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*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/nights-black-agents-the-hesselius-letter.841479/ In Character Thread]
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*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/nights-black-agents-gumshoe-resoled-the-inanna-protocol.897032/ In Character Thread]
*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/nights-black-agents-the-hesselius-letter.841477/ Out of Character Thread]
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*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/nights-black-agents-gumshoe-resoled-the-inanna-protocol.897033/ Out of Character Thread]
 
*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/interest-recruitment-nights-black-agents-gumshoe-resoled-the-inanna-protocol.896733/ Recruitment Thread]
 
*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/interest-recruitment-nights-black-agents-gumshoe-resoled-the-inanna-protocol.896733/ Recruitment Thread]
 
*[http://site.pelgranepress.com//nas/content/live/pelgranepress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Complete-Addenda.pdf Pelgrane's official NBA character/reference sheets and rules summary]
 
*[http://site.pelgranepress.com//nas/content/live/pelgranepress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Complete-Addenda.pdf Pelgrane's official NBA character/reference sheets and rules summary]
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The London Outfit ([https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eP-6oV7wIFfFax7Ei3ADmlifUYpbPiT-NQtmfMMbr8A/edit#gid=0/ Skill Matrix])
 
  
 
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|[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/grey-mouser.212999/ Grey Mouser]
|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Hesselius_Letter:_Wolfgang_Mueller Wolfgang Mueller]  
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|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Inanna_Protocol:_Mustafa_Cetin Mustafa Cetin]  
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|[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/enigmaticone.160742/ EnigmaticOne]
 
|[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/enigmaticone.160742/ EnigmaticOne]
|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Hesselius_Letter:_Edgar_Klarfeld Edgar Klarfeld]
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|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Inanna_Protocol:_Dr._Mario_Saltatore Dr. Mario Saltatore]
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|[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/delazur.198238/ Delazur]
|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Hesselius_Letter:_Alistair_Quinn Alistair "Ashcan" Quinn]
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|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Inanna_Protocol:_Andreas_Rohr Andreas Rohr]
 
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|[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/slack_c.188182/ Slack_C]
|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Hesselius_Letter:_Arabella_Bua Arabella Bua]
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|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Inanna_Protocol:_Parker_Stilton Parker Stilton]
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|[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/the-lore-bear.13425/ The Lore Bear]
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|[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Inanna_Protocol:_Evelyn_Rousseau Evelyn Rousseau]
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=Important People=
 
=Important People=
  
*Thomas Deegan, landlord of The Coachman pub in Hammersmith, granted MI5's protection in exchange for keeping an open house and safe zone for useful assets.
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=Investigative Leads=
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=GUMSHOE Resoled House Rules=
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'''Investigative Abilities Rules
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With this system, you can roll with Investigative Abilities, according to the usual GUMSHOE roll of a single d6 to beat a set Difficulty, modified by Pool Point spends.
  
* John Hawkins, initially described as a civil servant, died in an apparent case of allergic collapse in his apartment in West Hampstead. Hawkins was on secondment to MI6 HQ from GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and communications security centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, reportedly advising MI6 on Eastern European organized crime networks.
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Normally, you don't need to roll for Core Clues, and finding information - although you do need to say you're using the Ability. However, you do need to roll for doing things.  
 
* Aleister Singleton - media celebrity occultist. Has a mansion, Darkacres, in North London near Hillingham.
 
  
=Investigative Leads=
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For whipping up explosives with Chemistry, saving someone's life with Diagnosis, Cop Talking a constable out of making an arrest, etc, you have to roll just as with a General Ability. So long as you allocated any initial Build Points to the Investigative Ability, you can still roll for it, even with all Pool Points spent, and still have a chance against the basic Difficulty of the task.
  
* Plastic tape from a Dymo label maker, stating IM GETTING OUT. ITS GONE TOO FAR. TAKE THIS, USE IT: ITS EVIDENCE. H - from Edgar's former MI6 analyst & Balkans/E. Europe specialist "Hopkins"?
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You can still spend Investigative Ability Pool Points for the standard Tactical Fact-Finding Benefits, and rolls don't affect those one way or the other.
[[File:Dymo_tape.jpg|640px]]
 
  
* The Hesselius Papers - papers of Dr Martin Hesselius, “the German physician” and “medical philosopher,” a strange, semi-legendary 19th-century figure on the borderline between medical science and occultism. Some of his most celebrated and bizarre cases are associated with Britain. Hesselius's name started reappearing in press clippings with a recent date, following the rediscovery of his collected papers in an attic in a Georgian house in Dublin late last year. The Hesselius papers were then put up for auction at Sotheby's because of their interest for the English market. A well-known celebrity psychic, London society figure and self-styled occultist, Aleister Singleton, bought them a month ago “for the nation,” and has offered regular loan exhibitions at the British Library. There’s been some controversy because they were found in Ireland, but Dublin City Council decided to seek the best price at auction and sold them through Sotheby's Special Projects Department. A British Library exhibition of some of the Hesselius papers is scheduled for the coming weeks.
 
  
* Hillingham - abandoned and derelict mansion on the north-east side of Hampstead Heath. A search of HM Land Registry shows that the owner of the property is listed as "HM Government." Hillingham was originally built in the late 1860s, and sold soon after its completion to a "Mrs Dolmen." The house apparently remained in her possession until 1915, when she sold it to the Admiralty. Title passed within the year to the War Office, and then simply to "HM Government." There's no other indication at any point what the Government was using the house for. It's been effectively derelict for the past 30 years.
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'''Cover'''
  
* Cross Angel Cold Storage - a cold storage facility in the East End, close to the old docks; apparently belonging to HGD Shipping. It's evidently a somewhat rundown, once high-security site, but still in regular use. It has a high-grade firewall, but its CCTV and other security monitoring equipment has seen better days.  
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You can spend Pool Points from your Cover pool for Cover identifies. To use a specific Cover ID, you need to put at least one Pool Point of Cover into it. You can then pass yourself off as that Cover ID, but if it can be tested. The value of the Cover ID is equal to how many Pool Points you put into it, and you can spend these on any tests, to help you beat the test Difficulty. However, any Pool Points you spend on that ID are used up instead of refreshing later, and you have to refill the ID with more from your pool if you want to keep on using that ID. A failed Cover test means of course that your Cover is blown: you've lost the Pool Points you used and you can't use that Cover again.  
  
* Darkacres - the North London mansion of celebrity psychic Aleister Singleton, venue for regular wild parties with a shady repute. Invitations for these parties are available for those with High Society connections.
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For most Covers where you already have a supporting Ability (e.g., Mechanics for a repairman, etc.), any test will have a lower Difficulty (typically 3 or less). The Director may let you use your Ability to test instead of your Cover.
  
* Graz - in Austria? Capital of the southern Austrian province of Styria, while Ingolstadt is a historic university town in Bavaria, chiefly famous for hosting the foundation of the Bavarian Illuminati in 1776 and, supposedly, the experiments of Victor Frankenstein a few decades later. However, the Bavarian capital, Munich, also holds a famous tomb to a "Countess Dolingen of Graz" in its Alter Nordfriedhof cemetery. The Counts of Dolingen were apparently a minor Styrian noble family which became extinct in the later 19th century.
 
  
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'''Benefits from General Ability rolls'''
  
* Map of clues[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ZNJ1fh1GD3MJoEw7Cj_RaL4eBzTUe8yd3CZ5waRuzu0/edit]
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If there is a relevant General Ability you can use to case a joint, scope out a target, or otherwise set up things for a later contest or conflict, you can gain an extra 1 pool point for that particular objective only. If you roll a 6, you get 2 pool points. Any pool points are for very strictly targeted purposes, though, and only 1 roll per Ability can be applied to that target - first player who rolls, first served, and the rest can't keep trying.

Latest revision as of 13:54, 5 July 2022

Scenario Overview[edit]

A mismatched group of Agents from various backgrounds and affiliations combat vast shadowy supernatural and vampiric conspiracies, unearthing the secrets of the Inanna Protocol.


Helpful Resources[edit]

Characters[edit]

Player Agent Health Stability Network Background/Type Notes/Points Spent
Grey Mouser Mustafa Cetin 10 10 15 Turkish cuckoo
EnigmaticOne Dr. Mario Saltatore 8 8 20 Italian medic
Delazur Andreas Rohr 12 6 17 Swiss asset handler
Slack_C Parker Stilton 7 5 15 American wetworker/hacker
inoshiro Kyungmin Jang 7/7 5 / 5 15 South Korean bang and burner/wire rat
The Lore Bear Evelyn Rousseau 8 8 15 French black bagger/wheel artist

Important Places[edit]

Please note: While we're using real place names, the game takes place in an ahistorical past. Any resemblance is coincidental and/or for convenience.

London[edit]

Core kickoff location

(Zoomable street map here)

Important People[edit]

Investigative Leads[edit]

GUMSHOE Resoled House Rules[edit]

Investigative Abilities Rules

With this system, you can roll with Investigative Abilities, according to the usual GUMSHOE roll of a single d6 to beat a set Difficulty, modified by Pool Point spends.

Normally, you don't need to roll for Core Clues, and finding information - although you do need to say you're using the Ability. However, you do need to roll for doing things.

For whipping up explosives with Chemistry, saving someone's life with Diagnosis, Cop Talking a constable out of making an arrest, etc, you have to roll just as with a General Ability. So long as you allocated any initial Build Points to the Investigative Ability, you can still roll for it, even with all Pool Points spent, and still have a chance against the basic Difficulty of the task.

You can still spend Investigative Ability Pool Points for the standard Tactical Fact-Finding Benefits, and rolls don't affect those one way or the other.


Cover

You can spend Pool Points from your Cover pool for Cover identifies. To use a specific Cover ID, you need to put at least one Pool Point of Cover into it. You can then pass yourself off as that Cover ID, but if it can be tested. The value of the Cover ID is equal to how many Pool Points you put into it, and you can spend these on any tests, to help you beat the test Difficulty. However, any Pool Points you spend on that ID are used up instead of refreshing later, and you have to refill the ID with more from your pool if you want to keep on using that ID. A failed Cover test means of course that your Cover is blown: you've lost the Pool Points you used and you can't use that Cover again.

For most Covers where you already have a supporting Ability (e.g., Mechanics for a repairman, etc.), any test will have a lower Difficulty (typically 3 or less). The Director may let you use your Ability to test instead of your Cover.


Benefits from General Ability rolls

If there is a relevant General Ability you can use to case a joint, scope out a target, or otherwise set up things for a later contest or conflict, you can gain an extra 1 pool point for that particular objective only. If you roll a 6, you get 2 pool points. Any pool points are for very strictly targeted purposes, though, and only 1 roll per Ability can be applied to that target - first player who rolls, first served, and the rest can't keep trying.