[CamRI] For Mage Players- Clue Recap

[vstmage at camarillaprovidence.org]

Hello everybody,

     Since we're doing a mystery heavy plot, and players don't have the
mind magic and eidetic memories that their characters have ;) I have put
together a list of the main clues that you all have found out, and shared
amongst yourselves.

Clues are mostly presented in order they've been found in to my best memory.

1. A strange being with power over dreams has contacted selected PCs 2.
One of the common images in these dreams is a purple lotus
3. A book had at one time been secured in The House of Hidden Wisdom
(Athenaeum hidden in the Providence Athenaeum)
4. This book, called the Tome of Binding, was stolen at some point after
the Great Storm
5.  Tome of binding had something to do with being called Hypnos
(uncertain if this is being's real name)
6. There is a nightmare/night terror study going on at the Brown
University sleep center on the Butler Hospital Campus
7. Head of study has a potted purple lotus in his office
8. Head of study is named Dr. Nigel Blackmoore
9. Dr. Blackmoore's research assistant is named Albert Ross
10. Cultists of Hypnos have a tattoo of a purple lotus somewhere on their
body
11. The cult was seriously interested in obtaining some letters sent from
H.P. Lovecraft to a Mr. Randall Ross
12. Letters to Mr. Ross mentioned a strange city where a God of Nightmares
ruled over all while his favored subjects lived in bliss.  Lovecraft
thought the city inspired by Homer's Island of the Lotus Eaters from the
Odyssey.
13. Cultists are promised they're deepest desires and are at all strata of
society
14. Cultists wear hoods when they meet so they can't see each others faces
15. Leader of cultists is called brother Albert.
16.  An insane sleepwalker artist in Butler Hospital has a deep spiritual
connection with a Dreamtime memory of a city where Hypnos ruled
17. The realm showed Hypnos' city being destroyed by magic and Hypnos
bound by having his true name removed from all memory.
18. The true name was only recorded in a book called the Tome of Binding

I believe that's about all, that you've gotten, but it should be enough to
make some clear connections.
Please be advised that I, like Peter, am only accepting written downtime
actions/reports.  I have a memory like a steel colander.  The big stuff
stays but the small stuff goes down the drain.  So regardless of what
you've said to me, please send it via e-mail as well.
Thank you for your time,

John Tyler
US2003031415
RI002D
VST-Awakening

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