TEXT: After Midnight
  Your crystal ball into the world of the supernatural!
  Fictional and Satirical. 
  For use with Palladium Books’ adventure supplement, Boxed Nightmares.
  Not to be sold separately. October 31, 1990
  Copyright © 1990 by Kevin Siembieda.
  Monsters 
  $11.95
  Murder 
  Cat. No. 701
  Mayhem 
  0916211-41-x
  Magic
  Plantation owner offers 
  a Million Bucks if 
  you can rid him 
  of demons!
  Sensational UFO 
  photos inside!
  JACK THE RIPPER IN
  POLICE CUSTODY
  Doctors are baffled.
  Crazed chromosomes turn housewife into daddy!
  Julie Star’s horoscope — inside
  A supplement for 
  Beyond the Supernatural
  BOXED NIGHTMARES
  
  This Tabloid 
  is ALL Bunk!
  By Kevin Siembieda 
  RPG Designer
  That’s right, this tabloid is all 
  a bunch of hooey! Not a word 
  in it is true, except for the Pal­
  ladium Books advertisements.
  We just don’t want any confusion. 
  After Midnight™ is not a real supermar­
  ket tabloid, but a spoof designed to im­
  itate this type of news(?)paper. It is de­
  signed to tie-in to the fictional role-play­
  ing adventures and characters found in 
  Boxed Nightmares™ and to give our 
  readers a few laughs. It is not to be repro­
  duced or sold separately!
  The idea for the tabloid gimmick came 
  from long time Palladium freelancer and 
  pal, Matthew Balent. It just struck Matt 
  out of the blue while waiting in front of 
  a Milwaukee restaurant two years ago.
  “Hey, guys,“ he blurted, “how about 
  doing a fictional newspaper like the 
  supermarket tabloids and make it part of 
  a game or supplement?!“
  Was it a psychic flash? Perhaps, but 
  regardless of the source of the inspira­
  tion, Palladium’s publisher and staff in­
  stantly loved the idea and here it is. Fun,
  Devil’s Triangle Boggles the Mind!
  Skipper buried 
  at sea is found alive 
  — three days later!
  By Brian Garwood 
  Staff Writer
  Marcus Beaumont was the skipper of 
  the small fishing vessel, a 30 footer 
  named SugarBea, when he died suddenly 
  at the home of his loving wife Kathy, 
  when his peptic ulcer finally gave way. 
  He was fifty years old and in his will, 
  his last request was to be buried at sea 
  in the waters which have supported his 
  family for three generations. When they 
  carried out his last request, little did they 
  know that he would be found three days 
  later in the Bermuda Triangle, returned 
  once more to the land of the living!
  “It’s a miracle, it really is!” said the 
  shocked Mrs. Beaumont when the U.S. 
  Coast Guard vessel Perilous pulled into 
  the dock at Montigo Bay, where just days 
  before there three children, Jon, Carl and 
  little Clare, saw their father’s loyal crew 
  preform last rites before sailing off to 
  deposit their Captain into the briny deep.
  “He had wanted to be buried off the 
  keys” said the first mate Yves Dubois, 
  who greeted his once-dead Captain with 
  a warm and teary welcome. “But, we 
  were afraid he might wash up on shore, 
  so we dropped him in the Devil’s 
  Triangle. It’s really him and it looks like 
  I still have a job.”
  In an exclusive interview with Capt. 
  Beaumont, the weary and tired man who 
  cheated death told his story:
  “I was at home, in so much pain I 
  couldn’t eat. My stomach was killing 
  me, so I had my wife Bea call Dr. Ab­
  rams.” The very man who declared him 
  dead and signed the death certificate. 
  “The wait was a long one and I guess 
  I fainted. When I woke up, I was in 
  another world. I could see this world, 
  but it was like an isle in a ghostly sea 
  all around me.”
  “But I knew that I didn’t belong there 
  at all. I was on some old ship with sails 
  and everything. It was made out of bones 
  and filled with skulls. I was afraid and 
  I knew somehow that I was the only 
  thing alive. Rather than look around the 
  phantom ship, I dove into the waves. 
  When I came up it was daylight again 
  and I saw a ship, so I waved like mad. 
  I was lucky they saw me.”
  When asked if he would dare to ven­
  ture into the sea, knowing that the Death 
  Ship was perhaps waiting for him, the 
  brave Capt. simply shrugged his shoul­
  ders. “If you don’t mind, I’d like to get 
  back home to my family. I’ve had a 
  rough day.”
  When Mrs. Beaumont was asked what 
  she thought about her man’s return from 
  the grave, she said, “Only God knows. 
  He’s a good man and I’m glad he’s 
  alive.”
  Zoo Keeper Torn 
  to Pieces by Ape!
  By Harold Manning 
  Staff Writer
  A mysterious creature es­
  caped from its shoddy wood 
  confinement and tore assistant 
  zoo director Dr. Carl Mavek 
  limb from limb in a fit of rage.
  “It’s a tragedy beyond belief,” said 
  Dr. Lynn Chuan Lee, Mavek’s chief as­
  sistant and head of the ape exhibit at the 
  zoo. “Doctor Mavek was a top profes­
  sional. He will be deeply missed.”
  When asked about the circumstances 
  of Dr. Mavek’s death, Ms. Lee reported 
  that zoo officials and authorities were 
  currently conducting an investigation 
  into the matter and had no information 
  at this time.
  Doctor Lee denied that an ape from 
  the zoo could be responsible for Dr. 
  Mavek’s grisly death. “As most people 
  know, a chimpanzee or orangutan is cap­
  able of tearing an arm out its socket if 
  provoked, but I have never seen anything 
  as terrible as this. One of our apes could 
  not be responsible.” Dr. Lee then ex­
  cused herself and retreated to the lavat­
  ory to be sick.
  Further investigation showed that 
  none of the apes had been formally re­
  leased to Dr. Mavek’s custody, nor were 
  any of the creatures missing nor blood 
  splattered.
  A zoo cover-up? No, reports one 
  source who wishes to remain anonymous 
  for fear of losing his job. According to 
  this source, the entire zoo staff is shook 
  up and mystified by the horrible event. 
  “No animals were released. They were 
  all locked up tight for the night. The 
  staff is very fastidious about that sort of 
  thing. Besides, from what I hear, no ape 
  is capable of that kind of damage, only 
  a baboon might, and this zoo does not 
  have any baboons. We’re all mystified.”
  But another source had this to say, 
  “No, there’s not the kind of cover-up 
  you’re thinking of. But there is a cover- 
  up.”
  It seems that an old colleague of Dr. 
  Mavek’s had discovered some sort of 
  new species of ape in Tasmania. “This 
  large shipping crate had arrived that af­
  ternoon. Actually, it was two crates, a 
  conventional 
  wood 
  crate, 
  marked 
  fragile, encased in a cage-like crate with 
  metal bars and padlocked.”
  Inside was a new species of ape from 
  Down Under. “This would be a landmark 
  find. You know, there are no apes in 
  that part of the world. This would be 
  history making,” said our source. “The 
  doctor was extremely excited and sent 
  the staff home early.”
  The zoo employee went on to say that 
  parts of the wooden crate looked as if 
  the crate had been chewed away. “From 
  inside the crate you could see these red 
  eyes in the darkness, but that was all.”
  “I was glad Dr. Mavek sent us home,” 
  said another employee. “The animal in­
  side thrashed around so much that I 
  thought it was going to roll the crate 
  over.”
  Despite these accounts, zoo officials 
  and police had no comment about the 
  alleged crate or the animal inside.
  “What scares me,” said our source, 
  “is that whatever it was inside that box, 
  it got away. I know because we’ve all 
  been instructed to keep an eye out for 
  an unusual animal that may be on the 
  grounds. It’s loose out there. Somewhere 
  on the zoo grounds or maybe even in the 
  city by now.”
  Said one, “Without a doubt, whatever 
  was in that crate killed Dr. Mavek, but 
  nobody in authority is talking. I guess 
  we really won’t find out what this is all 
  about until somebody else is hurt or kil­
  led.”
  “It’s a man-eater,” warned another. 
  “When a predator, like a tiger, has tasted 
  blood, human blood, it must be hunted 
  down and slain before it kills again. 
  Whatever it is, we know that it is de­
  vilishly powerful and clever, I’d say.”
  Game Master’s Note: This article ties 
  into the adventure The Box.
  ain’t it?
  
  3,000 Year Old Mystic Chinese Bowl Found
  Said to give strange powers to any who eat from it!
  By Alex Martin 
  Special Assignment Writer
  No, dear reader, this incredible find 
  was not made by the Chinese, but by a 
  Cleveland, Ohio housewife while dig­
  ging in her rose garden! Mrs. Jill Spatz 
  was planting a new rose bush when it 
  happened. “One of my old bushes had 
  died, so I decided to replace it. I don’t 
  know why, but something told me to dig 
  the hole a little deeper. I was scooping 
  the last bit of dirt out when my hand 
  touched the rim of the bowl.” The 
  Spatz’s decided to contact a local Uni­
  versity.
  “Unbelievable” was the first word out 
  of the mouth of Dr. Anyar Punjid when 
  he first saw the bowl. “It is some incred­
  ible coincidence that I am among only a 
  handful of scholars that know what this 
  bowl is. And to find it in America, I am 
  truly confounded.”
  The bowl itself appears to be shaped 
  like an ordinary cereal bowl, and is col­
  ored a flat dark red. There are no mark­
  ings on the outside. The secret is on the 
  inside of the bowl. What Dr. Punjid de­
  scribes as “ancient mystic symbols” ap­
  pear to be written, in gold, across the 
  inside of the bowl. When asked what the 
  symbols mean, Dr. Punjid replied, “The 
  symbols are for a magic that pre- dates 
  contemporary Chinese magic lore. If one 
  eats from this bowl, anything you desire 
  will eventually come to pass. But beware 
  those with weak and unfocused minds, 
  for the bowl can cause misfortune in the 
  opposite extreme. Whether or not this is 
  actually true, none can say, but the bowl 
  is a priceless artifact nonetheless.” How­
  ever, Dr. Punjid later indicated that there 
  was some controversy among his col­
  leagues about how much to offer the 
  Spatz’s for the bowl, and a few even 
  questioned its authenticity. Regardless, 
  Dr. Punjid knows it is real and expects 
  a recent grant application for acquisition 
  financing to go through soon.
  But will the Spatz’s part with the 
  “priceless” bowl? “Well, I can’t rightly 
  say,“ said Ernie Spatz. ”My wife doesn’t 
  really care because she says we should 
  give it to science. So she left it up to me 
  to decide. But, I gotta tell you. Right 
  after she found that thing, heck, I just 
  thought it was some old novelty bowl. 
  I cleaned it out and gave it to our dog, 
  Fred, to eat from. Tried to convince him 
  to try a plastic bowl, but wouldn’t eat 
  nothin’ I put in it. Just wants that old 
  Chinese bowl. As a matter of fact, ever 
  since we gave it to him, he’s been acting 
  more and more like he’s got a mind of 
  his own,“ Ernie chuckles. “I just don’t 
  know what’s gotten into that dog.”
  What indeed.
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  only to Macross in popularity. Yet most fans have never seen it.
  Why? W ell, it simply seemed to get less TV air time than the famous 
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  Monster Trashes 
  Drug House!
  Hoax, Say Police 
  By Ronny Bergman 
  Staff writer
  The police report that a battle between 
  rival drug gangs left nine drug dealers 
  laying in pools of their own blood. The 
  neighbors tell a different story. One of 
  demonic creatures prowling the streets.
  “I know what I seen that night,“ per­
  sists 22 year old Walter Johnson Jr., the 
  only eyewitness to the siege on the 
  known drug den. “Like I tol’ the police. 
  I seen four brothers runnin’ from the 
  house, but I think they was runnin’ for 
  their lives.”
  What they were running from, accord­
  ing to Wally Johnson, was an avenging 
  hunchbacked demon that towered 8 or 9 
  feet tall, possessed a gaping maw of huge 
  teeth and had a lizard’s head. “What I 
  remember most was this giant mouth 
  filled wit’ teeth and this big lizard’s 
  head. I was terrified,” confesses Wally.
  However, the police have dismissed 
  Mr. Johnson’s report as the drug induced 
  delusions of a junky. Wally had this to 
  say, “I resent that, man. Okay, maybe 
  I do use drugs from time to time, but I 
  wasn’t stoned, man. I know what I saw 
  and it weren’t no human and it weren’t 
  no hallucination!”
  But the people of the neighborhood 
  agree with Wally. They believe that an
  avenging demon was responsible for 
  what is now known as the Kennelworth 
  Massacre.
  “My gate was tom right off the hinges 
  and little Maxie was pretty near killed,” 
  reported Mrs. Lewis, 73, and neighbor 
  across the alley from the massacre. “I 
  was staying away from windows, so I 
  didn’t see nothing. But a minute or two 
  after the shooting, I heard a big crash 
  and somebody screaming.” The screams 
  were from poor Wally Johnson as he 
  confronted the monster.
  “My Maxie was barking and barking 
  the whole time. Then I heard a noise like 
  something tearing my fence apart and 
  Maxie was going crazy. I grabbed my 
  late husband’s shotgun and went to the 
  back door. To my horror, Maxie was 
  sprawled on the garden, laying in my 
  petunias. My back gate was tom off the 
  hinges and thrown into the neighbor’s 
  yard. The front gate was practically 
  knocked off its hinges too.” Both gates 
  were locked, shut with heavy chain and 
  a padlock.
  Maxie, Mrs. Lewis’ pit bull, suffered 
  a broken collarbone and minor lacera­
  tions. “The vet said it looked like some­
  body had hit my baby with a club or
  two-by-four. He’s lucky to be alive.”
  Other neighbors reported seeing the 
  monster’s giant footprints in the back 
  yard of the drug den before police rubbed 
  them out with their boots. All describe 
  the tracks as over a foot long and lizard­
  like. The police insist the tracks are a 
  hoax inspired by the report of the mons­
  ter, but the neighbors say otherwise.
  “Them track are exactly where I seen 
  that thing land when it leaped off the 
  porch,” recounts Wally Johnson.
  The neighbor who first discovered the 
  tracks had this to say, “They looked too 
  real to be fake. No kid could’ve made 
  them.”
  Another angry neighbor had this to 
  say, “I seen them tracks and they was 
  real. I bin huntin’ all my life an’ I kin 
  tell a real track when I see one. Besides, 
  if they weren’t real, why did the police 
  take pictures of ’em and a plaster cast 
  too? But what makes me maddest is that 
  they rubbed ’em out and pretended they 
  was just a prank by some kids. They 
  should be protectin’ us. There’s a damn 
  monster on the loose. I just hope it stays 
  eating drug dealers an’ don’t turn to eat 
  honest folk.”
  Drawing of the monster 
  by eyewitness 
  Wally Johnson.
  Game Master’s Note: This article ties 
  into the adventure entitled Trouble in 
  Old Town.
  Photograph of monster’s footprint taken by a neighbor.
  4
  
  Your female co-worker may be a space alien!
  By Sam Bieda 
  Freelance Writer
  You and thousands of other 
  people, around the world, share 
  your work place with women 
  who are really space aliens. But 
  fear not, there are ways to iden­
  tify these Femme Fatale’s from 
  another planet.
  1) Wide eyes and silly expressions
  are a dead giveaway. The space aliens 
  do not understand human emotions and 
  exhibit odd behavior that includes exagg­
  erated smiles, silly grins, and eyes wide.
  2) Space aliens also sing strange and 
  silly songs, like “He’s a Circus Man,“ 
  at the oddest times. To make matters 
  worse, they are notoriously bad singers 
  and tone deaf.
  3) The alien women always have 
  short hair, which is often dyed or 
  streaked strange colors.
  4) The outer space women often 
  wear large and unusual earrings. They 
  don’t quite understand the concept of 
  wearing jewelry and tend to wear huge 
  and unusual earrings along with gaudy,
  mismatched necklaces, bracelets, rings, 
  and pins. They may even clip items such 
  as clothespins to their ears and nose.
  5) Space aliens are often obsessed 
  with cleanliness and can be found emp­
  tying wastebaskets and scrubbing sinks 
  a dozen times a day.
  6) Space alien women have a poor 
  fashion sense and wear odd clothes. 
  They will wear bright and garish colors, 
  outdated 
  fashions and even men’s 
  clothes. Scientists believe they have little 
  understanding of Earth fashions and are 
  color blind.
  7) Big, wide feet are a common trait.
  Space alien women tend to wear sandals 
  and even slippers to work.
  8) Extraterrestrial women have 
  weak bladders and will have to relieve 
  themselves often from as little as one 
  cup of coffee or a glass of water. Con­
  sequently, they tend to drink small 
  amounts of fluids and spend much time 
  in the lavatory.
  9) Do not understand soap operas.
  The space creatures do not understand 
  complex human emotions and are easily 
  confused by soap opera characters. How­
  ever, they love to watch the news, news 
  magazines, and talk shows.
  10) Strange eating habits is another 
  sure-fire sign. Peanut butter and pickle 
  sandwiches, ketchup and sardine ice 
  cream sundaes, etc., will indicate some­
  thing odd.
  Experts believe that space aliens have 
  planted these human looking females to 
  spy on us. They have elected to use 
  women, because in this male dominated 
  society, they are more likely to go un­
  noticed. Also men are more likely to 
  trust a woman than another man and may 
  become romantically involved with the 
  space spy, providing them with indepth 
  knowledge of Earth people.
  Experts are quick to point out that a 
  woman would have to exhibit virtually 
  all of these peculiarities to be suspected 
  as an alien spy. Even then, the lady might 
  just be a bit eccentric.
  Jack the Ripper Captured
  by British Bobby!
  By Ann Appleton
  An alert Bobby saved a lady of the 
  night from the assault of a madman who 
  claims to be Jack the Ripper.
  “The man is obviously off his rocker,” 
  reported one witness. “He couldn’t be 
  more than forty. The Ripper would have 
  to be a hundred and forty. But this poor 
  chap kept screaming and howling that 
  he was the Ripper and had work to 
  finish.”
  Witnesses say that the man was dres­
  sed in turn of the century clothes, carried
  a cane and a doctor’s bag filled with 
  period surgical equipment. “Took six 
  men to drag him down. Fought like a 
  demon,” said one.
  All attempts to identify the man have 
  failed. Police have placed the 40 year 
  old under guard in an institution for ob­
  servation 
  and 
  mental 
  examination. 
  Rumors have it that a psychic will be 
  called in to help identify the Jack Doe. 
  Game Master’s Note: This article ties 
  into the adventure A Slip in Time.
  
  HOROSCOPE By Julie Star
  Your Psychic Connection
  ARIES
  Mar. 21-Apr. 19
  Aries is bold, energetic, creative, but 
  sometimes too outspoken. You have 
  great aspirations and possess the energy 
  and tenacity to attain your dreams.
  This week, I sense there will be a 
  dramatic improvement in your love life. 
  Go for it. However, I also see you spend­
  ing at least $11.95 on a favorite leisure 
  activity that might keep you at home.
  BEWARE! If you are not careful you 
  could become a well- known role-play­
  ing game designer, or worse yet, an RPG 
  publisher. If this happens, you are 
  doomed to a life of never-ending dead­
  lines, 80 hour work weeks, exhausting 
  contract negotiations, distributors who 
  won’t pay on time, adoring fans, fame, 
  and vast wealth.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Aries men 
  often have one big eyebrow. I say this 
  can be icky and you should shave the 
  middle of your forehead. But then an 
  aries male will be too stubborn to take 
  this advice and probably thinks one 
  ram’s horn shaped eyebrow looks dis­
  tinctive.
  TAURUS
  Apr. 20-May 20
  Taurus are fiercely loyal and loving 
  people, but sometimes their stubborn­
  ness makes people want to take a crow­
  bar to their head.
  This week, I see continuing change 
  and improvement in achieving your 
  goals. You are in a fun-loving mood that 
  will last the week. Loved ones will play 
  a part in your merriment.
  BEWARE! If you let your selfishness 
  run wild, you will find yourself alone 
  and hoarding worthless assets. The bur­
  den will consume your time and is 
  beyond restoration.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Arizona 
  is nice this time of year. Enjoy yourself 
  and spend some time with a loved one. 
  Comic book publishing can be frustrat­
  ing.
  GEMINI
  May 21-June 20
  The Gemini individual is one of the 
  most creative and intelligent signs in the 
  zodiac and are capable of great things 
  with seemingly little effort (as long as 
  they don’t lose interest or get too frus­
  trated).
  This week, I see a new addition to the 
  family. Yes, you or your sibling will 
  have twins; boys, I think. Meanwhile, 
  your quest to find special gifts for others 
  will continue to be successful. Your boss 
  thinks you are doing a fine job and ad­
  vancement is inevitable.
  BEWARE! The twins will steal away 
  more of your time and family relations 
  may become stressful.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: You 
  should be concentrating on the creative; 
  writing 
  adventures 
  for role-playing 
  games or computers for a well known 
  manufacturer. 
  Then 
  relax, 
  playing 
  games or watching old movies you’ve 
  never seen.
  CANCER
  June 21-July 22
  The Cancer sign is filled with good 
  humor (though often peculiar), imagina­
  tion, romance, lofty dreams, and a 
  thousand moods; one for every occasion.
  This week, I see continuing plans for 
  career advancement and a dramatic 
  move.
  BEWARE! I sense an embarrassing 
  incident at a restaurant, like your false 
  teeth popping out and skittering across 
  the floor or knocking a glass of wine 
  into the lap of that dream date you’ve 
  longed for.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Stop being 
  sorry for yourself and move ahead with 
  your life. You’ve got the talent, use it. 
  And be careful at that restaurant.
  LEO
  July 23-Aug. 22
  Leo is flamboyant, charming, roman­
  tic, dynamic, entertaining, and usually 
  a bit self centered.
  This week, I see romance and frolic. 
  Shine your attentions on that special 
  someone. Or have a rip-snorting time 
  with a bunch of friends.
  BEWARE! Don’t be to egotistical and 
  possessive.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: A nice, 
  quiet evening with 10 or 20 friends play­
  ing a new RPG supplement or a great 
  new game, like RIFTS, would make for 
  a fun-filled night.
  VIRGO
  Aug. 23-Sept. 22
  Virgo tends to be the quiet loner, but 
  still waters run deep and virg is intelli­
  gent, studious, hard working, smiling, 
  and generally, honest and sincere.
  It’s time to make decisions and move 
  a head with gusto. The time to act has 
  never been better. Try that new super 
  deluxe sandwich at your favorite restau­
  rant, ask that girl out, start a new job, 
  or become an airline pilot!
  BEWARE! If you are afraid of 
  heights, forget about that airline pilot 
  job. Your terrible jokes could get you 
  strangled one day.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Don’t let 
  things get you down. Stay happy. Stay 
  tough. The best thing you can do is to 
  get a great job at an airline, or with com­
  puters, or part time at a warehouse.
  LIBRA
  Sept. 23-Oct. 22
  The libra is usually imaginative, crea­
  tive, intelligent, talkative, and the life 
  of the party.
  I sense big trouble if you persist in 
  foolishness and deception; it’s time to 
  wake up and smell reality.
  For others, I see continuing prosper­
  ity, good business moves, and fun times 
  in the months ahead. In fact, I see several 
  fun-filled trips in your future. Family 
  problems will resolve themselves in a 
  wonderful way, far beyond your expec­
  tations.
  BEWARE! Whatever you do, do NOT 
  get hooked up with an aries who has 
  dreams of big business. If you do, you 
  might get stuck as the vice president of 
  major role-playing game company, have 
  to put in hideously long hours of work, 
  and put up with a grumpy publisher when 
  things aren’t going smoothly.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Ford 
  Probes are nice, although not quite the 
  batmobile. The Toyota sport cars are 
  nice too. Enjoy your trips, you’ve earned 
  them. Don’t deceive yourself.
  SCORPIO
  Oct. 23-Nov. 21
  The arachnid of the zodiac is self-re­
  liant, cunning, intelligent, outspoken, 
  and dynamic.
  I sense great romance, but slow down.
  The solution to disturbing financial 
  matters will come to a fruitful end.
  BEWARE! A grey haired stranger will 
  influence your week in some way.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: You 
  should stay home one night with a good 
  book. Maybe something with a horror 
  theme. 
  Oh, 
  see 
  the 
  movie 
  Arachnophobia, you’ll like it.
  SAGITTARIUS
  Nov. 22-Dec. 21
  The 
  Sagittarius person 
  is lively, 
  friendly, good humored, hates to sit still, 
  and tends to say whatever is on his/her 
  mind.
  I sense a trip in your future and a fun 
  time with friends and family. Enjoy the 
  sights and sounds and fun; you deserve 
  it.
  I also sense tension at the work place. 
  Hang loose, it’s not your fault and things 
  will resolve themselves. Money con­
  tinues to roll in.
  BEWARE! Falling boxes of books can 
  be hazardous to your health. Stay off 
  wet grass.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Don’t rush 
  into an idea too quickly. Think every­
  thing through before you act. Re­
  member, you have people who sincerely 
  care about you. Hang loose.
  CAPRICORN
  Dec. 22-Jan. 19
  Cappy is an excellent planner, quite 
  meticulous, clever, careful, and roman­
  tic.
  I see continued advancement in the 
  work place, although romance may be 
  temporarily stalled. Just be patient.
  BEWARE! Don’t eat any turnips for 
  the next two weeks. Don’t ask me why, 
  just do it.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: It is time 
  to implement that big plan of yours.
  AQUARIUS
  Jan. 20-Feb. 19
  This is the curious explorer of the 
  zodiac who is interested in everything, 
  at least for a moment. This individual is 
  sensitive, intelligent, independent, and 
  clever, yet always a dreamer, with high 
  ideals and great plans. Loves to travel.
  I see you settling down and getting 
  much needed work done. This is good, 
  because you planned and worked so hard 
  to achieve your position. I also see great 
  financial success, if not recognition.
  Wait! I also sense days of playing Ac­
  quire, movie going, and silliness in the 
  months ahead.
  BEWARE! Deadline blues are hover­
  ing above your shoulder. Don’t procras­
  tinate or your publishers will not be 
  happy. BUT, if you work too hard, you 
  might become a famous role-playing 
  game artist or worse yet, a renowned 
  RPG designer/writer. You might even 
  do Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle® 
  books!!
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Keep that 
  house, apartment or room clean. Hard 
  work will make those dreams you dream 
  come true. And try to save a dollar.
  PISCES
  Feb. 20-Mar. 20
  This sign is generally a boiling river 
  of ideas, creativity, and romance hidden 
  under deceptively quiet surface water.
  I sense good things in the next week. 
  Perseverance will pay off. A loved one 
  makes a suggestion for a delightful even­
  ing
  BEWARE! If you’re not careful you 
  could become a writer of comic books; 
  something you will undoubtedly enjoy,
  6
  
  but the pay isn’t very good. Don’t get 
  complacent. Keep on striving.
  A TIP FROM THE STAR: Plant com 
  early.
  IF THIS WEEK
  IS YOUR BIRTHDAY!
  Congratulations, birthday boys and 
  girls, I sense a day of high spirits, enter­
  tainment, romance, and good fun. You 
  may speak to somebody who you haven’t 
  seen in a while and romance may take 
  off at lightning speed.
  Doctor invents 
  liquid air
  By Brian Garwood 
  Staff Writer
  “What we really need is a few good 
  men!” said Dr. Issac Honieger, an 
  oceanographer with the Ernst Kruger In­
  stitute for Oceanic Research in Coral 
  Gables, Florida. Believe it or not, the 
  good doctor has developed a liquid he’s 
  called “Aqua-Lox” to be used for deep- 
  sea divers. “We’ve taken this out of the 
  science-fair project stage and want to do 
  testing to market the stuff.
  The “project” he’s referring to is the 
  water-breathing solution commonly used 
  with rodents. Little creatures are usually 
  put in clear plastic cages where they ac­
  tually breathe a liquid which allows air 
  to pass through!
  “If this Aqua-Lox stuff is any good 
  it’ll revolutionize diving” says Col. 
  Thomas Prins, an invited observer for 
  the U.S. Navy during testing. “A major 
  problem in deep-sea diving is the bends. 
  Little compressed bubbles of air in the 
  circulatory system. If a man can breath 
  a liquid, it could mean greater depths 
  and longer down-time.”
  To that thought Dr. Honeger was in 
  full agreement, still bubbling at the 
  chance to test his latest invention. “Of 
  course none of this is new, but I’ve also 
  developed a system for extraction and 
  saturation which I believe won’t be too 
  discomforting.”
  And there’s the rub! While the idea 
  has been around for a long time, a 
  method of switching between breathing 
  air and breathing liquid has always 
  caused problems in the past. The key 
  was finding a way of doing it that 
  wouldn’t irritate all those sensitive mem­
  branes in the lungs. Well, Dr. Honieger 
  thinks he’s found the answer, which is 
  sitting at the patent board in Washington. 
  But in the meantime, there’s that first 
  step.
  “This sort of thing has to be voluntary” 
  said the chisel- jaws young doctor with 
  an anticipatory air “Maybe I’ll try it my­
  self, but you know what they say about 
  doctors who operate on themselves ...”
  The creatures that make their homes in our cities’ 
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and car- 
  sewers are NOT the lovable, mutant, heroes in the 
  toons.
  MONSTERS LIVE UNDER OUR CITIES —
  IN THE SEWERS 
  By Raven Davenport
  Hell hounds have been reported 
  to stalk New York city sewers. 
  Demonic lizard men and mutant 
  animals in the salt mines of De­
  troit.
  Giant Alligator in Cincinnati 
  sewer system.
  Ghosts roam D.C. subway.
  Our cities are being invaded 
  by mutants and monsters that 
  live in the sewers, subways, 
  basements, 
  and 
  abandoned 
  buildings of our cities. Unless 
  we do something soon, our cities 
  may truly become “concrete 
  jungles,” where humans are 
  stalked 
  by 
  monstrous 
  pre­
  dators.
  I have seen too many cases where un­
  believable mutations and supernatural 
  monsters have made homes in the subter­
  ranean networks that honeycomb under 
  our feet. These creatures’ prey? House­
  hold pets and humans themselves. Yes, 
  humans.
  The authorities either dismiss the idea 
  of monster predators or are able to con­
  ceal these creatures’ attacks, because the 
  typical victim is the bum, prostitute, or 
  runaway. Think about it, there are over 
  80,000 runaways every year in the US 
  alone. How many have been devoured 
  by creatures of the night?
  When will our police force, govern­
  ment, and military admit that we are not 
  alone? The famed parapsychologist, 
  Victor Lazio, tried to warn people, and 
  they began to listen, so Victor Lazio had 
  to be silenced. One night, alone on an 
  Indian mound in Ohio, Victor Lazio dis­
  appeared. Those who know are con­
  vinced that Lazio was slain by one of 
  the monsters he tried to protect others 
  from.
  Here are some tips to keep you out of 
  the clutches of inhuman fiends:
  1. 
  Do not let your children play in or 
  near sewers.
  2. 
  Avoid the subway after midnight. 
  Likewise, do not travel a subway 
  that is deserted.
  3. 
  Stay away from abandoned build­
  ings day and night. Whatever you 
  do, do NOT enter one alone to in­
  vestigate strange noises.
  4. 
  Report strange sounds and van­
  dalism to the authorities. Build a 
  paper record of the strange occurr­
  ences you witness.
  5. 
  Most supernatural creatures are noc­
  turnal.
  6. 
  Many supernatural creatures are 
  fearful or vulnerable to fire. In some 
  cases, even bright light will frighten 
  them away.
  7. 
  Religious symbols, like the crucifix, 
  do NOT hold most monsters at bay.
  Investigative Reporter
  This is only a sure-fire deterrent 
  against vampires.
  8. 
  If you are aware of a reoccurring 
  menace or strange happenings keep 
  a written record with dates and 
  times. Photographs will be helpful 
  but don’t take chances. Then contact 
  the After Midnight™ Monster hot­
  line and we will try to help you or 
  put you in touch with somebody 
  who can help.
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  South American plantation owner
  offers a COOL MILLION to 
  anybody who can rid him of
  demons!
  That’s right, you can earn a 
  million bucks if you can get rid 
  of pesky demons and evil spirits 
  that plague a Columbian plan­
  tation.
  “I need help and I’m willing to pay 
  big,” pleads a wealthy plantation owner. 
  “I know this will sound like silly super­
  stition to the Western World, but my 
  plantation is under siege by magic and 
  evil spirits.”
  Francisco Martines Ortega insists that 
  a cult of fanatics are using black magic 
  and demonic forces to destroy his plan­
  tation and any who dare to work for him. 
  So far, damage has been restricted to 
  crops, farming equipment, and property. 
  It is the psychological impact on his work 
  force that is the most detrimental. Work­
  ers are afraid for their lives and are easily 
  spooked. About a dozen a week quit for 
  fear that they will become the next target 
  of the supernatural assault. “I’m the only 
  means of income for many of these 
  people. Without my plantation, hun­
  dreds of families may starve.”
  Ortega is not the only one who be­
  lieves his estate is under the curse of
  evil. Virtually all his workers agree that 
  supernatural forces stalk the land, killing 
  and frightening the people who need the 
  work.
  “I don’t know why this is happening 
  to us. I have not done anything to hurt 
  anybody.” But at least one field laborer 
  disagrees. “Senor Ortega is good man, 
  but he has taken the people’s love and 
  respect away from powerful shaman. 
  Shaman is jealous and sends evil spirits 
  to punish all who would work for Senor 
  Ortega. Very bad for everybody.”
  Out of desperation, Mr. Ortega has 
  offered one million American dollars to 
  any person or persons who can rid him 
  of his supernatural woes. In addition to
  the million bucks, Mr. Ortega will pay 
  all travelling and living expenses for the 
  ghoul busters, as well as provide them 
  with all reasonable equipment and man­
  power. Accommodations are at his 
  lavish plantation estate, complete with 
  swimming pool, satellite television, ser­
  vants and private French chef.
  “The authorities have washed their 
  hands of this matter, I must do what I 
  can on my own. I just hope that some­
  body will answer my plea and help us, 
  before someone is seriously hurt.”
  Game Master’s Note: This article ties 
  into the adventure South American 
  Skullduggery.
  This man gave birth 
  to a 7 lb baby girl!
  Crazy Chromosomes 
  Change Coquette to 
  Charlie!
  By Garr Wood 
  Freelance Writer
  Ellen Green was a typical 
  home-town girl who married 
  her childhood sweetheart. She 
  was a happy housewife, gave 
  birth to a normal baby girl, and 
  looked forward to a simple life 
  as a housewife. But then her 
  chromosomes went wacky and 
  she became a man!
  Doctors were baffled! Test showed 
  that she didn’t have hormone treatments 
  or sex-change surgery of any kind. Her
  body just changed, and she was stuck 
  with being a guy for the very first time.
  “I don’t know what caused it, but I’d 
  do anything to find out why it hap­
  pened,” she said in her full beard and 
  flannel shirt. “What hurts is that all my 
  neighbors know me from my high school 
  days. They think I wanted this, can you 
  imagine that?”
  A natural red-head, Ellen explained 
  how the change occurred over a period 
  of a year. The doctors were at a loss to 
  explain it, especially when the anatomi­
  cal changes were complete. A long, 
  exhaustive series of tests confirmed that 
  her XY chromosomes had coverted com­
  pletely. She was now a man, in every 
  way!
  “Maybe it had something to do with 
  radiation, that or the city water supply. 
  They tell me that toxic waste could do 
  it.”
  $140 Million Dollars in Gems 
  Stolen by Flying Thief!
  “The perpetrator magically flew up to 
  the 39th floor window, blew out the 
  glass, walked in, waved his hand, the 
  safe opened, he took what he wanted 
  and flew away,” was the official state­
  ment of one investigator at the scene.
  The man responsible for the claim 
  said, “The case was quite mystifying. 
  To break the tension, I made a joke. My 
  mistake was saying anything in front of 
  newsmen.” That particular investigator 
  was removed from the case the evening 
  his statement made the news.
  Inspector La Blanc denies that there 
  has been other mystifying burglaries, cit­
  ing the fact that the rich are always 
  targets for thieves. As for the statement 
  made by one of his fellow investigators 
  regarding magic and a flying man, he 
  said, “The press has had a party with 
  that statement. It is most absurd and em­
  barrassing. The man was making a joke. 
  A joke in poor taste and the tabloids have 
  taken it and blown it out of proportion.” 
  The authorities insist that the daring 
  theft was an inside job. Yet, despite a 
  seven month long investigation, there are 
  no suspects.
  Game Master’s Note: This article ties 
  to the adventure entitled It must be 
  Magic.
  Stunning UFO 
  Photos on 
  pages 10 and 11.
  
  Man Scared to Death on Vacation 
  Staff Writer
  78 year old Vito Angelosanti 
  was having a rip-snorting time 
  on the Riviera when he was 
  scared to death by a spectral hit­
  man in his posche hotel suite.
  Vito, a wealthy businessman long be­
  lieved to have mob connections in the 
  United States and Europe, had retired 
  from the family business four years ago. 
  But had recently talked about stepping 
  out of retirement to take control of the 
  business once again. However, one day 
  Vito was playing tennis and courting 
  babes a quarter his age, and the next day 
  he was dead.
  The half dozen people who found the 
  body reported that the room looked like 
  the old man had gone berserk. Furniture 
  was broken and overturned. A bottle of 
  rare champagne laid spilt at his bedside. 
  Bullet holes riddled one wall. Clutched 
  in Vito’s death grip was his favorite pis­
  tol. His face transfixed in horror.
  “We heard shooting and screaming 
  and came running to Mr. Angelosanti’s 
  aid, only the door was locked.” Two of 
  the men frantically kicked the door 
  down, but it was too late. Vito was dead.
  “His face looked as if he has seen the 
  devil himself,” said one witness. “I never 
  saw anything so horrible. The old man’s 
  face was distorted in terror, his mouth 
  open as if screaming, even in death.”
  Despite the damage and apparent vio­
  lence, the door was locked from the in­
  side and there was no sign of forced entry 
  or of an assailant. After a thorough inves­
  tigation, the police and hotel manage­
  ment issued a statement that good old 
  Vito died of natural causes. 
  The 
  coroner’s 
  report 
  noted 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Angelosanti had a massive stroke and 
  brain hemorrhage. The damage to the 
  room was caused by the death throes of 
  a man who did not want to give up life 
  easily.
  However, one of the bodyguards said 
  the old man was murdered. “I seen the 
  room. Mr. Angelosanti was fighting for 
  his life. The bullet hole groupings on the 
  wall are too orderly. He weren’t shooting 
  wildly to get somebody’s attention, he 
  was shooting at somebody or some­
  thing.”
  The bodyguard said that Vito had been 
  afraid that he was being stalked by a 
  demon or spirit sent to assassinate him, 
  but had stopped such crazy talk after a 
  week of vacationing in the sun.
  “The boss was as strong as an ox. 
  Maybe he died of a brain hemorrhage, 
  but it was caused by something that 
  scared him to death.”
  Game M aster’s Note: This article ties 
  to the adventure entitled It must be 
  Magic. This is the handiwork of arcanist 
  assassin, Deni Charboneau.
  Common Brown Bat. Eptesicus fuscus bernardinus. (V. B. Scheffer)
  9
  
  DRAMATIC EVIDENCE 
  THAT FLYING 
  SAUCERS ARE REAL!
  By Ronny Bergman 
  Staff Writer
  A UFO buzzed a Detroit office 
  for an unbelievable two minutes, 
  apparently having engine trouble.
  That’s the claim of Detroit artist Kevin 
  Long, who photographed the alien starship 
  as it teetered overhead just outside his of­
  fice, on Sept 25.
  The artist was returning to the office 
  after a day of shooting reference photos 
  when his co-worker pointed skyward to the 
  saucer-shaped spacecraft.
  “As luck would have it, I still had some 
  unused film in my camera and was able to 
  take several photographs of the UFO as it 
  hovered near the office, “Mr. Long told 
  newsmen.
  “The UFO kept teetering back and forth. 
  It would tilt one direction and fly a little 
  higher, then tilt the other way and drop 
  down a hundred feet. The vessel definitely 
  seemed to have trouble maintaining al­
  titude”, reported Alex Marciniszyn, the 
  other witness to this nerve-wracking ex­
  perience.
  “Its herky-jerky movements gave us 
  both the impression that the UFO was 
  going to fall out of the sky at any moment. 
  At one point it almost plunged into the 
  office, but regained control and sped out 
  of sight.”
  UFO experts throughout the country 
  have spent weeks scrutinizing the photo­
  graphs. After computer analysis, experts 
  are agreed that the photos are not a compo­
  site or a hoax and that they represent con­
  clusive proof that Earth is being visited by 
  extra- terrestrials.
  “I’m convinced,” said one expert. 
  “These photographs are genuine. At first 
  we suspected that they could be fakes. 
  After all, both Kevin and Alex work for a 
  publisher of science fiction and fantasy 
  books. But the evidence is undeniable.”
  “Of course, they are genuine,” said Mr. 
  Long. “I would never subject myself to 
  such publicity and potential for ridicule if 
  I didn’t know what we saw was real.”
  Mr. Marciniszyn shares these senti­
  ments, “What would such a hoax do for 
  us anyway? Why would two respected and 
  top professionals, like us, do something so 
  irresponsible as a UFO hoax? It really hurts 
  me to hear talk of a hoax. Somebody even 
  made a fake UFO out of a plastic micro- 
  wave dish, glued on some parts from an 
  airplane model kit, spray painted it silver, 
  and hid it in the bushes near the office to 
  discredit us. Fortunately, Kev’s photo­
  graphs were able to withstand study by the 
  experts.”
  The photographs have been sent to both 
  the United States Air Force and the Presi­
  dent. White House officials refuse to com­
  ment on the pictures.
  
  Detroit artist snapped these pics of a flying saucer
  Sensational UFO photos
  11
  
  Dump Caffeine ... 
  if you’re a psychic!
  Drug 
  blocks 
  vital 
  energy 
  waves.
  “I didn’t believe it at first” 
  says Dr. Howard Bailey of Nova 
  Scotia, Canada who heads the 
  department of psychic research 
  at the prestigious Maumarche 
  University. He and his staff 
  were shocked to learn one day 
  that their psychics, who had 
  done so well in earlier test, were 
  now flunking out.
  “Something had to be done, so I asked 
  each if they had changed their routine. 
  We did testing in the morning, and the 
  only difference was they were having 
  that first cup of coffee a little earlier. So 
  we tested another control group, and got 
  the same results!”
  “I’m not surprised at all” says 
  Madame Chernia who has been using 
  her psychic powers to unravel cases for 
  the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 
  Montreal for the last four years. This 
  sinister looking, black-haired Serbian 
  beauty has been called into one hundred 
  and fifty three cases and has, through 
  her knowledge of the unknown, obtained 
  clues in eighty five of them.
  “This is, how you say, a secret plot 
  by South America to rob the U.S. of 
  valuable psychic power. That is why 
  they sell so much coffee, and I might 
  add with the support of the U.S. govern­
  ment.”
  When asked who could benefit from 
  the dampening the psychic resources of 
  a country, she said with a grin “I think 
  I have said enough already.”
  “Couldn’t take the pressure any longer” says psy­
  chiatrist as teen genius cracks up; now a babbling
  booby.
  By Brian Garwood 
  Staff Writer
  He was the apple of his 
  mother’s eye, but poor Charles 
  Damilier of Winston, South 
  Carolina went to the funny farm 
  after a psychotic episode.
  Just twelve years old, Charlie was 
  working on his doctoral thesis in Biology 
  at the Hazelwood University for Gifted 
  Youth, when he lost his marbles and 
  began hopping up and down and salivat­
  ing like an animal.
  “It was the books that did it” said 
  Charlie’s father, Walter, a hardware 
  salesman in Ingham County. “I told him 
  not to read books, but he never listened 
  to what I say. Now look at him. Don’t
  even know us any more. I told ’em.” 
  The university officials were shocked. 
  “I don’t want to place blame on anyone” 
  said Dr. Gertrude Stublen, department 
  head for the college, who has twenty 
  students below the average college entry 
  level working on various projects. “But 
  my counselors tell me that his home en­
  vironment was not ideal. He was a sen­
  sitive child, but not the least bit stable. 
  What has happened is both regrettable 
  and tragic. Nothing he was working on 
  was the least bit dangerous.”
  County detectives refuse to comment 
  on cases in progress but thus far, no 
  charges have been filed and there’s no 
  evidence of wrong-doing.
  “The mind is a funny thing” said 
  psychotherapist Edward Brown, who has 
  been working in an effort to help poor 
  Charles 
  regain 
  his 
  sanity 
  at 
  the
  Beaumond Mental Facility in Winston. 
  “Like all mental patients, a good deal of 
  his therapy is geared to finding the cause. 
  We’ve run the whole gauntlet of tests on 
  him and couldn’t find anything physical. 
  There was no gradual behavior change 
  prior to his collapse, so there must have 
  been some deep-seated pressure building 
  in the young man for some time.” 
  When asked what could have pushed 
  a budding genius over the edge, Brown 
  adjusted his glasses and shrugged. “If I 
  knew that, perhaps we could have 
  reached him sooner. But I certainly hope 
  we can help him.”
  Real Tasmanian 
  Devils devour 
  herds of sheep!
  Game M aster’s Note: This article 
  ties into the adventure The Box.
  Tiny devils with pointy tails 
  and ears are killing sheep by the 
  hundreds in Tasmania.
  “Poppycock,” fumes authorities in the 
  little town of ComeBack, Tasmania. The 
  goblins or demons of Tasmanian legend 
  are said to come out of the outback and 
  eat their fill of livestock every 75 years 
  or so, and then disappear for another 75 
  years. The last reports of such an occurr­
  ence were in 1917, when over 300 sheep 
  were accredited to have been eaten by 
  the hungry little demons.
  Descriptions of the demons indicate 
  that they stand a petite four feet tall, 
  buck naked, with large, pointy ears, 
  devil’s tail, and huge, slavering maw.
  Most locals give little credit to the 
  stories of demons that return every 75 
  years to loot the land. They believe that 
  the culprit is a wild dog gone mad, or a 
  pack of wild dogs, and say that the num­
  bers of livestock killings are vastly 
  exaggerated.
  “They wouldn’t be saying such things 
  if it were their livestock being butch­
  ered,” says our source. “My grand- 
  daddy told us children tales of these 
  devil-critters. We always thought they 
  were stories to scare us kids. Now we 
  know better.”
  Julie Star’s Psychic Connection
  Dear Julie, I visit my grandmother’s 
  grave every Sunday. Recently, my pet 
  dog barks and growls at the same area 
  whenever I visit the cemetery. Could this 
  mean something? Is it my grandmother? 
  Confused in Texas.
  Dear Confused, Dogs are especially 
  aware of the supernatural. I think that if 
  it was a friendly spirit, your pet would 
  wag its tail and show affection. The 
  growling says to me, that this spirit is a 
  dangerous one. It is not your grand­
  mother. I suggest you do not visit the 
  cemetery for a month. I know your 
  grandmother will understand. When you 
  do return, do not go alone, take a friend 
  or your protective pet with you. Write 
  to me again if this continues.
  Dear Julie, I’m getting on in years and 
  want to know if I’m going to spend the 
  rest of my days a spinster. I want to get 
  married, but can’t seem to find that mis­
  ter right. Could you tell me what you 
  see in my stars? I was born at 8:43 am,
  July 23, 1959. Sincerely, Lost Cause.
  Dear Lost Cause, I see rockets and 
  fireworks in your future. This will be 
  the great romance you have always 
  dreamed of. It will be worth the wait.
  Dear Julie, My Younger brother thinks 
  he is in mental contact with space aliens. 
  I think he’s wacky. Could you tell him 
  that there are no such things as space 
  aliens? I know he would believe you. 
  Wacko’s Concerned Sister.
  Dear Concerned, You should not call 
  your brother a wacko. There are many 
  forces at work in our cosmos that human­
  kind is only now beginning to under­
  stand. There are thousands of people like 
  your brother who claim to communicate 
  with extra-terrestrials. There is certainly 
  enough evidence to support the notion 
  that there are other life forms in the uni­
  verse and your brother may be a mental 
  pen-pal with one.
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  UFO zaps movie cast!
  Alien vessel vaporized Sci-Fi set.
  By Brian Garwood 
  Staff Writer
  “It came out of the sky! It was 
  horrible!” says famed movie 
  maker Rodger Flynn as he was 
  in the second week of produc­
  tion on his film tentatively called 
  “The Augmenter.”
  Eight of the film crew were injured 
  on the Bujo Desert, California set, in­
  cluding Lisa Dallas and Taylor Lawton, 
  two of the film’s stars.
  “It was early morning and we were 
  drinking coffee, sitting around while the 
  camera crew was setting up the shot on 
  the desert floor when this yellow disk 
  came out of the sky, I told everyone to 
  run. It was chaos after that, just screams 
  and running.” No one was seriously in­
  jured, but much of the post-production 
  work, which included several cameras 
  and a crane, were wrecked beyond re­
  pair.
  “Sounds like a career move to me, 
  and you can quote me on that!” said 
  noted film critic Ira Hem as he sat down 
  with his cigar in mouth and tossed aside 
  the photos of the attack. “Flynn’s not much 
  of a movie maker. I mean he does have a 
  following, but the man is a consummate 
  promoter, this looks like a fake to me.”
  We asked Mr. Hern, who has a feature 
  movie column in the California Egocen­
  tric, to describe the high-points of Mr. 
  Flynn’s career in greater detail. “His best 
  films are of course ’’Prince Acturus” and 
  “Space Race,” but that was a few years 
  back. All I can say is the guy’s had a 
  tough life.”
  “Believe you me, I hope I never go 
  through something like that again!” says 
  cameraman Duncan Ives, a long time 
  associate with the Matrix Films com­
  pany, who escaped from the attack with 
  a broken hand.
  “I couldn’t really get away when it 
  came down, so I tried to point the camera 
  at it.”
  Ives was a photographer for InterPress 
  during the war, and that training served 
  him in good stead during the crisis. “This 
  hugh yellow hockey puck was shooting 
  out these feet ... well, arm-like legs, 
  only it moved like a jack-hammer. One 
  came right toward me so I jumped. Ev­
  erything exploded around me. When I 
  got out of the sand and turned around, 
  it was zooming up into the sky. I hate 
  to say this, but I was glad to see it go.”
  Pink is the safest 
  color to wear 
  while jogging.
  By Brian Garwood 
  Staff Writer
  Good 
  news 
  for 
  joggers 
  everywhere! A recent scientific 
  survey has found that joggers 
  wearing pink are less likely to 
  be injured.
  Dr. Robert Mongomery of Western 
  University in Utah has compiled a sam­
  ple of a thousand weekly health nuts, to 
  be published in the Scientific Journal.
  “Frankly, the results are quite surpris­
  ing” he said in an interview in his univer­
  sity office on campus “I would have 
  thought that the color a jogger wears 
  would have no relation to the number of 
  traffic accidents. But the numbers don’t 
  lie.”
  Of the thousand runners sampled 
  in the state of Utah over the past year, 
  seventy-six of them have had some type 
  of traffic related injury. None of the thir­
  teen percent that were injured wore the 
  color pink. Of the thousand runners, a 
  mixed group of joggers who ran a 
  minimum of ten hours a week, one 
  hundred and twelve wore pink running 
  suits. “We didn’t tamper with the sample 
  group at all. We didn’t tell them what 
  to wear or what we were looking for.” 
  confirmed the doc when we asked about 
  the possibility of steering the results “We 
  just had our people check what they were 
  wearing before they went out.” Of the 
  total injured, six were serious and two 
  were fatalities, but that was well within 
  the statistical average.
  When asked about the effects of color 
  on driver perception, thought to be the 
  main cause of vehicles bumping into 
  pedestrians, Mongomery offered few 
  clues as to actual cause. “We’ve known 
  for a long time that the color green is 
  the most sensitive color to our eyes” he 
  offered as he guided us through his lab 
  of 
  complicated 
  optical 
  equipment. 
  “That’s why fire trucks, which were once 
  red, are now painted green. But the color 
  pink should have no particular impor­
  tance. We have recently completed and 
  compiled a region wide sampling, results 
  of which were impressive enough that I 
  feel we must get the word out. With 
  more heads working on it, maybe we’ll 
  figure out what’s going on.”
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  FASHION EXPERTS SAY... 
  OUR BUTTS ARE 
  GETTING BIGGER!
  By Brian Garwood 
  Staff Writer
  If your cloths are getting a 
  little tight in the seat, maybe it’s 
  not what you’re eating! At least, 
  that’s what the spokesman of 
  the nation’s textile industry, 
  Ralph Bellamy of Cedar Falls, 
  California said to explain the 
  bulging protifs in his annual re­
  port.
  “I know it sounds funny” said the pug­
  nacious businessman with a jovial grin 
  “But nation-wide, the patterns on which 
  our clothes are laid out have had to be 
  ’’let out” a little more than usual.” Not 
  that he’s complaining about the increase 
  in material orders. “What’s a square inch 
  here or there between friends!” he said 
  with a wink and an elbow “Heck, we 
  should all go out and buy new clothes!
  The trend hasn’t gone unnoticed by 
  fashion designers either. “At first, I 
  thought all the girls were just eating on 
  the side” said internationally acclaimed 
  Rodney Tosh in his Beverly Hills man­
  sion in between shows, “But the poor 
  things were underweight, so I don’t 
  know what’s causing it.”
  When we interviewed him he was pre­
  paring for another showing in Europe in 
  the spring. “Personally, I think it’s rather 
  attractive. It’s the cut of the dresses and 
  how they hang that’s really important, 
  that and the texture and quality of the 
  material. I’m curious to see if it’s just 
  an American thing while I’m away. I’ll 
  keep my eye on the subject.”
  The obvious answer would be that we 
  Americans were just eating more. Not 
  so 
  says 
  noted 
  economist 
  Bradley 
  Lochinski at the Livermore Institute, an 
  economic watchdog of U.S. trends. “No, 
  consumer goods actually went down dur­
  ing that period. On the whole, our con­
  sumption of food has not gone up, but 
  the textile industry has been doing well.” 
  When we asked if he could find a con­
  nection between the two, he lit his pipe 
  once more and answered in a cloud of 
  smoke. “It’s foolish to draw a correlation 
  between the two on such slim evidence. 
  But then in the past, People who traded 
  stocks by using sunspot activity as a 
  barometer did quite well. If you pardon 
  my saying, we’ll get to the bottom of 
  the situation.”
  Crazed Killers 
  Stalk the 
  Highways
  of Maine!
  By Raven Davenport 
  Investigative Reporter
  A serial killer, known as The 
  Hitchhiker of Death, continues 
  to wreak terror in the small town 
  of Doverton, Maine. The grisly 
  murderer has already claimed ten 
  victims! Police are baffled.
  The murders are especially unique and 
  frightening in that it is now apparent that 
  a group of killers are at work. Perhaps 
  a cult of devil worshippers! Two of the 
  Hitchhikers of Death have been killed 
  by local police. But now a third Hitch­
  hiker of Death kills again.
  The inhabitants of the town of Dover­
  ton, located near the strip of highway 
  where the murders have taken place, are 
  terrified. One resident stated, “Tourists 
  avoid us now for fear of this maniac. I 
  can’t blame them. And you don’t see 
  women or children on the street at night. 
  I don’t know what we’re going to do.”
  Another citizen was furious, “The 
  police have to do something and do it 
  soon. It’s obviously a cult of devil wor­
  shipers are hiding out in the woods. 
  Probably at the old Indian burial ground. 
  I understand the police have the area
  staked-out and suspect a motorcycle 
  gang that has been camping there.”
  However, Police Chief Daniel J. 
  Turner denies that this is the diabolical 
  work of blood crazed cultists. “We have 
  explored every possibility and every lead 
  at our disposal, but there is no evidence 
  of any so-called cult activity or magic.”
  When asked to explain how it was that 
  there were apparently three murderers 
  killing as the Hitchhiker of Death, Chief 
  Turner had, “No comment.” He then re­
  fused to speak any further on any aspect 
  of the investigation.
  The word on the street is that a cult 
  of maniacs are conducting demonic 
  human sacrifices and discarding the 
  bodies along the highway in a blatant act 
  of defiance. Indeed, the police are com­
  pletely baffled, their hands tied, while 
  the fanatics continue their killing spree 
  unchecked.
  Raven Davenport will continue his 
  weekly report from Doverton as more 
  develops.
  Game Master Note: This article ties into 
  the Hitchhiker of Death adventure.
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