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CONsPIRACy: KNIgHTs OF sAINT ADRIAN

Hounds do most of the fieldwork, from
BS’ing their way onto private property to fight- WHAT ABOUT THE BOSS?
ing the demons. Unlike a normal fugitive, de-
mons never go quietly, so most Hounds can Casey Howard’s original Ink healed a serious injury. This is the
handle themselves in a fight. type of thing the Storytelling system doesn’t usually model, so the
Deliverers take care of the esoteric han-
dling requirements necessary to keep a demon Ink Endowment doesn’t include an option for a tattoo that heals
subdued, as well as the strange ways and places an individual injury.
the client wants them handed over. That said, a character being grievously and permanently
wounded is the kind of thing that might happen with a persistent
Status Condition. Optionally, the client might be willing to patch up a

Other than how much commission seriously hurt hunter. That hunter would have to be pretty valuable
Casey’s paying you, Status in the Knights is a to the agency (as represented by two or more status dots) to be
very informal thing. It represents how much worth the client’s time.
you’re clued in to what goes on in the home of-
fice, and how the hunt on the whole is going.
You’re a new hire. You’ve probably
got your first Ink, but otherwise you tend to be the A character’s total dots in Endowment determine how
one who has to haul the gear and other grunt work. many pieces of Ink he or she has. You’re not limited to five
dots in this regard, but if the tattoos end up overlapping? Well,
You’ve taken down a few demons in your time. Any that’s just tacky.
skepticism you had is gone, and you’re starting to When inactive, Ink looks like an ordinary tattoo, though
develop some contacts of your own. You gain two they tend to fade a little faster, making them look like memen-
dots of Contacts, sometimes relating to a Witness tos of times gone by rather than a recent personal statement.
you met on the job. When active, Ink marks don’t quite glow. They catch the light
in a way that makes them look almost luminescent.
You’re one of the boss’s core crew. You’ve been
on jobs with her personally, and she’ll even refer Bear Mace
to the client by name in front of you. You’ve got With its true face revealed, a demon’s bigger and nastier
a company card, allowing you to throw around 3 than the average bear. Not that your fellow Knights would rec-
dots of Resources, or an assistant that counts as a ommend trying to measure that for yourself. Point is, the things
3 dot Retainer. Though you will have to justify any are big and angry and made of all manner of sharp bits. When
spending later. one’s coming towards you, you need to put it down fast, or at
least put it in enough pain that savaging you with those metal
Stereotypes claws ain’t so much of a priority.
For bears, they make some pretty awful stuff you can use to
The Union: Say what you will about these guys, but they’re incapacitate the damn things. Make it out of hot peppers and
regular folks like you and I. Most of them are just looking out Lord knows what nasty chemicals. Turns out the angels offer
for their own neighborhoods, and they’re just as happy to have the same thing. Just God puts it right in your fists.
some professionals lend a hand. With the Bear Mace Ink, the flats of your palms glow with
The Lucifuge: Sons of Satan? These things can have kids? patterns that cause extreme pain to demons. Properly used, it
Sign the paperwork and I’ll get right on that. puts the bastards a bit on the defensive.
Malleus Maleficarum: Makes sense that the Church prop- Action: Instant (part of a Brawl attack)
er would have a branch doing the same job as us. Funny how The attack inflicts extreme pain and the Stunned Tilt in
they spend most of their time chasing vampires, though. addition to unarmed attack damage. It only affects supernatu-
Task Force: VALKYRIE: Likewise, of course the spooks ral creatures (including people possessed by lesser demons),
know about the devil. The damn government never met a se- but decking a guy is hardly an approved way to test whether he
cret it didn’t want to cover up. might be a monster or not. Still, needs must, right?
Bear Mace draws heavily on the angelic energy in the
New Endowment Knight’s system, and can only be used as many times per scene
as the character’s dots in Endowment (Ink).
Ink Bear Mace cannot be used simultaneously with Fist of Rev-
The angel who fixed up Casey Howard’s arm did it by tat- elation.
tooing her in some weird script. It looks a bit arcane, a little
high tech. Every so often, he comes by to outfit the new hires Brother Road
with Ink, holy marks that help in the endless hunt for his fallen Spend as much time on the road as a Knight does, you get
counterparts. to know it. Not just how to get around, though a few years in the

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