always take a solo quest of your rank, or a 4 or more party can take a rank higher. Ie Rank E party of 4 can do a Rank D quest, if you have 8 or more in a party you can do 2 levels higher ie Rank E’s can then do a Rank C with 8 members. However, that is the limit to how much higher a party can request. A Party is always ranked by the member average. (But do to how levels are being done, this will only come up with NPCs, and honestly I don’t want to do DMPCs. So, you will have to run the NPC sheets if this happens.)
Current Rank E quests:
Clear Subway Station – (Kill, or Negotiate the gremlins to leave a subway station, party will split $500)
Current Rank D quests: (on second day and after)
Clear Subway lines between to previously cleared stations - (Kill, or Negotiate the gremlins, and other monsters to leave a subway lines, party will split $2000)
Current Rank C quests: Central Park (Various clear quests, always a giant monster, and randomly all over the place I’ll pick the monster based on who is in a party, based on total points and a fair but challenging monster)
Map of the Subway
Adventurers Guild
Adventurers Guild Floorplan
The Village Voice
January 21th, 1993
New Normal
Adventurers Guilds are the new Normal.
With the grand opening of the New York Adventurers Guild “Pendragons Inn, Bar, Grill, & Adventurers Guild.” Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a Press Conference, that he and his business partners are opening an Adventurers Guild in Los Angeles, they will be linked to the same systems that Pendragons has and will be working closely with the New York Guild. They plan to have their Location at Flower and 11, as Arnold has purchased a property near the Los Angeles Convention Center and Arena. (More on page 5)
The Bridges are now all open during the day.
As the city goes back to normal, the mayor has stated that the NYPD has enough staff to ensure safety on all bridges, and the gang of trolls who had closed several bridges have been chased to New Jersey. (More on page 6)
Adventurers are making headway in the Subway.
According to Mary Pendraig, the dragon who runs the Adventurers Guild, the Subway lines and stations in Manhattan should be able to be reopened by the end of the month, several teams of adventurers have been working nonstop to push the gremlins out of the Subway. Unfortunately, it seems some street gangs have been working with the Gremlins to increase crime rates, and Chaos. (More on Page 6)
Are the Gremlins Human?
Scientists looking at the bodies of several new monsters, have noted that most monsters do not have any sign of human biology, but it seems the Gremlins are very much biologically human, although they also have some rat like biology. (More on Page 7)
The Milky-Way Back!?! But not really.
Astronomers are stumped, again, when the world changed, all the stars further than 500 light years away vanished from the nights sky. Last night, a new galaxy of stars has reappeared, both in visual and radio spectrums. “There is a new Galaxy surrounding us it looks Similar to the Milky Way, but the stars are completely different. Before less than 20% of the stars were Sunlike, now over 50% are sunlike. It’s almost like someone built a galaxy of Sun like stars with just enough other types of stars to make the sky interesting. (More in the Science section)
Minor news
NYC has a new power structure, once they were criminal gangs are now civic leaders.
President Clinton Sings his oath of office. Promises to make America a bastion of freedom and enlightenment.
Monsters are putting food production at risk; a call has been made for the military and people with power to protect Americas Heartland.
Fans of Adventurers creating a ranking list of the highest Ranked members of the Adventurers Guild.
Magi-tech what it means for the future of technology, and finance.
Opinion: The morality of Intelligence, what qualifies as human, to be covered by Human Rights. by James Coleman
The Congregation of Raleigh White Christian Church has declared Non-Humans to be cursed by god, and should be cast down, causing a massive stir and debate in the Fundamental Christian Community.
((With the publishing of this paper, you have reached the Milestone of Level 3.))
The Village Voice (LVL 4)
February 15th, 1993
The MILDEST Winter on record
Proof of Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is Visible Above New York!
The giant alien mothership, named the ‘(
Fan fick big alien Carrier from a known video game series, I didn't name it
) ’, has arrived to Earth, orbiting the planet above New York. Reports from human representatives of these aliens have confirmed they are only interested in establishing contact with us. In addition they are currently searching for something around Pluto, something which they claim will help them return to their own section of space in the Milky Way. It seems dreams of space travel beyond our solar system will soon become a reality!
Adventurer’s Guild is expanding (with Portals!)
Recently the New York branch of the Adventurer’s Guild established a portal to another world, described as a world straight out of fantasy books. The world of Toril is now home to its own branch of the Adventurer’s Guild with a separate location in their city of “Waterdeep”.
In addition the Los Angeles branch of the Adventurer’s Guild, which had opened numerous smaller guild locations to service the entire Greater Los Angeles County, including parts of Ventura and Orange County, has successfully rolled out portals to connect all the satellite locations to their main branch. This local portal network quickly became a favored commuter system for the lucky registered adventures in Los Angeles.
With its success, the New York Guildmaster has confirmed that a similar portal between the Los Angeles and New York Adventurer Guilds will be opened soon, “and should be available by the time you read this”. This will allow instant travel between both coasts for all registered Adventurers!
The Guildmaster also confirmed plans to open a London location very soon, which will also benefit from the same portals.
The #1 Ranked Adventurer on a Monster Hunting Tour
Qurlok “John” Cerna, considered to be the top ranked adventurer in the world, has been on a monster hunting tour through the midwest of the country, killing the biggest threats to the agricultural center of the country in the form of the gigantic monsters roaming the area. When asked about what prompted this tour, he claimed, “Central Park’s not enough of a challenge anymore.”
A public wave of rebellion against the most conservative religions is taking place
Perhaps as a reaction to recent statements denouncing any now non-human persons, conservative Christian, along with other conservative and fundamentalist religious organizations, are finding themselves abandoned and powerless - literally and figuratively - as the country (and some would argue the world) is experiencing what can only be described as a religious revolution. New sects and churches are sprouting calling for more tolerance and understanding, and generally more progressive teachings.
Warm Winter
The warmest Winter, before the change, meteorologists predicted a cold winter, and all signs pointed to a Nor’easter this winter, but now scientists are not sure. (Note 1993 had the ‘Storm of the Century’ in March, due to the rather cold winter that year effecting all the way down to Cuba, it was a massive winter hurricane and one of the first Cat 5 winter storms.)
DM Notes: Level 4 Notice (official)
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there has been two massive threads happening, plus our live game is now set to this world from p2e. Which has taken a bunch of time away from the Overworld posts.