CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I'm pretty excited to announce the release of Shades of Memory , a dark urban fantasy thriller set in Australia's capital city, featuring werewolves, shadow mages, shadow creatures, ancient artifacts, government secrets, and internationals spies and intrigue. It's a new genre for me, and I really enjoyed writing it. I hope you enjoy the story just as much. When Aggie Dormain arrives in Canberra to paint some old diggers, she does not expect to meet an out-of-work archaeologist investigating an alien conspiracy, much less to be pulled into an adventure that would give Indiana Jones a run for his money.

If PCs call the Gehenna Consortium for back-up: Alice McIntyre arrives with her goon squad. She comes on foot, accompanied by half a dozen men, but, before negotiations reach a point where opposed Trickery tests are required, the Consortium sends a retrieval team. The team arrives in two helicopters, and the PCs might notice that these are approaching. Give them a short time to react to the helicopters’ approach, if they do. A successful opposed TH4 Air (Senses) test alerts them to the fact Alice is watching the machines approach, and seems to expect them. Anika and Leyila make a break for it as soon as the helicopters stop overhead. Alice orders the PCs to help capture the children and bring them back. The PCs can either choose to aid Gehenna in capturing the girls, or they can hinder them and help the girls escape. There are consequences for either path. If they help the Consortium, they retain any standing they might have with the group, but they lose the Modern Era status o...