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A Child’s Game

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring

lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.”

-1 Peter 5:8

A child, blessed by the Almighty with visions to aid the fight against

the foul Adversary, has been spiritually assaulted by vicious devils of

all sorts. Taken to the famed Court of Whispers, birthplace of the

accord, Witch Hunters from throughout Europe have attempted

to aid her to no avail. The characters are compelled to follow her

visions across the ocean to the New World. Can they triumph

against the forces of the Adversary before the veil between worlds

is torn asunder and devils walk the earth?

This introductory adventure represents an ideal starting place for

any Witch Hunter campaign.

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A Child’s Game

Author: Rucht Lilavivat

Cover and Interior Artist: Pat Loboyko

Layout: Ruben Smith-Zempel

Editors: Henry Lopez and Eric Wiener

Additional Material: Brian Schoner and Eric Wiener

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Welcome to the World of Witch Hunter!

Your First Witch Hunter Game

Obviously, we hope you like Witch Hunter enough to run

your own campaigns in this unique setting. So what’s it take

to run a good Witch Hunter game? First of all, you will need

a party who works together and will back each other up. In a

horror campaign, where everything the characters hold true

and dear will be called into question, each hero will need the

others to lean on. Two things can help you do this:

on board individually. Alternatively, a PC could be sent out

to gather up the rest of the cadre, creating an ever-growing

role-playing session as new characters continually meet each

other, one at a time. he drawback to this meeting device is,

of course, that certain players will have to sit back for a while,

while other people role-play. However, it does give every

single character a chance to shine.

We are assembled at the same time…

his is more of the traditional way a role-playing campaign

starts. In this scenario, it would probably be best for the

PCs to meet at the Court of Whispers, which is where the

adventure irst begins. It’s a dramatic location, and it’s a place

that will feature a large number of Witch Hunters, so it’s not

as contrived as meeting at a tavern.

Find a good rallying point

If a Catholic nun, drunken pirate, and Native American scout

are all going adventuring together, you will need a very good

reason for all of these characters to work together. In many

role-playing games, you might have the player characters

all meet in a tavern somewhere. hat approach won’t work

in Witch Hunter, because many of the character types in

this setting wouldn’t normally associate with each other.

herefore, make sure your Witch Hunter band has a rock

solid reason they get along or work together. he adventure

featured here gives a good example of that.

Adventure Background

he story of Legion is known throughout the world. It has

been used in numerous novel, texts, movies, comic books, and

songs. Legion, a demonic entity, is a igure that has appeared

time and time again, as a igure of absolute fear and menace.

he most chilling appearance of Legion, however, is perhaps

from the source in which it irst appears – he Holy Bible.

Nixing Character Problems

Make sure that you address character friction right away.

Don’t let people make characters in isolation. Instead,

have the group make their characters at the table together.

Otherwise, you may have a character that lost his parents

when they were scalped alive by Indians before his very eyes,

while another player creates a Native American warrior. Try

to head of such conlicted relationships of at the pass. A

little character conlict can be interesting. However, very

contentious characters can ruin a game.

hey went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.

When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit came

rom the tombs to meet him. his man lived in the tombs, and

no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he

had oten been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chain

apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough

to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills

he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

When he saw Jesus rom a distance, he ran and fell on his

knees in ront of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, “What

do you want with me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? Swear

to God that you won’t torture me!” For Jesus said to him, “Come

out of this man, you evil spirit!”

hen Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

Getting the Cadre Together

he question remains, how will the PCs meet up with one

another? here a number of options that the GM has here:

We already know each other…

his is obviously the easiest way to start the adventure. In this

case, it will be very important for the players to make their

character together. Ater all, if the PCs are all friends or at

least allies, they probably get along to some degree, right?

Holy Bible, Mark 5:1-9

We are assembled one at a time…

his is a dramatic and systematic way to introduce all of the

character into the campaign. In this scenario, each individual

PC is introduced into the cadre one at a time. If you chose

to go with this option, a single NPC like Tom Hargetty goes

around to each of the PCs hangouts and invites them to come

As the Bible states, Jesus Christ met the demon-possessed

man at Gerasenes. It was there that He drove out the demons

from the possessed man. Ater this, the horde of demons they

led into the bodies of a large herd of two thousand pigs and

drowned themselves.

Now, it appears, Legion attempting to return to earth.

The Story Begins

he main antagonist of this adventure is none other than

Legion itself, the very same entity that met Christ about 1600

years ago. Legion is not a single entity, but a conglomeration

of two thousand devils, spirits, and demons.

of the ire and possess the body of Bruno Albrect, a trading

merchant from Germany. So far, Azazel has managed to

gather up one hundred and six other spirits and bind them

into his mortal shell. He has managed to claim this large

number ater twenty-ive years of tireless pursuit of spirits

around the globe.

Now, these beings are beginning to return earth, for an event

of great importance nears. he irst of these beings is a demon

by the name of Azazel. Azazel is an extremely powerful

daemon – an angel who irst turned away from God during

the beginning of creation. More information on Azazel and

Legion itself can be located in the NPC section.

Azazel has other agendas as well. Besides looking for more

spirit energy to absorb, Azazel is seeking to assemble an army

of spirit-possessed hosts. As he encounters new spirit-entities,

he gives them a choice – become absorbed by me, or join my

army. hus, he has collected a small army of possessed people,

all working for him at diferent levels of society all around

the globe.

While Azazel was languishing in Hell, he was able to contact

a number of followers who carried out his bidding on earth.

Azazel’s irst goal was to be able to return to earth, an act he

accomplished by getting some of his followers to make human

sacriices during the blaze of the Great Fire of London.

Legion now seeks to expand their goals into the New

World. hey have learned from the legends and tales of the

Colonies that it is a place rife with spirit activity. All sorts

of supernatural activity are taking place there at this time.

Legion seeks now to go to the Grave New World and make a

home for themselves. With all of the spirits found there, the

amalgam being can absorb a large variety of beings as well as

add to the ranks of their possessed.

It is important to note that Azazel’s followers did not start

the Great Fire of London. hat was accomplished by another

group of accursed individuals. Azazel was able to spring out

Where the Player Characters Come In

he player characters are irst contacted through a dream

or vision. his vision has been sent by a nine-year-old

prophetess – Alena of Palestine. She is a student of Blind

John, one of the Twelve Penitents and advisor to Witch

Hunters all over the world.

For the past two years, Alena has been traveling with Blind

John around the world, advising Witch Hunters and

helping him point the way for Witch Hunters who were

seeking evil. She is due to replace him when he passes on.

However, in the past few months, Alena has been plagued

by strange visions, visions of a devil army amassing on Earth.

Soon ater, before she could interpret her visions, she was

spiritually assaulted by devils of all sorts. Blind John took

her to the Court of Whispers, the very place where the

Accord was signed ater the Great Fire of London. here,

numerous Witch Hunters from around the globe have now

stopped by to see Alena to see if they could do anything for

her.

However, no one can do anything for her. Only the

PCs are destined to be able to assist her.

Introduction

As this adventure is meant for beginning characters, it is

important that everyone at the table has made characters that

aren’t seasoned veterans of the Grave New World.

he girl struggles out of her bed and falls to the loor. he

creature coils itself on her bed, looking up at you and watching

you with interest. Two people rush to the little girl and are at

her side. She reaches out to you. People look in the direction of

her hand, but no one seems to see you. She looks up and speaks

to you. She seems to know precisely where you are. Yet her

eyes are empty holes, gaping places of darkness. “He’s getting

strong,” she says in your Native language. “I can’t hold him

of forever. You must hurry, or more…many more will sufer.

Only you may stop it. Find me and I shall tell you about….”

he reason for the player characters to gather in the Court

of Whispers is quite simple. he player characters will be

summoned to the Court of Whispers by some divine vision.

Each Witch Hunter involved in the adventure will receive the

same vision.

If the GM wishes, the player characters can also be nudged

along by Tom Hargetty, a humble servant of the Court of

Whispers.

he girl passes out, unconscious. he assembled people around

her all look in your direction, not seeing you and wondering.

The Vision

In this adventure hook, the player characters in question

receive a powerful vision. his scene might take place while

the PCs are awake or while they are asleep. It will be up to

the GM to decide. he scene the PCs experience will be as

follows:

Just ater the vision, the characters receiving it always get a

tugging feeling, compelling them in a certain direction.

As the character travels in the direction of the tugging, the

feeling lessens.

Ignoring the vision is diicult to do. hose who ignore the

vision begin to get a terrible nagging feeling, like something

is increasingly wrong. hen, the vision keeps recurring, over

and over. Soon, the poor receivers of the vision begin to see

the vision over and over again – while they are awake, while

they are asleep...they can’t get away from it. Eventually, the

receivers of the vision will see themselves in the bed, and feel

the strange goat-headed being push its thumbs into their

eyes.

Your vision begins with you inside of a wooden box. You are

naked except for a loincloth. You have been lying on your side,

curled into a fetal position for days. It is hot. You thirst. You

have thirsted for so long ; you don’t know what it is like to not

thirst. Words are spoken. Light pours in, a harsh, terrible

light. Hands grab you. Many hands.

You feel a slight sense of dizziness as the world around you

spins and blurs. Suddenly, you realize that you are in some

sort of chamber. Lying in a small bed is a little girl, of

indeterminate race. She is asleep. She is surrounded by a wide

variety of people – Asian, Indian, English, French…all of

these people are talking amongst each other and shaking their

heads. From the corner of the room, you see something entirely

diferent rom any of the other individuals in the room... It is

a long limbed igure with strange, wrinkled, white skin. Its

bony limbs are long and bony, but stout. Its face is the most

bizarre. Instead of a human face, this creature has goat’s

head. It looks directly at you and grins at you, watching you

as it walks by. It gets on top of the bed and straddles the little

girl. hen, as it watches you, it reaches its long, long ingers

out and wraps them around her sot, delicate face. It begins to

slowly squeeze push its thumbs into her eyelids, pushing down

into her sockets.

he only way to get rid of the visions and the nagging feeling

is to travel in the direction of their tugging. he direction

eventually takes the characters to London, and then to the

Court of Whispers below Westminster Abby.

he tugging sensation won’t send the PCs across the ocean in

a rowboat, of course. It will bring them to a ship that will take

them to England, so on and so forth.

If the PCs in question have no means to aford a cross-Atlantic

voyage, they will ind that the ship captain has mysteriously

been expecting the Witch Hunters to arrive. Indeed, the

captain will refuse to let them pay for their voyage…all because

of the visions the captain has been receiving.

For Native American characters, it should be noted that it

was not unheard of for Native characters to make the journey

across the Atlantic at this time. Many traveled abroad at the

behest of royalty, or powerful companies. A Native American

aboard a Dutch, French, or English ship would still be an

oddity, but it would by not means be impossible.

he little girl begins to scream. Instantly, the assembled people

are at her side, all beginning to chant in various languages, all

trying various remedies. But none of them can see the hing

that sits upon the little girl’s chest, slowly pushing its thumbs

into her eyes.

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