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* OnlyKillableAtHome: One of the capstones (suggested campaign conclusions) in the Director's Handbook invokes a version of this -- "Only where Dracula first truly entered un-life can he forever leave it." In other words, in order to put Dracula down for good the players have to find his true tomb and kill him there.
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* HandSignals: E Squadron (the military back-up force for Edom) has made an addition to the usual military tactical hand signs -- index finger and pinkie extended and pointing down, two middle fingers curled up toward the palm with the thumb holding them closed, means "Vampire".
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* HolyBurnsEvil: One option for the setting states that vampires are only affected by religious artifacts from their era or earlier. If the Director is going with Dracula = Vlad Tepes, that means finding a crucifix made and blessed before 1476, or a Host consecrated by a pre-Tridentine Rite.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are literally dozens of [=NPCs=] available for possible inclusion in a game, most of whom have three different possible affiliations for the Director to choose from -- independent/innocent, working for Edom (or another intelligence agency), and working for Dracula. They also have alternate names and appearances listed, so even if players have read the Director's Handbook, they may not instantly recognize them.
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* KillItWithFire: Sometimes, an Edom team can't extract with their "Special Biological Asset", so they're issued three packets just in case. Use packet A and packet B to seal the [=SBA=] container (pronounced "vampire's coffin"), then spread the thermite in packet C evenly over the lid and ignite.
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Un-Dead Transylvanian counts don't play second fiddle to anyone. Dracula accepted Edom's offer, broke free of their his handlers, and started his own plans. Outsiders learned of the vampire's presence, and hunted him back to Europe, where he was reported destroyed. As part of the ensuing cover-up, Creator/BramStoker was ordered to release a heavily-censored version of his after-action report [[Literature/{{Dracula}} as a novel]].
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* SecretIntelligenceService: Edom is part of [=MI6=], but is unknown to most agents of that organization, making it a Secret Intelligence Service within a Secret Intelligence Service.
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''The Dracula Dossier'' is an improvisational campaign for ''Night's Black Agents'', ''TabletopGame/NightsBlackAgents'', written by Creator/KennethHite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan. It uses Creator/RobinLaws' ''[=GUMSHOE=]'' system.
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* DoubleSpeak: The ''Edom Field Manual'' talks about how agents should handle and deploy Special Biological Assets ([=SBAs=]), which are described as precisely targeted bioweapons capable of killing a single target or small group without risk of the infection spreading. [=SBAs=] are actually [[CapturedSuperEntity vampires working for Edom]].
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* CapturedSuperEntity: Edom's plans for Dracula, after the attempt to ask him nicely for an alliance backfired badly, is to figure out a way to capture him and manipulate him as a super-weapon against enemies of the Crown.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are literally dozens of [=NPCs=] available for possible inclusion in a game, most of whom have three different possible affiliations for the Director to choose from -- independent/innocent, working for Edom (or another intelligence agency), and working for Dracula. They also have alternate names and appearances listed, so even if players have read the Director's Handbook, they may not instantly recognize them.
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* BlackSite: Several of Edom's bases qualify for this trope.
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* MeaningfulName: More like Meaningful CodeName -- the three Edom annotators mentioned above are only known by the names of three actors who played Van Helsing in ''Dracula'' movies ("Van Sloan", "Cushing", and "Hopkins").
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* ABNegative: One annotation in ''Unredacted'' theorizes that one of the first changes in vampiric transformation is changing the proto-vamp's blood type to AB+ (universal recipient), meaning Lucy could have survived multiple un-typed transfusions if Dracula hadn't finished her off.
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* KukrisAreKool: Edom issues carbon-fiber kukris to field agents. They aren't quite as sharp as a steel one, but still sharp enough to decapitate a vampire, and can be carried through metal detectors without tripping the alarm.
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The ''Director's Handbook'' won the 2016 [=ENnie=] Awards for Product of the Year and Best Writing, and was the runner-up for Adventure of the Year. ''The Hawkins Papers'', a collection of [=PDF=] handouts for use in a ''Dracula Dossier'' game, won for Best Supplement.
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* SuperSerum: Seward Serum, Edom's preferred combat drug, is derived from vampire blood and gives users many of the same abilities as a Renfield would have. [[spoiler:Plus making them more susceptible to Dracula's mind control, since the blood in question came from one of his victims.]]
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The Dracula Dossier is an improvisational campaign for Night's Black Agents, written by Creator/KennethHite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan.
During the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), British Intelligence learned that vampires were real. In the late 1800s, spymaster Peter Hawkins formed Operation Edom – a covert organization within the Naval Intelligence Division, intended to bring a vampire to England as an Intelligence asset.
Un-Dead Transylvanian counts don't play second fiddle to anyone. Dracula accepted Edom's offer, broke free of their handlers, and started his own plans. Outsiders learned of the vampire's presence, and hunted him back to Europe, where he was reported destroyed. As part of the ensuing cover-up, Creator/BramStoker was ordered to release a heavily-censored version of his after-action report [[Literature/{{Dracula}} as a novel]].
But one copy of the unredacted manuscript remained in Edom's files. On three occasions, it was taken out by agents who added their own notes about Edom's continuing quest for a controlled vampiric asset, whether Dracula or someone else. Now the legendary Dracula Dossier has fallen into the hands of your player-characters. Can they hunt down and destroy Dracula where others have failed, or will they be destroyed by either Dracula or Edom?
The campaign has two core books. ''Dracula Unredacted'' is the “Dossier” of the title, an expanded version of the novel (bringing in elements from Stoker's original notes, the short story “Dracula's Guest”, and the Icelandic edition ''Makt Myrkranna'') with over 250 added notes [[DirectLineToTheAuthor by Edom intelligence analysts]]. The ''Director's Handbook'' is a compendium of locations, items, and [=NPCs=] ready to add into a game, many of which are linked to those annotations in ''Unredacted''. It also contains suggested campaign frameworks and dramatic finales.
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'''The Dracula Dossier contains examples of:'''
* DeadlyEuphemism: Edom does ''not'' order your characters killed if they come too close to the truth, they “issue an indulgence” for them.
* FictionAsCoverUp: The whole premise of the campaign.
* LegacyCharacter: Both Edom and Dracula keep an eye on any known descendants of the 1890's team, and refer to them as Legacies – a Harker Legacy is a descendant of Mina and Jonathan Harker, a Holmwood Legacy is a descendant of Arthur Holmwood/Lord Godalming.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In addition to the default supernatural explanation of vampirism, the Director's Handbook provides writeups for Telluric Vampires, inspired by the scientific lectures Van Helsing kept adding to his discussions of vampire lore. These vampires have several similarities to supernatural ones, but also have some important differences:
** Wooden stakes have no effect, but stakes made from conductive materials ground out a vampire's telluric energies and paralyze it.
** Garlic, wild roses, and some other plants absorb the telluric signature of the location where they're grown. Vampires are only repelled by these plants if they're grown somewhere other than the vampire's native soil. Dracula could have been held off by good English garlic, but Lucy Westenra would have been immune to it.
** Telluric vampires are vulnerable to weapons made from meteoric iron (''if'' the Widmanstatten lines are intact) or moon rocks.
** Telluric vampires cast reflections in mirrors, and can be photographed.
* [[ViewersAreGeniuses Players Are Geniuses]]: If you don't have at least one player willing to read a novel-length player handout [[note]] ''Dracula Unredacted''[[/note]] multiple times to hunt for clues, you'll have problems running this campaign.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Everyone from Stoker's novel, just for starters.
* TheRenfield: The campaign uses that name for both the original bug-eating maniac at Seward's asylum and any human given limited vampiric abilities by Dracula or another vampire.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets: Dracula (under a pseudonym) takes over a Satanic cult during his stay in England.
* SecretIntelligenceService: Edom is part of [=MI6=], but is unknown to most agents of that organization, making it a Secret Intelligence Service within a Secret Intelligence Service.
* WideOpenSandbox: The Director ([=GM=]) may set some of the ground rules, but the course of the campaign depends on which notes in ''Unredacted'' the players decide to follow up on. One group might chase Van Helsing's apparent links to the German vampire program, while another backtracks Quincey Morris to South America and a third traces the descendants of Dracula's Satanic cult.
During the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), British Intelligence learned that vampires were real. In the late 1800s, spymaster Peter Hawkins formed Operation Edom – a covert organization within the Naval Intelligence Division, intended to bring a vampire to England as an Intelligence asset.
Un-Dead Transylvanian counts don't play second fiddle to anyone. Dracula accepted Edom's offer, broke free of their handlers, and started his own plans. Outsiders learned of the vampire's presence, and hunted him back to Europe, where he was reported destroyed. As part of the ensuing cover-up, Creator/BramStoker was ordered to release a heavily-censored version of his after-action report [[Literature/{{Dracula}} as a novel]].
But one copy of the unredacted manuscript remained in Edom's files. On three occasions, it was taken out by agents who added their own notes about Edom's continuing quest for a controlled vampiric asset, whether Dracula or someone else. Now the legendary Dracula Dossier has fallen into the hands of your player-characters. Can they hunt down and destroy Dracula where others have failed, or will they be destroyed by either Dracula or Edom?
The campaign has two core books. ''Dracula Unredacted'' is the “Dossier” of the title, an expanded version of the novel (bringing in elements from Stoker's original notes, the short story “Dracula's Guest”, and the Icelandic edition ''Makt Myrkranna'') with over 250 added notes [[DirectLineToTheAuthor by Edom intelligence analysts]]. The ''Director's Handbook'' is a compendium of locations, items, and [=NPCs=] ready to add into a game, many of which are linked to those annotations in ''Unredacted''. It also contains suggested campaign frameworks and dramatic finales.
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'''The Dracula Dossier contains examples of:'''
* DeadlyEuphemism: Edom does ''not'' order your characters killed if they come too close to the truth, they “issue an indulgence” for them.
* FictionAsCoverUp: The whole premise of the campaign.
* LegacyCharacter: Both Edom and Dracula keep an eye on any known descendants of the 1890's team, and refer to them as Legacies – a Harker Legacy is a descendant of Mina and Jonathan Harker, a Holmwood Legacy is a descendant of Arthur Holmwood/Lord Godalming.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In addition to the default supernatural explanation of vampirism, the Director's Handbook provides writeups for Telluric Vampires, inspired by the scientific lectures Van Helsing kept adding to his discussions of vampire lore. These vampires have several similarities to supernatural ones, but also have some important differences:
** Wooden stakes have no effect, but stakes made from conductive materials ground out a vampire's telluric energies and paralyze it.
** Garlic, wild roses, and some other plants absorb the telluric signature of the location where they're grown. Vampires are only repelled by these plants if they're grown somewhere other than the vampire's native soil. Dracula could have been held off by good English garlic, but Lucy Westenra would have been immune to it.
** Telluric vampires are vulnerable to weapons made from meteoric iron (''if'' the Widmanstatten lines are intact) or moon rocks.
** Telluric vampires cast reflections in mirrors, and can be photographed.
* [[ViewersAreGeniuses Players Are Geniuses]]: If you don't have at least one player willing to read a novel-length player handout [[note]] ''Dracula Unredacted''[[/note]] multiple times to hunt for clues, you'll have problems running this campaign.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Everyone from Stoker's novel, just for starters.
* TheRenfield: The campaign uses that name for both the original bug-eating maniac at Seward's asylum and any human given limited vampiric abilities by Dracula or another vampire.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets: Dracula (under a pseudonym) takes over a Satanic cult during his stay in England.
* SecretIntelligenceService: Edom is part of [=MI6=], but is unknown to most agents of that organization, making it a Secret Intelligence Service within a Secret Intelligence Service.
* WideOpenSandbox: The Director ([=GM=]) may set some of the ground rules, but the course of the campaign depends on which notes in ''Unredacted'' the players decide to follow up on. One group might chase Van Helsing's apparent links to the German vampire program, while another backtracks Quincey Morris to South America and a third traces the descendants of Dracula's Satanic cult.
