The Explanation from Dr. Daniel Cain
Transcribed and recounted by Francisca Danelli and Tristan Langbroek.
Transcriber notes: some things were cut for the sake of not having things run in circles.
Part 1 recounted by Tristan Langbroek.
(Dr. West leads me down the stairs to the basement laboratory. What I saw down there is something no man’s tongue can reproduce but the things on the vivisection tables… A couple minutes later, Dr. Tillinghast is heard from up the stairs.)
West: You see, Tristan, Tuataras aren’t lizards. They’re actually from their own lineage—
Tillinghast: …Dr. West? Mr. Langbroek? Are you down there?
Langbroek: Dr. Tillinghast… I suggest staying up there—
West: Come down, Cynthia, I want to show you my work.
(Dr. West was intoxicated. They had two bottles of wine after eating a slice of cake. He was rambling on about something that I couldn’t make out, and soon 💉 got out a bottle of a glowing green fluid. Dr. Tillinghast came down the stairs and looked around the room.)
Tillinghast: What is all of this—
(Dr. Tillinghast screamed and soon pointed at something on the floor. I looked down at where she pointed to a creature I couldn’t make out, but it looked like a spider? Or a crab?)
Tillinghast: It looked like them! From the attic!
Langbroek: This house doesn’t have an attic.
Tillinghast: Not here, but my attic— the Resonator—
West: Langbroek, she’s hysterical. Now, come over to this table.
(Ms. Danelli, Dr. Cain, and Dr. Halsey ran over from the scream. This can be heard from down the stairs.)
Danelli: Cynthia? What’s wrong?
Halsey: Oh god, I think they know.
Danelli: Know what, Meg?
Cain: Nothing. Nothing at all. Let me get them back upstairs.
Halsey: Dan, we’re not covering for West. This is a damn birthday party for that damn bastard, and they brought two of the guests into the laboratory.
(All three came down the stairs, and I was by a vivisection with something that I shall not say on it. Dr. West was by me and was about to inject it with that strange, glowing, and green fluid. Dr. Tillinghast was hiding in the corner of the room and she soon clung to Ms. Danelli.)
Tillinghast: T-They’re everywhere. They can’t see us and we can’t see them. They…
Danelli: My god… Cynthia, you’ll be ok.
(Dr. Cain stopped Dr. West, and we all went upstairs. Dr. West was hugging all over Dr. Cain but soon ran to the restroom to vomit. Dr. Tillinghast was given tea to calm down.)
Part 2 transcribed by Francisca Danelli.
(All of us, but Dr. West, sat down in the living room. The cats were asleep together on a chair. Dr. Tillinghast, Mr. Langbroek, and myself sat down on the couch. Dr. Halsey brought in a chair to sit down with some tea for Tillinghast. Dr. Cain went to the restroom to help Dr. West as he was throwing up the amount of alcohol they drank.)
Halsey: I’m so sorry about all of this.
Langbroek: Why were there… bodies?
Danelli: If there isn’t a good reason why, I’m calling the police.
Tillinghast: I… That creature was made from human fingers and an eye.
(Dr. Cain came back and he leaned against the wall.)
Cain: Herbert went to bed.
Halsey: Of course, they’re hiding like a coward.
Cain: They’re drunk.
Halsey: And? They caused all of this.
(Dr. Halsey and Dr. Cain were arguing. I soon stopped it.)
Danelli: What is going on? Why were there bodies and what were those—
Cain: Fine! Fine. I’ll try to explain it.
(Dr. Cain calmed down and looked at us.)
Cain: Herbert’s research is about the reanimation of the dead and over came death itself.
Langbroek: They’re trying to be another Victor Frankenstein? Or whatever that mad Swiss patient from Bedlam believed themselves to be.
Cain: Yes, I’ve been their assistant for 17 years—
Tillinghast: I remember West argue with Dr. Quinley in our first year at Miskatonic and nearly failed that class over it. It was years ago… I remember when they were on academic probation in his third year.
Cain: That didn’t stop them. He slowly got more and more demented with their experiments and it led to their death. They were reanimated by Dr. Robert Jekyll.
(Everyone was quiet until Dr. Halsey spoke up.)
Halsey: He reanimated me just so Danny wasn’t upset. They ruined my life.
Danelli: I’m so sorry, Meg…
Langbroek: That’s awful… I knew Herbert in high school. We were, uh, good friends. They showed me their pet mice that they later killed, and talked about wanting to be a doctor. His parents didn’t want them to be one. That never stopped 💉. Not one bit.
Danelli: Should I call the police?
Cain: No.
(Dr. Cain looked at me with a stare that made my spine run cold.)
Cain: We’ll act like nothing happened. Got it? I don’t want this coming out. No one will believe us.
(All of us agreed and we soon left.)
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Re-Animator/Arkham Horror Custom Game Content: The Investigators
I don't have a title for this project yet, but it's basically its own expansion pack at this point. If anybody has any ideas for a rad name, lemme know!
These cards have only been playtested in a non-representative game; I will probably try to playtest them again tonight!
Card info reads as follows:
Francesca Danelli
the Journalist
4 Sanity
6 Stamina
Home: Newspaper
Fixed Possessions: $7, 1 Clue Token, 1 Special (Retainer)
Random Possessions: 2 Common Items, 1 Spell, 1 Skill
SPECIAL: She is a Wartime Journalist. Any phase: Francesca gains +1 to combat rolls when wielding guns. She gains 1 extra Clue token from all in-game events or items, excluding Clues collected from unstable Locations.
Focus: 2
SPEED: 0 1 2 3
SNEAK: 5 4 3 2
FIGHT: 1 2 3 4
WILL: 3 2 1 0
LORE: 2 3 4 5
LUCK: 4 3 2 1
Creator Comments: The hardest part was, let's be real, trying to make Francesca into a character who isn't defined entirely as "one leg in the really toxic love triangle between her, Dan and Herbert". It's a shame that "Bride" never gave her space to be somebody. Being an international journalist who is habitually embedded in war zones in the late 1980s is truly rich soil for a character to grow in.
Francesca is slow because she's unfamiliar with Arkham's layout; this gives her a higher Sneak so she can escape monsters if need be. Her low Will and low-ish Sanity mean she may well break from the horror of seeing monsters before she gets a chance to fight them, but everybody's gotta have weaknesses. She has mid-grade Luck to help her cope with random encounters.
Her high Lore is partly to justify giving her a Spell, but mostly because "Lore" as a stat relates to how well an investigator correctly understands and copes with the Mythos as they encounter it in-game. And, well. Francesca had Herbert's number from frame one, didn't she? She could've gotten an award for Most Correct Character In "Bride" On Literally Every Call She Made, if she hadn't decided that Dan was Dudley Do-Right.
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What if Jeffrey Combs characters and other related characters were in Danganronpa?
Herbert West - Ultimate ??? (Re-animator)
Daniel Cain - Ultimate Doctor
Ash Williams - Ultimate Lucky Student
Meg Halsey - Ultimate Nurse
Francesca Danelli - Journalist
Crawford Tillingast - Ultimate Physicist
Katherine McMichaels - Ultimate Psychiatrist
Buford Brownlee - Ultimate Football Player
Anton Mordrid - Ultimate Sorcerer
Milton Dammers - Ultimate Special Agent
Dinosaur Bob - Ultimate Loan Shark
Jonathan - Ultimate priest
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