Ignition: Part V

Ignition: Part V is the fifth and final issue of the first serial of Nathaniel J. Nelson's Seventh Circle, as well as the fifth issue of season one and the fifth issue in general. It was released to Patreon subscribers on June 28, 2024.https://www.patreon.com/natejnelson/shop/seventh-circle-ep105-ignition-part-v-of-250424?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Ignition: Part V was followed by The Yellow Door: Part I on July 5, 2024.
==Intro==
Tragedy strikes! On their first mission as a team, Vinny Howell and Sasha Belanger lose one of their own: Greg Lopez, who tried to follow them into the haunted Bennett House, has been murdered by unseen hands. Alone and terrified, Vinny and Sasha fight for their lives against a furious poltergeist intent on destroying them before they can ever resurrect Seventh Sircle…
==Plot==
After Greg's death, Vinny and Sasha hesitate to move from the living room. When Vinny suggests solutions based on his knowledge of horror movies, Sasha decides to make a break for it and run to Greg's truck. However she is surprised and chased into the woods by El Fantasma. Vinny runs upstairs to grab the baseball bat he saw earlier, and is confronted by what appears to be the ghost of a bearded man. Fearing for Sasha's life, Vinny pushes past the ghost and nearly leaves the house, but is blocked by Allegro, who apologizes for sending them here in a panic.
With El Fantasma revealing himself to be a still-alive Greg, he and Sasha have sex on the forest floor, the impulse for which Sasha doesn't understand. They return to the Bennett House, where they find Vinny and Allegro sitting in the living room, the electricity turned back on. Allegro explains that he fabricated the poltergeist and El Fantasma as a means of testing their knowledge and their resolve; he also reveals his name to be Taul Bennett, the owner of the house. Taul tells Vinny and Sasha that their performance was average, that they didn't work together and that they are overly reliant on what they think they know based on horror movies. Despite this, he proposes that they become the new face of Seventh Circle.
Early the next morning, Vinny gives up on trying to sleep and goes upstairs to meet Taul. Taul reveals that he gathered the contents of his filing cabinets on his own, via paraGhost. Vinny asks him about the ghostly man he saw earlier, and Taul writes him off.
==Pop culture references==
*Sasha berates Vinny for thinking like he's in a horror movie, specifically referencing the Kandarian Demon and finding a "shotgun and a chainsaw": both references to the original Evil Dead trilogy, which she also references by name.
*When running through the dark woods with a flashlight, Sasha thinks of The Blair Witch Project and Slender: The Eight Pages.
*Not trusting smartphones, Taul uses a Motorola Razr from the mid 2000s: a phone Vinny remembers coveting in middle school.
==References==