TEXT: The Unfortunate Circumstance
   of Dame Margaret Pearl.
  Violent Media
  
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  A most piteous Situation,
  exploitable by those situated towards the strange.
  Writing, Layout, Maps, and Shit Pictures
  By Evey Lockhart
  Likeness of Dame Margaret
  By Luka Rejec
  
  Margaret
  Others
  Night
  Disease/Violence
  Sleep
  Truth
  Introduction…
  “Oh hello, dear. My, you look positively aghast. I know, I know the city
  becomes more wretched by the day.”
  “Could you draw the curtains? Terribly bright today. Oh and that terrible
  moon last night, shone like a thousand suns…”
  “Could you get that for me, dear? That hand seems oh so clumsy this
  morning.”
   “Screaming? Oh the neighbors have been just awful, all day and night. I
  fear I shall never adjust to city living…”
  – FORMERLY DAME MARGARET PEARL
  “The corruption comes on suddenly, often overnight. Symptoms vary
  and a myriad of repulsive growths, afflictions, and alterations have been
  reported: new limbs ending in screaming malformed faces, viscous
  noisome discharges from pores or orifices, elongation or shifting of
  dental structures, softening putrid flesh falling away from newly chitinous
  bones, amongst many things more disgusting besides. Enlargement of the
  eyes, extreme photosensitivity, and a rapid onset of alopecia seem to be
  the only consistencies between subjects.
  “Most subjects cannot be convinced any changes have occurred. Mirrors
  and all other reflective surfaces bizarrely show only the subject’s previous
  appearance. They are piteous and confused things by day.
  “By night, the subjects stalk the streets on inscrutable and often bloody
  errands. No cure, either mundane or supernatural, has been discovered.
  Judicious application of fire seems to be the only certain method of
  resolving most instances.
  "Though I do have high hopes for Dame Margaret; I have learned
  much of late from certain Eastern sources…”
  – ALAN SMYTHE-WORSTER
  
  Margaret
  Others
  Night
  Disease/Violence
  Sleep
  Truth
  Dramatis  Personae…
  Dame Margaret Pearl ~
  Station: Widow of Sir Herbert Swanning Pearl.
  Visage: Once beautiful | One arm cracked off, like an old statue |
  Extra arms flail about from her back, one whispering nonsense, the
  other occasionally screams | Pointed teeth | Carnivorous, though
  unaware of this, vomits frequently | A round weeping eye in her
  chest, like some terrible bloom, it only opens at night |
  Personality : Hidebound | Gullible | Easily flustered | Generous |
  Secrets : Degenerative, gross magical disease.
  
  Margaret
  Others
  Night
  Disease/Violence
  Sleep
  Truth
  Dramatis  Personae…
  Mayor Preston Hilden Greenbriar II ~
  Station : Landless Baronet, Mayor.
  Visage : Blonde | Thin | Fine Mustache |
  Personality : Politic | Cautious | Secretive | Insincerely Lighthearted |
  Secrets : Long time  lover of Herbert Pearl. Both men genuinely
  cared for Margaret, unwitting shield for their forbidden passion.
  The honorable Mr. Greenbriar quietly offered a very generous reward
  to anyone who might cure or at least halt Margaret's malady. He's
  given out token advances to several "characters of odd repute".
  Alan Smythe-Worster ~
  Station : Thoroughly inept occultist, all too willing to accept the
  Mayor's advance.
  Visage : Long wild hair | Eccentric wardrobe | Cowls | Crystals |
  Lacework |
  Personality : Bombastic | Melodramatic | Vain | Delusional |
  Secrets : He has confused several dozen different magical maladies
  as the same, paid huge sums for lessons from well-known faux-
  mystics, and believes fervently that his each passing whim and half-
  remembered dream hold cosmic truths. He is convinced he is in
  great personal danger.
  Bethany Flora ~
  Station : Much younger bastard-sister to Herbert, servant/confidant to
  Dame Margaret.
  Visage : Brunette| Rubenesque Beauty |
  Personality : Obsequious and Quiet around Margaret | Brazen and
  Flirty Elsewhere|
  Secrets : Only works for Dame Margaret at Preston Greenbriar's
  monetary behest. Her wages keep Bethany in a nicer boarding house
  than she'd hoped for. With a fair amount of free time on her hands
  Bethany has taking to bribing students into stealing her books from
  the library.
  
  Margaret
  Others
  Night
  Disease/Violence
  Sleep
  Truth
  Margaret’s Nightime Activities…
  Measured in nights post transformation.
  Roll 1d4 to determine when the PCs become aware.
  Night |Event
  1 
   |Draws strange fecal sigils in the center of each city wall.
  2  
   |Climbs down the nearest well to wallow in dark waters. (An
  outbreak of cholera begins the next day.)
  3  
   |Stalks and ritualistically murders every cat within two blocks of
  her home.
  4  
   | In a back alley, she gathers a nest together out of garbage. A
  murder of crows viciously guard it during daylight hours.
  5  
   |This night she sleeps in the nest, the eye in her chest glows pink.
  6  
   |She spends the entire night tasting bits of brick and
   mortar from buildings all over town.
  7  
   |She will spend a few hours laying a bloody terracotta egg inside
  her nest. Animals will no longer go near her or her nest, not even
  the crows.
  8  
   |Sleeping fitfully in her own bed for half the night, the chest eye
  never opens. Two hours before dawn,  Formerly-Margaret (third
  eye open) will attempt to assassinate the sleeping mayor with her
  husband's desk knife and ravenously consume him with an
  impossibly distended mouth. (If someone else catches the  disease,
  he/she will try to murder-eat a nearby authority figure, especially
  one with a personal connection.)
  Come morning, she will try to murder-eat Bethany, as well. If
  successful, a Bethany and Hildy version of the monster will hatch
  from the egg. (If someone else catches the disease, he/she will
  attempt to murder-eat a nearby friend, confidant, or companion.)
  9 
   |If not already slain, she will dissolve into a pile of highly
   infectious, putrid sludge. Upon contact Sv. vs Poison mod. by CHA.
  
  Margaret
  Others
  Night
  Disease/Violence
  Sleep
  Truth
  Disease and Violence…
  Dame Margaret’s Terrible Parasite ~
  Dormant for 1d6 days, then the transformation occurs
  overnight. PCs may continue to roleplay their new wretched
  condition, if they so chose.
  Saving throw vs. Poison, modified by CHA, to avoid infection.
  Dame Margaret’s Aptitude Towards Violence ~
  By day(third eye closed), she is confused, piteous, and weak, by
  night (third eye open), it becomes inscrutable, inhuman,
  preternaturally strong.
  To kill Formerly-Margaret, both her selves must be destroyed.
  (Though doing so without THUROUGHLY, convincing the
  Mayor of its necessity will earn the PCs an incredibly bitter and
  powerful enemy.)
  Eye Closed | 1HP, AC as Unarmored, 1 attack: weak thrashing
  1d2-1. Movement 1/2 Human, Extremely sensitive to light, blinded
  by lantern-light, stunned by daylight.  She has no need to breathe
  (beyond speaking) and cannot be drowned or asphyxiated. If killed
  in this form, she will awaken at dusk, and attempt to accomplish
  the events of nights 6-8 immediately.
  Eye Opened | 3 HD, AC as Chain, 3 attacks: punch 1d4+2
  damage, screaming head bites and sucks 1d3 damage, whispering
  head bites 1 damage + infection. Movement as human, but
  completely tireless. Extremely Sensitive to light. 5/6 stealth, 6/6
  Open Doors, 6/6 Climbing. It does not breathe. Infection: Sv. vs.
  Poison roll modified by Charisma. If slain in this form,  come
  morning, she will immediately enact day 9 in a very public place.
  
  Margaret
  Others
  Night
  Disease/Violence
  Sleep
  Truth
  Wherein They Sleep…
  Margaret’s
  Townhouse
  Top floor: water closet, bed,
  stool, chair, floral vase (45sp),
  dressers, fireplace .
  Bottom floor: sitting room, coat
  rack, stairs on right, dimly lit
  dinette, kitchen, pantry.
  Aprox. 100sp worth
  of cutlery, silver plate,
  and knick-knacks. Roughly a sack full.
  Alan’s Sad,
  Cramped Loft
  Bethany’s
  Boardinghouse
  Top floor: hallway, central staircase,
  three well appointed rooms, two are
  unlet, Beth’s leftmost.
  Bottom floor: landing, central
  staircase, dinette and kitchen left,
  sitting room on the right.
   Mayoral
  Office
  Top Floor: situated above a butcher’s shop,
  straw mattress, tiny unglazed window, grimoires
  and scrolls scattered about the floor, small chest
  filled with baubles,  over-full chamber pot.
  Ground Floor: The mayor has a
  palatial estate, however, he spends most
  nights in his modestly appointed office.
  
  Margaret
  Others
  Night
  Disease/Violence
  Sleep
  Truth
  The Sad Truth of it All…
  … Not that it much matters. Have you ever head the
  old adage, "Beware of Angels, quick to sing, but black
  of wing."
   Spiritual entities, such as Angels, Devils, and Fairies,
  exist not as perfect incarnations of ideas, but rather to
  perpetuate certain human experiences.
  The angel of pity does not pity you, rather it exists to
  cause others to pity you. It may be resplendent and
  have kinds eyes, but it does not care. It cannot care.
  That is not what it is for.
  This particular terrible disease-cycle was born of a
  woman's endless scorn, a man's unerring cruelty, and
  an angel's frightening necessity.
  Kind Margaret stooped to speak a prayer for a
  putrefying corpse she spied within an alleyway.
  Sometimes this is all it takes…
  Fin
  
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