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Posted by AdmiralEgg, 4 days, 16 hours ago. Permalink

Nuclear event on belle isle

1,264 and over 8,000 hospitalized from a large nuclear detonation on Bell Isle Detroit secondary reports of some creature moving through the city slaying all the way but these reports have been mostly obfuscated by the bigger headline.

Posted by LapresJunior, 1 week, 5 days ago. Permalink

UA1960 Flight Hijacked by Abnormals!

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5 days, 6 hours ago: Conk wrote a Downtime Journal for Smell no Evil

It might be Learning

I feel like as time goes on this necklace of mine might be learning an adapting. I feel like after every quest and journey I gain a new skill or I learn how to overcome it. Maybe ill learn how to fly cause the plane trip or maybe the arm thing is the only thing that I can do now but that's what adventure is isn't it. I'm so happy the guards gave me paper to write this I wonder if they have as good of translator as my mom because she always says "your writings are different they tell stories and legends but they language you write in to too fantastical and legendary for them" so she helps translate my writings into more normal English so people can read it. Who knows maybe my stories and books will help me find my papa and we can finally be a family again. That's the future and right now we are in the present and they got some good food here and I'm hungry so ima go eat.

Conk Out.

 1 week, 5 days ago: Chiffeo wrote a Downtime Journal for Smell no Evil

Sticky situation

Got away from that airport after all the commotions, I called uncle and let him know that I'm on Hawaii for work related-reasons and I'm not coming home probably for the next 5 days or at worse, more. He let me go and now I'm staying at one of my office colleague's place after the plane commotion just to be sure that the people there didn't put tracking devices on me and probably take a look around the place a bit. Well, if it wasn't filled to the brim with litter around the place. The bigger problem is the potential of me being taken in by any of the party which I did some looking into on the internet don't want to be some of them would even go as far as capturing huge monster to take in for experiments. What would they even do to people like me though?

 1 week, 5 days ago: Chiffeo wrote a Contract Journal for Smell no Evil

Contract report: Smelly Evil?

Contract date: **/**/****

Here goes another contract, this one came from a weird looking guy in manor, he even threw us out for staying there too long. Here is what transpired:

-This one kind of started abruptly given that after I signed the invitation to the contract I immediately blacked out and woke up in a van at a manor, lucky I got dressed and all but I didn't bought my weapon.

-A bunch of mostly recognizable faces are also in the van. There's Beco, Zombie, Neandethal, August and a guy with a cowboy hat that's apparently a very famous person? Something Lazarthus Lit?

-Anyway we all are participant of this contract and we got to prepare ourselves for this one also, it is an escort contract where we have to take Bradley, a vampire dog to Hawaii. Given the abilities of these participants, I doubt I'll need a weapon of my own so I gotten myself an pretty nice eyepatch for my transformed left eye so people wouldn't "eye" as much.. Also to lessen its effects.

-Contracts pretty simple, we headed to a hotel near the airport around 7pm to find Bradley in a room so dark it felt like all light have been consumed even after finding out Bradley's nature one of us just wouldn't stop petting it.

-We got past airport security, not sure if thanks to the cowboy dude influence or not but no one had trouble (Surprisingly) and settled on the plane. Most of us sat in the back of the plane next to the restroom while I sat alone in the middle for a better view around, cowboy guy sat in the first class like a prick.

-Everything went smoothly so far, I thought it was going to be a breeze of a contract but the dog got hungry and August went in the restroom with it to "Pop a racoon and feed it to the dog" (Quoted from Beco). Which caused a commotion that led to the air attendant investigating it which.. With immaculate timing, stopped by the Cowboy Celebrity grabbing her hand and demanding steak. It doesn't help much as there was a woman on board that found out what was going on (If the sign of Beco walking out of the bathroom half-drenched in blood didn't give it away), she seemed to be a evil-hunter with a traumatic past from what my gaze revealed and she was heading to the back with a murderous intent. I signaled one of us to stop her which turned out more trouble, Gary got up to stop her but she backhanded him away amazingly for someone her size but that made Gary lost his temper and he morphed his arm into this hulking flesh mass a grabbed her by the skull. I tried to intervene had the 2 air marshals in the plane didn't stood up. They both barked back and forth with Gary, Conk was surprisingly sleeping soundly through this, Beco tried to back Gary up, August seems to be busy cleaning up the mess in the restroom. Cowboy was moving around in the plane as if keeping an eye on the situation but they somehow deescalate it and got the woman detained. Just in time for the plane to land in Hawaii

-Sad part is, the pilot has already contacted the airport security and they've established a perimeter around the plane to check everyone on it. Bradley was gone the moment the plane landed, the group at the back of the plane where taken in with the woman. I headed out with Cowboy and had to make it past a security check which they did told me to lift my eyepatch and saw the unusual pupil which I really hope they pass it as a Chuunibyou weeb or something. Anyhow, contract is complete but I suspect that I am being watched. Be ready to cut some loose end if they manage to track it to you.

P.S: There title was something written in the contract invitation but I forgot about it

 

 
1 week, 5 days ago: Lazarus Lithp wrote a Downtime Journal for Smell no Evil

An untitled Journal

 
Bee Movie
By Jerry Seinfeld

NARRATOR:
(Black screen with text; The sound of buzzing bees can be heard)
According to all known laws
of aviation,
 :
there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.
 :
Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.
 :
The bee, of course, flies anyway
 :
because bees don't care
what humans think is impossible.
BARRY BENSON:
(Barry is picking out a shirt)
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
 :
Ooh, black and yellow!
Let's shake it up a little.
JANET BENSON:
Barry! Breakfast is ready!
BARRY:
Coming!
 :
Hang on a second.
(Barry uses his antenna like a phone)
 :
Hello?
ADAM FLAYMAN:

(Through phone)
- Barry?
BARRY:
- Adam?
ADAM:
- Can you believe this is happening?
BARRY:
- I can't. I'll pick you up.
(Barry flies down the stairs)
 :
MARTIN BENSON:
Looking sharp.
JANET:
Use the stairs. Your father
paid good money for those.
BARRY:
Sorry. I'm excited.
MARTIN:
Here's the graduate.
We're very proud of you, son.
 :
A perfect report card, all B's.
JANET:
Very proud.
(Rubs Barry's hair)
BARRY=
Ma! I got a thing going here.
JANET:
- You got lint on your fuzz.
BARRY:
- Ow! That's me!

JANET:
- Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.
- Bye!
(Barry flies out the door)
JANET:
Barry, I told you,
stop flying in the house!
(Barry drives through the hive,and is waved at by Adam who is reading a
newspaper)
BARRY==
- Hey, Adam.
ADAM:
- Hey, Barry.
(Adam gets in Barry's car)
 :
- Is that fuzz gel?
BARRY:
- A little. Special day, graduation.
ADAM:
Never thought I'd make it.
(Barry pulls away from the house and continues driving)
BARRY:
Three days grade school,
three days high school...
ADAM:
Those were awkward.
BARRY:
Three days college. I'm glad I took
a day and hitchhiked around the hive.
ADAM==
You did come back different.
(Barry and Adam pass by Artie, who is jogging)
ARTIE:
- Hi, Barry!

BARRY:
- Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
ADAM:
- Hear about Frankie?
BARRY:
- Yeah.
ADAM==
- You going to the funeral?
BARRY:
- No, I'm not going to his funeral.
 :
Everybody knows,
sting someone, you die.
 :
Don't waste it on a squirrel.
Such a hothead.
ADAM:
I guess he could have
just gotten out of the way.
(The car does a barrel roll on the loop-shaped bridge and lands on the
highway)
 :
I love this incorporating
an amusement park into our regular day.
BARRY:
I guess that's why they say we don't need vacations.
(Barry parallel parks the car and together they fly over the graduating
students)
Boy, quite a bit of pomp...
under the circumstances.
(Barry and Adam sit down and put on their hats)
 :
- Well, Adam, today we are men.

ADAM:
- We are!
BARRY=
- Bee-men.
=ADAM=
- Amen!
BARRY AND ADAM:
Hallelujah!
(Barry and Adam both have a happy spasm)
ANNOUNCER:
Students, faculty, distinguished bees,
 :
please welcome Dean Buzzwell.
DEAN BUZZWELL:
Welcome, New Hive Oity
graduating class of...
 :
...9:
 :
That concludes our ceremonies.
 :
And begins your career
at Honex Industries!
ADAM:
Will we pick our job today?
(Adam and Barry get into a tour bus)
BARRY=
I heard it's just orientation.
(Tour buses rise out of the ground and the students are automatically
loaded into the buses)
TOUR GUIDE:
Heads up! Here we go.

ANNOUNCER:
Keep your hands and antennas
inside the tram at all times.
BARRY:
- Wonder what it'll be like?
ADAM:
- A little scary.
TOUR GUIDE==
Welcome to Honex,
a division of Honesco
 :
and a part of the Hexagon Group.
Barry:
This is it!
BARRY AND ADAM:
Wow.
BARRY:
Wow.
(The bus drives down a road an on either side are the Bee's massive
complicated Honey-making machines)
TOUR GUIDE:
We know that you, as a bee,
have worked your whole life
 :
to get to the point where you
can work for your whole life.
 :
Honey begins when our valiant Pollen
Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.
 :
Our top-secret formula
 :
is automatically color-corrected,

scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured
 :
into this soothing sweet syrup
 :
with its distinctive
golden glow you know as...
EVERYONE ON BUS:
Honey!
(The guide has been collecting honey into a bottle and she throws it into
the crowd on the bus and it is caught by a girl in the back)
ADAM:
- That girl was hot.
BARRY:
- She's my cousin!
ADAM==
- She is?
BARRY:
- Yes, we're all cousins.
ADAM:
- Right. You're right.
TOUR GUIDE:
- At Honex, we constantly strive
 :
to improve every aspect
of bee existence.
 :
These bees are stress-testing
a new helmet technology.
(The bus passes by a Bee wearing a helmet who is being smashed into the
ground with fly-swatters, newspapers and boots. He lifts a thumbs up but
you can hear him groan)
 :
ADAM==

- What do you think he makes?
BARRY:
- Not enough.
TOUR GUIDE:
Here we have our latest advancement,
the Krelman.
(They pass by a turning wheel with Bees standing on pegs, who are each
wearing a finger-shaped hat)
Barry:
- Wow, What does that do?
TOUR GUIDE:
- Catches that little strand of honey
 :
that hangs after you pour it.
Saves us millions.
ADAM:
(Intrigued)
Can anyone work on the Krelman?
TOUR GUIDE:
Of course. Most bee jobs are
small ones.
But bees know that every small job,
if it's done well, means a lot.
 :
But choose carefully
 :
because you'll stay in the job
you pick for the rest of your life.
(Everyone claps except for Barry)
BARRY:
The same job the rest of your life?
I didn't know that.
ADAM:

What's the difference?
TOUR GUIDE:
You'll be happy to know that bees,
as a species, haven't had one day off
 :
in 27 million years.
BARRY:
(Upset)
So you'll just work us to death?
 :
We'll sure try.
(Everyone on the bus laughs except Barry. Barry and Adam are walking back
home together)
ADAM:
Wow! That blew my mind!
BARRY:
"What's the difference?"
How can you say that?
 :
One job forever?
That's an insane choice to have to make.
ADAM:
I'm relieved. Now we only have
to make one decision in life.
BARRY:
But, Adam, how could they
never have told us that?
ADAM:
Why would you question anything?
We're bees.
 :
We're the most perfectly
functioning society on Earth.

BARRY:
You ever think maybe things
work a little too well here?
ADAM:
Like what? Give me one example.
(Barry and Adam stop walking and it is revealed to the audience that
hundreds of cars are speeding by and narrowly missing them in perfect
unison)
BARRY:
I don't know. But you know
what I'm talking about.
ANNOUNCER:
Please clear the gate.
Royal Nectar Force on approach.
BARRY:
Wait a second. Check it out.
(The Pollen jocks fly in, circle around and landing in line)
 :
- Hey, those are Pollen Jocks!
ADAM:
- Wow.
 2 weeks, 5 days ago: Conk wrote a Downtime Journal for Golden Opportunity

Here is the same thing as last time I wrote two Journels :)

The Opportunity was Golden

So I've completely lost where on earth I am now, but we entered a castle and we got a sleepytime book but only certain people can read it so it may be useful. We where in a castle and the weird men told us to handle the other weird men inside the castle so we did that and retrieve "a golden opportunity" I felt like I got stronger since that castle journey. I also feel like I've gotten closer with my past and I feel like this necklace may be helping me with that but I feel like this is all above me, weird cults, strange boba, all weird men. Who knows maybe after this night we are going to have to deal with the moon turning off or the ground shaking a lot but I'm now in the mood for some beef or fish so ima go find a good place

Conk Out

Latest Completed Contracts

5 Contracts have been run in this Playgroup
3 weeks, 4 days ago: ScaryName ran Golden Opportunity
1 month ago: A_Clown ran Bobasaurus
The Circus was created by A_Clown 1 month, 4 weeks ago

A_Clown
Playgroup Leader

August Murph the Med Student god-like healer
A 4-Victory Novice Contractor

AdmiralEgg
Playgroup Member

Vladislav the Science slav cyborg
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
Alejandro Luvin the Crippled gunman real boy
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
Gae'Laerd the Elven Paladin Conduit of Divine energy
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
Just a fucking gorilla the Great Ape Supreme Ape
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
David D. the debonair heir President
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
Elias Fakaname the assassin cryptid
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
Beco-De-Bepis the bodyguard chosen one
A 4-Victory Novice Contractor

Aleph
Playgroup Member

Chiffeo the shut-in Investigator
A 4-Victory Novice Contractor

fourlokoDUI
Playgroup Member

Johnny Cool the Disco Resurrectionist solipsist
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor

LapresJunior
Playgroup Member

Lucious Jabroni the lanky man looking for approval chosen one
A 4-Victory Novice Contractor

ScaryName
Playgroup Member

Rolf the maniacal, retired mechanic supernatural tinkerer
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
François the fed up street sweeper psykinetic
A 0-Victory Newbie Contractor
Gary the unsettling mortician man capable of reviving himself
A 4-Victory Novice Contractor

SoothingCoder
Playgroup Member

Conk the Wrestler Fighter
A 5-Victory Novice Contractor

SpamOnPlane
Playgroup Member

Lazarus Lithp the Eldritch CQC (Close Quarters Cowboy) Gunslinger
A 2-Victory Newbie Contractor

Illuminated Earth

Illuminated Earth is a twisted reflection of the modern world where the advent of smartphones and the internet confirmed the existence of the supernatural instead of disproving it. Here, witch hunts have merit. Billionaires and Senators employ paranormal advisors and bodyguards, and everyone knows. Charlatans become pop culture icons, and each revelation inspires a new cult. The world is changing. The secret societies that pull humanity's strings scramble to adapt.

Now's a good time to move up.

House Rules

Contractors from The Circus Are portable, and may play in Contracts in other Playgroups.
The Circus grants 6 Experience points to GMs who achieve the Golden Ratio.
  • Citizenship: Active Players are expected to GM Contracts from time to time. If you have played as a Contractor in your most recent six Contracts, you are barred from playing in The Illumination again until you GM.
  • Supernatural Powers: All non-mastery, non-concealed Powers must be obviously supernatural when activated or grant a mutation that marks the wielder as supernatural or bizarre if discovered.

Full Setting Description

They named that time The Illumination, and it was by the flash of a camera phone.

 

The year was 2004. Until that point the Earth was as we had always known her. We filled her cruel vastness with legends, superstitions, and rumors. Warlocks, monsters, and gods lurked on the edge of the collective consciousness, always a possibility but never more. We lacked evidence. That evidence came as humanity filled its pockets with technology equipped to capture and transmit.

 

An iPhone found on High School senior Nate Klienman’s mangled corpse held a video of his girlfriend’s bone-snapping transformation into a monstrous wolf creature. A Brazilian widow documented a series of conversations with the misty figure of her late husband. A Chinese fishing boat caught a mermaid in a net and put it on display in the Beijing aquarium.

 

Each week brought a new revelation that we were not alone. Superstitions reversed their slow death overnight. Salem held their first witch trial in a century. The jury rendered a verdict of “guilty on all charges” and sentenced Maxibelle Horux to death. A week after her lethal injection, half the jury died from a tainted batch of flu vaccine. A fearful, populist movement arose to rid humanity of the creatures lurking in its ranks. Suspects are forcibly subjected to bizarre tests of their humanity, and the results are often open to interpretation. A mob’s justice is swift.

 

Yet the paranormal is not merely relegated to a persecuted class. Where some see monsters, some see sentience, and others see opportunity. If a vampire can sustain themselves on cloned blood and work the graveyard shift, why not legalize and tax? Politicians and Aristocrats employ odd-looking individuals as "advisors" or "protection." Entertainment magazines publish revelations every week about which celebrities shed their human skins at home. Charlatans of all stripes, from palmistry mediums to televangelists, have flourished despite the risks. The treatment of the paranormal varies from place to place, person to person.

 

Long have cabals, cults, and secret societies thrived in the shadows. Their roots run deeply through humanity’s oldest systems of power. Machinations are challenged, and sleeping dangers awaken. The world is changing, forcing long-dormant powers into desperate action. And it is in the midst of this great period of change that The Powers That Be have once again turned their attention to the blue marble. For the first time in two hundred years, Harbingers approach worthy individuals with an offer they won't refuse.

The Games have returned, and a new generation of Contractors are being forged.

World Events

Posted by AdmiralEgg, 4 days, 16 hours ago. Permalink

Nuclear event on belle isle

1,264 and over 8,000 hospitalized from a large nuclear detonation on Bell Isle Detroit secondary reports of some creature moving through the city slaying all the way but these reports have been mostly obfuscated by the bigger headline.

Posted by LapresJunior, 1 week, 5 days ago. Permalink

UA1960 Flight Hijacked by Abnormals!

Posted by Aleph, 2 weeks, 5 days ago. Permalink

Big thunder storm in Palo Alto

"What are they doing ova 'ere?"

Posted by ScaryName, 3 weeks, 4 days ago. Permalink

RITUAL OF OPPORTUNITY DISRUPTED, what will the Cult do next?

Posted by A_Clown, 1 month, 3 weeks ago. Permalink

Brutal Bombings in Chicago?!

On Tuesday, March 19th 2021, a series of bombings took out many shops and with them, the people inside.

Total Wounded : 54

Total Killed : 23

 

Suspects still on the loose

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