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CREDITS
Written by: Bruce Baugh
Developed by: Justin Achilli
Editor: James Stewart
Art Director: Richard Thomas
Layout & Typesetting: Becky Jollensten
Interior Art: Michael Gaydos, Leif Jones, Andrew
Trabbold, Drew Tucker, Christopher Shy
Front Cover Art: John Van Fleet
Front & Back Cover Design: Becky Jollensten
SPECIAL THANKS,
SUMMER CONVENTION
SHASON EDITION
Dean "Unrelenting" Burnham, for two solid weeks of non-
stop punishment.
Mike "Stank" Tinney, for renting the room that smelled like
old lady armpits.
Jess "Correspondence" Heinig, for trying desperately to
create an airport that came to
him.
Twice.
John "What the Funk?" Chambers, for "rescuing" the juke-
box from Garth Brooks and the Backstreet Boys.
Conrad "Zoomtard" Hubbard, for nearly dying twice and
being utterly unaware.
Fred "Naptard" Yelk, for calling it quits on the first night but
growing progressively more psychotic over the rest of the trip.
Chad "Von Tabs" Brown, for pills & thrills & bellyaches.
Brian "Wingman" Glass, for being there every second of the
two-week journey into the guts of debauchery.
Tim "Whoah" Avers, for learning about titty bars the hard way.
Steve "Patience, Grasshopper" Wieck, for not ninja-kicking
the bejeezus out of those three drunken hooligans battering
down his door at half past two.
Spirit Creek, for hosting the GenCon party.
Lost Goth and Big Daddy Thwak, for, well, porn.
THEIR OWN CIRCLE OF HELL
BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM! "Housekeeping! Clean
your room?"
GAME STUDIO
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CLANBOOK: LASOMBRA
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE DARKNESS CLAIMS You
CHAPTER ONE: AN UNMIRRORED CORRIDOR
CHAPTER Two: THE KEEPERS UNLIT HALLS
CHAPTER THREE: NEW SHADOWS
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Everything belonged to him — te that was a
trifle. The thing to know
was what he belonged to, how
many frontiers of darkness
claimed him for their own.
• • ,;:
—- Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
"pen yeAK Ago:
J cAn feet tAe pulsein my AeA A,totfAef AnA fASter
AS men fiteoA spurts from A Aoz.en tuts to Arip pA&t
my fAte toWArA the pile of firoken glASS fielow me.
Trfly VAn's emergency ftAshers reflect filAck from A
I
thonsAnA corners, At Att Angles, wherever mirrors
IcAme forest After tAe collision.'^AeshAttereA streetlight,
I somewhere Afiove me cASts An octAsionAt shower of
?
&pArk&. J fiettme AtvAre t&At there's nt> ivAy put e£ Ms,
£ven i£ tfose
£7^1T*
mAAe it here tvittin tAe ne&t—
nit, J'tH fting tt Ate.
Jt ftAfsaeneA snAAenty. J'A 6ein Arivinft my new
, testing the meAijitAtiens for AAnAs-tnty tontrel
A mAnuAt trAnSmissten. £tAry itu^
f
fat J
H0m AnA Z&AAsAt in ^Ack, AtSAp
t not ^uite twitting to SAy SO, AnA mAnAftinff tAe sort
£ tOnversAtifn we AtWAyf &AA en Ms AnniversAry.
inft AtvktvArA £ik.e
f
'j/lreyi>n sure t&At A trip pie
6e trying Ms sort 0^ tAingt-" or, "Aen't you
think th.At ten yeArs ft efisesiive Anger nfront the
ActiAent is ene Hgfa"
Z&AA AftnAtty &AA someinterestinfi stories A^ent
recent £0n&trnction arpjetts AnA peinteA out work Ais
firm AAA Aontfy tAe mAnsions we Afove pA&t. J'A
AeaAeA to tAke tAe ifnfi WAy home, meAnAering
ArennA tAe ^rroyo ^eco AnA seeing Aow mAny
tAnAmArks we tout A iAentifry firom vAriotis mwies.,/1
tot e£ t2)AA's ctrporAte customers tiveA Aere, AnA some
tAe money to firing Ais form in for Aomestic work,
ff- it WAS "just ptAin strAnge, too, tike tAe
m witA tAe etevAtpr-mOttnteA teiting tAAt tAe
owner tontA lower to jive feet Afipve tAe fteor for A
"cozier" foet. Z&AA stArteA testing Att tAe faitAing
coAes tAAt AAA to fie circnmventeA Or firifieA pASt for
tAAt one.
;
"then All tAe tigAts went out for two fifetks on
every siAe.. flot fust tAe streettigAfs
—
everything.
$*orcA tigAts, Aonse tigAts, even tAe AAsAfioArA
security system tigAts in pArkeA cAfS. ~£Aere WAS
totAt AArkness witA only the new moon overheAA. J
StArteA to ®ntt over/ Ait something slippery AnA went
over A firiAge Afintment.
'
^tt A mAtter of timing, J suppose. ^ few
SeconAs eArtier AnA 3 WOntA hAve steereA into A ten-
foot-high HOtSf-reAfiction WAlt. Jt WOntA hAVt hurt,
mAyfie A tot, fat then we'A fie stoppeA.,/1 few seconAs
lAter AnA J'A hAve hit soliA f<280& v'tntAge, sniciAe-
AiSconrAging hurricAne fence. £ikety we'A AAve
cAreeneA off thAt AnA spun, mAyfie ftippeA, fat
stoppeA somewhere on the firiAge.
"^here's onty A smAtt gAp fietween WAlt AnA
fence, AnA J hit it tust right.
THE DARKNESS CLAIMS You
VAn tumfrleA lengthwise en its WAy to the
roof of the WArehouse. ""fchAt's why y'm here Almost
upsiAe Aown, my useless legs AAngling overheAA
white my Arms Are pinneA. Jl-J coulArAfse my right
Arm/ y coulA touch one of the four glASS roAs thAt
slAfttttteA through the winAshielA AnA an into the
&Ack. @ne re A runs through ^Z>AA's thro At, TWO more
pierce *W\em, One in her right eye AnA one just Mow
her collArtione. 3&AA gurgleA for A jew minutes, frut
7/Hom never mAAe A SOunA. y think AeAth cAme
quickly for them.
£o it's just me, y cAn't Often my Aottr. J cAn shout
for help, 6ut there Aoesn't seem to 6e Anyone ArounA.
y CAn't move to releAse my hArness or AisengAge the
steering column iirAce or punch in An emergency coAe
on the cAr phone,
"~£hen the fights come &Ack on, without Any
preliminAry flickering, J ckn see the whole WAre-
spreAA out fretow, or perhAps A&sve, me. Jt's
yy construction, y wrote An Article once
the immense AurA^ility of "temuerAry" 6nilA-
ings like this one. ~£wisteA sheets ofa corrngAteA
Aluminum now He sprAWleA over long rows 06 glASS.
T^tirrors/ wtnAows, fjetnliAr pAnes whose function
y cAn't imAgine. £*-it lights reflect through the
Ae&ris, reminAing me Briefly of the moon Auring A
lunAr eclipse, AArk reA AnA Ominous. ~£he whole scene
reminAs me of something. ^Ant 7*Clee on A &AA AAy.
f^tme futurist nightmAre. ~£he 6leoA keeps ponnA-
ing in my heAA. ^tupiA eAucAtion. ^mArt Aoesn't
help you when you're pinneA in An ttpstAe-Aown vAn.
J\0> j^lee WASn't so hAm+hAnAeA.
y tAke Another look in the reAr-view mirror. T^Hy
pArents Are right where they Were, "^he CAr sfiAes
Aown A fat. ~£he seAtiielt cuts into my neck AnA
cetlArfrone. \rfithont WArning, there's A hAnA on my
shonlAer. y cAn't turn my heAA, so J hAve to roll my
eyes AS test y cAn to see the slim, neAtly mAntcureA
fiingernAils. Jt's A SmAll, grAceful hAnA, very AArk
inAeeA, perhaps
^4
fricAn or from y\ew ^nineA.^1,
quick check in the mirror shows nofoAy there, y Am
hAllncinAting.
voice is cleAr fnt soft/ Alme&t whispereA.
£,Ach SylMle emerges perfectly ftrmeA. y see noth-
ing in the mirror; y feel the hAnA on my shenlAer.'*£he
hAnA AAS no pulse.
?
'yinArew, AcknewleAge me.
^/ffw
heAr mef
y SAy nothing.
"y Am not A hAllt^inAtion. Ven're Aying, AnA we
must speAk."
y SAy nothing.
"^onr life is A story you hAven't reAA. £peAk
with me."
.'..."
& omethingA&OHt thAt SffMnAs so
« i .
overwrought
thAt y Almost lAHgh, AnA y speAk to the unseen
presence. "\f$h,At steryl-^/lre you gting to clAim to £e
the Architect of my misery^ ~£he nemesis who mAAe me
suffer for my A rtf thrive me AfoeAk, £ven oaygen-
StArveA, y expect something tetter th^n thAt."
"~£hAt's precisely whAt 3 WAnt to tell you."
"y me An to tell you thAt your life hAS £een my
for A^out A AecAAe, AnA thAt the time hAS come
for you to AeciAe whAt to Ao neat, J^isten to me."~£he
voice unfolAs A steAAy UtAny of secrets, things y've
never tolA Any one else.' the petty frustrations AS Well
AS the greAt ones, the minor trials Along with the
mASSive cAlAmities. ~£he speAker, whose sex. y cAnnot
guess, speAks to me A^out cAreless Aoctors AnA
Berserk mAtlmen AnA ArrogAnt eAttors AnA the count-
less Others who've mAAe my life unpleASAnt. y reAliz.e,
somewhere Along the WAy/ thAt the voice never pAUses
for tfreAth.
'flnA yttt mAAe it hAppenl-"
"y AiA whAt
CIANBOOK: LASOMBRA
6
jLanghter. "itf-er the j-irst time 3 j-eel cenfiAent t£at
the voice falengs to a woman, "Z&p yen. knew the stery
"they're mettleA Hack, remlnAlng me slightly eft
pictures 3 &aw Where the experimenters lefit raw meat
entAeers jer a year, phetegraphlng Its changes.
£ he scAres me hat^ te AeAth, net thAt that's se far
A trip jnst new. 3've hatlnclnateA fa^ere, anA 3 &n
afrsetntely nene ej the cues that tell me my ^rain is
fabricating the scene. 3t takes me 4 mement te realize
that she's hanging nm&lAe AeWn In that Aarkness,
since we see eye te eye. 3 feel chains o£ a&&eclatlen at
werk In my minA, as thengA seme antenemens
thenght precess has gene searching £er everything
that "Aarkness" means te me. T/Hemerles flicker anA
Mare like the Aarkness arennA the weman,
'{/I nArew," she says threngh lattlceA tips, "^en
see year tears in the Aarknes&, Aen't yenlr"^ he sees my
slight neA. "^tt yenr llfae, all Anyene's lifae, these
things live faneath yenr skin. "Hew they [lew ent
aleng with yenr Hie Itself. J^earn."
@ne ef these shaAew-arms stretches tewarA me,
3ts frlnnt enA smashes threngh the remains e£ the
Arlver-slAe winAew AnA snakes arennA In frrent ej-
me. \^ith ene swift metlen It wrap& arennA my heaA,
completely ceverlng my eyes. W~er an Instant there's
,ntter, prefrennA nething. £,ven tAe retlnAl flickers thAt
ge en fahlnA cteseA eyellAs Alsappear; In seme sense,
the Aarkness penrs In fahlnA my eyes, 3 can't even take
a frreath.
"^he flashes e£ memery faceme mnch mere Intense,
"^here's ne sensery cempenent te them, enly states efi
minA. ^nger, at the acclAent, at the bespital, at my
parents, at the government finreancrAts, at the
fackheaA Aecters Whe fait te nnAerstAnA what 3 tell
them. $Fear, efa refectien, ej- leslng my minA as well
as my legs, e^ never writing again, ef el A age anA
pevertyln this cenAitlen.^ mfiitien anA prlAe, fier the
next great werk, te preve wreng all the Aecters anA
Ae niters, te shew my parents the fielty e^ their hopes
ier me. Z&epressien weven In threngh it all, the Aeslre
"<P/
cenrse. tfieA teek away everything fir em. him,
to preve te£atan that $e& was werthy. 3 hepe yen're
net gelng te claim te fa the angel eft the J^orA."
"listen te ftte.""£he voice remains so fit, fint there's
i'
a cemmanA In It, l/fty month snaps cleseA wlthent
Any censclens Aeclslen en my part.^ single nail en
that Immacnlate hanA pierces my skin. "£pare me
yenr everts at hnmer. 3 AlA net select yen te fa my
fester."
s
' ;;._'. ' , ". ,. . . ,
:
^.
:
;•.;,•.'...
3 cannot ask the efivlens ^nestlen, tint she Antici-
pates it Anyhow. "3 neeAeA to filnA ent what yen were
(ike wlthent the things that Aefilne yenr lAentlty. 3ft 3
cenlA remove yenr train AnA pnt It In a far te
experiment npen, 3 went A. 3 haA te cnt AWAy the llfie
rennA yenr minA, as far as possible, te see how yen
.
\ cope with loss. "Wonr llfie has faen a test. *^e
3 cAn SfieAk AfiAin. "\/~$hAt Ae 3 wl*& 3
hepe it's A tewet. ^Hy *yt& &tln%,"
"3 &alA 3 AlAn't want te speak with an
"VW
AlA. 3 am net an angel,"3 can hear a smite
In that velce. "JL,et me shew yen,"
3 hear metal scream anA fireAk fahlnA me.^t
first 3 think thAt 3'm losing my peripheral visien..
~£hen 3 realize there's tangible Slackness faslAe the
car, a column efi something like smoke, floating In
the mlAAle e£ it
f
3 &ee a woman. £ he's tall 6nt slim,
her face heavily scarreA. frjer hair... isn't hair at all,
It's layer npen layer ffj- moving shaAows, like exfiell-
atlng granite or peeling fiark. tyer arms seem nermal
enengh—3 recognize the hanA anA wrist that resteA
en my shentAer. "£,etew them, thongh, a seconA set efa
arms pokes threngh slits in the gray re fa she
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