Sessions

A collection of notes taken by the Sang Noire Archivist.

## Book I: Birdsong

* Detective Monterrey has curled rams horns and a green eye.
* We are all prospective agents of the Wolfsbane National Detective Agency. They do paramilitary work, PI work, and security gigs for the government. This is our 'training mission' or interview. We were to make the Desoto (?) Mansion party safe. It's up in the hills and gated, so we just needed to keep the guests from being rowdy.
* The secretary comes in two hours (10pm). It's the 21st.
* WB has not hired extra security like this before.
* Senator Moray got in an accident because of the Nocturne Order blowing up the motorway.
* Spooky painting (The Curse of the Vampyre), nasty taxidermy of a bone crushing/death dog. Size of a bear.
* Coraline Co/Coco is a famous singer at the party.
* Aurora Desoto.
* Dr. Santiago wanted us to miss the meeting with the Secretary…
* Waitress, Aurora, Coraline, Royal Elite Army man, someone on the Couch.
* General José-Miguel de Cuauhtli
* Minister of Coin, Arthur (casual guy)
* Luc works in the alchemy. So is Aurora, but she calls herself a geneticist working in mutations.
* Cameron Ordonyan has the wolfsbane flower.
* Santiago is missing, and Christian was never in the ballroom.
* There's a level 20 magic uh oh down there.

* December 13th, 1279 on the diploma
* December 14th was the date for some reason, and the T Chinese zodiac.
* The power was turned off to most of the rooms.
* We are entering a cave complex connected to the basement.
* What the fuck is caster protocol
* We might be useful for what the Sword is doing?
* Exhumed, ritual, tainted blood, BREAK THE SEAL
* All the colors but red bleed out from the environment. The ritual was presumably blood based, from Santiago.
* Ah shit, activated ichor
* Luc is a chilly boy
* We get to be detectives!
* We're being admitted under the "deadpool" program, meaning we get dangerous jobs no one else wanted. And our pay is docked.
* We have sexy badges that come with discounts on sandwiches
* We're all partners ;)

* Alchemie boy luc
* We want to see Maria on floor 13th, take the elevator, go to Assignments
* Working under Detective Perez with the RPD. Meet with him at the RPD headquarters in Antigua, they'll show us evidence & bodies. A culprit was identified as **Emilio San Marcos**. Three places: morgue, evidence locker, and San Marcos' apartment.
* We have until lunch and then we gotta skedaddle.
* Evidence: shotgun shells, double barrel rifle, tiny scrap of paper, key to a large evidence locker.
* In the truck: very big truck. Large, modified to ram into things and not break. It can carry seven men in the back and three in the front.
	+ The truck doesn't fit the amount of attackers present at the event. 11/12.
* Nice rifle, but the design is a bit old. The bullets are mismatched in coloration and age
* Seems like a bible may be involved

```
break door
get guests
get host
enter cave
break seal
get weapon
get money
destroy house

```

* Upscale shotgun has been mistreated with low quality tools and ammunition
* The bullets can give us nothing on purpose
* Libertalia Shotgun, kept up well, Moravian post war surplus Hemmingway shotgun shells. Libertalia (1275) was forced to close down due to investigation that they were supplying the Nocturne Order for their Nemet Crimson Empire attack (fantasy Egypt). Meant to hunt megafauna. Luc and Perry are only standing because they had shitty bullets.
* Quetzal truck with low quality upgrades, but it does not have a lot of mileage. From the state of Mariposa, registered under **Emmanuel Zaragoza** in December of 1300, who’s last known address was 113 Calle Arbor in Papalonahuac, MP. He has been put into debtor's prison once or twice and leads a low-cost lifestyle, so this purchase would be out of character. It has two key slots.
* This truck is die no mite
* Glyphs and benches in the truck bed. There's three letters. It was burned recently, within the last couple of days.
* Bodies: Security Guard, Nocturne Agent, Ichor Victim (found gooped up in the activated ichor superstructure)
* **Mortician: Dr. Monroe.**
* **Ichor Victim**: the left side of the guy is grey and pale white, circular scarrations as if afflicted by an octopus. His abdomen is concave, hollowed out. He has not been identified, had his blood analyzed, or been given a cause of death. His skin problems do not seem to be the cause of death. His lungs and heart are super atrophied. He looks like he died from asphyxiation/cardiac arrest. It all appears to be due to the activated ichor. His removal from the ichor structure is what killed him; he was reliant on the structure. This man's blood has high amounts of ichorization; it was actively being converted into ichor. He was being turned into a living ichor activator/purifier. Charles Longstreet, moravian farmer with a history of racism. Edward Kissinger was the other ichor victim and the sniper guy.
* **Shotgun guy**: got slashed up. Notes say "high durability," as it seems he was being healed or had resistance to slashing damage. Or he had a shit ton of HP… His name? Mason Willifred. Believed to be one of the guilty parties who attacked Senator Hidalgo about a month ago. There are track marks on him, some very medical/meticulous and some bruised and amateur shots. Medical = unknown, wrist. Amateur = ichor, thighs.
* **Security guard**: shot multiple times, stabbed in the back. Didn't die from being shot. The cut on the back required precision and knowledge. There is necrosis and frost on the edge of the wound and inside the body. Stabbed by some kind of magical or arcane sword.
* San Marcos lives at the edge of town. Old brick building. Sleeping bags everywhere, seven total. June 21st is circled on the calendar. Poster for a bar called the Peace & Quiet. Nasty-ass kitchen. "The sword is coming tomorrow, act presentable." "Keep the radio to 84.1." That channel is country, folksy music (Moravian), people who enjoy it tend to be kind of right wing? It's old music. Somebody had turned it to jazz. It doesn't look like the food in the cabinets would have fed all the people here. There's an owl circling the apartment… during the daytime.
* Emilio's journal has been scratched out in some places. Basically, he lived a normal life but tied to the NO as a new recruit. One day, mid-June 15th or 16th, a bunch of dudes move in and are super messy (esp. Willifred). Willifred keeps pulling rank for being an older soldier, claiming the bed, etc. Two of them take injections as a "necessity for battle." Journal concludes that this is the big day, hopefully he will have enough money to pay rent. One thing not scratched out was a picture of a long dagger (arm length) made of obsidian in black and white. It is labeled "blood glass." This is the weapon.
* Regulars at the PQ includes: Emma Zaragoza.
* Older dude at the PQ, balding on the top of his head. Bit of a broken face, wearing someone else's blacksuit jacket (doesn't fit well). He appears to be Zaragoza based on the police sketch. We're going to tail him.

* Mans going through a gated cemetery
* 10, 22
* Shaft with a rope allowing passage downward. It leads to an underground ravine.
* He's trying to get to the rookery.
* The Undercity sucks ass, according to this guy. Crystal chapel?
* If you keep the image in your head, you make it there easy. Landmarks: the rookery is a big tower that looks like a boat in a cave ceiling, above a chasm. The front half of an old pyramid is close by. A cave with a glass-looking floor is also nearby. Or, a big old stone door with circles on it.
* I go by Joey
* Magus?
* "I have casters on my mom's side so [the people in the colonies] wouldn't cater to me"
* There seems to be some magical element to traveling in the caves.
* Manny did not see the symbols scratched into his truck.
* Bite wounds got the dude. There's also ichor about. He's holding a pistol and a piece of paper. It seems like he was trying to write something but couldn't finish it. It says "Rookery is compromised"?

* All the jackets are cheap af.
* There's a military style debriefing room.
* Empty cubbies in the adventuring gear room.
* Droplets of blood over the toilet and signs of struggle… but no people?
* Glossy, mangled black feather.
* The washer is loaded…with mold and mildew.
* "Move carrier to… keep the flow going… need blood…" This is not the Nocturne Order sending these messages. It isn't crimsontongue, it's goldenspeak, and they talk like natives of the city.
* They transport drugs, according to the motivational office. Activated ichor, sorcerer's flesh, bile, fantasy cocaine, devil's weed.
	+ Sorcerer's flesh is a drained sorcerer's ass, eat for more magic power. Not temporary like activated ichor… supposedly.
	+ From the plantation to the docks.
* Henry Townsend, founder of the Democratic Republic of Moravia (basically Jefferson Davis). There's also a tiny sketch of a family, with someone torn off. There's a young boy, a woman wearing a red dress and blue eyes, and half an arm of a suited figure.
* Jameson O'Reilly was the Perry blood room office owner.
* “Some owl-ass lost the fucking main key and I’ve had to use the spare. I put it in my safe in the barracks, if you need it the combination is my winning hand from our last game (6/22/1301)”
* "O’Reilly stop taking the cards, we need those to complete the deck. None of our sponsors are gonna like your cards being classified as important documents."
* Ace, king, queen, jack, 10, of spades.
* The chimeras want us to die because we know to much about this place.
* "We work for mother."
* The dogs didn't believe me
* And the barmaid's deaaaadddd
* Mocking Hounds

* Bye Senola!
	+ She was part of the King's Army
* Main switch ain't working, someone will have to balance the ichor stations, maintain reactions, check the main gen
* Luc stabbed Perry, Luis shot Luc
* Manny Zaragoza tips her too much…
* The Undercity
* Undergarden: the Angels Gang, proclivity for using zombie fungus as a warden method. Wear a mask!
* Don’t wear red, blue, white, pinstripe, fedoras, or look fancy (More's Gang).
* Toolbox: eighteen copper, five pistol bullets, three revolver bullets, six different potions (3 health, 2 mana, 1 slashing step tonic).
* PLACES:

```
5.330 (O-18  28:18+10, N-7 6:19+10)
17.053 (N-25  1:1+2, O-26 17:7+35)
18.950 (O-7  5:17+27, O-20 24:3+5)
5.330 Crystal  Temple
17.053 Elder Plantation
18.950 Creeks House
Sword 5.330+11
Eye T10-18.889+11
Shadow A3-6.911+11
Beast 18.950+11

```

These are the codes for the radio frequencies to reach these people. The +number at the end is means big importance.
Crystal Chapel: deep in Nocturne territory, sort of an HQ. There's gemstones from the old volcanoes and an old gang that ran out there made it as a place to worship. A beautiful cathedral now co-opted by the Nocturne Order. Near the Laboratory but in Spanish?, some lava. Senola gave directions.

* Luis heads home, Perry and Luc are on the subway with some words to share.

* Sinola has set a station in the communications center as she cooks noodles. She is recording herself examining a Mocking Hound, somehow Luis is able to view this from above. May be descended from hyena-crocuta.
* "I Only Have Eyes for You" is playing. Luis becomes tied to some creature? Glowing red? The MH is twitching with red electricity. Their corpses rise and fall over the ledge, reaching for Luis. Sinola also goes for the edge, and that's when Luis gains control and the music cuts when he calls her name.
* Luis falls. His eyes open. He is palms-down in an enclosed space with 30 foot tall ceilings and there's a foot of blood up to his arms. Odd hieroglyphs are across the walls and there is blood-red fog, familiar to those from his dreams (normally blue and starry).
* Luis runs and notices that the room is warm, like being near to another person. Other things are in the room: ravens. Floating, flying, cawing, sitting. You're very handsome, he says. They mimic him.
* The size of the facility is immense, the culture of its architecture is blandly unidentifiable, but this is an ancient laboratory. The source of the blood comes from fleshy, arterial growths that pour blood that sync with an earthquake that comes every ten minutes. At the end of this path, there is a room with a large stone globe: the shapes are different, old, but resemble the continents. Behind it are double stone steps leading to a large locked door. A heart beats behind it. The door is sealed, 15 feet high and 10 across.
* He touches the door, and the warmth from the heart leaves the room. Ravens and pyramids surround him. There are tens of bodies suspended from the ravens. Inside the globe, the heartbeat continues, beating red light. A monstrous curled form lies inside.
* He investigates a pillar and notes that it is most definitely from a primero culture.
* From the chest of a raven, fleshy tendrils shoot out and connect to Luis' vocal cords. It flies and drags him into the sphere and sees the other bodies are a mix of Nocturne Order, randoms, Perry, and Luc. He struggles. He goes unconscious.
* Awaking from the dream, he now has two circles on his neck. This is the first time a dream has physically harmed him.
* He calls Tony.
* WE'RE ON THE GREEN LINE BOYS.
* Luc really hates lying oh nooo
* Perry doesn't consider his addiction a liability
* An owl took Luc's alchemy supplies! The owl is the same owl that was flying ahead in the San Marcos apartment. Its eyes are black. They are distinctly human. Luc can gander that it is probably a shapeshifter, as most of them can never capture the eyes. They are always human.
	+ The bear footprints are probably female. The dirt is very old, caked dirt. They probably have been not wearing shoes for a long time.
	+ "A wild woman was in my house, turned into an owl, and flew away."
	+ They mostly went through Luc's workshop. The records, serum notes, and crucial information for concoctions, stock notes, were gone through.
	+ It's probably a shifted (reject experiment) or a druid.
	+ If it's a druid, it's probably not the average sort. Usually they are not hermits living in the woods, they're more like biologists. This would be an ex-communicated druid of some sort.
	+ Naaldlooshii? One being so far south would be strange, but so would a shifter being far into civilization.
	+ All options are kind of weird. All would have gone hundreds of miles to get to Santa Corazon.
	+ Shifters are the benefits of lycanthropes without the downsides. They can turn into animals, including strong ones. It varies.
	+ (HEY GANG THEY'RE SKINWALKERS)
* Hand things in to the handler or the RPD.
* The RPD is dealing with a murder-suicide in San Uriel?
* Guests at the party: lankier lad with short cropped brown hair, mid 20s, pale skin with hints of brown (stays indoors like a bat), greenish eyes, sturdy chin, broad nose, snooty demeanor, elegant tux: Christian Vasquez, son of current secretary of congress.
	+ Suspects, people not vetted: Dr. Aurora de Soto, Dr. Santiago de Soto, Davíd de Anxida, Arthur McKendrick, Cristián Vasquez, General José-Miguel de Cuauhtli, Guadalupe Vasquez, Coraline Co
* T10 is a country in Talia
* A3 is an Anovian country
* There's information on the Beast's channel, but it's too far away to understand.
* Santiago would be on bedrest due to losing a hand.
* Aurora would probably be at the National Academy. (She teaches biology, alchemy, and genetics).
* Her hours are 3:40-5pm.
* David, Arthur, General, likely Cristián, Guadalupe, would be at the Palace since it is midday. Coraline would be at the Hotel.
* There's an auspicious/suspicious amount of ravens.
* Dr. Aurora: "He never did anything useful with that hand, anyway." WHAHAHAHHAHAHA
	+ She focuses on DNA manipulation (genetic history through cell structure, genetic manipulation is her favorite. Botany and zoological approach)
	+ Hello, mother
	+ Luc studied under private tutors, Luis De Santos. Old mining state. He was vocal on being an ethical scientist, retired and moved to Rosalio.
	+ He's interest in the cross between alchemy and epidemiology.
	+ Her husband is tenured but on sabbatical.
	+ His replacement is Anne Maria la Luna? Professor Luna. Does office hours in the morning 9-11.
	+ She's gonna teach him for free. Luc writes down Perry's phone number for her to call. Next Tuesday become a student! So proud of him
* There's more ravens
* Caroline: willing to talk.
	+ Didn't really consider anyone suspicious, maybe Luis if anyone.
	+ Luis' voice stood out on his radio time :)))
	+ "If you ever find some free time, during the nightly hours, give this a ring." ;)
* The Palace: The raven ripples and tells Perry some washer and dryer sounds. :))))))))))))))

* Thousands of ravens. They see all.
* "Scraggly" - raven
* Fantasy Italian Perry can't cook spaghetti
* In front of the cemetery, there's an old apartment building with a bunch of police tape and a cop car in front of it. Detective Perez was investigating a murder-suicide and appears to be on this scene. It cleared out the apartment building.
* Perry dream:
	+ Laundry basket is full of laundry. Going to the laundry room, in the basement. The dryer and the washer are still going from someone else. Kerklunk. Perry was bitten by a Mocking Hound.
* There's a strange lady in his house
	+ Average height, maybe a little tall. Mid to late 30s. Ratty, curly dark brown hair, deep ochre skin with scars along her face (matted in dirt), heart shaped and friendly face with high cheekbones and cracked, full lips. Her teeth have pronounced canines on both jaws, and it seems she's been biting her lips with them. Her eyes are pitch black but gleam with intelligence. Her clothes are ragged and shredded, but look like a scientist's labcoat with pads of leather armor. Her hands and feet are bare and her skeleton is stretched against her skin.
	+ She gets to the window, collapses inward after pointing at the typewriter, and she turns limp and falls out the window. An owl flies out from her back and her human body rapidly decomposes like a videogame npc.
	+ The message on the typewriter: Keep Away, Pajarito. You Meddle in Affairs that Do Not Concern You. Only Death Awaits.
	+ Luc has a suspicion to what she is, is concerned more about her human features more than the fact that she is breaking in. Maybe he knows more than he's letting on.
	+ Perry remembers what she looks like very well, but can't draw. He writes notes in the margin.
* Scientists are saying that a change in the storm weather patterns is maybe causing the ravens to be everywhere. These are northern Anovan ravens, hundreds of miles away from where they're supposed to be.
* No ravens on the Viceroy Palace, a few flocks on the main Palace.
* **Davíd** got a bad vibe before the party. Jose maybe feels the same.
	+ "I'm surrounded by people who would party rather than be serious"
	+ Cristían Vasquez was acting odd, and Mr. McKendrick. But they are odd in general. Cristian grew up in a boarding school and has been "odd" ever since. Detached during a time of war. Elitist attitude, reclusive. Stuck-up. McKendrick doesn't care about what other people think; no filter, a pathological liar. Little self-control.
	+ David helped stragglers out of the manor to the lawn. There were waitstaff missing, the lead waitress, Cristian was missing but seemed to come out for a moment but "wanted to find out if [WE] needed help", more extroverted than usual, McKendrick was missing.
* **Guadalupe** didn't see anything strange personally.
	+ The head waitress seemed sketchy to her. Snuck off, Lupe's dog did not like her.
	+ Didn't get any weird feelings before the event started.
* **General José-Miguel** seems tired of being interviewed.
	+ It seemed a jovial night beforehand.
	+ After the party died down and we went into the basement, he noticed a pair of footprints going into the basement.
		- He thinks it was young Mr. Vasquez. He's always been changed since the boarding school years. His mother said he was hiding in the bathroom.
	+ McKendrick seems especially happy, but could be about his new bill. Cristian seems more extroverted than before.
* **McKendrick** seems quizzical and intrigued about being interviewed.
	+ Didn't notice much before the party. The staff seemed a bit on edge. The party was quiet a rush, weirdly exhilarating. He wishes he brought a gun.
	+ (MIND READ): He got a lot of adrenaline, fondly remembers the night.
	+ They ran into each other in the bathroom, heading towards the ballroom.
	+ Head waitress seemed quite the stony one. (SCORNFUL). He's an incel. He blames her for the thing because she was rebuffing him because she "was planning something". (NOTICABLE PAUSE, NERVOUSNESS WHEN ASKED IF SHE WAS ON THE LAWN).
	+ Lupe was distraught. David is bittersweetly smug. Cristian is as weird as always.
	+ Nocturne Order: "A couple people died, this is nothing, hardly a tragedy, we're in an era of peace, it'll blow over soon, watch the news cycle" (NOT WORRIED).
	+ He told me to file a fake report
* **Cristian** didn't expect to be questioned
	+ He's talked to Luis already? He had a bad feeling because he did not want to go.
	+ Lupe came in to hide in the bathroom as well, where he was hiding. He then got a surge of bravery. He tried to find stragglers, helped the waitstaff which he has sympathy for.
	+ (HE'S FULL OF HIMSELF)
	+ He did not see Mr. McKendrick, who he calls cowardly. Also, the head waitress seemed nervous. He never went toward the basement, out of respect for the DeSoto's.
	+ He feels lucky to be alive, ready to brush it off. Raise security at events and at the palace. The Nocturne Order did not seem very prepared or funded. (HE FEELS LIKE IT MIGHT NOT, BUT HOPES IT WILL BLOW OVER).
	+ There might be someone at the party who was helping the Order, maybe McKendrick (a warmonger) or the waitress. McKendrick was the general contracted from the colonies, Mr. Vasquez filled a pro-Coronista member to the Cabal, but he only benefits from war. Might like a war with Moravia. These people are likely from Moravia, who should answer for the crimes. (HE DOESN'T REALLY CARE ABOUT THE OTHER PEOPLE DYING)
* A crowd of servants are crowded around the service entrance, saying "she's back".
* Perry trips and David says "thank you for your service, I guess"
* "The Queen's back, she's back" and she had been missing for 24 hours.
	+ There are more ravens at the palace now that she's back.
* The hieroglyphs we saw on the truck and on the underground door are also in the DeSoto Mansion, in these locations:
	+ Roof of the Pantry
	+ Back of the Stage
	+ Frame of the Vampire Painting
	+ The Fireplace
	+ The Stelae out Front
	+ The Death Dog Taxidermy
	+ Roof of the Garden
* They don't seem to be words for the most part, mostly to make the house pretty and decorative. We do recognize a few words, piecing them out.
* Head waitress: **Bounty Smythe**. She was employed through a catering service (we have the number).
* While we're at the manor, there's a strange phone call. It's Detective Perez, for us. Manny wants to talk to us.
* Perez has a nice lil fedora. His eyes have been vacant during the talk. His hat bent strangely when he tipped it. Jet black fedora with a raven's feather in it.
* Captain Hernandez has been trying to break the guy for a day. I love him. He's australian (Sah?) maybe.
	+ He wrote *The Night That Went Bad.* And *Terror on the Outback*. The twist is that the emu did it. Also *A Cold Night to Remember* for my inventory.
* Manny wants his car in return for the knowledge, protection from the Owls, and wants to charges dropped. (Hernandez will sign anything).
* The front door of the precinct opens and a dog comes in, a mutt of some sort. The precinct has a cat mascot named Mr. Mittens. The dog has wacky eyes… vaguely human… Luc notes they are the same human eyes as the owl woman.
* "Isabel"
* Hernandez was once part of animal control. He has seven dogs and 5 cats. He's married :( to a wife and a husband
* We just adopted Isabel.
* Manny says:
	+ Go through Cavernas Herreras to get to the HQ. Back way: the Takowa? Abandoned, more cave creatures. Front entrance: short, heavily guarded, dining hall will be packed. Side entrance: a long route but there won't be much people. All lead to the gate, or you can side-step it and go through the surface way, but that drops you right to the gate.
	+ The NO are holed up pretty well, with underground fortresses. If you go in loud, bring way more men. If you want to really take down the agency, you will have to get rid of Sword. Not in the Crystal Chapel, he will be too surrounded and in a mask.
	+ In the archive room in the CC, you could find out the next big mission he will be on to take him out. And maybe find out who he is.
	+ There's tunnels around the gate that might help you sneak by. A uniform would help.
	+ Watch out for the sword; he's intense and has a big sword with a tree design on it. It might be the Winter's Blade. (Luc knows it is the holy relic of the Night, grew from the only tree that survived a shit winter in Mave? Symbol of the king, usually wielded by saints.)
	+ The Sword: is a little taller than average, perhaps broad shoulders or just armored. Silvered armor, probably rich. Muffled voice. Sounds maybe foreign.
* Our dog has rancid vibes.
* We will pick up a nocturne order suit tomorrow.
* A raven's head snaps backwards and shoots a pseudopod at Luis. It is not familiar to his dream. Isabel grabs the raven and crushes it into goo. She runs, goes down an alley, and then tears through the dog flesh to become a half-human, half-hound skeletal figure, like a spider, from the dog. She skitters over the wall and becomes an owl.
* She flies out to the ruins across the lake. Luc remembers that he had three job offers: be a mole on the inside for Coco's security, our job we took, and violent animal attacks in the ruins. She has been here awhile and has been taking people's lives inside those ruins.

* It's about 5 in the evening. We take the new highway up to the ruins. Once we cross the canal, the amount of ravens dwindles immediately. They seem to be focused on the city.
* The ruins are imposing, invoking shock and awe. People made them? Whaa
	+ And they're still standing damn
* The ranger's clothes are too big for them
* **Deputy Tores**: the deputy is probably early 30s, blond, hazel eyes, goatee thing going.
* god dammit Perry why do you tell the truth
* Don't climb on any pyramid but the Pyramid of the Sun
* They think the attacks are from a family of river creatures.
* There's old buildings and scrublands to hide in. There's old caves under some buildings, but those stretch into the city.
* Deputy Tores go away challenge
* There's a few owl feathers, so she may have made it here, but we don't have much of a lead.
* Coco is doing a performance out in the ruins, which is why so much money is being spent to keep them safe.
* There's been six murders. Two of them were groups of patrols. Bit and clawed by something.
* We file to stakeout for the Sheriffs on behalf of Wolfesbane. hopefully this doesn't piss anyone off.
* Ahuizotl resemble the Mocking Hounds, are aquatic, but not quite like the MH. They mostly sound like drowning kids. They're about human sized, if they stand up. Larger than an average dog.
	+ Don't go too far into the caves.
	+ Most of the dead were just townsfolk trying to sneak in, perhaps to the undercity.
	+ Ranger Larson wants their flashlight back.
* Perry conjures a Chad Frog at the rustling in the reeds. Something in the reeds stops, then an otter tries to get at the frog. The frog dispels. The otter chitters back to other otters, who are all disappointed.
* On the platform, there are a lot of feathers and tracks from a heavy, sunken boot that is oddly stretched. The feet don't fit into the shoes, too wide for the boot.
	+ The tracks wander around and then go down the central promenade.
	+ The boots turn and go into the temple across from the sun pyramid.
	+ The gravel is caked in mud where these footprints were going.
	+ Perception: Luis notes that, over the palace, there is a huge hole in the middle of the palace courtyard.
	+ Survival: Luc sees that the boot tracks just stop here, disappearing. There's a strange dust around the end.
	+ Investigation: Perry finds that there is a pair of goulashes thrown down the pyramid steps. (G).
* The ground around the entrance of the hole shakes and shimmers like something is moving. Luis hears and sees something move under the entrance. There's a rumbling that moves closer to us. This creature is not very large but is very fast.
* The palace is super well secured. Unless you can FLY…
	+ If there are tunnels that lead out of it… must there be ones leading in?
	+ We find a hole that seems to have movement within… And a rattle, like a rattlesnake.
* Perry's light reveals six muscular reptilian legs… A large, serpent-like creature with six limbs and a wide-brimmed head with a long, rattling tail. Its eyes are a bright, shimmering green.
	+ Those same eyes get staticky and an ear pops when Luis casts *dissonant whispers*.
* Twink Pyramid
	+ Perception: taped off area by unexcavated buildings, trenches
	+ Investigation: certain there is no sign of anyone around here
	+ Whoever left the murder scene did so in a hurry
	+ The victim was slashed and stabbed. They were probably not murdered here, but were discovered here. They were murdered a week or so ago, only investigated a few days ago.
	+ The area around is a wide field with good sightlines and nearby stage equipment. Perry sees that, not far from us, there is a looter's trench with drag marks coming from it. He also sees an unopened box of posters advertising the July 4th performance of Coraline Po.
* There's a rumblin' around the tunnel. Luc notices an outline of two people, painted in red, on the wall. Movement to the left is probably lizards, the right is drippy.
* Ancient anovan drawings. Jaguar creature made out of storm clouds and maybe vines; a woman whose top half is a crow.
* Another part: going forward or a turn to the right. Lizard prints go both ways.
* We go forward: there's large slabs… hm, did you know Basilisks cask you in stone saliva, and don’t nest alone?
* We come up to the stars in a cave-in. It's wide, with stucco on the wall, like a furnished basement with old ceramics. There is a fresh owl body right in the center of the moonlight. It's decomposing slower than we normally associate with Isabel.
	+ There are sounds of *something* through one of the other entrances to this area. Down the right pathway. The left pathway is movement coming toward us, rumbling loudly.
	+ The right splits, seeming to ascend and descend on the different choices. Squelching and breathing behind us in the room we just left. The walls around us appear "inhabited" with murals, ceramics, and torch spaces. But long abandoned.
	+ Seems big creatures are up and little creatures have gone down previously.
* We go down. We cannot tell which way the creature behind us went. The area becomes more structured than the pathway we were in and grows wider.
* Luc hears a *fwip.* He stepped on a pressure plate that triggered a thing.
	+ Luis: "I've got thieves' tools."
	+ Perry: "You've got thieves' tools?"
	+ Luis: "Sometimes you gotta do things. I don't see what the problem is."
* It seems like the creature has stopped following us.
* Luc, looking at a weird possum mural, remembers seeing pictures of this place in Her office. It was one of her favorite places to go before *everything* happened. She told Luc this city was a grand testament to culture, this was a place of scientists and inventors. They hid their secrets deep under the Sun temple. It's incredibly well defended. The possums eyes and mouth glow, and… roll a dex save. SNAKE!
	+ We are trapped in a snroom.
	+ Pulling a lever with mage hand didn't work. Seems it requires **blood.**
	+ Luc shoves his hand in and feels the blood from the cut suck in. The snake statue eyes light up and the snakes stop, look up, and slither back up to the eyes of a snake.
* Luis buries his magnifying glass. (Perry: "Was that important to y-" "It was expensive.")
* Immediately outside that room is a shawl draped over a lump on the ground, about the height of a ceramic vessel, but creature shaped. Perry lifts it up: black hair, paled once-ochre skin, covered in snake bites. Wearing a Wolfesbane badge.
* Then there are less-worn, longer pressure plates next. Perry throws his can of peaches and silvery, corrosive liquid spills out of one side of the wall. Luc recognizes it is quicksilver, or mercury. If it touches your skin and stays there, you die within minutes.
* Then there is another room descending and we see unspoiled ceramic vessels in front of murals depicting people. They wear all white, all yellow, all red, all black. They are in a wheel of people, with one in the center. Rarely is one person depicted in the center: idolizing what the people did, or people as a concept. There is a shawl, ragged, on a shrine. The offerings are perfectly preserved. There's a bit of light here. The candles of these shrines are lit. Some of the figures are holding crystals, obsidian blades, or streams of red from their list. An active shrine with recent activity has a person in a dress with a "speech bubble" and there are hundreds of the gusts of wind, like she is speaking with many voices. One hand is monstrous and the other is human. The monstrous one holds a heart and the human hand holds a cup/measuring device. There are pages of parchment filled with drawings and diagrams and notes all over the place. Scientific and artistic.
	+ Her vessel is jade with a pack of tarot cards in it. It is missing the Empress, Death, and the Tower. Luc looks to see if the *Know Thy Enemy* Empress card matches: it does.
	+ The notes talk about experiments, prions, wiindigo syndrome, artistic rendering of humanoid skeletal body with a wolf's head imposed on it. Half man, half animal, diagrams. Shredded papers of bad drawing/offerings. A journal entry that reads: ***I have done it. What is good has been done.***
		- Luc recognizes it as hers.
	+ Luc leaves a dark red, shimmering, black and red mixture. He says "it's something I hope will help her."
	+ Luis leaves a drawing.
	+ Perry leaves a drop of blood and the hieroglyphs on the wall glow, and the blood goes away.

There's a general sense of *thumbs up.*

* We continue. The architecture becomes organic looking, like bones. It's carved like a hill, and seems to be an ancient pyramid. We think it is the core of the sun pyramid. There's a raised section with an inset, sealed door in the ground. And there is a deer antler piercing the door. There are also hieroglyphs everywhere. The arches of the walls are reminiscent of vocal chords or tendons.
	+ It looks a whole lot like Luis' dream about the ancient laboratory.
* Luis says he has prophetic dreams. There were a lot of ravens, a sphere made out of them, tendrils that go into your neck and carry you up, feeding something in the sphere.
* The antler is stabbed into a piece of paper, a tarot card: Death.
	+ Similarly, it reads: **Do not follow, Pajarito. -W**
	+ Perry takes the card, and we all get blown up onto the ceiling.

Session 10

* As we rest, we see two other agents: one has a snapped neck and the other one was brained. (Teams are usually 3-4, there may be one left).
* Opening the door, we see that the shaft goes down for a long, long time. There are hundreds of bones making up the walls. Notably, not human. They have horns, snouts, skeletal halos, wings, claws. The bones of monsters and archons.
* Luis: "You know, I think it's about time I start going to therapy."

* "She's a scientist, she's crazy, and she's evil."
	+ She thinks being a monster is a good thing and that diseases that kill people or change them into undead are useful to leverage for power.
* "It's a little personal" to be an arch-nemesis, says Luc. Knew her more professionally.
* At the bottom of the hollow column, there is a circular room with two doorways, east and north. There's decorative skeletal forms. Up to three feet high, about at the waist, there is a thick black fog. It's necromantic in energy.
* We try and bend the bars and hear some bone on stone sounds D:
	+ Luis sees a creature with purplish energy.
* Some skeletons are human, some have avian or reptilian features. Some with very thick bones with tusks. Some with tails or retrograde limbs.
* Perry almost fell into a spike pit
* To the east, a medium sized 15x15 circular room where the bones are arranged in beautiful ways. Hieroglyphs are in the far wall. In the middle of the room is a 8 foot tall altar-statue of a body with the head missing. On the wall is a diagram of a skull. There's another broken mural.
	+ After pressing some skull bits into a skull, the shoulders flip and put a golden skull on the statue. We did it bois
* Then there is a room shaped like froggy chair. It has a window looking into another room.
	+ Luc hears voices down in the room being overlooked, speaking crimsontongue.
* That room has three strong pillars and three nocturne order agents. One of them has an arm covered in etchings and is holding a tiki torch. Around the torch is clear, with no fog. The other two have crossbows.
	+ They say: "Why do we need to have crossbows? I want guns." "Sh. Silence yourself. We are on dangerous grounds, this is an unholy place." "Yeah, I get it, you know, Siegson, Tommy has a good point. We were trained with guns, we don't use bows and stuff." "Crossbows are essentially the same thing and use arrows which are not as loud as to attract those demons."
	+ Siegson doesn't sound familiar to us, just some british fucko
	+ "I don't want to attract nothin', but we haven't seen anything for rooms now. There's a witch here and I don't want to meet her." "You will meet a witch if the sword demands it. You are a cog in the machine. If we are quiet and cautious we won't see them." "What's it even for? I have to know, because I don't want me dead." "I don't know why we were sent to these demonic, thirsty ruins, but this is something too grand-schemed for us to understand. Let's not worry about it."
	+ One of them steps on a tripwire that makes a bell toll. The shadows recede and the ordermen are torn into the shadows by skeletal figures dressed in fog.
* Four skeletal figures… animated by the fog. They don't appear to be able to see, feeling around and clicking as if using echo location. The fog in here is about 5 feet tall.
* He dropped a torch which blocks about 5 feet of the fog
* There's a chest behind the locked door so sad for us
* Perry stepped on a bone and then Luis ran and now it's all wet
* Perry has the torch thanks Luc
* Perry magick'd out, bird boy incoming
* Luc looks at a family picture of a blond kid, a blond woman, and some dude from the rookery. He takes it and chucks it to the opposite end of the room to shatter it. They go fucking CRAZY about it just VIBING so big for it
* Luis shatters the archway and that protects us <3
* Luc asks Perry if he was ever going to tell them he was an angel, and he says no. Luis says he's glad he doesn't know something for once. We take a long rest to morning on Thursday.
* "I've got a lot of priorities, Perry." - Luis, who values work over his dang life
* Six large humanoid skulls pouring out the fog, in the next room. They're numbered and the largest and final one has an arrow. A diagram of a skeleton with an arrow circle through it (like a cycle). Clockwise.
	+ Inside their mouths are hollow and there are switches inside them. The arrow one goes down very far but is filled with dangerous fog.
	+ Luis remembers a fable about a Sphynx.
	+ Archons were very scientifically advanced, considering they're aliens. They probably know about more than just being born, being an adult, and an old. They would know about being in utero and post life, in the grave. Consider before baby and after old man.
	+ The correct answer is 1, 4, 2, 3, 2 for worm, baby, man, old man, skeleton
* In the large chamber, there are quite a few nocturne order agents.
	+ They call the other troop a loss and report back after finding the bodies. They look around to try and find the bodies.
	+ Luis knows fantasy french whoahaohaohaoha
* Luis crown of madness's a leader, who kills a mook, who then becomes a skeleton that starts shrieking and killin and infinite skeletons come
* Metal rebar poles with wires attached, glowing brightly. There's bright blue electricity.
* Luc searches her living room and gleans that she has packed up important things. She has lived here for awhile but she intends to leave soon.
	+ Last time Luc saw her, he tried to kill her.
* Isabel doesn't trust us due to the leash thing. Luis said he was interested in her kind of thing??? Lmao
	+ She has business with people who are meddling in affairs not meant for us
	+ "You're going to get your dumb baby asses killed by what's down here. It's not your time to die yet."
	+ She wants to keep innocents from dying. We are targeting people who are involved in all of this stuff.
	+ She laughs when Luis suggests giving us more information to be prepared. Evidently we can't begin to understand.
	+ Luc didn't sacrifice something she wanted him to. She lied to him about something?
* The Nocturne Order are planning to do something at the concert. It is imperative their mission is a success. Their short term goals are aimed at a domino. They MUST kill Coraline Po. The last domino to fall will kill everyone in Najalisco.
* She's fighting the ravens, the dogs, and the creatures with metal heads…
* What we are up against is deep and old.
* She "lost her own of the afflicted" and now must be the handler *and* the beast.
	+ "Why would you let this happen to you and this happen to me?" - Luc
	+ "It is not a curse, it is a blessing, it is power made flesh. But if you cannot see that… that is your own decision to make."
	+ Luc ain't a normal man anymore
	+ "I HAVE A TERMINAL ILLNESS" - Luc
* She wants to make Perry a god slayer or something but Luc and Luis think it's a bad idea.
* "Dr. DeSoto is more merciful than people give her credit for"?
* Luc doesn't care what people think
* Isabel felt Luis' hand and said his "ties" could help.
* She's giving us "energized" ichor, which is pure, from the direct source. From an actual living archon. "The undercity has many secrets." It will react with our inner network and the activated ichor already within us. This will syncopate it with the frequency of the ethereal plane which will allow us to have more energy. It's swirling purple and gold.
* Once we ascend, we see that the ravens are a thick cloud over the city, but there are some around the ruins now as well. Secondly, we are all level four.
* "I've got a lot to process. Let's go drink." - Perry

* BACKSTORY FLASHBACK
	+ Luis came on a train to Buenas Suerte Station (?), at a time when everyone else was leaving, only 19. His reason for relocating here? Safehaven. Seems strange, seeing as there are soldiers everywhere. He decides his reason is to work, have a radio show, and become famous.
	+ He looks upon Santa Corazon for the first time. He seems excited.
* Reported on the stakeout, dropped people off at home, clean up after the awful time, Luis calls Tony,
* Luc and Luis plot to take Perry to a gay bar. Luis is certain he's never been to one ("I mean, look at him.")
* Luis missed a "doe eyed lass" coming in to the radio station to see him… She seemed kind of roughed up..
	+ "You can't have your girlfriends coming into the office" HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE LUIS
	+ It was probably Sinola, based on the description
* We drive to **Club Metro**, in an area mixed with old homes and fancy new bars. It's a bit ritzy. We arrive a 5 pm ish. It's fucking Thursday
	+ Bit: the queso dragon
* It's too Old Gays night, so we decide to kind of start a bar crawl and go to **Club Galaxy**.
	+ This one is a bit more Happening but it looks more warehousy, not refurbished very much yet.
	+ "Luis has forgone assuming Perry knows things" — Daniel. Perry's the Baby Gay
	+ Luc assumes that Perry is gay and is surprised he doesn't know the gay bar scene better
	+ Luis ("Jack") brings us friends Amelia and Jessica to do shots. They're twins and they just turned 21 and they're going on a big tour all over Najalisco
		- They're from Rosalia
	+ Luc finds a cowboy guy that seems dead by the bathroom. Maybe poisoned himself with alcohol, or something. But he's alive thank crowns
	+ The bartender tells us to go to Le Chaos on 24th/Mariposa if we want the fun place. She heard a rumor that a few celebrities go there.
* We arrive at **LE CHAOS.** It's not that chaotic, it's pretty nice. The second floor has a dance floor, a bar, and is slightly rowdy. The third floor is more relaxed.
	+ "I'm already zoodled" - Luis
	+ Perry and Luc notice that there are a LOT of people with black hats. Eyes emoji. They're all black hats. Hmmm
	+ The gang decides to drink fucking absinthe and poppy cola lmao. In the opium age. Fuckt up
	+ Luis recognizes a few people in the lounge as part of the Poe entourage
	+ "I appreciate that you think I Get It often" — Luis
	+ Perry and Luc are killin' it dancing. Luis notices Coraline Poe
	+ Luis also notices a guy passed out in the restroom.
	+ Luis claims to also be from the Bayou around Coraline. Also he's faking an accent.
* Coraline takes us to her **Penthouse** which is bigger than the bar, surprisingly.
	+ The first lady, the consul, will be at her concert.
	+ She thinks people are meant to be spread out
	+ Perry meets a lady that is smoking but not exhaling smoke. She convinces him to come out to the balcony, and he makes a CHA save. His memory cuts out.
	+ Coraline is gay <3 (or bi?)
		- "Gloria was sentimental" —Cora
	+ Luis goes with Coraline, does a CHA save, and his memory cuts out.
	+ Luc sees Perry on the patio making out with a woman. That's when his memory cuts out.
* Luc awakens to the light of morning in his bed. He doesn't remember what happened since around 12 on Thursday night. It's 8:30 am and he's hungover. There's a morning fog by his home, rolling off the river. He goes to the payphone and calls Perry.
* Luis' neighbor is George.
* Luc and Perry don't have any evidence of what happened. Luis has an address and a lipstick mark on his arm. His red notebook is gone.
* At Luis' work, he learns there has been a dramatic increase in suicides in San Uriel. 13 in the past few weeks. A psychologist is calling it a seasonal issue. There was a shootout at an apartment where a detective began to shoot pedestrians. He commit suicide before he was apprehended… it was Dt. Perez.
* Perry drinks the draft from Isabel. It tastes fine, and then he feels awful and tense and his veins. He feels a sensation like his body wants to invert. The pain increases to a peak and no thing happens. It recedes. Then he feels relaxed and tingly from his core outward. He feels stronger, like his muscles have become more solid and stronger like he did a months worth of workout in five seconds. In the mirror, he sees the roots of his hair are turning red uh oh and there's a needle mark in his arm. It looks bigger than he's used to, maybe something else was used.
* While Luc is drinking coffee, he starts bleeding lightly from the gums.
* The Royal Police are in a hectic state.
* Monterrey will wrangle up some people. Chester on floor 48 has some products for combat. Luc will need to pick up his machete that is being upgraded.
* Sinola has a cut over her brow that has been stitched. She says that when we left the Rookery, she stayed a while to do an autopsy on a Mocking Hound. As she was working, her memory cut out. As she thought about it, she remembered she saw red light coming from the chasm below and heard a song by Coraline Poe. It sounded pre-recorded, like a gramophone. She saw a woman-looking thing, with bird claws for hands and pitch black wings, with a colossal bird (raven) head free-floating above the neck with blood pouring out of it like an avalanche. She woke up, the bodies all gone, about to walk off the edge of the chasm. She thinks this will be a pretty big story, with some sort of "Raven Witch" in the undercity. She's about to head down there right fucking now fgogsdgjsfljksjdg thinking she knows where the raven queen lives. For the weekend. What a date.
* Luc remembers that there was a song playing, of Poe's, right before he blacked out.
* After Perry prompts Luis with questions about Bard magic, he remembers BONING CORALINE. Luc remembers the song cutting down and then hears a distant sound of a different song (I Only Have Eyes for You on the playlist…) and all the people with the black hats stop moving and everyone else is confused.
* Coraline gives the address of her rehearsal to Luis. She is confused when someone plays one of her songs and her eyes become foggy and she gets tired, wanting to check outside.
* Red light is rising from the floor and the ravens outside are swirling around. We decide to get off this floor. Luc and Perry notice Coraline slump over, fall, and disappear. We push open the staircase door and four or five ravens shoot out of the stairwell, which is full of a tornado of them. The people without hats start dropping, too. The windows of the patio blast inward and we see bright red. A figure with jet black wings comes in, and then our vision cuts out.
* BACK TO THE PRESENT
* Perry's car left by the subway
* The nest is under the theatre in San Uriel district.

* We are in the Rookery. We are on floor 5 and we hear commotion on a lower floor. They seem to be on the third floor, talking and moving something heavy.
* We exit on the second level.
* ALL THREE of us fucked up on the rope
* The darkness soon becomes overwhelming. We smell rot and decay and mold. Then we hear talons on rocks and wings flapping and caws. It knocks Luis off the rope. Perry leaps down to catch him.
* Something jumps from one of the stalactites and slashes. They aim a little bit more for creatures with light. There's a forest of stalagmites.
* The cave has a lot of that cawing and squawking; roosting above is a lot of ravens. They're chilling and looking up vacantly.
* There's a gravelly area Sinola marked as our camp spot.
* Luc worked as a ranch hand in Casas Grandes ("up north")
* The gang crafts a ghost story. Sinola doesn't like us lying about a guy's death for this. She starts telling a REAL story. About a big skel in the woods
* Oops! Mocking hounds and echos
* When Sinola heals Perry, her veins raise a bit.
* Luc says "fuck it" and activates the blood bargain of sacrifice; his veins turn black on the side of his face and neck and spreads over his face and arms. His eyes, when the black blood reaches, his eyes cloud over black. And start pouring blood.
* Sinola runs after a MH and there's a sound of chains and glowing golden light. Ethereal chains have come from the vial of blood on her neck and it forces the creature to face her. Her veins also glow golden she's totally smiting right now
* Luc hears yips and yelps and aggressive static nearby, during his watch.
* Close to the lair, there is a red light and Eyes for You plays…
* We wake up in cylindrical cages, 30 feet above the floor. The morning light pours in through a hole in the ceiling. It appears to be an abandoned theater. There is also a person in bright white robes and an owl mask in a cage. Sinola said she thought the nest was under the National Theater, but that one is not abandoned. Inside the hole, it appears to end in a circular chasm with a gargantuan version of the Echos (black ooze bird mimics)
	+ The Nocturne Order agent says that there is an angel looking creature that fed his men to the baby bird creature below.
	+ There's also a cage full of shiny junk and treasure that a giant bird would collect
	+ Said "angel" is a large humanoid creature with ginormous raven feather wings. They have sticks and spirals of barbed wire and glass piercing the wings to reinforce them. It's main body is narrow and thin, almost skeletal. Its legs do not end in feet but sharp points that stick into the ground. Its skin is black, charred, oozing and burbling. It has long limbs with sickening claws and tubing wraps up and around the creature to its head: which is an old-timey phonograph. The flowery head ambiently plays static. It is called Sandalphon.
	+ Perry pretty much sacrificed the NO agent to the angel,,, aha
	+ He don't feel bad
* The angel, seeing Perry and Sinola are not in their cages, releases a warbled cry. It looks offstage, and Perry definitely feels as if it has noticed him.
	+ Perry teleports away and it follows him anyway RIP F HORN HONK
* Sinola has golden and silver wings with eye patterns and what looks like five crowns kind of like a halo above her head.
* Luc's icy blade becomes flame blade. Luc's skin has a warm glow, as if he is burning with a fever.
* Luc can see an oozing skull with one eyeball is inside of the phonograph when it comes up to him for murder.
* Perry casts a ball of exploding lightning (eldritch blast + radiant consumption) and strikes the angel in the back; Sinola uses the chains wrapped around it to pull herself into the air as it flies, cutting off a wing with her cavalier sword; it lands in front of Luc, who thrusts his machete into its skull and kills it. Epic. Luis is still in his cage.
* Perry learns the term nephilim and aasimar and sinola tells him to read a book
	+ Go to the national academy for religious studies/history
	+ She says perisan god is most likely (greco-roman god)
* Sinola doesn't really hold to her values,
* Bracers of Small Arms: While wearing these bracers, you have proficiency with the revolver and pistol, and you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls on ranged attacks made with such weapons.
* Vial of Common Enchanted Ink: This set of inks can be used to make a single tattoo, which consumes the inks. When a creature is tattooed with enchanted inks, choose one spell. The spell’s level cannot exceed the level determined by the rarity of the enchanted inks. The tattooed creature can cast this spell, using the tattoo as a spellcasting focus. Constitution is the spellcasting ability for this spell. After casting the spell with the tattoo, the creature cannot cast the spell in this way again until it finishes a long rest.
* Salamander Salve: This potion is bright red and smells of peppers and spices. A vial of salamander sauce typically has two doses. When you consume this potion, you choose how many doses to consume. If you consume one dose, you gain resistance to cold damage for 8 hours. If you consume two doses, you gain immunity to cold damage and vulnerability to fire damage for 8 hours. For each dose you consume beyond the first two, you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 14) or gain a level of exhaustion.
* And a LITTLE RED NOTEBOOK
* Sinola mentions how the angel gang has a sorcerer farm and likes to make tieflings and aasimar into drugs, yknow, as you do
* Luis shatters the cave wall to bury the baby bird thing alive, which conveniently creates a ramp we can use to get out.
* We are on the roof of a ruined theater building, across from the national theater. It's overcast, noon on Monday the 29th of June.

* It is Monday, June 30th, close to noon.
* There are not ravens to be seen, but that may be because of the overcast sky and oncoming storm.
* There's a fancy, sleek black car with an eagle design on the front by Luis' job.
	+ "Big Cheese, the best saxophonist on this side of the abdoment." - Tony
* Perry's library adventure(s)
	+ Encyclopedia of Perisan gods: the bird and lightning energy aligns with the aspects of Azeus (planet named after him), known as Azulos in old remnian, god of thunder/lightning rep. by an eagle/falcon, made of lightning but humanesque. Noted for fucking mortals a lot of the time
		- His descendants have situational powers: super strong, good with animals, super sexy appearance
	+ Late 20s woman, auburn hair, beige skin, brown eyes, librarian glasses with pearl danglies.
		- Interplay of the faiths in the mesosomethingdelia area, faiths of the pentarchy and the religions spawned from belief in the five-times king.
	+ Perisan demigods may have a fictional relationship to the gods, which might be fake gods. Nephilim had a bunch of wacko powers might be fake, signs of important divine-heritage people. Pentarchic nephilims are very classically aasimar (like sinoooola)
	+ Browsing through other things, other religions can also have wings and halos but they are not consistent/prevalent
	+ Two groups of aasimar: True Nephilim (actual descendants of deities, through relations or augmentation, royal bloodlines, have the blood in their bodies) and Aasimar/Non-Ancestral N (granted this power and their children might inherent it, it's not genetic, less likely to be inherited, given for a specific reason and is more rare, given to some clerics and paladins have this goin' on)
	+ There are other aasimar that reflect the three headed beast: corrupted, have wings, halos that are stone or glass. Historical accounts of more of these after the occupation. A lineage changes, bright colors turning dark. Evil bad bad. Sign of people learning about their TRUE NATURE and it's also racist "illusion has been revealed". These aasimar are more in Mave, to do with colonization baggage.
		- After colonization, native aasimar started showing signs of the trio. The colonists said these aasimar were using illusion magic before, and the Pentarchy has cast away the spell, and that is why the dark aasimar started showing up. Some aasimar started changing over time, but most of the time they were becoming more pentarchic with reflections of their previous form.
		- In recent times: the King's Army was a group that brought a lot of clerics/paladins together for the Coronistas during the war. They proceeded from the Crown League which was devoted to finding and enhancing Aasimar. Ancient organization, kind of paramilitary and scientific. The King's Army decided to start MAKIN' aasimar by turning children into 'em. They conduct this in the "Chain Palace" but no one knows tf that is.
		- Animalistic aasimar tend to not be pentarchic, trimalum are more draconic/owly/chains and shit/unnatural, natural aspects are FANTASY NOT EUROPE/EAST ASIA and obsidian/jaguar stuff is kind of primero but others have those aspects as colonization occurred
		- Aasimar are not treated well by the colonists
* Luc helps his neighbor Estrella to find her dog… LENNY
* Luis' Portent
	+ He's backstage, in a theater, within the wings. It's abandoned. There's a great view of the thrust stage with Coco performing, singing a jazz ballad to a crowd. She stops at the end of the song, they clap. She bows and gestures for Luis to come on stage.
	+ Luis comes out and he's like "I'm dreaming so I can't have anxiety about this"
	+ Perry's out in the audience, the only clear face, but there's no Luc :(
	+ Luis pulls out his saxophone to play Careless Whispers by Big Cheese
	+ Coco appears in front of him again. Luc is now in the crowd. He and Perry? look at each other and then look up.
	+ There's Isabel, in an owl version of her monstrous form with outstretched spindly arms coming for Coraline. The shape changes from Coraline to a small girl with russet brown skin, brown hair, and a nightgown. The figure switches between these two figures. Isabel grows a beak and extended neck and wings, coming to strike the small girl/Coraline.
	+ Luis runs forward to push her/her out of the way. In liquid motion, Isabel descends on Luis and pierces his chest with claws. Luc is watching in the sidelines bleeding black blood from his eyes, Perry in his angewl fowm and also wearing a white, carved owl mask D:
	+ There's a woman that mirrors Perry, with bright black wings and lightning rippling out of the wings and an obsidian halo, jaguarlike claws. She looks tired. This is The Woman. He Has Seen Before. She looks tired and gaunt, short, ragged brown curly hair, hazel eyes fluctuating bright red, wearing a military uniform coated in arcane runes. Light emanates from her, and the dream ends.
* Perry's Night
	+ Isabel shows up, looking more tired than before, carrying a bag like she has to have it with her now. Increase melancholy, neurotypical divergencies. She don't know what's gonna happen basically
	+ GOD JUICE MADE ME GAY ?
	+ Isabel says, sometime before Friday, must apprehend Coraline Poe and prevent her from playing at the concert.
	+ The gramophone guys are creations of Hers, an Old Being. They do not generate their own sound/power, but they can siphon and project Her power. Let's just call her the Raven Queen.
	+ She decomposes on the carpet  :(
* "Hello these are my sons, cowboy and dumbass"
* Luis sets up a lunch date at 1 pm at the Horizon with Coraline Poe
* Weekend News
	+ The Queen didn't go to SUNDAY MASS even though it's private. She went to a noble's house, friend of hers, but who was it?? Is that true??? She's unfit to rule because she keeps leaving for no reason
	+ Suicide rate has gone down
* Luc's Disease when I was paying attention
	+ This is a virus; it is an organic machine. It is built to hi-jack the human body. To stop the spread, he must stop something designed to hi-jack. "To fight a tank, you need a second, better tank. Or break up the tank." Dr. DeSoto usually makes bigger tanks. But Luc's virus is fact-acting.
	+ To halt the progress, or reverse it, he will need to deconstruct it. She demonstrates viral theory.
* Monterrey got us about 7 other people to work with, a few of them are newbloods. Some are gruffled.
* Perry slaps Luc after he gives him a "So You're Questioning Your Sexuality" pamphlet. Luis uses magic to try and diffuse the situation, igniting Luc and causing the three of them to scuffle.
	+ Luis leaves the FUCKING BUILDING and fucks up a trash can
* "I used to run around with crime children" - Luis
* After the kerfuffle is ended and we avoid being arrested by not pressing charges, we come to the third floor and there's only four people to help.
	+ If we fail to produce good results, we will be fired. After this, we will be disbanded and given a new group.
* Hellmouth guards the only entrance to the Crystal Chapel. Hellmouth, ravine, Chapel. We should acquire some information on how the Sword will be vulnerable, or who they are.
* Young nervous boy with a shotgun, a guy with muttonchop-mustache combo, completely bald guy with two swords, person with long hair, pointy ears, and a hook hand.
* We tell each other we care about each other, Perry almost cries, Luc and Luis are especially gay, it's all good
* We make it to the top of the entrance to the Crystal Chapel and descend, possibly… for the last time.

* It's Tuesday night on July 1st, July 2nd coming soon to a theater near you
* We descend the sewers, which do not smell great. D'Monty is just goin', no map. Luc notes that he is not going the wrong direction but is not sure about that fact. Then he goes the wrong way and listens when Luc tells him such
* Perry slips and both of the Lu Crew go to catch him and Luis wins.
* There is sudden silence ahead and half the group goes forth to check it out. Luc ganders that the creature head is medium sized, humanoid shaped (perhaps dudelike) and there are multiple. At minimum, five dudes.
* "Mind sparkles" - D'Monty
* Fantasy Scotland = Pickland and Muttonchops is our favorite meatshield. He slits a NO agent's throat just a few feet from two others and doesn't get caught
* Bald guy gets pistol'd :(
	+ Badge says his name was Rodriguez
* "Die, racist scum!" - perhaps Muttonchops' last words
* "That's for bald guy!" - Luc, shooting one of the NO
* Temporarily, Perry's owl is named Roddy
* Ahead of the fight area, there is a crime scene. No bodies, blood around. Crates have unused needles within them, pouring out with sludge. Roddy is eating crickets. Luc notices a strange thing in the corner looks like a digested dude, similar to an owl pellet. Their corpses look coughed out.
* Roddy spooks Shotgun kid, who fires his gun. We hear distant chittering and a voice somewhere else.
* The leader of the hexagonal room is stressed out. Lt. Mathers is a wizard? Warlock? Cleric?? His leader is dealing with gangs and the Sword up his ass.
* Lt. Mathers vs Perry WIZARD DUEL
* After a bunch of NO come out, D'Monty realizes that we are, in fact, at the Hellmouth.
* Muttonchops falls into the darkness, shot in the face. :(
* We will feel the wrath of Miggs, evidently. Pirate sure does, getting decapitated.
* They called Luc a "hellbeast"
* As most of the NO are killed, the fight stops. There's the sound of music: I Only Have Eyes For You. Nearby, infrastructure collapses and we hear galloping hooves and static and washing machines. There's a cacophony of sounds. Perry and Luc feel/hear a massacre outside as they barricade in the office. But they do not hear/feel fighting. Something sniffs the door, but moves beyond. We are like that for eight hours. Luis and D'Monty see the Mocking Hounds and Echoes clawing at people while the song plays on for hours. Then, they see **her.** The bricks around her decompose. She's eight feet tall, floating, clothed in a beautiful black gown. Her feet are avian, retrograde, clawed; her hands are clawed. Her skin is copper toned, corrupted by black tendrils and feathers. She has two large black wings, writhing like they are made of creatures - beaks and echoes emerge from them. Echoes sink into the heads of NO, changing their white masks to black, becoming an army. The most disturbing is her head: disconnected from the body, a raven's head, bright red and dripping blood. She is an archon: The Raven Queen. And then she is gone.

* It's been eight hours and the sounds of screaming have stopped. Perry fails to comfort shotgun boy, who is actually named Ferguson.
* There's a rotting hole in the middle of the wall, like some substance was spat on it
* Perry tried to hug Luis and got dissonant whispered :'(
* Luis doesn't tell us, but D'Monty tells us about the MH, Echoes, the replacing of Nocturne Order men as thralls, Sandalphons.
* Perry goes through an elite dining area/planning room that has a map of Hellmouth and a ravine colored in with red pencil, and the Chapel. All roads lead to Chapel. Next is a storage room with nice provisions; a spacious cave and a courtyard with a fort wall
* Perry finds a car that was being retrofitted to be ichor boosted. Immediately he's onto it. There was a nocturne order guy in there and he aimed a gun at his head
	+ He can't leave the NO he signed a blood oath :'''(
	+ The NO worship owl satan? Owl man thing? And the sword can just obliterate people
	+ He was once a street racer and slowly joined the order
	+ Blood oath: blood color it isnt supposed to be, something inside body, always having the feeling of being watched
* Perry accidentally tricks the guy into dropping his gun
* Luc finds a statue to a golden owl holding a scroll, lustrous wings, drapery, etc
	+ MAGVS (Magus)
	+ Bleached bones and candles as an offering
* We fail to convince Ferguson to leave the mission and save his own life
* As we go forward, we feel that it is getting hotter and the cave walls are changing from limestone, to sandstone, to bedrock. It seems no longer carved by water and is smooth.
* And then there's hell. It's just hell. Lots of NO, turned NO, and two sandalphons. Kill me now actually
* After a long, heated debate, Luc and Perry are forced to drive those FUCKING FOOLS to the Chapel
* Schrodinger's cursed guitar
* Perry reads the gay pamphlet. It's so supportive about same-sex attraction, there's a community, it's all your decision, there's cartoons of dudes holding hands. You're not the only one, find a local support group. The final page leaves you on "WE KNOW THIS CAN BE SCARY BUT YOU SHOULD BE TRUTHFUL ABOUT WHO YOU ARE THAN TO LIE AND GET CAUGHT IN YOUR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS" and some safety tips.
* In the lava is a large black wing, some burning corpses, and the submerged truck of the other guy near a detonated bridge.
* Perry and Ferguson fall at the same time on the bridge; Luc catches Perry and Monterrey catches Ferguson. Luc had to make a decision and picked Perry unfortunately
* There's dead NO littered around, until we arrive at a clearing in the crystal cavern. It's the size of three or four football fields, a baroque cathedral carved out of the crystal and imported stone glimmering in the center. A pile of bodies lie at the door, as if they were trying to run in and were smote in the attempt. The door is ajar by a bit.
	+ Luc sees, inside, another Magus statue with tons of candles and gold string tied around it's arms. A NO mask is on the creature. It is caste in melted down iron from shields, swords, and armor. Crucified on the altar is a sandalphon. Semi-ethereal swords have pierced it to the wings. This one is not as emaciated as the one we've seen before, has some skin, and wears clothing. It is not quite transformed fully into a sandalphon, still human in some aspects.
	+ What kind of Castlevania shit is this
	+ Two corrupted NO agents are slumped on the ground.
* Luis says some shit like he's not going to share information on a highly dangerous mission
* Luc climbs the statue and leaps into an office. There's a huge desk with eagle ornaments, picture frames, and a thronelike chair. Two lounge chairs and bookshelves.
	+ There's an iron safe with another zodiac lock.
	+ Pictures on the desk: woman in a sundress somewhere in the mountains. Another is a woman in a military uniform unrecognizable to me. But Luis knows her as "the one with the shoulder on the kid"
	+ Uniform lady: 1295 PR date
	+ Sundress lady: Esmerelda Ruiz Estrada in front of the Vasquez estate. She has the same piercing blue eyes as Cristian.
	+ Luc finds: a book that seems important. Called "enhancing memory retention" with a bookmark card in it and written on it is: "YVVOQLPVOYOWSYG"
	+ April 4th, 1295 is the date that Luis tries. Daniel refers to this as "the date". The safe opens. Diary, dynamite, gp.
* "I *wanna* lie to you" - Luis to Perry. It's an important date to him and he assumed it was related.
* The Diary: emotional states of the author and their relationships, "She's at it again, fiend of a woman, world fooled, stupid mommmm" most recent entry the author states "three wolfesbane detectives came to question about the night, I need find a use for this bLOODGLASS, bring with for safety, storing it with the rest of the equipment" and a picture of an old plantation style house that Luis IMMEDIATELY recognizes
* Weirdly structured room: symmetrical except for the door. There's a bookshelf where another door would be. Luc investigates it and cannot find any secret door switch. He finds a book that seems important with a photo?? Of the tylish lakeside Patio District, inscribed with a code: O-1 24:28+/-8, N-11 4:8+/-6 \_-20 22:2+/-16

**Mother's/the**
**true/and**
**name**

* The silver eagles have names and different colored eyes: Beaufort has sapphire eyes, Caesar has emerald eyes, and Bacon Jr. has ruby eyes.
* Luis says when he was a lot younger… he recognized the woman in the military uniform. She and Cristian are definitely related mother-child or something like that.
	+ He "saw them". In Sacrecore (new orleans). In conjunction with the NO. They're both part of the NO.
	+ Perry has a eureka moment looking at the photo of the Vasquez estate and the woman in front of it, doesn't look like she's visiting, she lives there. Like Cristian Vasquez. Luc remembers that true name refers to your last name, typically your dad's last name.
		- Al realizes that Esmerelda means Emerald
		- Ruiz means Ruby, also father's name
* Pulling Bacon Jr. opens the bookshelves. When we walk through, runs above the doorway activate, but nothing happens. Hmm. .
* Wooden shelves, empty scattered manila folders, padlocked iron chests, recessed doorframe with a red smear. There's a large blade, a dagger, cut and chipped obsidian about 4-5 feet long. There's an undertone of bright red underneath the obsidian.
	+ Luc investigates the Bloodglass, finding it to be a big fucking greatsword needing two hands, not of human make (forged obsidian somehow). There is a hefty amount of ritual power in the blade. Somehow it absorbed the arcane energy produced during a ritual (the most magic that someone can produce). He remembers a picture of this in the San Marcos apartments; what they heisted from the vampiric creatures. This was the weapon they were after.
	+ Perry found a dossier on the assassination of Coraline Poe. A contingent of their best men climbing the Sun Pyramid at the peak of "I Only Have Eyes for You" and shoot her, or if that fails, moles planted in her entourage will do it from backstage.
	+ Luis found a letter that namedrops Cristian. Signed, picture of an eye. "Sword, These “benefactors” you told me about, they seem suspicious. I know they promised you information on your stepmother, and I do not intend to impede your quest for vengeance, but I must ask you to be careful. Please Cristián, I care for you, our goals are righteous but they are always in jeopardy of being found by those allied with the darkness. Be safe, my sweet. -Eye"
	+ Luc has the picture of the Esmerelda, Luis has the journal, Perry has
* The blood has residual magic. Perry opens it with his blood. Slowly
* Luis uses a portent and sees one future where the hallway collapses on a mocking hound. What actually happens is the hallway starts collapsing.
* Luis collapsed it on us and everything goes fucking dark gogsoid fsdlkfjfasjlsfdjlfa ja g sakszghdghhjdgrlasrkatrh lkatrljkerkjs thksddjoi
	+ "THE SESSION ENDS HERE" SHUT THE FUCK UP JUNE
* Luc wakes up first, in a dark and warm place. Luis wakes up and his ribs are inverted in a way they aren't supposed to be and black and blue all over. Broken ribs. Needs 3rd level magical healing or 10 days rest. Perry does not wake up, but there is a rock jabbed right above his heart, deep. His head is bleeding profusely and his prosthetic leg is crush like a tin can.
* Luc fucking BREAKS his arm to inject a health tonic into Perry.
* Perry has no memory of the past five minutes. Lesser restoration or 1d4 days to not have short term memory problems. Perry has a huge scar on his chest.
* Monterrey's jade eye glows as he heavy lifts the rock up in the air. Once the boys get out, he looks to them, and the rock falls over him, splitting in half. Perry tries to find his mind, but finds nothing. He's dead.
* We walk what feels like miles. It takes gruesome, painful hours. And then, there's a ladder. Inelegantly, we climb out of a hatch and see a sunset. We look out over the city and see we are half a mile from where we entered. Cars begin rolling up to where we currently are and Wolfesbane come to take us in.
* They attempt to take Perry, but none of them are willing to separate.
* A figure walks out, in a three piece pinstripe suit, copper skin, brown eyes, short cropped and combed hair. Lt. Cameron Ordonez (?), CEO of Wolfesbane. They are kind and try to convince us to separate for medical attention.
* We get to keep the Bloodglass. Luis does not allow them the picture from the journal.
* The clock chimes midnight on Thursday (Wednesday night). In an office, Lt. Ordonez walks in. The bad news, a beefy guy who's balding, greying, with dark tan skin, and has spectacles. Prominent nose. He has a nice beard and a fancy suit with a pocket watch. He is the Secretary of Congress. He is sad his son has been implicated. He calls Cristian sick, not evil. He says regular goons would shoot him, so he is offering us a deal: medical expenses to have us up by Friday to kidnap his son. We would be paid 20 gp, each.
* Our treatment is to be overseen by Dr. Aurora DeSoto.
* As Luis is calling Sinola, David shows up. He pulls out a newspaper about our attack on the Sandalphon. "I'll pay you ten gold for whatever you have on Sinola Derud."

* It's Thursday, in the early, early AMs.
* Remember that David de Anxida, Prince and Military head of the country, demanded information about our friend Sinola.
	+ David says Sinola at 21 years old is too young for Luis, who is 25.
	+ "She's a threat to the security of the crown"
	+ Luis tells him that she's a journalist, that they met on a chance encounter, that he hardly knows her and that they went into the caves to fight a guy
	+ Man's offering cash
* Luis calls Tony to apologize for being late, Tony judges him hardcore and accuses him of being zoodled
	+ This is so fucking painful to hear. Secondhand embarrassment
* Luis calls Sinola. She's deadly fucking serious and then becomes pleasant when Luis says who's on the phone
	+ "There's a lot of ways to break a law" "Yeah, I know, I'm familiar"
	+ Luis please explain things better,,,, "BAD THINGS" what KIND OF BAD THINGS
* Perry can see that Luc is pretty fucked up and has a triangular splotch on his neck
* As we go to the lobby, we see five armed Crownsguard. Two have rifles, the receptionist is gone
* The guard we go with is named Derek kill me
* Luis puts a tomato on Perry's car floor
* Activated ichor time: Luc dumps it on the coffee table
	+ Perry shoots up, and feels the normal pleasurable feeling, but it feels less euphoric and just isn't enough and Perry is still craving tHe DrUgs
	+ Luc's doses are 300% smaller
	+ Luc does not feel immediately better other than placebo mental relaxation
* Luc's bandana has "sentimental value"
* Waiting for us: Tall, slender woman wearing a cap similar to a train conductor hat and a long coat. She's got a wheelchair for Perry
* She DOES take us to a real hospital, emergency wing
	+ "Keep this guy away from peepers"
	+ She and a nurse exchange aggressively. She gets back in with an attitude
	+ DeSoto couldn't reserve a room
	+ We're going to the Vasquez estate, NOT a real hospital :)
	+ Vasquez estate is very pretty of course, being a rich person home
* Perry sends Monty to find Isabel
* We are given separate rooms
* Perry is 11 years old and walking with his mother. It's hot outside, but he doesn't mind. Something she says is muffled, like she is under the water. He can see his father on the porch with another woman. She's pregnant. Perry's mother is wearing her fresh recruit jacket. She cries into her hand, like static, and it rises. She drops Perry's hand. The sun seems to be pushing him down and shadowed figures surround him, and (people I know who they are lol). They watch, they're maybe pushing him, maybe grabbing him and he goes down into the dirt: they become skeletons in the god's grave. He's forced into the earth but still feels the sun's rays. He feels claustrophobic from the weight of the planet. His wings sprout and the hands stop, the pain stops—then human hands tear at him, increasing the pain tenfold. They want bits of him. The men slice down into his chest and drink the blood from his chest. Luc, Luis, Diamonds are watching Perry is in the suffering zone and Luc is happy about it. Mouths open and split down the middle and their proboscises latch onto him and drain him from all his blood. His mother is still weeping static.
* Vasquez paintings: they have been a rich family since before the war. They've been secretary of congress and other politicians. NEPOTISMMM
* Dr. DeSoto is surprised to see Luc is her patient.
	+ She calls Cristian a fuckface. His mother is beside herself
	+ DeSoto is not surprised and says most people probably are not
	+ Easy treatment plan: bloodwork, x-rays to see the damage, temp, heartrate, blood pressure. The use.
	+ The bloodwork is to know blood type, activated ichor in the past 24 hours, in the event of surgery
	+ Luc notices a dog just staring at him. Is big dog
	+ When she needles him, he has to roll as WIS save. He is extremely freaked out and yanks out the needle. She takes so much blood from our boy LT
	+ She cannot detect a heartbeat, Luc is binding maybe that's it?? No, he just has a very slow heartrate. She recommends a cardiologist
* Luis runs into Guadalupe, in bedhead and a nightgown. She's on crutches and has only one leg. Her dog is her service dog? It also stares at Luis. It WILL get pets from him.
	+ Same sort of doctory things occur.
	+ Sorry DeSoto that 2/3 of the boys are transed gender
	+ The dysphoria is real. Doctors are the worst
	+ When Luis goes to the restroom, the dog has found him and is staring then comes over to play and be sweet. It follows him, then disappears when he goes around a corner
* Perry doctor visit
	+ DeSoto refers to a wheelchair as an "apparatus"
	+ He does not handle the cleaning of the wound well
	+ There was a sliver of rock still in his chest, most of the damage was to arteries and veins. Perry needs a transfusion, but his skin is healing fine
	+ Perry also sees the little dog
	+ Perry thinks that getting activated ichor blood transfusion is going to be a good idea
* Somehow, despite us all seeing the same doctor, finish our appointments at the same time
* Luis feels like he's being watched, the other two don't feel anything (it must be the dog) and he cannot feel the dog
* DeSoto comes to us with dark red splotches on her shoulder and arms. Pulls out three manilla folders. We're all fine with our medical history bared to each other
	+ Luis: Building a cast around his ribs, full chest cast. A few ichor stim gels to regrow bone tissue, minor surgery to align bones and check for bone fragments. (He will have two levels of exhaustion). They might insert a metal plate under the skin to protect his ribs. Underarmor. Gonna take 12-16 weeks to heal from this, but he can resist attacks better. But his bones may fuse permanently to it if he takes the stim gels as well. (Plus 2 AC with vulnerability to force and bludgeoning damage)
	+ He goes for the metal ribs
	+ Luc: His arm just needs a cast, but he cannot use it for a month. Fracture on the radius x2 and ulna. Mobility within a month. Or, they could put metal pins into his arm, but it restricts muscle grasping, thus he will have trouble holding objects (CON save when you take >15 damage from an attack).
	+ He goes for the cast
	+ Perry: The hole in his chest is not really fixable other than stim gel. Likely he will have a gnarly scar and feel sick guaranteed. Good news is Juan says they can pay for a new limb. Can be like the old one or CUT OFF MORE OF YOUR LEG.
	+ He does not go for this
* There's also a psychiatrist that will check our mental health. GROUP THERAPYYYyyyyyyy
	+ There is no opt out
	+ She calls Luis a clown. He jokes about clowns. She gets serious about joking about clowns
* Luis comes back to her, and she is talking to Secretary Vasquez. He berates Luis for sneaking up on people??? Luis asks for top surgery and she's really confused and Luis has to say he's trans in an indirect way. DeSoto can't do it now but can do it later for cash dollars (50 G/5 P)
* She asks if Lonetree often exhibits fever or any other ~~WeIRD~~ conditions. She catches him lying. She says his information IS Luis' business???
	+ If Luc is exhibiting signs of deadly disease, we should want to save him and acquire the cure
* Luc thinks this will be really good or really baaadd
	+ "Buddy I'm here for you" - Luis
	+ "Perry, are you cool?" "Like… I know… what's in with the public?" "I'm sure he's cool."
* Luc and DeSoto meeting. Bronze statue of a heart/knife/snake in the room of this office (not her office). She's dressed down. WE'RE DOING THIS IN FRONT OF EVERYONE AND GOD
	+ *Big bold circled letters: hemovirus lamia drac? count: 163 pts/mL. vewwy high*
	+ *She won't tell the Vasquezes or leak it to medical authorities, but she has a question*
	+ *Who did you study under? I need to know how much you know and who taught you. Be well versed in what Luc knows before building more*
	+ *Dr. Isabel Montemayor. "That makes a lot of sense. Were you part of her project?" Unwillingly and unknowingly.*
	+ *Good news is people have gotten this and recovered. What cure works for Luc? It works on an individual basis and requires determination for the person to survive the transformation, which is brutal. The cure is extreme.*
	+ *She takes out a red tonic, a "stabilizer". The virus will never leave his body, but the virus can be manipulated to pretend it is dead. She cannot give it to him yet, because he is not at the right stage. Likely at stage IV — not of transformation, but of being stable. There are 20  stages. likE cHaRAcTer Levels*
	+ *Body will still know the virus is in there and will act like it and the virus will not be able to act, but Luc will feel a worse version of puberty,, Experiencing mood swings, gum bleeding, needing glasses, hair falling out prematurely, small and livable symptoms.*
	+ *She cuts her arm, her blood is JET BLACK, and it heals instantly. She wipes it away and snaps her fingers to light it on fire. Damn*
	+ *Tuesdays at the usual time, they will work on a cure for his Syndrome. She will keep all secrets in confidence. Mutual blackmail. MAD.*
* Luc checks Luis' room, and finds no one in there. There's evidence of used equipment and surgery having happened. It's the same in the Perry room. The nurse threw away the note Luis said to give to Luc or Perry.
* Luc sees the dog standing in the elevator. Staring. He does not greet Luc with joy but like a disappointed father. Regular dog eyes. Luc goes into the elevator, and when he's near it (ever since the EVENT Luc has felt numbness, coldness) he feels his nerves and such spark with life. He feels for the first time that he is living in his skin. Dog cures depression. Luc is kinda creeped out though
* Luc goes to check the rooms for the boys and sees that it is TEN PM when this started at ONE THIRTY. But they ARE in their rooms sleepin'. He only feels like he spent 45 minutes tops in the basement, but it is 10:00 pm. The dog is gone.
	+ Luc follows the dog stealthily. It sharply turns down some stairs. Luc feels pressure, like being underwater, as they go down the stairs.
	+ There's a large door (pine door with crude iron ring latches. Simple and rustic) that does not the feeling of light nausea magic gives despite feeling it is a little arcaney? With a memory check: this is familiar. It's like every atom in his body is vibrating at a low level, tingling. It's like when She showed you her magic for the first time. The wood also is familiar, like a door he has not walked through yet.
	+ Daylight shines through when he opens it slightly. Peering through, he sees a beautiful mountain landscape. There's a little cabin house at the end of a gravel path. There is two or three cattle. It feels familiar. This is the world's worst case of déjà vu: he doesn't know when or how he has seen this house but he HAS SEEN IT AND SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE.
	+ He enters the door, which is in a tree, like in the nightmare before christmas
	+ There's a sensation of rumbling behind him; a car, never seen before, but it is familiar. It looks like a wood panel SUV for the family.
	+ A woman in her 30s, maybe forties and two young children get out. Children are the spitting image of her. The kids run and yell something, but it sounds underwater, or under the earth. They walk through Luc.
	+ Luc goes in after them into this nice cabin. But there's oxygen tanks in the corner. Cards on the table that say Get Well Soon. There's a stuffed bear with a heart on it in the kitchen. The kids dash through to a bedroom, yelling something muffled happily. Walking, he sees the children and a woman standing over a bed, in an older dress. Immediately she is recognizable to Luc. She's leaning over older Luc WHO IS STILL WEARING HIS FUCKING HAT IN BED and machinery is hooked up to him all over the room. Life support
	+ She says something, and hears only the word dad (30s looking woman). "I sure hope…" - Old Luc. Luc feels like he is being watched. He looks out the window and sees the dog in the distance. STARING. He then feels the most dead he has ever felt. He looks back, time has passed, only the two women are there, lying on their knees holding Old Luc's hand as he fucking dies
	+ Everything melts, like when a screen blurs, and he feels real again but cold and dead because Luc has stabbed himself.
	+ Luc is in a place of stone, old, red, humid, no light. He has stabbed himself with the bloodglass. It glows bright red from within, it having a heart inside of it. Luc feels like he is giving it something; completing a ritual. He looks up, no one is there on a huge dais in an endless chasm of red pulsing things. There's a wall in the distance made of beating flesh. On the opposite end of the dais is the dog. He hears his own voice, old, say: you could have had a good death, but I suppose this one will do.
* He wakes up in the office.
* PEWWY: DeSoto is across from Perry's bed. He has recovered surprisingly well.
	+ Are you an addict Pewwy?
	+ Your body produces a good amount of activated ichor. Good time to quit.
	+ For someone who injects, your body has a pretty natural acceptance of it.
	+ Perry appears to have ingested a level of potency unfound in natural sources. The trace appears to be in all three of us. Was it during a mission?
	+ Perry claims unconsciousness could be the cause of this source
* Luis: Did you recently inject activated ichor? He says no. It affected a lot of his friends.
	+ Chance encounter that could have activated your blood somehow? Luis freezes.
	+ "I walked into the wrong room a couple times."
	+ Contact with the ethereal or energy planes.
	+ When Luis was younger, he walked in on an arcane ritual, not great for his health.
	+ Any ingestion of something that would have caused a spike?
	+ She can tell he is lying. Luis admits that he took something Archon's Blood. The actual blood of an archon. Luis has extremely radiated vocal chords and new growth within specialized tissue of them.
* Luc was looking in his folder when he drifted off. He comes out of the office when Luis and Perry are already done. They are sleeping like in his dream. The dog seems normal. The space the stairwell was is just a wall.
* Perry is NOT having a nightmare. He has a dream, maybe 11 years old with his ma. Nothing horrible happens, she does not cry but stands stalwart and brave and unfurls wings from her back (electric) and her face loses definition, all of her blurring, and Perry feels a wave of strength, confidence, and safety. He also unfurls his wings. He has a good dream that makes him feel refreshed.
* Luc meets Isabel and Monty in Perry's room as he sleeps. She is gashed, and she has dropped pretense of civility. She is unhinged. She calls him by his deadname :(.
	+ "This place is tainted with dreams"
	+ She was so worried to hear about our accident :'(
	+ She goes and drags her nail across Perry's body and Luc steps forward.
	+ "Defensive of your little pet?" "This thing on the bed… friend? Coworker?" "People like us keep people as pets… they are cherished members of our family. But they will always be weaker. Less knowledgeable. Only living in a world a couple rooms large. We know the truth and the panes of reality pushed upon us. This little bird is nothing more than in your cage. You can pick him up, or leave him, but he will be in that cage no matter what."
	+ "Don't mistake my words for respect, I am speaking in literal terms. Bitch."
	+ "He will always have the comfort of flesh, of health. People like us don't. That is what I'm speaking of." "You know very well the sickness I speak of"
	+ She touches perry AGAIN. She came to tell him he failed his mission, for the time being. But there are 12-14 hours left on the timer. But there has been a security raise around Coraline Poe, so it would be difficult to take her.
	+ "I came to tell him about his lack of ability."
	+ Isabel approaches him, and she smells groddyyyy. She leans in, "Inform him and the other associate that our deal has been revoked. Tell them why."
	+ If we don't take matters into our own hands, she will.
	+ Perry has a few favors from her, by blood. He cashed one in. She will not kill Coraline Poe. The consequences are all Perry's.
	+ "For those so close to death this domain is not pleasant to stay in. I suppose you will learn why."
* Luis has a dream where he is on the bank of a lake. He's fishing in a boat. He reels in a cat on the line and releases it. A beautiful fishing dream. Then the mist on the lake goes from normal grey to bright red. In the middle of the lake, a sinkhole opens up. From inside, something flies up — it's a raven. He hits it with the hook and it lands on his canoe. They squawk at each other. It convinces him, somehow, to row into the sinkhole. The sinkhole moves up, plane shifting, and he is canoeing into a dark tunnel towards a red light. The upper edge of this tunnel is a writhing swarm of ravens; it parts. Luis is in a forest, of the mountains, with large pines and a sandy bank. A vista desert landscape beyond. A ruined adobe sits nearby, ravens perched upon it. Luis sees himself lounging on the rubble, but with jet black red-ringed eyes. He goes up and talks to himself. According to his red book, Luis is right where he should be — it's written in those hieroglyphs. "You're touched by the Ethereal? It's stuck in your throat?" Luis tries to lie to himself. It doesn't work.
	+ This isn't Luis? "Big me. Not you but am you. This is a form you like" what
	+ You wanna be faaamouuusss (famousss) be the one on the magazines
	+ Dream Luis' proposition to Luis: prime deal. Luis needs to make sure that he does not harm or halt Coraline Poe's performance. People love you, Luis! You're a charismatic kid. He wants you to be visible, just for a SMALL pledge of loyalty. Doing this would tie Luis to him. He's gone by so many names, and "shitty people call him the Raven Queen".
	+ He goes by Maurice now. Luis will become linked to Maurice. Totally not painful. He'll filter out the bad dreams and ominous ones that are useless.
	+ Join the Maurice/Raven Queen startup radio company. "In the realm of imagination?" "Yeah. Sure!"
	+ Maurice/RQ namedrops Isabel. This isn't going to destroy the world! RQ wants to save the world. We want the same thing.
	+ RQ apologizes for allowing Luis to see them.
	+ This link just requires some blood. Y'know, just some blood.
	+ "What a wonderful night we are having." They pull out a tiny figurine of a person wearing a mask of some kind. It looks old and perhaps anovan. Maurice puts it into Luis' veins.
	+ Documenting stuff is just turning into text version of recording. Im a scribe.
	+ Welcome to saving the woooorld. Are ya excited???? ? We're GoNA sAvE thE wOrlD
* We shall wake up on Friday

* Luc awakens in the hallway, someone having tried to make him a bed while he was sleeping. Around 9-10
* Luis wakes up, a slight pain on his neck and pressure on his chest. He opens his eyes and there is a raven staring right at him.
	+ The dream scar of previous is now more pronounced. The tendril one
	+ Luis hides it with a scarf
* Luc: Luis, you're a charismatic individual. I need advice. When you have bad news that you gotta tell somebody… how do you tell em in a way that’s not gonna make them upset. Or… mad… or like, letting them down easy-- no that sounds wrong…
	+ It's Perry. I think I'm gonna make Perry really upset.
	+ "Especially Perry" - Luis
	+ "You're a little more level-headed sometimes" fuck perry gang damn
	+ "I'm on shits row" - Luis
	+ Dr. Montemayor was saying nice things about Perry… "he ate it up. He ate it up." Last night she showed up and said not nice things about Perry.
	+ Luis implies Luc was in Perry's room to… sleep…
	+ "She's a horrible, horrible human being and she's not even that anymore" - Luc
	+ They plan to let him eat breakfast before they deliver the emotional bomb
	+ Luis is LOL SO RANDOM XD  !!!!11!!1
	+ They're bringing him breakfast in bed
* Secretary Vasquez knows you slept in the hallway Luc
* Guadalupe had to get the dog out of Perry's room. The dog gives Luc that weird feeling again.
* "You two have some weird connection" - Perry
* Luc drops the secrets about Isabel:
	+ Roughly accurate about controlling beastly people. Into mad science stuff
	+ Luc worked with her under false pretenses. She lied about the purpose of the research, but he discovered it through HaPpEnStAnCe
	+ Mention of the Bandera strategy?
	+ Well, Isabel was mainly researching this strategy, which was a myth for creating spec ops for military tasks regular humans cannot do. Special AI injections to create sorcerous powers in people, and tieflings, and aasimar.
	+ If she has a special interest in you it's not for good reasons
	+ Luc attacked her because she may as well have killed him when she saved his life
* Luis comes downstairs to the empty seats, the dog at the table, and Secretary Vasquez.
* In an elegant flapper dress, crimson red, gold and black crown is: Coraline Poe. She's gotta go fast
* Huesito does not leave
* There's a few ravens around
* Luc and Luis mention how the dog freaks them out, Perry informs Luc about the "meeting"
* Luc DOES mention to Perry the Isabel touching
* Luis and Perry question why Luc cannot go to a doctor anymore even though he has a terminal illness
	+ He loves doctors
	+ Perry asks about Luc's good doctor and she's probably dead oof
	+ Luis starts going on about his dad's big breakfasts? ? Every morning? Luis has a mom, dad, and himself. He does not explain the hangover cure
* Luc notices there's a weird time distortion
	+ "Isabel said something about this place being bad for people being close to death"
* The office Luc was in is Vasquez's office
	+ Map of the national park
	+ Crownsguard in tactical uniform are around
	+ Current strategy: We wait at a boat (there are minis for us: bird, tree, sword). We wait while the zeppelin broadcast and monitor the situation, gather reports from NO movement. They will likely
	+ Poker chip with the letter A, a zeppelin mini with a heart and NWS
	+ Vasquez calls Perry crazy. Someone helped Vasquez in battle?
		- Luis only backs Perry up after Luc steps in to defend him
	+ Perry mentions Coco, Vasquez mentions she used to be called the "Raven" and this may be a fanatic fan. This was a rude name. Vasquez thinks it’s a powerful caster who has gone crazy being stuck in the Undercity and had a connection to her
	+ The alpha team will take care of remaining agents if there are any.
	+ We are being given lead manacles, which will prevent him from casting. He will then be taken to an asylum.
* Perry feels sicker as time goes on in the truck……
* The day is hot. The sun is almost shining a spotlight on the city. Nothing happens while the opening band plays. Coraline comes out, says a speech, and begins the solo as we make landfall in the ruins :)
* They're on the Temple of the Wind Serpent, we will go in and go up. And boy is it fuckin windy. There's birds EVERYWHERE in the sky.
* Glistening fluid crashes into the soldiers and Luis, becoming blinded, as bullets are flying because there are Nocturne Order agents also everywhere
* Perry get's shot in the shoulder right off the bat. It goes all the way through his shoulder. Luis then has to push him while he burns his shoulder closed
* There are 300,000 attendees at minimum, a monolith of a stage, angellike figures perched on either side of the stage…, beautiful central golden circular stage. The de Soto mansion is a backdrop. Hundreds of lights. Biggest and greatest show we've ever seen -- in front of that is a cloaked figure in a silver, ragged cloak. He has a long rifle.
	+ After he drops the gun, Cristian turns around. He's in silver/steel armor, white silks, wreath of thorns and spikes on top of the white mask
* "ingrates" - Cristian
* Luis gets really angry and rings a bunch of bells through his radio.
* Cristian calls Luis a mongrel, calls him a "petty thief", they tell each other that they ruined everything. They know each other…
	+ "You ruined my whole life -- you and your little…" - Luis
* Luc shatters his facemask, his face bleeds like the night sky and his eyes change to reflect this. His hands twitch and turn 180 degrees; a second sword ruptures from his palm, long and made out of old stone. It seems like it grew from a tree. Off the blade, snowflakes swirl about.
* "You're gonna rue the day you stole from (magus)! You're going to rue the day you ruined my life!" - Cristian
* An owl darts toward Coraline and is attacked by ravens and goes down
* Perry heals Luis: his eyes click like a camera, his sclera turn jet black and his irises become bright gleaming red. The same happens on Cristian and he looks horrified, like he has seen The Devil. He does not fight at all as Luc cuffs him, and all his magical abilities fade. He collapses and cries like a little bitch. He was at 1 hp.
* The concert seems to have been fine. We escort him to the van (thrashing and screaming), the ravens lose interest and return to being like normal birds or fly off. We see David and Guadalupe. When she sees him, she almost loses it but manages to hold it together. She moves over to Cristian, in the van, and she promises him the help he needs. He calls her a whore and says she "betrayed him" and she slaps him. He calls her dirty and says he won't respect "people like her." She then accepts the situation at last. Also Huesito is here.
* Senor Vasquez gives us 20 gp each. And paper, which is an NDA. We "can" sign it. Election business.
* The ranger pops open three cold ones for the boys. Perry asks his name: Facundo.
* We elbow Luis about asking out Coco for real.
* Luis' window is crashed, there's a brick thrown into it with a note attached: "I'm onto you, 'Cavalier'". He throws it back out with a note "Can you tape it to the door next time?"
* We return to the concert as everything is being disassembled. (Those angels we saw are gone.)
* People came out all the way from the colonies to see the show. 380,000 people, a lot of money raised.
* Perry tells Luc a little about his mom: she disappeared, she was on the side of the Republicanos, and she told him the motto as one of the last things she said
* Perry feels a little bit better once getting back on the Vasquez property
* Perry dares Coraline to attempt to throw Luis into the pool. They both fall in. Oopsie. Luis dares Perry to steal Luis' hat. He lets it happen. Luc's bandana is from his mom sad face uwu. Coraline was once expected to sing but she was able to be self-expressive because people could trust her to do it. Sacre Coeur has music on every street. Luc is from near Post. Coraline asks if he's been to Archway, and he has. Her dad is from Archway. It's where Luc spent his years 1-10. Luc's first kiss? He worked on a ranch 6 years since 10, the ranchers had a daughter his age, they grew up together, she was mean to him 5/6 years, but then things turned around. She trusted him with her secrets, he did the same, and one night she took him to look at the harvest moon and gave him a kiss at 16 years old. WHO ARETHE CRIM E BOYS LUIS. In his hometown, he was a young scoundrel listening to his parents gossip and left the house, heard some drama, listened in to that HOT GOSS. He immediately wrote this down. Does it again. Collects any gossip he can find. Eventually kids found out and they all started a reconnaissance gang to collect and share information: The Rats and Mice. Perry went to school until ~11 and then entered the workforce. Coraline asks about the names of the R&M: Oscar (good kid), Lucas (parents were cops), Victor, Lina, some others. EVIDENTLY THIS REQUIRED A DECEPTION ROLL AND HE FAILED. Luc worked at a ranch because he had nowhere else to go and also needed money. When Coraline was young and on the streets, building her brand, and saw many kids, living in crooks. She saw a sketchy looking, peering constantly, girl whose name started with an F. She started a nasty rumor about Coraline. Luis is from SC and left because, when he wasn't doing crimes, he liked to listen to the radio from Santa Corazon and thought it was incredible that he could hear someone thousands of miles away. Perry comes out to everyone, and then comes out to Coraline again as an aasimar. He regrets it instantly. Perry dares Luc to YEEHAW as loud as he can. Coraline asks Luc his relationship status. He was set to get hitched with his gal, she got into trouble and had to move away to the city (THIS ONE), and they never wrapped things up and he has a reason to not go looking for her at this point because he's siiiicckkk and doesn't want to involve her with him until he's better.
* Luis invented the chicken dance to make Perry laugh and it worked
* Coraline stops Luis before he leaves to ask what their relationship was. They're both assuming this isn't a thing. She needs to know because she's making A Decision.
* Luc drives them away.
* Leaving the grounds, Perry feels like SHIIIT.
* Luc mentions in his meeting with de Soto that she did not react poorly. They're being mutually blackmailed and he has a shot of being better.
* Luis left his whoooole family. But he's not like his brother and he ain't a snitch.
* Luc felt guilty he didn't die
* Maurice is in Luis's apartment drinking coffee. He tells Luis good job saving the world! Maurice is leaving. Got business, saved the world, gotta go. Keep the lines fresh tho. Thank you sooo much. This is the first step of saving the world. Luis has the power to call anyone anytime?
	+ Magic postal service
	+ It's not real
* Luc is coming home. He doesn't see just Lenny; he sees a mangy mutt on his porch. He lets her in. The dog says: so you fucked up.
	+ "You had a chance to be the aaactual herroooo."
	+ "My beautiful life was taken from me because I wandered into the wrong cave, a witch saved me and gave me cool powers, woe is me"
	+ "You cant FIX what you have you DULLARD"
	+ "Become a deranged monster your flesh wishes, shoot yourself, or become something better than human. And you continuously believe there's a fourth option where you can walk away? I give you the one time when you can shine and you choose to ignore it. I don't have to tell you to play the hero roll you've already assigned yourself."
	+ "Not every villain is so blatant or so small."
	+ "It's Lucero"
	+ "I can die whenever, but only after I fix whatever's going on with me."
	+ "I'll see you whenever the sun fucking explodes then. You, Luc Lonetree, you'll die a beast or a half-man. That is an inevitable truth. But… siiigh… maybe that won't be the end of things. In some sick way, I'm sentimental… that's why I came here. Why I accepted things from you. Believe it or not, and I don't care what you do, but there was a bit of sentimentalism."
	+ She slides Luc a vial. "You don't have a choice as to whether or not you'll die infected or free of infection, but if you want to play the hero… even if you play in games larger or smaller than you, there may come a chance where you can prove it to yourself and everyone else. Take this if you ever need to prove you're a hero and die like one." but wuc you'vwe alweady pwoved youw a hewo
	+ It's a failsafe if Luc ever became too far gone or at the edge of death's door, that would progress the virus, which would force immediate drastic change into a complete non-human with the best death a mercy killing. But he could do the impossible.
	+ He still has use, maybe, for someone. He's a good tool. :/
	+ Luc asks her: do you really know what happened to his mother? She says no. But she knows she died and knows that she died doing something important. She hoped Perry would prove to be of her caliber; maybe it skips a generation. She WOULD tell him though. But it's so bad to be bluntly honest with things on the line. The bird proved too small for the job.
	+ Isabel says people don't want to be helped, not really. They'll criticize every issue and twist it. You can only save the world from the shadows. Don't go into the light. Perception is a curse.
	+ Good luck bub
* The bloodglass is glowing red under the floorboard. It has an internal structure of light, like a beating heart, and looks somewhat stronger. Looks like Perry and also how it did in Luc's vision. Luc observes it more closely and deduces that the glowing is from being activated again (ritual?). The obsidian is not like normal obsidian, extraterrestrial. Likely a reaction from the Coraline concert, or Isabel did something. To know how to attune to it, he would need to find someone who knows traditional magics (clerics, druids, maybe wizards, some warlock maybe, magic from strangeee dreeaaamsss).
* As we all go to sleep and drift into dreams (soft jazz, ranch and a mountain, a desert drive). And then each dream is pierced by a tremor; the dreams feel filled, as if they were never alone there. Every dreaming creature feels an eye open: bulbous and gazing.

## Book II: Ghost Story

* Chilly cold October, fall. Sunday night. Parties and bar shows in this side street in C. Antigua. We are before *The Celeste.* It used to be a home but is now converted into a bar. Same area as where the *Metro, Galaxy, etc.*
* They enter, for free, and we cut to…
* Luis, in July, after a 2 week mandatory leave walks into the Wolfesbane office. The receptionist we scared has been replaced. She has beige skin, freckles, one green eye and one blue eye (heterochromia), long blonde hair. She was the waitress at the De Soto manor from the first session.
* 42nd floor is nicely furnished and clean. We have our own office for the three of us :'). Our neighbors are a team of two Gonzalo/Frieda; Lorenzo, Montego, Manuel
* Luis brings his used journals, knick knacks, a snowglobe, a dart board. Perry brings his typewriter. Luc is utilitarian. Books, magnifying glass, and crates to make a bookshelf, and a potted cactus. Most of them were also from the dead pool, but some were from other agencies or RPD.
	+ Luis got them all business cards
	+ New girl in town: no experience with anything, seemingly came from nothing straight to junior detective. It's hot goss. Mid-September.
	+ It'S SINOLLAAAA
	+ She is a wall to Luis :(((
* Perry calls Daia and convinces her to visit in October. He offers up De Soto as a miracle worker. She mentions being sub-contracted at work…
* First Tuesday after the accident, Luc visits Dr. Aurora de Soto.
	+ Transparency relationship, so she says.
	+ Mr. Dr. is an epidemiologist, they did some work in grad school. His thesis was that hemovirus lamia had a strand unique to Anova and tried to find remnants from times past. These remnants were very alive, and somehow they both made it out the same. She switched her major to genetics and alchemy.
	+ She needs to know how embedded the virus is in his body. If it's in the central nervous system, they cannot treat him with slash and burn techniques.
	+ April 1289, Luc was infected.
	+ Over the three months, the treatment and information reveals that it is not great. It IS in his central nervous system. If he does do slash and burn, it will cause permanent spinal cord and brain damage (sensory bits will be fucked). Second option is to try and trick the virus into thinking it has fully progressed to stop progression and get more time to push it back.
* Occupied seats: Coraline Poe, Daia, Sinola
	+ Daia bags on Perry
	+ Sinola does not know why she got to skip the lower ranks
	+ The show begins, lights dimming…
* Mountain highways, surrounding conifer forests. Fall is beginning, some trees are turning early. Luc and Perry are on a motorcycle.
	+ Luc invites Perry over for "dinner", which is nopales tacos. He has put a photo of the boys, Coraline Poe (signed), Luc with other young cowboy men with a motorcycle, and a portrait of a middle aged woman who has curly hair with light brown skin and freckles and a red bandana, in and decorated a bit more.
	+ Perry offers Luc his blood to analyze. Luc offers him exchange, which Perry claims the favor of more food. Luc promises to protect it with the utmost caution and they agree that it can be stopped at any time.
* Next day, Luc is vomiting blood. No veggie for you. Someone knocks at the door.
	+ It's Luis! He has so many binders. He has port intake documents from the year Luc gave him, 88 and 89.
	+ In 1299, Luis finds the name: La Guna (?), Luna was at the Buenos Aires station and was escorted by a guard from the national asylum. This is news to Luc.
	+ The asylum is on its own island with a few neighborhoods around it. The hot craze is lobotomies and many people go in and never come out. They visit and the place is a fortress. They have to bribe to get in.
	+ She was unruly and not cooperative, had delusions of prophetic dreams and arcane powers. She was scheduled for a lobotomy, but escaped via druid powers probably.
	+ She did not have ichor in her blood and her dreams appeared to be just prophetic dreams, maybe because of repressed sexual urges. Thanks fantasy Freud.
	+ Voice in a twilight forest telling her of beasts needing to be killed; she attacked an inmate. The dreams said to hunt down individuals, claims she wanted to hunt down a woman named Montemayor, another woman called Aurora, and regular people she believed were dark spirits manifesting in the world. Her parents never checked in.
	+ The notes say every therapy session she would say she has dreamed. The voice progressed from a genderless, ageless voice into an old and ancient masculine voice (old man time). This voice talks to her and tells her how to do things like magic and gave her information on "the betrothed" and would ask "is he safe?" and the response was always "yes". The voice told her about the monster of the week which would be random people or places to go. The relationship goes from mysterious to friendship. She named it the Serpent later.
	+ Luis looks at her cell. The ferns and greens seem to be normal undergrowth, but their spores are purple-sunset colors rather than yellow-orange. What is odd is they seem old and will not grow any more.
	+ Luna was a loudmouth and couldn't keep her abilities a secret.
* Back at the house, Luc shows Luis the bloodglass and asks if Luis can take a look at it (calls his magic weird).
	+ Luis gleans the same things: it is extra terrestrial and whatever environment constructed it was not terrestrial, likely a gas planet. It is somehow holding ritual power inside of it, which is weird to "feel it again" as it resonates. To him, it feels like it vibrates slightly. The bloodglass is meant, constructed, to store energy. It seems like it has two heartbeats, like the ritual has been made twice now. Theoretically, it can put out what was put in.
* Luc analyzes Perry's blood and makes a breakthrough that is anti climactic: it's just activated ichor of a high potency and impurity of other blood. Nothin' special. No evidence of manipulation on his blood either.
* 11:30 am only Perry is in the office.
	+ She takes him up the river, into the mountains a bit, off the main road. There's a small park and the fall colors are OUT, babey. There are three dummies set up.
	+ They go ham
	+ Sinola gets PUMPED and starts lifting weights and blastin'.
	+ She pulls out amber, brackish fluid. The King's Army has been eradicated pretty much but she gets activated agents.
	+ The scars on her chest are also on her legs.
	+ She has a weird question; she got a phone call from Luis.
	+ Isabel was Republicano once, working under some general. She was in charge of their spec ops, the counter to the King's Army. Instead of making aasimar, they made things like… Luc. They made thirteen she's seen.
	+ She says there are no other crazy scientists he should worry about.
	+ The gangs underneath the city are going crazy trying to get the NO's territory.

CURTAINS RISE

* Perry is at the Tri. Café, met by Luis for a snoop into his mom's history.
	+ Plaza Major, old national palace now Congress, being ruined with a dome.
	+ There's an old man who talks slow and pissed off who will not let us in until December 29th from 1-2.
	+ Luis hears someone underneath the floor. The janitor! He will get them into the archives for bribery. He asks for something of "sentimental value". Luis trades a drawing.
	+ Perry says "see you for the holidays" and the librarian says "I wont make it 'til then."
	+ There's a recessed door by the dumpster.
	+ Luis shushes Perry and tells him to never ask names.
	+ 1.5-2 hours later, we find a file of enlisted soldier between 30-1300: Cisco, Michelle. 1289, was at Fort Isabella. She was requested to move, and then was asked to work with Isabel by her, was sent to Sacre Coereueueu and went MI on April 3rd, 1295.
	+ They take the papers out of the file and hide it in Luis' notebook. As they leave, a postcard comes out with a winky face. Luis adds a smile and then a winky face. "stop messaging me"
* Luis is goin' to work in Colonia Antigua and sees a shop. He's never seen it before even though he has been here.
	+ "This news was unrequested" - Luis
	+ There's a teller/waiting room at the door entrance, barren. Woman says "we are not selling… we do not uh… oh, you are Wolfesbane?"
	+ Inside looks like a national history museum. There appears to be a large portrait of a woman who is frighteningly similar to the woman who let us in (1700 age clothing)
	+ Her name is Mary french words
* Items
	+ Crimson coat with blinking and moving eyes. **Shroud of Paranoia**

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
This robe is adorned with eyelike patterns. While you wear the robe, you gain the following benefits:
The robe lets you see in all directions, and you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
You have darkvision out to a range of 120 feet.
You can see invisible creatures and objects, as well as see into the Ethereal Plane, out to a range of 120 feet.
The eyes on the robe can't be closed or averted. Although you can close or avert your own eyes, you are never considered to be doing so while wearing this robe.
A light spell cast on the robe or a daylight spell cast within 5 feet of the robe causes you to be blinded for 1 minute. At the end of each of your turns, you can make a Constitution saving throw (DC 11 for light or DC 15 for daylight), ending the blindness on a success.

* Musket with star wheel design and an ivorylike scope with the heiroglyphs etched into it.

**Spell-Sniper Musket** 350 gp
Weapon (carbine rifle), rare (requires attunement by an artificer, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)
This wheellock musket is made of a stark white, smooth material, similar to ivory, and etched with intricate, arcane patterns.
As an action, you can use this weapon to perform a spellstrike. A spellstrike is similar to a ranged weapon attack, except that you cast a single offensive cantrip as part of the attack. This cantrip must be one that has a casting time of 1 action, deals damage to one or more targets, and has a range greater than 10 feet. If the attack hits, the target takes both the damage of the musket and the damage of the cantrip, even if the cantrip would normally require a saving throw to harm a target. If the cantrip normally harms multiple targets, then the spellstrike only harms the target of the musket attack. A spell-sniper musket counts as an arcane focus, and you can provide somatic components for spellcasting even while holding it with two hands

* Chain shirt that is weightless and makes you hardy. 300 gp

**Ophric Chain**
Armor (chain shirt), rare
You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you wear this armor. You are considered proficient with this armor even if you lack proficiency with medium armor. You can wear this in addition to other armor

* Canvas Cloak with pointy ears and (mayan) runes. 300 gp

**Shroud of Kik’Nan**
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
While wearing this cloak, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. In an area of dim light or darkness, you can grip the edges of the cloak with both hands and use it to fly at a speed of 40 feet. If you ever fail to grip the cloak's edges while flying in this way, or if you are no longer in dim light or darkness, you lose this flying speed.
While wearing the cloak in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action to cast polymorph on yourself, transforming into a bat. While you are in the form of the bat, you retain your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. The cloak can't be used this way again until the next dawn.

* White clay statuette of a woman in a ceremonial garb. Music, communications, fertility. Lets you summon a little raven. 200 gp

Kachina of Angwúuti
Wondrous item, uncommon
This white clay statuette of a woman in ceremonial costume can become a raven for up to 12 hours. Once it has been used, it can't be used again until 2 days have passed. While in raven form, the figurine allows you to cast the animal messenger spell on it at will.

* Lantern with a flame and an eye within. While lit, you can see things that cannot normally be seen. 150 gp
* An emerald. It has a spirit trapped inside that you can break and release. 150 gp
* Eyeball, closed, metal cross-stitched on eyelid. 150 gp.

Blinded Amulet
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)
While wearing this amulet, you are hidden from divination magic. You can't be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.

* Shield of dull metal - lead. 75 gp.
* Rapier with a mechanism in the hilt. It's a transformer. 75 gp.
* Luis is in debt 115 gp to her with 7% interest per month for the statuette.
* Luis is at The Horizon on a dinner date with Coraline Poe. She is back after some touring. She's moving into Flores, which is a farming town a little ways out.
	+ "You looking for someone to fill that space?"
	+ "Ha. Sure"
	+ It's about 45 minutes from the city. Flores has farms built into the water, canoes places. Her house looks like every haunted house in a horror ghost film. It was sooo cheap… she lives in the clue house.
	+ Luis will stay the night. He doesn't dream, but he wakes up in a cold sweat. He looks in the mirror and sees himself and someone in the distance; he blinks and sees it is Maurice. Then there is no reflection. He touches it, and the cold of the mirror snaps him back to wakefulness and being reflective. Nothing else happens that night. Events of similar weirdness have happened 2-3 more times in the week he's slept there.
* Perry's performance
	+ Coraline is supportive but seems to have the facial expression of grief Luis can see, hidden under a happy mask
	+ Everyone's so supportive, Coraline hasn't seen this sort of thing before?
	+ Sinola and Coraline argue about good tacos in Santa Corazon
	+ June really physically switching hats for these npcs
	+ Luis recommends we go to La Rose, Coraline offers to pay for it
	+ Luis begins to feel a bit weightless; the open windows looking out onto the town, red fog blocks the view and ambiently fills the room. He gets up and goes to the restroom, people become foggy dream people. It sounds underwater. A tremor ripples through the restaurant. Everyone suddenly LOOKS at Luis with inhuman but intelligent eyes like amber spotlights. At the back of a small stage, a huge amber eye opens, looking straight at him.
	+ He goes to touch the eye and the pupil opens up and sucks him in. Sounds of coins clicking, shucking corn, and skinning a live animal. A tremor pierces the void, bringing heat, the ruins he saw before. It becomes fuzzy. Luis walks and feels the heat of the sunlight.
* Monday morning, three cases.
	+ After the dream, Luis' neck was aching a bit. It aches more when he rifles through the case files. One bit is bleeding and forming a scar that seems like a bird encased by a circle.
* Sinola tells us about the spirit of Flores: takes children and drowns them in the water. Sinola would probably go for this one
* Hannibal Lecter has been spoken into existence
* Rubio had a chance to kill Sinola in the war and did not, nor capture him
* Republicano side would probably be interested in Luc's deal, since they/Isabel were doing those experiments. Isabel attacked Luc with mind magic.
* We start talking about ice cream
* Sinola has attempted to eat a cinnamon stick
* Sinola knows Huesito. Sinola was in that house at the end of the war she was there for the treaty signing.
* Perry negs themself and everyone is like STOP
* "You're great at talking to folks" "Don't lie to me"
* We pick the big money one

* National Economic Association, Leroy Gutiérrez as a contact. To acquire info on Rubio, we might talk to him directly, look through public records, interview people who know him personally, or just fucking follow him and break into his house.
* Luc leaves to "Sinola"
* Luis summons a Northern Raven, with a more blue feathers and white undertone than the ones we had seen previous. Perry and Luis try to teach it a trick and fail ultimately
* Luc meeting Sinola
	+ "So they picked the job I'm bad at" - Luc
* "We're stupid. Perry, you're not stupid" - Luis
* Luc decides that the other two think they aren't smart enough without him, so he decides to go to let them prove themselves
* Monty hates the raven's presence. There's some beef there. Perry has a glove for walking with Monty out
* Congressional Library Learnings
	+ Perry finds Rubio's election results: ran in 1298 as Mayor as Buena Suerte, won in a landslide against a random war general. In 1300 ran against someone else in a much closer race. He's prized for transparency and good heartedness; the people like him and he wins the popular vote. Everyone else in government dislikes him severely, except Duchess Ximena Serrano and Rep. Neron Alvarez. Disliked strongly by the Republicano party because of a failure to apprehend an important target during the latter stages of the war (Sinooollaaa).
	+ Second gen Guacan. Got into the congressional military at 16, helped rebuild his hometown, made headlines for confrontational attitude and hardline politics, ran for mayor to oppose Coronista appointments, leans more socialist than other Republicanos. Calls himself a Reformista. The Rubios were a wealthy slave owning family in FANTASY CUBA, deported for supporting localist movements (often tied to abolitionist movements) on the island. Guaca is owned by Moravia currently.
	+ Representative Inígo Manágez or Consul Ricardo Jimenez (leader of opposition party/vice president) would be the best people to talk to in terms of who hates Rubio most
	+ We have an interview with the Consul tomorrow at noon
* The Flores Friends
	+ Map that contains all the regions the kids disappeared to. They're all right near the canals, one went missing on a canoe ride with his dad.
	+ Sinola and Luc go to talk to the father of the kid on the canoe ride, who is the local barber. They introduce themselves as detectives of Wolfesbane, which is not promising to him.
	+ They were going fishing after church like they do bi monthly, as he was reeling in a big fish, he turned around and his son was gone. He couldn't find him or any ripples in the water, like he just disappeared.
	+ Kid was distracted in school, hung out near water's edge, seemed bored by the water now that he's getting older. Might have told more things to his little brother more than he told his father
	+ Younger brother says he didn't want to hang out anymore because he had a "new friend." And she was "cooler than him." They hung out at the canal
* We are in Congress for Inigio and we aren't sure if he's racist or not
	+ Perry opens Luis' notebook given to him and flips to a page, where Luis has noted that THERE'S NOTHING INTERESTING HERE :(
	+ Late 50s/early 60s man with liver spots, big bushy moustache like a broom on his face, balding a bit, fancy and formal representative garb
	+ Calls the monopoly bill Republicano trash, filling their own pockets instead of the pocket of GOD
	+ Calls Rubio a competent politician, he doesn't hold a grudge, he seems nice enough. But his policies are too extreme, too secular (that's not what the country needs right now), he would rather mold us off of the colonies. But we are the HOLY DOMINION… we are pentarchic… He wouldn't be a good secretary or consul, but he's just a senator ruining one state (Costa Verde). He's done great things for Buena Suerte. He's fine but naïve. (According to detect thoughts, he wasn't lying or really thinking hard about the answer)
	+ Believes Rubio is not going to vote YES on the new bill because he is a civil rights activist first and politician second, third one third. Maybe he's a man third. He believes the people should be represented. The people and the 5TK are the two souls of the country.
	+ Tell the publisher one thing: People don't care about politics. We should bring back, what was in his day, little excerpts from the gospel in that section of the paper.
	+ He goes to the Grande Cathedral for mass.
	+ Luis laughs as Perry drags him out
* Meanwhile, back at the ranch
	+ Most of these children (7/8) appear to have been getting phasey, talking to some kind of imaginary/new friend, spending time near water. Affinity for water, talking to someone new, acting distracted. The only kid that's different is the one from the cornfield farm. Most of the farms are owned by a corporation kind of deal, but this is one of the few small farms
	+ Garina farms: Like a giant chinampa with large bean/corn/squash fields, turkeys. It farm. Some of the corn seems blighted, some kind of fungal infection where the corn is husking itself down to the kernel
	+ Kids regularly come to steal pumpkins and such, and while tending to the fields, the farmer Sal found one of these children's legs left behind.
	+ The leg, torn, is in what appears to be a crop circle kind of deal from people trampling it. It was definitely ripped from the body, not a clean cut, but there was a hand covered in thorns with excessive necrosis and fungal growth that left impressions in the leg. Whatever grabbed him held onto both ends and ripped the leg off. This kid was around 17, the oldest.
	+ Luc finds some fungal and corn husk plant material in the pant leg. He surmises that whatever did this is not a ghost, it's a plant silly, but it is probably bipedal and is powerful and strong. There are root holes in a footstep pattern leading out of the circle.
	+ The corn rot started after some new important Agrogrow company corn import that is non-Anovan, kills a lot of corn and some squash. The new corn is disease impervious and brought diseases that kill the native corn strains
	+ Following the footsteps, Luc finds that they seemed to have come from the scarecrow and went toward the leg. The scarecrow itself is missing
	+ Kid was a local rascal named Flavio Kadiz
	+ Sinola theorizes, since this is a different case, that since the kid was stealing crops and the farmer isn't very sad about the tragedy, maybe the farmer was the scarecrow's creator
* Idiots Incorporated
	+ Alvarez: young man with a green bowtie, fluffy hair?, pencil moustache like Luis.
	+ Monopoly bill is horrible and dangerous for the people, believe in limiting corporations and promoting smaller, local businesses. Been very effective in his local town and areas. Definitely voting NO, but it's already passed through the house and has gone to the senate. Up to a vote of 40
* Currently, Agrogrow is petitioning to buy Popi Cola which gives them a 59% share on the market, allowing them to dictate food prices for the nation
	+ Sen. Rubio enjoys coffee take note
	+ Alvarez considers him like a brother, a wonderful man, looks out for the little guy, a great jokester, charming and honest. Will endorse him when he goes for Secretary. Sure that their movement in the party will steamroll the old dogs.
	+ They just created the commission for Corporate Oversight (inc. Wolfesbane) to make sure they are following laws and not trampling the little guys
	+ Duchess: bigger, nicer offices for the dukes and duchesses. Her door is closed and says "office of her majesty…" cause we gotta knock. Door clicks open all mechanically
	+ Two figures: one on a nice desk with a coiled serpent on a sword design, 30s woman with long curly light brown/dirty blonde hair and she has freckles and warm brown eyes with an elegant gown that is a little too fancy for a politician. Reading glasses. //In front of her in a simple but fancy black satin dress is a woman with NEVERMIND//
	+ She thinks that the bill is going to damage the average citizen. She would back it if it were a royal charter, but her hands are tied
	+ Thinks Rubio is a fine man and a close ally of hers and the working man/to every person in Najalisco. She'd call him a friend.
	+ She thinks Rubio's a no, Vigor's a yes, most Republicanos a yes, Consul a yes, Coronistas will vote no, partisan issue. Republicanos often have corporate interest.
* Luc and Sinola
	+ The Agrogrow corn patch looks familiar… as similar to the crop that De Soto was working on. More naturalized, not as unnaturally red like hers.
	+ Sinola is late for something with her family at her house. She lives with her brothers and her mom actually
* Luis calls Luc by calling any functioning phone nearby him through some magic shenanigans. An old phone that seems like it shouldn't work rings, confusing everyone, and Luc is compelled to answer.
* We meet back up at Wolfesbane. We say hi. We say bye.
* Daia checked at Wolfesbane, new boutique, general store, factory that is employing, general folks

The water is shiny

* Talked to people who do manufacturing stuff, based out of Milpa, make bullets and process ichor and stuff. Also transportation work
* Isaac has been more intense lately, they're hemorrhaging people and money. There's a movement to band groups together across the territory to keep ships afloat and there are poachers coming from down south. They have fresh faces. There was a big bust right after Perry left, major dealing competitors got knocked out by Wolfesbane, but they didn't get what they were looking for but found a dude's house with a basement with imported zombie fungus. It infests people and then they get brain controlled.
* Perry spins some tale about being buried in a suit and Daia groks onto the trans energy. They plan to go shopping Saturday
* Violent crimes rising up in the Embassy corner likely tied to Moors and Angel conflicts. More farms are being bought out in the local area.
* The Consul is slender and has a slight scar on his neck/chin, wears a three piece suit with a ceremonial shawl, slicked back light brown hair, and a panama hat on the desk.
	+ What are you planning to vote for the Monopoly bill?
	+ How do you think this bill will be beneficial for the country and the common people?
	+ What do you think of your party members who are not in support of this bill?
	+ Senator Rubio has instated the Commission for Corporate Oversight, do you think it's necessary?
	+ Senator Rubio is pretty well liked by his peers and the people. Do you think he has a point with the issues he has with this bill?
	+ The bill is important, our economy has been helped by people like the Ordonez's, but they are being limited right now because they are having restricted oversight. They need a little bit of a loosening, mostly with the definition of monopoly to mean a larger share of an expanding definition of the market. Only if it has a 2/3rds majority.
	+ Intends to vote yes, voting as Consul to send it up.
	+ Little businesses will be affected, but they were also hit very hard and if we build from them it will be a small, local economy and we need a national economy to be important in the world. It's more important to build our economy with big infrastructure first and the little stuff second.
	+ Senator Rubio is a "popular man" with some good ideas, can't lie, good about individual rights (this guy is irish I think?), but he is young and naïve. Voters want reliability, stability, but he will not provide that. People don't want revolutionary policies right now, because of just coming out of the war. They want stability. He's riding people in one state.
	+ The CCO is not that important, the tax dollars could be sent toward a commission on human rights. We have individual hearings but no commission to investigate institutional happenings. Limited time and resources.
	+ Thinks Rubio considers his morals first, then people. He's from a big city, Buena Suerte, and it's unlike the rest of the country. Urbanized parts of the country are not the only parts of the country that matter that aren't worried about monopolies, they're worried about basic necessities. Their economies have been wrecked.
* As we are sitting in front of the Consul's office, we see a soldier walk through the hallway (crownsguard) and then more and more follow until there is a precession. In the center is David and a smaller woman with straight, dark black/dark brown tipped hair, caramel brown skin, black dress and gloves, black masquerade mask, stocky frame, she's the fucking Queen.
* Perry waves at David and the procession fucking stops. The queen made direct eye contact with Luc and she had hazel eyes. They went wide, then back to normal, then she pulled David away and they continued.
* Hot dog fight for lunch
* Luc tells De Soto about the corn blight and rippening of the teenager.
	+ She says it sounds similar to moss, as in a symbiotic creature that has rapidly evolved/mutated from the crop population. De Soto doesn't think Agrogrow is to blame for the blight.
	+ Resident mycologist is Lupita Sodano
* Stalking Senator Miguel Rubio
	+ He drives to the palace at around 8, spends time in office or senate floor, eats lunch with Alvarez, workshops with others, drives home at 6. Thursday, drives to a small office building in Plaza quarter at 6am, meets with myriad of politicians, goes to the palace, has lunch with senators, has a meeting with a bunch of commissions. Home is empty 8-6, office 12-1.
	+ On Friday, as we break into his house, we notice there are a lot of folks around wearing pinstripe suites (could be Moors?).
	+ Luis finds a picture of an 18 year old woman who looks happy, smiling, on a backdrop of an ocean. Looks like an older picture by a couple years.
	+ Luc finds crumpled bills, a budget book, and a receipt for a fast food restaurant in the trashcan. He finds a payment to a man named Sal Gerana, 10 gp monthly, entitled "weekend."
	+ Luis finds that whoever owns this bookshelf is a huge fucking dork. Poetry, law, history, fantasy and sci fi novels. Fantasy Frankenstein. Dork.
	+ Under the bed, he finds 30 gp, a revolver and 6 bullets, collection of photographs, half filled out Wolfesbane job commission, and an address book.
	+ We should buy a camera
	+ Depicts a person on street corners talking to various people making some kind of trade. Job commission seems to be commissioning a task of retrieving an important item. Willing to pay for agents to collect an item of a specific value from the…..
	+ Perry rolls with advantage on this photo and fucking fails. You dumbass
	+ Luc notices that this person is dealing drugs, activated ichor, one of their hands is very familiar. It looks like Perry's hand. Perry receiving from drug dealer. Perry then remembers that the Angels are the primary dealers for people on the streets. It's aaallll connneccctteeedddd
	+ As we leave, Perry purposefully has Luc catch her from the balcony rather than try and climb down. But the gutter broke.
	+ Perry distracts Senator Vega, despite not needing to, as the boys break into Rubio's office.
	+ Luc finds only a day planner in the locked cabinet; a meeting at 4 with the Scientific Officer, known for theories on the ethereal. Picnic at the cemetery tonight. These two things repeat every Friday. I's are dotted with hearts…
	+ Luis's crackpot fear in this beautiful office: he had a friend/daughter/relationship/girlfriend, who died of too much drugitis, and he's been visiting her grave every weekend. Luc remembers that Sinola said at the farm that Garina has had to rent and sell land, including an old house and a cemetery.
	+ Luis shouts out about his dead sister. Luc and Perry get nothing.
* Luis and Luc drive out to the cemetery area, not far from Coraline's house.
	+ Rubio is a young man, curled/wavy hair, burnt umber skin, gleaming brown eyes, nice suit on but his jacket is informal/casual. He has a picnic basket in one arm, flowers and a wine bottle in the other. He goes up to a grave, lies on a blanket, sets out two plates for the picnic. This is an old gravestone with a near-faded name. He lays down and pours wine. At a distance, they can hear him talking about his day but he pauses and responds like someone is speaking back. He plays from a portable music player and asks for a dance from no one and dances an informal tango with the air. The boys see him dancing with nobody and the sun sets, and as the light casts through the trees, something is illuminated: a ghost. A skeletal woman on the other side of the tango, looks nothing like the photo, entirely translucent orange, beautiful gown with old traditional hairstyle late 1700s, flowers in her hair. Once she's seen, the laughter is heard slightly from her, and she doesn't go away once the light illuminated her. He never fully touches her and she falls during the dip. She gets up and says "there's someone else here."

 v Phantasma is all oranges, semi-translucent except for her solidly bright orange skeleton.
 v Luc easily hides in this rural environment, elegantly remaining silent, but Luis runs like a little child on all fours and makes a fuck ton of noise like an idiot. Rubio calls out, upset, and starts talking to his orange. The boys run and hide.
 v Luc gets away, but finds Luis has disappeared. Luis is surrounded by a pale blue and the air turns cold, like rain has passed through or is coming near. Luc is hit by dump-truck levels of fog, feeling things run past him, then the fog smacks him in the chest. STAR WIPE CUT
 v Perry is driving back to Flores with Sinola (snacking on chips) and Daia (navigating) in the Gal Mobile.
 v June says car radio rights. I Only Have Eyes for You plays and Perry shuts it off. In her distraction, she sees a dude who looks sick, in tattered clothing, but vaguely guy shaped. Perry Tokyo Drifts to a stop on a natty 20. Barely tap the guy and he crumbles. The girls start yelling and Perry exits the car and smacks him in the head…
 ○ We see a dead man. He's completely clothed, showing no skin, wearing not a hood but a potato bag with a face drawn on it. His chest is opened, full of straw and corn husks. It's covered in black fungus.
 ○ It lifts its arm, launches three vines of cornstalk, and stab into Sinola's arm. There's waves of movement in the cornfield.
 ○ SMASHCUT
 v There are bodies hanging from the willow branches, roiling mists, and the tombstones are huge. This is similar to the fogs in Luis' visions, but as a colorless version. There's a presence of dread and sorrow. Ruins of gothic walls and buttresses littering the area in the middle of a greenish, brackish ocean water.
 ○ Luc sees Luis, like he just sat up out of nowhere.
 ○ "I don't know why I didn't think the cemetery would be haunted." - Luis
 ○ The mist seems to be dangerous, like walking into glass mirror maze.
 ○ Slinking through the cemetery, they see figures in the trees in huge, white, bridal dresses. They are sobbing as they move. The boys feel trapped in a hot, sticky, humid room, but feel cold.
 ○ One tree has only a few women dangling from nooses, lower down, and one of them is dangling lower down. INT Save… Gentle crying ASMR. The mist parts to a small pool by an old ruined cathedral. There is a woman in the pool, which reaches her waist. She's in a white dress and is holding her head in her hands.
 ○ Luis is like "we're safe, we can't die in a dream" and Luc is like "yeah I guess so" and they descend into the pool.
 v 10 foot road, 10 feet until the ground turns into canal, 10 feet to the cornfield. 30 foot arena. Sinola is being grappled, Daia is sitting in the car. Sinola rips free, thorns in her arms, and the creature starts calling out. Perry hastes her.
 ○ The scarecrow's cobby arms break out of their gloves, but the kernels are more like thorns. It dents Perry's car. She hates that
 ○ A scarecrow runs on all fours and crashes into the driver's side and shatters the window. Another comes on the roof. The one hitting Perry opens up its flower face and spores her :[. The spores burn on contact with her skin, since she's an aasimar and they don't fuck with necrotic damage.
 ○ Once all the gals are in the car, Perry steps on it, but can't shake the two SCs already on the car. Vroom vrooom SWIPE TRANSITION
 v The boys are feeling misty. Luis shouts a hey to the woman in the pool. She's directly under the moon, her dress is red, red is flowing around her in the water. He calls out another hey, and then there's a chorus of voices in the fringes of the pool that grow louder, sounding like crying children.
 ○ Luc notices that this is not the center of the cemetery, but it has been made so spiritually, like the eye of the storm. Two things are moving in the water on either side of the bank. The water seems to work like a fabric, not a liquid. The boys run out of the water INT SAVE. Luis on a nat 20 sees that the reflection is different from the sky and the trees above, reflecting a canal, and sees a boat. He also sees that the two shapes are swimming between the reflections, are man-sized, have stout bodies and long tails, canine faces with long ears, webbed hands, quills along their back, and a tail ending in five small appendages. They swim like dolphins and they look like the mist (lightning june??) is within them.
 ○ The lady in the middle looks like a bog body and is skinless around her face, only having boneeeee.
 ○ They dive under the water towards a veil, feeling like they pierced through seaweed and muck, and Luc comes up to find his body is half submerged in seaweedy water inside a canal. Luc bonked his head and got stuck.
 ○ Luc recognizes them as weird Ahuizotl, but are not like their otter-related normal forms, but appear to be misty elemental variants.
 ○ Ear-splitting mournful cry, sounds underwater to Luc but he still takes damage. Luis is reduced to 0 hit points. (The woman disappears, but we don't really know that).
 v Perry drives at 200ft per 6 seconds and leaves that third SC in the fuckin' dust. One SC fucks Perry up a little bit, the other SC fucks up and falls off the top of the car and is holding onto the interior roof of the car.
 ○ Perry uses a sexy double Dissonant Whispers to force the SCs to yeet themselves from the car.
 ○ JUMP CUT
 v Luc grabs Luis and takes him to the boat above him. One of chabois zyooms out of the ground effortlessly and grabbies at Luis' little dangling twink legs. Luis gets fucked up by thrashing and ringing and a bite on his leggie, but water on his face wakes him up on a nat 20 death save.
 ○ Luis' throat glows soft gold, and his vertebrae have balls of light as his throat turns translucent and a ball flies out and touches Luc, healing him. It seems like Luis is full of light and mist is pooling from his mouth.
 v The Gal Mobile is around 1000 Coco's driveway. Two figures try and make a run at us from the cornfield. The more damaged Husk sails over the car, the other one rams into the car and takes heavy damage, becoming the most damaged Husk. It screams and tries to attack Perry again.
 ○ It spores at all of us, and large amounts of mold get into Daia's mouth. She's coughing and severely injured. Perry is becoming more affected. Sinola is too sexy to be harmed by this
 ○ For her turn, Daia drinks water to try and expel the mold growth
 ○ Sinola puts her hand over Daia's mouth, liquid gold forms over her face and heals the wound and expels the mold entirely.
 ○ Perry forces them to run again, and as they return, shakes one off and the other latches onto the back of the car. As they are screeching, movement is in the cornfield, about 4 more figures.
 ○ Perry throws a pistol at the middle of the car. Sinola catches it and says "Hell yeah, Rad Catch"
 ○ Perry tries to stop and launch it off and fails, sending it off with a DW. Two more leap out and latch on, one is in the distance, and one behind attacks.
 ○ Daia gives Perry permanent ear damage as she fires right in front of her face. But she fucks up a potato bag! It's all plants and fungus babey.
 ○ The one on the back climbs onto the roof and rips through the roof. It then rips open the convertible roof to a permanent convertible.
 ○ Golden liquid coats Sinola's sword and reaches into the husk as she stabs it. It coats the Husk, glows, and explodes outward in a shower of light, killing the roof boy. She remembers she has been Hasted this whole time and attacks another, hurting it substantially.
 ○ Perry runs to the door, which is ajar, and opens it. She feels some relief, but not much, because the Husks are moving and she is severely injured. Then she gets stabbed into an inch of her life. The gals run in. Perry tries to close the door, fails, tries to DW, and fails again.
 ○ Coraline looks, becomes steely faced. She extends her hand toward the Husk and it flies backwards, as if pulled by a tether and bursts into little husks. "Come into the threshold," she says. They try and ram into the flimsy door, but it does not budge at all.
 v The boys are drowning!
 ○ They manage to get out, almost die, and see an empty car. They venture to Coraline's house, and run into the Husks. They sneak past, but catch the view of one of them. It chases them, but hits an invisible door when it tries to chase them into the back door. They also see Perry's fucking totaled car.
 ○ They come into the living room, which is full of bandaged people. And also Rubio
 v Rubio claims his car has broken down and that is why he cannot return home.

 ○ Over his shoulder, she sees movements in the cornfield. After his call is made to the mechanic, he reports that they would need a few hours to get here and could he stay please.
 ○ Then there's a car screeching into a driveway, gunshots and combat — Rubio is alarmed and Coraline is calm. She opens the door to find three women there and a plantlike monster behind them, which she sends flying back 30 feet, killing it magically. She ushers them in, treats their wounds, and soon after two boys rush in
 v It's 10 pm and everyone is trapped in the house. Luis and Luc are wet. Perry is wet, but with blood
 v Coraline is standing, seems anxious. Then she summons two ravens in front of god and everyone, and lets em out the window
 ○ Rubio has big puppy eyes because he's got nerdy bottle glasses
 ○ Coraline has pistols hidden under her fucking coffee table
 v She has warded the entrances, but has not yet done the balconies upstairs. Mages split in pairs to ward the doors. The four bedrooms need worrying about. She hands Perry an obsidian blade and shows her a symbol on the door (the RQ one on Luis' neck), blood and this symbol will ward the door.
 ○ Luc and Perry go for the northern bedroom. Luc gets in first and sees the Husks climbing a tree, and will get there before she gets over
 ○ Luis and Coraline are super fast, she does it fine but Luis needs to use a spell slot. It's your neck thing boyo
 ○ Perry fails to ward her door
 ○ Luis runs into the same room and is ready to help, sees the husks and regrets dashing
 ○ Perry gets eviscerated. Slash, slash, chest ripped open, forced onto the ground. Ouchie ouchie
 ○ Luc fails his WIS save to not be distracted and bothered by this. He takes an AOO to come over to her and administer a health tonic
 ○ "Should I heal or kill—?" "WARD! WARD! WARD, YOU DINGBAT!"
 ○ Luc stands up from healing her, facing the Husk. Perry, weary and injured, sits up and coughs out the words, "Get 'em, cowboy," and smacks Luc right on the ass, Hasting him. His body starts vibrating, almost blurring his form to everyone else, and he proceeds to eviscerate that Husk right back. It's MINCED. To the tune of 48 damage
 ○ Perry tells Luis to jump out the window when he asks how her day was
 ○ Perry is informed about the Ghost Lady and the Ghost plane
 v Luis calls the car gang "the gals… uh, the gals and perry… nah, the gals" and perry sits in silence for a bit before just losing it and confirming the big theory. She's out. Good for her.png
 v Luc and Luis make some gumbo, Perry is making popcorn
 ○ Coraline loves gumbo
 ○ Perry tries to taunt the Husks with popcorn and it doesn't work out. Gets a sparrow killed
 v Daia is confused that no one else is confused and frightened by the plant monster situation. Sinola and Rubio look more relaxed. Coraline doesn't notice anything is weird.
 v Everyone slips right into the right pronouns for Perry. She doesn't show it for the rest of the night but it feels nice and makes her happy
 v Rubio is trying to build a case that Agragro's new product is spreading a disease which would give the farmer's a right to sue. Perry badly lies about the scarecrows but rolls a 20
 ○ Luc mentions asking De Soto about the fungal growth and how she was skeptical they were connected
 ○ "Corporate Scarecrow Infestation"
 ○ Sinola thinks the scarecrows are separate from the child disappearances. She thinks the scarecrows are not intentional
 ○ Rubio has a GREEN notebook
 ○ He will probably report this to Flores, the Sheriff, the department of agriculture….
 v Luis is convinced someone should be keeping watch, worrying about if the ward will fail or something else could happen. Luis says the most important people to him are in this house and Luc agrees.
 ○ "DO YA GOT A MAGICAL STAIN ON YOUR GUMBO POT!?"
 ○ They agree to take watches all night, waking Perry last
 v Rubio seems relieved, mechanic hadn't left yet
 v Bed situation: Perry/Daia, Sinola/Luc, Coraline/Luis, Rubio
 v Coraline says that they are Husks and often happen when someone does a large ritual
 ○ Coraline was acting spacey, "comes back" when the ravens do
 ○ She said the Husks have been around, but not in this number
 ○ She's converting the old stables into her office; stretch of ground that isn't warded
 ○ Rituals are a large expenditure of magic that manipulate reality
 ○ The ethereal plane doesn't have a consistent shape, is a distorted reflection of our reality, oft has mists
 ○ Rubio is an "ethereal enthusiast". He meets with Dr. Sepolveda (?) regularly to look into that sort of thing
 v Sinola asks if Luc and Luis are doing "sleep sharing"
 v Luis accidentally admits to smoking out the window and being sneaky around Coraline. Perry goes to shoot up in the bathroom and feel better :)
 v Al missed some bit about ass?
 v Luis is talking to Rubio about wanting to know things, he asks if he would be a researcher, Luis accidentally says he likes breaking into things. Luc calls him a field journalist
 ○ Luc feels awkward and says he's going to the bathroom, blah blah Perry falling into the toilet and drowning, crocodiles
 ○ While they're staying up late, Rubio tries to convince him to find a job that better suits his researching than the dangerous job of Wolfesbane. Other things can pay the bills. Very insistent about this. He mentions that most people who get into Wolfesbane are from the police department, from drug busts, or are paying penance for something. Luis seems like a bright young lad that has many other options.
 ○ He calls Wolfesbane "shit people" who take bad money. He has personal/ideological qualms with the existence of it re: political corruption
 v At the strike of midnight, we hear the sound of soft sobbing. Well, Perry doesn't, because she's sleeping. Lu crew sees a woman sobbing in the fountain.
 ○ Luis tries to make Rubio go away. Rubio says he can fight with a gun and he isn't any more important than Luis!!
 ○ The ghost cries out, "Samuel! Rosita!" and shrieks. This shriek is not the same as the one from before, just like a yell. Only those three hear it, INT save. Luis and Rubio disappear, Luc saved on the save.
 ○ Hee hoo rosita
 ○ Coraline says this may be a place where the spirit has residence, ie, the house is haunted
 v Luis is in the courtyard, it's wet, and seems like there's something there. He passes the mist and crit fails a perception check. Rubio is there too! Instead of a fireplace, there is a bright red door. It's the same door Luis has seen waking up from weird dreams in the corner of his eye. Rubio sees it too.
 ○ Rubio calls it the heart of the house and that it's probably the domain of the weeping woman
 ○ "You brought her here, right?" "You don't know how, huh?" roll deception
 ○ He calls her the weeping woman and allegedly knows how she works. A spirit from around Flores, called La Llorna, or at least one of them. She's angry and likes drowning folks. But she doesn't enter homes unless it's her home or……… They hunt in areas different from their residence, so this isn't her home.
 ○ "She doesn't hunt her… 'Cause I know how ghosts work!!" (Irish accents are Cuban now)
 ○ You didn't do it?? Was Luc around cemeteries, maybe? Hmm?
 v Luc falls asleep, becomes incorporeal, sees the house at a distance and then pans to the room he just fell asleep in. He sees the faint outline of Sinola on the couch and a Conquistador staring at her. He's PHYSICAL, PRESENT. Half his face is missing, kinda zombie. The CQ looks down at Luc, who is also on the bed, faint. Luc draws his machete. CQ speaks, but it's garbled and ancient Spanish so it's barely understandable except as "DUUUEEELLLLLL" and "coward"
 v Luc leaves and finds Coraline, who is also dreaming. Rubio and Luis are back in the real world. Luis opens the wrong door? And starts breaking up with Rubio. The red door cracks open, Luis' neck pricks. He pulls it closed… CHA save. He sees, briefly, a face in that pitch black room: russet brown skin, short hair, black eyes, red irises. MAURICE!? The door disappears.
 v Luis hands Rubio a harmonica, and he becomes super confused.
 v Luis is like "I won't let you die, man" and Rubio's like "I'm NoT a LeEtLe LaMb"
 v Luc walks down the stairs and INSTANTLY notices that the matter of the walls is somewhat watery, and there are two things moving within them. Not moving out of this layer of the ethereal, but they want to go up… and can see Luis and Rubio jamming out in the parlor piano/harmonica. Coraline is like "are you fucking kidding me"
 ○ The movement in the walls changes: a gentle wave turns to something pushing up and creating the wave. Luis feels a drip. He stops playing and looks up: there's a leak forming. The leak bulges and the ceiling contorts down.
 ○ "FUCK, what did you let into my house!? You said you pissed off some sort of ghosts?"
 ○ The ceiling plops, kinda like a cell going through mitosis, from Luc's view. Luis' view, an ahuizotl falls onto the piano with a rush of water.
 ○ Coraline says "grab onto Rubio!" PERCEPTION, Luc feels as if he's actually grabbing onto someone. Coraline fails to grab Luis and grabs the ahuizotl instead, which acknowledges the two of them in the ethereal. Luc pulls Rubio into the ethereal plane.
 v Perry is still dreaming. Nice dream turns into a bad one, but it's not plottily important.
 v The Ahui comes to the ethereal; Coraline pecks Luc on the cheek, it leaves a mark that "will last a minute" and she tells him and Rubio to run, get to her bathroom.
 v The Conquistador is still there and perks up to fight when Luc comes in… Luc touches his body and the room darkens and he feels colder.
 ○ "ohh… this is gonna be weird." he tries to climb into his body. It feels HORRIBLE. No more CQ. He wakes up, having weirded himself out enough to wake up.
 v Luis sees Coraline holding the Ahui back as it tries to climb into that plane. "Hi honey, go to the master bedroom!" He goes into Perry and Daia's room, he sees a woman with a detached eyeball and flowing hair (TIMER GOES OFF AGAIN???) who is grabbing at Perry's face. Another being apparates in the corner of the room (because of the timer??), dressed in Republicano garb with a blasted arm and face. He goes "you're not… one of us?" Burned man starts going for Daia. Luis gets back to the real world and sees neither ghost.
 v Rubio's stuck in the mirror in the master bathroom. Luis tries to grab him (perception) and pull him in but sucks. The bathroom door on his side crashes open, and Coraline flies in and hits the mirror loudly. She closes the door and wards it. She pushes it more and the mirror goes out, fogged up. The Lu crew's bathroom door is also now closed and warded with the mark.
 v Lu crew tries to picture the door together but they won't hold hands like in a séance because luis ISNT HOLDING YOUR HAND LUC
 ○ "It's 'cause we didn't hold hands, dumbass." They do it again, one gets advantage. Nothing happens
 ○ They hear a muffled sound from the toilet. It’s Rubio and Coraline, who is drenched. She's like "what the fuck did ya'll do?" Tells them to get the gals and get them in the bathroom.
 ○ "Huhuh do we have to hold hands" - Luis "Only if you're scared" - Luc, Luis is scared and he cusses out Luc in Tylish because he's not going to hold hands that's gay I have a girlfriend already
 v The CQ is holding his hand up to Sinola's forehead. Luc shakes her really hard and wakes her up, she goes through a bunch of expressions, throws up on the side of the bed when she gets up.
 v Luis gets the feeling that the room is larger than it is, then feels nauseous. He vomits and feels like he just caught a big bad disease. Super food poisoning.
 ○ Luc's like "can you guys make it to the bathroom yourselves" and they're like "we’re adulTS" "im an ADULT WOMAN" and sinola goes "……………….,,,,onward,,," (timer goes off while we're memeing aaa)
 v Luis and Sinola start arguing about his lying last name, her throwing a brick through his window, JUST TALK TO MEEEE, you tried to get me to kidnap your GIRLFRIEND THAT’S CREEPY AND GHOST, that SET ME BACK A WWWEEEEEK SINOLAAAA WHY'D YOU DO IT, it's DRAMATIC like in the NOVELS, get a cool deck of cards if you wanna leave dramatic messages, that's a great way to get lost VOMIT, VOMIT
 ○ They keep arguing. Luis doesn't trust anyone, she calls him a big liar, he's afraid of being Seen and Known and find his whole family. "What do they want with fisherman?? …Crayfish lookin' ass."
 ○ "We're not being hunted… by ghosts, that's different" then the wall explodes open as, down the hall, the other Ahuizotl has entered. THEN THE TIMER and the other one comes out of the other door, surrounding the pair. There's no door.
 v Luc comes and shakes Perry, her nightmare of her being accused by people, she moves to a cold white room and is being dragged into a sterile metal thing and she's in a white jacket with her arms behind her. She's hooked into a device, there's a horrible burning sensation like she's being electrified. As she's shaken, she feels like she's going through a normal dream and this hell. She wakes up, but she doesn't vomit, just has a headache.
 v Perry wakes Daia up with a mind link and shushes her. Her face is really red and flushed. These gals follow Luc and they're all fucking SILENT. Luis and Sinola are not in the bathroom. Luis imagines the door, Sinola can't see it, he has to physically grab her hand and put it on the handle. They topple through the door and into the bathroom, the door closes. Luis vomits into the bathtub. Coraline is in the toilet reflection and has stuff to keep her from tracking us but it's in the office.
 v Daia, Perry, and Luis are going to the office. Perry fails the stealth check, which causes Luc and herself to be injured. She casts Fly on her two pals. Luc sprouts bat wings and Daia sprouts blue dragon wings. Luc activates a bloodhunter thing, giving him the black veins. He looks super fucked up. He flies over and picks up Perry… bridal style. uwu
 v The Husks fail to use their infesting attack on Perry and Luc, Daia tries to pick the lock and succeeds with Luc's pick. Perry holds onto look and gets all snug so he can shoot some husks and help Daia
 v We fly back and get onto the balcony, getting back into the house safely. Luis feels his head for a fever when he sees Daia and Luc with majestic wings and Perry being held. Luc ambiently held her for a bit and then remembered what he was doing when Coraline instructed the casters to form a circle. We all circle, and feel dew forming on us which steams off and rises off the salt circle. Forming from the smoke, is the outline of Coraline and Rubio, who veil out as the incense floats out. There's a stillness. They're here. All the sicknesses went away.
 ○ Coraline says we're all safe from Her for 24 hours at the least. Don't take any showers in holy water.
 v We're like "let's go to sleep" and Rubio is like "ONE MOMENT PLEASE. QUICK QUESTION. Two of you motherfuckers were at a cemetery tonight and I need to know who because I know Her hunting grounds and one of you lead her here." Cemetery snooping is an insult to the dead and also I'm the proprietary of that land and I need to know about it.
 v None of us snitch. Sinola turns to him… and the door closes.
 v LUIS… your dreams are pleasant. He's walking through an old neighborhood, which turns into his old neighborhood. A small, run-down, shotgun house is immediately familiar to him. The mailbox has a red flag raised. He is excited, and takes the letter, which is addressed to him. He can't seem to open it. The return address is whatever he sent a letter to before. He goes into the house and revisits his old haunts on this entirely empty street, seeing only shadows of people. When he wakes up, he has that same letter clutched in his hand.

 v Luis is awake. The bed is empty. It's cause the girls are cooking in the breakfast zone
 ○ After checking in with him, he reads the letter.
 ○ Dear Luis, what a time… mami and papi are good… good to know Corazon times has a radio… blah blah, Minny "Jeramine" is working at a sugar mill, not doing much with the photography gig, saving to buy a real radio to tune into frequencies outside the city. Marlice is applying to art schools but they are not feeling hopeful due to funding. Grandparents are good, fully retired, don't leave the house much. Life is normal, happy you're writing again.
 ○ Luis' mom writes like she's talking and has a blank space on the page for a pause
 ○ We got word about your brother. Strapping young man 2 years ago now came by…. He's dead. Died fighting in the grand war on the colonies side, he had moved up north after all the drama, got involved in the military, took a bullet from a Moravian. We got a little flag for it. The body apparently was not salvageable. ANYWAY SO I STARTED A MACAROON BUSINESS
 ○ You met Coco? Cool. Got a wife/gf/kids?? Meemaw wants to be great meemaw
 v Daia and Luc woke up early enough to find Rubio had left. He also left a gift basket in the living room. The mechanic got here early.
 v Perry gave herself bangs. Daia helped
 v Luc almost eats the grits but then only eats sausage, bacon, and eggs. Luc has to admit to being allergic to grits, Sinola says she loves grits so much. We talk about lung cancer
 ○ Luc monologues about the chances of lung cancer for smokers and non smokers
 v Rubio's gift basket includes his date leftovers
 ○ Cheeses, wine, and a fuck ton of muffins.
 ○ Sorry about the unpleasantness last night, please accept my apologies. Sorry it's not much, just had some flowers from the yard and muffins I baked.
 ○ Luis claims you can't haunt muffins.
 ○ Perry and Sinola play chubby bunny with the muffins
 v Perry's car is going to get a new icon skdlfjadsklf
 ○
 v Luc and Luis go to the private conversation patio. DON'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS AND DON'T READ INTO IT… You're something of a people person, a ladies' man? I need help interpreting something that has happened to me.
 ○ Do you think
 ○ Is… ok… I'm not making assumptions
 ○ DO you think perry is hitting on me
 ○ Oohhhh boy uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. Ass slaps aren't normally platonic. But I don't know perry well? Some people flirt platonically? 50/50 research needed. I can look out for you.
 ○ "We're all friends, might as well shoot your shot I guess." "That's not my angle, here. I'm just very confused and have trouble interpreting this."
 ○ Luc says "I interpreted us eating dinner every Sunday as platonic" and Luis almost gasps. Luc also mentions the fly-carrying thing and how Perry was like "I can just hold on tight uwu" and didn't stop holding on
 ○ Luis says just be causal and let her know if she's making you uncomfortable let
 v Sinola barely beats Perry, Coraline is respectful, Daia is a little haunted.
 v Sinola and Luc go to the Sheriff's office.
 ○ The sherrif: built like a brick shithouse, wide brim hat entirely in shadow, piercing green eyes. High waisted, cuffed jeans, a big belt buckle with a flower design. And huge cowboy boots. Cowboy big in all dimensions
 ○ He removes his hat and is surprisingly young. Like 30s
 ○ Good intel that most of the kids had a positive connection to the corporation.
 ○ Someone who has teleporting abilities is likely a suspect
 ○ Sal is sus, two murders were on his property, he's outspoken, and there are a few eyewitnesses saying he has been stockpiling strange objects, his family has been known to be called brujos. Good motive, being one of the most affected farmers of the area. But he's nice and has a kid, so he should be sympathetic, but its sad to hear.
 ○ Luc tells him about the husks "creatures running around and ripping out cars," and due to the evidence, the sheriff takes it well
 ○ The sheriff is more skeptical of the Weeping Woman, Luc says there's an undead problem, but the town is so fast to jump to blaming her or Sal that he is wary
 v On the way out, Luc sees someone familiar. In a fancy dress, faux fur jacket, wavy black hair blonde at the tips… The first lady with her DOG
 ○ Sinola has complete bone chill terror seeing Guadalupe. Like Oh Fuck
 ○ She, seeing Sinola, goes wide-eyed
 v Perry and Daia look at the car. They find some basic tools, nothing great for mechanics. Perry manages to fix the door, the roof is able to be closed back on, but without flame can't seal it. They drive into town to find a mechanic
 ○ She offers to help but he's like I need money bitch
 ○ We walk out and see Guadalupe enter the Sheriff's office
 v Luis and Coraline investigate the graveyard, MAR\_\_\_\_\_RI \\ DORA\_\_\_\_, are visible names.
 v Daia's weakness is algebra
 v Lupe asks how Luc knows Sinola, they're both really awkward
 ○ Luc is like "wtf was that"
 ○ She's like we went to high school I mean no I last saw her at the signing of the peace treaty. But Luc detects her Primal Fear, which remains. She chose flight
 v Coraline makes fun of Luc for implying he and Sinola were going to fuck big John Marston ("we committed to helping him out")
 v The archivist explicitly asks for bribes. Actually haha not what she was asking
 ○ The modern cathedral was built mostly out of materials from the old one
 ○ The cemetery was mysteriously given to the Garena family after the flood of 1168
 ○ It used to be the town center, which is unusual
 v At Sal's house, Luc does a little look around. Finds a little girl with pigtail's room, nothing of note in it. Her name is Angelica. She's wearing little baby overalls. She calls the teenager a "mean kid."
 ○ She said the turkeys have been mean lately, but they're good. She named one Cluckers. Look kinda fucked? They look PISSED
 ○ She shows him horses in the barn, there's three big big horses. They all look calm and happy
 ○ The barn has a Triumvereen symbol with relation to a god of fire, war, sun. It can be used in reverence or to say there was a war in this location.
 ○ Luc wears a tiara for her tea party (there is no real tea). He's Sir Lucero of the Open Range. Assigned knight at tea party
 ○ Sal is not happy to find him at the tea party "WHAT are you doing?" "I got distracted."
 ○ She's supposed to stay in her room :(( but the meeting has not been adjourned. Luc does the rites of remembrance for the meeting
 ○ Luc finds a false wall in the cellar while looking with the Sheriff and Sinola. Sal has to open it up. Inside there's a big ass altar. Stones, carvings, hieroglyphs, obsidian blades, variety of dolls hung on bonsai trees. Like in the cemetery. The center of the altar is a book.
 ○ Evidently Angelica hung the dolls like that because she saw something when she was a kid that makes her weird/???? Luc gets the feeling it isn't the most honest.
 ○ The sheriff looks over the book, it's dusty. It is titled, basically, How to Manifest Arcane Creatures to Do Your Bidding. Sal's like that ain't my book, altars don't have books there. This answer seems more truthful
 § Coraline said she thought it had been ritual side effect, so that’s confusing
 ○ Luc looks at the book and the room. The room is dusty, but this book is less dusty. Placed here or used recently? If the altar was part of the ritual from the book, they should match. If the altar was not used, the book should have been found somewhere else.
 ○ Sal says when she was young, Angelica was almost taken by La Llorona. LLl/WW is different from other spirits, she has power in her. She's a dumb spirit though, emotional only, grief and betrayal made true. The only way to appease her is to make a shrine. He wards the barn and the house and keeps relics under her bed and teaches her to keep safe
 v Perry and Daia go shopping, Perry gets regular clothes pretty easy
 ○ Pencil thin greeter lady. Assumes it's for Daia. Yoikes
 ○ Daia has a job trial at 5 for the shipment. It doesn't seem overboard. They seem like they ship guns actually. Perry is skeptical of it but Daia thinks it seems nicer, community, put together, genuine sense of helping people and not just illicit shit.
 ○ Perry says be careful, she says "okay mom"
 v Coraline and Luis go to the cemetery with a Ouija board. Luis accidently calls her a bog witch. The people in the bayou are more in touch between our world and theirs, border ethereal
 ○ She asks what kind of source his magic is from, he says its from the ethereal. He stepped into the ethereal realm and could sing real good. That means he has a close tie to this place.
 ○ Ethereal plane is the essence of magic, boundary between our world and the layer of reality where magic is from. A connection to the boundary is a raw ass connection.
 ○ Luis, with a coin, feels three presences. It feels like there is another hand on the coin.
 ○ Ghost 1: 19, never call her Zap. Ghost 2: Sir Demetrio Sevilla de Qorduba, Ghost 3: Private Cajamarcos.
 HELLLO.
 She was not the one dancing with Rubio, it was another. He's been here since 1007. Probably died from syphilis. He's a member of the first battalion. He died in 1298. He doesn't talk to the others. :[
 Says both DW and LLl are waiting for him. They may or may not be different entities. He "was the first through the gate" to burn an indigenous city :/
He only knows about LLl. He calls her a monster. Doesn't know how she died, maybe the Coronistas? Shrug
 LLl was betrayed by love. Do you know what happened? She was long dead. They don't know if she was around when the cathedral was destroyed. The one who betrayed her was Garena. The old one. Marco? Don't know how he betrayed her. He has a wife and children and remembers their names: his dear Elena, children Marco and Julia Sevilla. His blood brother is Marco Garina Maldonado.
 The dancing woman is nice. He doesn't know how the dancing woman got here. Her name is Garina.
 The weeping woman is here due to justice. He doesn't know who executed her, but it was because of lust.
 His brother was not in relations with Ll, "he's safe."
 He says LLl was made up by the indigenous population.
 Luis accidentally made him realize he's dead.
 v Sal Garena's trial will be on November 2nd. The town wants him out and will send Angelica upstate to an orphanage.
 ○ You wouldn't normally be immediately executed, but there's a good chance he will be because witch.
 v (Perry maybe did a little joyriding in Coraline's really nice car)
 v Luis tells Coraline about his dead brother ("scorned from the family") and died in battle in the Grand Tevran War on the side of the ICA. Luis' family HATED him. He doesn't know why, his family wouldn't acknowledge his existence, especially in front of grandma.
 v "I guess I was raised in a nerd household."
 v Presences familiar to Luis are in the room. Don't talk shit about ghosts.
 v "Bathroom ritual" — Perry
 v "If I've learned anything about going to Church with my uncle, it's…… symbolism…………………………." Natural disasters happening to places of religion, I zoned out. ghosts
 v Perry tells the boys about Daia's new job. Luis recognizes it is probably the Angels, due to the arms dealing.
 v The Garena family sold Coraline her house.
 v Coraline says that sufficiently powerful buildings connected to the ethereal have Thrones/Hearts, places but also part of their being. It's their nest, and they can feed off of things that are there. She likely drowns the children to take them to her Throne and feed from them.
 v "Dead Kid Day" somehow personally inconveniences Luc
 ○ He's upset he has to work on the holiday in bad ghost zone
 v Luc reveals his birthday is November 1st
 v Coraline bought the house BECAUSE it has ghosts. She's going to build them into certain rooms so she will have her own space. Coraline says the red door is probably not the heart like Rubio said, since it doesn't make sense. Spirits aren't people or the ones they were: one person can make certain ghosts, usually from an emotion or personality piece.
 ○ A being can be given power/roles because people believe they have them… like the president
 v Perry swaps rooms with Luc so he doesn't have to fight a conquistador.
 v Perry calls her dealer to set up a meeting
 v She wakes up to the sound of a motor and sees a van driving past. In the distance, there's a scarecrow that gets off its stick. The van stops and more husks are coming. The back door opens up and 7 people exit, all in armor with bright red handkerchiefs. They raise their hands, punch, shooting flames, surgically eliminate each one. She seees that they have red wings painted on their back, and someone familiar is in the van. A man with glasses on.
 ○ Santiago, McKendrick, Rubio, and also Isaac

 ○ Coraline's face has a flash of grief?
 v It's almost time for Sunday Mass. ARE WE GOING…
 ○ Luis was convinced by Coraline, to keep appearances
 ○ Perry is wearing her new duds for her Sunday Best.
 ○ Luc's wearing his normal clothes, but has buttoned up the vest and a serape
 ○ Luc does not wear a hat in church
 v Luis looks really uncomfortable at church. (Luc gets the read that he really hates being at church. It's the vibe of walking into middle school; too familiar, he was in church a lot and its uncomfortable).
 v Seating: Luc, Sinola, Perry, Coraline, Luis
 v Luis has been feeling off, vaguely sick. As the bishop climbs the pulpit, Luis begins to feel weak and light, disadvantage on STR saves. Medicine check: not a disease or not eating, his bones are becoming hollow. Magical of some origin. Arcana: this is not a good thing, it is the first sign of something bigger and feels as though it was planted on him by something bigger.
 v The bishop feels the need to address that Mr. Garena is on the gallows. Law of the king… luc 16…
 v Guadalupe, First Lady, comes into church and sits by Luis.
 ○ She uses the right honorifics for perry king bless her
 ○ She gives us her personal office number
 ○ She wishes to talk to Sinola in private….
 v The parade will go plaza>cemetery
 v Luc takes note of the church architecture. Baroque, made of clay brick, put up quick, relics are pretty old. Church is devoted to the holy lady, huge new statue behind the pulpit (around when the church was built).
 v Perry says hello to the congregation people as a distraction while the other two sneak around.
 ○ She meets Manuel Aquino and his whole family
 v Luc follows a SKETCHY FIGURE who is looking through old archives (Luis)
 ○ The map: diagram of the modern church and the original church. The style is the most different detail (baroque vs gothic). The old one is more square than a normal church, like it was overlaid over an existing structure. They have different names as well, the old one was named by a conquistador, hill of the ahuizotls. Flores is its rebranding. The new one has a focus on the statue of the lady. Luis copies the map.
 ○ The diary of a bishop: describes his life as the steward for the old church, dedicated to how he wanted to do kisses on his bff and fellow priest domingo. Wife of Marco Garina II was found cheating on him and was second to death. He was sympathetic, as he had fathered many bastards during his travels. He asked the king to give Maria Garina mercy. Sentenced in 1160, 8 years before flood.
 ○ There are 3 different marcos
 v Perry has drawn a CROWD of people wanting to meet her and has been offered 4 different kinds of cookies. A local sensation.
 ○ Perry joins the choir. Practice on Wednesday evening and the activities are on Sunday after mass
 ○ The bishop tells her that if she needs ANYTHING to just let him know. He is good at opening doors. He also called her divine and had the pipes of an angel uwwuuuuuu
 v Luis asks Perry to feel his arm. It feels oddly light, weak/brittle. Luis thinks it's hollow.
 v Perry felt that angel thing, but only for a moment as Guadalupe sat down. HMMM
 v We go to the Garena farm. Deputy is there
 ○ Luis gets big vibes from the altar; it's magic as practice, study, similar to The Ritual in vibes. Religious intent behind it. Everything feels normal, but the book feels odd. Photos or an idol should be in its place.
 ○ Proc. Diagrams for summoning Malady Spirits
 ○ Perry opens the book and finds it pretty clean and unused, or at least was used very cleanly.
 ○ None of the rituals mention spores or corn, but there are ones for golems of elemental bases. It implies this would be more earthy boys. Part of a golem is a keystone, which is the power cell. It must be removed or overheat or go bongus mad.
 ○ There is a half scratched off sticker that says property of ??SSIONAL LIBRARY. The altar was made measured, the book was put hastily.
 ○ Proof they weren't summoned but are a side effect?
 ○ Perry finds, on the edge of the field, a charred thing halfway in a ditch between the field and the road. It's humanoid in shape but made of plant material, seemingly was targeted burnt. She cannot find a keystone. The fire was likely magical due to the precision. She pulls it apart and finds it is burnt all the way through. It looks like it was burned from the inside out, more charred on the inside. All ash. Whoever did this INTENDED to leave nothing.
 ○ She checks the old posts where they were. Four or five in this field and others, two or three, maybe four, are empty. They could have fallen off, ones she can check were snapped off. She tries to collect some weird fungus and puts it in her bare hands. While she is dumping it into her subway map, it seemingly gets stuck under her skin. She uses radiant consumption to try and scorch it out and sees that the fungus travels down her veins through her hand, causing a burning irritation. UH OH
 ○ Turkey town: Cluckers is the fancy one. They rest all look angry. Luc's animal handling and Luis' investigation lets them know they are acting sick and are not eating as much, giving the food a wide berth. The food looks… like cornmeal.
 ○ Perry: "I think I did somethin stupid"
 ○ While she was getting upset @ Luis, she felt an anger flash through her that was wacky.
 ○ Fungal roid rage
 ○ Luc is CERTAIN he's never seen this infection before, but the only fungus with this effect would be the zombie fungus. Historically, you do not have much time, but normally there would be other accompanying symptoms due to fast progression. An anti-fungal tonic could stave it off. It's also not as aggressive but still bad vibes. It usually requires wet environment to thrive. It does not look exactly like zombie fungus, but they are at least family. Luc notices that it thrived in active ichor presence from her blood because it's a magical disease. Zombie fungus was naturally occuring and was enhanced by archon presence to enhance strength. Crossbreeding with fungus from the "old world" made the new dangerous magical zombie one. It's inherently magic.
 ○ Luc salvages her sample the best he could.
 v Luis at the Archives
 ○ He discovers there was only one Maria Garina because that was the last recorded name under Garina. She mothered two children, whose names were switched to Garena. The men on her husbands side had long titles, her children do not. Three bastards from her husband died in 1160. They were children, the eldest 13. Her maiden name is distinctly Triumvereen (Azcatl). Sal Garena is descended from her children. (Her legitimate children were considered less legitimate than his bastards, who are more white I guess).
 ○ The only accounts he can find are of the flood. He finds a historical account of the founding of the town in 1003. It was written by Marco Garina sent to the governor in Santa Corazon. It describes the plans for the town's main square (flores district) where most colonists are settling, the indigenous settlement was closer to the lake edge. They deconstructed the temple to build themselves a church. The temple was to a goddess of water and flowers. He claimed an area for himself not too far away, it happens to be Coraline's house.
 ○ Sevilla and Garina were sent as the two leaders to conquer the original town, Garina was granted control and Sevilla was disinterested, about to be reassigned, but died in 1007 from syphilis "unknown reasons."
 ○ Zap: Property deed of the Garina estate, the Coraline house, in the mid-last century where the estate was used by the National Academy as a testing ground for new psychotherapy ideas. No deaths were officially reported. Most likely she died during electroshock therapy.
 ○ Recent ghost: Luis was in SC when this happened; the final battle of the war was the Battle of Flores. Coronistas broke through the Republicano line and they surrendered soon after. He likely died during that battle as there were many Republicano losses. Most civilians were evacuated but there were likely a lot left behind.
 v As she drove, Perry feels the itch, it's about elbow length now but is fading. Feeling is spreading but the lines are fading. Luc prepares a tonic, but it will wipe out his supply of activated ichor he currently has. Perry WIS save, her general vibe is pissy angry. She takes the tonic. The itching fades but the cure isn't immediate. It's fought off for a day, but she will need more doses. Once a day for an unknown amount of time.
 ○ He studies it further with better tools and figures that, so long as she takes the tonic every day, she will be fine. If she is introduced to high levels of stress, it will accelerate the growth and she runs the risk of becoming a zombie puppet. The veins are forming a structure in her body that could physically control her. It's curable, but they would need a specialist in fungal blights. De Soto x 2 might be good at it, Isabel would certainly know how to cure it.
 ○ Luc stresses her out
 ○ Her arm slaps him, which upsets her more
 ○ Her arm jerks onto the table and knocks over bottles, costing him a new alchemy kit
 ○ Perry asks for alcohol to calm down, which might actually help kill the fungus some
 ○ She gives him her vial of IA (1:4 ratio perry:luc dosages)
 ○ She has until the stroke of noon on Tuesday before she loses her shit
 v Perry asks Luc about his taste in fancy clothes
 v At the store, Luc hears on the radio that the stock (stalk hee hoo) market is booming. The soaring company? Agrigro.
 ○ As he's walking back, he feels a compulsion to the pay phone. "I hate it when you do that."
 ○ "I'm sort of stranded here in town" bc coraline is driving sinola
 ○ Don't tell Perry, but she's in a real bad way. Still sick, will take a real good doctor to cure her, and while she's sick she can't have her usual which will make her sicker. And going into withdrawal will stress her out enough to put her entire body into shock and get sicker.
 ○ "No, no, she ain't gonna die." he says with complete confidence
 ○ Luc voice: DON'T stress her out. You Will pay the price.
 ○ Luis promises to find a better way to use the payphone spell.
 v Luis goes to the bus stop and is told that it costs 6 cp to use the bus which arrives at 5:30, which is 45 minutes from now.
 v At 7ish, Luis is still not here. Around 30-45 minutes late. At 8, he still is not here.
 v Perry and Luc go to pet Lenny and meet Estrella. Lenny calms her down.
 v The Dealer zone is an older area of town, back of buildings, not well lit and with little car traffic. Old apartments and shops. We park on the main street meeting an intersection. The shops are getting close to close.
 ○ Perry can't Disguise Self and has to come out to Johnny. He has glasses but he isn't ringing bells.
 ○ Monty follows him walking but loses him inside an apartment complex. He goes through the courtyard and takes service stairs down into a basement.
 ○ No one leaves, but someone does enter the basement. He's wearing a nice suit, short cropped wavy hair, and IT"S RUBIOFFDLKJLKDJF
 ○ We decide to follow
 v Luis is on the bus. There is a fair amount of people; 35/50 capacity. At 6, it leaves. As he's sleeping, he hears a grumbling sound and breaks. The bus Has Stopped. It's 6:30, halfway between stops. It's sundown. Luis goes up to the front, the front of the bus is smoking. The engine ran out of coolant.
 ○ He sees something Big in the corn, vehicle sized.
 ○ 28 are left as some go to town to get a second bus.
 ○ It's 7:45. It's cold. There's a rustlin in the cornfields. As Luis gets people on the bus, the cornfield people encircle the area and start to creep out onto the asphalt.
 ○ One SMACKS AGAINST THE CAR
 v Luc and Perry go underground, a pyramid is propping up the ceiling. Rubio, at a Y intersection in the cave, is looking at a group of four surrounded by crates. Talkin.
 ○ Johnny has a wife
 ○ "Taking this back to the plantation."
 ○ Greg is the name of the big rat that makes all the rules
 ○ They're moving into the caverns, they're going to branch out beyond ichor.
 ○ The product is the kind of thing to irradiate things
 ○ Rubio has a GUN
 ○ He swivels out and dashes at the crates, removes a crowbar, and tries to pry it open. He slips and busts open the lid, causing a loud noise. The angels are like "what the fuck" and run down the hallway.
 ○ Rubio offers 20 gp for "one converter" from the box. They recognize him as a senator, agreeing not to kill him. Rubio reaches behind him and… pulls out a FUCKING SWORD.
 ○ Luc takes Perry by the hand and squeezes it to give her strength before heading out to do an intimidation check ;). He goes out, hits one real good with his knee, and combat will be next session.
 v Luis: more husks are smacking against the bus. A van comes by and hits one with a firebolt. It appears to not want to stop and might just hit Luis if he doesn't get out of the way. He rolls out of the way as the three hit are blasted into ashes and the van screeches to a stop.
 ○ Three people in leather armor gear with red painted wings get out and do battle with the increased number of husks coming from the field.
 ○ One helps Luis up, and goes, "… Luis?"
 ○ They take off their helmet and… it's Daia.
 ○ That's the end of the session.

* + "Yes, she knows? And you know?" "I've known for awhile. And you weren't going to tell me? So I've just been performing for you, as a joke?"
	+ They talk about secrets being not great or being kind of fine for protection or just privacy. But they could HURT people.
	+ Yes, Sinola, I would want to be told a secret that would harm me. Did you do something? Did you break something in my house???
	+ No I just thought you'd want to know something about your SQUEEEEEEEZZZEE.
	+ "He called me up just before your concert"
		- Daniel has a visceral reaction
	+ "He called me askin' if I could help kidnap you."
	+ Coraline is not forthcoming about how she's mad at Luis or not
* A sound of another car in the distance, getting closer and closer — a speeding, blacked out van, with red underpaint. It is night and there is a bus on the edge of the highway. The van slams facefirst into a scarecrow.
* Daia's sexy biker helmet
* Four husks around. Oh man calling the Angels angels is going to be so confusing.
	+ Husks are attacking the bus.
	+ Luis gets fucked up, chest flesh pushed out, tendrils moved in under the skin.
	+ The angels punch fire and it works stupid well. Daia tries to fire knife the tendril out of Luis and gets knocked aside the bus.
	+ He inspires Daia and they start doing a synergy.
* Luc has just punched and broken the nose and glasses of Johnny, Perry's drug dealer….. CRRRRKCKKCKKK.
	+ Johnny with a baton, old homemade blunderbuss guy, and an unarmed woman. Perry, Luc, and Rubio.
	+ "Drop your weapons." "FUCK,,, listen to the fucking cowboy… this is going to be a medical bill…"
	+ Rubio is shocked and awed
	+ "Were you watching us??" wink. "Don't wink at me, you just broke my nose!"
		- "At least your nose wasn't broken by a girl." "Why would that be a problem??" "If she was pretty." "…… OKAY, mysterious cowboy."
	+ "Listen, mr. shadow cowboy, I have fear and respect for you"
	+ "we all have noses we value"
	+ They take the crates, Rubio is sad
	+ "Well that went better than I expected it to," Perry says, emerging
* One of the angels is thrown against the bus, bones are cracking. Sound of something sliding through flesh. The other one is kind of just dancing firing into the cornfield.
	+ One of the husks rips into the side of the bus, chirps and clicks, and a BASS BOOSTED BOOM comes from somewhere in the cornfield. So much corn starts to part. One of the angels is torn in half by a husk oof. Another is grabbed by something mysterious in the periphery of the field. Daia burning hands em up
* Luc, observing the area, can determine that this is a frequently-used meeting spot and an entrance to the Undercity. One exit seems flooded and southwardly, one is going toward the battleground area.
* Luis gets hit twice. Kinda thrice. Will Luis die? Not with a failed damage die.
	+ An angel, with a shattered helmet, covered in slime, runs out of the corn field like "THERE'S SOMETHING REALL YBIG IN THER E"
	+ Boom. Boom. Boom. Thick tendril leg… of a dr. pepper can. It's a…. Husk king? Of fresh bodies and husks cocooned together like a blooming, morbid flower shooting spores. Brackish, viscous fluid contains breathing and trapped human beings dragged by powerful root limbs.
		- It's Matryoshka Nito
	+ An angel breathes in spores, falls down, sputtering. One has a bike helmet and he's good.
	+ A body pops out of the bottom of the flower, starts coughing until a flower explodes from their face. It's more like a floral fungus, still coated in the slime of the miracle of life, using human skin and organs to move around
	+ Daia runs into the van and asks for Luis to stall and keep people safe. Machinery noises
	+ One angel casts fireball and kills 6/7 remaining creatures :prayer\_hands:
	+ Luis witnesses a guy become decapitated by the vines of the creature, but the back of the head and jaw are still attached at the neck this is horrible and this is Luis' fault because he cast dissonant whispers
* ~10:30 PM the lo fi gang gets back to Luc's house. Perry calls Coraline on the payphone. Then someone with a French voice says "I know who Luis is" who is filling her car. Sandy hair, green eyes, freckles, it's Marie F. of the Reliquary
	+ She can track the artifact if he has it since he has not paid it off
	+ "please, get in my car" and Perry just does it
	+ She stops the car at Wolfesbane, not the Reliquary. She pulls out a pocketwatch, checks herself in the mirror on it. She wants up on the upper floors? To get Luis' statuette
	+ A lot of our coworkers are still around and active even though it is late at night. The cafeteria is quartered off with tape. The nice carpet is stained red in a large area and the window is broken
	+ Frieda is around. Luc asks her what happened. Gomez was talking about his plans for the weekend shift and a bird flew in through the window and started ripping into him. They shot it dead. He was injured. Theyre going to talk to a birdologist about it. Chemicals in its eyes made it irritated, it was hurt by the window, thought Gomez was hurting him. It looked like a large raptor, a falcon or an eagle.
	+ She and Gomez were talking to Mx. Ordonez before then, minor budget cuts here and there and raises for our department maybe.
	+ Frieda is in charge of the salad bar now! Please put down any dietary restrictions you have.
	+ Luc retrieves the statue.
	+ He finds a brown feather, tiger striped with a white tip, at the downstairs crime scene. He fails the check to identify it.
	+ He meets Ordonez in the elevator! They have some small talk and they ask if he's feeling alright physically and mentally. They say they want to get to know him better like all employees but is he going to finish his case soon? By the end of the month? Or next Tuesday when they're voting after the holiday recess?
		- When you do this job… people expect it to be done quiet-like and smooth-like. Smooth down any bumps, like the client expect.
	+ Perry and Marie kind of awkwardly smoke in silence before Luc comes back
		- She summons Luis and she says "I'm sorry I gave this man such a fowl-mouthed bird"
		- Perry sends Monty to follow Bird Luis towards Luis
* The inner part of the creature is also a pustule, perhaps holding a younger form.. Ew
	+ An angel is held on by two husks, on his hand, and tries to push through the two of them with burning hands. One is decapitated. The other bites his hand and he screams
	+ From the Daia sound, the mechanical sounds stop, and then there is a sound of crackle crackle
	+ Luis is grappled on the face. He uses command and its face becomes closed, resembling a droopy human face it is wearing.
	+ An angel dives under husks going for the headless guy. His helmet is cracked and he's a lil fearful maybe
	+ A newbaby human skin husk jumps up onto the bus and it tries to anchor and net down people in the bus. The human skin unfurls along the spreading creature.
	+ Nito gurgles and spores burst out, floating around the bus, con saves for all
	+ The van glows red from the inside and, instantly, the creatures goes up in flames as an Upcasted Fireball is cast. It goes up like a mushroom
	+ Daia's veins are engorged and glowing orangey red; she collapses near the car
	+ The bus folks work together to tear apart the vines can I get a yeehaw
	+ The remaining husks run to the progenitor thing and catch themselves on fire in their confusion
	+ An angel runs to the bus, takes off his helmet, and says the van can hold most of them and everyone needs to get out. He helps Daia up, she looks bad
	+ There are a lot of apparati on the walls, probably once full of activated ichor. Empty now. Daia did you do all of those drugs
	+ A humanoid creature, with an exoskeleton of vines and thorns, emerges unharmed from the fire. The skin is dyed brackish from the slime on them, eyes are glossed over, one leg is missing and replaced with a vine structure. It calmly walks into the field
* Luis and Monty take us VERY South, out of town, toward Flores
	+ Just out of town, it swoops down. The highway is blocked off by a busted bus in the middle of the road and a charred field to the left. There are two people chilling, a deputy and a bus driver, and a car nearby.
	+ The Sheriff pronounces Derud as Deroos and Lonetree as Lawngtree
	+ Luc learns that this was a large biomass resembling a giant pile of burned fertilizer. The bus was broken by an explosive force and there are metal pieces under the fertilizer like bits of a truck trailer. The fire spread from it to the field. There is a van or truck
	+ Perry notices the trailer hitch is designed a bit small for the load it would have been carrying. There's a pronounced track in the direction of the city and another set of tracks the same direction. A big vehicle back towards SC and a smaller vehicle that went around and then round back. Second tracks have a smaller vehicle. She can figure that someone came in after the events happen and altered the scene.
	+ The bus driver says Red Scarf (Luis) and Ricardo Gutierrez are missing. The survivors were dropped off by a gas station and said that Luis stayed with the folks that helped out. The nice group was driving "normal cars" thanks sheriff unhelpful. Quetzal cars, fancy like, model Jag. Higher end car. Not truck or van. They said a thrown cigarette hit the fertilizer pile and created a boom. The people at the gas station were dazed, like they had seen an explosion duhhhh
	+ Perry threatens the cop with Marson, he calls her a scab (picket line breaker, cops hate wolfesbane etc)
	+ Monty and Luis are circling, Luis Bird seems confused.
* Marie has LB eat a bit of the notebook Luis gave to Perry to track him down better. It hops on the ground a lot.
	+ She's allergic to corn?
	+ Follow the birds following the vehicle tracks. It leads to the gas station, then to a dirt road leading into the corn.
	+ Scarecrow, golem, corn dumb talk
* Car by abandoned farmhouse. It's dead. No one is here.
* Marie throws Perry a bottle of tum-looking pills labeled CORNAID for the "corn rumblies." They're… Enhanced **Tums**
	+ Gotta give her credit for correcting to Madame
* This farmhouse has a hall, stairs, two doors. There's blood spatter going forward and onto the door behind the stairs. Luc notices that there are three sets of tracks by the blood leading in. The old wood floor is lighter on this one corridor and the rest is dusty. The door does seem trapped. He unsets it and the door comes open. The trap was a gate with spikes on the ceiling that would crash into someone going through.
	+ Normal looking basement, blood leads to a propped up crate a bit smaller than man height. There is a mechanism on the inside of the crate, like a lock. A magnetic lock, maybe a button or a keycard sensor somewhere.
	+ Table with old playing cards, a real skeleton wearing Republicano clothes sitting in the corner. His hand looks like he was holding something.
	+ Against all odds, Luis gets that door crowbarred open as quietly as a human possibly could. The locking bar snaps and the crate falls some, the magnet falls on the ground. There is no putting it together.
* There's nothing in the crate, it's against the wall, on the opposite side of the crate it has an indentation. A very tiny indentation. The floor of the crate is metal. 25 INV, the indent is a disguise for a paper lining on the crate wall, where a hole is cut, covered by paper lining of fake crate texture
	+ Perry spawns Monty underneath the ground. Through Monty eyes, we see a 2x2 chamber/shaft, a concrete tunnel going up, grate of the metal above, light below. There's metal rigging in an indent on one side of the wall. Johnny's big elevaaatoorrrr
	+ The indent seems to have a button (small like a reset button on a modem
	+ Luc presses it and the floor descends slow. They gotta cram in there. ;). Another metal grate slots in above us.
* BACK IN TIME
	+ Daia will be fine if we just get her to base fast so she can detox. Luis calm everyone, talk to them, tell them its Angels and they'll get a care package to be quiet about it
	+ "I see your red scarf… are you fine? Are you chill? You're not a cop?"
	+ You're all under the protection of the angels, now, the angel says. He's very soft about it. Practiced. Don't tell the cops. Asks to borrow Luis because he has been healing people, and to carry Daia because he's bleeding all over the place also
	+ He injects himself, holds hand up to the crate and moves it to the side, presses button and descends
	+ IMAGE: The two groups going down in the same elevator, separate points in time
	+ There's a FULL FACTORY underground. It's LOUD. Large cavern with trailing hallways. They are making mechanical tools. They cross to barracks, people look at the Luis/Daia/angel trio oddly. The whole area looks like there's rain pouring in the passageways and they're on a dry island. She (Lucy?) knocks on the door, a stout man with half moon glasses and a bushy beard opens it up.
	+ Angel lies about Luis being from another branch. Because he's wearing a red scarf
	+ They plug Daia in and drain out the ichorized blood with the "detox kit." Luis cure wounds him. He has scars that follow vein patterns. Luis stays with Daia until around 11 PM, she stays asleep in the chair, when there is the sound of a motorboat approaching from the window facing away from the production facility, toward the island, only the driver… big bottle glasses… IT'S RUBIOooo that kind but stupid senator
	+ Luis hides in the wardrobe, notices that he can't fit very well and hide, realizes this is stupid and gets out, and is caught halfway through by a jacket and Rubio is opening the window so he JUMPS BACK IN TO HIDE AGAIN.
	+ Through the crack, he sees a glint, like a mirror being moved, Rubio's head pops up and he sneaks through. Double-takes seeing Daia but then is like whatever
	+ He loses sight of Rubio, hears drawers opening and a "yeah!" then an elevator descending, aaand a lot of commotion.
* Luc and Perry are in front of a huge amount of people on the production line. Johnny, nose plugged, goes "HEY! WHAT THE FUCK?"
* Perry tells them all about touching the fungus and getting infected. They gesture for Perry to come, pulling her away from Luc. He makes a move to stay with her and one of them smacks him with the back of a rifle.
* Luc tells them he's a scientist, they laugh. Bushy beard says they're fine but they have experts. Luc then claims to be her doctor. They permit him to be in the cell over
* To Johnny, Luc is Unto A God
* They literally manacle them
* Luis definitely hears all of this. He says "I bet you, me, that it's those two idiots and they've come down here… or they could have found Rubio."
	+ Rubio, who has not left the room, says "……… Luis? What're you doing in the wardrobe?"
* Rubio does fine a machine part here in this office, which he is trying to steal. Luis will not ask or tell
	+ "Are you following me?" "No." roll 28. "Oh, okay. Thanks… you guys are weird, though."
	+ "Look, those two are great, great at their job… but they're *so stupid.*"
	+ "Tough and abrasive, to be expected with Wolfesbane crew. Hard job, hard people." - Rubio
	+ He is still down to do that interview btw
	+ "Happy holiday" crawls out the window
	+ Rubio gestures for Luis to come to the boat and says "are you in the market to make some cash??" and he wants some more of those weird little devices for 30 gp, national academy, dr seppy 6pm.
* Lucy gives Luis a tour of the facility. Newer factory, trying to produce… people are straying from IA to gain practitioner powers and they're trying to get ahead of the market. Down below is the factory. There's a farm, manufacturing, overhead offices. Security, basement storage, brig.
	+ They farm… ichor…….. ahughhghghhuhhhhhfhfhfhfhghghghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
	+ Angels are trying to "take the racists territory for something good" for production, to be the "main safety net for people"
	+ Luis plays dumb about knowing about the undercity
	+ Lucy knows that the Sword was Cristian, which is supposed to be top secret?
	+ Updates on the gang activity June please type that out for me later
* The NO had outside financing, got into the cathedral after the war, paved areas in the undercity. There was MONEY behind them.
* Lucy saw two of his closest friends die… he… saw two of his closest friends die… Luis comforts him. "It’s rough out there, man."
* The cell is pretty snazzy for what it is. Like a lower scale Varrick Legend of Korra, or Glimmer Prison She-Ra
* The nurse says "I'm sorry for your loss" to Perry ???
	+ Also says not killing people would be preferable and yet the farm
	+ Plan is to treat us and establish a courtesy contract and let us go
* At 12:30 AM, a larger boat begins approaching, allowed in by the gate. It has huge fans on the back to propel it to the docks. Heavily armed angels step out, guarding a black-clad figure with a corvid plague doctorish mask. Lucy says "oh shit that's one of the Doctors. What an idiot, right? If you cast, and you just touch magic fungus? Right?" Luis laughs and defends Perry a little bit but like. Not really. Traitor
	+ Luis does ask about their Caster Policy. "How do we go about the extraction process?"
	+ They pick people: from a group, check their skills and abilities, see what their blood may bring. Ask politely for the blood. Unless they're POW, a bit more sinister. Or if the higherups deem them too dangerous to be left alive, why waste a body. That's about one out of ten cases.
	+ "You're not Nocturne Order, right? Haha that was a joke." then insult Luis' style re: Moors' Gang suits
* The doctor has a nasally voice like dubbons crie
	+ Dangerous strain of mutated mold, you won't dieee but it could spread too far into the brain and impact your decision making and emotional state.
	+ Perry whispers to the doctor that Luc is basically her boyfriend, not her doctor, and the Doctor is like ah young love
	+ Luc asks to see the credentials… a license, but not Professional or From an Institution
	+ He threatens the doctor with Big Threats if they fuck up Perry's surgery
	+ "I've signed the Hippocratic oath" HE IS NOT A DOCTOR
* Perry is put under. The doctor makes the guards watch Luc to keep him from being emotional. "Y'all's little thing is pretty sweet."
	+ Incises Perry with a SICKLE!?
	+ Luc INTENSELY watches the perry vivisection poor guy
	+ Perry's heart is covered in black lines that look like mold. Doctor tsk tsks. Starts talking to Luc over Perry's open body just waving around the bonesaw
	+ Can't stand the word aspergillus anymore
	+ One of the Doctor's Core Traits is stopping the spread of disease. No matter the disease, they will do their best to cure it… or prevent its spread. Their genuine Bond, even though they're at best a medical student, they do stand by the Do No Harm. Will try and cure a patient if they can. If they can save them they will do anything.
	+ Luc says he thinks it is not the zombie fungus due to the tonic preventing spread well enough and its less aggressive nature
* The doctor deadass removes Perry's heart and pulls a whole new heart out of their bag. This heart is pale and old and grody. They put a salve on it to reanimate the beating.
	+ It's a temporary measure to examine her heart in comparison to another infected heart?? Because it's WAY too similar…
	+ Keep her under with the artificial heart while this is going on
* Lucy leads Luis to the Security Pit. Luis sees a bare foot, sickened and yellowed and bloated. A part above the ankle shows something growing between the flesh. There's a metal pole and a chain. Lucy kicks the grate and 5 humanoids with fungal blooms in their skin start reacting and groaning. It's really just zombies fuck
	+ Luis reacts Viscerally
	+ They're compleeetteelllyyy under the control of the officer because of blood magic. People infected with zombie fungus can be controlled if you tap into their hivemind network.
	+ While they are talking, a guard comes to retrieve one of them. All five stop moving when he moves his hand. He opens the chest of one and takes the heart
	+ This place is called Factory 23. Luis says he's from Factory 13
	+ Lucy gives Luis his number. Luis gives Lucy his number
* The image of the plague doctor weighing Perry's heart in comparison to the zombie one……. Anubis…..
* Perry's original heart is restored and she's sewn back up. Then we'll discuss release fees when she wakes up tomorrow
	+ They're gonna prescribe her medical marijuana sdkjfjaslkdfjasdf
	+ Perry does not ask for anything in return for not talking to authorities. There's a legal document that does not really hold legal weight but like whatever sure
	+ Luc conveys that he wishes for gold, receives 7 gp 5 sp.
* They ask what it takes to remain quiet. Perry needs to not cast until the itching in the arm does not remain. Do not cast, do not inject. If using, use a small amount to keep satiated. NOT HIGH. Mitigate damage.
* Lucy tells Luc and Perry about Luis' gas station request. No Daia to be seen. Luis sleeps by a dumpster with a homeless guy. That's hardcore friendship
* (Luc gave Perry a nice hug)
* We all give hugs
* Luis and Perry scream at each other. Luc says shut up. Luis buys everyone shitty gas station breakfast. Luis stresses Perry out and her fungus progresses again. Luc calls Perry darlin' but he does that for everyone.
* Luis says "Daia shot up a lot of drugs and exploded" and Perry Loses it. Feels insecurity, need to lash out
* Luis finally calls Coraline in the morning
	+ "Sweet son in heaven, what the hell, boy??" love her
* The gas station clerk gives Luis fantasy axe body spray
* Perry's rolling paper says HOW DO YOU GET AN ALIEN BABY TO SLEEP? You rocket.
* Coraline drops Luc and Perry off at Luc's house and takes Luis home
* "Do I hear 31 gold? 32…?" "You know what… his funeral." "Yeah… but I'm gonna be the one cryin' at it."
* Coraline says: "You and I are going to have a long and serious talk when we get back."

* The gang had split up due to car troubles and bus troubles; Luis fought husks with an ill-prepared Daia and Angels Gang. Perry and Luc trailed Johnny and Rubio into the undercity, and gained only a little bit of fear from Johnny for their efforts as they were captured by the gang they were tracking. After a stressful evening of operations and compromises, they were released and reunited with Luis, who slept against a dumpster. Luc and Perry were dropped off and Luis was brought back to Flores inside a sparkling red hot rod. Coraline has not been saying anything and the energy is Tense.
* "Did you ever, in our relationship, have plans to violate my bodily autonomy and kidnap me?" "It's a little…. It's… it's a little….. It's a little more complicated than that…………………………."
	+ Luis' defense boils down to that he's stupid and believed kidnapping her made sense
	+ Coraline calls him the biggest idiot, in more words
	+ He promises to be more honest and open…
	+ Due to this being long ago and the past three months being fine, he is allowed a second chance but he's on thin fucking ice. People want to harm her and he has to protect her and not be stupid about it. He has to prove it to her that he won't super fuck up again.
		- I'm not omniscient… yet. - Coco
		- Treat her like an adult and equal
	+ Luis drops Isabel's name, Coraline has not heard of her
	+ It didn't go well but they didn't break up
* Perry buys a blowtorch to fix her car and gets HRT to fix her fucking self
	+ Luc helps her with the roof.
	+ It's such hard work he gets so sweaty and his muscles are RIPPLING because he WORKS OUT
		- It's not clear if it was a joke that luc took his shirt off?????
		- Someone help this is important for perry
	+ It isn't pretty but it is safe and sealed again go team
* **Luc goes to the Academy to research Scientific Officer Adelita Sepulveda, Rubio's regular colleague. She works on T particles and physics; what makes ichor work as ichor, planetary research. International and national awards despite only being 30. MWF 3:30-5:00 in the Natural Sciences building. She is a high rank in the Fantasy Cabinet and one of the Star Professors at the college.**
	+ Her doctoral thesis: Projection Theory; groundbreaking in what the Ethereal Plane is, the abstract evidence claims it is a separate plane, a projection onto our own that it mimics. Projected from a theorized Energy Plane. She critiques the Dual Plane Theory (T neg/pos particles, jargon etc).
	+ She has engineering patents for generators that increase T particle activity. Resonator: Drum on a tripod with rings of LED-looking lights hooked to a circuit w a feedback loop
	+ The resonance drum chapter in a book: sends out a pulse through the Ethereal Plane, combustion in resonance in the machine, reinvigorates already-active particles, making things that are invisible more visible to the naked eye.
		- **Sonar wave makes things that would be visible only under extreme circumstances visible, like ghosts. It requires a lot of energy and can only be used where there is already remnants. She is currently researching ways to bypass this process and look into the Ethereal Plane without having to find a previous instance of T particles**
		- **She thinks dreams are our brains glimpsing into the Ethereal Plane, not Prophetic (*Dreams of the Ethereal).* He checks it out**
	+ He continues to the Patent Office to find more of the machines she has made
		- **Most looked at is the Resonator (crowning achievement).**
		- **Phase Ring: Hypothetical use to jump from one plane to another, might function in a year, has not worked yet**
* Perry goes to Wolfesbane to see if Sinola is there
	+ Note: Out until Wednesday
	+ Our boss/THE OVERSEER: Senor Detective Assad Hashem. Stout, portly, porkpie? hat, pencil thin mustache, magNIFICENT sideburns
		- Sinola is taking a leave of absence for family concerns?
		- National Economic Ass. Wants this resolved by Friday/end of week don't forget
		- Phone call with Sinola
	+ Angels Gang is big. They like red. Their home turf is the Undergarden and use roving bands of zombies for defense. They splintered off from another gang after the war. After the NO was taken out, they would probably want to become next big gang.
		- Frieda and Gomez are working on the Angels Case.
		- Sinola training 8AM Wednesday
		- **"Madame…" in a posh accent in the same room Sinola is in during the call.**
	+ Frieda is active in the office; big organizer of events.
		- Gomez is tall and muscular, wears short white button up and long tie. Short cropped and swept black hair. Frieda has her hair in a bun with a flower, tucked blouse.
		- **Angels seem to be influencing local politics. Financial records show neighborhood counsel; rooted in the community. They would want less centralized police force, no Wolfesbane.**
		- **They've been using the District Office to go in and clear out places.**
		- Frieda makes Perry hot chocolate. Gomez has a small cup in his large hands.
* **Perry goes into their office; it seems like something is off. The room has been rifled through.**
	+ **Gomez saw Wolfesbane Execs checking a few offices. They looked mostly through Perry's desk and were looking at reports.**
* Luis caught a bus back to the big city because Coraline is not driving him right now, and tbh he probably wouldn't tell her about this appointment.
	+ Large room, cold concrete, mostly empty space, except for a circular device with 2 rings of LED lights hooked to a large contraption on the wall, hooked to a drum on a tripod. Camera equipment everywhere, but not hooked to record. Measuring devices abound. Window and a SOLID THICK METAL DOOR into a side room with more contraptions.
	+ Sen. Rubio has a black eye. Another gang member thought he was an Angel but he talked his way out.
	+ He gives Luis 15 gp, 15 more on procedure completion
	+ Luis asks about the survival rate and the overall-wearing (shorterall) scientist woman walks out with her big gloves and is like "high and low, it depends." Light brown hair in two buns, almond shaped glasses and light brown eyes. Call her Doctor or Sepulveda and never her first name.
		- He will die if he is stupid at all and does not listen to her.
	+ Brown leather suit like a hazmat suit attached to contraptions in the little room. Arm gauntlet with a geiger counter.
	+ They need a human subject to enter the Ethereal Plane using the Phase Ring ™ and see how he can interact with the world and if he can cast magic still, manipulate objects on both planes, transport an object from there to here. First he will be detoxed of contaminates and then blasted with particles once inside a safety suit. He will feel sick afterward, like he has fallen very far.
	+ Trans colored lights come on a wire to the Resonator, which starts making Noise, and then the colors of all sorts fill the room all gayly. Pastel gay. The lights perhaps have been programmed to change. The PR ™ whirs and static rises from Luis' toes to head and his geiger counter starts spinnin'.
		- She tells him he is the first person in recorded history to do this scientifically DON'T FUCK IT UP
		- Rubio says I BELIEVE IN YOU
	+ The material plane objects are clear, there's greyish mist similar to when he Dreams, but he does not feel as part of it like normal. Isolating and claustrophobic, but he's resistant to trapped feeling damage.
		- Concrete texture shifting like alive. The two figures are very hard to see through the glass.
		- Everything seems like static, which he has not noticed before; all is shifting.
		- Rubio says Luis feels like "a ghost in the real world" and Seppy shushes him
		- Luis fails his jumping jacks test
		- Casting spells is more simple, effortless; no channeling and focusing like in the material plane.
			* *Now I want to know how it feels for every class*
		- Clock moving tasks
	+ They cancel the process; slight tremor. Mist gets red and viscous; there's a tremor; the two watching's eyes blink on like mismatched animal eyes. Cat eyes and goat eyes for Seppy, Octopus and ant for Rubio. The slight wind is shifting into a mass behind Luis. He is blinded by bright red light and their glowing eyes. Something releases a sound behind him.
		- The earthquake/tremor ends when he turns around; he sees a huge, amber, bestial eye laser-focused on him, grown into the wall on blood vessels. Behind the wall, there is a network of blood vessels, blood, and marrow descending the walls connecting to other eyes. It resembles a root system.
		- BVVVDSHHH. Sinking feeling. Normal room.
	+ Luis gives Rubio a hug, he returns it.
	+ Credit him only as Mr. Cavalier. There's so many of them they'll never pin him down
	+ Changing back, he feels chilly, like there was a protective layer on him that is now gone. He has no idea when this feeling started, what it means, what it relates to, and feels extremely vulnerable.
* Rubio has a question about this groundbreaking device for the two of them.
	+ Thin window on Dias de los Muertos where the veil between the Ethereal and Material is thin. Coming up soon. He requires a specific thing to take place then with this technology.
	+ In the ethereal world, a person/object is part of the location they are in, unlike the material
		- But luis brought a clock back so THEORETICALLy
		- So with their combined talent
		- We could displace an ethereal resident
	+ Agrigro, a year ago, modified a line of corn that was more infectious. Rubio was investigating and ran into the cemetery on Gerena's property, where he encountered ~a woman not of this plane of existence~. She had seen some of the events around the corn field and he visited regularly for information, then they just became friends and… it became less weird to talk to a ghost and… y'know. She was a girl. I was a boy. Can I make it anymore obvious?
		- "I need to clarify. I was… spooked."
		- "Rubio… is she hot"
		- "I am a very rational person, but the fact is Rita and I are in a relationship. It sounds crazy but love is love!" - Rubio
	+ Rubio had a common law wife that made him feel ALIVE with a HEARTH IN HIS SOUL and she died and his fire was snuffed but this ghost lit it again. Gave him hope and all that ugh. Her name is Margarita and makes him feel at home even in a spooky cemetery, she felt the same, and she asked him to date.
	+ **She is in a bad sort; her graveyard is also home to bad spirits fueled by rage and loss. Two people spied on him and he is waiting for it to blow up in his face (who could that beeee). They can't keep this up but he can't say goodbye so he wants to move her to his apartment using the technology.**
	+ She is down with it, but regardless if they continue to date or not, she would be more safe there.
	+ Luis has to talk to Rubio in private. You know. GUY TALK.
		- "I'll do this for free, but I need you to vote yes on the monopoly management bill."
		- Rubio is pissed. Worker's rights removed, monopolize the market for Agrigro, Ordonez can buy everyone in the city, bill proposed by McKendrick.
		- "It's business." - Luis. Rubio says, after pause, "Sure. For business. But you're going in alone because I am not risking my life for someone who would blackmail me."
* Luis spills his relationship drama
* Daia takes drugs because the job got tougher, they were out of practitioners…
	+ The extraction is painless and survivable? Is what they have told her
	+ Daia isn't worried about the skeevy parts of the Angels because she doesn't know anyone who would be directly harmed even if it was a fatal extraction
	+ Angels need to send people to the surface to deal with the Husks
	+ Daia is hoping this is just a stop gap for her future as a tailor/fisher/barber/whatever calls
* Newspapers are all debating if the Queen is pious and a good enough Pentarch. She skilled ANOTHER MASS? WILL SHE SKIP THE PARADE AND FESTIVAL AND ALL SAINTS DAY???
* Luc goes to see Rubio in the morning to ask about La Llorna
	+ She normally only perks up when something big is happening in the ethereal nearby; may be related to what agitation is causing the husks
	+ Rubio says the angels are not malicious enough to create husks, he concurs with Coraline that something else may have caused it. The angels are more like "yarr harr I want to make guns and drugs and take over, not summon an evil beast."
	+ He thinks it's Agrigro. Corn thing, husks are corn. Angels are involved as far as dealing with them and are being paid. Perhaps by someone who does not want their knowledge to leak. Who other than Agrigro would have the funds and motive?
	+ Rubio's gal is strong for some reason, perhaps because her original backstory is tied to the La Llorona myth. People's belief in her would give her more power than the fraction that a normal ghost would have.
* At the Congressional Library, we ask a librarian for who checked out the Ritual book from Garena's farm
	+ Checked out by a man in a black suit with a bright red lapel and JEANS. Bald with a bushy beard. Named Hernan Castillo. Checked it out a week ago.
	+ The librarian is excited to be a witness in the case that this information needs corroboration for Garena. Her name is Josefina Samano.
* Wolfesbane records: Castillo has been arrested many times for drug possession. He is suspected, but not confirmed, as an Angel. His address is 1211 Juan del Torro St in Flores. Late 30's.
* House is off the main square, slight outskirts and old buildings. He's in a ranch style home, handmade barred windows.
	+ Luc notices that there are tiny, fast-made altars like the ones in Garena's basement, dotted around the road and are concentrated around houses. They're uniform, made at the same time.
* Sheriff John Marston: super deep in parade planning. The prosecution has hired a bigshot lawyer for some reason. Marston doesn't know who is funding him.
	+ The altars have been generating complaints. They appeared last night all across Flores.
	+ Garena is blamed by some, the officers watching him did not report anything unusual. He's great.
* Castillo household door is opened by a child… who is usually left alone for days. He's five and named Clemente Castillo (Avid Train Collector). This kid eats junk.
	+ Their cat tuppers ran away  :(
	+ Perry sends Monty grocery shopping. *I have sent this bird to pick up groceries. Don't be weird about it. Thanks. <3 Perry.*
	+ The train room is a spare bedroom, train tracks EVERYWHERE. He loves a gold colored train with silver trim, the Royal Engine when the old king had the first train in the country plated with gold.
	+ His mother was a conductor, been gone 2 years. On a big trip across the world to find herself
	+ Perry links to Monty, who is being broomed by an elderly shopkeep. :(
	+ Luis investigates the living room and finds family portraits and memorabilia. Perry investigates his bedroom, half of it is completely unused and untouched (wife's side most likely). Loose clothes and pizza boxes on the floor. Closet light is on and open. Few bibles inside.
	+ Luc is shown by Clemente that the trains can be opened. One of the cars is not fully closed. Folded papers inside: photocopies of our reports (and some of Sinola's) about the Garena and Rubio cases.
	+ There are pill bottles in the wife's drawers.
* The shopkeep, George, is upset we sent a bird.
* Castillo opens the door for Perry and Groceries, yanks her in, and slams the door shut. :)
	+ She yells at him, he yells at her, he agrees to let her make cookies
	+ Luis is panicked because Perry is very small and not physically strong and cannot use magic right now we have to run in and help her
	+ Hernan works for the ~~Antonio Factory,~~ manufacture weapons. Subcontracted by volcan? They gave him these papers to keep safe, he doesn't ask questions
	+ Luis tells him that Perry is bad a cooking :(
	+ While cookies are baking, Luc notices that Hernan put the papers in his jacket and he seems to have other things inside it. He put the jacket on a chair.
	+ He lied about Antonio Factory being a place. He was given these papers for a purpose, to use, not to hide. He has not been in the office though.
	+ He was contracted by dudes in suits who wanted him to check out the book and leave it somewhere. They were some sort of lobby group, could be National Economic Association. Luc intimidates him into getting his contract. The contract says that it was returning his property.
	+ Perry ended up bad cop to Luc's good cop?
	+ "Weirdest way anyone's ever flirted with me" - him at Perry
	+ Perry gives him her business card to call when his contractors come back for Perry's reports
* Luis gives them portraits when they return. Because he was worried about forgetting what they look like…
* Sheriff Marston Zone. Another person there, slim, slicked hair, piercing green eyes, sharp nose and chin, crisp suit. They're running over the Garena case. Guy is requesting files and such. He wants to make the trial short and quick to not bother the holiday stuff. He is building an emotional case.
	+ The lawyer is looking into his financial records to see if he is doing anything like leasing land illegally
* Drop Luis off at Coraline's and go to De Soto and give her the whole situation
	+ She says this disease is fleeting, won't survive a week after infection if kept under wraps.
	+ She says Perry should do no drugs, ever, because she is prone to influenced by narcotics.
	+ Luc promises to help Perry figure out going to rehab
	+ She is not as confident that Agrigro is not involved as she puts on. She takes a blood sample from Perry to investigate more. It's possible they brought in a batch alongside her corn that had a wilt that reacted with hers. There is a high amount of irradiation that implies direct influence.
	+ Ichor is used to transmute DNA, which slightly irradiates the corn and gives it a red hue
	+ She remembers that the NEA is run by McKendrick, but she does not recall Agrigro working with him at all
	+ Perry lets her keep the blood sample
	+ Luc gives Perry *Dreams in the Ethereal* to read
* Luis goes to sleep (his ghost skin has been removed…)
	+ His dream is in the third person, he is behind someone in a nice yard of a nice house. Countryside area, lights turned out. There is a chill and dampness on his skin. The figure in front of him, bright white with ragged hair and a dress, moves from the canal behind him to the lawn. The ofrenda on the lawn is destroyed; the figure looks at it and continues. Luis recognizes the car as the Sheriff's. Luis stays stationary, they go forward, then turns and makes direct eye contact with him - a skull with water pouring from the orbits. It opens its mouth, shrieks, and he wakes up on the couch.

 The camera turns, moving backward, behind where Marston is. In focus: the front window of the house, an immaculate lawn viewing the canal past drooping oaks. There remains pieces of a small structure which has been destroyed, likely by kicking. A figure, a woman in a bridal gown, emerges from the canal. Orange flowers bloom where she steps, damp from a fresh rain.
 As Marston makes a midnight snack, she turns from the camera and opens her mouth. He mutters, confused, and a piercing shriek erupts, sending him and a carton of milk to the kitchen floor. She then continues steadily through the front door where the flowers struggle to keep following her.
 The camera shows La Llorona and the hallway as a young girl in a nightgown comes down the hallway, into frame, talking to the woman, who says nothing. She is convinced to leave without telling her parents for an emergency. She takes the hand of the skeletal woman and they disappear.
 v Clanging of sword on leather; Sinola's blade cleaving through a dummy in the woods.
 ○ Perry tells Sinola about the magic problem. She only has a gun
 ○ Sinola pulls out an antique architectural book of pre/post colonial najaliscan architecture
 ○ 1/3rd in, the book has a 2 page spread of a pyramid, geometric, looks like a triceratops head decal to al and a dragon to perry
 ○ Temple of the great feathered dragon
 ○ It belongs to Guadalupe, gave it to Sinola
 ○ Getting home late, Perry's mom is making lAsAgnA. Perry associates this feeling with her maaaaaaaaaaaaaaam. Protective, warm.
 ○ Sinola gives Perry a secret. Lupe was a family friend, around with Sinola was very little. Helped raise her a little bit. Weird to see her out in the wild with people
 ○ Sinola will help Perry set up a meeting with Lupe to talk about this comforting feeling perhaps
 v Luc is doing ghost research
 ○ He learns not to ever shoot a gun when in another plane because energy travels differently, do not shoot the ghosts. They are immune to alloy metals, and a few raw metals. True metals (silver, gold, copper) and blessed weapons (irradiated) can damage them
 ○ Magic is the best way to manipulate in the ethereal plane, but it has a chance of going wild
 ○ These methods both only temporarily disperse a ghost for a few minutes, no kill
 ○ He goes to buy some anti-ghost weapons
 ○ Copper is a good arcane metal, can conduct metal. Against nonmagical enemies, though, it dents easily
 ○ Silvering his machetes
 v Luis pays off his debt, almost, leaving 5 gp remaining
 ○ Every 15 days you receive a small curse. Luis has a small curse. It's the hollow bones. He's turning into a bird
 v Reconvene at Coraline's house
 ○ Sinola has a guide to patterns of kidnappings. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, have more occurrences for La Llorona and the Husks, with only one outlier last Saturday for husks.
 ○ Coraline says to try and appease or exorcise a ghost
 ○ That obsidian sacred sword we have would be very useful…
 ○ A wizard, druid, or some bards could help with the ritual required to attune to the Blood Glass
 ○ Does perry feel an instinctual draw to answer the phone? She just may
 ○ Perry looks at the layout Sinola gave and sees the pattern… she remembers those are the days she has heard the most about Luis and Coraline. Luis remembers that. Uh. Those are the days they have called in construction workers and messed with the house, and called Perry on a few of those days
 ○ Perry questions why Coraline would gamble with a haunted house
 ○ Look at the death records for the kids of Maria (the white ones, the legitimate ones)
 ○ Identify Margarita (likely Garina)
 ○ Layout of indigenous city?
 ○ What happened to the Sevillas????
 v Town Archives: Luis and Perry
 ○ Luis finds nothing new. Perry looks at the death records of the three children, Marcella Garina, Carlito Garina, and Ascension Garina. They died in 1160, early April. Died by drowning in the canals off the Garina estate. Their bodies were discovered by their father.
 ○ Maria was accused of adultery in February. She was sentenced and killed later, after April. Claims are that she hooked up with… a million dudes. No one accuses the same guy or the same time or same anything. The official document says it was an anonymous farmhand. Probably all bull.
 ○ Perry is CONFIDENT a Rita Garina never existed… Her dress was pre-revolutionary clothing (mid 1100s, 40s-60s).
 ○ Luis looks up old records of the city. The center is on a chinampa that no longer exists, just north of the cemetery. An old palace is where the Garina House is now.
 ○ The Sevillas and Garinas had contrasting visions for the town; G wanted to bowl over and build anew and use the population for the labor, S wanted to bulldoze it and build in a less flooded spot and use it as a passageway for the military, as an outpost, leave the city lost to time, but use the stones. Sevillas won this argument, it seems. There was an old church out there and some areas developed out there until the flood. The last known Sevilla died during the war (Republicanos) after some generational scandals and losing favor politically
 ○ Perry suggests Rubio appease a ghost woman wink
 v Luc takes Coraline to his home to show her the Blood Glass
 ○ Immediately she wolf whistles this weapon. It sure's an artifact. "I haven't seen one of these in years… in a book, manner of speaking."
 ○ Obsidian used to be used by the indigenous population to draw blood. These are the bigger version, used for more important rituals, used by the archons to draw God blood. She takes a close look, it's Arus (??) (mars based) glass, red plant, good for war, good for killing someone. Genuine artifact!
 ○ Need someone with experience with resonance and the Dream/Ethereal
 ○ She offers to send her ravens to look for the druids that Luc knows, describing the gals and giving Coraline tons of Isabel stuff and some correspondence (oho saucy) from Luna. Birds give some sniff snoff, caw, and apparate out.
 v Luc asks Marie for advice on attuning to a sanctified object.
 ○ Attunement creates a symbiotic relationship to the weapon luc don’t fucking do it don’t go warlock
 v Perry and Luis use a Ouija board in the cemetery
 ○ The headstone Rubio visits say M A R \_ \_ \_ \_R I \_ A
 ○ He detects 3 familiar entities. Understanding the ethereal better now, he can detect distant entities, MANY of them. Large object and slightly less large object past the surface
 ○ Luis goes for the large object. The board distends like someone is pushing on the other side, Luis feels F R I G I D. His high roll is lower than hers. Something connects to him. The planchette flies from his hand and goes lightning fast on the letters spelling R O S I T A over and over.
 ○ The board distends, a skeletal hand grabs Luis by the collar, slams him onto the ground ("TELL CORALINE I LOVE HER"). He does not pass through the board. Another grab, Perry grabs the opposite way, and the wood breaks from water damage, snaps back. The board has holes in it.
 v Garena farm, at 2 pm
 ○ Three police vehicles, one labeled Deputy. Front door is open, Angelica is teary-eyed on the porch. The shitty deputy is leading Sal out in handcuffs
 ○ Marston is not Sheriff anymore because the loss of his daughter drove him crazy. Sal is being blamed because there's "enough going on anyway"
 ○ Velez (shitty one) has Marston's big hat
 ○ Perry soft seduces her way into viewing the barn and house. His name's Gilberto Pavon and he's an artisanal barn inventor
 ○ Marston was supposed to be watching Sal. He tells the story about the ghost and is called crazy. He's on medical leave, going to get a psych evaluation
 v Luc is looking into the National Economics Association
 ○ They formed postwar, lobbying for economic reform in favor of big corporations. They back paper money and removal of the gold standard for a credit based economy. They support bills that privatize everything, never socialism ever. Socially conservative
 ○ Arthur McKendrick is involved in the NEA and Agrigro
 ○ NEA members and Agrigro include Ordonez as well :) what is this corruption in my wolfesbane
 ○ Financially, they have put a great amount of money for certain senator campaigns for those who would flip on the monopoly vote. No money for Rubio, only pending payment to Wolfesbane (to blackmail him). They are pushing all of their resources for this bill, more than on previous political campaigns
 ○ The bill would expand the definition of a monopoly to hyperspecific details to companies who produce only one product. A company that controls a large amount of foodstuff, but not one kind, would not count as a monopoly. Agrigro does not control and one particular corn group. If they bought the poppy cola group like they plan, they would have 60% of food market shares. This would make Ordonez the richest person in the country by miles
 ○ It would allow them to buy out an entire town as long as it isn't the whole country
 ○ Garena is one of the largest independent farmers
 ○ Corn rot was a problem 2.5-3 weeks, a regular outbreak a year ago as well. Coraline's renovations started 2 weeks ago. They have been in the house 3-4 weeks.
 ○ He collects a field kit to check out corn samples beyond just the one from Garena's farms
 v Sinola looked through Agrigro shipments, which ship on all of those days except Sunday
 ○ Marston came to visit Coraline/Sinola, to talk with Luc
 v Luc checks out another farm. A barren space exists where it seems the scarecrows have disappeared and their poles have fallen. It appears this corn rot is similar.
 v Everyone, save Coraline, reconvened at her house
 ○ Luis goes to the phone and casts Infallible Relay to contact a mystery individual… the voice of someone talking through a tin mask. Not the person he intended to contact, which is Frankie. They/them pronouns? It's Luis LeBlanc tell them I sent
 ○ Luis' reflection, after he hangs up, says "Rough shot kid." Black eyes and red rings.
 ○ Maurice is offering relationship advice. Do a grand gesture, women love that. Or this one does.
 ○ Maurice's pronouns are whatever. Why are you referring to him to other company anyway bitch? Level three, you learn the name jimmies
 ○ They announce that, since last time, they are a lot more powerful
 ○ To prove he's trustworthy, he must bring Coraline ISABEL'S HEAD
 ○ After small things. Build up to it
 ○ Oh my god maurice means literally bring the head actually
 ○ Luis has done some Stuff to someone has threatened someone he was sweet on before confirmed
 ○ "Ghosts are like little archons. Really funny, 'cause they don't know!"
 v Marston is offering his services in ghost fightin
 ○ Coraline says the good Rita can be used to appease La Llorona
 ○ Perry asks about Rosita, Luis is POSITIVE she has nothing to do with this.
 ○ Coraline says to appease, have confidence. For exorcising, lock them in a room and hope it holds. No ghost is easily appeased. She agrees to let them practice on her ghosts
 v Luc investigates the corn rot sample more closely. It is similar to the corn husks and the Perry infection and the Garena farms sample. He asks them to pick up GMO corn specifically, the blood red corn.
 ○ He is VERY familiar with virology. How a host takes over DNA and restructures it. The mold has done such to the corn; it does not grow on it, but has taken its DNA to mutate it. Something is driving it.
 ○ Weird corn + normal mold + SOMETHING? = this new strain of mold
 ○ The GMO corn has been overtaken like a virus, not covered, like a normal strain of corn. It's asymptomatic infected corn. The mold has died off and is not bad for large animals, but fed to small animals like turkeys or put near normal corn, bad things
 ○ Instead of dying off, the GMO corn/mold hybrid spreads its spores to normal corn that cannot defend itself
 ○ The amount of radiation required to do this would not need to be direct, but it is not anything of a natural process.
 ○ Small things in the Ethereal plane may be held, tiny tremors before a big earthquake. Putting something that does not belong there inside it would create the radiation necessary. Pressure could be building for an event that has not yet occurred. We have to look into the Ethereal to find out what's happening
 v Perry asks Coraline to teach her how to Dream into the Ethereal
 v Perry has some drugs to not withdraw from them, but is not having that itch scratched
 v Rubio arrives with the Ring Machine
 ○ Sepulveda does not believe that Perry napping is going to let her into the Ethereal. Sinola is getting the Perry suit
 ○ Coraline calls it the traditional method of entering the Dream
 ○ Luis tells Coraline "I love you," for the first time. D'awww
 ○ The suit does not fit Luc very well… or… it fits very well…
 ○ The Geiger counter going off means it is a highly radiated area, physics will start breaking down. Try and stay out of that area. The compass is tuned to the frequency of Rita. Find the root of her Ethereal structure and severe the cord with something sharp
 ○ Perry falls asleep, PERCEPTION check to realize she's in a cacoon like the matrix
 v In the Dream Zone
 ○
 ○ Going through water is a little more intense for Perry
 ○ Casting spells is not effecting her physical body, but it is a wild magic zone
 ○ Luis knocks on the door. A frog opens a slot on the door. They're the Guardian Frog. They give us a piece of paper.
 § What is up is also down
 § Be confident, you fucking clown
 § To find the darkness, don't look in light
 § For matters botanical, get ready for a fight
 ○ Coraline's dining room copy past north door
 ○ Luis tries to will the door open but forgets about the lock
 ○ The bathroom room has mirrors which read MIRRORS OF TOTAL DESTRUCTION

* The party, and Sinola, had bridged the gap from the Material to the Ethereal. They met frogs, worms, and now: a bathroom. Mirrors, on all sides, say in latin: Mirrors of Total Destruction. They do not reflect the bathroom, but reflect a country path like the one we had been on before.
* "We could live here" "What are we gonna eat?" "Each other"
* Perry splashes one, it gets wet
* The mirror feels like a draining pool of water when Luis touches it, the surface ripples
	+ The palm of his suit is pale and cold now
* Perry says to be confident at the mirror, Luis says "I believe in you" to one and it turns Rosy
* The mirrors all look identical, but perhaps move when you blink. The mirror Luis talked to is shifting less, slowed down. Luc gets the idea that they are like bags of holding; normally portals, but mirrors of total destruction are also like bags of devouring which consume ya. Likely, one is a portal and the others are damage.
* Perry just walks through a mirror no thoughts head empty
* Luis and Perry shout at a door to open. It budges just a little bit, but there's just an empty cupboard. Perry feels the slap of two big feets slap slappy in the distance, then another pair of feet snorting. Luis recognizes it as the sounds he heard in the cemetery
* Luc "lady's firsting" Sinola about going through the mirror
	+ "I'm not afraid of terlets"
* A shadow from the jumbo couches in the next room closes the door we came through
* A voice emanates around the room: HELLO, WELCOME TO MY BURROW. YOU ARE ALL…. VISITORS, YES? And then spider limbs come from the shadows
* We talk about how Monty is an Archon, which scares the bejeebus out of the shadow spider. He lets us go if we don't bring Monty around
* Bald Cyprus with a claymore, Syba tree with a shield, Spanish Oak with a glaive, Sweet Gum with a great axe, Mangrove with a bright red ruby
	+ The ruby has a spell in it that its wielder can cast, 1st level fire based
	+ Perry touches the ruby. The tree recoils and starts to cast a spell. Perry hides in the pool of water. Luc kills the shit out of the tree
	+ The tombstone looks like the one on the island; overgrown, old script
	+ Once the ruby is taken, trees to the north open up
* Courtyard with flowerboxes filled mostly with marigolds. Rita is standing inside, looking at the ceiling; vaulted, looking like there are pool lights above
	+ The light flashes crimson red as we enter. The ahuizotl's shadows reflect on one of the walls as they move toward a door glowing with red and orange on the second level
	+ Rita is completely orange with a glowing, marked skeleton. Luis shakes her hand and makes physical contact
	+ Ghosts have locked up the door to the Heart because they are afraid of the Infestation (horrible pressure in the air) reaching it
* Never Zap zone —
	+ Figure made of smoke and static sitting at the desk, another lying on a nonexistent couch. Talking, but not sure what they're saying for a second…
		- Young woman on couch: it started when I was little… small things, moving plants one way to another, taking a book I couldn't reach… when I got older, that's when…
		- When your parents began to notice, correct?
		- Someone was bullying her, and the stuff in her pushed out and hurt her
	+ Nametag says 0
	+ He tries to convince Mercedes that she was not doing magic and was imagining it
	+ Padded cell: girl is restrained in the corner. Man is talking to her about her desire to escape. He says he loves her and will support her and help her escape if she gives him something. Dr. Cabana has been besmirching him, going against him, and she needs to get records of good behavior for him so he has a good job and can support her outside
	+ The code is the most important thing: you
	+ Nametag is 10
	+ Second cell: feeling of being cramped. First room was reassurance, second was hope, this one feels like suppression, claustrophobia. The man walks in and introduces himself as Dr. Ocun (?) to treat her for delusions of grandeur. She says she has magic powers and does things she doesn't want to using her mind. Nothing active in her bloodstream
	+ Nametag is blank
	+ Breakroom: More defined masculine figure is in scrubs now (others are amorphous). Mercedes moves through the door, stops, escorted in. She wants to talk to him and share some things; air in the room sucks out (no more jokes). Elderly figure starts yelling. The doctor says he will solve it and pushes her through the door "you don't have…"
	+ Nametag is 10\_9
	+ She was pushed through Perry, who felt betrayal
	+ Storage Room: Quiet, Perry feels nervous, the kind of butterflies in your stomach. The doctor is lounging on filing cabinets and Mercedes is sitting on one. "I have my doctorate and I am still second fiddle here, not a real doctor. It's Cabana and his rules. I feel unappreciated, I want to feel seen." "I want to feel seen too," she says, and he bowls over it, talking about himself.
	+ Nametag is 1039
	+ Perry puts in the code; feels relief and joy as the padlock drops. Where it was, there is a hand trying to pick at it, entering the numbers. She tries, panicking. Light hits her, security coming behind Dr. Ocan. "Why are you trying to escape, Mercedes? This is a regression." "No, no…" "I think we'll have to take you to the Facility in Flores and do the more experimental surgeries."
	+ Perry talks to her about doing magic, once she believes she can do it, she disappears and leaves a key and a glowing ball of light. She touches the ball of light and realizes it Is Mercedes. She is the confidence and light. Perry could attune to her and have adv on insight checks against lies
		- Perry asks if she wants to come with, Mercedes is like yeah girl let's go
* We return to the room. The flowers are wilting and the light flashes red. The key flew from Perry's hand and unlocked one of the padlocks
	+ Rita says it happens sometimes that plant life here wilts when the pressure reaches
	+ Perry, hearing the sounds of a battlefield, declines going into the young soldier's room and stays with Rita
* Battlefield of mud and dirt with islands of trenches. Shadowing figures of ember and coal charge at turrets that gun them down. Figures rise up next to them as they enter, one is slender-shouldered with wild hair and the other has a crisp Lt. hat. "Are you sure, Lieutenant?" "We're fighting for our freedom, Private. We charge right in…"
	+ He steps back a bit, looking at the door, sighs, and moves across no man's land
	+ The gang goes the other way, deeper into the trenches
	+ The sandbags catch fire and ash pours into the trench DEX save.
		- (We should have gone in the syphilis room)
	+ There's hyperventilating on the intercom; Sinola is having a bit of a panic attack. Why did they let her come in here with PTSD
	+ Recruiter ghost: "Why are you looking to join the Republicano army so late in the game? 2 or 3 years at best." "I want to see it end in 1 year. I don't care who wins, you're the recruitment center in town. I don't hope to die, I hope to end the war. Mechanic or medic maybe." "They need a lot of those on the front line."
	+ There are many dead ends and a few artillery shell fires oop
	+ An older version of the kid says he raised no Chicken Hawk. Fight in wars to win them, not end them. He doesn't want to die, but that doesn't matter
	+ He's hiding under a blown up bed. His parents are fighting behind his bed, he has a huge black eye. Artillery drops and destroys the bed. Dex save
	+ Sinola Bolts Away
	+ The blast hits next to the kid, he looks around - the guest house of the Garina's. He runs and the whole battlefield calls him a coward. He hides under the bed. Embers are stuck to him, he's burned slightly, holding his ears and rocking back and forth.
		- Luis tells him that he went out there and he didn't have to and THAT was brave. Works like a charm
		- He turns into a warm orangey light. Luis picks it up because he saw Perry do it. He understands that is what is left of the kid and has some benefit from attunement.
		- Sinola is by a half destroyed couch and hyperventilating
	+ Luc goes to see her. Smoke is in her suit, she's wide-eyed and looking all about. Heat is around her. Her suit is still intact but she is completely panicking. He tries to talk to her, freaks her out, she jumps back and brandishes her sword. He says they're going to get out of there
		- She asks him to prove he's Luc with something only he would know. He says she eats cinnamon sticks, is afraid of dogs, and maybe her favorite person is Perry Eckhardt and she hates the guts of Luis Cavalier
		- "Now this place sucks. We're gonna blow this joint."
	+ The battle has stopped. While the kid was sedated in that room and Sinola was reacting, she had been sustaining the energy. Now it's calm
* The red light happens a third time, a long time, almost like it isn't going away. Black tendrils shoot over the marigolds, sap the color from them so they wilt and die. Rita and Perry feel the energy change is huge. Trash is piling up in the corners. Cardboard, bullet shells in the soil. The soil is reddish in hue. Then things calm for a moment.
	+ Perry IMMEDIATELY recognizes this as when her infection acts up. Insecurity and need to keep possessions close.
	+ Rita and Luis can feel it as well; the need to lash out and hoard and nest
* Rita is able to heal with balls of light
* The Heart is a flooded circular chamber; 2 ahuizotl are swimming around. One has a gash on its eye. Slight destroyed walls, other structures at the far end
	+ A large shape is lounging in the water on top of the symbol. Like a huge ahuizotl with greying fur
	+ Perry alerts them to her presence. She offers them a "bone", her crowbar, and one of them lunges at her. Luckily, she manages to dodge, supported by Sinola
	+ Then it grabs her by the shirt with its hand tail and yoinks her into a grapple and then into the pool
	+ Hm the shape of this room is kind of like the new retcon symbol on Luis' neck. Maurice what are you doing
	+ Luc immediately comes over to hack and slash the ahuizotl that is drowning Perry
	+ Luis is surprised he had two beams of EB
	+ Perry claws at the hand holding her down with jaguar clawssssies. The webbed hand releases her because it is very mad at one Luc Lonetree
	+ Then the Big Boy grapples Perry by her waist and pushes her deep underwater, then stands on top of her
	+ The other baby one attacks Sinola and punctures her suit
	+ Luc does 44 damage on the big boy and trades places with Perry. Don't you dare try and drown her uwu
	+ Luis fucking EXPLODES the little ahuizotl
	+ Perry tries to make the Ahuizotl Prime run from her and free Luc, it dives into the Sigil, taking Luc with her, the opposite of what Perry wanted. His ankle slams into the bottom and ouchie. But they're gone
	+ With one dead and two fleeing, there is a sense of relief in the room, but the feeling of pressure and the red light from the ceiling is more intense. Pulse of light and tremor. At the bottom of the pool, a fissure opens in the middle of the pool and trash and old food… corn husks… pour out. Coursing, bulbous strands of mold are tying to the trash and vegetable matter, rising from the fissure and forming legs under the water
	+ It's another Husk Primo
	+ Luc Rodeo Rides the Mega Husk and slices the heck out of its pustules
	+ A baby husk tries to rip Sinola's head off, taking her helmet and scratching her face
	+ Perry tries to Haste Luc but some Wild Magic happens. It feels like her magic was yanked and splashed back, washing her in a feeling of homesickness for Sacre Coeur…
	+ The Ruby casts Burning Hands. Perry burns Luc a little bit
	+ Luc and Perry gives each other thumbs up. Then the flower petals on the back of the Big Husk writhe and Luc gets thrown into its maw. We can see Luc in the dunk tank of corpses
	+ Perry makes a Firey Arms of Hadar to free Luc from the belly of the beast but it frees a bunch of dudes
	+ Also it burns Perry in the face and she can't see because she burned one of her eyes out. Luckily she is in spirit form????
	+ Sinola gets punched and loses a tooth
	+ Luis does a lil throat glow, golden orbs in his throat and headlight beam eyes. The orbs leave and heal each person temp hp
	+ The sigil underwater is poppy cola hoo hoo. A calling card rune that invokes an entity to spread their power to that location; because it is in the Ethereal, this area is the sigil, not the mark on the floor.
* Rita's cord is connected to another orange one. The red cord is connected like a grappling hook to something big and heavy. Luis asks if they should cut it, and we hear static from him. He tries to cut it, and learns that it will Release It and wont' be able to Find It.
* We have a discussion, angrily, about Luc lying and the kidnapping Coraline situation. He claims he has been more honest than we deserve really. Luc gets mad and threatens to cut the red string, a centimeter from actually cutting it.
	+ Luc sees Luis' eyes flash, pupil expanding around the whole eye and a red ring in the center. An energy swells through… CHA save
	+ His body freezes like rick and morty. How long can he hold his breath? Three minutes. His eyes are full of betrayal. Pressure is building in the room.
	+ Perry swears not to touch the string and Luc is released. He cuts Rita free and leaves
	+ Sinola bashes Luis in the nose; the pressure returns
* The exit door was brown before; now it is blood red. There is a compulsion to move toward it. Luc kicks the door open; blink; the wolfsgang is in a new place, Rita and Sinola are gone.
* Half circle, white and greyish on the floor. Two semicircle tables behind us. Red curtain with gold trim in front and pulsing light.
* The table is not barren; there are diagrams and papers in the hieroglyphs. Luis saw something by the curtain? He stealths away
* Luc reads the documents. They are on money being sent to various politicians, funds of the NEA, lists of people and who to frame, the operation details of going to Flores deep undercover with assistance from Agrigro and begin the Ritual of Coin. The agent is unnamed.
	+ "Perry, who do you think would be an undercover agent?" "… I don't want to say Luis, but…" "Hey where is Luis"
* There's fluid and something inside that is enraged. Maurice says its his house. Luis is so rude as to come in and try and cut it loose??
* Luis can read runes strewn around, half proficient in the hieroglyphs.
* Maurice says he was not going to kill Luc because he's valuable; Luis struggles with the word friend. They argue about being able to kill friends if necessary and Luis must now. Maurice approaches, smelling of cologne and cheap perfume (yes, both of them). Smells like SEEXXX. GROSS SMELL yikes.
* Maurice is an archon and his physical being is different; they're linked, buddy, since Luis put a piece of him in himself. They're part of each other. The incident with the Order accelerates that process?
	+ "Some sacrifices have to be made, Luis. Sometimes it has to be people closest to you." If we land with the "beast on the other side" they're going to "meet the same fate as her and every other person in the way of progress, safety, and a world where you don't have to worry about people thinking about you wrong."
	+ The she is Isabel.
	+ Rosita was an unfortunate accident, but Maurice can help bring her back.
* Maurice says explaining things wouldn’t make it easier. He offers the red notebook, but Luis can't have it now because he isn't devoted enough.
* Luis lost someone, everyone gave up on her and said she was dead. He skipped out on her funeral. His little sister. He would be the older brother and save her. He got to The Place, horrible things went down, and he never saw her.
* The Eye we saw is "The Child"
	+ Maurice's dearest friend, hasn’t reached us for awhile
	+ Our people stopped them before? Check our ancestral memory
	+ Maurice says it was maybe when Archons randomly disappeared, according to history
	+ We pass through a rumbling, tearing, filled with trash dream house before we leave through the pool we started in.
* Perry's physical body seems okay, but her eyes are closed.
* Rita shrieks with joy, Rubio and she embrace.
* Perry wakes, opens her eyes, aand…. They're watering. Her left eye is no longer brown, it is faded/desaturated red and a jaguar eye.
* "Hey Luc…" "Mmm." "Happy birthday."

 v The ethereal allows the crew through; Rita hesitates, Rubio reaches for her and she jerks forward instinctively, smiling. For the first time in history, they feel each other. They laugh and cry and we spin to the party… milling and talking… and below the earth; red veins pulsing with anger below the surface where a room drags itself nearer to the crust.
 ○ Red room reveal; Maurice was masterminding the past few weeks' events.
 ○ Husks, La Llorona,
 ○ Coraline hypothesized Rita's connection to her could be used to appease her
 v Dr. Sepulveda has a tiny bit of champagne just for her, everyone is in the courtyard, Poe is getting medical supplies for Perry. Luis goes to clean his bloody nose from Sinola punching him.
 v Perry's eye has significant damage to her left optic nerve. The other is fine, so it is near the edge of the nerve or the eye itself
 v Sheriff Marston is upset we did not get his daughter back from the ghost world
 v Luis cannot stop running his mouth no matter how many times Luc tells him to shut it
 v Luc realizes there are not a lot of land caves here, since this is a marshy zone, any around would probably be an irrigation runoff. May have to swim underwater for an amount of time. And there might be ahuizotl.
 v Perry goes back to the courtyard. Luis offers Luc a birthday present. Luc says his birthday is maybe cancelled or postponed.
 v Sinola, Sepulveda, Marston are in a heated debate. Rita/Poe chatting. Rubio is looking around then comes to Perry.
 ○ Perry tells him not to vote
 v Sinola/Marston think we should pursue immediately while she is off guard and realms are not at the peak, Dr. S/Rubio think that is suicide
 ○ If we were at our peak, tonight would be best.
 ○ Perry badly explains that Rita = La Llorona
 ○ Rubio goes to talk to Rita
 ○ Sinola and Marston say now is the best time to strike after a brief break, suits are destroyed but we can lure her here. But Dr. S says we don't have the resources.
 v Coraline and Luis have a little talk
 ○ It should be fine, but there are a lot of risks if they fuse into a stronger and angrier lady in the Ethereal. May be safer in the material plane - but it would be talking to her, not Appeasing her as we did with two other ghosts
 ○ Luis says he's fine but he maybe lost his two best friends. She says he can work to better himself it's fine friendships come and go he's young…er… than her
 v Rita does not appear to be losing her shit, just a bit horrified and responsible
 v We perceive, not quiet, the sound of an engine and metal denting and ripping, shouts, and glass shattering - coming closer.
 ○ We open the door: jet black van careening down the road with husks thrashing it. It crashes. Two figures break out of the van, wearing bicycle helmets and black/red angels attire
 ○ One in front is smaller and also Daia
 ○ The other one is ???? Maybe Lucy
 ○ They barge through the house and close the door; a gun cocks, ex-Sheriff Marston takes aim
 ○ Perry convinces Daia and Lucy raise their hands and Marston lowers his gun but holds onto it
 ○ Argument about helmets
 v Luc remembers that the phase ring is a magnet sphere that can create a stasis area; resonator lets you go through. The sphere may allow you to trap something in it, because it contains energy, if it was tweaked slightly. If she is gaining interest in a thing, put it between her and the thing and fred scooby doo her. Like a mousetrap
 ○ Rita steps up at the suggestion of bait and Lucy is like TF
 ○ She says Luis would not make good bait
 v We are gonna walk to the cemetery
 v Front: Monty, Rubio, Daia. Middle: Rita, Perry, Sinola, Coraline. Back: Luc, Marston, Luis, Lucy.
 ○ The husks are tearing at the car still, but quickly notice us, and Daia says we need to run now.
 ○ A variety of husks climbed out of the canal, up an oak tree, which cracks and falls onto the road.
 ○ Daia accidentally lights the tree on fire
 v We run into the cornfield as the only route and a shortcut to the cemetery. The husks fully formed and strike towards the middle
 v Monty is the first through the cemetery mist. They miss a shape jumping from tombstone to tombstone - the last tiny ahuizotl, charging, and jumps over us to attack the husks
 ○ A few fires are lit on spanish moss oak - we see five mega husks
 ○ The Ahuizotl is going apeshit, getting the husk's focus, and likely giving us the time to set it up
 ○ Luc and Luis cover the phase ring in spanish moss
 ○ Rita - Ring (obscured) - Misty Lake
 v Rita focuses on something, staring off, mumbling under her breath - Maria, I know you're out there.
 ○ La Llorona, wearing a torn bridal veil over her skeletal face with water pouring from her orbits, emerges from the lake. She has an ambient aura of marigold petals. Skeletal fingers. She walks up on the shore, muttering and groaning. Rita tries to reason with her.
 ○ She sees us and the scene, turns around and moves backward - Rita moves forward going "wait" and gets over the phase ring and over the threshold
 ○ We don't trap her, but LLl grabs Rita and begins to drag her back in the water
 ○ Rubio runs after them
 ○ All three of them disappear 😬
 v The huge husk crushes the ahuizotl
 v All three of the Wolfesgang run into the water on instinct; Sinola tries to go and Coraline grabs her and shakes her head
 ○ We are in a circular pond that perfectly reflects the moon. It is blood red.
 ○ Rubio cannot be found - there is a smoking hole out the underbrush like someone with a flaming sword has slashed through it toward the gothic cathedral
 ○ The ghost skeleton women are thrashing trying to escape their ropes
 v Drop into the cathedral; lighting immediately drops from red to a warmly lit garden. Jumped from the porch of Poe's manor - as it was. There is a woman sitting by the canal, looks like Rita but not a ghost. At her side, there are two children, around 8 or younger, and she is singing to them as Triumvereen.
 ○ Luc recognizes the song vaguely, like his mother has sung it once or twice
 ○ A young man with the stupid 1500s pointy goatee and fine fashions comes from the porch. Kisses her on the forehead. Everything said is muffled except Rita's words (his name is Marco).
 ○ Tradition to take his eldest child to Maeve for a long trek through the continent, she says he has never been out of Flores and it seems bad
 § Brief moment when we convince june to do a lisp for the spaniard
 § We cannot keep this going
 v Older child approaches Rita, saying father wrote from overseas, handing her a letter. His name is Leonardo. She says she will read it first because it might be peachy
 ○ (sorry son your father may be sexting me from europe)
 ○ Marco has sired bastard children overseas; her expression is a rollercoaster from :) to :O
 ○ It's OUR DUTY as Garinas to raise them as our own, I am bringing them back from Maeve
 ○ She's now >:(
 ○ She puts it down and begins to compose a reply - scene fades, room is empty, another illuminated path
 v Courtyard - barging through the front door, Rita (streak of grey hair) and Marco (greying auburn hair and balding), yelling over giving his bastards the rights to the estate over their legal children. She calls him inbred <3 and a bastard <3 and threatens to sleep around like he does
 v Another exit out, the cathedral is blocked by large roots, connected to a barren tree. Hundreds of regular skeletons, with boards holding names, hang from it.
 ○ One side is fantasy latin, then hieroglyphic, then abstract versions of sounds on a board. One side has older and older latin going back, eventually returning to the sound-script.
 ○ The lowest branches have 5 skeletons - from an absent branch holding the name Maria. Next to her is one with the name Marco and an unnamed skeleton beside him.
 ○ Maria and Marco skeletons have more above them, all with nameplates but one.
 ○ On the ground below them are two intact ones.
 Maria \_ Marco \_ UNNAMED

## Book III: Blood Hunt

 v It is Autumn in the manor of Coraline Poe, which is entirely renovated, refurbished, and sexy. It is the Poe manor now, no longer the Garena estate. Coraline and Luis are on the couch around 2 days from where we left off. Luis has been given a warning, an ultimatum, a threat, by Perry, lest he fail to perform a task…
 v "I'm trying this new thing where I'm honest with people I know"
 v Crime boys, sister went missing, tried to find her, couldn't find her but got the NO really angry because they had her. He left town and changed his name. He's been searching for her a long time but wants to keep his family from being killed
 v He was 18 the logic wasn't good okay
 v Got sad about his prospects, made a deal with an archon. The raven queen, y'know, I call him Maurice. The ghosts are angry because Maurice is in town causing a whole thing
 v Got magic power from making NO angry. Interrupted a ritual and got it
 v Perry wears the pants in the Coraline/Luis relationship
 v Coraline says Luis is too insecure in his decisions
 v Unless they're bad and you shouldn't have done them in the first place
 v Sort your shit or we can't be together
 v Are you going to back out of us? Or feel so much shame that you hide it away? I deserve basic honesty
 v Or at least for things that concern her. Like the kidnapping
 v She's leaving town for a tour in Maeve. Luis should move out and sort himself out.
 v Luis awakens in his tent: the third day of the weekend trip, backpacking through the mountains, guided by Luc. We are all certain Isabel is close because we do not want to start from scratch? A soft metallic tap of cookware woke him
 v Sinola is preparing brekko
 v Luc is not in his tent, but is not around because he's scoping the route
 v Perry is passed out in her tent. It's good, she's been super sleepy lately that's just how it is rn
 v Luis asks which way Luc went…
 v SMASHCUT TO LUC deep within the forest. It's cold, December, and BUTTERFLY SEASON. Popalacoat? Monarch variant. Chapa de Mota??
 v Thin pine trees covered in butterflies
 v Road winds down and goes up a hill. Luc climbs a tree to see if there's a way around it. There is, if cutting through underbrush
 v If they B-line it, they can get to the town in half a day. He starts to make a map
 v WIS save, minus 5
 v Seems like someone who knows him well just scryed him
 v Back in time, Luc is in the Fortier Reliquary with a fresh black eye. This is the prepping grocery run for the Isabel hunt. He invites Sinola, but she has been extremely busy past few weeks, so he goes alone.
 v Divination magic blocking amulet
 v Nice armor, but it could make you a little fairy boy
 v He buys the divination amulet
 v Smashcut to Perry and Luc at dinner, it's a steak!
 v Perry asks for help getting off drugs. Luc ends up offering to let her stay over to watch her best and keep her out of trouble.
 v She makes it day one, feeling great. Day two, physical symptoms are coming on, but it's about the level of a cold. Day three comes, she feels cold, numb in her joints, but Luc keeps her entertained and distracted. Perry wakes up on Day Four and feels bad to exist. Ants under the skin. Numb in the fingertips and toes, cold lips, fever feeling internally but not physically. Luc is cooking.
 v She feels bad and needs to know where Luc is. He's cooking in the kitchen and accidentally slices his thumb.
 § "It happens to the 20DEX of us." - June
 v His finger is bleeding
 v He feels this a l i e n s e n s a t i o n. No thought to clean it up, just a hunger, a craving, staring at his finger standing in this kitchen. He runs it under water and goes for a first aid kit and is acting NORMAL as he CAN.
 v He hears a floorboard creak. Perry is Going but can't be sly about it. Luc stands up loudly.
 v Perry knew there was an inevitably point where someone addicted will feel like they are dying and will do most anything for it because they are dying.
 v Perry lies about needing a phone call, Luc goes with her to get Neosporin and watch her because it is obvious she is desperate.
 v Perry is like "what are you doing, get out of my way, I don't want to do this anymore, I need this." He grapples her, but she Misty Steps and disappears.
 § "Wow… your girlfriend just dissolved."
 v Luc knows he can outsmart her through endurance, but her teleportation makes it so that he has to be able to find her. He knows that blocking her transportation will not work, but that she needs to set up something to get ichor, so he could try and block off her methods of communication.
 v Luc stealthily tries to disable the payphone, but the clerk notices - Luc has to play off using the payphone to lose his interest. He puts 8 copper (2 hours) into the payphone and puts two quarters under the lever to keep it from hanging up.
 v Perry is hiding on the roof lmao
 v There is a bus stop across from the payphone, one a few blocks closer to his house, another closer to a highway. The area around is hilly, the way to Luc's house is a slighter incline. There are no good vantage points. Towards his house is all neighborhoods, but eastward has overpasses and dockworkers and less pedestrian friendly, especially a disabled one. He decides that, since she is much slower, he will patrol a 3 mile radius stealthily, making the chances she enters or leaves the area very, very slim.
 v Luc tells the clerk that she is sick and not in a good mental state, so if he sees her, keep out an eye for her because she shouldn't be by herself and he needs to take her to a doctor. Keep her safe to the best of your ability, don't call the police for a mental health crisis please. Give her a hot chocolatey or something. Clerk finds this request doable
 v Perry misty steps off the roof and goes to the payphone. She sends Monty to find Luc, but they do not see Luc. She fixes the phone, assuming Luc went to find her at her car, which is at her house. Monty sees Luc as Luc sees Perry, and against Monty's better judgement, has to listen to Perry's latest command.
 v Perry teleports one last time and disguise self's as a dock worker, the crowd avoids her because she appeared and is acting wacky. Luc is able to find her but she says she's DYING. There's a crowd. And also Monty.
 v Luc offers to give her ichor and take her home, they can try again. He takes her home and makes her a placebo that he is certain will help her without giving her relapse. Luc takes her wallet and keys and such and lets her know. She makes it through the night onto day five, where her movement is 0.
 v She wakes up and cannot move; she knows she did not die, but there's a panic that she's dying. She rolls ANOTHER NAT 1 on this wisdom save. Her pain is intense, and she's screaming and crying the whole day. She's isolated, dying, and no one cares.
 v Day 6 is the con save that determines if she has to hospital! Perry made the CON save by one point. At last my rolls are not against me. Perry vomits in a bucket sorry Luc. Perry now has an addiction score of 4! Phase two time! :D
 v Perry is clean now; still tired, feels sick and crappy - but like a weight has been lifted. She auditions on Sinola's advice and enters theatre. She makes fun friends. It feels good.
 § She does not do any detective work, table reading and relaxing, and makes it through Phase Two as well.
 v Perry wakes up in the mountains, feeling good, but tired still.
 ○ The vibes: Perry no longer verbally attacks Luis, but is not ready to defend him. Luc acts with total neutrality, clearly not forgiving. Sinola is incredibly wary of him, quiet most the trip. She was unsurprised about the Maurice information coming to light. She's a woman of extremes and lives a red-hot lifestyle. A shit list is a shit list. Luis is taking a lot of smoke breaks.
 ○ Sinola assumes the town is extremely trapped; she probably is surprised by them appearing.
 v The discussion of Isabel:
 ○ Sinola wants Isabel to pay for what she has done, but as a good-aligned person, would prefer not to kill her. She must see justice, not necessarily death, but she does not know what that justice looks like. Isabel was on the losing side of the war and is an unethical scientist, thus Sinola hopes to capture her and bring her to the law.
 ○ Perry agrees, believes Isabel has information they would want to know, and offers to "honeypot" by luring her in.
 ○ Luis wants to do a murder. Luc wants to know what is in it for Luis, he says justice for wanting to kill his girlfriend. Perry gets that his vibes are a bit more intense, but won't take murder into his own hands.
 ○ So the plan is to subdue, interrogate, and turn in. Everyone agrees.
 v Travel checks: Monty fails because they are distracted by the BUTTERFLIES.
 ○ Perry sees Luc about to cross over an arc of weird mushrooms, extending far in either direction, and stops him in time. No fairy circle for him. Blue and purple classic mushrooms. Luc has never seen this shit before. Luis knows they are magic mushrooms denoting a boundary; crossing unaware would disorient you into getting lost, but if you are aware of a boundary and cut the mushrooms, you can cross through without harm. Mushrooms flicker a bit, nothing else. Sinola goes forward into the underbrush and calls "come see, I think I found it!"
 ○ It is a small hilltop village, completely abandoned and WIRED with pillars of iron rods (like in God's Grave) causing an electric field and electrifying the streets.
 v SMASHCUT. We are in a dark, dingy location.
 ○ We see a Luc-like shape get an uppercut from the champion of the Moors' gang: The Dervish. Caring eyes, buzzcut hair.
 ○ Flashback to nights desperate to find anything about the DCA and Witchfinders. He has been researching desperately. DCA was originally to protect against terrorist threats in the Colonies, added to Bureau of Security, the one of Defense was to keep international threats under key. The third is the Witchfinder, colonial law enforcement given no oversight and complete free reign. Najalisco gave it the ability to work in its borders to go after spellcasters and people with too much knowledge, and they are allowed to apprehend and even kill. An operation to pick up him, his mother, and his father was marked a success.
 ○ He tries to get onto the other person's back. He remembers he tracked someone down on a job. Someone he could use to find them: his parents, Luna, Isabel - he lingers on Isabel too long and is flipped forward by his opponent. A leg smacks him in the sternum ouchh.
 ○ He remembers in a conversation with De Soto. It is progressing farther than it should be: he once had years, now has a year. He hyperventilates. Thinks about working with De Soto, where they developed a better serum, and she told him that she has seen stronger people and awarded scientists fall before he did. He has done impossibly well, he will get through it - just try and stay safe. She does not want to see him dead. Stay safe. Back in the fight, he is punched in the face, completely not safe. Fist hit eyeball. There's where that blackeye comes from.
 ○ Luc wins… under the name… Blood Hunter
 v Isabel is likely located at the Chapel in the center of town. Perry feels Seen. (She got Scryed. Luc actually didn’t because of his new amulet)
 ○ We go through a schoolhouse to avoid the electric seat. It appears it was once converted to her laboratory. She does not practice lab safety. Luc finds a recorder left on a bookshelf. The tape inside presumably has results of a test.
 ○ "I've noticed changes more severely on this dose of the serum, skin is tight on the skeleton itself. Mental affects: perpetual cold anger. Misdosing makes her question her research, but there is no other subject. She curses in Triumvereen, very bad."
 ○ Below the catwalk, the walls are full of bugs. "Infinite Bugs trap" says Luc. All kinds of bugs. Luc drops down first. This room was once a tailor's shop, but now it is where she is processing her hunts. Animal bones and skins on racks and a gross room. Tiny holes in the walls with runes around them - bugs are on their side of the wall, but if a bug passed through the holes it would activate the spell.
 ○ We pass quietly - until Sinola steps through with a heavy thud. A little spider crawls out of a hole and taps the rune. The wall glows and the spider glows, molting rapidly, growing bigger and bigger until it is a Giant Spider. It is focused on her and blocking us from her and she says she can handle it.
 ○ Luc finds another recorder while we wait for Sinola: "I don't see the use in numbering these at this point…… the Curse, I'll call it, makes me proficient hunting the deer here who are unaccustomed to human contact. It hurts me to see the animals I once loved fall to my own claws, but I suppose a girl has to eat. Seems like a lifetime ago I swore I'd be a vegetarian. A mental note to go into town for a real meal in town. Deer is not cutting it."
 ○ Sinola is now spider goopy.
 ○ Signs here are not in Goldenspeak; they are in Oronae (?) and some smaller scripts in Triumvereen. A sign outside, in a childish font, reads Montemayor house (the next place from the catwalk). Luis can read it because Runekeeper Eyes.
 ○ The door of this house, which is right by the chapel (source of electricity), has the door WIRED with electricity. Luc severs a cord without injury.
 ○ Isabel used to live here as a child, and has been staying here recently. It is cleaner, has a pitched tent in the living room, with recent signs of activity. Luc opens a bathroom door and sees a hole in the shower curtain and a tape in the tub. The mirror is shattered. He pulls the curtain aside and sees human bones lying inside. He surmises they comprise of 3-4 different bodies: two adults, an elderly person, and an adolescent. They are freshly white, but picked clean of meat and cartilage. Almost likely to be fresh.
 ○ Sound of popping skin, dusting, sounds of changing out of monstrous form. Violent sobbing, pleading for forgiveness from Michelle. "Sorry for what I have done. This is for the greater good, this is for the greater good. Kings… what have I done?"
 ○ Perry takes this tape. She's disturbed, maybe confused. Luc has steel resolve. Luis tries to stay unshaken.
 v Luis on the night of his party he has thrown for Perry. This part is OFFICE SANCTIONED BY THE WAY HE SIGNED A FORM. Luis has prepared food and records which have a note PLEASE DO NOT BREAK THESE. No one is breaking into the party games.
 v He is going over his research one last time: the stuff about the Raven Queen. All he could fine: Raven Queen was an epitaph for a Celtic deity of death and especially war, feared and incredibly respected. Powerful goddess. She was not the only one to be called that - RQ is attributed incorrectly to many Anovan deities such as the Great Raven of NW and Angwúuti of the SW. No information on Mocking Hounds, Echoes, or Sandalphons.
 v Great Raven: Wisdom & trickery domains
 v Angwúuti: Revelry, songs, communication between towns
 Angwúuti: Angwúuti is a kachina often shown more as a culture hero than a spirit. She travels from town to town across the deserts of Casas Grandes and shares her songs and stories, bringing her host of ravens that carry messages from lover to lover and friend to friend. She is also invoked in childbirth and by people hoping to charm the idol of their affection. She is depicted as a woman in a ceremonial dance costume that resembles a raven, crow, or other blackbird, mostly in blacks and blues. Angwúuti is associated with motherhood, love, song and dance, and communication and travel.
 Respected before, during colonialism, her respect and fear turned demonic. A Dovah town with Raven Queen symbols would be attacked first.
 v Perry is at this party! It's thrown for her, but she feels a lot more isolated here. At least compared to the theater - people are talking about her behind her back. There are rumors about why she took time off, and why Luc did so at the same time. Rumors before the time off, about the transition, and new stuff.
 § Perry dances with Frieda and decides to ignore it, and improves her own day.
 § Everyone loves a chatty Luis, except his like actual friends ig
 v Luis gives Perry a present: black and gold paper. It's a red notebook. Perry does not understand this present at all, and also she has a red notebook from him already. She tears a page out and makes a fortune teller.
 v Luis goes to get a little cracker sandwich. Maurice is there making a cracker deli meat sandwich.
 § "Want to go to my office?"
 § Oop accidentally hit on the archon. They go to the office. Maurice sits on Luis' desk.
 § Maurice got news on his sister! It's a bad news bread sandwich. Luis wants BBA, but make it a bad news link.
 § She is obscured: not the area around her, herself, so Maurice can see around her. The person obscuring her is incredibly powerful - saying this as an aspect of a being tied to the Ethereal capable of leveling a human mind. This thing gives Maurice pause. Whatever has a hold on her does NOT want to let go and is at least an Archon, perhaps a demon. Good news is: she is alive and within a hundred miles of Sacre Coeur. Don't go rushing in, though, because she is somewhere swarming with Nocturne owls. Let's do a training montage and fuck the place up. I can give you friends! From the other side. (Gonna be real big later).
 § Luis asks which archon/kachina is Maurice. They do not deny or confirm either because that knowledge is above his paygrade - wait a month until they tell you which of those they think he would call them.
 § They are an aspect of another - a hand attached to an arm, who is attached to another thing. Maurice is a finger puppet talking to him, and there are many finger puppets. Luis will graduate to a full muppet when he is worthy of it! Maurice is here for you, someone else is waiting for you.
 § Maurice calls the Maurice form too masculine for them.
 § Maurice came to Luis because he gets the "save the world" thing at a level people don't get. Sorry about the growing pains - there will be a lot coming. You're transitioning from one stage to another, that's life, and they're going to make it as smooth as possible to make him the best he can be.
 § Luis asks about Frankie. Maurice cannot do both. Luis says his trapped sister is more important than a childhood friend, but it's open for later.
 § "I didn't take any meat, I just took the cheese. Someone took all the fucking meat. Who takes all the meat from a deli platter????" - Maurice, who then peaces out
 v Reliquary, Luis and Perry edition! Fun shopping.
 v Smoking Mirror: wondrous, allows one to see across planes, moons, planets, even into the ethereal. Think of target location/person, clarity determined by a will check. Accurate but cryptic, randomly-ordered information. Filtered through ethereal.
 v Matriarch Halo: suspended and invisible at low - detect celestial/fiends within 30 feet but not accurate direction. Action: cast a spell stored inside, charges equal to level (3), 1d3 each day. Healing word, zone of truth, revivify, cure wounds, prayer of healing.
 v Lantern of Eyes reveals invisible creatures within 5 feet.
 v The cane sword has finesse property!!
 v Organ of Corti: the Corti is something big and powerful. Attune to it by eating it. Add Prof to initiative, adv on hearing perception, no surprise while conscious, tremorsense 60 ft, vulnerable to thunder damage.
 v They get the mirror and the threaded cane.
 Smoking Mirror
 wonderous item, very rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster)
 The holder of this black opalescent obsidian hand mirror can see across the planets and moons of the Archonistra System along with the Ethereal Plane. As an action, the attuned thinks of a target location or person and gazes into the mirror as it presents the scene currently at the target location or around the target person. The scene's clarity is determined by a Wisdom/Intelligence (Will) check. Information conveyed is accurate, but it is random and cryptic, and presented in no particular order. Once it is activated, the mirror gives its information for 1 minute or less, then returns to normal. It can't be used again until the next dawn.
 Trick Weapon (Threaded Cane)
 weapon (longsword) (whip), common
 This trick weapon has the simple appearance of a black leather cane with a silver pommel. As a free action the pommel can be pulled revealing an iron longsword. Upon further inspection, the pommel can be twisted again, separating the blade into a serrated flail-like whip. While in it’s longsword mode, it counts as a versatile weapon doing 1d8/1d10 slashing damage; while in it’s whip mode, it counts as a light and reach weapon doing 1d4 slashing damage. In both forms, it counts as a finesse weapon.
 v Smoking Mirror gives us snippets of the Chapel: littered with small things, reflective sheen of a dais, bright electric lights and chords.
 v Perry asks Luc to think about Isabel, familiarity with her. She links to his mind to use it to try and connect with Isabel's. She asks him to think about something that he thinks she would also be thinking about. She taps into his stream of consciousness: the recorders, everything mentioned there. It migrates to crying about eating people, then to Luc's craving of blood in the kitchen, bouncing back to learning how to hunt with Isabel to accrue vampiric test subjects (animals and fully transformed vampires, no chance of cure, beasts to dissect). Recorded messages again, the first ones still organized. He settles on the lab in the schoolhouse to another lab in an underground cave, stacked with filing cabinets and paperwork. He thinks of the Strategy and Project Tecolote. Logically, scientifically, he thinks about the records - she is always thinking about results. He thinks about the results of her previous experiments.
 v Perry casts Sending: Isabel, this is Perry. I want to say sorry. We learned things since then, and I'm scared. I should have listened. Please help me.
 v A minute before she hears back, then: I'm sorry, Peregrine. I'm not safe to be around. Keep yourself on alert. I think they're hunting for you.
 v Perry asks if Luc knows anything about her monstrous condition. He remembers she is like many druids and can shapeshift, but into bad-evil ones. Great arcane proficiency and physical power granted by that form. Worst of all, most who have the curse turn to evil acts. They are notable among sanguigines that they retain their wits, different from those with wendiigo syndrome.
 v Not just a shitty person, the "controlled" form of wendiigo syndrome has the same tendency toward evil.
 v Luc calls Perry a sacrificial lamb. Doesn't like using her as bait. But there is a point that, since Isabel is emotionally volatile, Perry may be the least likely to make her go feral.
 v Perry turns Luc and Sinola invisible. She figured out how to do it to hide backstage better.
 v Inside the Chapel: head of operations, her command base, full of arcane generators. Cork boards once held papers are torn down, alchemical bottles strewn, packed up alchemy table. A small room, but the back has a beautiful dais polished to a sheen. It is overturned, and on the back, there is an oak tree growing where a priest would stand. Isabel is in front of the tree packing her things.
 v Isabel is in terrible physical shape, arched back, taller. Her vertebrae are prominent, fingers bony, some teeth gone and some replaced by needlelike fangs. One is yellow, feline, the other her intelligent black.
 v She sent messengers, something originating at wolfesbane. Be on the lookout for arcane activity.
 v The thing she is combatting is Inevitable, in a way. The events will happen and success or failure is in the air but the events are not. Her opponent wants to conduct rituals of an immense scale. The performance was one. Another was to occur at the National Treasury after a vote. The next does not have a location.
 v A sacrifice, of blood, needing no location if the people killed are special. The people are curated, moved around and fed information to keep them fat enough for the harvest. They would be killed by an Ordained hunter, any form they want.
 v Everyone in this group is an archon; they form groups, as social creatures. They have much more time and reserves to retreat to if things are wrong on this level of the world. They accomplish more together, like rewriting how the world works. Seven rituals in sequence, conducted properly, would let them rewrite reality. She thought, and Michelle, that it was biblical hell on earth. It's too simple, more personal. Control, restoration of what archons wanted before, some people gone, time undone, who knows.
 v It is dangerous and she does not know enough to combat it. She thought they could use their tools against them. But all they left was ruin and despair, monsters, disease, wiped what was there before.
 v They wiped human history before the Arcane age. They are not gods, they are conquerors.
 v Perry asks about whatever Archon made her. She does not know what archon cursed her family, but it did. Michelle sought information her whole life and it ruined her life. She calls Perry a cosmic fluke at best or a sleeper agent for something she does not know at worst.
 § Michelle went missing 1295, 5 y after she enlisted. She stopped talking to Perry to keep her safe. She was Isabel's right hand. She was convinced NO was working for the group, convinced the ritual was going to invite the powers fully into our world. She did a good job stopping something, but it was not this.
 v "The Child" is vague, a variety of things. The seven may want a new breed of archon. This land is a crossroads of everything in the solar system. Continent, planet, system. Archons used SC ruins as a bridge between other worlds. It was the second heart of their empire. When it fell, the empire collapsed. A city burned from within in revolution toppled an empire; a great place to recreate the empire.
 v She does not think saving the world is possible. Live a happy life far away and forget everything. Her lesson: grab onto the good things and make the most of them because life is fleeting.
 § "Have a whirlwind romance, I don't care."
 v Isabel says it is not easy to control herself as she is. Her eye is not supposed to be like this. She's a one person army.
 v Isabel considers herself better, and subhuman. There is no turning back! Once you get in too deep and you're gone, that's it. Michelle and Isabel and Luc are gone. Perry has the slightest of a chance.
 v Perry tells Isabel she is the problem because she is not will even try to get off the path she's on.
 v Isabel walks backwards into a tree. Perry can find that she cast a high spell connecting this tree to another tree - Transport Via Plants. Seen or touch the destination plant before.
 v Luc left. He is contemplating the vial Isabel gave him months ago.
 v Zoom out from him holding the vial, out of the planet, out of the solar system until the sun is a speck.
 v Isabel hot takes to note: "The Greater Good," "Once you get in too deep, you're gone, I'm gone."

 v Void of a night sky, little stars piercing the pollution of lights from Santa Corazon. A small neighborhood by the lake and beyond are the mountains… but we are in a garish apartment complex secluded from the rest. On a balcony, overlooking the rest. Two men with grizzled appearances, one with a buzzcut and one with a square jaw, are looking over the scene brandishing heavy weaponry.
 v "So uhh you go to the game the other night?"
 ○ "Can't go to them, [] doesn't like that… thinking of breaking up with her, she's so controlling! I want to go out with the boys" "you love her, right? Work it out. Worked with me. Married 20 years"
 ○ "I should get out of security work… who's this guy again?" "ex nocturne order but he's loaded"
 ○ Smaller one, buzzcut, goes to speak - nothing comes out.
 ○ "Listen, ricky, you can't…" he's been pierced by the an arrow in his throat
 ○ A second arrow flies and pins the larger one
 ○ TAINTED LOVE
 ○ A hand comes over the balcony and a figure in black kicks open the door, pulls out two shotguns, starts taking dudes out and painting the hallway red. Drops the sawed offs and has a pistol and machine pistol, kicks bathroom door and executes someone taking a shit
 ○ Commotion draws out more guards; six bullets are shot and find the head of each. Machine pistol reloaded. Door opens, armored individual with repeater emerges and shoots the assassin in the chest, taking to knees… stillness. Rushes across the hall, yanks repeater out of hand to slam guy back into room he was protecting
 ○ Takes out longbow, pins him to wall with 3 arrows. Decorative bedroom, old man in linens is on balcony, two guards with machine rifles are dispatched with arrows to the throat
 ○ Commotion stops; figure slows down. Man pleads for life, offers bribes. Figure shakes head, approaches menacingly.
 ○ "Everyone wants something, and I'm a very rich man! I can get it!"
 ○ "I'm not here for something I want. I'm here for target practice." and the old man flies off the balcony from a shot to the head.
 v Sinola, Perry, and Luis have exited the chapel
 ○ Perry wanders into the forest after Sinola, abandoning Luis
 ○ Maurice takes a drag. "You probably should have killed her, in hindsight. But I get why you didn't, she's probably going to die in the woods, and that plant spell came out of nowhere. Out of the woodwork…. She's still a threat."
 ○ "Perry seemed like she had it under control." "Well she didn't, but I cant blame you for trusting somebody. She did say a lot of stuff though."
 ○ Luis is unable to lie about how Isabel's words didn't get to him. Maurice threatens to just look at Luis' thoughts if he does not tell the truth.
 ○ Maurice says some of it was true, most of it was false. Luis doesn’t insight check
 ○ "Save the world" means… who knows, Maurice won't give the whole truth! It doesn't involve an evil person trying to curse and kill everyone. Something more intrinsic to this planet/world they hope to rectify; a flaw in the system they hope to correct.
 ○ "The child is a means to an end."
 ○ Maurice can't share because they aren't sure Luis won't go turncoat!!
 ○ Child is a tool designed for the job of fixing the problem. But Luis can't know the problem because he could use it against them
 ○ It will ONLY BE ANOTHER WEEK
 v Perry parts a flock of butterflies as Moses would the red sea to a small cliff face where Luc is standing
 ○ By the time she gets there Luc has put his OJ away
 ○ Two butterflies are sitting on Luc's hat, blue and monarch
 ○ Perry apologizes for getting distracted by Isabel; Luc says he isn't upset with her. Perry asks what he is upset with.
 ○ Luc is upset, she's further gone than he thought she'd be
 ○ Luc says there's nothing good in looking for Luna or his parents
 ○ Perry offers to try and contact Luna (with Sending, like she did with Isabel)
 ○ Luc is confused
 ○ The blue butterflies are electric
 ○ Luc can't do things he wants to do because surviving is his immediate concern
 ○ Luc calls her formidable; not his best compliment. Pretty is though
 ○ Luc says he can't promise not to leave her. Perry says he might not be able to promise that he won't go, but he will always be with her. (in her heart)
 ○ Luis interrupts their little moment
 v We get to the car as the sun is setting. Sinola says we can stop by Concepcion on the way back to get a drink before we go to work empty handed
 ○ Dirt road, winding and twisting. Perry's car is vibing!
 ○ By "bar" Sinola means, by Luc's experience, a saloon. There is even a horse hitched next to the car.
 ○ Luc has best view of the bar, Luis is next to him, Sinola is across from Luc and Perry is next to her. We have a bit of glances thrown at us because the town is small and we are new customers
 ○ Perry goes to the bartender, Enrico. She gets Luc a steak as little cooked as possible
 ○ Perry goes out the back for privacy and sees a Ketzel Model Z5. very fancy good mileage. It's beautiful! Pretty new. Literally fresh out the factory almost, barely driven, with a slightly larger trunk than standard. Silver finish. Perfect for racing and long distances, but not acceleration.
 ○ Perry goes to talk to Isabel: 'S me, one last time. Isabel... stop running away. I know admitting to mistakes is hard. I know! It's so hard to turn around. Please, do it for her. If you… loved her... do the right thing. I won't be your handler, Isabel... but I'll be here. Good luck.
 ○ There's no response. A butterfly lands on her hand. She flashbacks to another time in a dark space - she is backstage in the theater, doing auditions!
 v The auditions! A couple people, but she recognizes none of them in the darkness. Even with darkvision, because she's on next in this little black box.
 ○ She gets ushered onstage; the lights are slightly blinding, and the black box theater is like a void. A booming voice
 ○ I picked a weird song but Perry is doing well! She loses herself in it a little bit, moving rhythmically, feeling that weird out of body experience - which goes when she end of the song comes. There's a bit of applause.
 ○ Residual warmth, angelsense, feeling comfortable like she's become one with the moment. Without a form yet aware of her body. A puppetmaster for herself, different from being with Sid/Michelle/etc
 ○ The night sky returns as she walks out a door into the cold December - she and four castmates are going out after the last tech rehearsal in the small black box.
 v The group: Perry, the lead, has gravitated towards Phantom, Meg, Carlotta, and Raoul
 ○ In Su Park (Phantom): big hunk and beefy boy, super nice, constantly checking up on Perry after a heavy scene or after she's sang a big song. Hunky himbo
 § Talks about his dog. A lot
 ○ Pilar (Carlotta): quiet, witty jokes, big glasses
 ○ Aureliano Yepes (Raoul): tall, well built, chiseled features, everyone on the cast is adamant he is the handsome cast member and he is a flirt
 ○ Bounty (Meg): receptionist at Wolfesbane, aloof, but nice and accommodating
 ○ Perry gets a virgin milkshake. Nothin else. Girl that’s bad for singing
 ○ Walls are lined with mirrors. Perry gets up from her seat and Aureliano says "heeeyyyy perry how are you I have a question"
 ○ Perry agrees to a Saturday DATE with sandwich and park with Aureliano
 ○ She sees herself in the mirror; its strange, but tonight, especially, she looks a lot like her mom… which is weird, but she holds onto the thought and image - and sees when she last saw her, the ethereal vision. (The monster milf one), tired, deranged, wit's end. This is before she got the mirror. This vision is why she does not let go of Michelle just. yet.
 v Food is delivered at the saloon; Perry is not back yet
 ○ Luc is tempted by the liquids left from the steak
 ○ Two workmen come from the back door with a bunch of boxes; talk to the bartender.
 ○ Luc and Sinola talk about radio… but Luc only listens to Luis'
 ○ Luis hears them talking in hushed tones about the boxes being for upstairs; it'll be fine; sign here; thank you have a wonderful day. He offers to help the old woman who owns the saloon; she asks for his and Luc's help. Sinola stops Luis and calls him UNSTRONG but he goes anyway. Perry gets back and admires Luc a little bit
 ○ The phone rings. Hello? Can I get a description? Uhh, okay, sure. Is there a Sinola here?
 ○ Sinola says it could be her brother and goes to the phone
 v Guy at the bar comes to Perry. He is lost, cannot figure out how to drive cars well. He's on vacation, road-tripping. He needs help getting to Santa Corazon. Made a beast of a car that let him afford the one he has now. He wants an experts opinion on it. Has nitris. Doesn't want to blow himself up! Expert opinion?
 ○ His name is Gonzalo Vera Cruz
 ○ We go out back to his car :))
 ○ Roll Perception… Perry got a 5. she's going to get kidnapped
 ○ She feels a little prick in her lower back. Uh oh. Then she feels… wibbly wobbly. Pretty chill about this. She cannot cast magic, for some reason.
 ○ He opens the trunk. There are no suitcases. "Miss Eckhardt, was it?" "I don't think I ever said my last name."
 ○ Her arms are pressed together. "You are Peregrine Dale Eckhardt, correct?" "Not technically"
 ○ "You're adopting the persona of a woman, yes?" "No?? Fuck you, I don't like what you're doing to me"
 ○ Nathaniel Cisco, Michelle Cisco, and you are an aasimar and sorcerer. But we'll double check that, won't we boys?" Pilgrimlike hat boys come out of the shadows. They kick her false leg out from under her, bringing her to her knees. A witch hunter removes a vial, looks like a tonic, and stabs it into her clavicle. Pain radiates through her body and her veins glow red - feels like holding in a cough or sneeze as her body violently desires to enter Radiant Consumption.
 ○ CON save to resist; she cannot, and tears well up in her eyes as energy explodes outward, bathing the alleyway in crimson light.
 v Flashback. The trees have lost their leaves in a little park we train in. This is the first training day where Sid will be here. Perry finds she can still shoot straight and nabs a dummy.
 ○ Sid is in informal tight pants, shirt tucked in, a wool coat on top.
 ○ Perry says swords are cool and takes Sid's offer for sword lessons. Sid throws her a rapier and she catches it. Sid's sword is copper and zig-zagged.
 ○ Perry's sword fighting approach is likely best to be more dexterous; Sid also has a prosthetic limb and will help her work around it and figure out how to fight despite it
 ○ Perry gets disarmed the first THREE TIMES
 ○ Perry's shirt gets sliced just a little
 ○ Perry, frustrated, gives her a big slice. There's a bit of red under the coat. She plants her right foot and swings the left to reposition facing her
 ○ Sid asks to see her shooting and spells skills as well
 ○ Holding it back or letting it go? Perry's body knows how best to cast the spell - don't think about it, let your body do what it wants to do in the moment.
 ○ Something else we need to go into… Sid sheathes her sword and step back. OKAY GIRLS. Her, then Sinola, then Perry. Sid looks at her sword and purple lightning dances along it - her body explodes in purple light, courses around the blade and her body. Her wings are feathered storm clouds, hawklike, her veins and arteries glow purple (royal) and fingers extend to claws with jaguar spots. Her eyes are catlike, glowing purple, and the top of her body has an obsidian halo. Like pewwy, but puwble!!
 ○ Perry does the fourth, mysterious angel training option. She realizes that casting and movement is easier while in angelic form - it is where her body would prefer to be. But then it dies down, and is harder to maintain, after a bit.
 ○ Sid was born that way!! Might have been her father's side, people said he was a sorcerer. Other than that, dead ends
 ○ Perry receives the calling card of the First Lady
 v Back again at the alley: Perry is an angel, casting brilliant crimson light flashing through the window. The boys hear her cry out in pain.
 ○ Luc fucking jumps out the window and onto the car (the old lady protests). It dents the roof as he lands. Three witchfinder agents aim at him; Perry is being held by a now slightly-burnt Witchfinder. Luc slashes a tire on the car, slashes the guy on the shoulder to make his grapple worse
 ○ "Change of plans, falling back on plan B."
 ○ He kicks Perry onto the ground, hurting her a bit. Opens his switchblade into a longsword and slashes Luc big time
 ○ "You're interfering in official DCA business, I suggest you stop or your friend will get hurt." and steps back. Luc readjusts his stance and says "You lay one hand on her and it is you who will be in for a world of hurt."
 ○ "I don't need to lay a hand to blow his brains out." :(
 ○ Sinola slams the phone onto the hook, draws her weapon, and rushes out of the bar. The three other bar patrons pull out pistols and shoot at her.
 ○ Perry screams; the light around her sparks - and an explosion burns forth, immolating two of the witchfinders and burning one badly. The bank wall takes the brunt of explosion, checks are on fire and raining down, the alarms are blaring.
 ○ A witchfinder shoots his carbine rifle at Perry.
 ○ Luc goes CRAZY goes STUPID aaaand…. Blood maledict? He goes for the jugular on this guy; using blood curse of desmotiplaz. He strains his body so hard a vessel bursts. Feasting blood + DEX/STR = 15 damage. And 30 temp hp. It happens quick; Luc's eyes cloud over as he darts forward and sinks his long canine fangs into the man's neck. That dude looks pretty shocked. Luc feasts and pushes him away. The man flashes out of existence, next to Sinola, and starts to attack her. And also Perry, whom he stabs quite gravely.
 ○ "Kill the other one too, suspected to be a vampire."
 ○ Sinola points at him and says, "If you were man enough, you'd fight ME!" and chains wrap around him.
 ○ Luis casts crown of madness, which forms a crown of barbed wire and split ends on their lil heads
 ○ One of the goons throws a grenade into the car, having received permission from Rainier.
 ○ Perry is thrown back, severely hurt. Rainier grabs her by the collar of her trenchcoat and throws her inside the bar. "Detain him!"
 ○ Sinola rages and slices her sword in the air, lopping his head off: "She's a girl, you dick."
 ○ The shadow of her halo ripples, dark tendrils emerge and swing at all near her. A dent is left in the armor of the one with a Luis crown.
 ○ Perry claws a man to death, including his face. Sorry luis about your crown dude
 ○ Luis incapacitates the final dude. Not hold person but similar maybe?
 v Sinola goes to Perry, who tells her to go away
 ○ Sinola got a call from someone claiming to be her brother that knew things he should not have, but was not her brother. She demands Valentina (old lady) give answers
 ○ They offered her a lot of money to ask Luc and Luis to help her with boxes
 ○ According to them, Perry was a criminal
 ○ "Ma'am…. These are white people." - Luc
 ○ "Well… so is she!" "That may well be, but she's white people under our protection."
 ○ Perry has Sinola use the license plate switch button
 v Luis is creeped out by his new spell. Luc has feasted before, but is uncomfortable about having done that. He's cleaned his face as much as possible, is thinking and Realizing. Perry has her trenchcoat on her face, crying, saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
 v Sinola lets Perry sleep over. Her brothers are there, one is older and a hardass and the other is 8.
 v Luis arrives at his house and, waiting there, is a fluffy, bright orange, scuffled-fur tabby cat with nicked ears.
 ○ "Hey, Insolei (?) Sully (?)"
 ○ Luis feeds him deli meat
 v Luc splashes his face with water, disassociates in the bathroom for a bit.
 v Perry, her car, and Sinola turn back across the bridge to the Reforma district. They peel off main road into back roads, planned roads and a park. Beautiful brown stone.
 ○ She gives Perry the golden vial of blood to concentrate on it, think of her, if anything happens
 ○ And also a kiss on the forehead
 ○ Perry waits a few minutes… Sinola opens the door, leans in window of car. Perry won't see older brother. Set up in guest room.
 ○ This house is Fuckeing Nice
 ○ Big oil painting of King Ferdinand, ruler who was assassinated before civil war, his wife Regina, and their three children including David. Decorative smelly good bowl in front of it, nice electric lamps, living room with fire place and nice couches, globe, bookcases
 ○ Refurbished attic makes for a good guest room, own bathroom and closet, window overlooking street and towers of Wolfesbane and Obelisk, sightline of the palace
 v Perry fails two relapse saving throws - the day was so shitty and she failed that saving throw. There's only one thing that could take the edge off, and she can't have it. She will surely have some nightmares
 v Luc tries to sleep, but keeps waking up. Slept, but tired in the morning.
 v Luis falls asleep after some time on the roof smoking. He goes to bed. His dreamscape is full of stress dreams, people dying, finds his sister but she's dead or now he's kidnapped or he finds his sister and it's Coraline this time. He has a new stress dream about taking a romantic gesture of meeting Coraline in Helena, opens the door, and she has a wedding ring on from someone else. The dream fades into black and red static
 ○ "Hello? Maurice?" echoing, warbled radio noises respond
 ○ He pushes away the mist; there's a sloping hill, the sun is an enormous eye, with seven crosses and the last four are barren. The first three have things tied to them: the first is burning, holding Dt. Perez. Second cross had something tied to it, but there is no one there, the cross is on fire. The final one has two things tied to it: Perry and Luc, bloodied, beaten, welts on their faces. A roman legionary is carrying a torch, lighting the base of their cross.
 ○ Luis casts cause fear, must roll will. The image rips open and a tendril breaks through reality to try and integrate into the scene. The legionnaire disappears.
 ○ He goes over to untie them, rolls will, 12. He gets stuck, strings tied on his vocal chords and pushing backwards. Another legionnaire comes from nowhere and lights the fire
 v Luis calls Luc in the morning like ARE YOU OKAY ARE YOU ALIVE DO YOU KNOW IF PERRY IS ALIVE
 ○ Luc calls Sinola's house and gets the 8 year old
 ○ Luc says Perry, to her, was right; he should appreciate things and people while he's here - while they're here.
 v Sinola is in a hushed, heated debate with someone else in the room. Perry goes towards her but is slow and distracted
 ○ Perry's walking to Sinola, being all silly and not cognizant of door, and silly Sinola in her talking and arguing did not notice her walk up, so Perry sees Sinola is arguing with a person: taller gentleman, light caramel brown skin, high top with blond tips, same soft hazel eyes like her, scars on his body, and wearing jacket of captain of the crownsguard. It's David. The prince! Whoa
 ○ "Oh shit! Hey!" she pushes Perry out
 ○ The talking gets more intense. Sinola is very embarrassed
 ○ "I thought he was gay" "So did he"
 ○ Perry tries to high five her. Sinola pushes him out
 ○ They're actually siblings. Sinola is Queen? Hmmmmmm
 ○ The oil painting had David in late teens, current queen Antonia barely seven, and a baby baby Samuel. Sinola has the same hazel eyes and skin tone as the queen; the only difference is the queen has straightened hair
 v We have case files to choose from:
 Case File #1642.A
 Picking Some Scabs
 The below signed private detectives of the Wolfesbane National Detective Agency agree to assist the Poppi-Cola Corporation at the Benicio de León manufacturing facility at 5605 E 31 de Julio de 1237 Ave. The detective's priority is destabilizing and pacifying the rioters, preventing the factory from working. The signed detectives will meet with the resident Wolfesbane agent, Gervasio Ferguson, stationed with the Poppi-Cola Corporation to coordinate their approach. They will report to Juan Zhong, the lead foreman, who will fill them in on the specifics. The detectives are expected to be retained by the Poppi-Cola Corporation until the riots have been halted for the foreseeable future. No special permissions have been given and the detectives are expected to behave under accordance to all laws pertaining to their area of work.
 Payment and Benefits
 • 10% of the total payment, not including tax, to the Wolfesbane National Detective Agency, or 60 águilas, to be split between the private detectives as they see fit.
 • Use of approved Poppi-Cola Corporation resources under supervision of a ranking officer
 • Any acquisitions from the apprehended criminals not deemed relevant to the investigation
 Case File #1642.B
 Pedals to the Mettle
 The below signed private detectives of the Wolfesbane National Detective Agency agree to assist the Royal Police Department of Santa Corazón de Najálisco office to investigate illicit street racing activity across the city. The detectives are expected to aid the RPD-SCN in finding the head of the operation, it’s connection, if any, to the Aulladores gang, and the most effective way to shut it down. They will conduct this investigation undercover, posing as a racing team. Additional goals may be given by your supervising detective, Detective Adolpho Tesoro. The detectives have been cleared to operate partially outside of the law; however, their actions will be reviewed in a court of law to ensure any breach of law falls under the purview of Article 28.
 Payment and Benefits
 • 15% of the total payment, not including tax, to the Wolfesbane National Detective Agency, or 45 águilas, to be split between the private detectives as they see fit.
 • Use of RPD-SCN resources under approval of a supervising officer, including a requisite vehicle
 • Any acquisitions from the apprehended criminals not deemed relevant to the investigation
 Case File #1642.C
 Eyes in the Sky
 The below signed private detectives of the Wolfesbane National Detective Agency agree to investigate a recent murder at the Mimilhuicatl Observatory in the Sierra Padres de Sur. An astronomer by the name of Dr. Nita Floria was killed last night under suspicious circumstances. Due to the observatory’s remoteness, the Royal Territory Police has been unable to send their own investigators into the region. The detectives are charged with finding evidence for and apprehending the murderer of Dr. Nita Floria. The detectives have been cleared to operate partially outside of the law; however, their actions will be reviewed in a court of law to ensure any breach of law falls under the purview of Article 28.
 Payment and Benefits
 • 10% of the total payment, not including tax, to the Wolfesbane National Detective Agency, or 30 águilas, to be split between the private detectives as they see fit.
 • Use of Sheriff’s Office resources under approval of a supervising officer
 • Any acquisitions from the apprehended criminals not deemed relevant to the investigation
 ○ We will be leaving today to investigate the murder
 ○ Luc will miss alchemy time

 v The Wolfesgang is at Wolfesbane, deciding not to do the murder mystery case, go for the race car case.
 ○ We go to the Royal Police Department to see Detective Adolpho Tesoro, our supervisor. This is where we met Dt. Perez (RIP) the first time; it is a large, brick and stone building. He is actually Perez's replacement, the Wolfesbane-RPD-Gang supervising Detective guy
 ○ There's a map that shows all the gang activity and their claimed territory. One of them has a white outline and a bunch of question-marks. The Angels Gang has expanded their territory into the NO's old space. (Luis knows they put manufacturing and warehouses up there).
 ○ Dt. Tesoro - a man in late 30s, early 40s, auburn hair and greying beard, big derby hat. Perry is "miss gent" sdjfasdf
 ○ June give us our badge numbers. please have 69 in luis' and 420 in perry's
 ○ Manilla folder says "HEADRUSH"
 ○ Every year around Christmas, there is a Criminal Formula 1; the Undercity Gangs and outside people take part in the Headrush, 3 races going into the New Year. Meant to promote peace between gangs.
 ○ It's illegal to race, but we are not meaning to bust them for racing. We are trying to bust the Aulladores gang for their trafficking route - traffic anything and everything in and out.
 ○ We are just on intel gathering p much; we need to win races to get into the circle, but we do not have to win. 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, matter of your pride. Go to their FOB in Tchutlan (?) to do some snooping.
 ○ First race is Wednesday, 2nd is Christmas, 3rd is Jan 1st
 ○ Provided a blank car, but no mods and no money to mod it
 ○ We also have false identities provided and some tips on the culture
 ○ Dt. Tesoro was in a big chair, but he is much shorter than all of us actually
 ○ He gives us our fake names…
 ○ Hilario de Cardenas - Luis Cavalier
 Iago Castillo - Luc Lonetree
 Abelarda "Belle" Licona - Peregrine Eckhardt
 v Down in the garage - a dinged up truck. It's Manny's truck. The symbols are still burned into the wood sliding of the bed. It says Thief or Thiev.
 ○ They will want us to dispose of it when this is over, but we could maybe keep it…
 ○ Perry finds that this car is High Weight with Good Traction but crappy Acceleration and Handling. Decent Structure and Hit Points, but bad Armor Class. Speed is slower than Perry's. Unmodded.
 § The mods that were in the truck before have been removed. Tesoro will get them back, but not by Wednesday. It had a reinforced ramming structure and a nitrous tank. The reinforcements still remain. They did get rid of the explosives.
 ○ We can have two people in that car, generally there's a radio person.
 ○ We get an address for the Gang meeting that gives us the rules n shit
 ○ A lil tube delivers our IDs. Perry's looks good, Luc's looks good, and Luis' is kind of blurry and bad
 ○ Reports at the end of every day, drop it off at the front desk morning or night
 ○ The truck has not been driven in 5 months. It is a rough ride.
 ○ Perry offers to teach Luis to drive and fix cars
 v Perry remembers street races are normally well organized, out of a chop shop/mechanics.
 ○ She gets permission to kill the truck
 ○ We leave the truck in front of the train station for a bit.
 ○ We take the truck to the train station until we can fix it up and sell it for parts
 v We get distracted making drinks for like 30 minutes
 v Perry offers to let Luc change into a disguise. He says he will just not wear his hat
 v We roll up to a mechanic's shop called Quetzal's Rest.
 ○ Chain across the garage barring entrance.. but we have registration cards?
 ○ Perry leans over the chain. Sees a woman with a loose bun and dark hair. She has a lisp
 ○ Tables up in the back. Parked the car in the garage.
 ○ Plenty of spare tool boxes
 ○ Four tables along hallway; papers and design plans on top of them, people brainstorming on them
 ○ Two tables in the back, one unoccupied and by a fridge/sink/back door of the establishment. The other one has folks. This is the worst table
 v The boys forget their names so Perry introduces them and says they are both shy. Luis copies Luc
 v Stay on the predestined path if it isn't blocked. Don't share info, don't kill people, but you can shoot tires.
 ○ This is the first year without the Nocturne Order
 ○ Stay clear of people across the room - they are probably all NO considering they're all white
 ○ Tomorrow night is the practice run - that's what people are planning
 ○ Prizes: there is a donated pot, money or a valuable object (location kept secret). Last year's prize was 10,000 platinum.
 ○ Pilots cannot re-compete, but the Moors' gang usually has good races. Mason O-Keerie is a good driver from there. Marie is the sponsor of another table!!
 ○ First race is above ground, second race is kind of between, third is usually underground. But they can shake it up so watch out!
 v Iago and Belle talk about starting a radio show together to meme on Hilario
 v Belle asks Amelie to switch her with Iago as pilot/mechanic "because we had a battle of wits and I realized I'm smarter"
 v Perry likes bbq chips
 ○ or maybe it's part of her alternate identity
 v Belle goes to talk to Marie; she's with Ricardo, her sponsored pilot. The pit crew are near identical and have porcelain colored skin… like… robots? Only bits of their faces (rough stubble, cherry red lips) are visible.
 ○ They are working for her, she owns the car and gets most of the prize money
 ○ Ricardo is paranoid
 ○ Perry manages to see that she is putting artifacts in her car. Her car is one of the ones in the garage - hot rod 2-seater, aquamarine paint, fender/wheelhouse is regal purple. The final paint job will have runes… not sure if they are functional
 v Belle checks to see if other people have animals/familiars - there is a cat here. It has a mechanic apron. An Aulladores gang member with a mechanical hand is petting the cat. His name is Bonito
 ○ Hilario tries to leave after petting the cat and gets grabbed by a big dude with a mohawk who is offended by him petting and going (Felipe, aka Sleepy)
 ○ Sleepy doesn't trust newcomers. He's always got one eye open…
 v Iago went to the outside zone to avoid having to talk to people/the gangs he's fought with lately. There's a non-racing car out there.
 v The parts they have could make just about any modification we can make up!
 ○ Adding a spell to the car would require an engine mod
 ○ We make plans to increase the structure points of the car and take out the secret compartments
 § Hilario does not know what to bring Belle at all
 ○ He makes it take 3 hours to mod
 ○ The old compartments are in her trunk for now
 v Pretty much everyone goes to the deli across the street to eat
 v After the break, we take the truck and drive out of the city to teach Luis to drive in the truck in Flores
 ○ He is not good at listening. Everyone screams as he gently boofs a tree
 ○ Perry accidentally gave him Too Many Car Facts
 ○
 ○ After that he starts getting a better grip on it
 ○ Drives in circles for a bit, then Perry has him drive to the gas station. Nat 20!
 ○ Luc assigned drive truck back to train station
 v Train station has a guy living outside and he gives Perry a train timetable. She gives him a copper
 v Luc says Luis is silly for pretending to be shy. We all argue while Luis is on Luc's lap in the passenger seat
 ○ Perry goes to rehearsal and drops the boys off at the shop. She will be back after 11:30, dropping them off at 7.
 v The wolfesgang table was repurposed into a concessions table while they were gone
 ○ Sleepy makes himself a big sub sandwich
 ○ Marie is not here anymore
 ○ Luis remembers Lucy is here, on the Angels team
 ○ Sleepy questions where Hilario was; he says he was practicing driving. Sleepy laughs and calls him a lil guy
 ○ the boys are in shambles without perry. they have no idea what to do or who to talk to
 ○ Luis suggests talking to the Angels, Luc frowns deeper imperceptibly
 v They talk to Marie's people
 ○ Ricardo says the twins are A and B. They say the same thing (good to meet you too) at the same time but with different inflections.
 v Someone says HEY - it's Lucy, recognizing Luc
 ○ Lucy shakes Luis (Hilario)'s hand. Luis is so sad inside
 ○ Lucy somehow heard Luis had a falling out with the two of them?
 ○ Luc tells him that we are using fake names so that Luis (and others) don't know us. Lucy says Wolfesbane people do Undercity stuff all the time
 ○ Lucy heard that Luc took out the Dervish. Hilario does eyes emoji
 ○ Hilario is super using that young and inexperienced act
 ○ They make fun of him for being 19~20. Luc's age lol
 ○ Perry missed Luc calling her fake name pretty on paper as part of the lie
 ○ Lucy says he will "probably see Daia first" before Perry :((
 ○ Luc should keep as clear of the Moors Don as long as possible (doesn't take kindly to people beating his champion) Lucy will keep an eye out
 v Perry does a gooooood tech rehearsal. Also asks for extra space for personal reasons
 ○ Approached by Bounty (Wolfesbane recep/Meg)
 ○ She says people were asking about her/what floor she works on/her current case at Wolfesbane
 ○ No funny hats, bunch of different ones.
 ○ Colonial accents, deadnamings galore
 ○ Bounty says there's a Thing between Perry and In Su. Not sure if it's just the Acting or if there's a little something…
 ○ She says Luc and Luis have rancid vibes. Luc has Secrets in his vibe. Perry's vibe is flowery and nice
 ○ She gives Perry her yogi's card, M-F availability
 § professional vibe checker? - perry
 § get his wife's lassi it is to die for
 v Back at the ranch
 ○ "the table is cheese now" -el
 ○ Hilario gets yelled at for feeding deli meat to the cat because it's not healthy
 ○ "You don't feed your cat deli meat, do you?" "I don't have a cat." "Why do you need to buy cat food then?" "Uh… in case I see a cat?"
 v Luis asks if he can walk down the street for a bit before he has to ride in Luc's lap. Perry has to laugh
 ○ Luis tells the story of his cat just showing up in his house
 ○ Luis makes Luc actually laugh because of saying "shit on his walls"
 v Perry announces that she is still being followed
 ○ We have a big slumber party and Luc's house. Luis sleeps on a floor pallet.
 ○ Luc is uncomfortable being a bad host
 ○ he is sleeping in his bed. Luis and Perry sleep wherever they want he does not Fucking Care
 ○ Luis is going to set up a pin board in the garage
 ○ Luis calls Perry out for wanting to slumber in Luc's bed. She gets embarrassed and crawls under the blanket on the couch
 v Monty keeps watch outdoors. They see another owl keeping a distance
 ○ They get close before the other owl screeches and runs. They note it has heterochromia - a black humanlike iris and a yellow cat's eye. She flies off back towards the mountains.
 v Luis wakes up at 4, busses to his radio show. Perry wakes up at 8 (has woken up a few times like this) to Monty on her chest just Staring. Luc wakes up his normal time
 ○ Tony's oldest child has straight A's in school so he's going to get ice cream as a reward. His youngest is learning to walk
 ○ BIG HEADLINE: Serial killer strikes again! Image with bodies filled with arrows. They are called the Hunter because they use hunting arrows (he/him pronouns but that’s probably assumption). Hunting down ex-NO members.
 ○ No news about the Queen missing Mass this weekend
 ○ one day luis will have a planned out news story
 ○ He makes a point that death is bad for sure, but he doesn't feel much sympathy for the NO vics
 v It's weird that it's normal Perry is waking up and spending the morning with Luc eh
 v Perry researches the DCA
 ○ Wolfesbane has done work with them before. There are info requests on apprehended people and sometimes WB agents. She is not high enough clearance to view the file that was submitted recently; it was denied, but she cannot see its contents yet. She submits a request for viewing
 ○ She checks the name Eckhardt. There's her intake, case files, plea deal, etc., there's also a Jonathan Eckhardt in the Goodnight (Rosalia/Fantasy Dallas) branch. He's a strapping young lad with short curly brown hair, brown eyes, half smile. Perry takes his address to write a letter later.
 ○ Cisco: the record is in a locked box, she uses mage hand to extract it. One page falls out. There are four pages inside. It's Michelle Cisco's document, and it is ancient, with some info blocked out (like her organization). There is an old information request; it doesn't say Wolfesbane Detective Agency, it says Wolfesbane City Protection (meant to replace law enforcement when they were drafted into the military). Ordonez/Wolfesbane were coronistas. But the info request is dated pre-war; 1275, 4 years before Perry was born (BP). It's asking for information on a MURDER!! of Nathaniel Cisco.
 § the plot thickens
 ○ Among the blotted out info: her mother was asking for information; his case was dismissed by the RPD because of "pressure from foreign governments" and she was trying to ask Wolfesbane if it was working the case/what they knew. She wanted to know why he was murdered. He was murdered November 1st, her inquiry was December 18th, 1275.
 ○ Next two pages are rejected cases during the war: one in 1291 and one in 1294, both tasked with apprehending and then apprehending/killing Michelle Cisco. Both were denied (no one took the case). The Coronista army submitted these requests. First was by General Quametlan (?), second was General Montevaia (?), current President General (Commander in Chief of military).
 ○ The page between those requests was missing.
 ○ The final page is dated 1296; it is a cease and desist asking for Wolfesbane to stop asking about Michelle Cisco/inquiring, submitted by Isabelle Montemayor. This was the year after Isabelle said she disappeared. "You cannot arrest this person because they are MIA (presumed KIA)."
 v Perry pulls out Cisco, N.
 ○ One group is Norton Cisco, arrested recently for drunk driving.
 ○ The front is Nathaniel Cisco - completely blacked out. The packet is stamped "CONFIDENTIAL BY ORDER OF DEPARTMENT OF COUNTER AGGRESSION."
 ○ She holds it up to the light, trying to see the text - it's still there. And someone has tampered with it before. He has three papers. She rolls it up and puts it in her coat - she is not noticed because the guy is reading A Day to Forget.
 v Blah blah report to Tesoro about plans/progress
 v Luc does some Alchemy Time with De Soto
 ○ The solution they have been working on does almost nothing at all. After upping the dosage, it's still not working.
 ○ She puts it in a Big Cube Metal Tube, it whirrs, lights up, and the solution manages to kill the blood cells.
 ○ The two of them stay an extra hour to try and crack this. It's still not doing well.
 ○ Science stuff about substrate ratios. She thinks really hard and runs into the fridge for some blood.
 ○ It's Desmodontinae, aka vampire bat, blood. The virus is treating Luc's cells as if it were a bat, trying to reaffix him as being more batty. She injects the bat blood into the culture…
 § NAT 20!!!!
 § It works so well!
 § Training the cells to recognize real bat blood?
 § The bat blood is acting more like a shield/better gravity than the human cells, attracting the virus cells better.
 § She gives him ~month's worth of vampire bat blood, recommends a zoo for more.
 ○ Professionally… and personally… she is worried about him. Luc seemed more out of it, less Him than usual, for the past weeks. She believes in him and their ability to conquer this, but he should readjust his expectations. Cellular removal is still on offer. Otherwise… begin preparations for the worst case scenario.
 ○ She has a notary for his will if he writes one. And a good lawyer to make the estate transferal quick and easy.
 ○ It is unlikely that he can be returned to his original state. It is also close to the point of no return - he's at stage VI, should be at stage V. VIII and IX are when patients tend to go beyond the point of return. His body is still fighting, but at those stages it succumbs and reproduces the virus in its own way. At stage VIII, his saliva will produce the virus - so he would be contagious.
 ○ She asks if he has perhaps been in contact with SEVERE IRRADIATED EVENTS recently. Any T-radiation? LIKE GOING INTO THE ETHEREAL PLANE
 ○ Luc admits to being subjected to the radiation with a protective suit, but it broke, and he did not have it in the final confrontation.
 § She tells him to avoid any T-radiation. If he was a real patient, she would have him away from cars, trains, anything at all. The amount released is safe enough, but he is in an incredibly sensitive state for the virus right now. If he is exposed to a high amount of it, it will progress further. Theoretically, the resistance will go down with time after the radiation fades, but if it has caused mutation or was a mutation, that is exponential growth.
 § Stay away from the Ethereal realm, ethereal beings, and spellcasters. Don't get hit by spells. Invest in lead protective garments. It should dip down by the end of the month, 1-3 weeks from now.
 § please tell your spellcaster friends to be careful
 ○ "So I hope for the best while I prepare my will." "Life is funny that way."

 v We open on a small grocers on Zona Milpa
 ○ Perry tells Luis of her plan to set up boring scenarios verbally so that she can telepathically talk to him without Maurice peeking in
 ○ Luis recommends
 v It takes Perry around 4 tracing papers, but she finally extracts the letters of the Nathaniel Papers
 ○ November of 1275 - Wolfesbane city security was contracted to investigate his death after he was found in his apartment. It was nipped in the bud by the Witchhunter's Guild, who did not conduct the operation legally, but the CEO of the agency Modesto Ordonez accepted a deal to pass it as an lawful execution under foreign law and unacceptable for a municipal agency to deal with it
 ○ He was shot multiple times in the back and put up a fight; bullets were colonial and of Witchhunter's Guild, who admitted to the murder and settled it below board
 ○ Attached was a different document, separately, sent to the security agency that lists his crime
 ○ For his actions on the 21st of December, 1258 while engaged on a foreign mission for the Witche Hunters Guild, Nathanial Luca Cisco has been found guilty of the crimes of treason, conspiring with the enemy, and desertion by the 32nd Court of Appeals in Kingsfall, WA. The honorable judge Raymond Lafayette sentences him to death, as is required by the County of Wampanoa and the city of Kingsfall.
 ○ Perry can note that 1275 was many years before the Witchfinders were allowed to operate legally within Najalisco; this was an extra special case that required them to go outside the borders
 v At the library
 ○ Department of Counter-Aggression: Witchfinders
 § Learns what Luc learned: made of three bureaus; witchfinding, security, and defense,
 § Witchfinders apprehend people that are too dangerous, or kill them
 § The DCA has been a thing since the beginning of the 1200s, but the Bureau of Witchfinders and the power of the organization increased when the Harborites took control of the colonies in 1263
 § Before then, the WH Guild operated entirely out of Kingsfall (Boston) with a few frontier missions, then became a national agency afterward
 ○ DCA: founding
 § DCA was founded after the first colonial-moravian war (independence) because of high border tensions afterward and violent outbreaks; meant to ensure moravian terrorists would not incite riots on the other side
 § Under federal control, it grew into an extra-judicial way to maintain peace/status quo
 § Then became enigmatic, moving passed basement in the Capitol, agents more under the board
 § International community considers it a very dangerous and lethal force not to be reckoned with and one of the reasons political instability wracks countries around the Colonies, especially Moravia, sometimes overthrowing governments
 § Hasn't released any documents after 1275
 ○ DCA: the crime of sorcery
 § Perry cannot find anything on colonial law, but remembers the general colonial culture is that those born with magic are dangerous, considered too dangerous to be outside the law. Imprisoned, brought to federal service, or "decommissioned"
 § There's no immediate clocking mechanism for sorcerers/bards, but if something comes out, news travels fast
 § She went to St. Patrick often - that town had news every other month that someone accidentally cast a spell and a few days later was gone, under house arrest, etc. Someone only capable of cantrips are watched and under house arrest. People like her who can cast fireball multiple times are imprisoned and not offered federal
 ○ Nowadays, death penalty reserved for treason, murder, violent crimes, and theft of a certain value, and it can be recommended by certain judges if they believe the criminal has done TOO MANY CRIIIMEEEE
 v Meanwhile at the ranch: Luc is dying a lot. Physically, because he has a terminal illness. But also mentally, because he thought he had a year and was zeroing in on it until Perry's kidnapping convinced him to look beyond living life so narrowly. But then De Soto was like "maybe six weeks" and he's confused and in hell. What does he do to process this?
 ○ Flores is southwest of SC, southeast on the major road is the mountains and san cosmos valley (big city on a pyramid there), north through Zona Coasta to the big mountains, or turn to Cicitlahuacan or Mariposa
 ○ He goes on a short Luc Lonetrip to Cicitlahuacan. He puts the Blood Glass in his GUITAR CASE
 ○ As he leaves his house, he sees his neighbor Estrella, who has not seen him in awhile!
 ○ "You seeing that girl I've been seeing you with?" "She's a friend" "But she's mighty pretty…" "She's a coworker. I actually have another coworker over…" "Oh, good old fashioned sleepover." "No, it's a renovations thing."
 ○ he rolled a 3 to lie
 ○ "Oh okay. Whatever floats your boat."
 ○ Luc gives Lenny pats. he will remember this. you can pet the dog in this game
 ○ She's cooking for one now :(
 ○ Luc goes AWAY. arrives at the park around 6. He goes to the little shaft they emerged from after seeing Isabel the first time. Other than an overturned table, everything is as Isabel left it. A mildewed rug hangs, glass bottle fragments and paper pieces lay about.
 § He is not the most quiet, but not super loud - hard to be quiet in the wet, stone cave.
 § Nat 20 to find something left behind - behind the table, there is an old leatherbound book. It's nicely preserved, but the ink is running on some pages, and it appears to be a children's novel. Like one of them hobbits. Well loved, signed with "to our little scientist, (S/D) mom and dad." Luc pockets it.
 ○ Old bones here; skeletons have made it here. Low level of dark fog. The skeletons are fractured and partially dusted - there was a conflict in the main "living room." There is old blood on the walls. The entrance (up, over, down barrier for fog) was bored through to reveal all of God's Grave's Darkness. Old spark of blue electricity wires Isabel left. It appears that someone broke through in search of something/someone (likely the skeletons) and met their end. There are no human bodies. Someone bludgeoned them, fought off with a stick or their fists. Whoever did it was precise; small club, baton, or their fists. Hairline fractures on some, broken bones on others. Likely a person. guessing druid or monk or pugilist
 ○ The final skeleton is reaching towards Isabel's old bedroom
 § The fog stops abruptly at the threshold of this room
 § Inside, there is an abandoned bed with a human-sized red stain on it. A barrel set up as a nightstand is covered in used medical equipment.
 § He looks under the bed; there's a body bag. Not official, made up of sheets and blankets and gauze. Like a cursed mummy. It's about 5'4", stocky build in the shoulders (once upon a time), body bag is not stained by blood. Three months of rot, maybe, looking at the bag. He opens it, prepared for the nasty
 § Bit of a puff of gross as he cuts it open - golden dust particles shot out. Roll CON save binch. He rolls 14/15 and sneezes… which echoes… and distant sounds of skeletons assembling.
 § He is looking at a surprisingly fresh (looking?) corpse. Maybe like a mummy - nicely preserved, wrinkling just a bit. A handsome young man in a pinstripe suit with a coin pressed on his head and a note strapped to his chest. Weirdly, ferns are wrapped around his body, which seem to be the source of the dust.
 § The note says "sorry your friend had to die, I tried to save him, but blood loss got him in the end. please bury him properly, I made sure he won't decompose. signed [crescent moon]."
 § He opens the eyes to see them dark green/hazel, mustache, mid-late 20s, Luc has never seen this dude.
 § The handwriting, however, looks familiar. Like Luna's, but not exactly alike.
 § obviously this could be anyone
 ○ Luc pieces together that two people entered the room and one left; came here in a last-ditch attempt as both were wounded, him more severely, but he died of blood loss. The other person bandaged him, warded the room for fog and decay, and left the way he came.
 § He notices, outside the fog area, that there are two pairs of footsteps by the bed and one around - then none. Like they walked to the bed, put the body down, and did not walk away. Transformed? Teleported?
 § Luc came to whack skeletons and get away from it all. found signs of his former lover instead
 § Skeletons do bludgeoning damage so why this guy cut up? medicine check time
 § On his back, millimeters from his spine, is a deep gash. It pierced all the way deep into his abdomen and caused the bleeding. It is a clean cut, clearly done by a sharp weapon. About the same width as the bloodglass.
 § the more he sees the less he knows
 ○ He exits quietly, finding 4 skeletons - two human-looking, one with a birdlike form and retrograde limbs and delicate bones, another is bat-like with wings extended from its back and a lizard-like face
 § he tries to sneak past and the wing of the lizard skel touches the top of his hat. it shrieks
 v Luis, unfortunately, is the only one at Quetzel's Rest from 6-11:30 with no car and no driver, tasked with preparing for the race.
 ○ Amelie gives him the information - starting from a tree, to a grocer, big street, turn immediately back around, do it again. It's a way to test out how the build is working
 ○ Newcomer practice prep? build a suit of armor, haha. joke.
 ○ Get familiar with your car where you can repair it, change a tire, replace a broken window - practice doing it over and over!
 ○ Luis practices cranking and screwing things in on small pieces of equipment. inadvertently, he makes a series of interlocked gears, a gear rig. cool but doesn’t do anything
 ○ Luc and Perry know what to do, he is here for moral support and Looking like he has a purpose
 ○ He goes to the bathroom looks at the mirror for Luc - sees him with a dark torch in Isabel's old lab, looking at a corpse, and four skeletons descending on him - then it cuts out.
 ○ Luis casts Infallible Ray on Perry. That's so rude she's at rehearsal!!
 § She rolled a fucking 28. It's 10:30 and she's tired of doing the same scene over and over and over with different lighting and mic tests and ugh!! FINALLY it's time for a fun thing, time to do a run at 10! whole play, no stops. It's 10:30 and Luis is calling
 § She decides to wait until the next scene she isn't in to cast sending or call to figure out why the fuck he's calling
 § At 11:15, she sneaks off a minute to try calling the deli. He tells her how Luc can't answer the phone and he checked the mirror and saw him at God's Grave??? getting got by skeletons
 § "Listen I don't know a lot" - Luis
 □ neither does luc evidently
 § Perry goes to finish out her last scene since there's only 15 minutes, then she's gonna GO
 v Luc blows off the wing of the skeleton, then reduces it to dust with another swing. He retreats into the room again to prevent more from forming
 ○ Unfortunately, there are 7 skeletons now, and something larger stomping in the distance
 ○ Big guy is something fast and… wetter than a skeleton?
 ○ He kills some, some things force him against the wall, rattling everything
 ○ Something finally bowls through - part man, part wolf, part raven creature. Its feathers are matted and covered in blood, it has serrated teeth and a skull inside its sinewy maw.
 ○ Double damage or lingering wound from that natural 20 :)
 ○ Luc runs, then he gets surrounded - but the two which can reach him miss. But then it is bird time with another nat 20 and a miss. Picks lingering wound - it's a heroic scar, advantage on charisma checks for inspiring awe in people now. One big rad scar across his face.
 ○ Luc jumps up onto the ladder - and the old wood of that rung snaps. A few pieces from further up fall down, making the ladder shorter. He jumps again, higher, and rolls a 26, is now high up the ladder shaft… but there's no ladder. Hit the ground running and leave, or shimmy up? Another 26! He's going up! Skeletons cannot reach him. The bird looks and shrieks aaaaaaand it has a climbing speed :)
 § it jumps up, but finds no purchase… this turn.
 ○ Luc climbs up 45 feet, now nearly halfway there. It jumps and climbs with astonishing speed and gets him twice. He can't get up fast enough to escape, still dashing, takes AOO. He's now 10 feet from the top, early twilight shining on his face. The creature tears up the wall, coming 30 feet up - and no further. 15 feet to the creature and 10 to the top - scuttling up to the top. He drops a stick of dynamite down, with no chance of missing - its huge body fills up the ancient tunnel.
 v It's 11:30 and rehearsal is running late. Perry claims that her friends are maybe in a car crash because of street racing. It ends the night for everyone - director also doesn't seem to believe Perry.
 v Luis tells Amelie they all have to pull out of the practice race. It's a faux paus but they aren't canceled
 v Luc walks from the hole, CON SAVE… his knee crumples. His sails are out. Super tired. He's not even halfway to the parking lot… he injects a health tonic. It radiates outwards at the site. Luc forgot no healing for him :)
 ○ he makes it to the edge of the park. The ranger is like "where were you it. looks like the brambles got you. I'll unboot your motorcycle."
 ○ Luc is driving and hears Perry… "Are you alive? Where are you?"
 ○ "Howdy I'm fine see you there" basically "how are you"
 v Perry gets there around 12:10. The race is in the final lap. Luc is on his way; Perry beat him there.
 ○ Luis yells at him. Luc says he had to blow off steam from getting bad news
 ○ Luc admits Luna was there and that things were real bad
 ○ Perry says she does not expect to live past Luc because of being hunted by the DCA
 ○ Luis tries to make Luc promise for Perry and him to not be reckless
 ○ Sleepy says they did something to our table haaha! perry tries to cut his breakline and misses.
 § Luc shortrests while Perry and Luis go to look
 § The table has food all over it, beer, bottles, penises etched into the table
 § They don't clean it up and start to leave
 ○ June says what's your AC?
 ○ BUM BUM TAINTED LOVE
 ○ SOMETIMES I FEEL I'VE GOT TO
 v Two arrows hit Luis in the chest, one hits just below the sternum in Perry
 ○ Luc is at the top of the round and dashes
 ○
 ○ Luc sees a cloaked figure with a bow and a bunch of weaponry. The figure turns to him, drops the bow, and shoots him with a tommy gun. "Ah, the cowboy." They attack six times and destroy his fighting spirit
 § note they only have +1 to wisdom
 ○ Perry ("I am not in the mood for this shit.") digs into their mind with Detect Thoughts: immediately, they are focused on murder. Their reasoning is "all for the greater good, despite the fact that it is a pity." Their emotional state is disappointment, but resolution. The winter solstice weighs on their mind.
 ○ Perry asks who they are: resonating in their mind and their mouth is "death."
 § Edgy shit
 ○ Luc brands the creature; always know where it is until certain conditions are met
 ○ Homie pulls out a shotgun pointblank on luc
 § F
 § BUM BUM
 ○ Luis gets punched real hard
 ○ A brand forms on Luc's hand, shaped like an arrowhead
 ○ Luis uses Future Magic to trample that homie's Indominable to incapacitate the guy, freeze him in place
 ○ Perry's wings open as she prepares to fly away - Luc fails 2 death saves
 ○ The hold fails - but luckily. at the end of tainted love's turn
 ○ RUN AWAY
 ○ Perry heals Luc and flies him 5 feet off the ground closer to the car. She tells them both to start the car and go while she flies, because it will take too long for them all to get in the car. Luc obliges and starts the car
 ○ The hunter bursts through the wall! oh no!
 ○ They try and get Perry with a shotgun and miss, then chuck it at Luis. then punches him again
 ○ Luis gets a minor concussion, won't remember this encounter for 1d4 (3) days
 ○ Perry tries to Dissonant Whispers them away; they fail, but don't have a reaction and do not move
 ○ Luc yanks Luis inside and moves 50 feet forward. Hunter tries to bust open the LOCKED DOOR IN A CAR GOING 50 feet JUNE NO ????
 § the ac is 17 take that >:(
 § shoots at luc with a pistol though. He falls forward, Luis
 ○ Monty sees, with a 21, another owl swoop down and hit the pavement, becoming a hulking skeletal creature which bounds down the street - the hunter was ready to shoot Luc in the skull as Accursed Form Naag-- pushes the hunter into the wall and back inside.
 ○ Isabel has distended fingers, a canid head, hunched over and clawing at the hunter.
 ○ Perry flies to Luc's motorcycle and drops her wings, and instead has Monty cast Haste upon Isabel (it's more fun if haste is touch tbh)
 ○ Perry hears Isabel shredding and shriekin. She is thrown across the street, summons a festering purple bone blade, and attacks twice with the help of Perry's haste
 ○ We rendezvous at the Luc zone. Luc is bleeding and dying but he's going to get them back to the FUCKING house god DAMN it.
 ○ It takes 45 minutes to get back; Luis begins to fall asleep in the passenger seat
 v As we pull in, we see the front door is cracked open
 ○ hey glad that luc has the blood glass in a fucking guitar case
 ○ He creaks the door open quietly - arm bandaged with her own lab coat, is Isabel! teleport by plant bro. she's drinking his whiskey
 ○ Perry uses Lay on Hands to heal Luis of his concussion
 v "Are you going to run away again?" perry asks "I don't think it would be wise. I think you three are the target of the next ritual and I may be the only thing between you and death."

 v We open in the suburbs of Puerto Mercado, into a realm of ranch-style homes. On one, the lights remain on late into the night as three beleaguered individuals limp inside. Inside, a trembling Isabel sips on whiskey.
 ○ Isabel had suspicions about the Hunter, warned Perry about it, hoped she was not the target
 ○ she's putting her weight onto one shoulder
 ○ Perry gets a first aid kit to treat Luc
 ○ Luis makes dinner for everyone, king
 v The hunter is the physical manifestation of a very powerful archon - its human form
 ○ the hunter: a finger puppet, muppet, morphsuit?
 ○ Isabel doesn’t fucking understand this analogy
 ○ hunter is a culmination of decades of work to invest energy in a form to make this work. It is a human, but it is inhabited by the entity. It can die, bleed, etc. If you pushed the archon out, it would just be a corpse
 v The RQ is "the Snare," takes possession of people for the ritual
 ○ All of them have a different way of violating human autonomy
 ○ The hunter violates the autonomy of life
 ○ The ritual is to kill us - if we die at the hands of this thing we are outclassed by, they get a point. Isabel could just kill us all here to stop the ritual.
 ○ She's not certain if all of us have to die, but one is probably not enough, but would maybe be enough to let it kill the other two easier
 ○ Luc is like "makes sense to kill Perry but why us lads"
 ○ Luis' connection to the Ethereal (him to know and Isabel to find out) and Luc's disease might make them sponges, they have been around the previous rituals - potential energy to ritualize
 v Luis makes a terrible French onion soup. soggy bread. onions aren't fully cooked. edible but not good
 ○ Isabel drinks the soup down
 ○ Perry mage hands her a fucking napkin
 v Theoretically, there's a time limit - traditionally towards winter solstice. However, there's new years, lunar new year, valentine, mardi gras….
 ○ Essentially, brief weeks of peace before ritual energy is high enough for the hunter to try something
 ○ Severe danger until the 21st; don't try and hide or run, they can peer through the veil so to speak
 ○ Embodiment of gluttony? Stalking is the embodiment of the fear of being hunted
 v Isabel is motivated by the potential for humanity; archons want to squash it and subjugate them
 v Isabel shames Luc for not telling the gang in plain terms that he has vampiritis
 v Isabel asks the wolfesgang if they are all dating each other
 ○ Perry says she bets Isabel wishes she had a girlfriend
 ○ "what would I do with one? let her watch me die?"
 ○ "im not going to have this talk with you"
 v If Michelle is right and these are the Dark Apostles, they haven't been active since the Vampiric Plague 600 years ago. Last time the Stalking was a dog
 ○ They did not cause the plague. They see times of strife and murder and use that to manipulate bad situations to make them worse
 ○ Some archons would like us to be safe, but we are not the only planet the "good" archons care about. But we are quarantined in terms of interstellar travel
 ○ The Hoard was November's ritual, that we stopped. If it had succeeded, there would have been a financial boom and then a… depression… a great one? not that great
 ○ The next one should be the Burned, then the Decay, then the Hound, then the Tyrant
 ○ Once all seven have done their rituals and appeared on the grand stage, they can do what they want. Michelle believed, according to the Gospel, they wanted to make demonic Hellscape on our planet. Isabel thinks they simply are pretending to be the apostles as a source of power for themselves.
 ○ They might be looking to breed a new kind of (dangerous) archon
 v "You're in collusion with the RAVEN QUEEN AND YOU HAVE NOT SLAIN HIM??? WHY IS HE STILL STANDING? I WILL PLUCK OUT YOUR EYES"
 ○ she has him cover his eyes with her biohazard lab - coat
 ○ Isabel will NOT waste time with clothes perry
 v She recommends traps, like electric ones. Isabel will buy a textbook. Try and seem as if only Luc is in the building; it's easiest to see him, who is marked, right now. Stay up as long as possible - being close to death lets it mark you, hurt you more, find you better
 v "I'm happy." "happiness is fleeting." "not this kind." "you're weird." "you're a freak."
 ○ "You're a lot like your mom, what the fuck." - Isabel
 ○ they squint at each other for like a full minute
 v Study, spar, etc. try to keep as much as you can a secret from it. Surprising it is the key to killing it.
 v How long has cabbage been in Luc's freezer? Weeks in advance?
 ○ its called being organized
 ○ she takes his cabbage. eats it whole. fine enough cabbage
 v Luc doesn't want to go back to Wolfesbane; Perry wouldn't be happy. Luis thinks they can help him with finding his sister.
 v Perry asks Luis to apply to a Bigger New Station
 ○ Expose on Wolfesbane
 v Luis asks if Luc would show Isabel the bloodglass - he thinks that's a bad idea. But it's an advantage the Hunter does not know we have. If someone could attune to it
 ○ Isabel would be the easiest
 ○ Long shot to try Luna (also she'd kill him…)
 v We talk about Isabel and how she sucks for a bit
 v Coraline has been gone a month and Luis hasn't talked to her at all??
 ○ Maurice is standing in the kitchen to Luis like THIS GUY
 v Luc says he is fine. Perry pokes him in the ribs and he rolled a 7 and he tumbles back onto the couch.
 v Perry succeeds her stress ichor roll. While the boys are out Perry goes to Luc's room and lays on the bed. Monty is flitting around.
 ○ Luc circles from the back porch to the front porch. Waits a bit to let Luis already be smoking.
 ○ Luc asks for a cigarette too. LUIS HAS NEVER SMOKED WITH LUC BEFORE.
 ○ "I'm in love with her."
 ○ FUISFIUCUKDFUHFJK
 ○ Luis almost eats his cigarette. "She's in there, you could just…."
 ○ "This is a problem, not a good thing." "This is a bad thing." "A bad good thing. Or a very good bad thing. I'm not sure."
 ○ "I think she feels the same." "You think I don't know that?"
 ○ Luis spent a lot of time with someone he loved a lot; maybe he was wrong, maybe it would disappear if he said anything… it got overwhelming, and he had to leave, and he lost them. And now he won't ever see them again. "So if you're sitting in your house thinking you have weeks left to live… tell her. Work things out together. If that's what you want to do."
 ○ It's a bad idea, because when he has to go, he will have to be killed. There wouldn't be talking sense into her. He wouldn't want either of them see him turn into that.
 § Luis promises he would not hesitate bitch. even if it was hard
 § Luc believes him
 ○ Luc isn't contagious… yet.
 ○ "Can I make her feel happy? I can make her feel safe, I can make her feel venerated, but how happy can I make her with that ticking clock?"
 ○ "Make her happy as you possibly can. And when you leave, there will be the sting, and those happy memories."
 ○ Luis says she will have a broken heart regardless; Luc wants to leave her with the least amount of pain; Luis is like oh honey she would be worse off knowing there could have been something
 ○ "Go in there and tell her." "Maybe I should sleep on it." "You'll just keep putting it off, losing time every day you put it off."
 ○ Luis promises to be a piece of shit if Luc procrastinates. and Perry probably will too
 ○ Luc says he cannot do this Tonight, whether he can do it or not at all
 ○ Luis says it would be interesting STORYWISE if he did it though
 ○ "Not a word to no one, understand?"
 v He goes to bed… oops…. Perry's there but he doesn't see her until he turns on the lamp
 ○ She wants to let him know she would be willing to listen to him about what's bothering him, sending him to the God's Grave
 ○ He received bad news, that much is true. It's different, worse, but didn't feel weird he would just die. He wanted to See Death and know it from the side he is not used to.
 ○ She is glad to know he isn't going to do something crazy. But he wants to do something crazy right now
 ○ Perry says she has something to talk about when he's not so stressed
 ○ He is determined to hear it. She says she likes him. In the romantic sense, in the way of being partners.
 ○ Luc asks her what she wants to do about it. Perry says she did not want to think about it too hard. Not be too reckless, but not plan it out. But she'd like to kiss him, for a first…
 ○ and Luc's already kissing her.
 ○ that's a fade to black
 v Maurice is here to talk to Luis about the stressful night they've both had.
 ○ Thinks Luc and Perry are cute, though they normally don't form opinions like that
 ○ Luis tells him about the stressful things that happened. Still hasn't killed Isabel
 ○ Maurice is taking notes
 ○ Luis is planning something stupid?
 ○ Maurice says it's bad if he falls asleep (because of the concussion or otherwise?)
 ○ They don't want any of them to die, but can't control the deaths of his little friends. Maurice will help Luis not die as much as they can
 v The stupid thing Luis is going to do - he goes to the gas station payphone.
 ○ He calls Lucy and says they got into a spot of trouble with a nasty person. Dirty 20 persuasion
 ○ They spend the night together…. wink
 ○ HE's chHEATING ON CORALINE
 ○ Luis says "please don't tell anyone" "did I do anything?" "no you were great"
 ○ don’t take this the wrong way but…you remember coraline? we're together. lucy is beshaken by this news
 § why
 § didn’t
 § you tell him
 § before you fuckee hdimmfkl
 ○ Lucy thought they were broken up, Luis has been really sad, it feels like they have, she won't answer him……….
 ○ "I'm sorry." "…You should be..." "I'm going to go."
 v Perry and Luc did not smash, because Luc is injured and they're smart
 v Monty saw Luis go to the payphone and get picked up by Lucy.
 v Luc makes waffles and sausage for him and Perry
 ○ Luis gets back and he looks tired. He says he did do something stupid but it's none of Perry's business
 ○ "I did drugs" Perry can 100% tell he did not do drugs
 ○ Luis says he used the mirror to check on her and it didn't work
 ○ Perry calls him creepy
 ○ Perry gets that Luis just had a freeking affair and yells at him to go call Coraline and talk to her now
 ○ Luis goes to get breakfast at the corner store because DM asked if he would… I am anxious…. nothing happened he gets back to the house
 v Perry casts sending, asks how she is and what's happening, please call Luis.
 ○ Perry hears her own voice, static back at her, and feels sick
 ○ Perry says she is worried about Coraline now
 ○ Luis has no good excuses for his actions
 v Isabel is at the window. We locked her out on accident. She's checking in like we told her to
 ○ she's in better standing with Isabel right now than Luis wtf
 ○ Isabel really got them a physics/electric textbook. Perry has it now
 ○ The hunter is outside the city at the moment, according to Isabel. Luc can sense it is moving into the city on the San Uriel bridge.
 ○ The Hoard might be at Wolfesbane
 ○ whoever the Hunter is able to find out where the wolfesgang was: gang related, rpd, wolfesbane, or has a contact at one of those places
 ○ Isabel stole a sausage from Luis
 v If Luis is connected to the Snare, they can revoke power or use it against us
 ○ Perry does not have archon blood, she has a genetic marker that absorbs ambient t particles and can release them in her flashy form and through spells
 ○ it would have been nice to know this
 ○ Isabel makes fun of Perry for not going to school, and not knowing how to learn stuff at a library
 ○ Isabel promises not to eat Luis' cat
 ○ Perry and Luis have a spidey sense, feeling like she's being watched. Perry is certain she's being watched, but can't find who.
 ○ She tries to distract herself when Luis gives her a bottle of sauce. It fades away, then gets way worse. She feels paranoid and gets upset about it
 v Perry asks Luc where the Hunter is; Reforma district, where Sinola lives. She has Luis call her, she's doing fine.
 ○ Luis tells Sinola that we are all at Perry's house. staking it out from inside. Sinola is confused
 ○ the dichotomy of sleepover and stakeout.
 ○ She says come to work actually. He says we're all planning to quit maybe
 v We go to the Wolfesbane
 ○ Perry tells Bounty about how she's quitting
 ○ Monty is circling the building, ready to give the signal
 ○ Perry goes to our (soon to be ex) supervisor, Mr. Amar
 ○ She gives her complains about the discrimination and that they have personal concerns
 ○ "you boys" Perry takes a deep breath
 ○ Perry is asked to go out in the hall to wait for a moment before she can see if the information she requested earlier is available before she goes
 ○ Perry stills feels Watched and she Does Not like that
 ○ His little badge is going off; directly across the street. The hunter is nearby. In Wolfesbane actually
 v Perry goes back in: bad news is her file request was denied but she couldn’t have had it anyway
 ○ she runs into Sinola on the way to the office
 ○ Perry is offered solace at Sinola's house, but she mentions her upset brother. Sinola is a terrible liar and cannot bear to admit the truth
 ○ the elevator is already going up, the boys cannot go up. It dings, there's a "who the fuck" and then bullet fire
 ○ thaat's it!

 v We open in the suburbs of Puerto Mercado, into a realm of ranch-style homes. On one, the lights remain on late into the night as three beleaguered individuals limp inside. Inside, a trembling Isabel sips on whiskey.
 ○ Isabel had suspicions about the Hunter, warned Perry about it, hoped she was not the target
 ○ she's putting her weight onto one shoulder
 ○ Perry gets a first aid kit to treat Luc
 ○ Luis makes dinner for everyone, king
 v The hunter is the physical manifestation of a very powerful archon - its human form
 ○ the hunter: a finger puppet, muppet, morphsuit?
 ○ Isabel doesn’t fucking understand this analogy
 ○ hunter is a culmination of decades of work to invest energy in a form to make this work. It is a human, but it is inhabited by the entity. It can die, bleed, etc. If you pushed the archon out, it would just be a corpse
 v The RQ is "the Snare," takes possession of people for the ritual
 ○ All of them have a different way of violating human autonomy
 ○ The hunter violates the autonomy of life
 ○ The ritual is to kill us - if we die at the hands of this thing we are outclassed by, they get a point. Isabel could just kill us all here to stop the ritual.
 ○ She's not certain if all of us have to die, but one is probably not enough, but would maybe be enough to let it kill the other two easier
 ○ Luc is like "makes sense to kill Perry but why us lads"
 ○ Luis' connection to the Ethereal (him to know and Isabel to find out) and Luc's disease might make them sponges, they have been around the previous rituals - potential energy to ritualize
 v Luis makes a terrible French onion soup. soggy bread. onions aren't fully cooked. edible but not good
 ○ Isabel drinks the soup down
 ○ Perry mage hands her a fucking napkin
 v Theoretically, there's a time limit - traditionally towards winter solstice. However, there's new years, lunar new year, valentine, mardi gras….
 ○ Essentially, brief weeks of peace before ritual energy is high enough for the hunter to try something
 ○ Severe danger until the 21st; don't try and hide or run, they can peer through the veil so to speak
 ○ Embodiment of gluttony? Stalking is the embodiment of the fear of being hunted
 v Isabel is motivated by the potential for humanity; archons want to squash it and subjugate them
 v Isabel shames Luc for not telling the gang in plain terms that he has vampiritis
 v Isabel asks the wolfesgang if they are all dating each other
 ○ Perry says she bets Isabel wishes she had a girlfriend
 ○ "what would I do with one? let her watch me die?"
 ○ "im not going to have this talk with you"
 v If Michelle is right and these are the Dark Apostles, they haven't been active since the Vampiric Plague 600 years ago. Last time the Stalking was a dog
 ○ They did not cause the plague. They see times of strife and murder and use that to manipulate bad situations to make them worse
 ○ Some archons would like us to be safe, but we are not the only planet the "good" archons care about. But we are quarantined in terms of interstellar travel
 ○ The Hoard was November's ritual, that we stopped. If it had succeeded, there would have been a financial boom and then a… depression… a great one? not that great
 ○ The next one should be the Burned, then the Decay, then the Hound, then the Tyrant
 ○ Once all seven have done their rituals and appeared on the grand stage, they can do what they want. Michelle believed, according to the Gospel, they wanted to make demonic Hellscape on our planet. Isabel thinks they simply are pretending to be the apostles as a source of power for themselves.
 ○ They might be looking to breed a new kind of (dangerous) archon
 v "You're in collusion with the RAVEN QUEEN AND YOU HAVE NOT SLAIN HIM??? WHY IS HE STILL STANDING? I WILL PLUCK OUT YOUR EYES"
 ○ she has him cover his eyes with her biohazard lab - coat
 ○ Isabel will NOT waste time with clothes perry
 v She recommends traps, like electric ones. Isabel will buy a textbook. Try and seem as if only Luc is in the building; it's easiest to see him, who is marked, right now. Stay up as long as possible - being close to death lets it mark you, hurt you more, find you better
 v "I'm happy." "happiness is fleeting." "not this kind." "you're weird." "you're a freak."
 ○ "You're a lot like your mom, what the fuck." - Isabel
 ○ they squint at each other for like a full minute
 v Study, spar, etc. try to keep as much as you can a secret from it. Surprising it is the key to killing it.
 v How long has cabbage been in Luc's freezer? Weeks in advance?
 ○ its called being organized
 ○ she takes his cabbage. eats it whole. fine enough cabbage
 v Luc doesn't want to go back to Wolfesbane; Perry wouldn't be happy. Luis thinks they can help him with finding his sister.
 v Perry asks Luis to apply to a Bigger New Station
 ○ Expose on Wolfesbane
 v Luis asks if Luc would show Isabel the bloodglass - he thinks that's a bad idea. But it's an advantage the Hunter does not know we have. If someone could attune to it
 ○ Isabel would be the easiest
 ○ Long shot to try Luna (also she'd kill him…)
 v We talk about Isabel and how she sucks for a bit
 v Coraline has been gone a month and Luis hasn't talked to her at all??
 ○ Maurice is standing in the kitchen to Luis like THIS GUY
 v Luc says he is fine. Perry pokes him in the ribs and he rolled a 7 and he tumbles back onto the couch.
 v Perry succeeds her stress ichor roll. While the boys are out Perry goes to Luc's room and lays on the bed. Monty is flitting around.
 ○ Luc circles from the back porch to the front porch. Waits a bit to let Luis already be smoking.
 ○ Luc asks for a cigarette too. LUIS HAS NEVER SMOKED WITH LUC BEFORE.
 ○ "I'm in love with her."
 ○ FUISFIUCUKDFUHFJK
 ○ Luis almost eats his cigarette. "She's in there, you could just…."
 ○ "This is a problem, not a good thing." "This is a bad thing." "A bad good thing. Or a very good bad thing. I'm not sure."
 ○ "I think she feels the same." "You think I don't know that?"
 ○ Luis spent a lot of time with someone he loved a lot; maybe he was wrong, maybe it would disappear if he said anything… it got overwhelming, and he had to leave, and he lost them. And now he won't ever see them again. "So if you're sitting in your house thinking you have weeks left to live… tell her. Work things out together. If that's what you want to do."
 ○ It's a bad idea, because when he has to go, he will have to be killed. There wouldn't be talking sense into her. He wouldn't want either of them see him turn into that.
 § Luis promises he would not hesitate bitch. even if it was hard
 § Luc believes him
 ○ Luc isn't contagious… yet.
 ○ "Can I make her feel happy? I can make her feel safe, I can make her feel venerated, but how happy can I make her with that ticking clock?"
 ○ "Make her happy as you possibly can. And when you leave, there will be the sting, and those happy memories."
 ○ Luis says she will have a broken heart regardless; Luc wants to leave her with the least amount of pain; Luis is like oh honey she would be worse off knowing there could have been something
 ○ "Go in there and tell her." "Maybe I should sleep on it." "You'll just keep putting it off, losing time every day you put it off."
 ○ Luis promises to be a piece of shit if Luc procrastinates. and Perry probably will too
 ○ Luc says he cannot do this Tonight, whether he can do it or not at all
 ○ Luis says it would be interesting STORYWISE if he did it though
 ○ "Not a word to no one, understand?"
 v He goes to bed… oops…. Perry's there but he doesn't see her until he turns on the lamp
 ○ She wants to let him know she would be willing to listen to him about what's bothering him, sending him to the God's Grave
 ○ He received bad news, that much is true. It's different, worse, but didn't feel weird he would just die. He wanted to See Death and know it from the side he is not used to.
 ○ She is glad to know he isn't going to do something crazy. But he wants to do something crazy right now
 ○ Perry says she has something to talk about when he's not so stressed
 ○ He is determined to hear it. She says she likes him. In the romantic sense, in the way of being partners.
 ○ Luc asks her what she wants to do about it. Perry says she did not want to think about it too hard. Not be too reckless, but not plan it out. But she'd like to kiss him, for a first…
 ○ and Luc's already kissing her.
 ○ that's a fade to black
 v Maurice is here to talk to Luis about the stressful night they've both had.
 ○ Thinks Luc and Perry are cute, though they normally don't form opinions like that
 ○ Luis tells him about the stressful things that happened. Still hasn't killed Isabel
 ○ Maurice is taking notes
 ○ Luis is planning something stupid?
 ○ Maurice says it's bad if he falls asleep (because of the concussion or otherwise?)
 ○ They don't want any of them to die, but can't control the deaths of his little friends. Maurice will help Luis not die as much as they can
 v The stupid thing Luis is going to do - he goes to the gas station payphone.
 ○ He calls Lucy and says they got into a spot of trouble with a nasty person. Dirty 20 persuasion
 ○ They spend the night together…. wink
 ○ HE's chHEATING ON CORALINE
 ○ Luis says "please don't tell anyone" "did I do anything?" "no you were great"
 ○ don’t take this the wrong way but…you remember coraline? we're together. lucy is beshaken by this news
 § why
 § didn’t
 § you tell him
 § before you fuckee hdimmfkl
 ○ Lucy thought they were broken up, Luis has been really sad, it feels like they have, she won't answer him……….
 ○ "I'm sorry." "…You should be..." "I'm going to go."
 v Perry and Luc did not smash, because Luc is injured and they're smart
 v Monty saw Luis go to the payphone and get picked up by Lucy.
 v Luc makes waffles and sausage for him and Perry
 ○ Luis gets back and he looks tired. He says he did do something stupid but it's none of Perry's business
 ○ "I did drugs" Perry can 100% tell he did not do drugs
 ○ Luis says he used the mirror to check on her and it didn't work
 ○ Perry calls him creepy
 ○ Perry gets that Luis just had a freeking affair and yells at him to go call Coraline and talk to her now
 ○ Luis goes to get breakfast at the corner store because DM asked if he would… I am anxious…. nothing happened he gets back to the house
 v Perry casts sending, asks how she is and what's happening, please call Luis.
 ○ Perry hears her own voice, static back at her, and feels sick
 ○ Perry says she is worried about Coraline now
 ○ Luis has no good excuses for his actions
 v Isabel is at the window. We locked her out on accident. She's checking in like we told her to
 ○ she's in better standing with Isabel right now than Luis wtf
 ○ Isabel really got them a physics/electric textbook. Perry has it now
 ○ The hunter is outside the city at the moment, according to Isabel. Luc can sense it is moving into the city on the San Uriel bridge.
 ○ The Hoard might be at Wolfesbane
 ○ whoever the Hunter is able to find out where the wolfesgang was: gang related, rpd, wolfesbane, or has a contact at one of those places
 ○ Isabel stole a sausage from Luis
 v If Luis is connected to the Snare, they can revoke power or use it against us
 ○ Perry does not have archon blood, she has a genetic marker that absorbs ambient t particles and can release them in her flashy form and through spells
 ○ it would have been nice to know this
 ○ Isabel makes fun of Perry for not going to school, and not knowing how to learn stuff at a library
 ○ Isabel promises not to eat Luis' cat
 ○ Perry and Luis have a spidey sense, feeling like she's being watched. Perry is certain she's being watched, but can't find who.
 ○ She tries to distract herself when Luis gives her a bottle of sauce. It fades away, then gets way worse. She feels paranoid and gets upset about it
 v Perry asks Luc where the Hunter is; Reforma district, where Sinola lives. She has Luis call her, she's doing fine.
 ○ Luis tells Sinola that we are all at Perry's house. staking it out from inside. Sinola is confused
 ○ the dichotomy of sleepover and stakeout.
 ○ She says come to work actually. He says we're all planning to quit maybe
 v We go to the Wolfesbane
 ○ Perry tells Bounty about how she's quitting
 ○ Monty is circling the building, ready to give the signal
 ○ Perry goes to our (soon to be ex) supervisor, Mr. Amar
 ○ She gives her complains about the discrimination and that they have personal concerns
 ○ "you boys" Perry takes a deep breath
 ○ Perry is asked to go out in the hall to wait for a moment before she can see if the information she requested earlier is available before she goes
 ○ Perry stills feels Watched and she Does Not like that
 ○ His little badge is going off; directly across the street. The hunter is nearby. In Wolfesbane actually
 v Perry goes back in: bad news is her file request was denied but she couldn’t have had it anyway
 ○ she runs into Sinola on the way to the office
 ○ Perry is offered solace at Sinola's house, but she mentions her upset brother. Sinola is a terrible liar and cannot bear to admit the truth
 ○ the elevator is already going up, the boys cannot go up. It dings, there's a "who the fuck" and then bullet fire
 ○ thaat's it!

 v It's late at night, farther into the night than those in the theater wished to be. The cast members, still in costume, await the final call to be released. Bounty is exceptionally tired, barely awake. Perry is at the end of a row.
 ○ In Soo sits by her. He offers her help for anything she needs, she says she will keep it in. He also glances at her a few times when he walks away.
 ○ Perry spreads her cover story for the Hunter around (Gang Dept. Floor, she was there, figure not at large).
 ○ Director climbs thrust stage, thanks everyone for coming in and staying late. Will have to come in early tomorrow. Tragedy happened today, affected some the cast and potential audience. The theater had an ultimatum: same dates and time for performances, or we can wait a week and can only do Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so no opening night. Things are already scheduled. Also Christmas.
 ○ Most of the main cast and those most affected (Perry and Bounty) would like to go ahead with performing the next day.
 ○ In Soo makes sure Perry is okay again.
 ○ As a consequence, Perry has to come in at noon-thirty
 v The boys: Luis lazed about, took a nap, but is awake again reading the news and vibing. After parcheesi, Luc went to the snooze zone.
 v Perry contacts Marie with sending: So sorry it's so late. I have the biggest buyer's regret; please tell me you still have that halo. I didn't think it would work for me but now I need it to. She responds: Good to hear from you, Peregrine. I'm sorry it was bought a couple of days ago.
 ○ Perry bonks her head on the horn out of disappointment.
 v As Perry walks in, Monty returns to the parcheesi game, slowly winning against Luc, who is passed out on the board.
 ○ "You didn't wake him up?" "No, didn't wanna." "You're really driven by the whims of desire, huh."
 ○ They argue and struggle to wake him up.
 ○ Monty has been winning parcheesi on top of Luc; he's been winning as every little group. He places a final tiger then starts screeching and flapping on top of Luc out of victory.
 ○ Perry half-heartedly says happy birthday to Luis and then goes to sleep in Luc's bed.
 v We awaken to a chilly December morning and the ding of a newsboy and a newspaper slapping the door. The big headline is about the attack, but the second big headline says a cold front is coming in with snow! On Friday night.
 ○ Luis is so fucking excited. Bad stuff who? He feels awesome. happy birthday. he makes pancakes for himself only, with chocolate chips, and candles. not birthday candles just one actual candle.
 ○ the other two miss his fucked up pancake ritual
 ○ Luc wakes up to insistent knocking on the door. He asks Luis to get the door. Luis can't see shit through the peephole other than a taller person, well dressed, maybe familiar.
 ○ Sounds to Luc like his ex-boss.
 ○ Too bad it's obvious someone is home. Luc says he will handle it, Luis be on standby. He doesn't give a shit if they assume they're sleeping together.
 v It's LIEUTENIENT CAMERON FREAKING ORDONEZ with three other Wolfesbane agents.
 ○ Wanted to address some complaints about leaving. They checked the other abodes of Luis and Perry and did not find them. Also they need to renegotiate the contract with Luc, since they are owed another half a year of work. They would like to not involve judges with this. And also the level 35 incident involvement with the "Hunter" who attacked him. He's a witness for an investigation.
 ○ Luis hides in the bedroom. Perry is in a slumber on the bed. He tries to find the least awkward place to hide.
 ○ They take the parcheesi board this early in the morning to mean he's entertaining guests (but like when? what?)
 ○ Luc gets a glass of whiskey. it's 8am.
 ○ Lt. O has a day planner and one of the other guys has a Luc-labelled manila folder. Someone else opens a can of dark beverage and pours it in a glass (Dr. Lemon LLC). It's piping hot
 § They have a copy of the Perry-submitted documents. Miss Eckhardt left complaints of discrimination in the workplace, which is an important issue to them. They want to put better policies in place to not lose good people. Luc said she was humiliated daily by lack of respect from coworkers. Ordonez wants names. Luc reaches into his pocket and pulls out a list of names. He was READY. Ordonez compares this to another list. They apologize to Luc for any similar grievances he's witnessed. If they can't find Perry they'll write a letter.
 § Any other reasons Luc wanted to leave? no
 § Well why did you leave then? they say pulling out a fuck ton of documents
 ○ He was arrested for counts of possession and sale of narcotics which were addictive and dangerous. Though he was not tied to the investigation, they worked out a deal with the judge of the county for him to serve as an agent for the agency for 12 months and 5 days and then renegotiate.
 § Ordonez hates judges and surely doesn't want to stop him from quitting and forming his own career. But they need to keep it tight because they're technically his parole officer.
 § Luc said he's quitting because of a qualifying life event
 □ like in an insurance policy don't you know
 □ this is not enough for Ordonez to convince a judge of anything
 § The only clause Luc can see to help him is that a judge found he served the time, or he died
 § Luc's inner leather jacket has a scientist's supply of pens and highlighters. He highlights a passage which says "serve at Wolfesbane to make up for (crime) as to become a more productive member of the community."
 ○ Ordonez says that's someone who is a straight-laced member of society, holds their own job, etc.
 § He argues that the service was a means to and end and that, since the end is achieved, the means might be declared moot.
 § Ordonez says he is not the one who gets to decide when the ends is achieved, though. The only people who can tell him are his supervising officer or a judge from the original county. Luc says Ordonez likely has this authority as well, being the supervisor of his supervisor.
 § He manages to convince them that they could theoretically alleviate him of his duties, but they are not sure him being a productive member of society is the point. The point is that he committed a serious crime and he has not done the time set for punishing such a crime. They want to enforce the rule of law as an officer.
 § They offer that he get his own job but keep him as a retainment agent for the case of a job that would require his specific skills; like something related to drug trafficking. He gets paid still, a salaried position, but must respond promptly. He won't be sent hundreds of miles away but adhere to an agreement.
 § Or he could work full time for a shorter period, from 12 to 9 months if the board agrees (four more months of service).
 § The last one is that, since Wolfesbane owns some smaller companies, he could be moved there. There are positions open at grain mills, firearm testing department, etc. Even move around Wolfesbane to a non-detective role.
 § Remy gives Luc a draft of the retainer contract. They have to notify him within 3 days and he is supposed to notify them of days and times he cannot work, limited to one week per month. Minimum is one case per 8 week period with a maximum of four cases. They cannot give him a case that is not approved for him by a board/committee. He can reject, of the 4 possible maximum, 1 cases per 8 week period, which does not include the days he cannot work. The 8 week period would reset on the new year. (Shut down during week of Christmas next week, and for Easter).
 § Luc notices his original amnesty agreement asks for 370 work days, not counting holidays.
 § Luc decides this contract gives him enough time to fake his own death to get out of the contract entirely. Each sign it. Luc gets his badge back.
 ○ Then they ask if he saw anything suspicious said or done by the Hunter. He doesn't have any answers.
 ○ They ask him to tell his compatriots to come in contact and that they would like to send Perry a formal apology letter.
 v Perry is awake about the time Luc calls for Luis.
 ○ Perry asks why he's in there and he says "I don't know" and she says "get out? get out right now??"
 v Luc says deals with the devil take a long time (read the fine print)
 v Perry learns her actions got Luc beat up :(
 ○ She's supposed to keep them updated since they are her Witness Protection Agency
 v Luc says he does care actually if people think he's sleeping with Luis. But evidently not Perry because he says its fine if she tries to wave down Ordonez. She fails.
 v Perry goes to her apartment to look around and get to the Nathaniel papers. She approaches the door and Monty starts to flap to get her attention. Monty brings her attention to scuff marks on the side of the door like it was busted open and repaired.
 ○ She checks where the Nathaniel Papers were and they are gone :(. So are the documents about Michelle she took from the Congressional Library.
 ○ They also took her nocturne order mask and rookery cave map
 ○ The lock on her desk is busted
 v Perry calls the HR department sets up an appointment for brunch with Lt. Ordonez at 10:00 am.
 v Perry invited Daia, Sinola, Luc, Luis, John Marston, Fridha, Gomez (RIP), people from the choir (including the Bishop), nice ex-coworkers at Wolfesbane, and gave people in Flores extra flyers to give out for a cheap performance in town that will be great promise! Luc and Luis can also invite people; Luc has no friends and Luis invited Lucy.
 v Luis and Perry are at each other's throats, but Luc and Luis are awkward. Luis gave Luc relationship advice as an authority on romance and social movements… and then did a stupid relationship move. Also the Luna-fiancee Perry-girlfriend potential cheating glass houses stones etc. thing.
 ○ Luis is desperate for small talk. Luc is not standoffish but is weird and uncomfortable
 ○ WHAT IS THEIR FUCKING FIT FOR THIS EVENTTTTTT??
 v Perry fails another perceppy check
 v The theater has fancy benches to sit on, a simple floor, decorative pillars. There is a coat check and security checking bags due to the recent attack.
 ○ Sinola is in a fine gown, wearing a black and gold dress with cherry blossoms and a little laced veil on her beret, standing by the concessions.
 ○ Big John and some people from Flores are here. John has his big hat back, but he is not wearing it indoors because he's a gentleman; he, however, did not catch the fancy memo and is in work-like clothes. But he has his daughter and his wife.
 ○ Luc is pacing with his rose bouquet because he's a little nervous. Luis is also nervous, for different reasons. He's sitting down and looking around suspiciously.
 ○ Sinola comes to Luc because he's pacing to see how he's doing. They're both good as they can be expected to. Sinola brought dahlias for her. He tells her he's never been to a play, so she lets him know the etiquette. Generally no interaction, maybe an oooh for a kiss, stand and clap at the end of the play.
 v The actual theater did not hold back on fanciness at all.
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 ○ Luc and Luis witness the arrival of the First Lady, who comes onto their row, and also waves to Sinola who waves back. She engages in small conversation with them. This is wild shit.
 ○ The lights flick on and off. Luis believes the power is going out.
 ○ John Marston waves at them.
 ○ The side doors start to close. From the main doors, Lucy and Daia rush in sort of late. Luci is in a hastily-put-on zoot suit and Daia is in a simple dress.
 v The curtains raise and reveal… the auction house set.
 ○ our dearest dungeon master legit reads off the first lines of phantom. I cant
 ○ the audience of Perry's friends are confused about why they're watching the play about an auction right now
 ○ Is the main character the auctioneer? the guy staring off into the distance??
 ○ LOT 666… A CHANDELIER IN PIECES… revealed above… SOME OF YOU MAY RECALL THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA…
 ○ The lights of the theater dim as the chandelier lights up and DROPS, shatters, rises… they are blasted by the phantom overture
 ○ And thus the play begins in such a big way!
 ○ Perry rolls a 24 on her performance! queen
 ○ She starts off too fast, so nervous, she thinks - then the groove hits. The nervous energy becomes the energy she needs on stage and she's pumped
 v Perception checks from the boys! Luis got a 19 but didn't see anything amiss. hm. They just see the play.
 ○ Sinola and Daia love it, Daia is trying to peek Perry in the backstage. She does not know that isn't acceptable generally.
 ○ Luc had that initial surprise but is given increasing star eyes. Plays are the SHIT. why didn't anyone TELL HIM
 ○ Luis doesn't get the plot well, just the barest bones. Perry is the main character she's doing so well buT WHERE IS EVERYONE RIGHT NOW.
 v Intermission comes and goes.
 ○ Luc can only focus on the THEATER TIME. (bad perception). Luc is a bit embarrassed about the Christine (Perry) and Raoul (Aureliano) scene and he's totally stoic but definitely blushing. Not jealousy just ??????. You can do this in plays? He's so surprised.
 ○ Luis notices some people leave the audience a bit… but longer than just a bathroom break passes before they return. They cross the theater to talk to someone, then return to their seat. He goes all the way to the top to look for the bathroom and that is not at all where it is. He follows an elderly-looking gentleman, who takes deep breathes on a bench and gets a drink.
 ○ Luc is too busy being confused and enthralled by the Theatre™️ to give a fuck that luis left
 ○ Luis also notices the entrances to backstage have security in front of them. Have the uniform.
 ○ People that would want to kidnap Perry would wear that! JK seems like everything is fine… for now…
 v At last it ends, Sinola especially. Curtain call comes, Sinola gestures for Luc to stand and clap -- it ripples outward as the rest of the audience takes cue. Sinola throws her bouquet at Perry, who shockingly! manages to catch the intense throw.
 ○ The rest of the audience is like, oh, we throw shit? Flowers are tossed, but less violently.
 ○ House lights come up as the opening night of Phantom of the Opera ends.
 ○ Perry comes out to talk to her friends. Daia locks eyes first. She got Perry a few flowers she could afford and was very impressed.
 ○ Sinola throws herself at Perry again. Perry is being lifted!
 ○ Luis was very impressed! Best play ever fullstop. He's going to write a review if that's okay
 ○ Luc is sheepish and not making eye contact as he presents a rose bouquet.
 ○ Sid offers to find some contacts for Perry. She was very impressed also but she has got to go fast!
 ○ Luci introduces himself. Perry says she heard good things about him. She learns he and Daia are… friends? Hmm.
 ○ Flores people give their regards -- Perry has got to go backstage now. The theater is getting pretty empty.
 ○ Luci and Daia wait in the theater, Sinola brings poppy cola for people.
 v Perry goes backstage to get out of costume and makeup.
 ○ Costume dept. woman asks Perry to return her dress there, not hang it up. She goes to her dressing room and Bounty and Pilar are there because they're supposed to be.
 ○ Perception check was a 13, a bit higher than the others… she sees someone is standing behind both of them. Both of them look nervous. It's someone in tactical armor. A gun cocks behind her and in broken Goldenspeak, she hears: Peregrine Eckhardt, I need you to take a seat.
 ○ Pilar and Bounty are "insurance."
 ○ The man is in a relatively official suit, has steely grey eyes, cropped red hair with a bit of a poof on the top. A military mohawk if you will. Sort of a flat top. A bad look.
 ○ Perry switches to Crimsontongue for him. Easier for him. And yes, he is from the DCA, following up on the soured mission of Reiner.
 ○ He doesn't want anyone to die, especially these nice ladies. Don't do anything stupid like run or teleport.
 ○ They paid the Theater Manager to close the doors on his command and a transportation van at the docks.
 ○ Crimes of her mother and grandfather she is unaware of. He pulls out her Nathaniel Papers.
 ○ She was not involved, but will still be tried for them under colonial law. It's treason then. She can take a plea deal to not be killed, and be contained and given safe neutralization.
 ○ He does say "miss" nice
 ○ She's a danger to others. Volatile. Her biochemistry is like a bomb. She threatens the good people of Najalisco, and someone has to do the time for her family's crimes.
 § The crime? Her grandfather was tried for treason, defecting on mission in Najalisco. Her mother conducted illegal raids on their facilities and refused to cooperate. She was lost in Sacre-Coeur, but they have good reason to believe she is dead.
 § They contacted her biological father. He gave information on the extent of Michelle's crimes and Perry's relationship to her. They understand she abandoned Perry and was a failure of a mother in that regard. She took DCA property and gave it to a foreign government.
 § They offer containment and, with cooperation or safe neutralization, simple removal of Perry as a threat. No more arcane prowess.
 § The process is relatively painless. She will also be given citizenship and government housing in the colonies after 5 or so years of containment.
 § This time he says mister
 § Oh he said that last time
 ○ They call Najalisco "foul" and "hell"
 ○ They found her before by her badge number - Wolfesbane unwittingly gave them that information because their stuff is easy to break through
 v Perry asks him if she's really a danger; he says it would be easier to kill her.
 ○ Perry convinces him not to inject her with anything because she doesn't want to hurt anyone and she can't control herself sometimes when she's in pain. Natural 20 for a total of 28.
 ○ Sound of metal on leather, something tightening - like someone is about to pull the trigger, then glass shatters. Pilar pinned one guy to a mirror and he shot up her skull, hurting one eye.
 ○ Doors shut on the sides of the building. There's the sound of mechanisms. Luis is going to cast knock so fast on his turn
 ○ Those still mingling around look at Luis, Luc, Daia, etc.
 ○ The old man lifts his cane and extends it out, turning in to a rope with a noose.
 ○ Someone talks on their handset thingy and says "we got the infected."
 v Bounty, whose eye was shot, snaps the neck of the guy who did it. The other one is like "what the fuck"
 ○ She has multiattack I guess because she then shoots him in the heart. He steps backwards and slams into the corner of the room, looking terrified at her.
 ○ Her green eye is now a bloody mess. The blood runs from his wounds, blood from the dead guy leaks out of his nose and climbs up Bounty's face and restores her eye to snow white. Her once blue eye is black and red.
 ○ Bounty then attacks Perry, shooting her in the chest, where she was clutching Luc's roses.

 v Real combat hours! Evil king boomie with a dog leash big sized to get Luc. Cowboy blood bargain of hunter to summon his serrated machete.
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 ○ Luis dukes over the chairs and casts a bad spell on a bad old lady
 ○ Perry casts Invisibility on Pilar and the tactical agent, pulling him along and telling Pilar to run.
 ○ Big John Marston tries to super punch a guy, who ducks. He tries to knee him, then gets grabbed and flipped on his ass.
 ○ Daia's hand burns red as embers rise on her fingers and shoots little balls of fire. She gets a natural 20.
 ○ The technical director is trapped in the lighting booth. Luci makes eye contact with him.
 ○ A female DCA agent ninja runs over the steps and kicks Luis with a bladed stiletto heel. A well-mannered man in loafers has knives in those shoes and misses kicking Daia in the ribs. But then gets a natty 20 :( but it's 5 damage hee hee. Big John gets stabbed in the back! But he's still okay! for now!
 ○ Everyone hates Luc squad: one of them perfumes Luc with cursed spray. Luc fails his CON save and gets super dizzy and stinky. No DEX for AC and disadvantage on DEX checks. Another dude removes his opera glasses, makes them a telescope, and makes the lens into another one of those 10 foot poles. Since Luc has disadvantage on his DEX, he gets roped around the neck.
 ○ Bounty says it would have been considerate if the agent had refilled their magazine.
 § "I want you to know this isn't personal." then shoots at Perry three times. all three hit. Perry is out of fighting spirit, then gets shot once more before the gun jams. Bounty advances and plunges her fist into Perry's chest.
 § She reaches in, "it's not personal, really," and literally twists Perry's physical heart. Perry screams inhumanely. But she gets to vomit a ton of blood on her!
 § A called shot to the heart represents an attempt at a killing blow. A called shot to the heart can be used for any small, likely fatal location on a creature, such as the only weakness on an unimaginably ancient red dragon.
 A hit to the heart pierces the organ, causing exhaustion and double damage. In addition, the target suffers damage each round equal to the base damage dice inflicted until dead or healed.
 In either case, stopping the damage requires either regeneration (spell or special ability), magic healing that heals as many points of damage (from one or more sources) as the original blow dealt, or a successful DC 20 Medicine check.
 § Perry will bleed a d6 of damage per round.
 § Before Perry loses consciousness, she feels a second sensation of pain: burning on the back of her dominant hand. She's marked, as if that matters.
 §
 ○ Luc, using athletics, yoinks the pole out of the guys hand - but it's still around his neck. Unless he gets out, they'd get advantage to regrapple him. He tries to snap the pole and succeeds like a champion. He wrenches it up off the ground and crumples it like a soda can, an impressive show of force and nothing a human could do.
 ○ Luis can teleport with smoke bombs? Some guy gets crown of madness'd
 ○ Perry, who is bleeding out hardcore, fails a death save. She rolls and has to use my winspo to not fail another one.
 ○ John Marston is yelling at the foreign agents for attacking citizens of Najalisco and has a guy grappled, threatening to detain or kill him. He demands to know what's up, and the man rolls a 1, so he admits to being DCA and having total legal right to act. He is not persuasive.
 ○ Luci feels around on the doors out toward the tech booth, but it doesn't budge, so he tries to asses the lock. It's not pickable. So he slams his body into it but he sucks.
 ○ Daia's eyes and veins turn jet black - ink fills the space around her, creating a sphere of darkness. She's a squid!
 ○ A door crashes open, followed by sounds of yelling, where Sinola was.
 ○ Monty comes speeding, shrieking, and flapping from backstage and bowls for Luis, because he's the closest. Luis knows why already. A DCA agent says "holy shit, an owl!"
 ○ Luis gets shot….
 ○ There's general pandemonium from the lobby.
 ○ Bayonetta severs the tendon on Luis' heal, bringing him to HP and halving his speed.
 § The man who Perry turned invisible shoots at Bounty, and hits the second time. She shrugs it off.
 ○ Luc, in darkness, runs in a straight line towards backstage. He crashes into a guy, who crumples to the ground as Luc keeps sailing by.
 ○
 ○ Luis Dissonant Whispers bayonetta.
 ○ Perry fails another save, but succeeds on her role with a sorcery point. This represents how she is literally clinging to life.
 § Monty is glowing with a celestial aura and blipping out of sight, clearly losing hold on this plane as Perry is bleeding out.
 ○ BJM demands to know what's going on again and his quarry points at Luc and says "VAM,,<MMPPREE!! FUCKING SICK! mY wInDpIpE" and BJM calls Luc a "fine fella, not no vampire."
 ○ Daia glides effortlessly around in her dark bubble. There's maybe punching sounds.
 § Luci pushes on the door; his veins are orange fiery red, the doors burst outward, frying and burning. On the other side, there is a baffled soldier and a mechanical contraption projecting a field on the door. It prevents some splinters from passing through. Oh, and by soldier, he's DCA.
 ○ Bayonetta, even at disadvantage, stabs Luis again and downs him. Someone mumbles in crimsontongue "don't [] kill []" and stabilizes Luis, keeping him grappled.
 § Someone shoots Monty, who poofs into nothingness.
 § Formerly invisible agent runs up to Bounty and whacks her across the back of the head with a crack. If Bounty wasn't a freak that would have done it.
 ○ Bounty comes up to Luc. "I said this to Perry, this isn't personal. I hope that if there is an afterlife, you get to be together." and she action surges. We just learned she's level 18 which sucks a lot.
 § She reaches for his serrated blade and attempts to twist it out of his hand. He super fails against her because she's a fighter. He is half disarmed.
 § She looks past him and nods at something.
 ○ Luc runs past Bounty and the DCA agent, receiving minor hits from both of them.
 § He finds Perry bleeding out. It's spurting out of her and all over the room. Luc rolls a WIS save and passes, luckily.
 § He knows it will be bad for her addiction, but considering how close to death she is, stabs her with an injectable health tonic.
 ○ Luis is unconscious.
 ○ Perry draws energy from the air and claws at her chest to staunch the bleeding, closing some of her wounds.
 § Daia leaves her shadow ball. Sinola follows the trail of blood to Perry, and asks "what the fuck? Perry are you okay?" and Perry can only kind of idk gurgle. Luc says it ain't good.
 § Luis hears the intercom click on. The technical director pulls a switch, turning on the building sound system. They reach down underneath the desk to remove a vinyl. The vinyl is blood red with an interior black. It's placed on a record, which then plays I Only Have Eyes for You.
 § Luc and Perry fail their CHA save, rendered incapacitated. Luis does not have to make the save and is no longer unconscious, is at 1 hp. Bounty is dancing a bit, vibing. She sees Luis limping around and says "It's your lucky day."
 § Luis says "hey, uhh. Why are you doing this?"
 § Bounty shrugs and says "self care. This is a form of self care for me."
 § Perry bleeds 1 damage.
 ○ Luis sees that the only person moving is the technical director, who is no longer a person. They are a human-shaped black blob, similar to the Echoes. It mimicks turning knobs, not connecting to anything.
 § He starts to heal himself and rolls a 21 on Arcana. This song is going to keep playing and have everyone frozen until the Echo stops. It's auditory magic of the Raven Queen, which, for some reason, Luis has control over. He can manipulate and free up to his CHA modifier, creatures. He may or may not have to see them to do so. He has to see them at least initially, roll a will check, and may/may not have to keep eyes on them.
 § Perry bleeds one damage.
 ○ Luis gets closer.
 ○ Bounty is close to Perry and Luc, oh no! They can perceive now, but will forget. Bounty is changing out of her current clothes into her dress. She isn't taking this seriously, certain they're frozen and Perry is going to bleed out.
 ○
 ○ Perry auto fails one save from bleed-out damage, but finally succeeds on her roll for the second one.
 ○ Luis can see that Perry is really dying and attempts to free her, Luc, Daia, and Sinola. Daia is not freed. The others….?
 ○ Perry is bleeding out. She can't move. She fails a third death save.
 ○ Sinola sputters to consciousness the second that Perry's last gasp fades away. Sinola cries and pushes through Luc, has no spells, and tears off her vial of blood necklace. She frantically mutters a prayer as her crowns appear over her head; the gold one is brightly glowing as the blood glows too. She uncorks the vial and pours it down Perry's throat.
 ○ Perry is stabilized from being dead!
 ○ But what else happens?
 v The golden energy flows down from Perry's mouth and coalesces in her chest. Every one of her wounds closes as the light travels. It travels to her forehead and starts to scar in a double helix and thorns on her forehead with gold. Her right eye opens with a golden iris and chain on the outside. She now has 0 normal eyes!
 ○ Perry's blood on the ground, where it is physically connected to her, appears to be physically gold with obsidian flecks.
 ○ Sinola is crying tears of liquid gold and silver. She's sitting over Perry and breathing heavy.
 ○ Luc says "what is happening? Is she going to be fine?" "I… I don't know…" "Sinola…" puts a hand on her… "what did you do?"
 ○ "I gave her my arcane focus." "What does that mean?"
 ○ "She has the blood of the Son in her." "REALLY?" "I was using the religious artifact! The only record of His living existence in reality."
 ○ how's that for communion - al, getting into god quote history
 ○ "King's Blood! Actual blood of the Archon, the King, passed down through my family - now it's coursing through Perry's veins. No one's ever done that before."
 ○ For some reason, Luc knows exactly where Luis is. He can hear his heartbeat and someone else's - really fast and panicked. Yeah, it's Luis'.
 v Luc looks at Bounty and says she will kill and has killed. They are going to book it, because they are no good to the rest of our friends dead.
 ○ Luis' eyes are ethereal warm daylight. His body, his neck, is full of orb light clusters. No nasty red and black.
 ○ Luis feels a tether connected to the three of them and follows Luc's tether. Luc feels a static in his mind as Luis static-fades right behind him. With his non-Perry carrying hand, he grabs Luis' shoulder and pulls on him.
 v Perry is alive, but not conscious. She stands on a thin wall of an old black stone, like what constructed the Gods' Grave. It is surrounded by expansive cloud layers which wrap up dramatically above her. It seems like she is surrounded by Jupiter except for this wall. On one side is blinding gold light, the other is crimson red. The golden light makes out a barely-visible citadel, with chains reaching into the red clouds.
 ○ The chains are wrapped around a structure in the red. It looks like a stepped pyramid which is twisted and turned into a daedric-esque form.
 ○
 ○ From the red side she feels immense pain, and from the gold she feels immense guilt and sorrow.
 ○ She sees a man. He is of average build, dark brown skin, with long hair and a bushy beard. A tiny gold band keeps his hair together and he wears a simple robe. There is a twisting spiral of golden thorns in a halo above his head. His feet are bare.
 ○ "Oh my god, I'm dead." - perry
 ○ She's not dead. She is coexisting in her mind with this dude. Yohan, or Yosef, is his name. Perry introduces herself as Peregrine or Perry, not affiliated with her last name at the moment.
 v Luc piles everyone into Perry's car. Sinola gives him directions out of the city. There's a light snowfall outside the parking lot, frost covering some of the cars. She directs him up and away toward the mountains.
 ○ Perry is asleep… with one gold eye open.
 ○ Luc looks vewwy angwy. He is incredibly close to killing a bitch, probably.
 ○ Luis is doing bad, cold boy, not drawing or writing in his journal. He Cure Wounds himself. His eyes in his reflection are normal.
 ○ We weave through mountain passes with fresh snow.
 ○ Luis sees a deer. Butterflies are being snowed on, stopping and freezing. The blue ones (fire) flit effortlessly through.
 ○ The first building they see in about an hour of driving is a small castle/villa. Baroque style house on the hills, looking empty in its lack of cars. Sinola gets out and says she'll unlock it.
 ○ sorry about Luis' birthday but it's Friday
 ○ The lights of Santa Corazon are barely visible.
 ○ The snow is building up, making this place likely difficult to reach from civilization.
 v Luis borrows Perry's crutches from the car to get into the abandoned villa. Seems like people have not been here in years.
 v Sinola tells Luc to let Perry rest on the very comfy couch. There's no electricity here, so she has to light a bunch of fireplaces.
 v "Maybe I should bring up the elephant in the room." - Sinola
 ○ above the fireplace is a comically large painting of the royal family, older than the one Perry saw. It has a young King Ferdinand (20s), his parents, his wife Regina, and a toothy-grinned David (8 year old) with a baby-baby in Regina's arm which has the vial of blood necklace.
 ○ Luis can match faces and recognizes this without needing confirmation.
 ○ Luc does not give a single fuck about the royalty matter.
 ○ Sinola says it's safe here and no one will touch them. The groundskeeper stocks the kitchens for emergencies.
 ○ Luc gives no shits, he just wants to know if there's ANYTHING THAT IS A MODICUM OF HELPFUL WITH THE PERRY SITUATION ON THE COUCH. she ambiently twitches a bit. "I don't care that you're the Queen, but you put JESUS BLOOD in Perry."
 ○ This used to be a nunnery, so there are religious books in the library that might have information.
 v "Perry was dead, she was gone. The only thing I knew to help her was the blood I had with me. Now she's a holy relic, or something-"
 ○ "I'm not angry, we just need to focus on where to go from here." "She's Aasimar… so she's already got a degree of God's Blood in here, so it should work out."
 ○ Isabel said she had a genetic mutation that let her use the T particles in the environment to channel them back out, but might not be mutually exclusive to having god blood in her. She also drank the archon-blood level up sauce Isabel had.
 ○ Luc wants to get an alchemical look at her, or maybe an arcane one. Luis, hit the library. Sinola, you're the queen,
 ○ "I'm sorry." "It's okay. You saved her life. Is there alchemy equipment here?"
 v Sinola tells him there may be something for making clerics in the basement. Luc says that seems haunted and resummons his machete.
 ○ Luis is going to the haunted library, Luc to the haunted basement, Sinola is looking over Perry. If the boys don't come back, they're dead or Luis fell asleep.
 ○ Perry's eye is staring at the three of them. They for sure feel super watched. Don't sleep.
 v Perry and Yohan are normal people, but are both connected to things beyond us. Perry is not the pyramid.
 ○ Yohan was cared for, for many centuries, and was given to Perry by someone who did not appear to know what they were doing.
 § He does not know the names of his caretakers, for there have been many.
 § Perry informs him of the fall of Rome. He does not feel bad.
 ○ The building represents the force/energy/ideas of the Father. They do not know who the other one is.
 ○ Yohan cannot stop watching through Perry's eye, but he will try and give privacy.
 § "Now it sounds like you're going to do awful things while I look away." "No! I want to take a shower and… maybe make out with a cowboy. Wait, you don't know what a cowboy is." "No, I do, it translates. I have no idea what language we are speaking." "Oh. It's Goldenspeak." "I speak Devine."
 § He can see they are in a strange room with a fireplace. A woman is praying over them - he describes Sinola.
 ○ "Is that your guilt, or his?" "I can't tell." No beginning or end detected.
 ○ Yohan was never his father's equal, or a part of him, but people believed he was. That makes Yohan part of him, a fusion.
 ○ The chains are entangled in her but are an extension of something bigger.
 ○ Her troubles have entwined with the troubles of something larger and more important on the grand scale. Yohan apologizes for saying she's not that important.
 ○ Yohan was a normal cleric of his tribe but was a child of his father too, which gave him special power.
 ○ Her vision is fading in and out of this. She asks Yohan for final advice about the chain situation. Yohan doesn't know what to do, but tells her to look inward. Perry says please no Buddhist BS, and he goes huh?
 ○ "I hate talking to a historical figure," Perry says as she wakes up.

 v Snow falls over the city, particularly the Theater. Police and detectives are questioning the unfortunate witnesses. One observes the dressing room coated in a thin, thin gold layer of dried liquid.
 ○ They have a good lead on Bounty, but not Perry, Luc, or Luis.
 ○ Pilar said that Bounty took a shot at Perry, so she may be with the DCA operatives? But the detectives think they must have had personal issues. They'll find out when they find Bounty.
 ○ There are four people unaccounted for.
 ○ The DCA said not to look for Perry or Luc, but they need to find Luis and Marston.
 v A dark room with just a table and a chair and a large, imposing form… John Marston. Oh no.
 v Zoom away from the city to a large estate. Perry is in a warm living room on a comfortable couch and shoots up saying, "I hate talking to historical figures."
 ○ Grand fireplace, door to snow-covered garden, clearly in the mountains with the city in the distance.
 ○ U-shaped sectional couch with puffy red and gold upholstery.
 ○ And also a large portrait on the wall, as described last session.
 ○ Perry asks if Bounty is okay.
 ○ Sinola gives her a hand mirror; Perry sees that her functioning eye has golden glowing light, a chain on the edge of the iris. And a crown of thorns also made of gold.
 ○ The mark Bounty made is still there. Resembles a down-pointed arrowhead. Looks like the base of the pool in the Ethereal world, but uniquely angular.
 ○ The boys went to get alchemical supplies and Luis is in the library.
 ○ It's 1 am according to the grandfather clock.
 ○ The place was once a convent. There are around three floors that are livable, refurbished by the last royal family.
 ○ Perry asks what happened to her. Bounty killed her (duh), there was Coraline music and froze everyone, allowing Perry to bleed to death. She shook off the freeze (another heartbeat in her head), saw Perry dying, she didn't know CPR but knew her necklace probably had restorative properties. So she had her drink it and then all the transformation happened.
 ○ She gets some directions to the chapel and the library (2nd floor), then tells Sinola she would like to be alone for now.
 v The chapel is kind of big actually. There is an extremely large stained glass window that depicts the five aspects of the King.
 ○ Perry says "Yohan? Hello?" She can then see him sitting next to her.
 ○ They talk about praying, which she doesn't really do. And she asks about how to look inward. She needs to ask herself real questions. Why does she love what she loves? Hate what she hates?
 ○ Yohan doesn't like spiders and investigated why, no real reason. But he likes charity because other people's charity helped him, and he wants to repay it.
 ○ He has been able to feel his mom the way he feels the King, but they don't talk much. You get used to how the afterlife is like that.
 ○ He doesn't know anything about the afterlife though, really.
 ○ Yohan tells Perry she might like to know her father's side of the story before metaphorically or literally destroying his living room. He sold her out to the DCA, but did he know he was? Was it tortured out of him? She should learn before she acts.
 ○ She and Bounty also have things in common, like their near death experiences. There may be false information Bounty is living under that's caused her to hunt Perry. She's a flesh and blood person as well.
 v The architecture degrades from rococo to baroque ruins as Luc descends to the basement. Definitely a spooky basement, full of convent shitty beds, tables and chairs.
 ○ He finds a guilded altar with the pentacle design and a glass cylinder. It is corked closed and has brackish fluid inside. Four thin empty canisters are around it. On the base, there is a dial and a plug. History check: an altar of blood, divine canula. It is used for canonization: creation of clerics. The fluid is activated ichor blessed by the King. Being activated a century ago, it is mostly dead now. To use it, Luc would have to work hard with it to make it workably active.
 ○ The machinery is enough to extract Perry blood and analyze it under what is functionally a microscope. Also good for blood transfusions.
 ○ Luc takes the equipment - then sees human shapes in the shadows on the ground. There are statues of friars and nuns, then he realizes they are coffins over a catacomb.
 ○ He looks down the mountain where the snow covers the road. There is a figure way down the mountain, intensely bundled, but making their way upward.
 v Luis finds the library, which was originally for priests, that is expanded and packed to the brim with books. A balcony allows view of the pines, another area where butterflies have come to find refuge.
 ○ He does research on the holy relic, the King's Blood. It was the Holy Relic of the Son, his actual blood, distilled and prayed over by clerics and clergymen to condense the raw magic within it. It was passed to the first Aster (pope) and down the Asterial lines until it was given to the emperor and Maevish royalty, eventually disappearing. Functioned as a +3 arcane focus. It's main purpose was to allow the second coming of the Son by combining his sanctified blood with, maybe: clay as the first man, with a sprinkle of prayer, to bring his soul down; counter-reformation take was that a less-magical explanation is using the blood with another physical piece of the son, like his hair or shroud, with the spirit of course, to get the Son.
 ○ A smaller book speaks of the controversial discussions within the church. Not heresies, but discussing what Isaac's (Judas) real intentions were. There's a bit of drama and gossip there, which draws Luis right in.
 ○ In the low medieval time/dark ages, a take arose that claimed a body free of sin was required to bring the son.
 ○ During the Vampiric Plague, they sacrificed babies (pure and without sin) and tried to use them to entice the son's spirit and resurrect him.
 § One priest hypothesized that, if a host was alive, the son and that person would have to live together in the body until one ruled over the other. But they would always remain together. The son could win out and be divine and good, or he could be relegated to the back of the mind. Two spirits in one body.
 ○ Luis looks at the ceiling, where there are paintings. He sees two eyes blink - on separate figures.
 ○ He grabs the notes and books he had been using and speed walks out.
 v Perry Mends her dress, then finds a mirror in the hall to observe her true form. She also takes time to draw Monty back to her.
 ○ The magic radiates from her heart outward like normal. Other than her golden eye, it seems normal - then her wings split and crack open. About where the shoulder blade is, there are "shadow wings" of brilliant golden light and metal. They are more like eagle wings than her hawk wings.
 ○ The chains in her eye spread from her pupil and wrap around her arms and legs (golden) and her crown glows underneath her skin - much larger with multiple strands, making a thicker crown. A light forms behind her obsidian halo: a solid gold with rays emerging, appearing like an eclipse. Red and gold light.
 ○ The radiant warmth and comfort of being an angel is still present, but there is another presence. Not uncomfortable, but strange, like a weight. She was weightless, but is now tethered or weighed down - but not restrained.
 v Luc comes back and is a bit upset Sinola got rid of the Perry but it's fine because she wanted room alone. Luis is nervously vibrating.
 v Perry comes back in angel mode because why not.
 ○ Luc stops in his tracks with the alchemy equipment.
 ○ Perry asks for dinner. Sinola takes her to the kitchen.
 v Luis has some information about King's Blood, but he doesn't think it's revealing. No deep secrets. But if you hear a holy voice, might be the Second Coming of the Son.
 ○ Sinola thought it was just normal blood, honest.
 ○ According to Luis' Book of Conversations, there was a theory of putting it into a living person.
 ○ Luis thinks the blood was only good because it was named and prayed over.
 ○ Testing Perry over religion, because she knows nothing about it. Sinola is reluctant to believe Perry really is The Son Again.
 § "Which of your, the Son's, flock was an Angean soldier before coming to him?" That's Military Mark, Heart of Gold.
 § Who was the first person he confided in after being tempted by the Trimalum? His mom, Magdalene.
 § Which came first, the gift of fish and bread or the curing of a woman's blindness? Both weren't really accurate.
 § Did Judas betray him, or was he working with you? He had to die. Isaac knew the risks.
 ○ Luis is convinced Perry has the Son in her head.
 v Luc goes back to the common area to check if a person is still nearing. He can't see them from that position, but he can see their tracks. Within five minutes, if he ran. He informs the group and everyone comes back to prepare.
 ○ Perry sends Monty out. He's upset that it's so cold, she promises to make him a snow owl next time.
 ○ He can tell they are near to 6 feet tall and wearing tattered clothes. One is distinctly white, a lab coat.
 ○ Monty lands in front of her. She looks and nods, then keeps going.
 v Sinola reveals the King's Army stuff was false, she is indeed not canonized. This angers Luis, but we have no time to talk about it.
 v We decide not to tell Isabel about the Son stuff.
 ○ "Hello asshat, welcome to my abode." - Luc
 ○ Isabel dumps her extra coats on the ground. "Are you four okay?"
 ○ She found that the hunter was able to store extra energy, her sources were wrong.
 ○ Luc and Luis make a big scene about NOT KNOWING THIS?? WHAT DO WE DO?
 ○ Isabel was disappointed she didn't know Perry was in a play. Perry says she tried to invite her.
 ○ Perry tells her that she died.
 ○ Isabel says anyone else would have frozen to death coming up here.
 ○ The stalking had more energy… her sources disclosed that archons, if they pooled their energy long enough, can rematerialize quicker. Or, if their friends provide energy, go even quicker. Her source is "a knowledgeable person on the archons"
 ○ This person is a bit of a recluse. It took years for Isabel to be invited in.
 ○ "What does 'killing it really fucking good' MEAN, LONETREE?"
 ○ Luc accidentally implies we have a superweapon (the Bloodglass) but they refuse to tell her.
 ○ According to her, the plan is to outlast the creature or kill it once very good with an incredibly powerful relic. Or someone else kills us first.
 ○ Isabel gives us three questions in return for telling her about our sanctified relic.
 v Isabel's hermit has no name, they have forgotten it. They are an archon holed up in an ancient observatory deep under the city since their empire fell, forgotten by time and everything else. Closer to the rookery, not in the God's grave.
 v Perry asks about how to help Luc more; Isabel does not know how to get rid of it. Luc is going to die much sooner and much worse than the rest of us, that's all.
 v Third question: have you heard anything about the Bloodglass? Obsidian blade with red glowing core like veins, to be used by the Nocturne Order.
 ○ We found ourselves "a" bloodglass. They are the archetypical sanctified artifacts, tools used by archons to build cities and cross galaxies. They have absorbed enough energy to bring low armies. The obsidian used is formed under unique circumstances, usually the volcanoes on Ares.
 ○ If it was from the Nocturne Order, it was likely the centerpiece for the Ritual of Thieves. They captured it from the De Soto manor. That ritual was the primer to set off the others - the stealing of the bloodglass began the trajectory we're on. So if we have it, it's already charged.
 ○ Ritual of Thieves is a ritual where something of the archon's is taken them by another party, but they are in on it.
 ○ Luc remembers something about the Decay but does not share. He asks if she knows anyone dealt with hemovirus lamia like him and taken a different approach. Isabel said her colleague's work never surfaced, but must not have been fruitful. Isabel says all of Aurora's research was propped up by her husband; she was not an active participant. Her persuasions were not academic, they were extra-curricular. When Isabel was in University, she was a contact for ichor on the side.
 v This talk about ichor causes Perry to roll an addiction save. Two rolls and she fails. Oop. She's having a relapse.
 ○ Perry excuses herself a moment. She is looking for Luc's jacket to use his healing tonics to get a semblance of a high.
 v Isabel offers to take Luc to her source to make the Bloodglass more functional, then set a trap for the Stalking to kill it.
 ○ She trusts someone will relay the plan to Peregrine.
 v "Alright, I'll just stay here with the two people who hate me the most in the world." "I'm going to go do the opposite of that."
 v Perry checks the car for Luc's jacket. There's an empty tonic bottle inside.
 ○ She holds his jacket and the roses he gave her and starts crying.
 ○ "I should have kissed you in front of everyone, I thought you would be embarrassed."
 ○ They talk about if their relationship can go on okay with Yohan in Perry's head. Luc and Yohan both say it's up to her, really.
 ○ Perry says she can't stand to make Yohan experience anything he doesn't want to; he says he will tell her if there's something he hates, but it's her body.
 v "Did you wake up one day and decide to sell out your own species, or was that something you always wanted?" - Isabel
 ○ Did you wake up one day and give a kid vampiritis, or was that just a thing you wanted to do? - Luis
 ○ "SHE DIED, GET HER WATER."
 ○ Luc gets Perry water instead
 ○ Perry shows Luis her bag of weed, for later.
 ○ Luis still feels watched. He eyes the painting of the royal family. He says he's gotta go to another room
 v Sinola offers to help Luis get out of the room.
 ○ She says sorry for being a hypocrite; she doesn't feel safe being her. She wasn't mad at him, she was mad at herself and took it out on him.
 ○ He tells her to understand that his secrets could get his family killed. He's sorry for yelling at her and wishes they could have gotten off on a better foot
 ○ No better time than the present!
 ○ "Hi, I'm Luis Cavalier." "Hi, I'm Antiona de Anixida. Most people call me Tonya."
 ○ She wrote for a newspaper for a bit. He does a radio station.
 ○ Sinola was given a typewriter as a child because she was cooped up and hidden. Luis had a radio and it drove him to come here when he had nowhere to go.
 ○ Sinola has phonograph discs from her mother's youth, all the way from Moravia. Her dad did not like the radio, sensitive to sound. Luis' dad didn't like radio and was disappointed Luis wasn't fishing.
 ○ He tells her he had a brother he lost and never knew him. It hurts to know the family got smaller by one more person. Sinola just has her brothers.
 ○ Her younger brother is "stupid and doesn't remember his own fake name." Living with her older brother is a chore, but they're close.
 ○ There's a musket underneath the bed, remove before sleeping. It's loaded.
 ○ He also takes down mirrors and photographs with eyes before tucking in.
 ○ Perry and Isabel plan to cross reference her list of suspects with people Perry saw at the party. Perry finds it strange the Stalking was there (and Coraline).
 v Perry takes Luc to bed!!
 v Luc goes to sleep. He's the kind of guy to have mundane or no dreams, or horrible PTSD dreams where everyone is dead.
 ○ In this one, he's sitting at a campfire deep in the mountains underneath a cave entrance's overhang. His boys are around, wearing bandanas. Someone is playing a guitar. He knows what night this is.
 ○ What was he doing the evening before Everything went down? The worst thing - having a good time. He's always been moody and quiet, not an optimist. On this night he was feeling lucky to be alive after serious scrapes. He's singing along, making moon eyes at Emiliano…
 ○ He's a handsome man with a freckled face and leading on the guitar. Luc is bisexual.
 ○ He slaps Luc on the back and tells him he did a great job. Jumped onto a train from a horse and back on with equipment all in time. He's a DAREDEVIL!
 ○ mighty kind of you O///w///O
 ○ He's got brains, brawn, charm… share some with the rest of us! Luc blushes.
 ○ "We're not in the war according to the big wigs, but every general needs a corporal. Here is your badge of honor." "Never saw myself as a man with a badge, but I'll wear it with honor."
 ○ don't tell Dustin (who has the biggest hat and is peacocking)
 ○ "you know I can keep things between us" Emiliano blushes this time
 ○ He asks a favor, to look where they are now. The feds wouldn't look here, 30 miles from town in the deep woods. They store their stolen goods in here, but further in the cave. Meet him by the stone stack and they can get it all squared away.
 ○ Why this night was Luc not as focused as he usually is? Hubris and a one track mind. He does not hear a rock fall and jaws open, but sees a proboscis fly out and latch onto Emiliano's neck.
 ○ The rest are not far to try and help, but the life fades out of his eyes. Luc fights for what feels like 30 minutes, hearing people dying around him in the darkness - until he feels it hit his neck. Warm, viscous, sharp. Fade to black.
 v Perry has nightmares, but they have always been hers. Tonight they are someone else's.
 ○ The trio at the café fades into her sitting in a large room, bigger than any she's seen before. Steps lead to where she is sitting: a stone chair. The architecture is familiar, like the God's grave, biomechanical with vertebrae and tubes carved into the rocks. Below, people mill about. They are all wearing strange and extravagant clothing. Not all in the crowd are humans - humanlike creatures with thin long ears and cat eyes and iridescent feathers, retrograde limbs and long tails; scaled and feathered creatures with armored skulls; folded down ears with grey skin standing eight feet tall and two smaller curled arms and silver-gold embedded tusks; a man and a fish hybrid. And next to her is another creature curled around her throne. Behind her is bright light like the sun, but the shadow of it makes out a head the size of car. It has a frill and huge fangs jutting from its carapace and fire coming out of its teeth, turning to butterflies. It is coated in brilliant and multilayered feathers. She cannot see more than its head and neck.
 ○ There is a gold, white, black, and red mosaic shaped like the sun, above both thrones.
 ○ Her forearm is a weave of storms that end in jaguar claws. Bright purple lightning. She is only a bit taller than the people below.
 ○ A human man with armor made of bone and obsidian fused together kneels before her. "My administrators, I bare grave news… the tower has fallen and the goliath with it. We cannot hold this."
 ○ The dragon head moves to be on par with him. "We have nothing to fear from the humans. The goliath was a cruel man and ruler, we treat them with respect. We are more civilized here. We will make peace and give the reforms they require. Even if it threatens our own authority. It is in the best interest of all of us to give the people here more say in the goings-on. What do you say, Heart?" he turns to her.
 ○ Perry says "It's what I would want." her voice is twofold, both masculine and feminine.
 ○ "Until the sun comes, we will administrate as we see fit."
 ○ She is filled with anxiety about this upcoming meeting. She worries it will be a mistake.
 ○ Yohan appears on the steps, asking Perry if this is her dream or her memory. She's not sure, she thinks it's a dream. She's had them before.
 ○ Yohan had his dad's dreams; he doesn't want to tell Yohan anything, but unwittingly gives him information. He gets vibes.
 ○ "Are you active or passive?"
 ○ "I like to think I just am. (…) That me and my father make the same decisions."
 ○ "Big sorry to whoever my archon is, then… they're about to make a bad one."
 v Luis watches a lake. It waves on the surface in two beats like a heart, which begin to pick up. The mountain peak erupts. Ash coats the sky, blots out the sun, and falls like snow - but a light still beams down. In the sky there is an eclipse. Like an eye's pupil dilating, it then narrows and focuses on the city. Every tree and piece of grass, the dirt and mountains, the rivers, all become glowing eyes: bright and amber hued, staring at the city and the cathedral.
 ○ The heart beats again, and the lake moves up.
 ○ Luis wakes screaming.
 v Isabel is taking us all to the attunement zone.
 ○ Sinola cannot come. Perry argues for her to be able to come close, but they decide she would be better suited to arming the castle so to speak.
 ○ Isabel takes us to the tree and draws symbols on it with her blood, then reaches into the tree. It gives like jell-o to be a fleshy tree portal. All three of us go through the portal and emerge covered in goo. Luis is almost 100% goo.
 ○ "I'm sorry, I am quite used to the goo at this point."
 ○ Isabel tells Perry it's edible and she licks her hand. It's salty.
 ○ Luis casts prestidigitation on everyone (after Perry yells at him).
 ○ We get on the bus. Perry sits next to Isabel and mends her lab coat; Isabel notices but ignores her instead of stopping her.
 v We go through the sewer system. More nasty! It curves, then there's a hole in the concrete and a tiny tiny cave.
 ○ Isabel and Luc are super good at crawling. Luis and Perry are slow about it.
 ○ Luc is the first person to see a wide open cavern. It looks like the ones on the way to the Rookery with a wide gravel path like a road. On the side is a grand grey stone door covered in glyphs. Isabel goes to it with intent.
 ○ Luis can see it says "observatory." Isabel opens the door to reveal a wide cylindrical room with the same architecture as the God's Grave.
 ○ It has a large floating globe with smaller orbs moving around it. There is a pool of water below it, and when the buttresses meet above it there are alcoves and stairs wrapping around the room.
 ○ As the door shuts, to our side at 20 feet tall, on a huge throne carved from stone sits a hooded figure. A tail that looks made out of carved and smelted metal whips out aggressively. Two impressive clawed hands with four clawed fingers. From the hood peers a helmet, a mask, a long snout like a Spinosaurus but made of one piece of metal and armored spikes, loops, and chains. The snaggletoothed maw emits streams of fire. Two fire red lights blink into its orbits.
 § DR MONTEMAYOR…. YOU HAVE BROUGHT ALLIES?
 ○ The creature gives many blessings to us.
 ○ Luc presents the bloodglass in its guitar case.
 ○ It's an eternal bond to be with the blood glass, and has much responsibility. It should not be taken carelessly. Few amori (?) have bonded with them (humans, us of this house).
 ○ Luc volunteers.
 § YOU ARE STRONG... LUC LONETREE.
 § BEFORE WE BEGIN: WHERE IS YOUR BLOOD FROM? ARE YOU BLOOD OF THE LAND OF HOURGLASS, THE BENT LAND, THE POLAR LAND?
 § Hourglass land sounds like anova, bent land sounds like fantasy africa, polar land sounds like fantasy europe
 § Luc is blood of the hourglass
 § DR MONTEMAYOR…. BRING THE DISH.
 ○ She produces a rectangular vessel with skulls on either side and spikes haloing it, placed beneath his arm and the creatures feet.
 § SPEAK YOUR NAME… YOUR TRUEST NAME. THE NAME IN YOUR HEART.
 § Lucero.
 ○ He puts the blade on the glass. A scimitarlike clawtip sinks into his arm and drags it down to draw blood for 6 points of damage! Blood gushes out and falls into the beat of the bloodglass. He's bleeding a lot actually as a three inch deep, three foot long dish fills with his blood.
 ○ The dragon rips off a piece of their tunic to wrap his arm.
 ○ The structure of their arm is metal, bones, and tubes. The dragon cuts their arm and golden globules mix with Luc's blood and move into the bloodglass. The bloodglass keeps that veinlike appearance.
 ○ Both of them tap the sword with a finger.
 § ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE RED AND BLACK AND WHITE AND YELLOW OF THE ETERNAL SUN, I GRANT YOU, LUCERO, ATTUNEMENT TO THIS BLOOD GLASS.
 ○ The blood envelops the blood glass and it sinks. The red veins reach into his arm and in the Forgotten One's. Both their hearts ignite with light at the same time - then there is an insane sensation that Luc has grown another arm. The blood in the dish is gone. Now there is the blood glass only, beating in tune with Luc's heart.
 v Luis is like "I don’t want to waste your time" MY TIME IS INFINITE "or insult you, since you're an archon" AN AMORI COULD NOT INSULT ME HA, HA, HA.
 ○ Luis asks about Magus. Big moon owl. The forgotten one does not know the name, but a better description if familiar.
 ○ Magus deals with associations of purity, the arcane, improvement and progress. Whole cult about them.
 ○ THE GENERAL. SEVEN THOUSAND STARS. I AM AWARE. WHAT INFORMATION? MY MIND IS NOT AS IT WAS. ONE MUST FORGIVE MY FORGETFULNESS.
 ○ Why would someone want to bring Magus here? I KNOW LITTLE OF HOW THIS HOUSE HAS FAIRED SINCE MY RECLUSION INTO THIS SPACE. MY OBSERVATORY LOOKS AWAY, TO OTHER HOUSES.
 ○ THE HOUSES ARE THE DOMAINS OF THE LIVING. THE SPHERES OF ROCK THAT ORBIT OUR SUN. THE FAIREST HOUSE WAS THE HOUSE OF MY BIRTH. I WAS OF THE CULT OF STARS. I KNOW MUCH OF THE HOUSES AND THE LITTLE SUNS. I STUDIED THEIR MOVEMENTS AND METHODS.
 ○ "What do you know about our moon? is that relevant?" YOUR FOLK CALL IT COYOLSHALKAN (?), CORRECT? "We mostly call it the moon." IT HAD NO NAME TO US. IT WAS A LITTLE HOUSE DEVOID OF LIFE, EVEN BENEATH THE SURFACE. ONLY MAD MEN LIVED THERE.
 ○ 7 THOUSAND STARS WOULD NOT HAVE LIVED ON A MOON SO CLOSE TO THE HOUSE OF SLAVES.
 ○ "What about the moon by Koros? The big red rock, spooky? Lots of moons?" WE CALL IT THE HOUSE OF BLADES.
 ○ HE WAS OF THE LEGION TASKED WITH DEFENDING THE AUTHORITY FROM DAEMONIC INCURSION; TRAPPING THEM ON THEIR TWISTED HOUSE.
 v LUCERO… YOUR FORM. IS IT FAIRING WELL?
 § No.
 § I HOPE YOU WILL BECOME BETTER AS TIME PROGRESSES. IT MAY TAKE AN ADJUSTMENT PERIOD TO ATTUNE TO SUCH AN IMPORANT ARTIFACT.
 v AWAKEND ONE, PEREGRINE.
 ○ heart of flame, heart of storm, gilded heart, forged heart.
 ○ I AM NOT OF THE HOUSE OF FLOWERS. THIS MASK WAS MOLDED AFTER SOME CREATURE HERE; A BONE I FOUND MANY YEARS AGO.
 ○ THE GREAT WINGED SERPENT AND THE HEART OF STORMS WERE MY ADMINISTRATORS. THEY WERE THE RULERS OF THE LAND OF HOURGLASS BEFORE THE AMORI REVOLTED.
 ○ I CANNOT IMAGINE BEING CALLED THE HOUSE OF SLAVES BRED MUCH LOYALTY TO THE AUTHORITY.
 ○ AS THE WATER BECAME CHOPPY, I LEFT. I HEARD OF THE REVOLT AFTER.
 v They offer to let them come whenever, but it's naptime now. Perry offers to come back with an astronomy book. The archon calls her kind to a dying archon.
 v Luc is chill (outside?) about the events, Perry is calm until Luis is freaking out, Luis has a boggled mind.
 ○ "Do you want that weed now?" - perry to luis

## Book IV: {non-canon sessions}

Session 39: Come Clean
 v We open on the National Academy's Institute for the Insane. The brick is painted white; people can be heard talking behind walls. It is night and most are sleeping, but one room is awake. A meeting room with a table, no sharp edges, a restraining chair on one side and a variety of chairs on the other. The group contains various doctors and a brown-suited business suited man with a multicolored tie. And in the single chair is Cristian Vasquez, a scar over his eye and burns around his neck.
 ○ The council's words are a blur until they call his name. His violent outbursts and delusions have lessened (prescribed medicine for paranoia still), but in four months he has made good progress. He cannot leave as he is still sick, but he will be rewarded by upgrade to a nicer facility and he may pick his menu for Friday. Also, he is given a clipboard to request one visitor - surveyed conversation but with some privacy.
 ○ Cristian knows who he is going to invite. He has a slight smile.
 v Luis is held down by an immense weight; there is no breath in his lungs and they burn. He needs to breathe.
 ○ He blasts his way out of the dirt as he's suffocating. 2/3rds out. He uses mage hand to shovel dirt out.
 ○ We see an arm, torn and ripped but sewn together by nothing at all - shoots up into the air and reaches to the edge of the grave. Luis wrenches himself up and gasps for air. He's alive, and living is painful.
 ○ His first act is to go to the manor to find a shower. He stumbles and limps through the cold air. Snow is on the ground, but it's old. Time has passed. Patches of dead grass peek out. Hot water comes out of the shower, a sweet relief. In the mirror, he observes his chipped ear, purple, green, yellow bruised skin, pustule-like scars where bitemarks once were, and areas of his skin which are regrowing underneath necrotized skin. Chunks have come off of his skin to reveal healthy skin underneath.
 ○ A layer of old Luis cracked open, he's a new man. A little Luis yoke.
 ○ He walks down the mountain to find his home.
 v Perry is running in a snowy forest from something big. She does not remember what, but she is scared.
 ○ It's dragging itself behind her. She hides behind a tree and looks back; reaching through the darkness is an ancient longbow and a spear digging into the dirt to pull a creature forward. In its little arms it holds a torn-open Luis.
 ○ She remembers she is marked and she can never hide from this creature.
 ○ She casts Fly and dashes away; there's a blizzard making flight hard and around her is endless darkness. Bounty misses an arrow shot.
 ○ Perry turns around and casts a lightning bolt at her, using the lightning from her wings. It hits and knocks layers of flesh off. It creates a crystalline formation in the Stalking's flesh.
 ○ The Stalking uses the trees to propel herself up and uses one of the multi-arms to bend one back and balance on it, attacking Perry. The deer-skull opens and bites her arms, stripping flesh off of her. There's a strike of fear in her heart.
 ○ She sees Yohan balancing on a branch nearby. He tells her it’s a dream and that she is capable of success.
 ○ Her wings spread wide, shooting beams of red and gold light out that bends the trees like a shockwave. A stream of lightning shoots directly through her heart, shattering it and felling the trees in a shockwave.
 ○ Perry wakes up in her bed. It's late at night, but she's still alone. It's about 1:30. Luc won't be home for a bit, so she goes back to sleep.
 v The lights come on, there's the smell of blood, and people are screaming, cheering, and jeering… Luc is in the coliseum of the Undercity, an old ball court. People sit in old and newly built stands. In four directions sit mob bosses, imperial style. This fight is special because it is well into his career. He is armed with a spear and a buckler shield. He's pushed into the wall then rolls away as an insectoid leg pierces where he was. There is one of four individuals left fighting a huge pincer-wielding bug creature. He is bisected.
 ○ The audience starts cheering "Blood Hunter!"
 ○ It's a giant centipede. It lunges at him and he punches it with his buckler, causing hemofluid to splay. It shrieks and flails on the ground. He hits it again and it stops. The crowd shrieks with joy and he basks in it.
 ○ But how did Luc get here? RECORD SCREECHES TO A HALT.
 v Luc is still in the arena, coming out to a waiting area which left all the contestants alive. Because they were only fighting humans. A medic rushes over and clears his wounds.
 ○ Footsteps come clunking over. "Blood hunter, a lot of wins today. I have to commend you on the commitment."
 ○ it's a small man sitting on two metal retrograde limbs, a slicked-back mohawk with blue tips, and a torn leather tuxedo. "Mind if I stand next to you? I wanna have a chat, man to man."
 ○ They want to start a new league for fighting using only the best fighters. They know he's dependable and an individualist, values that align with them. And they helped him with his teeth before. They'll get him a better payout with some health insurance and such.
 ○ With some of their regime, he would make bank and have fun doing it. The offer is that he work for them and fight three times a week.
 ○ He can join human v human duel, human v human lethal duel, human v monster, and arena. They won't put him against fights he will lose - it's pit fighting, not professional wrestling. He's their money maker. In exchange, he gets 75 gp per win, health insurance for fight-related injuries, and life insurance. So if he kicks it in a lethal fight his widow won't end up with no money. She'd be rich.
 ○ Luc was simply letting this man talk until he said "life insurance," which actually got his attention.
 ○ The insurances cover pit related events. Pre-existing conditions are on a case-by-case basis, may be treated if it helps him fight better. They cover the costs, nothing out of pocket. The life insurance is for the named next of kin - they get the earnings from that night plus 15% of all earnings he's made for them overall. (They take 25% to fund his insurance normally).
 ○ He promises it'll be fun and barely a risk with this gang. They won't ask him to kill a guy unless it's for sport.
 ○ Luc can talk to "Yashar" and gives him a picture of himself so they can talk later. He flashes a smile of gold and silver fangs and walks away.
 v It's the present once more and the centipede is cashed in for 75 gold.
 ○ A bill was passed recently that changed coin to paper money. It's the hip new thing.
 ○ Luc told them his name but they probably assume it's spelled "Luke."
 ○ The person paying him tells him to take the West exit, as the Don of the Moor gang is in the East and is upset. The sponsor of the Moors gang always immediately attempts to kill Luc and his locker is often defaced or robbed (like of his pants). They're mad about losing a good guy to the centipede.
 ○ He leaves the Undercity to an empty city; it's 3 AM. At first it was hard to adjust to this schedule, but the progression of his illness has made it so he feels great at night and struggles to wake up in the daytime. Also, the sun hurts him. He rides his motorcycle home.
 v Deep in the night in another part of the city, Luis hears a train pulling out of the station and cross the river. He walks under the San Uriel Angel statue ("ha, ironic") and limps across the bridge. The blue line of dawn forms on the eastern horizon, behind the mountains he descended. He approaches his apartment.
 ○ The lights are off in the building and there's furniture on the street; windows are boarded and it's in an even worse state than he left it. His childhood armchair is snowed on and moth-eaten. He nods at the raccoon sleeping inside.
 ○ Luis, despite understanding the situation, goes into his apartment. Leaves and snow are strewn on the floor from the unfixed window. It's completely empty. He goes to move on, but hears a door open from his neighbor's side.
 ○ Salt and pepper bearded man looks over and says "…Knew you'd be back."
 ○ People are moving out of the city in droves because of the terrorist attacks; city isn't safe anymore and most of this block is being demolished for condos and station expansions, etc. They're going to build a tower across from the station on top of the candy shop. His neighbor is moving to Villa.
 ○ He's been saving Luis' mail, having expected him to come back. Most are bills but the one on top is official, embossed with the National Academy's sigil.
 ○ Luis opens his mail. Some spam mail and bills. One of the letters is from his mother. It follows up on the last letters he sent, catching up on events, talking about how his dad plans on selling the boat to buy a more affordable boat. Asks him how he's been. It's signed by the rest of the family. He tucks it away and cries a little.
 ○ There's a letter from Tony asking where he's been. Please contact him, worried. Stay safe, if you skipped town hope you're okay. A drawing of lasagna. Luis tucks it away too.
 ○ The most recent mail is a telegram from the N.A. Mister Luis Cavalier STOP you have been requested to meet with patient Cristian Vasquez (number) STOP for a visitation meeting dated February 21st, 1302 at 6-7:00 pm STOP snacks will be provided STOP.
 ○ The news today, Tuesday, the 21st, just released some gossip about stars and such. There's a big politic about the recent paper money bill, argument between Arthur McKendrick and another senator about the economy.
 v Luis is being so casual about this. Got some food.
 ○ He gets a train to Perry's apartment and knocks on her door. A old woman opens the door (LUIS IT'S BEEN 60 YEARSSS goof). He apologizes and leaves.
 ○ So he tries to go to Luc's house instead. He hears a little bark as he approaches the house - it's Lenny. Luis puts out his hand to shake and Lenny mouths his hand. Estrella comes out, surprised to see him…?
 ○ Luis asks where Luc moved off to; he's her backyard neighbor now a block over. Their house is the blue one with the white door. Estrella gives Luis six Danishes to give them.
 ○ He is mega anxious. He walks up to the house, walks back, sighs, walks in circles, etc. He finally knocks on the door.
 v Perry goes to get the door because waking Luc up would be way too much effort. Luc has decked out the door with security measures. She looks through the peephole and sees the back of Luis' head, pacing.
 ○ After a scream, she hugs him long and tight. She tests him a bit about being the true Luis.
 ○ Sully comes to see him!
 ○ She admits she scrapbooked his journals.
 ○ Luis is using mage hand. "I thought you just woke up?"
 ○ "Promise me when I tell you this you won't kill me instantly."
 ○ He's a godling but she doesn't believe him really. He absorbed ethereal energy directly from an archon (residual wake of one) which primed him, and then his warlock pact/sponsorship kept him from fading into the ethereal and is instead developing him into an archon.
 ○ He asked about Coraline; she's sent a few postcards. Her world tour is broader than Maeve, most recently in Baghdad - ancient library.
 ○ She leaves it up to him whether or not he read her letters and gives him space, making breakfast tacos.
 ○ Voices wake up Luc; he recognizes one as Perry and… Luis? He dresses fast and sneaks to the living room with a 25. Luis is in Perry's office reading papers. Being gay and crying about it. Perry is cooking tacos.
 ○ Luc holds up a gun, sits against the wall and checks his corners on approach. "Put those down and put your hands in the air."
 ○ Perry calls out to quit whatever they're doing.
 ○ Luc comes back and asks Perry what happened. ("I let him in." the most caucasian thing…). She explains what she learned and Luc asks Luis to prove it. Luis is really hungry and asks to eat, which is pretty good proof honestly.
 ○ Luis proves he's Luis by mentioning the cigarette conversation ("I'm in love with her").
 v Luis was "in the void or something," and moved it from the Rats Hideout to an Office. He could get versions of his own voice to say things so he made it a Café. It was his Throne.
 ○ Luis tries to show his red notebook - it's new, written entirely in glyphic. He noticed in the shower, while his skin was coming off, that his tiddies fell off. that's free top surgery baby
 ○ Luc is demanding to know what Luis agreed to.
 ○ Let's dive into that.
 v It's the past. High heels on tile announce Luis trailing behind Coraline around an ethereal column carrying paperwork and books. Mist is an inch high off the ground. They come to a door. She stops him and asks for his game face and best behavior ie silence, no stupid silly questions. If they behave it will be easy.
 ○ He needs to get acquainted with everything. Be honest, no under or overselling himself. Big moments for them. "I love you, we're going to do this."
 ○ The doors reveal the Red Room. In the middle planning area are five thrones, as in the chairs. The one in the middle is sheer obsidian naturally forged, one made of shadow, opposite it a fire-y phoenix feather chair, ice melting at the top, one made of leather skins with flora pouring out of the flesh bits, and below the throne is a pile of human bones. Sitting on all five… are Luis's.
 ○ Luis wheezes.
 ○ All are in different outfits and have accessories; one of them has a spikey collar, one has a spiked black crown, one has a gas mask, one has a plague mask, and one golden dragon/platinum coin. Ice throne is empty (rip Bounty).
 ○ A podium materializes above the ground, supported by an ebony raven with a ruby top.
 ○ Banker Luis says "good to see you, snare, and your ward." They recognize the passing of the Stalking so sad. Luis copies them to fit in even though she ate him lmao.
 ○ Inquiry on the Snare's involvement with her ward. The Burned speaks with his father's voice, "Snare is accused of giving information to the enemy and using tools given by you to cause the failure of the Coins and Hunt rituals." The Decay speaks in his mother's voice, "We also level that your relationship has endangered our mission and us personally. This endeavor does not succeed if we die and we need as much of us alive as possible to succeed… and your ward was an accomplice in killing one of our own. In fact, your protection of your ward would dampen the ritual regardless."
 ○ Coraline argues it's not bad because she is protecting someone she loves; important not to get lost in the ideals as they are fighting for what they love (humanity). She says it's not fair if a third of their group isn't working for anything; it's not a hunt.
 ○ The banker asks about the coin ritual, where she let him into their innermost sanctum and did not kill them and left their memories intact. Her explanation is to stutter. Luis brings up protecting what she loves: erasing memories of someone you love is impossible to attempt. She agrees that she could not do it because erasing their memories would reduce the potency of the sacrifice, to rephrase. The information was valuable and stopped a ritual but would make the next more potent.
 ○ Yet she pulled all the strings to keep her ward alive. They would have had three deaths, maybe two - then got one, barely. That's not enough to control the Child.
 ○ They can use Luis more, the others weren't as valuable! Luis is standing there because she loves him and that's what she is fighting for. Love.
 v They call Luis to the stand.
 ○ Relationship to the snare? Romantic. When he called her the Raven Queen? Not existent. Adversarial?
 ○ Bone Luis asks what he means by adversarial. The first time he saw her was at the Hellsmouth and it inspired fear in him.
 ○ Burned asks why he wouldn't respect that, since she was killing racists.
 ○ Why did Luis give his friends information? He has a goal and they were going to assist him with that goal. Friends help and you have to be honest with friends. He didn't think they could do much about the Raven Queen.
 ○ A voice which encapsulates all their voices says: "No use in questioning you much longer. You're both untrustworthy… but predictable. You're one of us, one way or another, and the Snare's decisions have enlightened us to your importance. You can be useful to us now. You can keep your existence as a separate entity for the love we have for the Snare and hers for you, but you must continue your service to us and our goal. You do not have to kill your friends, but you've aligned with powerful enemies. Luc's a kid, Perry's not much older. Without a guiding hand, they won't do much of nothing."
 ○ "You need to kill Isabel." "I can do that." "Good. There's not much to talk about then, is there?"
 v Back to the present, where Luc is demanding to know what Luis agreed to for second life.
 ○ Luis isn't supposed to tell them, but he doesn't want to lie to them. But he's in danger if he tells them. He has to "take care of someone." He admits its someone Perry would care about being dead.
 ○ "Perry's mincing words, but the bottom line is we can't be friends with you if you're evil."
 ○ Perry casts Zone of Truth on Luis, and he fails. She doesn't tell him what it is but he'll figure it out once he tries to lie.
 ○ "I have to kill Isabel!"
 ○ Perry asks if Luis thinks Isabel is a real danger to them or a suicide mission for him. He doesn't know.
 ○ Luc takes Luis' book. He can't read it, but a crystal falls out. It's for sure magic and resonating with the energy of Luis' warlock spells. Perhaps an arcane focus and would require attunement. He confiscates it.
 ○ The page we show Luis has instructions for one of his tome spells; it conjures Light from the Dream. The book has four pages with spells.
 ○ Luis says it would be worth it to be wiped out now, because he told the truth.
 ○ The plan given to him was to slip into the group and stab Isabel in the back because she considers him weak.
 v Luc asks Perry to sidebar. She says "Kitchen? outside?" forgetting the brain talk
 ○ She tells him to give Luis slack because he's been facing extremely powerful entities who held his resurrection in their hands. Whatever he agreed to, he had to agree and believe it in the moment and the moment he could come to them and tell the truth, he did. He struggled, but it's what he wanted to do.
 ○ Perry says Luis still has the couch and she's glad he's back. They're going to take him shopping and pay for it!