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THAUMATECHNOLOGY
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THE HARVEST MARKET

A thriving black market exists for monstrous “spare parts,” and some
hunters unaffi liated with Cheiron work that market, selling rare specimens
or limbs to TCG for big bucks. It’s also a good way to get noticed by
Cheiron, which has its…pluses and minuses. More information on the Harvest
Market can be found on p. 202, in the Research and Development section.

time during the surgery when the patient would suffer a lethal ings that area of the body usually has. It’s hooked directly into
wound, he takes no damage. the bloodstream, too, and it feeds from your blood all day and
Suggested Equipment: Set of surgeon’s tools (scalpels, all night and it does one thing in return: it hates. The Anger

retractors, clamps) (+1), field surgical kit (+1), military surgi- Patch isn’t just a square of a dead man’s skin, it’s a square of a
cal kit (+2), access to surgical facilities (+3) vampire’s skin. Vampires, as Cheiron scientists have observed,
Possible Penalties: Lack of tools (-1 to -4), bad weather exhibit an instinctual territorial aggression on a scale unprec-
(-2), distraction from noise (-1) to imminent danger (-4) edented in nature, and with a little biomedical tinkering, the
Special: These rules are meant to be used when characters boys in the back room have fi gured out how to harness that.
wish to recover or implant Thaumatechnology “in the fi eld,” as Benefi t: The Anger Patch acts as a kind of automatic
it were. If a hunter acquires new Thaumatechnology implants by vampire detector. Whenever a character with an Anger Patch
spending experience points, assume that those implants are in- becomes aware of a vampire, the patch writhes and twitches
stalled by the Cheiron Group’s specialists in fully stocked medical irritably, as though the muscles under the skin are experienc-
facilities. All surgical procedures, and recovery from wounds suf- ing a muscle spasm. The character does not need to be aware
fered during surgical procedures, occur during “down time.” the person he’s seen is a vampire — just catching a glimpse

of a pale figure across the club is sufficient — but the Anger
Anger Patch (•) Patch, by virtue of being grafted into the central nervous sys-
The Anger Patch is a small patch of a dead man’s skin tem, makes the character instinctively aware of who the vam-
grafted to the base of the neck. One inch square, precisely mea- pire is (or who the vampires are). The sensation lasts about a
sured, the patch is wired with twice the number of nerve end- turn, just long enough to make it hard to miss.

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