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of ConspiraCy
Spring Crescent Middle School
A sourcebook for the game
Monsters and Other Childish hings.
Curriculum of Conspiracy
is written by Ross Payton, © 2008.
Illustrated by Rob Mansperger, © 2008.
Monsters and Other Childish hings
is © 2008, Benjamin Baugh. he One-Roll Engine
is © 2008, Greg Stolze. Published by Arc Dream Publishing. Special thanks to Fred Hicks, man among page designers, and our
playtest GMs: Gary “Evilgaz” Bowerbank, Neil Ford and Dan Parke. Visit us on the Web at www.arcdream.com/monsters.
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Curriculum
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Spring Crescent
Middle School
We don’t need no education.
Spring Crescent Middle School is a beacon of light and knowledge in the city. Its students
are renowned around the nation for high achievement in scholastics, athletics and civic
duty. Families move to the school district so that their children might have a chance to
attend this prestigious school. he walls of the front oice are lined with photos of its suc-
cessful alumni, including many famous politicians, businessmen, actors and other prodi-
gies. Everyone in the community endlessly repeats the litany of the school’s importance
and each student that walks through its doors knows how vital success in the school is to
their future lives.
It is a lie.
he administration ruthlessly exploits every system to gain prestige, funding and ac-
colades it does not truly deserve. It manipulates the student body into cooperating and
every freshman soon learns that everyone has a scam or an angle. hat’s how most of
Spring Crescent’s students and faculty think of the school.
But even this is a lie.
A small cadre of teachers and administrators have for years waged a war against
the supernatural. Monsters in particular. Not for altruistic reasons, either. hey
have turned the school into the perfect trap for kids with monsters and use it
to lure them and dominate or destroy them for personal proit and power. Of course, only
a few know this, least of all any unwary freshman with a monster who steps inside.
Welcome to middle school.
Curriculum of Conspiracy
is an adventure and campaign setting for
Monsters and Other
Childish hings
, the roleplaying game by Arc Dream Publishing. You need a copy of that
game to use this adventure. Find out more at
www.arcdream.com/monsters
.
Theme
Life sucks. Wear a helmet.
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Hypocrisy, corruption and clique politics all cast a shadow over everything connected
to Spring Crescent. Every kid in the school is forced to become an accomplice to the
schemes of the faculty, as those who don’t quickly face the wrath of the administration.
he cabal uses subtle and supernatural methods to create deniability. Who will believe
stories of teachers reading minds with sorcery or binding demons to enforce their rules?
Selish and ambitious students learn how to manipulate the system for their own ends and
fall into squabbling with the other cliques. Kids who want to retain their dignity and self-
respect must ight a guerrilla war against the adults and most of the student body.
hen there are kids with monsters. Kids with monsters have to deal with a conspiracy
all around them that aims to destroy their monster friends and corrupt their souls. he
teachers have decades of experience in confusing, betraying and breaking willful adoles-
cents and their monsters.
The History
of SCMC
History is first period.
Founded in 1913, Spring Crescent Middle School was once a normal school for normal
kids. Its real history begins in 1947 when the school board hired a new principal, Dr. Nor-
man Levitt. Dr. Levitt presented himself as a bold innovator in the ield of education, but
in reality he was an occultist obsessed with discovering the existence of symbiotic guard-
ian demons—monsters. He saw Spring Crescent as his private laboratory.
Hans and the Soldier
Few know the details of Dr. Levitt’s background. He had an Ivy League education. he
earliest records are of his freshman year in college. In truth, Levitt spent his college years
experimenting with various secret societies and cults. He also gained access to society’s
elite as he invited the upper crust to dark rituals and orgies for their decadent pleasure.
He was nearly expelled for his activities, but he blackmailed several school oicials, who
had attended his orgies, into letting him graduate. Ater graduation, Levitt delved deeper
into the occult underground and learned the basics of black magic while touring Europe
between the wars.
Levitt might have been content to study dark grimoires had he not encountered a
young boy named Hans in the back woods of Bavaria in 1934. Following rumors of a
witch-tainted child, Dr. Levitt found Hans living alone in a squalid hut at the edge of a
farming village. Curiously, despite the lack of a parent or guardian, the child appeared
well fed and content. he doctor questioned the boy for several hours as the child inno-
cently played with an exquisitely hand-carved toy wooden soldier, but ultimately learned
nothing. When Dr. Levitt returned to the village to stay the night, the villagers refused to
speak of the child, even when ofered cash or liquor as incentives.
A week of careful study of the boy yielded nothing, but Levitt could sense he was onto
something. Reasoning that forcing the boy to act would bring about the best results, he
used magic to wither the crops of the village. Soon rumors began to ly. With a few more
curses, and suggestions from Levitt, the villagers formed a mob to lynch the boy for ally-
ing himself with the devil. Dr. Levitt accompanied the mob, eager to see what Hans would
do to protect himself.
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