Book - 06 Triad

I only got the sneak peek and the first 15 episodes. I'm missing the 16 episode! UGH!!!!
If anyone can help please let me know.

Online Book Includes: ??? pages 17 Chapters: Sneak Preview and 16 Episodes
Written by Marc Cerasini
Published by Random House
Copyright 1996

## Plot

### Sneak Preview

Val is hosting the "Getting to Know You" dance at the Charles Dexter Ward Auditorium before Colonel Mustard comes onstage and she's trying to make all the new students feel comfortable but even though Shelly Rocker's roommate, Pamela Gilbert, tries to encourage her to be social Shelly just wants to leave but before she can she sees someone in the catwalks.

Dr. Cortese, Paul Francis and Darren Legrasse meet in the morgue to go over the body of Bob Foster, a Broadway producer and director from New York City only to find out he is an imposter and the real Bob Foster died days before the 'incident', where the computer center exploded and this body was found in the balcony of the campus theater and Darren shows Dr. Cortese that the spine of the corpse had been wired for unknown purposes and there is a red light blinking.

Alan Halsey, Acting Dean since the scandal happened to the real deal, waits late Friday night for a new teacher; the very young and very smart Professor Simon Talltrees.

### Episode 1

Shelly Rocker is at a dance where Colonel Mustard is performing where she spots a Dethboy in the catwalk and tries to escape but a fraternity student (Desmond) blocks her way.

Calle Ann Copeland sees Peter Nakamura, now a memeber and founder of Nemesis, and rembers how they were used to battle the Pranksters only to realize the three sided war: the Lurker, Professor Enoch Collier, and an unknown faction which she realizes now wasn't backed by Gia Gibson and Wally Dietz.

Courtney Wade and Zack Alexander, part of Nemesis, were guarding exit doors so no one could enter the event without paying together even though they were in a relationship but since Kyle Simmons had quit at the beginning of the semester there was no other choice.

Shelly reaches the emergency exit but when she opens it spots Courtney and decides to use her frat boy, Desmond, to help as a deversion.

Dr. Cortese finishes up a phone call and thinks about the thing in the morgue that may or not be a robot as he receives a fax from Dr. Downing.

Desmond calls to Courtney and tells her about the dethboy in the catwalk and she signals to the group over the radio 'blue blue', which means possible trouble but don't notify the campus security, which is good because they don't trust the security since Paul Francis had taken over and everyone answers, Zack (D-Three), Tony Marcos (D-Four) and Jim Craig (D-Five) but Peter nakamura.

Peter sees Calle Ann get pulled into the hedges and ignoring the radio ran after and jumped into the hedges where he saw Calle Ann lying face down and a figure in a pea-green coat and black ski mask already taking off and Peter calls 'yellow, yellow' into his radio and as he is going to repeat the message every member starts radio in 'yellow, yellow' and besides their yells Peter hears another scream.

Desmond realizes the girl, Shelly, he had been helping had disappeared but he finds her near another emergency exist but before he can get to her the power goes out and a spot lights up a wicker basket in the middle of the room with with a very attractive girl inside dancing and Jerry Orson, one of Desmond's frat bothers, and Frank Mansione, Jerry's roomate start cheering her on while Greta Whitcomb, an employee at Morgan LeFey's Occult Book store becomes very nervous when blue blue sparks arc the catwalks and set the basket on fire causing everyone to try to flee but Desmond just stares at the basket with the woman inside.

### Episode 2

Paul Francis is impatiently waiting for the local police to leave so he can get back into the Charles Dexter Ward Auditorium after the fire and while he's waiting he finds Peter with the rest of Nemesis and Calle Ann and he tells Peter since he used unapproved radio codes that Nemesis is immediatly shut down.

Nameless tries to plead with Val that she shouldn't be making announcements about the Lurker over the radio blaming him for muder while Val goes through a box of cds she received in the mail and he tells her the Lurker isn't a murderer and he's her friend but Val silences him by pointing to a tiny purple unremoveable mark in the middle of her forhead and telling him 'Not anymore.'

Greta Whitcomb walks around aimlessly trying to figure out what the dancing woman in the basket meant when she finds herself outside of Wintervale University where she meets a tall guy with a black leather vest, huge muscular arms and a dragon tattoo on his massive chest: Josh (Stewart), and he gives her a life back on his motorcycle.

Detective Ambrose from the City of Wintervale Police Department tries to put campus security Paul Francis in his place but Paul pins him against a car and pulls rank and demands that the university will handle the investiagion since it happened on campus.

Shelly Rocker is relaxing in a bathtub processing what happened during the day and when she gets out she finds a man in the center of her room.

### Episode 3

Greta Whitcomb is Professor Talltrees's philosophy class learning about Colin Wilson's ladder of selves but she keeps an eye out for Josh Stewart when he finally comes in late and after class asks Greta to help him catch up on class.

Paul Francis is talking to Dr. Cortese over the phone about the autopsy from the girl in the basket from the night before and the pathologist explains the body has only a hole at the base of her skull, no smoke in her lungs and had been dead for three or four days and after the call Paul dials another number.

Even thought Nemesis had been offically disbanded Peter told the group he was still keeping the patrols going. Peter told the group you are either with us or against us. Everyone agreed including a member named Brenda Fritters. One person, Dan Wintergreen said he didn't agree with this and left the group.

Dr. Cortese gets off the phone with Paul Francis and studies a wire skeleton he found in the debris from the fire and Cortese had seen a devise like this on the late Bob Foster.

Shelly Rooker meets up with Desmond St. Vincent and Frank Mansione and he apologizes for entering her room the other night but says her roomate let him in but Shelly doesn't care and rushes off to class.

Paul Francis goes on his computer to send Dean Halsey an explaination of hiring an outside pathologist but when he signs on gets an email from the Lurker, who calls him his old nickname from when he served secret missions during Desert Storm: Clean Marine, offering to meed up in the Ratskellar to talk about the upcoming war.

### Episode 4

Lurker went into his hidden catacomb, one of many, to get online and discover how far he had been attacked. He found out Wally Dietz and Gia Gibson had got rid of much of his finances and used his operatives against each other to reveal most of his secrets. The Lurker had tried to find information on their whereabouts but after many mistakes he found out the information has all been falsified. Nameless had permanently handled the operative who sold him that information. The Lurker tried the long process of building back his empire...

Dr. Cortese explains to Dean Alan Halsey, Chief of Campus Security Paul Francis, and Office Darren Lagrasse about the device he called the Puppeteer. It is a top secret project of the Defense Department that he worked on the program that created it until he lost his security clearance three years ago. He explans that the device attaches to the body and reanimates the corpse, like it did to Officer Ken Coles He tells them that the device uses microwaves or radio waves and the broadcast was shut down for some reason and this is why the device in the other corpse isn’t active.

Jenny Dvorak and Eric Sawyer sit under the oldest tree on campus. Jenny has just started to learn about Eric, and his secret life. He shows her that he has one blue eye and one brown eye, which is a family trait. He tells here than when he want to Pinesdale University he was a football player but because of crossing a bookie, he got his knee smashed and couldn’t play anymore. Back then he didn’t go by the last name Sawyer and after his incident he got involved with the Lurker who changed his name and had him follow an international terrorist Enoch Collier which lead him to Wintervale with forged transfer papers with Colliers name on it. He tells her that his family is from Tempest Mountain in Vermont and his real name is Eric Martense. Jenny doesn’t reveal her secrets to Eric...

Nameless enters his Jag after shopping. On the highway smoke starts coming from his engine. He pulls over and lifts the hood and his car explodes...

A gray-haired man answers a phone and receives a message. He is told that lurker has lost one of his allies...

Despite the ban, Nemesis still patrolled the campus. Courtney Wade and Tony Marcos were patrolling the south and west quads. Zack Alexander and Brenda Fritters were patrolling east. Peter Nakamura and Calle Ann Copeland were patrolling the north quad. Courtney and Tony head a scream and Tony went to investigate, leaving Courtney behind. While she waited she saw someone around the ruined computer center and she went to investigate...

Tony Marcos followed the voice and were confronted by two Dethboys. He tried to retreat but a third came behind him and knocked him out. The three Dethboys then went after Courtney...

"RAT CHAT: Who or what is inside the computer center?

Dr. Cortese makes a discovery, and Zack loses Courtney...

### Episode 5

Courtney is alone on patrol following someone with a flashlight. As she approaches the ruins of the computer center she saw the light beam farther inside and Courtney followed on...

Three Dethboys huddle around a hole in the fence surrounding the computer center. They have been following Courtney, but have presently lost her. As they try to find her, Officer Darren Legrasse surprises them. One Dethboy flees. The second Dethboy is tripped by Legrasse. The third Dethboy tries to attack the officer, but when that fails he runs away. Legrasse secures the suspect and calls for backup...

Courtney doesn’t hear the scuttle outside and gets closer to the person she’s following. Who ever it is knows the computer center, and when she overhears him talking to himself, she realizes it’s Dr. Cortese. As they talk her radio goes off and Dr. Cortese realizes she’s a member of Nemesis, but that group was disbanded. He assures her that her secret is safe, and asks for her help to find a device he lost in the explosion...

Paul Francis makes his way home and thinks about his previous boss, Brian Donachy, who was caught and arrested for harassing Gia Gibson. Francis was quickly moved up to be the head of security because it was thought he was free from the Lurker, but in a half hour Francis would be having an online meeting with the Lurker. Suddenly Francis finds himself back in Iraq with his fellow soldiers around him. He had pulled out his gun and waits, watching everything around him. As quickly as it came, if vanishes. Paul races home and gets sick in the toilet...

Val Kirk enters the KLRK studio, which she has been using as her apartment. She puts on a hot plate to make tea and finds Nameless in her bed naked. She waves the blanket over him, but when it settles he has vanished. She doesn’t understand where he could have gone, but can still smell his cologne.

Simon Talltrees has been traveling far and for many years, but finally he has a home he can relax in. As he is unpacking his grandfather appears to him. Simon doesn’t believe it is really his grandfather, even though he knows Simon’s secret name. His grandfather disappears and Simon wonders who would use this grandfather against him...

Maryann Coles wakes up to the television she left on. She thinks she hears her husband at the front door, but remembers he is dead. Turning over to go back to sleep, she sees her husband smiling at her. She begins to scream...

Courtney Wade and Dr. Cortese search through the rubble that used to be his office for the electronic device. As they move debris around, Courtney finds a hole in the floor. She bends over to investigate it, and Dr. Cortese tries to pull her away, but it’s too late and she is hit with blue lightning, starts to shake, and falls to the ground. Cortese searches for a pulse, but finds nothing...

"RAT CHAT: What's at the bottom of that hole?

Val visits the bookstore, and the Dethboys stalk a professor!

### Episode 6

Dr. Cortese tends to a unconscious Courtney. He sees no injuries except for a red mark on her forehead that glows when he removes the light from it. She comes to and asks about what happened. Dr. Cortese doesn’t know...

Darren Legrasse and Office Dombrowski from the Wintervale Police are laughing after Darren had confronted some Dethboys and captured one of them. Paul Francis enters the room, visibly upset about the local police officer in his building. Dombrowski quietly leaves the room. Francis chastises Legrasse for not calling for backup, but Darren explains that he had no time. Francis asks about the local police being there and Darren tells him Dombrowski was there to pick up the autopsy report for Detective Ambrose and secretly wishes campus police and local police could work together. Legrasse tells Paul there is only a message from Marryann Coles for him, and Francis wonders if the Lurker will be upset with him since he missed her online meeting. Darren then gives Francis the file on their suspect. His name is Lee Farris...

Courtney Wade wakes up in pain. She checks out the mark on her forehead and notices it looks like a red octopus. She takes some medicine and her phone rings...

Val Kirk let the feed from Bismark play over the campus air waves. She was worried because the previous night she had seen the ghost of Nameless. After trying to call him several times in Los Angeles and receiving no answer, she left to talk to Sylvia Sexton, the only person Val know who actually saw a ghost...

The Lurker sits deep in his catacombs and sends out several emails to universities, scientific institutions and download a secret file from the Pentagon. As he waits he wonders how he will deal with Paul Francis’s failure to meet with him. Finally he emails Dr. Iris Downing, Professor of Advanced Robotics at Carnegie-Mellon University...

Shelly Rooker headed for calculus, wondering if it was all a waste of time since she wasn’t there for an education but she did enjoy the new assistant prefessor, Simon Talltrees, when Desmond St. Vincent stops her and asks to carry his books. She relents and lets him carry her books...

Legrasse and Francis question Lee Farris. Francis tells Lee that he has proof that Lee purchased 60 of the voice-distorters using a secret bank account he setup months earlier. Using this he will prove that Lee is actually the Lurker. Lee swears he isn’t the Lurker which Francis agrees with, but says he doesn’t care. Lee will be going down for this. Lee says he wants to make a deal...

Dr. Cortese setups up a mainfraime in Californina to handle the computer needs of the campus and thinks about what is going on in the ruins of the computer center. He thinks it might be Nyarlothotep and is he using the microprocessor that he had helped develop? He tries calling his partner, and exlover, Dr. Downing, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, but there is no answer...

Val goes to the book store to interview Sylvia Sexton...

Josh Stewart is late for his class with assistant professor Simon Talltrees, but before he can get into the class room he sees at least eight Dethboys coming towards him...

"RAT CHAT: What are the Dethboys up to now?

Shaman goes on the warpath, and Val is reunited with an old friend!

### Episode 7

Josh Stewart busts through the door into Professor Simon Talltrees lecture yelling  about Dethboys. Most of the students didn’t understand, but Greta Whitcomb knew they signaled the Lurker. Simon Talltrees also understood what was going on. A student from the front row, Olga Daleka, guided students out a side exit. Several Dethboys charged into the hall and Josh slugged the closest person he could. Talltrees tells him to leave, and Josh grabs Greta. The Dethboys run after Josh and one raises his nightstick but Talltrees throws a ninja star at it, causing it to explode, but the professor was only carrying one star. As Josh and Greta escaped Professor Talltrees stalled the Dethboys. One of them steps forward with a message and he removes his mask. The Dethboys fall back, carrying the fallen Dethboy with them, and Talltrees understood the message...

Over some tea Val interviews Sylvia Sexton about her encounter with the de la Pour ghost. Sylvia tells Val that she was in the Jane Austen wing of the library working on a paper about quilts when she felt a chill. She looks up and sees a man in front of her wearing old clothing from a Charles Dickens story staring at her. After a few moments he turned and walked though a portrait of Jane Austen. The room got warm again and Sylvia left to tell everyone about it. Val confirms an appointment with Sylvia the following day at nine am to tell her story again...

Peter Nakamura and Jim Craig argure about the Nemesis group in the campus bookstore. Peter is upset that Kyle Simmons and Dan Wintergreen left the group and Peter questions if Jim wants to leave the group. Jim expresses his concern for the group, adding in that Courtney got hurt the previous night when she went into the deserted building. Peter assures Jim that Courtney will be there tonight for patrol and Jim will be her partner. Jim the notices Calle Ann and tells Peter. As Peter is about to call out to Calle Ann he sees her talking to someone he never expected her to talk to...

Val leaves the interview with Sylvia convinced that Sylvia had seen a ghost. She is also sure that she had seen the spirit of Nameless the previous night. Val touches a mark in the center of her forehead, and sees Calle Ann Copeland approach her. Calle Ann asks if they can talk later, and Val agrees and tells her to come by the radio station around nine pm. Jim and Peter wonder what they could be talking about but dismiss it as a ‘girl thing’.

Dean Halsey yells at the head of campus security, Paul Francis about the Dethboys who disrupted the philosophy class. Paul lets the dean yell about the incident. When the dean was done Paul informs the dean that one of his deputies caught a Dethboy, and they learned from him where the Lurker’s hideout, called The Grotto, was and that evening they were going to storm the place and finally end his reign of terror.

Dr. Cortese tries to get a hold of Dr. Downing, but can’t reach her. He admits he still loves her and his phone rings. It is Iris Downing and she tells him to meet at the usual place at nine…

The day quickly passed for Shelly Rocker as she spent it with Desmond St. Vincent. He was supposed to be a part of her cover in her cat and mouse game but he was becoming more and she didn’t feel any guilt about it...

Before the Nemesis meeting, Zack asks Courtney why she was wearing a bandana around her head. She tells him that it was because she didn’t wash her hair, and when he tries to put his arm around her she dodges him. Peter sees that more of his team has desserted him. Peter tells the team they will only patrol the eastern quad because there would be a block party that night. Jim Craig asks if the campus police would be there and Peter acknowledges they will be there, but his team will also be there. When Tom Weiskoff questions Peter’s decision for patrol, Peter barks him down. Tom realizes that soon he will have to have a meeting with Nemesis, without Peter. Calle Ann sneaks out of the room for her meeting with Val.

"RAT CHAT: Who was that masked man?"

The Lurker gets bad news, and Paul Francis and his men raid the Grotto!

### Episode 8

Working on a motherboard, the Lurker gets a message from one his Los Angeles operatives that his unknown enemy has attacked and taken out Nameless. The Lurker throws the motherboard, breaking it, and dons a Dethboy outfit including a voice distorter, grabs a gun , and proceeds to another hideout he calls The Grotto...

Val Kirk is on the air at KLRK and later she’ll be at the block party working as DJ. She gets waved at by her new technician, Mike Kelly. Her old technician, Steve Womach, left after the incident with Nyarlothotep. Val puts on a song by Colonel Mustard and goes to the window. She sees Calle Ann, who old enemy when she worked for the the Lurker, but that is over now. She agrees to see Calle Ann, and Calle Ann breaks down, telling Val that everything is falling apart, Peter, Nemesis, and the Lurker...

Courtney had woken up with a headache, which changed to a dull throb as the day went on. In the evening she ditched her Nemesis partner and was drawn to the ruins of the computer center. The pain goes away as she approaches the ruins until she reaches it and she stops feeling alone...

Jim Craig tells Peter Nakamura he had lost Courtney. Pissed, Peter tells Jim to go back to patrolling and to keep out an eye for her...

Calle Ann tells Val she hacked into the new computer system and found files from the Lurker. These were new files, telling her he has come back. Val realizes this was why Nameless told her not to blame the Dethboys for the dancers death; he also knew the Lurker was back. Calle Ann tells Val there is much more...

Paul Francis, Darren Legrasse, Tim Tomerson, and Larry Ivy quietly approached the library to find the Lurker’s hidden hideout, based on information they received from interrogating Lee Farris. Finding the correct stone, the give it a push, revealing a hidden entrance...

Arriving early, Dr. Cortese waits for his meeting with Dr. Iris Downing. When she arrives Cortese steps out and as she races towards her several Dethboys grap Downing and Cortese charges towards two of them...

As Peter Nakamura scans the crowd Courtney approaches him with a mark on her forehead. She tells him he was to come with her, that there is something so big he has to see it immediately. Trusting Cortney, Peter follows her...

Calle Ann tells Val she wanted to tell Peter about the Lurker returning, but before she could the dancer died at the spring dance. Afterwards she was Peter talking to a Dethboy, something she had seen him do before, but ignored. Calle Ann admits that she hates the Lurker and everything he’s done, which Val can attest to, but explains there are older things on campus, including someone called Nyarlothotep. She tells Val that if a war starts they may have to side with the Lurker, but Val tells here there is another...

Paul Francis and his team travelled farther into the tunnels towards the Lurker’s hideout. Unlocking the door to the lair an explosive is triggered...

After midnight Jim Craig’s radio comes to life as Peter tells him that he needs to hurry to the computer center because Courtney is in trouble.  Jim races towards them...

"RAT CHAT:Who controls the Dethboys?"

Val contacts the man who marked her, and the de la Pour ghost returns...

### Episode 10

Shelly Rooker wakes up with her boyfriend, Desmond, emerging from the shower. She can’t remember the last time she was so happy, but neither of them noticed someone watching them from the fire escape...

Walking home after the raid of the Lurker’s secret hideout, Larry Ivy walks to his home. They had downloaded all of the Lurker’s files onto two sets of disks which Larry can’t wait to start searching through. Unfortuanetly, when he approaches his house he find the Wintervale police, Detective Ambrose, Officer Louis Dombrowski, and Officer Meeks, waiting for him. He is informed there are five counts of computer fraud against him and as he is being read his rights he knows the Lurker is behind this...

Val Kirk sprinted across campus towards Ashton Hall, the University’s philophophy department, nicknamed ‘Jean-Paul’ Hall, when Zack Alexander almost runs into her. Before she can brush him off he tells her he needs to talk to her. Near the plaque of Goethe, she agrees to listen to him...

Josh Stewart and Greta Whitcomb pass Val and Zack, but they don’t notice because they are engrossed into each other. They walk towards ‘Jean-Paul’ Hall just thinking about each other...

Dr. Cortese enters the morgue dismisses the old caretaker and takes out some electronic parts he found into the Dethboy’s mask. He opens a drawer, pulling out the corpse of Bob Foster, where he discovers a blinking control box in the back of his neck. He rummages through the electronic parts and finds a smaller control box that fits into the blinking box. After short amout of time both boxes begin to blink in unison...

Zack tells Val that the previous night Courtney started acting strange, distancing herself from him. He found out from Peter that she had went to the computer center, followed by Professor Cortese. When she came back she started acting different. The next night she went back to the ruins with Peter and Zack followed them. Peter enters the computer center with Courtney and they both return changed. The rest of the night they call members of Nemesis, bringing them each into the ruins. They call Zack, but he pretends his radio is broke. He asks Val to contact the Lurker for help, but she refuses and tells him to go on patrol that night, but not to go near the computer center. He agrees, and she wonders how she can get a hold of Shaman...

That morning Jenny Dvorak received a message from the Lurker telling her that is she doesn’t help him, he’ll expose her secret that her family isn’t her real family. Confused about what to do she races across campus to find her boyfriend, Eric Sawyer, only to find him in his car talking to a Dethboy...

"RAT CHAT: Who was watching Shelly?"

The dead walk again, and Nemesis turns ugly!

### Episode 11

Having shaved his head, Peter Nakamura surveys his re-imangined dojo and Nemesis group. All luxuries of the dojo have been removed, blacking out the inside of the building and allowing only electricity for the computers. Likewise, the members have all shaved their hair so they men and women looked the same. Peter decides that his group should work and think as one. Pulling him from his thoughts, Courtney Wade and Jim Craig carry in Dan Wintergreen, who was staking out the dojo outside. They want to take him to the computer center, but Peter tells them that shortly they won’t be needing the computer center because they will be able to initiate people from here...

Dr. Cortese is in the morgue looking over some electronic components. Behind him the corpse moves and tries to go for him, but the body is too stiff for proper movement. Cortese goes behind the corpse and pulls out the electronic box, removing the animation from the body, and resolves that he must stop this from spreading...

Inside Professor Talltree’s lecture of the five sense, Greta sits next to Josh Stewart, but wonders why the Lurker has asked her to go to Los Angeles to perform a mission. She also plans how she can leave without letting Josh know the truth...

Acting Dean Halsey savors how Wintervale is coming back together. Campus police had raided the Lurker’s secret lair and much information was taken from his computers, the mystery of de la Pour Ghost was solved, the campus computer would be online by May the 3rd, and the murder of the dancer had been shoved off to the Wintervale police...

Pamela Gilbert exits the shower, and gets ready for her friend Mary. She hears a knock at the door, but instead of her friend, there is a skinny young man who asks for her roommate, Shelly Rocker. The man isn’t Shelly’s boyfriend, but looks familiar to Pamela, to which the man says his brother used to go to Wintervale and that his name is Wally and he’ll be back later.

Jenny Dvorak spies on Eric Sawyer, her boyfriend, and Dethboy talking in a car. She can’t tell what they are saying, but she’s sure Eric will tell her when he can. When the Dethboy leaves the car Jenny hides in the bushes and Eric drives off...

Eric drives away from his meeting spot with the Dethboy. He isn’t sure what to believe, but the Dethboy told him that the Lurker no longer controlled the Dethboys (are they different than this Dethboy?), that Jenny’s parents aren’t her real parents, that the Lurker’s secret lair was raided and his files were taken and a cop, who was a computer whiz, was arrested. Eric decides he needs some help, and drives to find Calle Anne Copeland, but knowing that he’s being watched by the Dethboys, first he needs a disguise...

The Lurker relaxes in another of his secret hideouts, this one called ‘The Grotto’. The police had been fooled into thinking they raided his only hideout because of information given to them by Lee Farris, and although his explosives didn’t go off destroying the computers, Officer Ivy, their computer techniciation, was arrested by Lurker’s phony warrant. The Lurker decides to eliminate Lee since he only informed the police because he thought he was following Nyarlothotep and betraying the Lurker. The Lurker also needed his Dethboys back, but he needed to know who was controlling them. Hopefully, Greta Whitcomb would be able to find out something on her mission to Los Angelos. Finally he wonders how Val Kirk broke free from him, and how could he get her back...

After the raid on the Lurker’s secret hideout, Darren Legrasse is exhausted. He checks his mail and finds a letter Marissa Valero about something they were talking about but she couldn’t answer over the phone or over the internet. Before he can open the letter, Dr. Mishra Cortese draws his attention and tells him he needs to make a confession and report a kidnapping...

"RAT CHAT: Why is Greta going to Los Angeles?"

Eric in disguise, and a monster comes to Gearheads!

### Episode 12

The head of Wintervale Campus Police, Paul Francis, is livid with Detective Ambrose of the Wintervale Police Department (is Wintervale the town?) because Ambrose arrested his deputy, Larry Ivy, on bogus charges. Francis and his team had downloaded files from the Lurker’s computers, and although Ambrose took the disks when he arrested Ivy, Francis has a copy of the disk in his safe. Unfortunately, he needs a computer person to access the disks and decides to use someone who also wants to take down the Lurker, Calle Ann Copeland...

Peter Nakamura is upset that his computers are not linking up with the computers under the computer center. He questions his team of Nemesis, including Courtney Wade and Jim Craig, and Jim says there is a glitch in the system and suggests they get Calle Ann Copeland to fix the system. Even though Courtney objects, Peter tells Jim to call up Calle Ann so they can make her part of the group...

Val Kirk tries to call Calle Ann Copeeland, regretting her advice to Zack Alexander to report to Nemesis, but the phone just rings and rings. She is afraid that Zack may have fallen under the influence of Nyarlothotep, which she was previously under. She decides if she can’t reach either of them she’ll try to call for them over the air...

Eric (???) is putting on makeup after talking to Dethboy. He is near the river that the Whispering Pines real estate development and he is creating the new character. He reminisces about how he started getting into makeup and disguises as he prepares himself for this new identity...

Zack approches the dojo for his meeting with Nemesis after talking to Val and thinks about how strange Courtney and Peter have been behaving. He enters the dojo that has been recently remodeled with blacked out windows and fresh paint and computer banks attached to a octopus of wires. He investigates behind some curtains and finds a door. He thinks he hears Dan Wintergreen call out but is quickly subdued by someone...

At Gearheads, Calle Anne Copelend is quietly using her laptop as a truck driver walks into the bar. He heads to the pay phone after spotting Calle Anne. Another man enters the bar covered in black leather, and his exposed skin is terribly burnt. He approaches Calle Ann. Finally, five Dethboys enter the bar carrying nightsticks, which causes the few parteons and the bartender to start a fight. The Burnt Up Man tells Calle Anne she has to come with him and they quickly leave the bar as the truck driver, or Eric Sawyer in disguise, curses himself for taking too long to abduct Calle Ann.

"RAT CHAT: Who is the Burnt Up Man?"

Greta's mission, Gia's secret, and the Lurker's revenge...

### Episode 13

Val Kirk arrives at KLRK studio and tries to call Zack Alexander but only gets his answering machine and she leaves a message. She tries to call Call Ann, but the phone just rings and rings. She thinks she may have to go to Gearheads after her show, but she hates bikers. She wonders about two missing men, Shaman, and most likely dead, Nameless. She prepares for her show and listens to news coming out of Bismark (ND). She prints out her emails for the shows and finds one from Shaman telling her the Lurker is back but he doesn’t control the Dethboys. If she needs to talk, she should go to the Ratskellar to the room ‘Who’s Got Less Talent Nite’ and use the name ‘Wendigo’. Relived she absently touches the mark on her forehead.

Darren Legrasse tries to relax on his sofa after he let Dr. Mishra Cortese use his bed, called Paul Francis, and took a shower. He reviews what just happened, including Dr. Cortese confession about a microchip that can integrate with human tissue and nerves, and remote control zombies. He wouldn’t have believed it, but he had seen the corpse of Ken Coles walk and talk. When Cortese realized what the chip could do he tried to destroy all the files and the prototypes. It cost him his career, and the woman he loved, but it was all for nothing since someone already had the plans and was using them at Wintervale. It cost Cortese his love again, when Dr. Ira Downing was kidnapped after coming to Wintervale to investing the animation of Bob Foster and the dancer who burned up at the spring dance.  He also thinks about how they stormed the Lurker’s secret lair where they downloaded the information from the computers. Not realizing it, the letter from Marisa Valero slips from his pockets and falls under the sofa where he forgets about it…

Shelly Rooker gets a note from her roommate, Pamela Gilbert, that someone named Wally stopped by and he seems more exciting than Mr. Dulls- mond (Desmond) or St. Dorky (???). She quickly started packing, lamenting that her made up life is going away…

Escaping a possible kidnapping at Gearheads from Dethboy, Calle Ann sits next to The Burnt Up Man who helped rescue her. He drove away, not tell her where she’s going, and she regrets leaving her jacket back at the bar and wonders if she made a mistake going with the Burnt Up Man…

Darren Legrasse wakes up to his boss, Paul Francis, at his front door. Francis used to be military and thinks that Legrasse would be a trusted member of his group which includes Larry Ivy and Tim Tomerson. Paul sees a picture of Marissa Valero and wishes Darren would get a better woman in his life, like he used to have. Darren returns with some coffee and they talk about Dr. Mishra Cortese, whos’s sleeping in another room, the kidnapping of Iris Downing, and a microchip created my Cortese…

Following the Lurker’s instructions, Greta Whitcomb is allowed access to the Los Angeles County Hospital burn unit by a security guard who tells her that that now he’s even with the Lurker. She goes into the room that she’s assigned to and performs a test on the sleeping man. The computer displays the word negative, which she is supposed to remember so she can tell a telephone number she was given, but before she can find a pay phone, she is kidnapped by two male nurses with wires running up the back of their necks and an elderly man who introduces himself as Dr. Enoch Collier.

"RAT CHAT: What was Greta sent to Los Angeles to discover?"

Secret identities revealed! Friends and lovers reunited!

### Episode 14

Jim Craig approached the back of the dojo with news that Peter Nakamura wouldn’t like. Jim couldn’t bring Calle Ann Copeland, which made the computer setup at the dojo almost impossible, and it seemed there was a virus in the dojo computers. This made it impossible to initiate Dan Wintergreen and Zack Alexander without dragging them to the computer center. Both were locked up, though.  Jim wonders about before he was changed, but realizes that thinking about that too much would be treasonous. He hears Peter and Courtney fight and pushes his doubts away…

Val goes into the Ratskeller and watches the chat for a minute play ‘who has less talent’ (should the names be looked into?). Finally she calls out Shaman, using the screen name of ‘Wendigo’. He is there and takes her into a different chat room and they talk. He tells here the Lurker is back and her old friend, the blond man (Nameless) who she thinks is dead but Shamen tells her he isn’t. He also tells her that an old enemy has followed him and tells her not to go to the ruins of the computer center. She quickly decides to go to the ruins...

Paul Francis says they are going to the computer center. Dr. Mishra Corese says the computer chip is missing from the center, but there was actifity there. There was activity in the sub-basement and Cortese setup some sensors and someone tried tapping into the computer but he had put a virus on their computer. Cortese also tells Paul that Courtney Wade was there and she was struck by a bolt of electricity. Paul Francis alerts the tactical team and Darren readies his gunbelt and worries about what’s ahead...

The Lurker has two revelations. One is that Greta Whitcomb had succeeded in her mission and performed a dna test on a man in a burn unit in Los Angeles. The Lurker used this to prove that this burnt man wasn’t his operative, Nameless. Also Greta vanished, most likely from the Lurker’s enemy, but the Lurker believes her to be safe. Second, someone has stolen most of the Lurker’s money but the Lurker setup trace programs and found out the person who took his money was using the email of Dr. Mishra Cortese, which should be impossible since the computers were offline for weeks, since an airplane hit the computer center. He needed to go to the computer center to find out what was going on…

Peter Nakamura decides they have to go the ruins immediately with Cortney, who is grateful Calle Ann isn’t with them, Jim Craig, and Brian. They leave Wintergreen and Alexander locked up. As they leave campus police approach the dojo.

Enoch Collier is in his penthouse apartment overlooking a beach in Santa Monica with Greta Whitcomb. He is very kind to her, but she is his prisoner. He goes through her computer and sees the monitoring device Lurker put in it and also finds out the burned victim at the hospital isn’t Namless. He wonders where Nameless is…

The Burnt Up Man wakes up Calle Ann Copeland and asks for her laptop. She smashes him in the face with it and escapes the parked car, running into the woods. He yells at her that they are 50 miles from civilization but if she comes back he will make it as comfortable as possible. He finally tells her he needs her for a hacking job and he’ll give her fifty thousand dollars and a ride back to Wintervale. She counters for him to add in the car which he accepts...

"RAT CHAT: What does the Burnt Up Man plan to do?"

Catch Episode 15 this Friday!

Hot time in the ruins tonight!

### Episode 15

Shaman gets off the phone with Val after warning her to stay away from the computer center. He wonders if his warning will help, or spur her warrior spirit on. Pushing that aside he enters a locked bedroom and start chanting for his ritual...

Outside the Cuong Nu dojo Darreen Legrasse what a stretcher carrying an unconcious man (Zack Alexander) to the ambulance, and the ambulance speeds off.  Darren overhears Paul Francis questioning Dan Wintergreen, another student from Wintervale. Dan talks about a strange force from the computer center that possessed the members of Nemesis. Paul Francis, Dr. Cortese, Tim Tomerson, and Darren Legrasse (the armed group) put Dan in a police car and Francis tells one of the deputies to stay with him. They wonder about another person from the dojo who ran off but they say they’ll worry about him later since they have to get Nemesis and Dr. Downing, who they presume are under the comptuer center. Darren remembers seeing Ken Coles down there walking like a zombie. Francis asks about Zack and is informed he will be ok. Dr. Cortese asks about Courtney Wade and Dr. Iris Downing but he’s informed that Courtney is part of Nemesis now and he is assured they will find Dr. Downing. Cortese then examines the computers in the dojo and sees that his virus infected them causing Nemisis to find another computer to use to go online. Paul Francis invites the group to go to the ruins...

Watching the police group is Eric Sawyer, who was the person who ran from the dojo. He’s looking for Calle Ann but concludes if she was in the dojo the cops would have found her and he wonders, if she wasn’t with Peter, where could she be?...

The computer science department, nicknamed The Moles, since they work under the computer center, are busy setting up the new Wintervale campus computers.  Their leader, Dr. Kristen Martense oversaw what was being done. She gets a cup of coffee and wishes that Dr. Cortese was there to help her, notices how tired she is over this project, and passes one of the grad students, Emil Chockak (description here) who doesn’t pay her much attention.

Shaman is in dreamwalk and goes into the past when he was nine years old. Before he was Shaman he was Simon. He sneaked out and saw a movie which frightened him so much that that night he had a nightmare. He woke up screaming and his parents came to him just to be driven away by his grandfather. His grandfather questioned him about his nightmare, but in talking to him convinced him that it was a splendid dream that they should tell the elders of the tribe. Wake from dreamwalk, Shaman realizes that his grandfather is telling him not to fear the unknown. He must go back to the ruins under the computer center...

Val Kirk watch members of Nemesis, Peter Nakamura, Courtney Wade, and a third who could be Brian Cho push through a fence surrounding the ruins to gain entry. Val follows them, not aware that a fourth member of Nemesis, Jim Craig, was left back just in case someone would try to go after the main group…

Calle Ann is with the Burnt Up Man as he is assembling a computer together. She notices that under the burnt scares she could make out tattoos (the Tattooed man?). She asks if she could help, even though she feels like she has been kidnapped, and he reluctantly lets her. She asks about the program he has created and he tells her it will stop the crazieness at Windervale, with Dethboys, and The Lurker, and give him some vengence to the person who gave him his burnt up scares…

The armed group, Paul Francis, Tim Tomerson, Jack Narson, and Darren Legrasse approached the ruins followed by Dr. Mishra Corese and another deputy. They enter using a hole in the fence…

Val follows the three members of Nemesis into the building, and follows their footsteps to a hole in the floor. She hears a throbbing machine like noise that rose and intensified and an eerie blue light from the holes in the floor. Finally she sees a doorway to a stairwell. Convinced she has seen enough she heads to the exit but never makes it there…

The Lurker couldn’t get his computers to work because something from the ruined computer center was stopping him. Frustraited he donned a pea-green overcoat and a sloch hat, a miliatry hat with a wide brim. He went from his hiding place under the administrative building to the ruins, under the North Dakota sky, He notices a familiar person, and hides in a doorway wondering what he was going to do…

Shelly Rocker tries to flee Wintervale, knowing her roomate, Pamela, won’t be back until morning. She crosses the campus on the way to the bus station to go to Fargo, when she feels someone watching her. Although she has no proof, she calls out to the person. The person laughs and comes out, taking off his slouch hat, revealing himself as the Lurker. He calls to her, and reveals her real name, Gia Gibson…

**"RAT CHAT: What happened to Val?"**

Into the pit...

### Episode 16

Larry Ivy is in
Wintervale’s jail. He is in jail for charges that were trumped up
by the Lurker (so there were charges and the Lurker trumped them
up?). Larry had some disks that contained downloads from the Lurker
computer, but they are now in evidence. This didn’t bother Larry
thought, because Paul Francis has a duplicate set. Detective Ambrose
appears outside Larry’s cell, and without speaking, pulls his gun
at Larry and squeezes the trigger…

Gia Gibson is at
Wintervale, on the campus green at night, with the real Lurker. He
admits he didn’t know she was on campus. They talk about how the
Lurker offered her a job, but she didn’t want it because she wants
to be a kid a little longer (I think she came back to college in a
disguise). The Lurker tells her she can’t be a kid forever and
Wally Dietz interrupts them and shoots the Lurker in the chest with a
gun…

Val is being held by
someone trying to free herself when he whispers in her ear. It’s
the Shaman and she has something on her forehead the ‘throbs’
because of him. He explains that she was being stalked by Jim Craig,
a member of Nemesis, but Shaman knocked him out. Shaman then tells
her they have to leave because armed people are coming…

Before Larry Ivy
gets shot, Officer Louis Dombrowski knocks out Detective Ambrose with
a chair. He then gets the key from Ambrose to free Larry, but as he
searches the unconscious body he finds wires running up the
detective’s neck…

Enoch Collier is in
Santa Monica (very far from Wintervale?) and sees that Detective
Ambrose is unconcious and wonders if the detective finished his
mission. Collier controls Ambrose, and also the Dethboys and Nemsis,
and Dr. Iris Downing, most likely with wires running up their neck.
He wanted Ivy dead, but it wasn’t necessary. He thinks about how
soon he’ll have the disks with the downloaded information from the
Lurker’s computers soon…

Calle Ann is with
the Burnt Up Man (is he recently burnt of covered with burn scars
that have been healed?). The Burnt Up Man wants Calle Ann’s help to
install a program that will stop Enoch Collier because while working
for the Lurker, the Burnt Up Man found out about Collier and Collier
tried to eliminate him. Burnt Up Man admits he needs Calle Ann to
help with the install because Kristen Martense, part of the computer
science department, might have setup up traps and guards he would
need to get through. Calle Ann assures Burnt Up Man she can handle
the install…

Paul Francis, Darren
Legrasse, Tim Tomerson, and Mishra Cortese, the armed group that
Shaman had previous sensed, stare down the stairwell in the computer
center. The go down the stairs as Shaman and Val escape. Shaman
worries about what the armed group is walking into, and tells Val she
has to leave. She only leaves after he palms the mark on her forehead
and he vanishes.

When the armed group
go the bottom of the stairs they find ancient tunnels leading in four
separate directions. Cortese mentions his disbleife of the place but
Paul Francis explains that he heard of the tunnels but never actually
seen if. Three of the tunnels are dark but the forth is glowing which
Tim Tomerson says the should go down and Francis takes the lead.

Shaman takes a rope
out of his backpack and starts to go down a hole in the main hallway.
He puts a mask on with a leather cord and mentions something about
the spirit of Laura Banks but thinks ‘There is no supernatural
threat here’ and he goes down the hole.

Paul Francis notices
new wires running from a hole in the roof of the tunnel and
disappeared down the tunnel. He asks Cortese if he saw these, but
Cortese doesn’t respond. Paul turns around and sees Darren and Tim
Tomerson, but Dr. Corese is missing…

Previously, Dr.
Cortese had head someone calling his name. Recognizing it as Iris
Downing, he stopped and a wall moved aside revealling another tunnel.
The rest of the armed group had moved on and Mishra Cortese goes down
the newly revealed tunnel and the wall closes behind him…

Shaman is in an old
sub-basement of the computer center which is very old. It has a
cobblestone floor and iron covered pids engraved “Forged by Fargo
Iron Works, 1894”. He opens the closes iron rid and looks down. It
doesn’t say what he saw but he starts to retch. When he stops
getting sick he hears voices coming from a doorway hidden in the
shadows and he starts towards the voices.

Tim Tomerson worries
they are lost. Paul Francis agrees, mentioning they’ve been there
for hours. Darren interrupts and explains he had been marking their
path with a piece of chalk and they aren’t lost. Satisified, all
three move forward.

Mishra Cortese
wanders the tunnels for an hour until he finds a huge iron door which
opens before him. He finds an exact replicia of his research lab he
created the Cortese Chip. He wonders out loud who would create such a
place when someone behind him answers. He spins around to confront
the person who spoke…

Shaman overhears
Mishra Cortese and Iris Downing argue about the Cortese Chip. After
it was created Dr. Cortese walked away from it. He wanted it to heal
people, but not Dr. Downing was using it to control people. She also
admits she wanted Mishra to think she was kidnapped so he would come
on his own free will, because she loves him…

The assault group
approaches a branch in the tunnel. Before they step into three
members of Nemesis walk down the tunnel not seeing the assault group.
They were all carrying computer parts and they notice one of the
members was Courtney Wade. They let them pass and hurry down the
tunnel Nemesis came from…

Shaman continues to
overhear the doctors talking. Dr. Downing tells Cortese about her
plan to use his chip, now upgraded and with the help of Enoch
Collier, an international arms dealer, they will be able to use every
computer to control everyone… at Wintervale. Cortese says she will
be stopped but she triumply tells him the only one who could stop
them was eliminated days ago in an accient on the Los Angeles Freeway
(Burnt Up Man?)…

Calle Ann Copeland
and Burnt Up Man finish installing the program. They sit and wait for
the campus computers to come back online, at 9am, when they will
press a button to start their programs…

Downing and Cortese
also wait for the campus computers to come online. While waiting,
Cortese sees that Downing has wires running down her neck and he
reaches out and pulls them out…

Dr. Kristen Martense
and her group (computer science department?), including Emil Chochak,
count down to 9am when they press the button to turn on the campus
computers…

The Burnt Up Man
tells Calle Ann to press the button and his program starts working.
Calle Anne turns to congratulate the Burnt Up Man but he is already
gone…

The assult group
breaks into the research lab as Misha pulls the wires from Downing’s
neck. The group shoots up the computers and they burst into flames.
Downing tells Cortese to leave and reveals to him that she dies weeks
ago from cancer but the wires made it look like she was alive. She
also realizes that she was under Collier’s control the whole time.
With the computers blocking their way out, Shaman comes forward and
tells them he knows away out (the way he came).

Collier releases
Greta Whitcomb, giving her a laptop and a ticket back to Wintervale,
but he tells her she should exchange that for a ticket to Bismark.
She leaves and thinks it would be a good time to walk on a beach…

Calle Ann leaves the
tent she and Burnt Up Man were in, but he is no where to be found.
She goes to the Jaguar nearby and finds a briefcase filled with
money, her payment for her help with the program. As she drives off
she wonders if she’ll see Burnt Up Man again...

Ending

**"RAT CHAT: Is the Lurker really dead?"
New perils for the students of Wintervale as their dreams become reality and their secret desires are fulfilled...**

## Unanswered Questions

{These questions should be put under which episode the arise in}
Unanswered questions

Sneak Preview
Is Dethboy back?

Episode 1
Who grabbed Calle Ann?

Episode 2
How can campus security assault a police detective?
Who's the man in Shelly's room?

Episode 3
Should Paul make a deal with the Lurker?

Episode 4
Who or what is insie the computer center?

Episode 5
What's at the bottom of that hole?

Episode 6
What are the Dethboys up to now?

Episode 7
Who was the masked man?

Episode 8
Who controls the Dethboys?

Episode 9
What secrets lie in the Lurker's data banks?

Episode 10
Who was watching Shelly?