Riders on the Storm

Final days of March, 2020

## Plot

### Jaime's Morning Routine

*Friday morning in Boston, starts with Jaime on the phone with Emily, who’s been volunteering at local schools to bolster the arts programs, and she’s VERY annoyed, the school has been having some intense blackouts and she’s been cancelled on so many times.*

**North Athens Junior High** - 6th - 8th graders - evidence of something odd? There’s a photo of a shadowy figure going around on SC, frequent power outages.

Jaime looks up the school, and finds the rumor. Find the photo, *it doesn’t appear to be a human shape.* He asks Callum his opinion, but Callum is still in his room.

### Morning at the Sect

Holster is annoyed that the boys are late, but looking forward to not dealing with as much paperwork. Jaime calls Terryl, all four are in! They have to do….hours of paperwork, before heading over. The hunters have to pretend to be OSHA workers

### North Athens Junior High

* The hunters all go in the Bentley, and don’t call ahead
* Everyone is pretty much gone, there’s no students and no teachers left
* Grabby da clipboards hehe

#### Main Entrance

There’s no one around, but the doors are locked

* Suddenly, a *tall woman in a pantsuit with half-styled hair and thick rimmed glasses*, comes up to the desk - **Ms. Crystal Hawkins** - the principle
	+ She reveals that there was a power outage in the school, there have been for weeks, but no one knows what’s wrong - power is back
	+ The power outages happen in the middle of the day, Callum writes down what she says, power outages happen when the kids have lunch
* Ms. Hawkins leads the hunters to a big metal door in a concrete wall - it’s the boiler room
* **Geoff** - older Chinese man with long hair pulled bad, he looks quite sad - appears to be a janitor? Has a master key
	+ Gives **KEY** to Holster

#### Boiler Room

* Geoff lets the crew into the Boiler room
* Holster begins to ask him some questions while Callum, Terryl, and Jaime go investigate
	+ Geoff and the electricians think the breaker box is fine
	+ He tips Holster off that there’s some teachers left in the building to talk to
	+ Geoff is at the school OFTEN, he doesn’t seem to have noticed anything
* This room appears to be where Geoff spends the most time
* Holster goes to investigate the electrical breakers - the wires appear to be somehow worn and old, even though they’ve been in this locked cas - the wires have been **doing too much**, overloaded for too long
	+ Holster follows the labels, the worn wires go to the **gymnasium**, uh oh
* Jaime wanders off by himself, of course, and finds a bunch of power tools locked in grates - there’s a door at the end of the room that leads outside, it is unlocked
	+ Leads to back parking lot where school busses part
	+ Maintenance shed nearby, separate from the school - power runs here
	+ Jaime sees a GODDAMN HORSE RIDER - there’s a rider on a horse, rounds the corner
	+ Jaime chucks a rock into the back to get the attention of Callum and Terryl, and then runs after the horseman
	+ Rounds the corner, the rider points a revolver at Jaime, and shoots, Jaime halfway dodges
		- The bullet doesn’t deal any actual harm
* Cut back to Terryl and Callum, they’re debating the code of the staircase - Terryl defers the decisions to Callum
* Terryl hears a CLANG in the boiler room - uh oh
	+ BACK TO JAIME - he tries the maintenance shed door, it’s locked, he peeks around, the rider is gone?
	+ It appears to be on the other side of the boiler room, it’s time to get some backup
* Jaime returns to the boiler room, yelling for the rest of the hunters
* They MEET UP AGAIN
* Holster informs the hunters about the electric box and the gym, Jaimes informs about the rider outside
* Terryl gets a brain blast from god - does a lil phone vibrate - get the sense that someone is trying to do Big Bad Magic, have tried many times, and will succeed if not stopped
	+ Terryl shares this with the crew
* Holster realizes that he was present when whatever this spell was was created, realizes he may have been complicit
	+ Power outages - connected to a WWII era sorcerer who was worried about The War - wanted to create magical soldiers w modern magic - created electricity soldiers

*It appears we are dealing with a WWII electricity soldier, but they’re not connected to cowboys…..*

* It begins to thunder…..

#### Gymnasium

* Back through the school, the hunters get to the gym - it’s empty, except for Geoff, he’s cleaning in here
* Convince Geoff to leave, he leaves a note of the things that need to be done on his desk
* Holst looks around the gym
	+ There doesn’t appear to be anything immediately threatening, but there are LARGE skylights - can see that there is paint on the skylights and a figure walking on the roof…..
	+ Jaime grabs Callum, and uses ANGEL WINGS for the first time, and punts the two of them to the roof, Callum shows up on the other roof, farther away
	+ Terryl immediately takes off after Callum
	+ Holster…..is left behind

#### To the Roof!

* Jaime sees a squat little man with a fancy haircut and a nice button down shirt and sweater vest, and a can of spraypaint
	+ The man is spraypainting a sigil on the roof
* Jaime immediately smashes the glass that the sigil is written on
* The man attacks Jaime for messing with his shit

* Terryl realizes that Jaime’s ghost powers are developing, and asks Callum how much longer he’s going to wait

* Holster is walking up the interior wall, and grabs Jaime’s sledgehammer as it falls

* Terryl drops Callum onto Jaime and the little man - Callum drop kicks him off of Jaime
* Holster is finally on the roof
* Jaime, Callum, and **Jason Burke**, start arguing
	+ “What are you doing up here?” “my JOB, what are you??” “OUR JOB!”
* Holster yells for everyone to shut up - he notices that Jason has piercing holes and tattoos under his shirt - he knows Jason, he came to Holster asking about electricity soldiers
* Jason was sent by **The Hand** (aaaaAAAAA)
* Holster realizes that Jason has rolled to the center of the sigil….and the storm is drawing near
* He asks the other hunters to get off the roof as fast as possible
	+ Terryl tries to grab Jason, but he kneels in the center in front of an antenna
	+ Callum and Jaime have been adding lines to the sigil….oops
	+ Jason’s hair begins to stand on end
	+ Terryl freaks out and punches Jason, AS LIGHTNING STRIKES THE ROD
	+ A ball of lightning forms at the top of the rod in the center of the sigil (that Terryl didn’t notice), it becomes a **quadruped ball of lightning**

#### Back Down to the Gym

* Jaime, Percy, and Callum go back to the breaker room, Callum finds a pair of gloves and Jaime shuts off all of the breakers
* Terryl and Holster stay behind in the gym with Jason
	+ Terryl uses soothe to keep Jason calm while Holster asks him questions
	+ While Holster talks to Jason, who is very badly concussed, Terryl does scat in the background
	+ Jason is involved in **The Guiding Hand (***incomplete name***)**
		- It’s the same cult that Zenobia Bellair was involved in….*\*unsure if this is knowledge that the hunters have aaaa\**
		- “They said it was humanity’s last chance...”
	+ He’s not aware of who actually runs the cult, he’s the practice run because he’s not very high ranking
	+ The school was available and nearby, meaning that the cult is *probably Boston based*
	+ A friend of Jason’s was sent to get a book, did not get the book
	+ Friend was trying to get a “magic demon book”
* Terryl trusts Holster - asks if they should take Jason back to the sect
* Callum and Jaime are scheming - want to build a battery
	+ Callum runs to the cafeteria to find tinfoil
	+ Jaime steals the battery from Holster’s car, and also jumper cables

#### Cafeteria

* Jaime and Callum build a terrible electrical circuit in an attempt to capture the electrical creature
* Holster walks in, and immediately points at Jaime, asking who the hell he is
* Terryl also doesn’t recognize Jaime
* Holster and Terryl have NO MEMORY of Jaime, but Callum does
	+ Jaime doesn’t have his sect badge, as established at the beginning of the session omfg
* Suddenly. Theres a yell, Jaime runs after it

### The Ball Field

* It’s slightly snowy out, and the lights in the soccer field are on, Geoff is dead at his truck, and the creature is at the top of one of the lights
* Jaime teleports to the top of the bleachers, and Terryl appears right above the beast, wings and sword out, ready to fight it
* Terryl sword SMACC the electric ball
	+ Hotsexy jupiter smiting pose
* Terryl’s glasses slip down their nose to reveal their eyes

* Callum is RUNNING to the field with his contraption strapped to his back on all fours
* The monster has fallen into the center of the field, Callum is about 30ft from it, Jaime leaps down to join him and help

* Holster realizes that the lights are connected to the maintenance shed to turn them off

* Terryl leaps off of the pole and lands on the monster, driving their sword into it
* Callum stabs the electricity monster with his grounding contraption, spends a *point of luck*, and sends the monster into the ground.

*The monster has dissipated into the ground. Holster hits the lights the moment the monster is gone, and now comes over to make sure everyone is okay. Jaime sees the rider in the woods once more. No one else can see it. Jaime runs off.*

### Riders in the Woods

The rider is trotting directly at Jaime, and lightning strikes directly behind him. He can see the face of the rider, and it is made of tree bark. From the lightning strike behind him, another one appears

* Callum is running and trying to help
* The cowboy in front of him cracks his whip at Jaime, he dodges out of the way, but the one from behind restrains him by the neck
* Callum casts magic and sees through Jaime’s eyes in order to see what exactly the cowboys look like, he sees their outline
* The cowboy in front of Jaime pulls its revolver, shoots him point blank in the forehead. A puff of smoke emanates from the spot where he’s shot, and he falls backwards into a rift in the world.
* Jaime disappears, and Callum realizes there’s no reason he should be there. No one remembers Jaime, and there are no footprints to even remember him by.

### Heading Home

* The three left behind head home, Holster leaves Callum at the top of his street, and he walks back home. As he reaches into his jacket pocket for his keys, he finds **Jaime’s pin.** He looks at it, and doesn’t recognize it, lets himself into the apartment, and leaves the pin on the counter, forgotten.

*People’s personalities have changed, all influence Jaime has had on the world has been reversed. All memories of Jaime have disappeared. Callum has no concept that he has killed, Terryl is not the confident friend that they used to be. What in the fresh FUCK.*

*Holster and Terryl talk in the car. Terryl shows him their locket, with a woman and three children in small paintings. They reveal what the phone number they gave Holster months ago is for. There’s a magic user who can help Holster find any item that he wants to find, down to specific coordinates. Anything he regrets losing track of, he can find it again, for sentimental value. A birthday gift, of sorts.*

*Holster has to tell Terryl that there’s very little chance that anyone he loved is still alive to be reconnected with. I am going to projectile cry. There is no other choice now.*

*Terryl watches TV alone, Holster decides not to play piano*

### The Train Station

*Jaime is waiting for a train, he knows who he is, but he is waiting for a train. There’s been a delay, and there’s an eerie but proper silence over the entire station. He gets up and begins to walk around, Suddenly, he hears hoofbeats and the crowd stands up en masse. The **Ghost Riders** that sent him here in the first place ride through the train tunnel, shooting their revolvers and causing chaos. They deposit a new man into the fray.*

 *Jaime is pulled down by a slight figure, with ratty brown hair pulled back in clips. It’s his adopted sibling, **Dawn Floros**, who he realized he’d forgotten about 6 months ago, who called him in a panic and he hung up. They remember each other now, and the session ENDS HERE.*