Scary bathroom in an abandoned house

Your source sent you here, to the old abandoned house in the suburbs of this forgotten small city. He has not been wrong so far, not even once, but you think everybody will make a mistake at some stage. Why not your source right now? Or is it just a silly joke?

He said you will find the person you are looking for here. Dear God!!! Why they always have to pick such a crappy place to hide? Can not they hide in some nice place? It stinks here of rotten flesh and you do not even want to know what else. Most of the windows are broken, the roof leaks like there is no roof. And the goddamn storm today is wrecking your head.

You came to a bathroom on the first floor, using your Zippo as the only source of light. What were you expecting here? The power has been cut of years ago in this ruin.

The bathroom itself is not very spacious, just big enough for an old rusty metal bath, broken mirror and a small cosmetic table. You can see a shards of broken glass on the floor, both window and mirror being the source. All pipes are rusty as well and there is a hole in the wall showing the leftovers of what was the electricity wiring once. No one is hiding here for sure.

Author of the original picture is Zen-Master.

Manhunt

There has been some strange rumors spreading around the country about Lord Valentino and his personal guard since he returned from the campaign against the barbarians attacking the eastern border of his land 3 years ago. It was known in public that lord Valentino is a passionate hunter and he is most likely to be met in his woods with his hunting companions rather than sitting in a council chamber in his castle.

People say Lord Valentino was mortally wounded in a fight with the barbarian tribal chieftain and almost died. They say the person responsible for his miraculous recovery was captured shaman and even he was able to save Lord Valentino only by passing his vampire blood to him. Neither he nor any of his guard ever confirmed this.

Now Lord Valentino goes out of his chambers only after the sunset, he is unusually pale, almost white and his dark eyes have strange look now, you can almost see them glowing. Even now he is though but fair ruler, taking care and protecting his people. Country folks are afraid of him but likes him and won't say anything against him.

Lord Valentino exchanged normal hunts for manhunts as a part of the the justice system. The worst criminals, murderers, traitors, all of them have the chance to prove their innocence in Valentino's version of Trial of God. He gives a convicted criminal a few minutes head start and than he if after him together with his personal guard. The manhunt is on, the wood is full of sounds of horns, roar of hoofs, screams of hunters. No one ever prove himself Innocent. And never will until Lord Valentino will be able to ride his horse.

Author of the original picture is SnowSkadi.

Julie the old pistol

This old looking pistol called Julie is one of a pair. Julie belonged to a famous pirate from the Southern Sea, his name was Galen The Butcher. It is a beautiful masterpiece made out of the best materials and decorated with precious metals, silver, gold and platinum. It was also magically enhanced to increase the range, accuracy and the effect, it is said Galen was using silver bullets only as he was so rich that he could afford it. Also after the battle it was easier to identify his victims so he could claim the number of killed enemies.

Nicole the other pistol from the pair has been lost long time ago when Galen The Butcher was caught by king's fleet and his ship was sunk after a fierce battle. This one was restored from the bottom of the sea by a mage who travels and seeks famous artifacts, especially magically enhanced, to get more knowledge about the art of crafting magical items and also to make it a part of his extensive collection.

Author of the original picture is illusioncomfort.

Bad dream

Your hands are tied, you can feel the weight of the bag of sand on your legs, pulling you down. The water is ice cold, taking your breath, freezing your limbs, freezing your mind more than the endless fear.

You can't even see the bubbles coming out of your mouth, those bastards covered your eyes with some dirty cloth. Like it does matter now, when you are drowning, the muddy bottom is closing...

You should listen to your friend and do not even go nearby those guys but no, you had your own mind, you knew what is the best for you. Well, not this time. If only you listened...

Your soul is slipping away slowly, you stopped to feel the cold a while ago, the only thing you feel is the silence around, slowing heartbeat in your ears, the pain in your lungs as you are spending last remains of oxygen. You need the air, you have to breath!!!

Ssssssssssssshhh!!! You woke up with a deep breath, all covered in sweat. That was really live dream, no, not a dram, a nightmare. Your body started to shiver like a leaf, you can still feel the overwhelming fear. It's too late now to back off from the deal you made yesterday but you certainly won't cross these guys like you intended to do. No way after this nightmare. You will do the job and then, you will see...

Author of the original picture is mi-.

Sancho Vargas [beggar]

Sancho Vargas is a poor old beggar wondering around the town and asking for a spare change. He is harmless, never aggressive, with a very sad voice. Sancho was a successful merchant once but since the death of his bellowed woman and the only son in the tragic robbery a few years ago he became a human wreck.

He lives in the streets and knows a lot what is going on there, he knows local gang members, policemen, hookers, petty thieves, other beggars and a lot of rumors from the neighbourhood. Virtually invisible for normal people Sancho overhears a lot of private conversations and information meant to be secret. A few local policemen is aware of this and use him as an invaluable source of street information. Sancho is happy to exchange his knowledge for money as deep inside he is a honest man.


Author of the original picture is mi-.

Annabelle "The Fallen Angel" Le Croix [top class callgirl]

Annabelle Le Croix is a top class call girl. She is stunning beauty, with her nice face, blond tousled hair and perfect body. She knows how to seduce both men and women alike and she often uses this to her benefit. Some people call her the Fallen Angel because of her beautiful body but corrupted soul.

She likes luxury, parties, top brand alcohol, the best restaurants, trendy and exclusive stuff and she needs a lot of money to maintain her expensive lifestyle. Annabelle is using her body and her charm to get the money and rich men pay very easily as they desire to spend a night with her.

Annabelle won't go with a lot of men or women, she rather picks a small but exclusive ring of very rich individuals with influence. She is mostly picking young pretty successful and very rich managers, she will refuse a man (or woman) if he is old or ugly or Annabelle does not like him for any reason. She can afford a luxury of saying yes or no, she is in a position of power over at the moment as there is too many people out there dreaming of her.

Author of the original picture is wakkawa.

The dirty job

Mike sent me to not very nice neighbourhood I have to say, just ruined or abandoned old houses, gangs, graffiti on the walls, everything stinks here. Why me?

Anyway, that guy who is not paying us our money back should be hiding somewhere in these houses, or at least that poor beggar told me this. Not that he would like to tell my but a few punches to his dirty face and few of his teeth convinced him that it will be very healthy for him to tell me what I want to know.

The small back alley stinks even more than the rest of this area and I would swear to god just a minute ago that it is not possible. Well, not even this horrible smell won't prevent me from paying Mr. Not-paying-my-debts a visit. I won't stop with a few punches this time, you can be sure of this...

What the hell? Who can be calling me now? Do not they know I'm busy and they can call me only if it is very urgent? Let's see.

Who's there?

Author of the original picture is Prasa.

Eleanor Gray

Eleanor Gray is small but very fast and agile space ship and is able to operate in both open space and atmosphere. It has a small captain's bridge for pilot, navigator and captain, six small cabins and one bigger for captain and a small cargo bay. It is not the newest model but still very good and reliable ship.

Her current captain Thomas Dergan has bought her from a millionaire who wanted to get rid of her a few years ago and has been flying her ever since. Thomas is a freelance detective specialised in finding lost property and people. He has a stable crew of four other people who are working for him. Thomas likes his space ship very much, he invests a lot of credits into the maintenance, upgrades and performance tuning.

Eleanor Gray has some light weapons installed even if it is not permitted for personal space ships but Thomas managed to obtain the exception due to the nature of his job. Except of the weapons he has recently bought very powerful energy shield, it was part of his reward for his services. One of the functions of this new energy shield is also a camouflage and virtual invisibility for all electronic devices but his is illegal and Thomas is the only person on board except of the mechanic who knows this.

Author of the original picture is wanbao.

Vittorio DiBella [thief]

Vittorio is a child of an unknown client of his mother Lucia who earns the money for living by walking the street. He is a skinny athletic type with bronze skin and dark hair of the southern nations colored to pale red.

For his young age (he is only 19 years old) Vittorio has extensive experience with life on the street, crime and even seeing the world from the other side of the bars. He lives of petty theft, small burglaries, car stealing, all just a small crimes. He hasn't done any armed robbery because he doesn't like guns.

Vittorio consider himself a freelance entrepreneur who "finds" and sells various stuff. He is not a member of any of the gangs or organizes crime groups in the town. Vittorio knows a lot of people of the shadows: thieves, black market traders, bouncers, pimps, prostitutes, beggars.

He is very skillful, he can take your stuff out of your pockets without you knowing about it, locks are no obstacle for him, he can fool most of the security systems used by honest citizens.

You can download the World of Darkness RPG character sheet, author of the original picture is croaky.

The Hideout at Geanna Island

The Hideout at Geanna Island is "famous" pirate community, it is the place where pirates are welcome and they always find a shelter there. It is no on main trade routes, well hidden and what is the most important guarded with corals so only those who are familiar with the way into the small bay are safe, all others are lying rotten on the beaches and coral reefs in the middle of their wrecks. This is the main reason the authorities are not able to conquer The Hideout, because the do not know the way in.

The Hideout is run by Jarred One Eye and pirates seeking shelter have to pay a "tax" to Jarred for protection in gold. It's worth the gold as all renegades are safe from the law enforcers here. There is a big cave complex on the island providing both room for storage and space for living. Jarred has about 70-80 men under his command, 2 tall ships and a few smaller ones, he is the most powerful player except the official authorities in this area.

Except of the pirates there are merchants, craftsmen and working women on the island, trying to get some gold from pirates in exchange for goods and services. The Hideout is a small community with may be 7-800 souls maximum.

Author of the original picture is memod.

Holy Cross of Ciaran the Slayer

Holy Cross of Ciaran the Slayer is a silver cross sacred by the priest of name Ciaran who was a great fighter against evil and very successful demon hunter. They say he himself slayed more than a dozen of vampires and maybe twice that of werewolves.

Holy Cross of Ciaran the Slayer is massive, almost 4.5 inches long with garnet in the middle of the cross made of pure silver. It is said that spiritual power of Ciaran dwells in this cross since his deaths in a battle with five very powerful vampires. You can feel some power when touching it and you are sure it wouldn't be a very pleasant touch for vampires, werewolves and other unholy monsters.

The one who wears it in the battle against evil has a protection of Ciaran the Slayer on his side. It glows in dark red if there is an unholy monster nearby, it can provides you with light in dark places and even heals your wounds if your faith is strong enough.

Author of the original picture is scanned-stock.

Eyes Cyberware - Tactical Analysis Unit

Tactical Analysis Unit is an eye cyberware used by government agencies, corporations and army and it is almost impossible to purchase it even on the black market due to it's price and the dependency on the connection to the government, corporate or army database with the relevant data.

This cyberware provide it's owner with priceless information about the surrounding environment and people or objects in his line of sight. Tactical Analysis Unit is used in searches for specific individuals and during combat, either in the city environment or in combat field by army. TAU scans the surrounding environment online and compares it with the database against the common weapons, wanted criminals or common knowledge base, depending on the installed software and level of access granted to a user.

Author of the original picture is OmeN2501.

The orcs are coming!!!

You are resting after your last adventure in a nice and warm tavern. The autumn in unusually cold, you can not recollect the memory of entire country being cowered by the white duvet of the Ice Queen that soon. The tavern is full of travellers, hunters, trappers, charcoal burners, lumberjacks, bee-keepers, merchants and adventurers like you. Humans, dwarfs, half elves, you can even see three or four elves in the corner. The Ice Queen caught you all by surprise three days ago.

You are all waiting and hoping for a few warmer days so you can complete your travels before the winter begins. The only really happy person in the room is old Gareth the White Beard, the owner of the tavern. This is his last chance to move the gold from your pockets into his.

All of a sudden the door opened and you can see a tall man in heavy winter coat made of wolf skins standing in the doorway, catching his breath.

"Orcs! The orcs are coming!" you recognised the strong voice of the blacksmith who changed the horseshoe of your horse in the small village you passed through just before you ended up in this tavern. He certainly doesn't look good with several wounds, all covered in blood. He barely moves his left hand but his right one is still strong holding a big hammer and you can see a resolve to go to war against orcs. He has no idea where they came from or why this late, you thought that the end of their raiding season was a few weeks ago and it is too late for that. Anyway, you have to deal with the situation. Will you stay in the tavern and fight the orcs with the hope you can hold the tavern, or will you try to run. Will you exchange the warm stone house full of food, drinks and people for empty and cold wilderness where the orcs can track you and hunt you down?

What will you do? The orcs are coming, you can hear their war drums closing in...

Author of the original picture is Amarynceus.

Joseph "Joe" Black [driver / skrit chaser]

Young Joseph is a person you will name a car technophile at the first sight. He loves cars almost that much as he loves beautiful girls. He is a typical skirt chaser, natural smooth talker and he can get on with girls very well. Also girls like him because he is nice, gentle, and he always dives a nice and well looking sports car, it is an used silver Audi TT at the moment.

Joe likes the cars that much that he names them as cowboys used to name theirs horses. His current Audi TT is called Silverthorn. Joe's skills with cars are well known on the streets as he is happy when he can help others with their cars. As was said before Joe is a true car technophile, he knows literally everything about cars, cars are his love and passion since he can remember.

Except of being an excellent car mechanic he is also one of the best drivers in town. When he was younger he was a member of small car thieves group but get caught and spend almost 2 years in prison, because he was very young and it was his first delict. He swore he will never steal a car again.

You can download the World of Darkness RPG character sheet, author of the original picture is yumedust.

The Grey Rabbit Inn

The Grey Rabbit Inn is located in the Old Harbour District which is not exactly the best area of the town. It is two floor wooden building near the water accessible both on foot and in the boat. Gerrard The Ear is the owner of this Inn, the old smuggler turned into Innkeeper.

The lounge with the bar and the kitchen are downstairs, there are a few small rooms upstairs, one of them is Gerrard's and the other one is occupied by Tian Lin, the exotic bar dancer. She is the reason why The Grey Rabbit profits so well and earns a lot of gold for Gerrard The Ear. Tian Lin is probably the most beautiful and the most mysterious woman in the town, no one really knows where is she from. She dances every evening and all men can't wait till she starts. They stare at her as at some miracle, her dance is somehow magic, exotic and beautiful.

The lounge itself is not very big, just a few dirty wooden tables, smelling of smoke, sweat, beer, wine, spirit and food leftovers. There are always some sailors, thieves, smugglers and another suspicious individuals in The Grey Rabbit, drinking, eating, hiding, handling, playing games, spending gold. Old Gerrard is standing behind the bar, serving alcohol, and one of his helper girls is serving food. The kitchen is more of less clean and dwarf called Ruggrim The Pot is in charge there, it is his little kingdom from where he sends out the best food in the Old Harbour District or so they say. Guards do not bother Gerrard as he pays well an as far as there are no big problems with his customers they won't come to The Grey Rabbit and that is another reason for The Grey Rabbit's popularity among low level individuals.

Author of the original picture is Skylow.