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soil requires finding a cemetery that’s particularly old, haunted ground or floor to help them find their way out of unfamiliar

or cursed (extended action requiring five successes on an territory, or clip them onto their clothes so they can keep
Intelligence + Occult roll) and knowing how and when to an eye on each other at a distance (using different colored
collect the soil so that it will retain its occult properties (another sticks helps makes it easy to tell who’s who). Some hunters
research project, requiring six successes with Intelligence + will try to splash the luminescent contents onto their quarry
Occult). The collection techniques typically present multiple to make a monster easier to follow in low-light conditions
inconvenient but not insurmountable challenges for soil (negating penalties to a chase or shadowing attempt). This
collectors: the soil can only be collected by moonlight, it requires breaking or cutting the stick, as they’re designed not
has to be near the grave of someone who died by violence, it to be opened. Several small or one large glowstick affects tasks
must be harvested by someone of high virtue, etc. On top of performed in darkness in the same way as a single flashlight, as

that, the collectors must cope with security systems and legal long as the action takes place within its circle of illumination
consequences of attempting an act of grave desecration — (about three yards in diameter). Novelty-grade glowsticks
which is why many hunters are willing to pay for the product last one to three hours; those made for law enforcement or
and let others handle the legwork. commercial purposes can last up to 12 hours. Glowsticks that
emit infrared light, and hence can be used with IR-sensitive
Glowsticks imaging systems, are available to law enforcement and military
Durability 1, Size 1, Structure 2, Cost • users or from gray-market sources.
These plastic tubes contain chemicals that create
illumination when mixed together (usually by shaking the Headset Communication System
tube or twisting or breaking open a part of it). Glowsticks Durability 1 Size 2 Structure 3 Cost •• to ••• (per
come in a variety of lengths, from a few inches to a foot or headset)
more. Though they’re not reusable and can’t be turned off Essentially a set of walkie-talkies with voice-activated
once activated, they do have several advantages of other microphones, these devices are a godsend for a hunter cell that
light sources: they’re cheap, they’re light, they’re wind- and needs hands-free communication while on a mission. Most have
waterproof, they don’t have batteries that will fall out when a stated range of up to 200 feet, but that’s under ideal conditions.
you need them most. And they’re immune to supernatural With multiple intervening objects and potential sources of
effects that disrupt electronics. Besides using them for light in interference, their effective range might be reduced by half or
dark places or to signal each other, hunters also lay them on the more. As a rule of thumb, the radios can penetrate items up

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