TEXT: The Shadow Over Yonkers
  An adventure for 4-6 'Busters
  Gary Con 2011
  
  SCENE 1: 
  BREAK IN AT THE BRANCH
  *** You are members of a small 
  Ghostbusters franchise based in the Yonkers 
  borough of New York state. You have no idea 
  how you were able to secure a franchise right 
  across the river from “THE Ghostbusters,” 
  although you suspect that it might have 
  something to do with the fact your coverage 
  area is less than 20 square miles. Needless to 
  say, most of the action has been minimal -- 
  Class 1 visions and phantoms at the most. 
  You could trap them in a shoebox using a 
  vacuum cleaner if you were so inclined. 
  (Although there was that spectral Great 
  Dane that was terrorizing the dog groomers 
  on Prospect St. THAT was kinda cool.)
  You're hanging around your offices on a 
  Friday evening engaged in a spirited “Yo 
  Mamma So Fat” contest, when the phone 
  begins to ring. *** 
  This would be the person sitting closest to the 
  GM. Stare at them until they get the hint. Once 
  they pick up the phone and answer: 
  *** “Ghostbusters? This is Professor Clark 
  Olmsted of the Yonkers branch of 
  Miskotonic University. Ummm... I have a 
  situation that needs to be dealt with quickly 
  and quietly by men of your....means and 
  abilities. Please get here as soon as you can 
  and explain when you arrive.” *** 
  The original Miskatonic University was made 
  famous by the tales of Lovecraft and his ilk 
  years ago. The Yonkers branch of Miskatonic 
  opened about a year ago. The community 
  college attracts those who can't get into a real 
  college and seems to specialize in the weird and 
  paranormal, as they offer classes like 
  “Dimensional Travel,” “Mold and Slime 
  Identification,” and “Xenobiology.” They've 
  asked a few of you to teach courses on 
  Parapsychology – for free, of course. The 
  branch is just a few miles up the road along the 
  Hudson in a rundown strip mall. 
  You take ECTO-12 (a 1986 Dodge Caravan) to 
  the school.When you pull up, Prof. Olmstead 
  meets you at the doors of what appears to have 
  been a Chuck E. Cheese at one time.
  ** Good, I'm glad you came over so quickly. 
  There's been a break-in and something very 
  valuable – and dangerous – has been taken 
  from our archives. **
  When Prof. Olmstead arrived to teach an 
  evening class (“Shoggoths and You”), he found 
  the school's small library ransacked. When you 
  walk in, you see that the library (generously 
  named, as there are three bookcases and one 
  table and chair) has been violently rifled 
  through. He points to a metal lockbox on the 
  table that appears to have been ripped open 
  with clawed hands.
  ** In that strongbox we kept a very 
  dangerous occult tome. It's the only one like 
  it in existance. I assume you've all heard of 
  the Necronomicon? Before it was translated 
  from Latin and into English in 1586 by John 
  Dee, Dee's brother Rick had a go at 
  translating the damned thing. Turns out 
  Rick wasn't very good at languages. About a 
  third of the way through, he misread a piece 
  of text and was blasted into another 
  dimension. Because it was only partially 
  complete, the tome was given an abridged 
  title: “The Nomicon.” The problem is, this 
  work is badly written. Mistranslations, 
  spelling mistakes, misplaced colons...if 
  anyone were to try to read from it or...God 
  forbid...cast a spell, it'd be like giving a 
  monkey a flamethrower. We need to re-
  recover that book!”***
  Prof. Olmstead also explains that the book was 
  only on loan from Miskatonic so the branch 
  could claim to have its own occult lore section.
  ***It was embarrassing to be a Miskatonic 
  branch without one forbidden tome, you 
  know. And speaking of embarrassing, the 
  theives also left a calling card. Pick up any 
  other book and look at the pictures! ***
  
  Thumbing through any book and the 
  Ghostbusters will see that someone drew a 
  penis on nearly every picture. In a pictyure of 
  Washington crossing the Delaware, ol' George 
  is sportin' more wood than just his teeth, if you 
  get what I'm saying.
  The use of PKE meters reveals a valence of 
  806.65 – a definite Lovecraftian biological 
  entity reading. Then the needle “ticks” down to 
  806.55. BRAINS roll of 10 to realize that both 
  the PKE meters and Ecto-visors can be set to 
  that valance and used to track the trail. Prof. 
  Olmstead will hang back to try to straighten the 
  damage.
  Using their devices, the Ghostbusters are lead 
  through the building (penises drawn on every 
  picture on the walls. The class photo is 
  particularly amusing.) The trail leads out the 
  backdoor, through a rear parking lot, and down 
  a gradual slope, leading to the Hudson River's 
  edge. In the darkness, you see four vaguely 
  humanoid shapes hunched over something.
  COOL roll on 10 to realize the shadows are 
  snickering and giggling like pre-teens who have 
  stumbled across their dad's Playboys. You can 
  also hear pages rustling and turning. You hear 
  something about a “mating ritual.”
  The figures are three Shallow Ones – Deep 
  Ones that have not fully matured. They broke in 
  and stole the book because “They wanna git 
  gurls...heh heh heh.” (Think of these guys as a 
  cross between Beavis and Butthead and every 
  horny 13-year-old guy.cast member from 
  Porky's. What they don't realize is the book has 
  been mistranslated to contain a dating ritual. 
  This will be trigggered during the prom at 
  Freshwater High later tonight.
  Unless the Ghostbusters do something, one of 
  them will find the right passage and begin 
  reading aloud. My guess is that they're gonna 
  begin shooting. Since the Shallow Ones are not 
  ghosts, the beams won't trap them, but it will 
  sure as hell burn.
  SHALLOW ONE (3 of 'em) 
  Immature Fish Guys
  Special Ability: None 
  Power: 2 Ectopresence: None
  Shallow One 1 – ( ) ( ) 
  Shallow One 2 – ( ) ( ) 
  Shallow One 3 – ( ) ( )
  When the beams start firing, they start 
  screaming, hollaring, and scattering. They talk 
  (unusual) and they sound like high school jock 
  types (also unusual). They use the word 
  dillweed, dillhole, and buttmunch a lot. Make it 
  chaotic. One of them will race into the water 
  with the book, with the two others behind 
  making woob-woob-woob noises.
  ***They pop out of the water doing fist 
  pumps. “Yeah! Tonight, we're gonna 
  SCORE!” they flip off the Ghostbusters and 
  generally act like asses as they disappear 
  from sight.***
  Just as they disappear under the water and the 
  GB wonder what they're gonna do, one of them 
  is tapped on the shoulder. Turning around is a 
  shorter, tubbier Shallow One. (He acts like an 
  8-year old and talks like “Nacho” from 
  Idiocracy.)
  *** Dagum, uh, you guys seen my brothers? 
  I think they ditched me. Again. ***
  Looks like the team just bagged a Shallow One. 
  And a stupid one at that. 
  
  SCENE 2:
  LOOKING UP STUFF AND DOING 
  RESEARCH 
  The Ghostbusters will probably want to 
  interrogate the prisoner. This can be played up 
  for laughs and giggles. The creature calls 
  himself “Jimmy.” The three others were his 
  brothers, Steve, Kyle, and Barbara. He acts like 
  a hurt little brother who is constantly being 
  abused and picked on by his older brothers. 
  Jimmy is actually kind of sweet, in a stupid 
  fush-guy kind of way. He repeats that they just 
  wanted the book “to pick up gurls...” He may 
  spill that they were looking for a mating ritual. 
  **“Dagum, they're always talking that they 
  all, you know, what girlfreinds and junk to 
  kiss and hold and stuff...”**
  And why the penises?
  “Well, Dagum, they think weiners are funny. 
  Heh, I said weiner...”
  NOTE: Jimmy uses the term “Dagum” a lot. 
  Play that up. He also keeps asking for a 
  drink of water. Do that a lot.
  The following Key Terms will reveal the 
  following info (if a proper BRAINS/Research 
  roll is made – level 15): 
  THE NECRONOMICON – The Yellow Pages 
  of occult lore. If it's evil and magical and 
  Lovecraftian, it's in here.
  THE NOMICON – Poorly translated version 
  with many errors, half-done translations, and 
  other issues. It's so unstable, just the act of 
  reading it could cause madness, blindness, and 
  hair to grow on your palms.
  SHALLOW ONES – Unlike their more 
  dangerous and animalistic Deep One cousins, 
  Shallow Ones are younger, more immature 
  specimens. They are found in lakes, rivers, and 
  ponds rather than the ocean's depths. They seem 
  to have retained their human-like intelligence 
  from before they turned into the fish-like 
  creature. However, strange personalities often 
  manifest themselves in these beings.
  MATING RITUAL – A vile, loathsome spell 
  cast to charm and seduce young ladies to, well, 
  you know. The Necronomicon has whole 
  chapters on this kind of thing, as the original 
  author was a real perv. The Nomicon, however, 
  has no such information.
  The mistranslated Nomicon contains a “dating 
  ritual” instead. It is unknown how this spell, 
  once cast, will affect young, nubile women. Or 
  any women. Or men. Or willing plantlife.
  Jimmy will constantly chatter on, offering help 
  and advice  (think the Keymaster in the first 
  movie). Jimmy was tagging along when his 
  brothers pulled this caper. Since he was ditched, 
  he wants his brothers to get in trouble, so he's 
  squealling like a pig. He just wants to help the 
  GB (who seem to be treating him fairly) to get 
  the book back.
  ***Dagum, the book is a bad book? Aw, then 
  you don't want those guys to have it. They'll 
  probably draw weiners in it.***
  Sadly, the brothers have uncovered a scrying 
  spell in the book that seems to work. BRAINS 
  roll to notice the slight window open in reality 
  with the three of them leering in.
  **Jimmy, you buttmunch! You narked on 
  us! Sic 'em Fluffy!***
  Jimmy doesn't know who Fluffy is.
  
   SCENE THREE:
  FLUFFY...SIC 'EM!
  The three brothers, somewhere under in the 
  Hudson River, are still farting around with The 
  Nomicon. The dating ritual is underway when 
  they decided to check in on little brother 
  Jimmy. Seeing him in cahoots, they decided to 
  use the Nomicon to summon  a Hound of 
  Tindalos, but the Nomicon's lousy translation 
  resulted in a three Chihuahuas of Tindalos, 
  which are now phasing in at GBHQ.
  They come out of the corners of the 
  Ghostbusters room. Smoke pours from the 
  corners, and a shadowy form oozes from the 
  angles. When the smoke hits the ground, it 
  manifests into, well, 3 small black (but damn 
  viscious) yippee-yappy chihuahuas. And these 
  CAN be trapped. (They are Class 4 Terror Dogs 
  – Derleth variation.) They are tough to hit 
  (MOVES 20) due to their extra-dimensional-
  ness.
  CHIHAUHAUS OF TINDALOS (3 of 'em) 
  Vicious dimenional hopping yappers
  Special Ability: Yappy Shriek
  Power: 2 Ectopresence: 3 
  Chihauhau 1 – ( ) ( ) ( ) 
  Chihauhau 2 – ( ) ( ) ( ) 
  Chihauhau 3 – ( ) ( ) ( ) 
  If Professor Olmstead is there, he may be able 
  to fill in blanks for the GB who haven't yet put 
  the whole mating/dating ritual to bed yet. Once 
  the chihuahuas are dealt with, a call comes in.
  *** Ghostbusters! This is Principle 
  McVicker at Freshwater High. We're having 
  our prom tonight and something's going 
  wrong! The lights are flickering and some 
  kind of ooze is seeping up the walls. These 3 
  kids just walked in wearing frog suits  and I 
  think there must...***
  Phone goes dead. The dating ritual is in effect 
  during the Freshwater High Junior Prom.
  Jimmy begs to go with the Busters. If they say 
  no, he runs along after them to convenient 
  surprise them from behind again.
  
  SCENE 4: 
  PROM NIGHT 
  When the GBs arrive at Freshwater High, they 
  see the gymnasium is coated in a thick viscuous 
  slime. It's also surrounded by limos, police 
  barricades, and dozens upon dozens of panicky 
  parents.
  **Our kids are in there! What are you gonna 
  do? Get them out of there!**
  Shooting at the door will cause the slime to fold 
  away from it. The door will open and a HUGE 
  Shallow One in a lemon yellow tux will step 
  out. He puts on a pair of glasses and looks at his 
  clipboard.
  **Name?** he asks.
  The Busters need to get inside. To do so, they 
  need to convince this Shallow One to let them 
  in. If shot, he stands there with a bored look on 
  his face as the beams ripple over his body 
  ineffectively. (He licks his fingers and puts out 
  a small fire. Before walking back in and 
  shutting the door. If the Busters try to enlist 
  Jimmy...
  **How old are you? The doorman asks. 
  Jimmy counts on his fingers. “I'll be 56 next 
  month.” “Pffft. Your're just a kid.” and he'll 
  shut the door. ***
  This is a roleplaying exercise for the PCs. They 
  need to get their names on the list (or pretend 
  they're someone on the list. They need tuxes 
  (lots of folks in the parking lot – chauffeurs and 
  kids who were drinking in the parking lot when 
  it went down). And they need ticktes (any slip 
  of paper will do. The illusion is just as gullible 
  as the Shallow Ones. (COOL 15 to get in – 
  bonuses if it's funny – extra dice added to pool.) 
  If they get in, the slime fills in as the enter, the 
  door shuts, and the doorman stands guard. No 
  getting' out.
  Once in, the prom's in full force. Due to the 
  nature of the spell,  the kids are entranced to not 
  see the nature of the Shallow Ones. Steve, Kyle 
  and Barbara are also wearing tuxes and are 
  enjoying prom. One is dancing, one is getting 
  punch for his lady friend, and the other is up on 
  stage,flirting with the prom Queen. None of the 
  women seem to notice what's going on.
  The Nomicon is here too. They laid it next to a 
  bunch of other books – the annual yearbooks 
  are being distributed and it fell into one of the 
  boxes. Been in there for a while, so the other 
  books (same size and shape, of course) have 
  absorbed residual PKE. Gotta find it.
  Shooting up the place might not go over so 
  good for the event because 1. the kids don't see 
  anything wrong and 2. the doorman may 
  intervene. But once one of the Shallow Ones 
  sees the Busters in the prom, they'll react, 
  scrambling for the book. Chaos as folks start 
  shooting and diving for cover and general 
  mayhem.
  Jimmy is getting pretty upset. He's being 
  ignored (again). If he gets hurt or elsewise loses 
  it, he shouts when there's a lull in the action:
  DAGUM, I'm tired of you guys always 
  picking on me and ignoring me and giving 
  me full-body swirlies! And now you took that 
  bad book from my friends. (you are my 
  friends, right?) I'm telling DAD!
  Jimmy starts to chant Dagum, Dagum, Dagum. 
  That's the name of his (and all Shallow Ones') 
  father. Dagum – brother to Dagon. There is 
  screams from outside, the floor shudders, there 
  is an unearthly stillness. Then the ROOF is 
  wrenched from its moorings as it's torn off by 
  Dagum, come to see what his kids are up to.
  Dagum looks like a 40 foot tall Creature from 
  the Black Lagoon. He has a trucker's cap 
  (SKOAL on the front) and a red flannel shirt 
  dripping with seaweed, ichor, and god knows 
  what. He may even have a wad of chaw in his 
  lip.
  
  You know what your dad is like when you've 
  been fighting with your brother or sister and he 
  FINALLY has had enough? That's the situation. 
  He's furious at his kids. He could care less 
  about the human insects. (He is a Semi-Great 
  Old One, after all)
  WHAT IN THE SAN HILL IS GOING ON? 
  CTHULHU DAMN IT, SOMEONE 
  BETTER ANSWER ME!
  Jimmy and the brothers start pointing fingers at 
  each other, trying to deflect the ire to each 
  other. 
  We were following Jimmy because he was 
  lost on the surface world again...nu-uh, you 
  guys were all “let's go meet girls and you 
  stole a book...i dont' know what you're 
  talking about, but jimmy told on us to those 
  humans...but you guys let humans see you 
  and you were kissing some of them on the 
  lips....yeah, well you're friends with 
  humans!...well, you were drawing weiners 
  again!!!
  Dagum's at the end of his rope.
  I DON'T CARE WHO STARTED IT. I'M 
  GONNA FINISH IT.
  Dagum clenches a fist and brings it down. He's 
  trying to hit his kids, but there's a LOT of 
  people in the way who may get hurt – including 
  the Busters. The doors are now unsealed (the 
  slime disappated with Dagum's arrival, as did 
  the trance. Whoops! Panicked kids stampede! 
  Anyway, protect the innocent, get the book, 
  deal with the brothers, and stave off Dagum's 
  attack!!
  DAGUM 
  Dagon's Redneck Brother (Shallow One) 
  Brains: 3     See through Fib: 6 
  Muscle: 4    Smash: 7 
  Moves: 1     Spit Huge Chaw Spit: 4
  Cool: 1       Threaten: 4 
  OOOOOO
  Goal: To beat some sense into those damn kids 
  of his, and do some collateral damage.
  Dagum doesn't even see the humans as in the 
  way. The brothers are now trying to stay out of 
  dad's way. They may even use the Busters as 
  sheilds.
  I SEE YOU HIDING. GET OVER HERE. 
  (crunch) TIME FOR A SPANKIN' YOU 
  GOOD FOR NOTHIN....
  The Busters can try zapping their way through, 
  or if they put the hurt on the brother 
  themselves, Dagum will ease off, seeing they're 
  getting what they deserve. Zapping Dagum may 
  work too, but Jimmy's not keen on that idea and 
  will try pulling the proton wand out of hands. 
  (Stop shootin' my daddy!))
  When Dagum is defeated (unlikely), the 
  brothers are downed (probable), or Great 
  Cthulhu steps in for a guest shot (WTF?!?), 
  Dagum will pick up the brothers.
  THE THREE OF YOU ARE IN FOR THE 
  MOTHER OF ALL ASS-WHUPPINGS. 
  WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE 
  HUMANOID INSECTS?
  ...sorry....
  SORRY WHAT?
  ...sorry that we took your book and drew 
  weiners on everything....
  GOOD. LET'S GO HOME. JIMBO, YOU 
  COMIN'?
  Jimmy follows along, stops and looks longingly 
  back at you guys.
  
  SCENE 5: 
  EPILOGUE 
  *** It's been three weeks since The Prom Of 
  The Damned. Fortunately Dagum tred 
  lightly when he came ashore, so the damage 
  was minimal. OK, so the Freshwater High 
  Gymnasium is pretty much destroyed, but – 
  for once – you were blameless for the 
  destruction. The Mayor of Yonkers declared 
  Ghostbusters Appreciation Day which 
  consisted of a parade    and free balloons for 
  the kids. You even got a Certificate of Merit 
  faxed to you from the original Ghostbusters 
  with the signatures stamped on it and 
  everything! Yup, it's good to finally come out 
  from under the shadow of the New York 
  franchise and come into your own.
  And about that new janitor you hired? 
  Seems to be a hard enough worker, always 
  on time, and happy to help. You just wish 
  he'd stop saying Dagum and asking for 
  glasses of water all the time.*** 
  END 
  
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