Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles is a splatbook for Wraith: The Oblivion detailing the Spooks, users of Outrage and Oracles, users of Fatalism
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Spooks
- This is my fist. That is your Fetter. This is your Fetter after I've beaten the living hell out of it with my fist. Any questions?
- Oracles
- I am a spider in the web of Fate. You are a fly, caught in it. I walk along the strands, untouched. You are bound. The more you struggle, the worse it will be.
- The Spooks: Pathos-runners, Fetter-breakers and bagmen of the Underworld. The Oracles: They saw Charon's downfall -- do they hide the secret of his return? The influence of these Guilds stretches from the mean streets of the Necropoli to the chambers of the Onyx Tower. Nobody know their real agendas, though -- except perhaps those who've read this book.
- Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles is the sixth in the continuing series of Guildbooks for Wraith: The Oblivion. Inside are compete Guildbooks for both Guilds, covering everything from Guild histories to new Arcanos uses. If it's something you need to know about the Spooks or Oracles, it's in here.
- Capiche? Good...
- Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles contains:
- The reason the Spooks and Haunters fragmented, and the terrible price that was paid;
- New uses of Fatalism and Outrage, and the three easy steps to wrecking the Skinlands;
- The prophecy that doomed Charon, and much more!
Contents[]
Guildbook: Spooks[]
Ghost Story: A Road of Steel and Souls, Part VII[]
The Commission of Five discuss what really happened to Charon as Fix makes trouble for the Puppeteers.
Prologue: The Spook Inside Me[]
A Spook ponders the violent nature he has had since acquiring Outrage.
Chapter One: Those Honor Bound[]
The complex mafia-esque organization that is the Spooks, plus those they consider friends and enemies.
Chapter Two: Inquiries (A History)[]
The tumultuous history of the Spooks, from their first days to their rivalry with the Haunters to how the Dictum Mortuum is ignored.
Chapter Three: The Job and How To Do It[]
The Arcanos abilities of the Guild, Merits and Flaws, and the standard-issue Artifacts a Spook might use.
- Outrage-ous Effects: An Arcanos Arsenal:
Affect Speed of Object- Afterimage
- Recoil/Follow-Through
- Wrench in the Gears
- Irresistible Force/Immovable Object
- Relic Wrap
- Advanced Levels of Outrage
- Shroudshield
- Bilocation
- Center of Gravity
- Corsican Syndrome
- Merits and Flaws:
- Easier Pandemonium (2 point Merit)
- Nice Abs! (3 point Merit)
- Quick Healer (3 point Merit)
- Lucky Shot (2-4 point Merit)
- Bargaining Chip (2-5 point Merit)
- Secure Fetter (3-5 point Merit)
- Psychosomatic Disability (1-3 point Flaw)
- Disorientation (2-4 point Flaw)
- Overkill (4 point Flaw)
- Monitored (5 point Flaw)
- Artifacts and Relics:
- Compass (Level 1, Local)
- Fetter Boutonnieres (Level 1, Local)
- Tempest Top (Level 2, Personal)
- Pathos Flasks (Level 2, Local)
- Pop Box (Level 3, Personal)
- Pathos Sticks (Level 4, Local)
- Barrowbombs (Level 5, Issued)
- Despair's Helm (Level 5, Unique)
Chapter Four: The Rank and File[]
Character templates and how they can fit into the Guild.
- Resistance Fighter
- Ward Boss
- Pathos Smuggler
- Shroudbreaker Sentinel
- Harrowsmith Interrogator
Appendix: Friends With Long Guns[]
The ones in charge and the charged-up of the Spooks.
Guildbook: Oracles[]
Ghost Story: A Road of Steel and Souls, Part VIII[]
The Oracles find Charon's real location, and make plans to act against the betrayers.
Chapter One: Deja Vu[]
An introduction to the Oracles and their many forms.
Chapter Two: Inside the Unblinking Eye[]
Details on life among the Oracles, including the places they gather, the factions that exist within them, and how they work together to save the Shadowlands from destruction.
Chapter Three: And It Was Written[]
The lesser-known aspects of the Oracles, including the Web of Fate, the visions of Charon's future, and the Guild's relation to the Legion of Fate.
Chapter Four: Opening Them Wider[]
The Arcanos arts of the Oracles, merits and flaws, and the Artifacts common to Oracles.
- New Arcanoic Methods:
- Basic Ability:
- Scrying
- Distant Visions
- A Quick Read
- Malocchio
- Pulling Strings
- Tangles
- Ensnare
- Scrying
- Basic Ability:
- Merits and Flaws:
- The Bottom Line (1 point Merit)
- Vibes (4 point Merit)
- Justin, the Nick in Time (4 point Merit)
- Bearer of Bad News (1 point Flaw)
- Flashes (2 point Flaw)
- Rule of Three (2 point Flaw)
- Serendipity (3 point Flaw)
- Kassandra Complex (5 point Flaw)
- Speaking in Tongues (5 point Flaw)
- Broken Record (7 point Flaw)
- Artifacts:
- Soulfire Brazier (Common, level 1)
- Whisp (Common, level 2)
- Knucklebones (Luxury, level 3)
- Reed Bundle (Unique, level 5)
Chapter Five: (Un)familiar Faces[]
Character templates for Oracles from various walks of life.
- Televangelist
- Phone Psychic
- Child of the Green
- Pan-Historian
- The Game Master
Appendix: Portraits Hanging on the Catacomb Walls[]
The most famous of the Fate-readers.
Background Information[]
- This was the final Guildbook released. It continued the practice started by Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers of including two Guilds in one volume.
- In the table of contents, the number labeling the first Steel and Souls story is misnumbered as V. It should and does read VII on the story itself.
- A note mentions that: Sister Acceptance was created by Jackie Cassada and Nicky Rea. Fix and Artemus Vanderwaal were created by Mark Cenczyk. And Yaeko was created by Heather Grove.
- Ads at the back of the book include: Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade (Summer 1998), Kindred of the East, Trinity 1998 Release Calendar.
Memorable Quotes[]
"I see a woman. She is sitting. She wears a simple black gown, and her hands are bound in what looks to be a cat's cradle of wire. Her eyes are covered with a blood-soaked rag, though I cannot tell if the blood is hers. She sits in the center of a ring of mirrors. All alter her image in some way. None show her as she truly appears, but as I look back to where she sits, her image wavers and shifts and eventually crumbles to dust. All blows away, then. All blows away." - Seen by Malik Bell, of the Order of Babylon (Oracles)
Characters[]
- Seth - Monitor, Sent into a Nihil
- Yaeko - Puppeteer
- Graffanino - Spook, Turned into a Deck of Cards by Artificers
- Cormier - Spook, Vanished
- Midian - Haunter
- Allensworth - Spook Boss
- Womack - Spook
- Batiste - Spook Boss
- Julius Overbrook - Hierarch, Chief Inquisitor, Magisterium Veritatis 3td District, Stygia
- Ivan, "Jackie Blades" Bladomiroff - Spook, Armadr, Silver Maple Combination, Destroyed by Harrowsmiths
- Ned Riddle - Dulian, Spook who first articulated The Cause
- Despair - Pandora Skia Haunter, Destroyed
- Francesco di Toscano - Spook, Nepenthean
- Hermann Reinhardt - Spook, Dolabra
- Aristide Plumét - Spook, Harrowsmith
- Willian Castor - Spook from London, Leader of the Charing Crosses Gang
- Pop-Up - Spook Armadar
- Artemus Vanderwal: Youngest of the Commission of Five. Spook Boss of the Five Boroughs Commission, Spokesman for the Gray Gangs.
- Charles Francis Quintain - Ex-Anacreon of the Silent Legion, Resigned Hierarch from New York
- Roger Briscoe - Spook, Lifeliner and Armadar P. I. from New Orleans
- Felix "Fix" Hessian: A Spook that scares other Spooks. Mercenary, Armadar, Mementomorian
- Mickey "The Curse" Doyle - Spook, Shroudbreaker and Defender
- Niccolo Cianfrocco: The head of the Commission of Five and of Chicago Combination. Spook Boss.
- Octavia - Oracle
- Finnegan - Oracle, Gambler
- Percí - Oracle
- Deidre - Oracle, 28th Pythian
- Hyklot - Oracle, Augur
- Bookie Bea - Oracle, Gambler
- Etharias - Oracle, Augur
- Franklin - Oracle
- Minotaur - Moliated Wraith that serves the Oracles, Servant, Guard and Solider
- Earl - Oracle
- Cristoph - Oracle
- Amber-O - Oracle
- Knucklebones - Oracle
- Aleph - Oracle, Leader of the Augurs
- Leonard "The Leak" Kravitz - Wraith
- Red-Eyed Susie - Wraith
- Dealer - Leader of the Gamblers Sect, Oracle
- Roulette - Moliated Oracle, Gambler
- Prophet Orpheus - Oracle, Doomsayer
- Father Time - Oracle
- Weaver of Fates - Oracle
- Iphenia - Oracle, 43rd Pythian, Delphic
- Renemue - Oracle, Clairvoyant Watcher
- Yoshi Yellow-Moon - Oracle
- Elijah Greene - Doomsayer Preacher, Oracle
- Professor Adolphus Bracht - Hierarch
- Malik Bell - Oracle, The Order of Babylon
- Kidu, Blade-That-Cuts-Backward - Oracle
- KrystalMeth - Oracle, der Kult Nadel
- Mauberine DoPhantom Re, "Madeleine Rae Reardon" - Oracle, Maintains a Website called "Piercing the Shroud"
- Elspeth- Re's Companion, Oracle
- The Lady Spurned, "Spurinna" - Oracle
- Servius - High Overlord of the Skeletal Legion, Hierarch (Gone)
- Count de Versailles - Vizier for the Fishers, Fetters were crushed
- EverClear - Oracle, Doomsayer, Harrowed (Gone)
- Lady of Fate: Honorary member of the Oracles.
- Selena: Grand High Oracle of the Delphics, current head of the Pantheon, and Oracle Guildmaster.
Terminology[]
Alacante's Necropolis, Bella La Fayette (Relic River Boat, Oracle Gamblers), The Catacombs (Location), "The Cause", Charing Crosses (Old Spook Gang, became the first of the Gray Gangs), Collected Works of the Politicas Mortuum by Professor Adolphus Bracht (Book), Combinations (Larger Network of Locals), Dolabra ("The Axe," Old Spook Group, became the Harrowsmiths), Dulians (Old Spook Group, became the Lifeliners), Dusenberg limousine (Spook Relic), Fatalism, Flasks of Liquid Hate (Artifact: Type of Pathos Flask), Haunters (Spook Allies), Haunters' Conclave, Library of Ages (Location), Linen Book (Relic), Locals (Spook Gang), Monitors (Spook Enemies), Nepentheans (Old Spook Group, became the Mementomorians), Nephandi (Spook Enemies), Oracle (WTO) (Pantheon), Oracle Glossary: Annihilation, Ass-In-The-Hole, Aleph, Augur, Blade-Boy/Blade-Girl, Blades of Jade/Jade Blade, Blind-Eyes, Clairvoyant(s), ClearSight, Delphic, Dealer, Do the Delphi, Doomsayer, En-lil, Enochian, Fulguriatores, Gambler(s), Grimas, Kassandra, Lady/Our Lady/The Lady, Mouri, Prophet, Pythian, Sight, Signbearers, Sofit, Strand (of the Web), Streghs, Trusks, Unblinking Eyes, Ventricle, Web/LifeWeb, Whisp; Oracle Minor Factions: Star Seekers, Fetishists, Jesters, The Vanities, Car-Carrying Members; Outrage, The Pantheon Temple (Oracle Guild House, Relic, Location), Pathos-running, "Piercing the Shroud" (Oracle Website), The Pulse: The Six-Feet-Underground Newsletter of Stygia, Reinhardt's Raiders (Sub-Faction of the Dolabra), River of Death (Location), Sacrificial Blade of Eannatum (Augur Artifact), Santorini (Island), Silver Maple Combination (Toronto Loc.), Spook, Spook Guild Structure: Defender, Armadar, Controller, Boss, The Commission of Five ("C5"); Spook Spectrums: The Lifeliners, The Mementomorians, The Shroudbreakers, The Gray Gangs, The Harrowsmiths; Stygian Suites (Location), The Three Leagues (Dolabra, Dulians and Nepentheans), Village Incident,
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