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The Paper Man

by Arthur Boff

from From the Chaosium Digest Volume 19, Number 1

reprinted here by permission of the author

Mindful of modern concerns about the environment, the investigators' local authority has started a magazine recycling scheme. The residents each get a blue bag, which they leave outside, and wait for them to be collected on Tuesday. However, people start noticing a man going up to the bags whilst they are left in the street, rummaging through them, and taking some of the newspapers.

Possibilities:

1.) The man is (or at least was) an investigator, like the players. He used the money he got from his stock market deals to fund his investigating. However, he made a major error, with the result that he has now lost all his money and his possession. He is collecting newspapers to find cases he might investigate, so that he may start his career again.

2.) The man is a local fireman. In one blazing inferno, he and some of his colleagues were caught in a chemical explosion and were sent into comas. In the hospital, Cthugha came to them in their dreams and asked them to become his priests and start his first major Earth cult. Those that agreed soon got better, while those that refused never woke up. After a while, the people whose papers were stolen become involved in odd fires, and the fire brigade fails to turn up in time.

3.) There is an old belief that if a wizard gets ahold of one of your possessions, such as one of your hairs or something you've thrown away, that wizard can make a doll shaped like you, which can be used to hurt or control you. The truth behind the legend, of course, is entirely up to the Keeper.

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