Kali Yuga Now was (and hopefully will be) a campaign I started running in spring of 2024 until the start of August 2024 when I ended up becoming too busy to keep up with it. It was an exercise in play testing a threat group Frahnk and I had been working on for quite sometime. I do hope to return to it, as do my players. It deals with some really, really bleak material far-right online culture and occultism. I'm honestly very proud of it, and I recently realized that the mission briefings that were all archived on Night at the Opera basically function as short play reports, so I've decided to reproduce them on this blog.
Dear readers, I present to you Kali Yuga Now.
Our Motto is Kali Yuga NOW!
"Her Age must contain horrors, for most of us cannot understand her or reach beyond the necklace of skulls to the garland of jasmine, knowing in what sense they are the same."-Hakim Bey, Instructions for the Kali Yuga
H-Cell:
Agent HELEN [Sabrina Wernicke]: Punk hacker turned Deep State cybersecurity specialist
Agent HOLDEN [Special Agent Orson Baynes]: Rookie FBI Agent, Mormon, thrown in the deep end
Agent HERMES [Lt Urbano Grimaldo]: Occulted DIA special forces criminal
Agent HAZEL [Inspector Eun-Jeong Mun]: Hardboiled postal inspector
"Agent" HESTON [Dr John Hood]: VA psychiatrist and expert "witness"
It is the spring of 2021. H-Cell, on its third reconstruction since the organization of the conspiracy in 1994, finds itself pursuing a mysterious, far-right, occult online community referring to itself as the “Higher Order.” The path begins with a headless corpse, a mentally ill young couple, a thwarted plot to shoot up a synagogue, and a fried computer with a remotely activated kill-switch. Where it shall end, they do not know.
This investigation will send the Agents down a rabbit hole of occult right-wing terrorism, wayward youths, information warfare, deranged ideologies, niche communities, fringe scholarship, and an anonymous online cult binding all these elements together. Over the course of the campaign, the Agents will monitor and potentially infiltrate this community in an effort to model its structure, unmask its leaders, and destroy it, hopefully with minimal collateral damage.
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