RPGnet - User contributions [en]

TheStarsAreRight:Statement By Governor Franklin D Roosevelt

2015-02-01T00:39:04Z

Gelrir:

'''[[The_Stars_Are_Right:_New_York_Incursion#Documents|Return To New York Incursion Main Page]]'''

[[File:FDR Radio Chat.jpeg|frame|Governor Roosevelt prepares to address the nation.]]

==Statement by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt==

''October 18th, 1932''

''Broadcast nationwide over all major radio stations.''

My fellow Americans and my friends:

Tonight my single duty is to speak to the whole of America.

Until three-thirty this afternoon I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating and un-natural disaster from striking the city of New York within the next day.

For four long years a succession of strange events and constant crises have shaken the entire world. Nations have been toppled, and their entire peoples inexplicably changed in their habits and beliefs. Millions have perished at the hands of lunatics and dictators; and with each surge of evil and ancient forces, the world has been brought closer to a gigantic conflict -- which is today unhappily a fact.

It is right that I should recall to your minds the terrible Madisonville disaster; and the so-called Day of Miracles; and the mysterious fate of Springfield. The United States is not immune to the strangeness afflicting the entire world.

It is right that I reveal the consistent and often successful efforts of the Federal Government in these crises to conceal the true nature of the threat facing humanity.

It is right, too, to point out that the unfortunate events of these recent years have, without question, been based on the use of extraordinary powers and the threat of force -- supernatural and spiritual force, of a malign nature. And it seems to me clear, even as this terrible event looms, that the influence of America should be consistent in seeking for humanity a final reckoning which will eliminate, as far as it is possible to do so, the use of supernatural powers to threaten nations or control populations.

I think it is honest for me to be honest with the people of New York and the United States.

The unified and urgent advice of scientists working for the State, and for the Federal Government, is that before October 20th an event perhaps as disastrous as the destruction of Madisonville, or the decimation of Moscow, will occur in Manhattan. Signs and portents are visible nearly every day; by tomorrow every resident of Manhattan will realize the danger.

It is, of course, impossible to predict the future. I am receiving a constant stream of information from New York state authorities and the Federal government. You, the people of this country, are receiving news through your radios and your newspapers at every hour of the day.

You are, I believe, the most enlightened and the best informed people in all the world at this moment. You are subjected to no censorship of news, and I hope that our Government has no information which it hesitates to withhold from you or which it has any thought of withholding from you.

At the same time it is of the highest importance that the press and the radio use the utmost caution to discriminate between actual verified fact on the one hand, and mere rumor on the other.

I can add to that by saying that I hope the people of this country will also discriminate most carefully between news and rumor. Do not believe of necessity everything you hear or read. Check up on it first.

You must master at the outset a simple but unalterable fact in this modern world: the form of the natural world is changing, and not just in New York City, or in foreign countries, but everywhere.

It is easy for you and for me to shrug our shoulders and to say that strange or supernatural events taking place thousands of miles from the continental United States, and, indeed, thousands of miles from the whole American Hemisphere, do not seriously affect the Americas -- and that all the United States has to do is to ignore them and go about our own business. Passionately though we may desire detachment, we are forced to realize that every word that comes through the air, every strange dream sent to a populace, every change that is wrought to nature itself does affect the American future.

Let no man or woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America being safe, of the supernatural as being hokum. At this moment there is being prepared a proclamation calling for the evacuation of Manhattan's population, and the establishment of martial law in that borough of New York City. The naval and military forces of the United States, the National Guard of New York, and all the police and emergency services of the state of New York, are focused on a sudden and dire threat.

It is of the utmost importance that the people of this country, with the best information in the world, think things through. The most dangerous enemies of American peace and safety are those who, without well-rounded information on the whole broad subject of the past, the present and the future, undertake to speak with assumed authority, to talk in terms of glittering generalities, to give to the nation assurances or prophecies which are of little present or future value.

Some things we do know. Most of us in the United States believe in spiritual values. Most of us, regardless of what church we belong to, believe in the spirit of the New Testament -- a great teaching which opposes itself to the use of force, of spiritual coercion, or wickedness. The overwhelming masses of our people seek peace -- peace at home, and the kind of peace in other lands which will not jeopardize our peace at home.

We have certain ideas and certain ideals of national safety and we must act to preserve that safety today and to preserve the safety of our children in future years.

That safety is and will be bound up with the safety of the entire world. We seek to keep un-natural disaster from our own firesides by thwarting those who would gather strange powers. For that we have historic precedent that goes back to the days of the Puritans. It is serious enough and tragic enough to every American family in every state in the Union to live in a world that is torn by by tragic changes on other Continents. And those changes will someday affect every American home. It is our national duty to use every effort to keep those changes beneficial.

And at this time let me make the simple plea that partisanship and selfishness be adjourned; and that national unity be the thought that underlies all others.

This nation will remain a nation of laws, but our laws must take account of facts and science. Each citizen cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. Our fellow citizens, our fellow men, will be affected by these changes; a modern witch hunt had no place in the United States.

In spite of spreading and unimaginable dangers I think that we have every right and every reason to maintain as a national policy the fundamental moralities, the teachings of religion and the continuation of efforts to maintain peace -- for because some day, though the time may be distant, we can be of even greater help to a crippled humanity.

I hope the United States will prevent this catastrophe. I believe that it will. And I give you assurances and reassurance that every effort of your state and city Governments will be directed toward that end.

As long as it remains within my power to prevent, there will be no descent into chaos in the United States.

==note by Michael==
Steve did a great job reading the speech; alas it wasn't recorded. *But* you can hear the speech I based Roosevelt's announcement on (in September 1939). http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/speech-3315

[[category: The Stars Are Right]]
[[category: Documents]]
[[category: New York Incursion]]

TheStarsAreRight:Introduction

2011-01-15T23:28:59Z

Gelrir:

'''ABOUT THE GAME'''

==GAME HISTORY OVERVIEW==

As of this writing the timeline is currently in Spring 1932, in an alternate timeline where fascism has spread more quickly than in real-world history.

Within the United States, the great economic depression occurred about six months later than in the real world, with the result that the effect has been deeper and more far reaching than expected. The US president is currently Charles Curtis, President-Elect Hoover having passed away after contracting The Kansas City Influenza.

Within Europe, Germany's fascists/Nazi's are coming to power quicker and earlier, having been given help from unknown sources to in reestablishing their industrial base.

Rumors have been filtering out of India and China, with people claiming that the old gods and ancestors walk the countryside.

The lost Czar Alexi has been found, and with the help of dedicated royalists, is attempting to reestablish a Romanov rulership in the face of the Communists. The borders of Russia have now completely closed, with rumors of a massive purge wiping out all foes to the true Russia.

Above and beyond all of this - the "Stars Are Just Coming Right" - for those who know where to look. Strange occurrences and Fortean events happen on a daily basis. (A rain of fish over New York, unexplained disappearances, etc.) Factions of the US Government are beginning to exploit the new understanding of just what these changes imply.

An underlying tension seems to be gripping society world wide, as if in preparation for some cataclysmic event. Only a few who delve into forbidden knowledge have some inkling of what it might be.

==GAME MECHANICS==

We use the Chaosium original D100 system with a couple of additional home brew skills and some alterations to some of the basic sanity rules. While all of the Lovecraft based sorcery and summonings exist, there is also a secondary magic system which is deeply embedded enough than most new characters will not become aware of it until they reach a certain level of experience in play.

==GAME STYLE==

The emphasis and over all gestalt in this game is focused on character development, hard moral/ethical choices, character interactions, unraveling puzzles, and simply great theater. If you are looking for high levels of physical conflict, or monster-of-the-week stories . . . this is probably not the game style for you. If you are interested in playing through the lives of people dealing with the extraordinary and the tolls that such knowledge brings, solving complex and interactive plot threads . . . this is definitely the place for you.

Characters are given lots of “stuff” – printed newspaper articles, diary excepts, and other sorts of real physical clues to pour through. NPC’s are fully fleshed out, and have their own agendas.

Which is not to say that there aren’t instances when tackling the big uglies from beyond the stars with guns, spells and dynamite is the order of the day. They do happen – just not frequently.

Where to go from here - ?

For a beginning character you can choose from three different starting points -

# Outer Circle - someone who is up to date on the strangeness of current affairs in the world - but has no direct experience of the occult, magic, or Mythos monsters. A regular person living, a regular life in 1931/1932.
# Mid Circle - someone who has some limited experience of something weird, either personally or through other connection. Examples are - a strange, and unexplained event in their past, a family curse, an odd family heirloom passed down through generations - etc. This is a person who is just beginning to become aware that the true underpinnings of reality are not as they seem.
# Inner Circle - someone in up to their neck . . . a working sorcerer (in the Lovecraft tradition), a current (or past) cultist, a religious figure who's gifts have become real . . . someone who is well aware that the "Stars Are Right" - and may be working either to prevent or to help the incursion of the Outside Ones.

Depending on where you want to start will depend on how much background information you’ll. Most of it can be sent via email. But we will probably need to meet at least once face to face before starting play. To get your character built, talk about mechanics, and work out those sorts of details - and to do some solo gaming, to get you in position to meet other folks.

Do you have an idea for a character type or occupation you’d like to play? I don’t have any restrictions of any sort – and we’ve had everything from an Australian Bush Pilot to an Insurance Salesman to a high-class call girl, to a nun come through the campaign.

To give you an idea of the wide range of character types – here’s a list of the major personas that we have in the game:

'''Antonio Grimaldi''' (Kevin McHale) – previously a medical student, and sometime rumrunner in the 1920s – Tony is now a man of the world, searching out and experimenting with the more dark aspects of the Mythos.

'''Maxine Scott''' (Renee Solberg) – Egyptologist and one of the only women ever to be initiated into a Bedouin Warrior Brotherhood – she is a curious mix of strength, confidence, and innocence.

'''Carl Ellis''' (Chaz Engan) – originally a radio engineer, now through his experiences and delving into the occult origins of things, Carl is now a mystic and a visionary. Though some would say that he is beginning to slide into madness due to having “seen too much”

'''Edward Chandler''' (James Johnston) – Industrialist, one time presidential candidate. The general public believes that Chandler is missing - presumed dead, but the US government is secretly looking for him – to bring him to trial for crimes of high treason against the US.

'''Master Feng''' (Tom Johnston) – Chinese Sorcerer, of indeterminate age. Feng pursues his own agenda, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering the others – powerful in the ways of oriental folk magic.

'''Auda Abassi''' (Daniel Roher) – Auda is a conflicted man, beset by personal demons and his own growing insanity ... removed from a position of great political power in Egypt, Auda is attempting to come to terms with his growing understanding of what the arrival of the Outside Ones will mean.

'''Theo Weiss''' (Steve Hill) – Harry Houdini’s brother – Theo has retired from the stage, to work with Carl in an attempt to hinder the arrival of the Outside Ones. Theo’s actions over the last six months have begun to cause others to doubt both his sanity and the morality of his decisions.

'''Throckmorton Updyke''' – (Brian O’Rieva) – a portly, elderly bookseller from London (and godfather to Theo’s wife) – Throckmorton has recently had a couple of experience that prove that the ordered world is not as he has always believed.

'''Eleanora Jefferson''' – (Tess O’Rieva) – Elly is a black woman from the deep south – who’s now deceased cousin-in-law was a friend of Carl Ellis’. Elly believes she is guided and helped by the spirits of the dead who speak to her.

'''Representative Clay Morrison''' – (Mike Blum) – 78 year old ex-lawman, ex-miner, ex-cowhand, etc., from Carson City, Nevada – Clay is a fount of stories of the old west, as well as an experienced “critter wrangler” with a goodly number of Mythos encounters beneath his belt. He owns radio stations and newspapers in Nevada now, and got himself elected to Congress.

'''Frank Kelly''' (''Ken Perata'') – Lawyer from Detroit – now working with the US Government’s organization that is attempting harness the power of the Outside Ones for its own use.

We are just tying off a couple of plot threads, and groups are reconfiguring – but here are a couple of overviews of how things are trending as of this writing:

'''The Mystery Of Bailey''' – In the English countryside a strange and peculiar religious cult has been gaining strength and adherents. Rumors abound about what goes on inside the insular village of Bailey. Yet despite the requests of the locals outside of Bailey – no investigation by press or British government has occurred. Could there be a cover-up . . . powerful patrons who want to insure that nothing interrupts the “services” there? (Good for Outer Circle or Mid-Circle level characters)

'''Search For The Elders''' – The characters are attempting to uncover, investigate and/or neutralize conflicting groups of Fae . . . people who have contracted a viral disease that gives them vampire-like symptoms. One of these groups is believed to have offered themselves up to become avatars of the Outer Gods, and thus working towards accelerating the time when the Outside Ones will walk the earth. (Good for Mid-Circle or Inner Circle characters)

'''Revitalizing Russia''' – On the heels of announcing the return of the lost Tsar Alexi - an apocalyptic event has swept through Russia, killing the majority of its population – a new outbreak of the 1918 Influenza? The work of the Communist Regime? Or something more sinister? (Good for all levels of characters)

'''The Jr. Jmen''' – This group is comprised of experts culled from several areas (physician, lawyer, military, investigative) working under the auspices of the US Government. Previously called in to deal with minor “incursions” they are now ramping up to deal with the more widespread effects of the Outside Ones probing into our reality. (Good for all levels of characters – this group has been on hiatus – but if there is enough interest it could be reactivated.)

If none of these strike your fancy – let me know, and once there is a basic idea for your character down, plot lines can put together something more in line with your tastes.

==SCHEDULING==

Because of everyone’s busy lifestyles – I put together a schedule of game dates about 6 months in advance. The understanding being that unexpected things happen, and we may have reschedule a date, or meet without one or two players.

Schedule wise what that means is that if you are running only one character you'll game about once every four to six weeks – some people run more than one character, so they game about every three weeks or so.

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2011-01-15T23:09:55Z

Gelrir:

back to [[TheStarsAreRight:Main_Page|Stars Are Right - Main Page]]

== Clay Morrison To-Do List ==

Subjects that Clay Morrison has been keeping an eye on since he was elected to Congress.

* The insidious legacy of Dr. Marklin, and other signs of ab-natural influence on national leaders.
* Blue John, and therefore Madisonville, Puente del Puerto, etc.
* New World Industries and Mr. Chandler
* Indian tribes, and what they might be up to in a magical way
* The Nightsiders
* Nikola Tesla, and his opinions and inventions (Clay has been financing him, and Tesla is officially an advisor to the Judiciary Committee)

[[File:TeslaGram.jpg]]

New subjects that came up on 17 March, 1932 in conference with Carl Ellis:

* Tesla's possible insights and solutions to the Manhattan Rift
* Ectochrome film, sources for Carl Ellis
** Tesla may be able to make ecto-viewers for the Army and Carl
* Japan -- what's up there
* Russia -- what's up there, since the January 10th incident
** Poland, China, Japan, Finland: all would be likely to carve up a defenceless Russia. What's left of the Army?
* The Pentheus Corporation: who, what, when, where, why, etc.

== Recent Events for Clay Morrison ==

'''Wednesday, 16 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis calls Clay Morrison at his Washington, D.C. offices. Long time no hear! Mr. Ellis and Rep. Morrison agree to meet the next day in New York City, at the Drake Hotel. Mr. Morrison is asked to look into the Pentheus Corporation, a holding company that may be "up to no good."

'''Thursday, 17 March, 1932'''

Mr. Morrison travels to NYC by train, takes a room at the Drake Hotel, and visits Mr. Ellis. Present are:

* Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, and their son Robert (age less than six months)
* Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
* Boris Valenko
* Roxanne, girlfriend to Boris
* Redland Jack
* Auda Abbasi

After introductions and social chit-chat, they get down to business over sandwiches and drinks. The main topic of discussion is the '''Pentheus Corporation'''. They own farms, oil fields, chemical companies, warehouses, theaters, motion picture distribution firms, and much other stuff. Some of their technical staff (at least) are former NWI employees, and brought strange technology with them. Mr. Ellis believes that Pentheus will use a terrible Event in the near future (a rift in space-time over New York City) to convince hundreds of millions of persons, perhaps a billion persons -- half the population of the Earth -- to sacrifice themselves. The "negotiated future" Record in Tibet was Mr. Ellis's main source of information on Pentheus's plan, until recently.

First to be sacrificed would be prisoners, inmates of asylums, and other "undesirables" -- as of December 31st, 1931 there were 137,516 persons in prisons (state, Federal, and local) within the United States. On the same date, 305,315 persons were patients in state asylums for mental disease, and 76,535 persons in state institutions for epileptics and the feeble-minded. Private asylums hold nearly as many -- to approximate, there are about 800,000 "undesirables" in the United States. If half of the residents of the United States are to be sacrificed, that is 61.5 million persons, of which just over 1% would be "undesirables." Enormous death camps would be set up, for the sacrifices to be herded into, and where they would be devoured or otherwise destroyed by evil entities, supernatural or otherwise. If the best interpretation of Pentheus's plan is to be believed, the supernatural entities will be sated, and the Time of Miracles will proceed without further cataclysms.

How Pentheus learned of the pending disasters, how they developed their plan, what technology is used to predict and control the events, who they actually are, etc. is not firmly established. Mr. Ellis has been in discussions with their board of directors, which seems disturbingly businesslike about this halving of the Earth's population. How every other person on the Earth would be convinced of the need for their death -- as opposed to, say, the death of more "undesirable" foreigners, or ethnic groups -- is not clear. Or how to prevent the choice being "Let's give them Germany (population almost exactly half that of the United States)."

In addition, the Soviet Union was destroyed essentially overnight on January 10th, 1932 ... a scheme by Alexei Vishnaveshki to restore the Romanov dynasty may have succeeded all too well! A ritual that drained the life force from everyone in Russia who did not "love Mother Russia" seems to have been the cause (although diplomats may have been immune). More information is needed! Why the Poles, Finns, Japanese, Turks, etc. have not moved into the depopulated former nation is not clear. Radio broadcasts ceased, international communication ended, and the borders are unguarded. The few foreign embassies still present in Moscow have sent some very strange descriptions of the conditions.

'''Friday, 18 March, 1932'''

Rep. Morrison introduces Auda and Mr. Ellis to Nikola Tesla at breakfast at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Tesla, fastidious and eccentric, impresses Mr. Ellis; Rep. Morrison later asks Mr. Tesla to look into reports of a "time-space rift" which may be forming over Manhattan.

Mr. Ellis's team meets again with Congressman Morrison for lunch at the Drake Hotel, for more discussions of Pentheus, etc. It seems that the not-actually-murdered William Desmond Taylor (born William Deane-Tanner) may have brought his expertise with strange "mechanical manipulations" of occult forces from NWI to Pentheus. He more recently has been using the name Richard Sands.

The team is offered the use of Rep. Morrison's private (leased, actually) railway car for their trip to Los Angeles.

Clay Morrison spends the rest of the day visiting soup kitchens, Democratic politicians, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That evening, Mr. Ellis and company visit with the Fey, and make some arrangements.

''China and Japan begin peace negotiatons.''

'''Saturday, 19 March, 1932'''

Attached to the Lackawanna Limited, the private railcar leaves Manhattan at 10 a.m., bound for Chicago and eventually Los Angeles. Rep. Morrison gets off at Slateford Junction, Penn. about 12:30 pm, bound for Washington, and arrives there mid-afternoon.

'''Sunday, 20 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis's group arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street station (333 South Water Street), at 7:35 a.m.; the private car is moved across the city, attached to the Golden State Limited, and departs at 8:30 p.m.

''The vernal equinox is today, at 1:54 p.m. Central Standard Time. The airship Graf Zeppelin arrives in South America.''

----

'''Clay's letter to the 1932 Gathering:'''

Saturday, July 23rd, 1932
Washington

Hello all,

I hope things are going well. I haven't heard much from Carl or anyone since March. I only have time for a quick letter now, I'm due at a committee session in half an hour. I hope this reaches you all while you're still all gathered!

It's looking pretty bad here in the States; way too many folks are out of work. President Curtis is very unpopular, and a month ago the Republicans chose Senator Joseph France, of Maryland, to be their presidential candidate. The original leading candidate at the Republican convention, Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, afterwards announced his support for the Democratic candidate, Governor Roosevelt of New York! France is a good fellow - though a terrible public speaker - but people are very angry with the Republicans, and are demanding that the Government do something. Since the Republicans took all the credit for the prosperity before the crash, they're getting all the blame now. I don't see any way that France can win, unless something unnatural happens before the election. He's already had rotten fruit and stuff thrown at him during parades and speeches since the convention; I hope nobody takes a shot at him!

There's a large camp of army veterans on the banks of the Anacostia River here; they're mighty upset about the economy, and about not getting a bonus payment promised long ago. Some people are worried that these men might be influenced by Communists or worse. The President hasn't done much either way about them yet. There are rumors that a million unemployed men will march on Washington in August.

Roosevelt has been promising a "new deal" for the economy, including a lot of social welfare programs, and ... let's see ... "a more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth." Of course, a lot of the plutocratic sorts are calling him a socialist, a communist, and such. Oh, and he flew in an airplane to Chicago to give his acceptance speech, mighty modern of him.

Roosevelt wants to end the selling-off of Indian lands, and he wants to put in John Collier as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; all of that should take some steam out of the less crazy folk on reservations. He's also chosen Senator Tom Walsh, of Montana, for the job of Attorney General; Tom and I get along pretty well. Oh, don't go letting on about the Attorney General thing, it's not made public yet. Tom's been in the Senate since 1913, but I've managed to get into the House Justiciary Committee due to some finagling with the Democrats back when I was elected - he's only on the Senate Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers, and I think it riles him some - seeing as how he led the Senate investigation into the Teapot Dome dealings back in the Twenties. Tom's sweet on a Cuban girl half his age, and is thinking of asking her to marry him. The Cuban girl, name of Mina de Truffin, reminds me of a girl I knew in Missouri, back in the Eighties - Eleanor, her name was. She moved to Yankeetown, Florida though, to care for her grandfather; he died in 95 ... no, it was 96 ... when a hurricane knocked down the house. Armanis Knotts - Harbor Knotts, as he was known - lived in Yankeetown, too ... though not when the hurricane came by - his mother was one of the Ohio Bells, an old family there. Margaret Bell had come over during the famine, with her brothers; one of them, Wallace ... no, wait, it was William ... set up the first steam-powered forge in the Western Reserve. Anyway, Margaret, she married James Knotts, and had five children - they had a farm of 80 acres, one of the children, David, ran off to work on the Panama Canal, as a steam-shovel operator. He got buried for half-an-hour by a mudslide, but survived; however, he gave up on the canal. Oh, where was I?

The Democrats also have plans to destroy lots of crops, and to kill millions of cattle, pigs, and such to stabilize prices. This summer the drought in the midwest seems to be continuing from last year - the Agriculture Department has some very frightening predictions for dust storms around October or November.

Lamont Coleman has him some important job over at the Treasury; I think he reports to the Surgeon General.

I've gotten Mr. Tesla on the government payroll, and we've set up an organization to try and detect, prevent or minimize whatever's bound to happen at Manhattan in October. There are some level-headed engineers, and some wild-eyed young kids from Princeton and Harvard, in the group I've put together. Tesla himself is quite a handful, and doesn't like being managed. We've set up a lab for him in Brooklyn, and there's a larger plant with a generator and other heavy equipment being built on Long Island, near the airfield at Garden City. Tesla's got a lot of theories and plans - that's the problem, sorting out the wheat from the chaff!

It's still very hard getting folks here in Washington to understand what's going on, and what might happen. There are more and more groups -- newspapermen, ministers, local politicians, officers in the Army -- coming to the government and presenting evidence, and asking what's to be done. You asked me to look into the Pentheus Corporation back in March; they've been sounding out the government about what to do in the case of a big natural disaster. Fortunately or not, President Curtis and the Republicans aren't likely to spend much money on a national response to a disaster - mostly just have the Army provide a lot of tents and help with feeding people right afterwards, like when there was that big earthquake in San Francisco back in '06. I'd say if Pentheus wants to have major government involvement in their schemes, they'd have to sound out Governor Roosevelt - he's talking about having jobs programs involving millions of men, some of them in large, isolated camps out West. I've been pushing the Treasury Department to look into where Pentheus gets their money from - are they paying their taxes - etc. One thing I do know: Pentheus has been spending a lot of money to get chummy with the American Legion; building Legion halls, sponsoring conventions, putting senior officers of the Legion on the company payroll with fat salaries, and other shenanigans.

There was a big appropriation in the War Department budget that was just passed for Citizens' Military Training Camps. I haven't been quite able to figure out what the Army intends those for; it's possible that some faction within the Army is working with Pentheus, or someone else, to recruit men for something. Officially it's all just some preparedness thing with no particular person behind it.

There aren't any signs of Marklin's plans - whatever they were. So many calamities have happened since he was in Washington that whatever he was up to isn't likely to have any mundane influence.

The Army is holding pretty close to their sources of Ectochrome film, I'm afraid. But Tesla is working on some viewers that won't need film, and will let you see abnatural stuff as it occurs!

The issue of what's going on in Russia since January has the State Department and War Department pretty concerned, I can tell you. It's amazing how little is known about what's going on inside a country larger than North America for six months!

Have you heard of a fellow named "Father Divine"? He's an odd type, claims to be a god, has a lot of people doing what he says in Harlem. I ran into some of his followers while we were setting up Tesla's workshop on Long Island. The newspapers say he has a couple of million members of his International Peace Mission church. Is he onto something? Could he be helpful in Manhattan? Or harmful?

On the Judiciary Committee, we have seen some pretty unpleasant proposals for laws to establish emergency military tribunals - to create a Federal police force, or to make all police everywhere in the country officers of the Justice Department - to require national identity cards, and to prevent travel or migration between states without permission - and lots of other ideas for benevolent dictatorship. People are very upset about crime in this country, what with the bootleggers, motor bandits, and other violent criminals about. In good news, most everyone's in favor of repeal, by the way; it's pretty certain we'll see the end of Prohibition in a year or so.

Keep in mind that in January the Democrats will probably control Congress, and I'll be on a much less interesting committee.

Give my best to everyone there!

Yours,

Rep. Clay Morrison

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T09:09:59Z

Gelrir:

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T09:09:24Z

Gelrir:

File:TeslaGram.jpg

2010-02-09T09:08:41Z

Gelrir:

Inactive Player Characters

2010-02-09T09:01:14Z

Gelrir: /* Morrison,Clay (U.S. Represenative) */

==[[TheStarsAreRight:AudaAbisi|Abbasi, Auda]]==
(played by Daniel Roher)

A conflicted man, a Moroccan in his early thirties, beset by personal demons and his own growing insanity. Removed from a position of great political power in Egypt, Auda is attempting to come to terms with his growing understanding of what the arrival of the Outside Ones will mean.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:IdahoButters|Butters,"Idaho" (Professor)]]==
(played by Ari)

A professor of archaeology. He joined the group in April 1932 during a Pentheus field trial.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:AlexanderChase|Chase, Alexander]]==
(played by Darren Champlin)

One of the Farquellan Soldiers of the early 1920 generation. One of a group of people who actually met and interacted with Farquell prior to his death. Alexander Chase lives in Atlanta, GA. not far from the safe house, with his wife Violette and two children Sarah and Sean, and their maid Mimi. He is no longer active. He was known to possess a gift for healing, wherein he took the injuries of the afflicted person onto his own body, which then healed or regenerated at an accelerated rate. It is uncertain if this was a Soldier Skill, or a Soldier Talent. Some rumors indicate that he may have learned this ability from a group of people living on Mount Shasta in California. Alexander Chase was active in field work from the early 1920's through at least 1927, possibly later.

<br/>(Click on Alexander's name to access archives)

==[[TheStarsAreRight:JohnElwar|Elwar, John]]==
(played by Kevin Glazner)

John is a working class American who took a job on the fishing trawler / freighter, the Augusta Queen, that Ellis hired to Sandø Island in December 1931. He is a former navy man with aspirations to be a writer (perhaps along the lines of Jack London). His sole published work is a story in Weird Tales entitled "The Thing from the Tundra" based on his travels in Alaska. He bears a resemblance to [http://us.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1206/0319_0015.jpg.html Tyrone Power], with short dark hair and all-American looks.

(Click on John's name to read his journal entries)

==[[TheStarsAreRight:BobbyHansen|Hansen, Bobby (P.I.)]]==
(played by Richard Silver)

An American, mid-twenties, dressed in hard-boiled fashion. He is from Florida, Boca Raton. He is 5'10", and around 167 lbs. He was hired to track down a boy from Florida who ran away to the Faeroes, who turned up dead from influenza. He joined the others on their return from the Faeroes in late December 1931.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:EleanoraJefferson|Jefferson, Eleanora]]==
(played by Tess O'Rieva)

Elly is an African-American woman from the deep south -- who's now deceased cousin-in-law was a friend of Carl Ellis'. Elly believes she is guided and helped by the spirits of the dead who speak to her.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:FrankKelly|Kelly, Frank]]==
(played by Ken Perata)

A lawyer from Detroit -- now working with the US Government's organization that is attempting harness the power of the Outside Ones for it's own use.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:MasterFeng|Master Feng]]==
(played by Tom Johnson)

Chinese Sorcerer, of indeterminate age. Feng pursues his own agenda, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering the others -- powerful in the ways of oriental folk magic.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison|Morrison,Clay (U.S. Represenative)]]==
(played by Mike Blum)

A 78 year old former mine owner, lawman, cowboy, etc., from Carson City, Nevada -- Clay is a fount of stories of the Old West, as well as an experienced "critter wrangler" with a goodly number of Mythos encounters beneath his belt.

Now a newspaper publisher, radio station owner, and congressman for Nevada (starting January 1931). In recent years (before his election) was one of Carl Ellis's globetrotting investigators; now a member of the Judiciary Committee, and a much-courted swing vote in a closely divided House of Representatives.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:ThrockmortonUpdyke|Updyke,Throckmorton]]==
(played by Brian O'Rieva)

A portly, elderly bookseller from London, Throckmorton has recently had a couple of experiences that prove that the ordered world is not as he has always believed. Throckmorton is godfather to Paige Weiss (nee St. Mar) who is married to Theo Weiss.

==[[TheStarsAreRight:Boris|Valenko, Boris]]==
(played by James Johnson)

==[[TheStarsAreRight:ErichVonDrakheim|von Drakheim, Erich]]==
(played by Tom Johnson)

A Prussian officer and gentleman who has been working with Ellis and his expedition. There is evidence to suggest that his family may be descended from the White Tree Priests.

[[Category:Call of Cthulhu]]
[[Category:Inactive Player Characters]]

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:57:15Z

Gelrir:

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:56:49Z

Gelrir:

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:56:38Z

Gelrir:

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:56:01Z

Gelrir:

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:55:48Z

Gelrir:

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:52:29Z

Gelrir:

back to [[TheStarsAreRight:Main_Page|Stars Are Right - Main Page]]

----

== Recent Events for Clay Morrison ==

'''Wednesday, 16 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis calls Clay Morrison at his Washington, D.C. offices. Long time no hear! Mr. Ellis and Rep. Morrison agree to meet the next day in New York City, at the Drake Hotel. Mr. Morrison is asked to look into the Pentheus Corporation, a holding company that may be "up to no good."

'''Thursday, 17 March, 1932'''

Mr. Morrison travels to NYC by train, takes a room at the Drake Hotel, and visits Mr. Ellis. Present are:

* Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, and their son Robert (age less than six months)
* Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
* Boris Valenko
* Roxanne, girlfriend to Boris
* Redland Jack
* Auda

After introductions and social chit-chat, they get down to business over sandwiches and drinks. The main topic of discussion is the '''Pentheus Corporation'''. They own farms, oil fields, chemical companies, warehouses, theaters, motion picture distribution firms, and much other stuff. Some of their technical staff (at least) are former NWI employees, and brought strange technology with them. Mr. Ellis believes that Pentheus will use a terrible Event in the near future (a rift in space-time over New York City) to convince hundreds of millions of persons, perhaps a billion persons -- half the population of the Earth -- to sacrifice themselves. The "negotiated future" Record in Tibet was Mr. Ellis's main source of information on Pentheus's plan, until recently.

First to be sacrificed would be prisoners, inmates of asylums, and other "undesirables" -- as of December 31st, 1931 there were 137,516 persons in prisons (state, Federal, and local) within the United States. On the same date, 305,315 persons were patients in state asylums for mental disease, and 76,535 persons in state institutions for epileptics and the feeble-minded. Private asylums hold nearly as many -- to approximate, there are about 800,000 "undesirables" in the United States. If half of the residents of the United States are to be sacrificed, that is 61.5 million persons, of which just over 1% would be "undesirables." Enormous death camps would be set up, for the sacrifices to be herded into, and where they would be devoured or otherwise destroyed by evil entities, supernatural or otherwise. If the best interpretation of Pentheus's plan is to be believed, the supernatural entities will be sated, and the Time of Miracles will proceed without further cataclysms.

How Pentheus learned of the pending disasters, how they developed their plan, what technology is used to predict and control the events, who they actually are, etc. is not firmly established. Mr. Ellis has been in discussions with their board of directors, which seems disturbingly businesslike about this halving of the Earth's population. How every other person on the Earth would be convinced of the need for their death -- as opposed to, say, the death of more "undesirable" foreigners, or ethnic groups -- is not clear. Or how to prevent the choice being "Let's give them Germany (population almost exactly half that of the United States)."

In addition, the Soviet Union was destroyed essentially overnight on January 10th, 1932 ... a scheme by Alexei Vishnaveshki to restore the Romanov dynasty may have succeeded all too well! A ritual that drained the life force from everyone in Russia who did not "love Mother Russia" seems to have been the cause (although diplomats may have been immune). More information is needed! Why the Poles, Finns, Japanese, Turks, etc. have not moved into the depopulated former nation is not clear. Radio broadcasts ceased, international communication ended, and the borders are unguarded. The few foreign embassies still present in Moscow have sent some very strange descriptions of the conditions.

'''Friday, 18 March, 1932'''

Rep. Morrison introduces Auda and Mr. Ellis to Nikola Tesla at breakfast at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Tesla, fastidious and eccentric, impresses Mr. Ellis; Rep. Morrison later asks Mr. Tesla to look into reports of a "time-space rift" which may be forming over Manhattan.

Mr. Ellis's team meets again with Congressman Morrison for lunch at the Drake Hotel, for more discussions of Pentheus, etc. It seems that the not-actually-murdered William Desmond Taylor (born William Deane-Tanner) may have brought his expertise with strange "mechanical manipulations" of occult forces from NWI to Pentheus. He more recently has been using the name Richard Sands.

The team is offered the use of Rep. Morrison's private (leased, actually) railway car for their trip to Los Angeles.

Clay Morrison spends the rest of the day visiting soup kitchens, Democratic politicians, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That evening, Mr. Ellis and company visit with the Fey, and make some arrangements.

''China and Japan begin peace negotiatons.''

'''Saturday, 19 March, 1932'''

Attached to the Lackawanna Limited, the private railcar leaves Manhattan at 10 a.m., bound for Chicago and eventually Los Angeles. Rep. Morrison gets off at Slateford Junction, Penn. about 12:30 pm, bound for Washington, and arrives there mid-afternoon.

'''Sunday, 20 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis's group arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street station (333 South Water Street), at 7:35 a.m.; the private car is moved across the city, attached to the Golden State Limited, and departs at 8:30 p.m.

''The vernal equinox is today, at 1:54 p.m. Central Standard Time. The airship Graf Zeppelin arrives in South America.''

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:51:06Z

Gelrir:

back to [[TheStarsAreRight:Main_Page|Stars Are Right - Main Page]]

----

== Recent Events for Clay Morrison ==

'''Wednesday, 16 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis calls Clay Morrison at his Washington, D.C. offices. Long time no hear! Mr. Ellis and Rep. Morrison agree to meet the next day in New York City, at the Drake Hotel. Mr. Morrison is asked to look into the Pentheus Corporation, a holding company that may be "up to no good."

'''Thursday, 17 March, 1932'''

Mr. Morrison travels to NYC by train, takes a room at the Drake Hotel, and visits Mr. Ellis. Present are:

* Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, and their son Robert (age less than six months)
* Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
* Boris Valenko
* Roxanne, girlfriend to Boris
* Redland Jack
* Auda

After introductions and social chit-chat, they get down to business over sandwiches and drinks. The main topic of discussion is the '''Pentheus Corporation'''. They own farms, oil fields, chemical companies, warehouses, theaters, motion picture distribution firms, and much other stuff. Some of their technical staff (at least) are former NWI employees, and brought strange technology with them. Mr. Ellis believes that Pentheus will use a terrible Event in the near future (a rift in space-time over New York City) to convince hundreds of millions of persons, perhaps a billion persons -- half the population of the Earth -- to sacrifice themselves. The "negotiated future" Record in Tibet was Mr. Ellis's main source of information on Pentheus's plan, until recently.

First to be sacrificed would be prisoners, inmates of asylums, and other "undesirables" -- as of December 31st, 1931 there were 137,516 persons in prisons (state, Federal, and local) within the United States. On the same date, 305,315 persons were patients in state asylums for mental disease, and 76,535 persons in state institutions for epileptics and the feeble-minded. Private asylums hold nearly as many -- to approximate, there are about 800,000 "undesirables" in the United States. If half of the residents of the United States are to be sacrificed, that is 61.5 million persons, of which just over 1% would be "undesirables." Enormous death camps would be set up, for the sacrifices to be herded into, and where they would be devoured or otherwise destroyed by evil entities, supernatural or otherwise. If the best interpretation of Pentheus's plan is to be believed, the supernatural entities will be slated, and the Time of Miracles will proceed without further cataclysms.

How Pentheus learned of the pending disasters, how they developed their plan, what technology is used to predict and control the events, who they actually are, etc. is not firmly established. Mr. Ellis has been in discussions with their board of directors, which seems disturbingly businesslike about this halving of the Earth's population. How every other person on the Earth would be convinced of the need for their death -- as opposed to, say, the death of more "undesirable" foreigners, or ethnic groups -- is not clear. Or how to prevent the choice being "Let's give them Germany (population almost exactly half that of the United States)."

In addition, the Soviet Union was destroyed essentially overnight on January 10th, 1932 ... a scheme by Alexei Vishnaveshki to restore the Romanov dynasty may have succeeded all too well! A ritual that drained the life force from everyone in Russia who did not "love Mother Russia" seems to have been the cause (although diplomats may have been immune). More information is needed! Why the Poles, Finns, Japanese, Turks, etc. have not moved into the depopulated former nation is not clear. Radio broadcasts ceased, international communication ended, and the borders are unguarded. The few foreign embassies still present in Moscow have sent some very strange descriptions of the conditions.

'''Friday, 18 March, 1932'''

Rep. Morrison introduces Auda and Mr. Ellis to Nikola Tesla at breakfast at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Tesla, fastidious and eccentric, impresses Mr. Ellis; Rep. Morrison later asks Mr. Tesla to look into reports of a "time-space rift" which may be forming over Manhattan.

Mr. Ellis's team meets again with Congressman Morrison for lunch at the Drake Hotel, for more discussions of Pentheus, etc. It seems that the not-actually-murdered William Desmond Taylor (born William Deane-Tanner) may have brought his expertise with strange "mechanical manipulations" of occult forces from NWI to Pentheus. He more recently has been using the name Richard Sands.

The team is offered the use of Rep. Morrison's private (leased, actually) railway car for their trip to Los Angeles.

Clay Morrison spends the rest of the day visiting soup kitchens, Democratic politicians, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That evening, Mr. Ellis and company visit with the Fey, and make some arrangements.

''China and Japan begin peace negotiatons.''

'''Saturday, 19 March, 1932'''

Attached to the Lackawanna Limited, the private railcar leaves Manhattan at 10 a.m., bound for Chicago and eventually Los Angeles. Rep. Morrison gets off at Slateford Junction, Penn. about 12:30 pm, bound for Washington, and arrives there mid-afternoon.

'''Sunday, 20 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis's group arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street station (333 South Water Street), at 7:35 a.m.; the private car is moved across the city, attached to the Golden State Limited, and departs at 8:30 p.m.

''The vernal equinox is today, at 1:54 p.m. Central Standard Time. The airship Graf Zeppelin arrives in South America.''

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:50:28Z

Gelrir:

back to [[TheStarsAreRight:Main_Page|Stars Are Right - Main Page]]

----

== Recent Events for Clay Morrison ==

'''Wednesday, 16 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis calls Clay Morrison at his Washington, D.C. offices. Long time no hear! Mr. Ellis and Rep. Morrison agree to meet the next day in New York City, at the Drake Hotel. Mr. Morrison is asked to look into the Pentheus Corporation, a holding company that may be "up to no good."

'''Thursday, 17 March, 1932'''

Mr. Morrison travels to NYC by train, takes a room at the Drake Hotel, and visits Mr. Ellis. Present are:

** Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, and their son Robert (age less than six months)
** Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
** Boris Valenko
** Roxanne, girlfriend to Boris
** Redland Jack
** Auda

After introductions and social chit-chat, they get down to business over sandwiches and drinks. The main topic of discussion is the '''Pentheus Corporation'''. They own farms, oil fields, chemical companies, warehouses, theaters, motion picture distribution firms, and much other stuff. Some of their technical staff (at least) are former NWI employees, and brought strange technology with them. Mr. Ellis believes that Pentheus will use a terrible Event in the near future (a rift in space-time over New York City) to convince hundreds of millions of persons, perhaps a billion persons -- half the population of the Earth -- to sacrifice themselves. The "negotiated future" Record in Tibet was Mr. Ellis's main source of information on Pentheus's plan, until recently.

First to be sacrificed would be prisoners, inmates of asylums, and other "undesirables" -- as of December 31st, 1931 there were 137,516 persons in prisons (state, Federal, and local) within the United States. On the same date, 305,315 persons were patients in state asylums for mental disease, and 76,535 persons in state institutions for epileptics and the feeble-minded. Private asylums hold nearly as many -- to approximate, there are about 800,000 "undesirables" in the United States. If half of the residents of the United States are to be sacrificed, that is 61.5 million persons, of which just over 1% would be "undesirables." Enormous death camps would be set up, for the sacrifices to be herded into, and where they would be devoured or otherwise destroyed by evil entities, supernatural or otherwise. If the best interpretation of Pentheus's plan is to be believed, the supernatural entities will be slated, and the Time of Miracles will proceed without further cataclysms.

How Pentheus learned of the pending disasters, how they developed their plan, what technology is used to predict and control the events, who they actually are, etc. is not firmly established. Mr. Ellis has been in discussions with their board of directors, which seems disturbingly businesslike about this halving of the Earth's population. How every other person on the Earth would be convinced of the need for their death -- as opposed to, say, the death of more "undesirable" foreigners, or ethnic groups -- is not clear. Or how to prevent the choice being "Let's give them Germany (population almost exactly half that of the United States)."

In addition, the Soviet Union was destroyed essentially overnight on January 10th, 1932 ... a scheme by Alexei Vishnaveshki to restore the Romanov dynasty may have succeeded all too well! A ritual that drained the life force from everyone in Russia who did not "love Mother Russia" seems to have been the cause (although diplomats may have been immune). More information is needed! Why the Poles, Finns, Japanese, Turks, etc. have not moved into the depopulated former nation is not clear. Radio broadcasts ceased, international communication ended, and the borders are unguarded. The few foreign embassies still present in Moscow have sent some very strange descriptions of the conditions.

'''Friday, 18 March, 1932'''

Rep. Morrison introduces Auda and Mr. Ellis to Nikola Tesla at breakfast at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Tesla, fastidious and eccentric, impresses Mr. Ellis; Rep. Morrison later asks Mr. Tesla to look into reports of a "time-space rift" which may be forming over Manhattan.

Mr. Ellis's team meets again with Congressman Morrison for lunch at the Drake Hotel, for more discussions of Pentheus, etc. It seems that the not-actually-murdered William Desmond Taylor (born William Deane-Tanner) may have brought his expertise with strange "mechanical manipulations" of occult forces from NWI to Pentheus. He more recently has been using the name Richard Sands.

The team is offered the use of Rep. Morrison's private (leased, actually) railway car for their trip to Los Angeles.

Clay Morrison spends the rest of the day visiting soup kitchens, Democratic politicians, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That evening, Mr. Ellis and company visit with the Fey, and make some arrangements.

''China and Japan begin peace negotiatons.''

'''Saturday, 19 March, 1932'''

Attached to the Lackawanna Limited, the private railcar leaves Manhattan at 10 a.m., bound for Chicago and eventually Los Angeles. Rep. Morrison gets off at Slateford Junction, Penn. about 12:30 pm, bound for Washington, and arrives there mid-afternoon.

'''Sunday, 20 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis's group arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street station (333 South Water Street), at 7:35 a.m.; the private car is moved across the city, attached to the Golden State Limited, and departs at 8:30 p.m.

''The vernal equinox is today, at 1:54 p.m. Central Standard Time. The airship Graf Zeppelin arrives in South America.''

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:49:33Z

Gelrir:

back to [[TheStarsAreRight:Main_Page|Stars Are Right - Main Page]]

----

== Recent Events for Clay Morrison ==

'''Wednesday, 16 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis calls Clay Morrison at his Washington, D.C. offices. Long time no hear! Mr. Ellis and Rep. Morrison agree to meet the next day in New York City, at the Drake Hotel. Mr. Morrison is asked to look into the Pentheus Corporation, a holding company that may be "up to no good."

'''Thursday, 17 March, 1932'''

Mr. Morrison travels to NYC by train, takes a room at the Drake Hotel, and visits Mr. Ellis. Present are:

* Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, and their son Robert (age less than six months)
* Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
* Boris Valenko
* Roxanne, girlfriend to Boris
* Redland Jack
* Auda

After introductions and social chit-chat, they get down to business over sandwiches and drinks. The main topic of discussion is the Pentheus Corporation. The own farms, oil fields, chemical companies, warehouses, theaters, motion picture distribution firms, and much other stuff. Some of their technical staff (at least) are former NWI employees, and brought strange technology with them. Mr. Ellis believes that Pentheus will use a terrible Event in the near future (a rift in space-time over New York City) to convince hundreds of millions of persons, perhaps a billion persons -- half the population of the Earth -- to sacrifice themselves. The "negotiated future" Record in Tibet was Mr. Ellis's main source of information on Pentheus's plan, until recently.

First to be sacrificed would be prisoners, inmates of asylums, and other "undesirables" -- as of December 31st, 1931 there were 137,516 persons in prisons (state, Federal, and local) within the United States. On the same date, 305,315 persons were patients in state asylums for mental disease, and 76,535 persons in state institutions for epileptics and the feeble-minded. Private asylums hold nearly as many -- to approximate, there are about 800,000 "undesirables" in the United States. If half of the residents of the United States are to be sacrificed, that is 61.5 million persons, of which just over 1% would be "undesirables." Enormous death camps would be set up, for the sacrifices to be herded into, and where they would be devoured or otherwise destroyed by evil entities, supernatural or otherwise. If the best interpretation of Pentheus's plan is to be believed, the supernatural entities will be slated, and the Time of Miracles will proceed without further cataclysms.

How Pentheus learned of the pending disasters, how they developed their plan, what technology is used to predict and control the events, who they actually are, etc. is not firmly established. Mr. Ellis has been in discussions with their board of directors, which seems disturbingly businesslike about this halving of the Earth's population. How every other person on the Earth would be convinced of the need for their death -- as opposed to, say, the death of more "undesirable" foreigners, or ethnic groups -- is not clear. Or how to prevent the choice being "Let's give them Germany (population almost exactly half that of the United States)."

In addition, the Soviet Union was destroyed essentially overnight on January 10th, 1932 ... a scheme by Alexei Vishnaveshki to restore the Romanov dynasty may have succeeded all too well! A ritual that drained the life force from everyone in Russia who did not "love Mother Russia" seems to have been the cause (although diplomats may have been immune). More information is needed! Why the Poles, Finns, Japanese, Turks, etc. have not moved into the depopulated former nation is not clear. Radio broadcasts ceased, international communication ended, and the borders are unguarded. The few foreign embassies still present in Moscow have sent some very strange descriptions of the conditions.

'''Friday, 18 March, 1932'''

Rep. Morrison introduces Auda and Mr. Ellis to Nikola Tesla at breakfast at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Tesla, fastidious and eccentric, impresses Mr. Ellis; Rep. Morrison later asks Mr. Tesla to look into reports of a "time-space rift" which may be forming over Manhattan.

Mr. Ellis's team meets again with Congressman Morrison for lunch at the Drake Hotel, for more discussions of Pentheus, etc. It seems that the not-actually-murdered William Desmond Taylor (born William Deane-Tanner) may have brought his expertise with strange "mechanical manipulations" of occult forces from NWI to Pentheus. He more recently has been using the name Richard Sands.

The team is offered the use of Rep. Morrison's private (leased, actually) railway car for their trip to Los Angeles.

Clay Morrison spends the rest of the day visiting soup kitchens, Democratic politicians, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That evening, Mr. Ellis and company visit with the Fey, and make some arrangements.

''China and Japan begin peace negotiatons.''

'''Saturday, 19 March, 1932'''

Attached to the Lackawanna Limited, the private railcar leaves Manhattan at 10 a.m., bound for Chicago and eventually Los Angeles. Rep. Morrison gets off at Slateford Junction, Penn. about 12:30 pm, bound for Washington, and arrives there mid-afternoon.

'''Sunday, 20 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis's group arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street station (333 South Water Street), at 7:35 a.m.; the private car is moved across the city, attached to the Golden State Limited, and departs at 8:30 p.m.

''The vernal equinox is today, at 1:54 p.m. Central Standard Time. The airship Graf Zeppelin arrives in South America.''

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:49:19Z

Gelrir:

back to [[TheStarsAreRight:Main_Page|Stars Are Right - Main Page]]

----

== Recent Events for Clay ==

'''Wednesday, 16 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis calls Clay Morrison at his Washington, D.C. offices. Long time no hear! Mr. Ellis and Rep. Morrison agree to meet the next day in New York City, at the Drake Hotel. Mr. Morrison is asked to look into the Pentheus Corporation, a holding company that may be "up to no good."

'''Thursday, 17 March, 1932'''

Mr. Morrison travels to NYC by train, takes a room at the Drake Hotel, and visits Mr. Ellis. Present are:

* Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, and their son Robert (age less than six months)
* Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
* Boris Valenko
* Roxanne, girlfriend to Boris
* Redland Jack
* Auda

After introductions and social chit-chat, they get down to business over sandwiches and drinks. The main topic of discussion is the Pentheus Corporation. The own farms, oil fields, chemical companies, warehouses, theaters, motion picture distribution firms, and much other stuff. Some of their technical staff (at least) are former NWI employees, and brought strange technology with them. Mr. Ellis believes that Pentheus will use a terrible Event in the near future (a rift in space-time over New York City) to convince hundreds of millions of persons, perhaps a billion persons -- half the population of the Earth -- to sacrifice themselves. The "negotiated future" Record in Tibet was Mr. Ellis's main source of information on Pentheus's plan, until recently.

First to be sacrificed would be prisoners, inmates of asylums, and other "undesirables" -- as of December 31st, 1931 there were 137,516 persons in prisons (state, Federal, and local) within the United States. On the same date, 305,315 persons were patients in state asylums for mental disease, and 76,535 persons in state institutions for epileptics and the feeble-minded. Private asylums hold nearly as many -- to approximate, there are about 800,000 "undesirables" in the United States. If half of the residents of the United States are to be sacrificed, that is 61.5 million persons, of which just over 1% would be "undesirables." Enormous death camps would be set up, for the sacrifices to be herded into, and where they would be devoured or otherwise destroyed by evil entities, supernatural or otherwise. If the best interpretation of Pentheus's plan is to be believed, the supernatural entities will be slated, and the Time of Miracles will proceed without further cataclysms.

How Pentheus learned of the pending disasters, how they developed their plan, what technology is used to predict and control the events, who they actually are, etc. is not firmly established. Mr. Ellis has been in discussions with their board of directors, which seems disturbingly businesslike about this halving of the Earth's population. How every other person on the Earth would be convinced of the need for their death -- as opposed to, say, the death of more "undesirable" foreigners, or ethnic groups -- is not clear. Or how to prevent the choice being "Let's give them Germany (population almost exactly half that of the United States)."

In addition, the Soviet Union was destroyed essentially overnight on January 10th, 1932 ... a scheme by Alexei Vishnaveshki to restore the Romanov dynasty may have succeeded all too well! A ritual that drained the life force from everyone in Russia who did not "love Mother Russia" seems to have been the cause (although diplomats may have been immune). More information is needed! Why the Poles, Finns, Japanese, Turks, etc. have not moved into the depopulated former nation is not clear. Radio broadcasts ceased, international communication ended, and the borders are unguarded. The few foreign embassies still present in Moscow have sent some very strange descriptions of the conditions.

'''Friday, 18 March, 1932'''

Rep. Morrison introduces Auda and Mr. Ellis to Nikola Tesla at breakfast at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Tesla, fastidious and eccentric, impresses Mr. Ellis; Rep. Morrison later asks Mr. Tesla to look into reports of a "time-space rift" which may be forming over Manhattan.

Mr. Ellis's team meets again with Congressman Morrison for lunch at the Drake Hotel, for more discussions of Pentheus, etc. It seems that the not-actually-murdered William Desmond Taylor (born William Deane-Tanner) may have brought his expertise with strange "mechanical manipulations" of occult forces from NWI to Pentheus. He more recently has been using the name Richard Sands.

The team is offered the use of Rep. Morrison's private (leased, actually) railway car for their trip to Los Angeles.

Clay Morrison spends the rest of the day visiting soup kitchens, Democratic politicians, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That evening, Mr. Ellis and company visit with the Fey, and make some arrangements.

''China and Japan begin peace negotiatons.''

'''Saturday, 19 March, 1932'''

Attached to the Lackawanna Limited, the private railcar leaves Manhattan at 10 a.m., bound for Chicago and eventually Los Angeles. Rep. Morrison gets off at Slateford Junction, Penn. about 12:30 pm, bound for Washington, and arrives there mid-afternoon.

'''Sunday, 20 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis's group arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street station (333 South Water Street), at 7:35 a.m.; the private car is moved across the city, attached to the Golden State Limited, and departs at 8:30 p.m.

''The vernal equinox is today, at 1:54 p.m. Central Standard Time. The airship Graf Zeppelin arrives in South America.''

TheStarsAreRight:ClayMorrison

2010-02-09T08:48:41Z

Gelrir:

back to [[TheStarsAreRight:Main_Page|Stars Are Right - Main Page]]

----

Recent Events for Clay

'''Wednesday, 16 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis calls Clay Morrison at his Washington, D.C. offices. Long time no hear! Mr. Ellis and Rep. Morrison agree to meet the next day in New York City, at the Drake Hotel. Mr. Morrison is asked to look into the Pentheus Corporation, a holding company that may be "up to no good."

'''Thursday, 17 March, 1932'''

Mr. Morrison travels to NYC by train, takes a room at the Drake Hotel, and visits Mr. Ellis. Present are:

* Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, and their son Robert (age less than six months)
* Mr. and Mrs. Mueller
* Boris Valenko
* Roxanne, girlfriend to Boris
* Redland Jack
* Auda

After introductions and social chit-chat, they get down to business over sandwiches and drinks. The main topic of discussion is the Pentheus Corporation. The own farms, oil fields, chemical companies, warehouses, theaters, motion picture distribution firms, and much other stuff. Some of their technical staff (at least) are former NWI employees, and brought strange technology with them. Mr. Ellis believes that Pentheus will use a terrible Event in the near future (a rift in space-time over New York City) to convince hundreds of millions of persons, perhaps a billion persons -- half the population of the Earth -- to sacrifice themselves. The "negotiated future" Record in Tibet was Mr. Ellis's main source of information on Pentheus's plan, until recently.

First to be sacrificed would be prisoners, inmates of asylums, and other "undesirables" -- as of December 31st, 1931 there were 137,516 persons in prisons (state, Federal, and local) within the United States. On the same date, 305,315 persons were patients in state asylums for mental disease, and 76,535 persons in state institutions for epileptics and the feeble-minded. Private asylums hold nearly as many -- to approximate, there are about 800,000 "undesirables" in the United States. If half of the residents of the United States are to be sacrificed, that is 61.5 million persons, of which just over 1% would be "undesirables." Enormous death camps would be set up, for the sacrifices to be herded into, and where they would be devoured or otherwise destroyed by evil entities, supernatural or otherwise. If the best interpretation of Pentheus's plan is to be believed, the supernatural entities will be slated, and the Time of Miracles will proceed without further cataclysms.

How Pentheus learned of the pending disasters, how they developed their plan, what technology is used to predict and control the events, who they actually are, etc. is not firmly established. Mr. Ellis has been in discussions with their board of directors, which seems disturbingly businesslike about this halving of the Earth's population. How every other person on the Earth would be convinced of the need for their death -- as opposed to, say, the death of more "undesirable" foreigners, or ethnic groups -- is not clear. Or how to prevent the choice being "Let's give them Germany (population almost exactly half that of the United States)."

In addition, the Soviet Union was destroyed essentially overnight on January 10th, 1932 ... a scheme by Alexei Vishnaveshki to restore the Romanov dynasty may have succeeded all too well! A ritual that drained the life force from everyone in Russia who did not "love Mother Russia" seems to have been the cause (although diplomats may have been immune). More information is needed! Why the Poles, Finns, Japanese, Turks, etc. have not moved into the depopulated former nation is not clear. Radio broadcasts ceased, international communication ended, and the borders are unguarded. The few foreign embassies still present in Moscow have sent some very strange descriptions of the conditions.

'''Friday, 18 March, 1932'''

Rep. Morrison introduces Auda and Mr. Ellis to Nikola Tesla at breakfast at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Tesla, fastidious and eccentric, impresses Mr. Ellis; Rep. Morrison later asks Mr. Tesla to look into reports of a "time-space rift" which may be forming over Manhattan.

Mr. Ellis's team meets again with Congressman Morrison for lunch at the Drake Hotel, for more discussions of Pentheus, etc. It seems that the not-actually-murdered William Desmond Taylor (born William Deane-Tanner) may have brought his expertise with strange "mechanical manipulations" of occult forces from NWI to Pentheus. He more recently has been using the name Richard Sands.

The team is offered the use of Rep. Morrison's private (leased, actually) railway car for their trip to Los Angeles.

Clay Morrison spends the rest of the day visiting soup kitchens, Democratic politicians, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That evening, Mr. Ellis and company visit with the Fey, and make some arrangements.

''China and Japan begin peace negotiatons.''

'''Saturday, 19 March, 1932'''

Attached to the Lackawanna Limited, the private railcar leaves Manhattan at 10 a.m., bound for Chicago and eventually Los Angeles. Rep. Morrison gets off at Slateford Junction, Penn. about 12:30 pm, bound for Washington, and arrives there mid-afternoon.

'''Sunday, 20 March, 1932'''

Carl Ellis's group arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street station (333 South Water Street), at 7:35 a.m.; the private car is moved across the city, attached to the Golden State Limited, and departs at 8:30 p.m.

''The vernal equinox is today, at 1:54 p.m. Central Standard Time. The airship Graf Zeppelin arrives in South America.''