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CHAPTER ONE: PIECES OF FLESH

morality, and most of their humanity behind in order to com- devoid of expression, staring at the mothers she bereaved and
plete their creations. Ironic, then, that their creations spend the girlfriends she left with nothing but questions. But, even if
their existences trying to gain this same humanity. the demiurge is an objectively monstrous person, the question
that the Storyteller must answer is why the demiurge made the
The Creator creature? After all, only a supernaturally strong obsession can
A story about a Created monster can easily contain enough lead to the creation of a Promethean.
horror to satisfy a Hunter troupe. But, the cell who deals with
the monster can then wind up wondering who made it. Disquiet
Prometheans engender feelings of hate, distrust, fascina-
The demiurge might be a cackling, insane scientist, at-
tempting to build a race of atomic supermen. He’s just as tion, and even obsession in others. The blanket term for this
likely to be a lonely, socially maladapted savant who man- phenomenon is “Disquiet,” and hunters are not immune.
aged to make an ancient occult ritual work. The hunters Disquiet affects people in different ways, depending on
might be expecting to find a sorcerer, someone whose lair is the Promethean in question and the individual’s temperament.
guarded by homunculi and wards; but instead, they find a Systems for Disquiet can be found on p. 20.
house guarded with a standard alarm system and a Labrador Some various manifestations of Disquiet follow:
retriever. The demiurge made the monster, true, but then the Spite: The character wants the Promethean to suffer.
monster fled…or the demiurge sent it away, because he suf- This is subtly different than hatred; the character
fers from Disquiet the same as anyone else. Does that creator doesn’t necessarily want the Promethean to die, just
bear responsibility for anything the monster did? What if the to suffer loss. At mild exposure, the character exerts
demiurge is willing to accept that responsibility, and, with a whatever authority he can over the Promethean —
trembling voice, agrees to whatever retribution the hunters losing paperwork, standing in the way, blocking the
think is appropriate? Promethean in traffic, calling the cops for any perceived
Or, maybe the demiurge is a monster. Maybe she hacked slight. As Disquiet worsens, the affected individual
apart ten young men to sew together her creation. The soil be- may progress to throwing rocks, vandalizing property,
hind her farmhouse is enriched with the leftovers, the parts making overt threats, and telling outright lies to get
she couldn’t use. She has the photos from the victims’ wallets the Promethean arrested. Frankenstein and Galateid
in an album, and she pores through them at night, her face Prometheans often engender spite. Presenting spite: “He

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