X-Files Campaign Background By I. Marc Carlson (LIB_IMC@CENTUM.UTULSA.EDU) DISCLAIMER: Addresses, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers, and so on here are for gaming purposes ONLY. I made most of them up, and they should be considered BOGUS. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Operation Green Lantern A pilot program to investigate "Unexplained Things". Operates out of room B025, in the basement of the US Federal Building in New York City. Made up from individuals from many different groups. 26 Federal Plaza...212-335-2700 Treasury Department, Secret Service: 6 World Trade Center 212-466-4400 ...Counterfeit Note Verification division...212-466-4399 NPCS: Operation Director: (Assistant Director) Cord, Burt FBI ID No. 2112-817, home phone (212) - , office phone, (212) 335-2956 cel. phone - ; E-mail: 185 cm 114 kg. Str: 11 Dex: 11 App: 8 Pow: 2 Con: 13 Wil: 11 Per: 14 BP: 35 Int: 14 Brv: 9 Sta: 13 Spd: 11 PIST: 10 HIST: 12 CRIM: 12 He uses a M1911A1 Colt. [Cynic, Drunk] Fahey, Moira FBI ID No. 2135-001/CIA ID no. 72-836, home phone (212) - , cel. phone - ; E-mail: 172 cm 50 kg. Str: 9 Dex: 14 App: 12 Pow: 3 Con: 13 Wil: 13 Per: 10 BP: 23 Int: 15 Brv: 14 Sta: 12 Spd: 11 PIST: HIST: CRIM: She uses a Sig Sauer P230. [Dublin born, CIA operative. Butch/Defensive.] Walters, Stephen FBI ID No. 2325-667/Treasury ID: 412372-18, home phone (212) - , cel. phone - ; E-mail: ; 188 cm 85 kg. Str: 11 Dex: 11 App: 12 Pow: 2 Con: 12 Wil: 11 Per: 12 BP: 31 Int: 17 Brv: 12 Sta: 14 Spd: 11 PIST: HIST: CRIM: He uses a Glock 19. A "Suit". Dull, boring, and perfect. Sherrif, Karim ibn Yusef FBI ID No. 2113-017, home phone (212) - , cel. phone - ; E-mail: ; 185 cm 86 kg. Str: 12 Dex: 12 App: 11 Pow: 2 Con: 11 Wil: 12 Per: 12 BP: 31 Int: 14 Brv: 15 Sta: 13 Spd: 12 PIST: 12 CRIM: 13 MED: 16 SURG: 14 He uses a Sig Sauer P220. Physician/Forensic specialist. Egyptian Christian (Copt). Howard, Ann FBI ID No. 2212-123, home phone (212) - , cel. phone - ; E-mail: ; 185 cm 114 kg. Str: Dex: App: Pow: Con: Wil: Per: BP: 35 Int: Brv: Sta: Spd: PIST: HIST: CRIM: She uses a Grendel P30. Physician, very attractive. Short, Dark hair; Dark eyes. O'Donnell, Tim FBI ID No. 2212-123, home phone (212) - , cel. phone - ; E-mail: ; 183 cm 80 kg. Str: 11 Dex: 12 App: 9 Pow: 2 Con: 13 Wil: 14 Per: 14 BP: 30 Int: 12 Brv: 15 Sta: 12 Spd: 11 PIST: 15 AUTW: 9 SLTH: 8 HIST: 10 MLSC: 13 CRIL: 12 SWD: 7 KNFE: 8 PCKLCKS: 12 He uses a Glock 21. A psycho shooter. Russell, William "Bill" FBI ID No. 2212-123, home phone (212) - , cel. phone - ; E-mail: ; 188 cm 85 kg. Str: 11 Dex: 13 App: 10 Pow: 2 Con: 12 Wil: 13 Per: 12 BP: 31 Int: 14 Brv: 14 Sta: 12 Spd: 12 PIST: 13 AUTW: 8 SLTH: 10 RFLE: 16 MLSC: 12 HIST: 10 CRIL: 12 SWD: 7 KNFE: 8 PCKLCKS: 12 He uses a Glock 21. A Cowboy. Toffler, Irwin FBI ID No. 2321-856, home phone (212) - , cel. phone - ; E-mail: ; 180 cm 75 kg. Str: 10 Dex: 14 App: 10 Pow: 6 Con: 13 Wil: 10 Per: 8 BP: 29 Int: 16 Brv: 10 Sta: 11 Spd: 12 PIST: 10 HIST: 15 CRIM: 10 ANTH: 16 LING: 12 GERM: 12 FREN: 10 RUSS: 9 SWORD: 10 SHIELD: 9 LATN: 10 He uses a Beretta 92F. A badly distracted Anthropologist/Historian. Hobbies include SCA Fighting. The PCs consisted of a university professor, a private detective, an army sergeant and a DEA agent all of whom were sent to this purgatory for no reason that anyone could determine (and which was a mystery they *could* have looked into given time). ================================================================ Design Philosophy: 1. Basic Rule The Truth is out there (I.e. Everything has an explanation. 2. Ockham's Razor: The least complicated explanation is the most likely. a. Corallary Never attribute to malice anything that can be explained by simple stupidity. b. 2d Cor. The more fantastic the explanation, the more likely it is to return to haunt you later. I. Basic Rules and Explanations 1. "Magic" All magic has a basis and an explanation. a. Forms (1) Clarke's Law Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. (2) Psi Rarely encountered, but entirely possible. (3) True Magic Very Rare, and almost alway invisible and totally unproveable. Magic generally occurs only on the Astral Plane, with little, if any, noticeable effect on the "Real World". (4) Divine Intervention The rarest and least likely of all, but one never knows... b. Artifacts "Programmed effects" c. Spells "Programs" d. Places of Power Ley lines and Places of Power do exist. e. Astrology Drivel. 2. "Types of Monsters" a. Real Creatures and Variations thereof This includes dinosaur survivals, megafauna survivals, normal animals, etc. (1) Humanoids There were a few small groups of creatures closely related to humanity. (a) The Folk "Sidhe",Cruathne/Picts, etc. Neanderthal remnants; many merged into "Old European" stock. The source of Psi in humanity. Now exist in small enclaves and "families". Different "bloodlines" may have different powers and attributes. (A) Hermaphorditic Immortals (The Kindred) ("GenderBender") (B) Almas. (b) WoodWose The "Hairy Folk" (Sasqua, Yeti, Bigfoot, Chinese Wildmen, Igogo, etc.) Generally sentient descendants of Gigantopithecus. (c) Mutated Humans (A) Mutants Have powers beyond those of mere mortals (Examples include "Squeeze", "Fire", etc) (B) Mutates Have been altered to have powers beyond those of mortals (Examples include "Erlenmeyer Flask" (I) Vampires - Psionic, infected with a mutagenic alien virus. There are VERY few of them. (C) "Magical" Mutates (I) Vampires - ??? (II) Lycanthropes (d) Aliens (More detailed descriptions follow): (A) Gray-1 (B) Gray-2 (C) Gray-3 (D) Human (I) White (II) "Tall White" (IV) Orange (E) Dwarf (F) Silver (G) Black (2) Non-humanoids (a) Normal Animals and other creatures. Includes: Rabid Dogs, Plagues, Swarms of Birds or insects, etc. (b) Mutations or genetically engineered creatures based on normal animals. (A) Fantastic creatures (Griffins, Mantichores, Hippogriffs, Centaurs, Chimera, Pegasi, Minotaurs, harpies, Satyrs, Unicorns, etc.) (B) Bizzare Creatures (Jurassic Park Dinosaurs, etc.) (C) Mutated Insects (c) Alien spores b. "Spirit Creatures" Astral Entities often manifesting a fomr in the material world. (1) Spirits of a Divine Origin Metaspectres, Megaspectres and "Gods". Include Mortai, Noctral, Phoenix, Sphinx, Wendigo, Lloiger, Lamasu, Shedu, Genii, Demons, Angelus, Devas, Loas, Kachina, some Manitou, etc. Extremely Rare. (2) Non-Divine Spirits (a) Ghosts These astral entities are the discrnate mental forms of sentients and often retain essence of persona. They must "feed" on the life force of the living to survive. The are more fully described elsewhere. (A) Greater Ghosts. (B) Lesser Ghosts (C) Poltergeists (D) Haunting Spirits (E) Posessing Spirits (F) Syphon/Trapped Spirits (G) Tectonic Spirit (b) Phantoms Related to Ghosts, these are astral entities (including Thoughtforms). Some are able to manifest physical bodies. VERY rare (include Phantom animals, Berkely Square Horror, Invisble "ticklers", etc) (A) Faeries, Sprites, Pixies, etc. (B) Black Dogs/Fewnhounds/Hellhounds (C) Hags. Usually have a physcial aspect. These may also be degenerate God-forms (D) Some form of Manitou. (3) "Beasts" Not technically "astral", although they too feed on pychic energies. They are chreatures that have come through hyperspacial rifts to other dimensions and universes, and remain "out-of-phase" with the "Real world". They are only able to manifest for a few moments at a time, and in very small fashions. They are often mistaken for ghosts and phantoms (Examples include Hounds of Tindalos). 3. Immortals (this list is incomplete) a. Mutant Humans (1) Victor Adams. Originally a humonculous built from the bodies of dead criminals by the alchemist "Count" Johann Dippel von Frankenstein in 1653, Adams somehow gained new life for his lightning charged body. While he requiresa little food, he is immune to the effects of most drugs and chemicals, and regenerates, albeit somewhat slowly. He looks like any other normal person. He is currently a lawyer and industrialist in New York City. 5-7 (165 cm) 190# (86.4 kg) Long light brown hair in a Pony tail, Blue eyes. No scars. Inidentifiable Blood Type. Location: 1040 5th Ave, No. 1411 Phone: (212) (Unlisted) E-Mail: Victor@AOL.COM; Mary@AOL.COM; Percy@AOL.COM; Byron@AOL.COM; VA795@COLUMBIA.EDU; EER89234@BLUE.LANG.NAV.MIL. (2) Walter Running Bear (Truul var Naasht) Born c.15,000 BCE, during the last Ice Age, on the southern Steppes east of the frozen Aral Sea. This man appears as though he might be either Asian or Native American. He is currently an Anthropologist at Columbia University, New York City. 5-5 (165 cm), 200# (91 kg) Dk Brown Hair, Dk Green (Black) eyes. Blood Type: O pos. Location: 107th W 87th. No. 16A Phone: (212) MS 4-4463 E-Mail: Runningbear@CUCCFA.CCC.COLUMBIA.EDU (3) Miriam Petrovna Kirov (Sharam). Born c. 12,000 BCE to a band of Ainu on the Inland Sea shore of the island of Shikaku in the Japanese Archipelago. She appears Caucasian. She is currently a andminstrator working for the Russian Space Program. 5-0 (152 cm), 98# (44.5 kg) Dk Brown Hair, Dk. Brown Eyes. Blood Type: O pos. Location: Phone: E-Mail: (4) Edward Walsh (Nurral). Born c.48,000 BCE on the Alcheringian planes South West of New Guinean Highlands. He is currently an Australian Aboriginal businessman owning a number of Hotels, and is preparing to expand operations to New Zealand and Singapore. 5-0 (152 cm). 110# (50 kg) Dk Brown Hair, Dk Brown Eyes. Blood Type: O Pos Location: Sydney Phone: E-Mail: (5) Mohan (Mohan). Born c.10,000 BCE in the Indus Valley. He has been running a "tavern" in Nepal since c.1500 BCE. 5-0 (152 cm). 110# (50 kg) Dk Brown Hair, Dk Brown Eyes. Blood Type: O Pos Location: The Black Ox, Katmandu Phone: E-Mail: n/a (6) ????? (Mbaro Kintanya). Born in the southern Sudan, c.700 BCE. An advisor to African national Rulers. 5-6 (168 cm); 155# (70.5 kg) Dk Brown Hair, Dk Brown Eyes. Blood Type: O Pos. Location: Phone: E-Mail: 4. Aliens: The Earth is one of the few planets holding sentient life that the KwerestaH (the "H" is pronopunced as the ch in Bach) have ever found, and they have been studying us for the last century. They have discovered numerous worlds marked by the ruins of ancient civilizations, however. It should be noted that although the KwerestaH appear humanoid in form, they are *alien* in their thought processes and emotions. They have no interest in conquering the Earth, and to interfere openly with us would ruin us for study purposes. Since the late 1940s, the KwerestaH scientist caste, the Shalkt'til, have been being pushed aside by the presence of the Bu'unknaHt, or their security forces. The Bu'unknaHt are *very* interested in the discovering the reasons for why so many of their ships have crashed or been destroyed on or near the Earth. 1. KwerestaH: a. Shalkt'til (Gray-1): 3 1/2 -- 4 feet tall, gray "reptilian" skinned and hairless, with oversized heads, claw like hands, large slanted eyes with vertical pupil-slits, like a cat's, thin and slitlike mouths, with no chins, and no noses. They have tremendous strength in this gravity. They have been described as being shaped like praying mantises and being more advanced than us by perhaps a billion years. They appear to worship technology. And don't really seem to give a damn about mankind. They appear to be subserviant to the Bu'unknaHt (Gray-2s). They wear brown tightfitting jump suits, and thin headdresses that appeared to be communication devices, and carry hand held 'translators.' b. Bu'unknaHt (Gray-2) 5 1/2 -- 6 feet tall, They generally look like Gray-1s, but have prominant noses, and have a different finger arrangement. They seem more sophistocated than Gray-1, use common sense, and appear more passive. c. CharakH't'sei (Gray-3) These appear to the of the same basic type as Gray-1s, but with even thinner lips, but there are significant Cultural differences that are not apparent to humanity. The CharakH't'sei are akin to "Provincial Bumpkins" from a colony world who tend to accompany the Shalkt'til, looking for trade and exploitation opporunities. They have been banned from opperating on Earth amd therefore often appear more subservient to other two types of Gray. d. Kree'etaH ("Orange") There are a number of red haired humans that are sometimes seen with the Greys. They are simple "Drones" created by Greys. They have a child-like mentality. The Shalkt'til have been abducting humans for study since they arrived nearly a century ago, often taking them to a Human colony they have established on Cheruul (A. Centauri A II). Some of the "descendents" of these colonists (Children and clones) are used as observers and infiltrators. These human agents are called Kree'etaH. e Shlah'nar ("Silvers") Other times, they will use 5-6' tall floating robots covered in an elephantlike "skin"; these have no perceptable eyes, but do posessed a long conical nose and similarly shaped ears, all sticking straight out from their otherwise featureless heads. They have clawlike hands, and their legs end in nubs at the bottom, and they just float along, clearing the ground by about a foot. They are covered in gray wrinkled, elephant-like skin. The KwerestaH are native to the planet Hormishnak, or Koet'al IV (Or in human terms Izar/A. Bootes IV), and they have a hegemony of 15 colonies near there. Note that since the 30s most abductees are "Tagged", have their short term memory erased, and they are returned. However, many of those abducted by the Bu'unknaHt are tortured for information and rarely returned. The KwerestaH possess technology that approximates that of Star Trek: the Next Generation. The energy field emitted by their inertial dampening fields is highly disruptive to low tech electronics. There has been some speculation that the Grays (KwerestaH) have a genetic disorder in that their digestive system is atrophied and not functional. Some speculate that they were involved in some type of accident or nuclear war, or possibly on the back side of and evolutionary genetic curve. What is known is that they have some use for an enzyme or hormonal secretion obtained from the tissue that they extract from humans. There has been Disinformation to the effect that the Government has made a treaty with these to trade technology for allowing the abductions and mutilations of humans and cattle. Other Disinformation includes that they are from the third planet of Zeta Reticuli 1 & 2, a binary star system visible from the Southern Hemisphere approximatly 38 light years away with a spectral class of G2, identical to our Sun; that they have been here for 25,000 years and have influenced the direction of human evolution, that they have claimed to have helped in the shaping of our religious beliefs, including having been behind the existance of Jesus and other important religious figures. The existance of "Big Nosed Grays" ("talls" or "Etherians") with whome the government made an initial contact in 1954 (They claimed to be from a dying planet that orbits Betelguese) is also Disinformation. 2. Humanoids a. Whites "Blonds", "Swedes", "Nordics" ("Venusians", "Saturnians"): These look like plain, ordinary Earth humans, and may be related to us. They have predominantly blond hair and blue eyes, although some are more varied in coloring. They are bound by the "universal" law of non-interference, and won't help humanity only if Grey activities will have adverse effects in another parts of universe. Actually they were part of a Disinformation project in the fifties that has just been dusted off every so often. b. Tall Whites: They are very tall (7-8 feet) but are otherwise appear like normal humans. They are somehow allied to or are a unit with the Whites. Actually these are normal "whites" whose size was misinterpreted during an early sighting . c. ShlaH'Nar (Blacks, "MIB's", "Men in black.") Although they seem to be normal humans, they are not. Very pale skin. Extremely sensitive to light, and always wear sunglasses and appear in all black. They never seem to conform to normally accepted patterns, and just never quite fit in. The original MIB sightings were of Government Agents threatening witnesses, but several sightings have been of Kree'etaH who were *posing* as government agents. The pallor and photosensitivity are erronous, based on the color contrast between normal caucasion skin tones, and black suits and the propensity to wear Dark Sunglasses all the time. d. Gort'Nim (Hairy Dwarfs) 4 ft. tall, 35 lbs. Extremely strong and Hairy. They are very ethical and don't try to hurt any life. These are actually members of a 5 Planet Hegemony centered on Barnard's Star. They actually DO have a version of the "White's" law of Non-interference, and are trying to encourage humanity to eventually joining them in space. However, for the nonce, they are busy trying to block the Kree'etaH from gaining more of a stronghold here than they already have. 5. Illuminati Groups: Note: While there are "Secret Societies" and even some public groups who have been corrupted or are fronts for these societies, most so called "Fronts" have only one or two members who are connected to and doing the work of "secret groups". a. Primary Shadow Government - Before the First World War, a number of intellectuals gathered together in "Round Table Groups", and these began to plan to secretly take over the world. At the Peace talks at Versailles, they began to expand their contacts. They meet at regular meetings. These established the "Committee on Foreign Relations". They failed to get the US into the League of Nations, but oversaw the founding of InterPol, the growth of the FBI, and layed the ground work of the Intellegence communities that blossomed during the Second War. After the war they erected the framework of the UN, and the US National Security industry. After the Roswell Incident in 1947, four alien bodies were recovered, as well as something that was so horrifying that five nations (several of which were not speaking at the time) the US, USSR, PRC, both Germanies and Great Britain agreed that any aliens found on Earth were to be quickly killed. In the 50s, the Bilderberger group was founded with an annual meeting to foster easy communication between the various Shadow Blocks of power. e. Shadow Governments. Other Nations have these, many of which have at least a partial connection with the Round Table and Bilderberger groups. f. MJ-12 - In 1947, Truman created this task force originally as a branch of ONI (Naval Intellegence) and OSI (Air Force Intelligence), under the control of the CFR, to invesigate reports of UFOs. While at a meeting at the Majestic Hotel. In 1949, against the intent of the Roswell Agreements, and against the knowledge of their "superiors", MJ-12 began to work toward capturing and studying aliens and alien technologies in an attempt to eventually make humanity able to defend itself against the aliens. They have an army of Air Force "Blue Berets" and run their experiments out of "Dreamland" (aka Area 51) in Nevada. They have been behind numerous experiments involving alien technology and biology, many on the American population.