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Operation Report: Handle With Care Part 3 - JACK In The Box

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  Las Vegas, Nevada. March 18, 2005. Since dr. Fincher was not properly inducted into the conspiracy, Agent JACE opts to take him along while he observes the Casavecchia estate so that he can learn tradecraft on the field. The family lives on a large compound in the hills outside Las Vegas. Fincher recognizes that most buildings on the grounds are modeled after early Italian Renaissance architecture, and many structures are useless or vestigial: a servant house and a stone barn, for example. The main house is shaped like a horseshoe, with a young olive tree and a well in the heart of the courtyard. Fincher opts to go and look up property records and floor plans at city hall, while JACE stays to watch over the compound. JACE can't shake the feeling he too is being watched, from above. Meanwhile, JACK is studying his copy of the  De Mulieribus . Most of the later portion of the book is unchanged, if not for certain peculiar choices in translation. The first part, covering goddes...

ARCHINT: The Falconer's Glove

I've been running a sandbox scenario focused on the player Agents figuring out which items up for sale at an auction may be Unnatural and sabotaging the event so that they do not fall into the wrong hands. Here is a detailed writeup of one of the artifacts, assuming it is revealed to be Unnatural. There were six other artifacts in the scenario, three of which I will publish in this fashion. The other three were simply too specific to the context of my campaign. An operation report for the scenario will be coming "soon" (in the Arc Dream Publishing sense of the word). The Falconer's Glove A leather falconry glove associated with the cult of Mars-Nodens, retrieved from a late-Roman / early-medieval temple of the god. Surprisingly well-preserved for an artifact made out of leather. It allows the wearer to summon a Night Terror and bind it to their will.  History The glove dates to the 5th century AD, around the collapse of Roman control on the British isles. It was creat...