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Adventure Seed: The Corpse-Flower God.

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Adventure seed: The Corpse-Flower God

Rejoice, o mortals! The Seelie Court has graciously decided to make proper use of your brutish, ephemeral existence! Be flattered that you now have a purpose!

As you probably are too ignorant to properly understand, every flower in the land has a spirit set as representative and guardian for its kind. When those flowers bloom… why, then, so does that spirit. The spirit is the flowers, and the flowers are the spirit. As one prospers, so does the other.

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Adventure Seed: Vengeance of the Weevil Empire.

Vengeance of the Weevil Empire

“Good morning, Agents. [Picture appears, of an elderly Caucasian male with glasses and a short beard] This is a picture of Harvey Grisham of Tuttle, Kentucky. On May 17, 1995 he opened his back door to discover that an alien colony ship had crash-landed in his very extensive and back yard. The ship was from the Radiant Glorious Space Weevil Empire (their own name for themselves cannot be translated into a human language), and had been damaged while heading for an uninhabited colony world. Please note that the average Space Weevil [picture appears, of a beetle-like creature wearing a shiny jumpsuit, with a penny for scale] is about three quarters of an inch long, which meant that the entire colony ship – one rated for about 100,000 colonists – was about the length and volume of a mid-sized car.

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Adventure seed: The Devil Double-Bind

Somewhere out there in the multiverse there is a continuum where the forces of supernatural Good and Evil are locked in a nigh-eternal struggle. Neither side wishes to provoke a final battle, because neither side is confident of victory. So an armed and often threadbare truce barely holds, but is bitterly resented by both sides. Both sides scheme and plot and hatch byzantine plans to gain momentary advantage. Often the plans are subtle and complex, as befits the machinations of immortals…

And sometimes there’s just a disaster in the paperwork.

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Adventure seed: The American Herd.

The mundane details are all true, by the way.

The American Herd

Oh, this one is tricky, esoterically speaking.

It goes like this: there is an ethnic/linguistic group in Africa called the Maasai. They live more or less in Kenya, where they herd and maintain a semi-nomadic lifestyle. And, about a decade and a half ago, a certain attack in NYC prompted one tribe of the Maasai to gift the American people with some of their cattle. This is significant because one of the folk traditions of the Maasai is that they in fact were given all the cattle in the world by God; apparently the rest of us are simply taking care of the cows until a Maasai tribesman can come to collect them (yes, not unrelatedly: the Maasai are legendary cattle rustlers). So just giving the USA some of their cows is… ‘significant’ is not the word to use. Try ‘remarkable’ and ‘virtually unprecedented.’

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Adventure seed: The Liberty Artifact.

The Liberty Artifact

“Good morning, Agents. Yesterday afternoon this item was brought in voluntarily by a movie memorabilia collector who purchased it on e-Bay, under the mistaken belief that he was bidding on a prop from the film Cloverfield:

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Adventure seed: Topeka Wireless Interplanetary Telegraphy Company.

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Topeka Wireless Interplanetary Telegraphy Company

Established 1921

This company does not exist in electronic record, so don’t bother looking it up. The thing is, though: it should: the state of Kansas has older companies in its online database. However, for some reason, the only files are all in paper form and stuck in an archive somewhere. Very likely misfiled, too. Continue reading Adventure seed: Topeka Wireless Interplanetary Telegraphy Company.

Adventure seed: SANDAL KEYWORD (anagram of #WorldSnakeDay)

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Adventure seed: Operation SANDAL KEYWORD

This still-too-classified-to-legally-exist NSA case file dates back to the 1970s, which is a nostalgic time for some Shadow Government operatives and a source of nightmare fuel to others. It all depended on how close you got to getting strapped to the sacrificial altar before the nominal cavalry arrived – and no, that wasn’t any sort of euphemism. The ascension of the never-elected Gerald Ford to the Presidency caused some extremely weird ripples in the cultural Deep Unconscious, occultly speaking. To the point where even the masses were reacting, and that’s typically not great news. For everybody, including the masses. Continue reading Adventure seed: SANDAL KEYWORD (anagram of #WorldSnakeDay)

Item seed: The Copenhagen Archive.

The Copenhagen Archive

This semi-legendary tome is a rumor among the occult community; it purports to be an accurate recounting of the Secret History of civilization since the end of World War I. Most dabblers in the supernatural know ‘a friend of a friend’ who has perused it, but people who have actually gone through it are thin on the ground. Which makes sense, because it’s actually a subtle and powerful trap.

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Adventure seed: ‘Four to Six Weeks for Delivery OF YOUR SOUL.’

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Four to Six Weeks for Delivery OF YOUR SOUL.

OK, here’s the situation. About a month and a half ago, a Chinese counter-Cosmic Terror squad chased something into a Shanghai shipping facility. And then they promptly lost it, apparently. Nobody knows what it was that they were chasing, or why they were chasing it. What we do know is that the Chinese apparently decided that chasing it out of China counted as a win, so whatever-it-was apparently infested a shipping container and fled the country.

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