Talk:SR5

Outer Order Circle, Chapterhouse 13

Laurent contacts the runners and asks them to investigate the ruined chapterhouse outside of Auburn for any information they can find that would indicate that she is right, and if she is, who is responsible for the fire. The ruins were abandoned by the Initiates after they scoured it for any useable artifacts and telesma, but a group of Spectres, a local wiz-gang, are squatting there at the moment. They are not very tough in and of themselves, but they managed to seed the woods surrounding the lodge with some pretty potent spirits.

The building itself is in shambles and dangerous to navigate. A device providing access to the host is in the basement, tucked away in a utility closet that is partially buried and hidden behind some rubble. There is no power going to it, so a decker must power it up, log into it, and discover the private correspondence from Magus Tyrone Girardi and his protégé, Magus Jason Stackowski, who was the former ritual leader of OOCC13.

Legwork BM, p.16

Cast BM, p.18

Masking: Assensing Test opposed by target's Magic + initiate grade (6+1)

ILLUMINATES OF THE NEW DAWN

1. Meet

• BM, p.8

2. Encounter near border

• BM, p.10

3. Specters

• BM, p.12
• Hermetic gang
  • Most wizzergangs tend to be of the “flash and bang”

variety, where a bunch of wiz-kids learn how to throw some fireballs or lightning bolts and get high off the mayhem of just blowing things up, at least until the cops catch up with them, or their own egos set off a power struggle that finishes off the gang in a spectacular fireworks display. The Specters are apparently smarter and lower key than that. They focus most of their activity on the astral plane, operating primarily in spirit form, with their physical bodies safely stowed somewhere else. This lets them engage in astral surveillance (for later blackmail or sale of the information), carrying messages, some astral vandalism or “haunting” (and the associated extortion for them to stop), and even some magical security or bodyguarding. Their colors are silver and green. They operate primarily in the Seattle Metroplex and are quite familiar with the ins and outs of the local astral footprint and ecology.

4. Underground

• BM, p.13