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Occult investigation · d100 rulebook
Paris 1926
- 2–4 players
- Difficulty 2 of 3
- Not recommended under 14
- Available in: Français, English, Español, Deutsch, Italiano
Montparnasse dances until dawn, but in the catacombs someone recites verses no poet ever wrote. An investigation among cabarets, studios and séance parlours.
The rulebook at a glance
- d100 roll-under
- 5 attributes
- Mental balance
Choose an adventure
- Campaign
Verses of the Night
5 sessions · investigation, cabarets, catacombs
Cost: 5 Dice for the whole table
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The world
- PlaceLa RotondeA Montparnasse café where you rub shoulders with painters, poets and spies.
- PlaceThe CatacombsAn endless ossuary beneath the Left Bank.
- FactionThe Pale Circle SocietyA spiritualist club that recruits from high society.
- CharacterMadame ZinaïdaA Russian medium, a socialite, and far too well informed.
The rulebook
Resolving actions
- Roll 1d100: a result lower than or equal to the skill is a success.
- Half the skill or less: major success.
- A fifth or less: extreme success.
- 96 to 100: fumble.
Initiative : Finesse
Attributes
- Vigour VIG
- Health, strength, running.
- Finesse FIN
- Agility, stealth, lock-picking.
- Erudition ERU
- Libraries, dead languages, the occult.
- Intuition INT
- Spotting a lie, a detail, a danger.
- Charm CHM
- High society, persuasion, connections.
Special rules
- Mental balance
- Each encounter with the unspeakable costs 1d6 points of Intuition. At 10 or less, the character is haunted: the Storyteller gives them a mania. A calm week between two sessions restores 1d6 points, without going above the starting value.
- Clues
- Essential clues are always found; a successful roll gives more of them, or gives them faster.
Character creation
Roll 3 dice with 6 faces per attribute, multiply the total by 5 · 2 rerolls allowed3d6x5
Origins
- Parisian upper class
- Money and salons; +10 Charm.
- Russian exile
- Languages and memories; +10 Erudition.
- Child of the backstreets
- The street and its codes; +10 Finesse.
Vocations
- Journalist
- Notebook, camera, curiosity.
- Painter
- A trained eye and bohemian friends.
- Inspector
- Police card and service revolver.
- Medium
- Sees what others cannot.
Derived values
- Hit points
- Vigour ÷ 10
- Defense
- Finesse ÷ 2
- Initiative
- Finesse
Starting equipment
- A notebook and a pencil
- A flashlight
- A few francs
Veils
Topics kept off screen: the Narrator never shows or describes them.
- violence against children
- sexual violence
- sacrifices