Tag: Marcus D. Bone

[Tabloid] Fully Automatic

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On July 27, 2020

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A Tabloid Article by Marcus Bone

Something stalks the inner-city streets, hunting the innocent and slaying the corrupt. The authorities, what little of them are available or even interested in investigating such things, are stumped, with only a few tire tracks and collision marks to tell of the killer’s presence at the scene of each death. The media claim it’s a vigilante that stalks the residents of the city, while older voices whisper of occult happenings and the devil’s due. Whatever the cause, it has the neighbourhood spooked and on edge…

Then a witness comes forward, claiming that they saw the killer, a General Dynamics Motors Lancer with no driver. She even has a blurry photograph to provide it! This poor, frightened girl claims the Lancer tracked her and her boyfriend across numerous blocks, chasing them as they attempted to flee on their motorcycle. In the end, it trapped them in a dead-end alley, and there she saw that it had no one inside of it, just before her lover was crush

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[Trigger Event] Harper’s Court

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On June 1, 2020

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The Best and the Brightest, The Smartest and the Bravest, The Men and Women of Harper’s Court
– The last lines of the Harper’s Court cadence call

It claims to be the training ground for tomorrow’s leaders, an academy of discipline and learning blind to the social and economic pressures of modern America.

But what is really going in at Harper’s Court? Is it simply yet another facility for the creation of some Dark Lord’s Igors, or is it a bastion of light in these darkest days, inducting a new generation of Minion Hunters?

Read on and find out…

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[Article] Shadows that Rip and Tear: An Observation on Dark Conspiracy

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On January 25, 2020

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This is a short article that I wrote for the Dark Conspiracy 4th edition Kickstarter that never saw publication. It looks to detail, at least from my perspective, why I continue to love, support and create for Dark Conspiracy and why I’m so excited for a new edition!

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Shapes that rip and tear. Shadows that live in corners… Windows in space and time that lead to realms of madness and decay…

And with those words an untold number of gamers were lured into the world of Dark Conspiracy. It was the early 1990s, and for years, roleplayers had played their games across infinite worlds of heroic fantasy, the bounds of airless space or facing the maddening terrors of Lovecraftian horrors, but rarely had they the opportunity to act out their adventures in a setting that reflected so darkly humanity’s own missteps into the future.

Dark Conspiracy is the game of modern, conspiracy horror, set against a backdrop of a bleak future dominated by greed, evil and nightmares from beyond reality. It was a product of its era, the result of a zeitgeist of suspicion and fear – likely driven by a recent stock-market crash, a changing governmental structure and a rapid rise in personal technology – that would spawn not only TV shows like the X Files, Millennium and Dark Skies but also a plethora of other similarly focused roleplaying games. 

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[Adventure] Urban Nightmares – A 1st Edition Scenario Updated

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On January 2, 2020

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By Marcus Bone (updated v1.2 March 2026)

Things lurk in the dark, in the spaces humanity has left behind. Evil things, vicious things that want for nothing more than our total destruction.

Yet these things we understand, if still fear. What we fail to comprehend are those things hunt us not for survival, nor to feed, or because humanity poses some as yet undefined threat to their existence. No, these things stalk us only for the pleasure…

Unlimited worlds span our universe, and infinite more stretch across the dimensions, and yet among all that potential, how can humanity be reduced to simple playthings?

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[Adventure] Incident at Redview – A 1st Edition Scenario

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On October 8, 2017

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By Marcus D. Bone, art by Earl Geier and James Shields

– Reviewed and Updated in April 2020 –

Incident at Redview is an sandbox styled adventure written for 1st Edition of Dark Conspiracy. Designed as a introduction for both new players and new Minion Hunters placing the characters in the midst of an outbreak of an apocalyptic scale.

‘Somethings wrong in Redview, I can feel it in my bones… you know what I mean?”

For the residents of Madison, however, stuck way out in the middle of the Outlaw, with no prospects and no opportunities, the chemical plant at Redview is their last, best shot at making something of themselves. They work there, as scientists, security guards, just about anything really, to make ends meet…

But did anyone ever stop and ask just what Chema is up to in this out of the way, lost to everyone, sort of place? No? Well our Minion Hunters are about to find out. Armed only with their courage and what few resources they can scrounge up, can they survive ‘The Incident at Redview’?

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