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The Detective's job consists
in studying the ripples forming on the water, and in discovering who threw
the stone.
Alfred Hitchcock
General Conventions
niteside dreams adventure
outlines are structured in sections
Ideally, Mythos references, if any, should be confined to either the score or the twist, at least in beginning scenarios.
In some cases, like the following scenario that was used to playtest the setting, Mythos references can be left completely out of the pcture.
Ripples
The
Hook
Rebecca Mitchell has a problem - and as a fresh
widow of a wealthy doctor (Elliott, killed in a car crash) she can buy someone
to solve it. Fact is, in the last few weeks she has been followed. And someone's
entered her house. And messed with her things in her room. She scared. And
she'd be extremely grateful should the investigators put a plug on
the case (Look at the pic. Get it?).
The Case
It will not take
long to learn the late good doctor's main source of income: he was doing
some stiff biz faking Health Department certificates for counterfeit Brazilian
zombies - for a share on the price when the corpses were sold as certified
Haitian products.
Handling the good doctor's business partner - Luis "El
Loco" Montero, Cuban gangster and part-time houngan, will take quite a bit
of work.
The cops might like to learn a bit of what's happening, too,
amd will probably keep an eye on the team.
The Score
The dame iced the
doc for the dough.
Elliott's back from the dead, courtesy of "El Loco"
and a litle "life insurance" thinghy the cuban had given his friend years
ago, and is waiting for the right moment to exhact his revenge on the chick
- or maybe just get back together. He does not like nosey-parkers. And is
dead jealous.
The Twist
Faced with "The
Ugly Truth"(TM), the dame might as well side with the corpse against the
investigators.
