The Chamber has undergone several style changes since it's opening in 1994. Most recently (late last year), it changed from a quickie style club to a chain style club and adapted an ever darker "goth" feel. The club has a reputation for being an easy place to purchase drugs, including marijuana, ecstasy and pigment. The club is open six nights a week (closed Mondays) and sees its larger crowds on Thursdays (college ID night) and Saturdays.

Within the last six months, the club has become famous as the occasional hangout of shock-rock star Jayne Jonestown (late 20s). He arrives on nights when the club is particularly crowded (rumor has it he sends "spotters" to check the club for undercover police and reporters before arriving, since he is a habitual drug user according to unconfirmed reports.) and shows up shortly after midnight. He first frequented the club six months ago. Since then, many regulars reported seeing "ghosts" in the club. These descriptions range from smoky, indistinct images of people dancing to three incidents involving actual physical contact (the most dramatic of which involved a glass of vodka that floated off a table and emptied itself onto the floor). You probably already heard about these occurrences; they received fairly extensive media attention (though most of it has been derisive and dismissive). Jonestown, however is evidently a believer and wishes to uncover the truth.

Jonestown is advocating the usage of pigment in an almost cult like fashion in claims that it allows people to see The Chamber's ghost. The Chamber is a small club and by law only holds 250 people. On a busy night, the wait to get in can be upwards of three hours. On nights when Jonestown arrives, the wait is often more than six. The doorman admits people on the basis of looks, so we recommend dressing the part. (See attached photos, exhibit B.) You might be able to pass the line by paying off the doorman. (Orpheus will, of course, reimburse expenses; see Accounting). Of course, should you enter as ghosts, you need not worry about crowds or lines. Jonestown promised to be present almost every night of the week since beginning the pigment craze kick. Agents should be aware that he is a local media icon, and while the media is dismissive about ghosts, precautions are necessary not to be associated with Orpheus during this mission, especially in local clothing.

In this situation, we choose not to contact the police due to the nature of the pigment situation. Analysis and information gathering is essential to this particular mission before stopping the rising pigment trade in the club.

Mission Parameters

The club reports no hostile entities, but they do express interest in clearing any ghosts found in the club. He has not made his reasons clear (and we, of course, do not ask; they are the business of the club). Assess any ghosts you find for threat, and then, if possible, remove them from the premises. Anyone going in solid should look the part of a club-goer; we do not want any media exposure here because of the significant amount of drug traffic at The Chamber.

Also, this mission presents a good opportunity to not only test the effects of the mind altering substances on a normal person's ability to perceive ghosts. While in the club, attempt to subtly manifest to someone under the influence of a drug (particularly pigment) and record their responses. This should provide valuable information that might help us in similar cases. Pigment in particular, which has only recently become widely popular, is an unknown quantity with regards to ghost perception, and it is in wide distribution at The Chamber. If possible, purchase a small amount of the drug so that we might analyze it and test it later (but be extremely careful -- legal fees are expensive.)

Intel

The "Chamber Ghost" seems to be more than one entity that does not appear to be hostile or dangerous. As we've discovered in the past, however, just because a ghost isn't dangerous to humans doesn't mean it can't be. Jonestown, in particular, seems to feel that the ghost (or ghosts) have some grudge against him, but has heretofore been elusive as to why. Any connection between him and the club's past would be helpful, but the club changed hands and names often that tracing its history is difficult. Jonestown claims to have discovered the club while on his last tour and his become a once a month "haunt" for him. He has an almost constant crowd of groupies, but never travels with a bodyguard.

The club employs ten people, excluding the manager/owner, Ahmed Osman. Of those, most are new employees (turnover is high, though we have not determined why, apart from the constant threat of DEA raids). The employee with the longest tenure is the bartender, Mark Chandler. Chandler has arrests for serving drinks to minors, drug trafficking and possession, and statutory rape (evidently involving a seventeen year old girl who entered the club with her older sister's ID), but has never been convicted. Chandler is close to Jonestown and might be willing to help with interviews or investigations if you manage to get in good with Jonestown. He knows most of the regular clientele and is adept ant spotting undercover reporters and police.

Additional Information

Normally, a ghost sighting carries with it some legendary account of the ghost's identity. In researching this, however, we found no such account making the rounds throughout local rumor mills. Regardless, there is one strong possibility for identifying the ghost. A young woman named Nicole "Lily" Warner collapsed at the club slightly over seven months ago. The death was ruled a drug overdose (specifically black heroin), but one of her friends insisted she was murdered. No murder investigation ever took place; the investigating pathologist ruled her death accidental and The Chamber shut down for a month, reopening on the night that Jonestown made his first appearance.

Nicole Warner was 18 at the time of her death and attended college in the city before dropping out four months before she died. She went by "Lily" because of the flower's association with death and typically wore a black veil when clubbing. Very few of the club's clientele remember her, but she is the only person known to have died at the club.