No Rest
When you drink Bertram's "White
For the Majorettes
In Summary ...
Hunters' contacts led them to Laflamme, a
small town in Louisiana where two ghosts are
difficult to exorcise. Their so-called cremated
bodies were actually offered to a strange flower.
Who uses the bodies like a parasite. And the
contamination has only just begun...
Hook
When two ghost hunters of your
acquaintance come to you because they have
two recalcitrant ghosts, a short trip to
Laflamme, Louisiana, is planned. The hunters'
couple know their business, and they wouldn't
have called you for nothing. They have two
young ghosts that they cannot exorcise.
Lost between the ocean and the bayou,
Laflamme is an unattractive city, whose cannery
closed years ago. The pride of the area is the
Flower Committee (Laflamme, Floral Town of
2016) and the majorettes band. Two of them
died tragically in a car accident and haunt their
pratice ground since then. They come back after
every exorcism.
Besides, tonight is exorcism night...
Some Questions ...
• Where did the Orchidale Imperium come from ?
• Who might have an interest in getting the
Orchidale Imperium ?
• What happens to the hosts once the mother
flower is destroyed ?
• Is this plant unique, or do other specimens
exist someplace else ?
impressions ...
• The Floral Town jury is in town
• Teenagers get hold of some moonshine and plan
the hell of party !
• Flowers everywhere !
• Marth'Alligator, the local diner with a gator
skeleton above the counter
• Broussard Funerals, a crematorium outside the
village, on the edge of the bayou, with a decayed front is trying to get a hold of your nervous system
• A football field reclaimed for the band and the
majorettes
• An area of the bayou with zero animal
• The old cannery, industrial wreck with access to
the old fishing port
• An abandoned port full of shipwrecks
• Billboards indicating the recent purchase of
properties by AtlanX Industries
• Lors of houses for sale
• Parts of the city eaten by the
bayou
• Main Street, immaculate, clean
A mYsterY for the Road ...
and decorated
under CC-By-SA license (illustration from public domain)
Flower" batch, roll +Weird. On 7-9, choose one :
the Imperium Orchidale connects with your
mind; you feel oppressed by flora for a few days;
you spit out and vomit this infamous beverage.
On 7+, if you managed to keep the product in
you, you got a clear vision of where the
Orchidale is located.
When you venture through the bayou
with no guide and no clear information on
the place you're looking for, roll +Smart. On
7‑9, choose one : you lost time; you lost
something; you attracted hostile attention. On
7+, you can choose an additional option and find
what you're looking for, or you can get out of
the bayou.
When you are a woman and that a flower
by slipping its stem under your skin, roll
+Cool. On 7-9, the connection was almost
established. You managed to pull it out, it hurts
like hell (1-harm ignore-armor) and you are
disoriented. On 10+, you get rid of it just in time
A mystery by Nicolas 'Gulix' Ronvel
for Contemporary Occult games like Monster of the Week
Orchidale Imperium
This strange flower that grows in the bayou
has only one desire: to spread. For this purpose,
it needs human hosts of female sex. She has
been isolated for years, but Bertram Kantchum's
help will allow her to expand. The main bulb is
the size of a basketball and is hidden by the
surrounding vegetation. A coppery odour marks
the entrance into its territory: the surrounding
plants are under its control. Look out if you dare
come near it. Its daughter flowers look like
small white orchids, whose stems penetrate
under the skin to control the nervous system.
Type : Parasite (to infest, control and
devour)
Powers : control of female hosts, control of
surrounding flora, hiding amonst the
vegetation, propelling spores.
Weakness : Fire will completely get rid of
the Imperium Orchidale, otherwise a root or
seed will always give life back to the flower.
Attacks : Spores cloud (ignore-armour,
disorienting), Animated vines (2-harm, far,
restraining)
Armour : 0
Harm capacity : 8
Minions
Bertram Broussard (Renfield : to push
victimes towards the monster).
Attacks : golf club (2-harm, clsoe)
Harm capacity : 5
Bertram inherited his father's crematorium
two years ago. He also manages an illicit still
hidden in the bayou. One of his personal
compositions, in which he incorporates strange
white flowers, allows him to communicate with a
mysterious being stuck in the bayou. Being socially
isolated, he has an obsession with majorettes.
When two of them arrived at the crematorium
after a car accident, he kept the bodies to play
with, and then handed them over to the bayou. It
will make him bolder.
Bystanders
Maria Fengstrom, Laflamme Flower
Committee's president (gossip : to pass on
rumours).
Gus "Seven Fingers" Arseneau, poacher
(witness : to reveal information)
Kenneth Sanborn, local representative of the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
(skeptic : to deny supernatural explanations).
Locations
The old canning factory, the bayou, Sainte-
Marie's high school, Bertram's still in the bayou,
the abandoned docks ...
Countdown
Day : The Orchidale takes control of the two
majorettes' bodies, their spirits are restless.
Shadows : The two majorettes are seen near
the flowered roundabout at the entrance of
Laflamme.
Dusk : Majorettes returning from training
are attacked and abducted. Two boys
accompanying them are found beaten and
unconscious.
Sunset : Gus Arseneau, drunk, says he was
attacked by zombies and tentacles in the bayou.
In fact, the possessed majorettes and brambles
animated by the Orchidale.
Nightfall : The kidnapped majorettes
return as if nothing had happened and
reintegrate back into the population
Midnight : Laflamme's women are all
controlled by the Orchidale.