Possession: Part III

Possession: Part III is the third issue of the third serial of Nathaniel J. Nelson's Seventh Circle, as well as the eleventh issue of season one and the eleventh issue overall. It was released to Patreon subscribers on August 9, 2024.https://www.patreon.com/natejnelson/shop/seventh-circle-ep108-yellow-door-part-274431?source=storefront Possession: Part III was followed by Possession: Part IV on August 16, 2024.
==Intro==
Westward bound! Accompanied by Greg Lopez and Jack Harrison, Vinny Howell makes his way towards Ticonderoga to rendezvous with Taul Bennett – and beyond that, in the lakeside town of Saugatuck, Michigan, waits a young boy playing host to a demonic entity. Meanwhile in Boston, Sasha Belanger is thwarted at every turn by her overbearing parents. Can the team face this newest challenge without a founding member, or will the evil presence of Mike Wells spell the end of SEVENTH CIRCLE...?
==Plot==
Driving through New Hampshire, Vinny, Greg, and Jack discuss the founding of Seventh Circle by Kurt Bachman. Vinny receives a message from his mother, revealing that Sasha's mother contacted her about Seventh Circle. In Jamaica Plain, Cassie Barnes opens Facebook and sees the newly-published Seventh Circle page, to her amusement. Later, when the trio reach Ticonderoga, Greg is in the middle of a phone argument with his mother, who was also contacted by Abigail Belanger. 
Taul meets Jack, who he apparently disapproves of, and the four of them go to Kelly's Pub, where Jack continues to question the veracity of their findings in Burlington. Greg notices Taul staring at a young man at the bar, and despite Taul's protests, goes over to chat him up. Danny admits to being bicurious, and Greg manages to secure his phone number for Taul.
That night, as Sasha leaves work, she discovers that Vinny has published the Facebook page without telling her. When she arrives home, her parents confront her about lying. They actually approve of Seventh Circle, but as they talk, Sasha accidentally reveals that she also lied about working at CVS.
At Taul's house, the four men debate how to proceed with Susan and Mike Wells. Vinny and Greg discuss a cartoonish, The X-Files style approach, acting like they have more resources and influence than they do, but Jack rejects this idea, believing it to be dishonest.
Sasha's parents confront her about CVS, and she admits that she has been working there, and didn't tell them because she didn't want them to worry about her finances. Her parents suggest loaning her money, and she refuses, remembering that Greg offered to pay her rent and deciding to be self-sufficient. John finally offers her two hundred-dollar bills, and Sasha compensates by taking one of them.
In Warwick, Rhode Island, Vinny's parents, Annette and Thomas Howell, discuss Abigail's message, and how Seventh Circle will affect Vinny. Annette refers to Vinny's "condition," and seems to imply the existence of a major secret he doesn't know.
==Characters==
*Danny Thomason's name and sexuality are revealed. Danny previously appeared, unnamed, in Possession: Part II.
*Vinny's parents, Annette and Thomas Howell, appear for the first time.
==Continuity==
*The narration refers to Taul's house as the "no-longer-haunted Bennett House," referring to Taul's hoax during Ignition.
*Jack orders a Holländer, the same fictional brand drunk by Mark Tenant and Isaac Parry in Erogrendel.
==Pop culture references==
*Given the Mike Wells case, 1973's The Exorcist is cited several times, as the most famous depiction of human possession
*Mentioned
**Pepe the Frog
**Scooby-Doo
==References==