De Vermiis Mysteriis
A copy of De Vermiis Mysteriis was reportedly in the possession of the
famous German academic and explorer Hermann Van Dultz, before the war.
Van Dultz was a staunch nationalist, but was never a nazi. Despite
giving public support to Hitler, he refused to give the Karotechia
access to the secret library he had accumulated over the course of his
world wide travels; these were things, he told them, man was not meant
to know. For his pains, he was sent to a concentration camp near the
Polish border, which is where he died. Van Dultz lived in Dresden, and
it was always assumed that his library was destroyed during the
extensive firebombing of that city. However, a few months ago, another
rare occult text - Olaf Berg's 'The Infernal Atlas' (1922) - the only
known copy of which had supposedly perished with Van Dultz's secret
library, was used as the down-payment in a heroin deal with the Russian
Mafia by a Turkish drug dealer called Oliver Hassan.
Heinrich Hassler was a young student of Van Dultz back in the 30's. A
somewhat accomplished dreamer, Hassler had sought out Van Dultz as a
respected authority on the unusual and the paranormal; the two became
great friends. When Van Dultz was taken by the Gestapo in 1941, he
managed to get word to Hassler, and instructed him to remove and hide
his secret library of occult tomes; fearing that the Karotechia would
break him and discover them. Hassler did this - securing them in a bomb
shelter he had constructed beneath his residence. Consequently, the
books managed to survive the bombing of Dresden.
Hassler long ago lost the power to dream, and has never really recovered
from the double loss of that and his friend and mentor. He has closely
guarded and studied the books for over fifty years now; Hassler,
however, is not possessed of a disciplined mind or character, and
although he has become a reasonable sorcerer, his loneliness and
isolation, coupled with his study of the books themselves have tipped
him over the edge. Several years ago, he became addicted to heroin, and
little else has mattered to him since. He has even begun to trade some
of Van Dultz's precious books for the stuff.
However; Hassler is no fool - and has a not unreasonable level of occult
power and knowledge at his disposal. He has sensed that something is
afoot in the world, and that it concerns his old books. Several weeks
ago he decided to bury De Vermiis Mysteriis (Van Dultz's prize tome) in
the grave of his old friend (with a little something he's summoned to
keep it company) - where he assumes it will be safe. However, the
searchers will not give up so easily.
Klieber (who has access to the Karotechia's original files on Van Dultz
and his library) has put two and two together, and decided that Van
Dultz's library must have survived, and that someone must have gotten
access to it. He set his Aryan Bruders Bauer about finding the Turkish
heroin dealer, which they did; however, whilst they extracted the
information from the Turk, members of the gang he represents - 'the
Apache' - turned up on the scene, armed to the teeth, and extremely
pissed off. Several Bauer were seriously injured in the street-fight
that followed, and they had to retreat. Hassan was taken to hospital,
where he currently resides.
Operation LUNACY
Part One - Scorched Earth (Dresden)
Part Two - Broken Anvil (The Alps)
Part Three - Falling Down (Saxony Anhalt)
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