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"Red Jack"

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#1
lukas_02
Dec 08, 2004 20:45:25 Okay, simple enough question. Which of course..means the answer will invariably be long and full of very large words I'd rather not deal with..but I shall ask regardless!

Okay, the question is about the 2e 'Red Jack" adventure which was included with the MotRD box-set. Weirdly..I dont seem to have a copy. Having read both "Red Tide" and "Red Death", I am more then a wee bit interested to know what happens in the third adventure. I assume it deals with the Ripper, and could probably prove very useful as far as inspiration goes.

Now, I am not asking for the whole thing, a simple summary/Synopsis of the Adventure, plus any info you fine..fine people might be willing to give me about the villian in the story. (Jack the Ripper I assume)

Hopefully thanks in advance.
-Me
#2
zombiegleemax
Dec 09, 2004 3:13:29 I'll dig it out and look at it again. If memory serves Jack turns out to be the ghost of a woman whose husband was/is a philanderer with people of low morals (or sahe believes he is) so she posseses people and offs what she percieves to be as "women of low morals".

-Eric Gorman
#3
awakenings
Dec 13, 2004 9:12:42 To be more specific, "Jack" was the wife of a Whitechapel doctor who ran a clinic for prostitutes, and who was jealous of her husband's attentions to these 'low women.' She began murdering them in increasingly gory fashion, becoming a creature of the night, only to be murdered herself by an unnamed horror as she was returning home from one of her deeds. With her death, the killings stopped, and she was recorded as the last victim of the murderer.

In the adventure, her husband moves to Boston and starts another clinic, and the murders begin again via possessions by the woman's ghost.

There was a lot of criticism of Jack being a woman, but IMC things went fine, and in the course of research a player came across a "Jill the Ripper" theory on the internet that actually blended well with the Red Jack premise. While it sounds unbelievable, the Jill theory fills in a few holes quite elegantly.
#4
The_Jester
Dec 13, 2004 13:59:53 In my review at the Fraternity of Shadows I think I compared it to that episode of Star Trek where the evil entity posesses Scotty and causes him to murder a few women.

That's pretty much how it works. Ghost w/ hatred of *other* women.
#5
ivid
Dec 14, 2004 6:56:33 *Red Jack* is a nice adventure for beginners, especially for players unfamilliar with the setting. I personally would not tie it to the *Jack the Ripper* theme and place it in another city (like in my Goth favourite, Paris).

In any case, I recommend playing some adventures with no *supernatural* content before... The weakest point of MotRD is lamentably, that you cannot frighten your players any more if they except *gothic* things to pop up from every corner.

As an introduction, I'd recommend using Edgar A. Poe's *Murders in the Rue Morgue* *brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr that frightens me whenever I think of it* as a base. Then your players are in the city and there is a base for people needing detectives to call them.

#6
zombiegleemax
Dec 20, 2004 2:57:05 Okay I found my copy. The basic structuire is that the PCs witness a murder of a prostitute committed by a someone possesed by a ghost. The ghost in turn begins targeting the PCs by possessing people to silence them. As said above the ghost is the jealous wife of a Doctor who has been operating a clinic that sees to the needs of the poor including prostitutes. The ghost believes her husband is potentially unfaithful and (perhaps due to the the Red Death) now seeks to kill anyone she feels has wronged her. The PCs' intervention in the murder they witness puts them in this later catagory.

Shes linked to the ashes her husband continues keeps in an urn and can't be permanently defeated until its destroyed. She has the limitation that she can't enter an inhabited building no matter how destitute (but could throw rocks or knives at someone inside...)

There are some red herring that suggest her husband could be the killer. Obviously he has had contact with all the women who die. In the module he also was in Whitechapel (and his wife turns out to be the Ripper there as well).

If caught the police start out believing the PCs are possible murders but one enlightned detective comes to believe they are the only living witnesses to something supernatural.

-Eric Gorman

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#1 lukas_02 Dec 08, 2004 20:45:25	Okay, simple enough question. Which of course..means the answer will invariably be long and full of very large words I'd rather not deal with..but I shall ask regardless! Okay, the question is about the 2e 'Red Jack" adventure which was included with the MotRD box-set. Weirdly..I dont seem to have a copy. Having read both "Red Tide" and "Red Death", I am more then a wee bit interested to know what happens in the third adventure. I assume it deals with the Ripper, and could probably prove very useful as far as inspiration goes. Now, I am not asking for the whole thing, a simple summary/Synopsis of the Adventure, plus any info you fine..fine people might be willing to give me about the villian in the story. (Jack the Ripper I assume) Hopefully thanks in advance. -Me
#2 zombiegleemax Dec 09, 2004 3:13:29	I'll dig it out and look at it again. If memory serves Jack turns out to be the ghost of a woman whose husband was/is a philanderer with people of low morals (or sahe believes he is) so she posseses people and offs what she percieves to be as "women of low morals". -Eric Gorman
#3 awakenings Dec 13, 2004 9:12:42	To be more specific, "Jack" was the wife of a Whitechapel doctor who ran a clinic for prostitutes, and who was jealous of her husband's attentions to these 'low women.' She began murdering them in increasingly gory fashion, becoming a creature of the night, only to be murdered herself by an unnamed horror as she was returning home from one of her deeds. With her death, the killings stopped, and she was recorded as the last victim of the murderer. In the adventure, her husband moves to Boston and starts another clinic, and the murders begin again via possessions by the woman's ghost. There was a lot of criticism of Jack being a woman, but IMC things went fine, and in the course of research a player came across a "Jill the Ripper" theory on the internet that actually blended well with the Red Jack premise. While it sounds unbelievable, the Jill theory fills in a few holes quite elegantly.
#4 The_Jester Dec 13, 2004 13:59:53	In my review at the Fraternity of Shadows I think I compared it to that episode of Star Trek where the evil entity posesses Scotty and causes him to murder a few women. That's pretty much how it works. Ghost w/ hatred of other women.
#5 ivid Dec 14, 2004 6:56:33	Red Jack is a nice adventure for beginners, especially for players unfamilliar with the setting. I personally would not tie it to the Jack the Ripper theme and place it in another city (like in my Goth favourite, Paris). In any case, I recommend playing some adventures with no supernatural content before... The weakest point of MotRD is lamentably, that you cannot frighten your players any more if they except gothic things to pop up from every corner. As an introduction, I'd recommend using Edgar A. Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr that frightens me whenever I think of it as a base. Then your players are in the city and there is a base for people needing detectives to call them.
#6 zombiegleemax Dec 20, 2004 2:57:05	Okay I found my copy. The basic structuire is that the PCs witness a murder of a prostitute committed by a someone possesed by a ghost. The ghost in turn begins targeting the PCs by possessing people to silence them. As said above the ghost is the jealous wife of a Doctor who has been operating a clinic that sees to the needs of the poor including prostitutes. The ghost believes her husband is potentially unfaithful and (perhaps due to the the Red Death) now seeks to kill anyone she feels has wronged her. The PCs' intervention in the murder they witness puts them in this later catagory. Shes linked to the ashes her husband continues keeps in an urn and can't be permanently defeated until its destroyed. She has the limitation that she can't enter an inhabited building no matter how destitute (but could throw rocks or knives at someone inside...) There are some red herring that suggest her husband could be the killer. Obviously he has had contact with all the women who die. In the module he also was in Whitechapel (and his wife turns out to be the Ripper there as well). If caught the police start out believing the PCs are possible murders but one enlightned detective comes to believe they are the only living witnesses to something supernatural. -Eric Gorman