The Rumor Room, re-visited

[Out of character - This was a great feature of Jon Spurr's LARP page that I've decided to keep going. E-mail rumors to me, or double-blind them through your Story Tellers, and I'll post them, nice and anonymously.]


Rumors of Bloomington

7-22 - YT is really just a Gangrel with a really strange aura.

7-22 - The Setites aren't quite gone yet. Beware those without hearts.

7-22 - The Church of the Apocrypha is kidnapping ghouls.

7-22 - No, I saw the guy in Reno. It's the one in Houston that I missed.

7-22 - A Tremere Methuselah is using Bloomington as part of an experiment.

7-22 - The Tower of Babel grants great powers to those who know how to ask.

7-20 - We all know the real reason for all the problems in Bloomington is those damn role-playing games.

7-20 - It's Reno, damnit. Reno. Not Houston. Reno. R-E-N-O.

7-20 - The Church of the Apocrypha is looking for Loic.

7-14 - There is a new art movement, taking elements of HR Giger and Vegas glamour to show surreal images of urban hell. It features disturbingly real supernatural themes.

7-14 - Chance Morgan is dead, at the hands of his own clan.

7-14 - Chelsea Monroe's new nightclub is haunted.

7-13 - The Sheriff in Bloomington is a Sabbat bishop.

7-13 - Hans, the Prince of Bloomington, is a child of Osiris.

7-6 - Al-Shahid is really powerful Assamite on the Path of Honorable Accord. He came here to make sure that Casca is doing his job. Until he decides Casca's fate, either stay out of his way or hire him.

7-4 - Chance Morgan is responsible for the presence of YT.

7-4 - There are no real Malkavians in Bloomington. The clan name is being used to infiltrate the city, maybe by Settites.

7-4 - The Giovanni are on good terms with Pentex. They might be here because partly of them.

7-4 - "Loic Martosh has gone completely insane. I've heard that he sold his soul to demons in Terre Haute..."

7-4 - Casca is an agent of the Sabbat.

7-4 - The Archons were brought here by the Nosferatu Justicar at Henry Thomas Elliot's request. They're really looking for anarchs in the city.

7-2 - "Alec, the Brujah who Victoria put to death for diablerie, was an Assamite-antitribu who was in town to recruit members for the Sabbat. Be careful of that naive little singer he was shacking up with, and if you see her with a shovel...run."

7-2 - Bloomington is on the verge of all-out Clan War, between the Toreador and Ventrue and the Tremere.

7-2 - "So, I met this guy, see... And he started babbling about how there's this demon in the city who sucks out your power and you crumble to dust."

6-7 - The Tremere are invading Southern Indiana in record numbers.

6-7 - Would-be emmigrants from Bloomington are getting more and more choices of destinations. Leaving for good is now a viable option.

5-14 - There is an organization named Cradlegrave at work in Bloomington. They know, or at least are guessing, many things.

5-14 - Bloomington is being overrun with Banes and Fomori, even though PENTEX has left.

5-14 - A man clawed his way out of a manhole cover on the Kirkwood Strip, threw two fistfulls of hundred dollar bills on the ground, and burst into flames. His last words were, "The spiders!"

5-14 - Dwight Tunod is a homicide detective in BPD. He may be running for office soon.

5-14 - Hans took the other Elders to Detroit to get rid of all of his incompetent or dangerous underlings.

5-14 - Stang and Sebastian made themselves very rich before they vanished. All that money went into their pockets, so where is it now?

5-13 - Hans got rid of Sebastian Quinn because he was a rival for control of the Gangrel.

5-13 - Victoria Barlowe is a Bane Mummy

5-13 - The city is infested with demons because they are attracted to the weird goings on.

5-13 - Dr. James hired an Assamite to kill Mike Jamorski.

5-13 - Dr. Xavier stole anything with any power at the May auction.

5-13 - The new library on campus is part of some strange magic ritual.

5-13 - I once shot a man in Houston just to watch him die, and then I got distracted and missed it.

5-13 - An Elder Gangrel sleeps under Showalter Fountain.

5-13 - Dr. James is a Diablerist.


Rumors of Other Cities

7-22 - "William Esterlan isn't all that great; He's just some schmuck that got embraced by the Ventrue."

7-22 - "There aren't many Nosferatu in Indiana, and Petrodon, the Nosferatu Justicar is getting worried about that."

7-22 - The Inconnu are taking an interest in Westfield.

7-22 - Henry Elliot is on his way out. Who will be the next Prince of Indy?

7-22 - When asked what he thought about Prince Henry Elliot's reaction to his new promotion, Prince William Esterlan replied, "Who?"

7-21 - The Ravnos are coming to pick Terre Haute clean.

7-21 - There are two factions in the Garou of Terre Haute - those who want to deal with the Kindred and those who don't. The second
group is getting stronger.

7-21 - Biff the Brujah is part of a Sabbat pack in Terre Haute.

7-21 - "Those Archons in Columbus are a bunch of damn psychos. They've killed the entire damn town, except for a few Brujah and
Kooks and such. The Tremere Chantry is a smoking crater."

7-20 - (Overheard in Indianapolis) "Henry Thomas Elliot is a raving nutter, I tell you. He's mad, off
hisAAARGHnononopleasestopplease."

7-20 - Henry Thomas Elliot is pissed off about Westfield. "Steal my terriorty will you," this guy I know told me he said. "I'll bloodhunt
the whole damn town." Then he reportedly jumped off a bridge.

7-14 - Hideous atrocities go on in something called "The Maze" in Indianapolis.

7-14 - Prince Henry Thomas Elliot of Indianapolis is prone to Embrace pretty girls at a whim. He also jumps off bridges a lot.

7-14 - Terre Haute is having trouble with someone creating globes of darkness in public.

7-13 - The Ravnos are here in Indiana to scout for a major Canadian Garou force.

7-13 - Mr White is more than he seems, and not just a pawn after all.

7-13 - The anarchs hunted in the maze in Indianapolis still live.

7-13 - Westfield secretly holds the largest Sabbat pack in Indiana. They hide in the nearby Amish village.

7-7 - The prince of Terra haute is actually a 4th gen Methusalah. He is using his city as a stretegic point to gain control of Indiana. Once he has acheived this his feeding will be unchecked in the times of Gehenna.

7-4 - "Columbus is the site of one of the biggest slaughter of Kindred since Bloomington's War of 1986 between the Kindred and the Garou. Masterless ghouls are dropping like flies from lack of vitae. The Archons are all over that town..."

6-15 - A company in Indy is about to become one of the primary producers of air conditioner coolant in the US.

6-15 - The Judge Thomas Coven is retiring from his position in Indianapolis. Coven is naming a successor, which could bring about a shuffle in legal circles.

6-15 - There have been some break-ins in Indianapolis. The Callabra drug cartel may be involved.

6-7 - Terre Haute has now opened to Kindred colonization, under a few conditions from the Garou...

6-7 - Someone in Terre Haute has developed some kind of purified blood or blood substitute.

6-7 - The conflict in Indy is ending with utter destruction of all sides.

6-7 - Columbus is haunted by Native American ghosts. A terrible storm rages in the spirit world to this day, making the Umbra uninhabitable and causing other occult side-effects.

5-13 - Hamilton County is having a strong reaction against Monroe County. Undesireables are being shipped from Westfield to Bloomington.


Send 'em in to jgarlick@indiana.edu
Try to keep it to 25 words or less, each. My attention span is short.


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