By Jim Kinney (102461.3340@compuserve.com) (29 December 1995)
"Have you found the Yellow Sign?"
Taints: (Required) Derangement (Hallucinations, 3), The Fading (5), Breed Prejudice (4)
Occasionally someone, usually a researcher into the occult, will find the Yellow Sign, an extremely complicated golden rune, in a rare book, such as a first edition of the play "The King in Yellow." When the researcher studies the rune carefully he makes himself susceptible to possession by a certain type of Bane. As the possession begins, the researcher will begin to see the sign everywhere: on buildings, buses, magazines and tattoos. Soon the Sign will become a kind of religious icon for the fomor, allowing the Bane to take full control.
Now the fomor will attempt to share its "blessing" by showing the Sign to as may people as possible, and if people refuse to look, then the fomor will use its powers to project the sign into the minds and dreams of its victims. Usually these visions are not enough to allow the victim to become possessed, but it may drive them to the nearest "expert" on such matters, usually the fomor. The fomor will torment its victims, driving them away from family and friends and slowly eating away at their sanity.
Few people in the World of Darkness know of the Children of the Yellow Sign, but Pentex is aware of them and is curious about their methods, as the idea of a printed symbol facilitating possession is very attractive to a company that owns as many publishing companies as Pentex. They are very careful though, as the Children have shown a great willingness to share their "gift" with Pentex operatives too...