A short collection of plot hooks for Monster of the Week and/or Shadowrun.
In the midst of a video call, the computer/phone crashes and comes back up with a screen full of 8 digit letter and number sequences.
A security guard wakes up in the middle of the night and begins writing out strings of binary on his bedroom walls.
Each night a small, square metallic plaque with symbols etched into it is left on a character’s doorstep.
Piles of rocks appear around a character’s door each morning.
A man begins furiously typing a document in his word processing program. He knows he saved it, but can’t find it. He has no recollection of what he typed or why.
A woman makes a video of herself speaking in Ancient Sumerian. The translation is cryptic and Japanese is the only language she knows.
A young gang member spray paints a collection of symbols on a wall instead of the tag he originally intended, having no idea what they mean or why he did it.
A character goes to check an innocuous email from a friend only to have the screen go to static. Several numbers and letters appear in that static. It’s a web address buried deep in the Dark Web.
Each character has a dream involving the same word of phrase repeated over and over. When combined, the sentence is a clue to hidden treasure, or a deeper mystery.
A farmer stumbles outside to find a series of crop circle style symbols etched into her yard.
An entire night’s video footage from a stakeout is erased and replaced with the sounds of the characters’ halves of a conversation with someone who isn’t there.
The wooden trim of an old house has Norse runes scratched into it all the way around certain rooms. The messages are cryptic, but coherent
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