Ricardo J. Mendez
A weird character in the news has come to the attention of an investigator. It will most likely be a skeptical and cynic investigator, or one compelled to believe that kind of news.
The news, it turns out, deal with a person that seems to have stigmata that match those suffered by Jesus Christ in the cross, according to Catholic Mythology. The man, one Jacobo Lewis from Haiti, seems to have injuries on his hands, feet and side that match those famous wounds. These wounds keep bleeding, but apparently never get infected. People are told to have healed after he touches them, specially those with blood diseases, although none have been documented. Also weird is the fact that Jacobo is 30 years old, the same age Jesus was when he started preaching.
What has the religious community in an uproar is that Jacobo is black, and definitely not a Christian but a practicer of voodoo. He says the wounds were inflicted on him by the Loa of his tribe, as a reminder of his human frailty and so he could spread the word.
1 Jacobo is, of course, a fake. The people he has been said to heal are healed by their own faith, just as a lot of people get sick when they believe they are. Most likely those people weren't even sick.
2 The man from Nazareth was an avatar of the Crawling Chaos. The reason why we don't know anything about his life from his early years until his 30, is because at that point he hadn't been contacted by the Nyarlathotep, and therefore wasn't important. The Black Man tried to recruit him when he is said to have been tempted in the desert, but he went mad believed he was the Messiah. Given his newly found powers, that wasn't hard to do. Now, more than 1900 years after that, Nyarlathotep is willing to try again with a son of mortal woman. Jacobo might dream about "past lives", which are previous avatars, and by those means the players can find out the truth.
3 The Loa did contact Jacobo, and inflicted the wounds. Unfortunately for him and his honfour, the alleged Loa is a vampire, too weak to fully return from his resting place. He was in life a sorcerer, and is trying to attract a cult to the place. Then he will control Jacobo to slaughter the all, so with he strength given by their blood he may return. .
Copyright (c) 1996 Ricardo J. Mendez