Day 1 Schedule

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Nameless Echoes: Day 1 - Hourly Structure (Gen Con 2025)

🕰️ 1st Hour (Welcome & Setup)

• Welcome and introductions.
• Hand out character sheets and initial clues.
• 1-on-1 Storyteller meetings to deliver secrets, personal connections, and motivations.
• Overview of the Capitol Node crisis and initial murder mystery setup (William Burke & Tori Redford).

🕰️ 2nd & 3rd Hours (The Murder Council)

• The Council of the Erased convenes: Mages, Kindred, Garou, and Fae factions collide.
• Players share discoveries, question NPCs, and reveal (or withhold) secrets.
• Tension builds as the first Paradox glitches emerge—flickering signs, looping whispers, and reality fractures.
• Factions debate: Who killed Burke and Redford? Who benefits from their deaths?

🕰️ 4th Hour (12-Hour Downtime – Players Take One Action)

• The story fast-forwards 12 in-game hours.
• Each player declares one action their character takes during this downtime—examples:
  • Research at the Capitol Archives.
  • Dreaming in the Freehold.
  • Investigating a Node or crime scene.
  • Making a pact with another NPC.
  • Scouting the ritual site.
  • Meditating to gain insight.
• These actions may grant Echo Tokens, clues, or additional challenges.

🕰️ 5th - 6th Hour (The Ritual Confrontation)

• Crisis at the Capitol Node: Players face the Nephandi, corrupted Technocrats, and spiritual backlash.
• Stop or redirect the ritual—failure risks the Nameless gaining a foothold.
• Echo Glitches: Players may swap with alternate versions of themselves or temporarily gain/lose traits.

🕰️ 7th–8th Hours (Resolution & The Digi-8 Revelation)

• Aftermath: The ritual’s success or failure reshapes the local Consensus.
• NPCs react: alliances shift, accusations fly.
• Digi-8's voice emerges—static-laced, fragmented, unfinished. It references the Ghost Ship in the Digital Web, hints at Kronovore, and murmurs cryptic warnings about the Nameless.
• Players receive final clues: fragments of code, eerie numbers (1.36791013192342), and glitched visions of their future selves.