Freeze Frame

The sect has been investigating a series of photos…..

The crew gets a urgent call from Holster early in the day to meet in the common room, ready to work. He seems incredibly nervous. There’s a banker box on the table….

Raymond Erikson wanted Holster and Wolfgang to analyze a photo and see if its been tampered with….crew of miners that died in a cave in

* The photo has a figure standing in the background, the face is...odd
* The dude standing in the background has been found in countless photos from the sect from moments before or after disaster, 20 - 120+ years
* Wolfgang found a video from a few months ago, the figure is standing in the video right before a subway car derailed
* Holster and Wolfgang are worried that this mysterious man might be causing the tragic events
	+ At some point the figure is going to get noticed….

Time to start digging through photos

### The Photos

The hunters just start digging in...there’s no clear place to start, Jacques just starts grabbing, trying to see if he recognizes any places, looking for places its already appeared

* The video that was taken is definitely in a downtown boston subway station, which one it is isn’t clear
* The hunters finally realize that the man’s face is upside down, Terryl does not like the upside-down face
* The video is in a larger terminal, but its not clear which one….(it’s taken hours before the train derailed) there’s a range between 65 - 85 for the section to check

### The Subway Terminal

The hunters go to the main terminal station, Jaime insists on driving the sect van, manages to find parking

* Jaime and Terryl go over to read the subway map, find the corridor w terminals 65 - 85
* Not all of the terminals are for people to use, some of them are for maintenance
* Terryl leads the hunters to the corridor that is for terminals 65 - 85
* There’s a section that is tarped off, it’s for terminal 72. Appears to be under construction, and there are workers around
* Idris talks to one of the construction workers
	+ Finds out this is where the derailing happened...hmmmm
	+ They’re taking down the tarp in a couple of weeks
	+ The construction worker hasn’t noticed anything odd but there’s been things breaking, people are saying that terminal 72 is haunted - decades, since the subway station was built
* Jacques and Jaime start doing some research
* Jacques finds that this is indeed on the news, the conductor died
* There’s still ongoing research into why the train crashed, and this has happened before multiple times, it’s been 7 years

* Jaime finds quite a few results when searching the terminal, it’s a well known urban legend about being a cursed terminal, lots of blog posts, people visit and then see something terrible later
* Been the site of MAJOR crimes, things have been failing and no one knows why
* What the fuck do we do? NOT commit crimes in broad daylight!
* Jacques checks the Blood Force, and gets his lil pings
	+ Can tell there are at least 8 people behind the tarp
	+ There’s nothing wrong with the blood in the air, but the terminal smells like bad vibes
	+ There’s one corner to the left that Jacques can’t see….he opts not to tell the crew until we get back to the sect
	+ He has a ringing in his ears, it’s familiar but no idea why - deja vu

### The Sect Archives

Boxes and filing cabinets and chunky stuff. The hunter section is off limits to everyone except Wolfgang - even Holster can’t look at some of them

Towards the middle are the solved/ongoing cases, to the right are the unsolved cases...any and all stuff go here

* Idris investigates the photos by playing 52 card pickup and chucking them all over the room...Jaime gets a papercut from one of the photos hitting him in the face lmao
* Idris snatches one out of the air, and before it burns up due to his magic, he took a photo of the physical photo before it burned

The photo is in color, appears to be from the 70s….the figure in the center appears to be Holster

### Talking to Holster

(It is now canon that Holster has like 7 different deadbolts on his door)

* Jaime tells Holster that he’s in one of these photos, he was very clearly in the middle of a nap
* Idris shows him a photo
	+ “You’re a living example of something bad happening, so” - Jaime @ Holster
* Holster doesn’t remember seeing the upside down face, even though he appears to be looking directly at it

The hunters try to narrow down when this photo was taken

* Holster thinks it was 1978, so Jacques starts to research….he’s on the 17th page of a google search before he finds anything
* There’s a rumor that there’s a spirit in the station of a person who got shoved in front of a train
* Seems like upside down man is a spirit
* Terryl asks Holster if he’s ever thrown a man in front of a train, he vehemently denies
* Jaime gets a sense that there’s something more going on based on his facial expression, Jacques notices something weird abt his demeanor

Terryl asks to talk to jaime in the other room...

Terryl has some ideas….they’ve been getting powers they normally don’t have while on Earth. They’ve been getting assignments again, and they’re specific assignments, but this time….they were only told to contemplate certain doom, and that pessimism will save lives. They think that maybe this is a vengeful spirit?

Back in Holster's office, Terryl tells the rest of the hunters that they casted a magic spell in order to get some advice, and they need some help with the information they got. They present the hypothesis of maybe the person was killed for a very good reason, and that spirit is still causing chaos

* Idris counters with the fact that we have nearly 120 years worth of photos….
* Jaime \*still\* doesn’t believe Holster, and point blank asks him why he’s lying
* Holster admits that the rumor page is wrong - no one died, no one got shoved, he was the one who fell in front of the train…..on purpose…..
* Holster is the tragedy that happened, he decided to :sparkles: take a lil walk :sparkles:

Jacques suspects that it is the train station, finally shares the vignette effect that he noticed - it’s in the back corner of the area

All of the hunters are sorta lost, but Holster has one more lead, there’s a book that might be helpful

* It was a journal of some dude having terrible things happening to him constantly
* Small, leather bound diary, very thin

### The Diary

Lachlan Pryce - lived in the UK from 1929 - 1978, his diary

* Same year holst did a lil jumpy jump

* Lachlan believes he was haunted by the Angel of Death, the man with the upside down face. He began to take photos of every tragedy he encountered, with photos in the back of the journal

* There;s one photo that’s a little different, “post car crash - possible Angel of Death”

* The Angel appears as a smudge rather than a face?

* Holster gets a box of the “not-quite” photos - pulls out a few from the 90s where the Angel appears as a multicolor smudge

Jaime makes the connection between the x-ray and black light, there’s some form of UV light that makes this thing show up much clearer. Probably best to bring a blacklight to this place and see if we can see it!

### The Storage Rooms

Jacques contemplates what he thinks might be able to hurt this Angel of Death, since it doesn’t seem to be human in feel, or demonic...He’s felt something similar to this presence before but this one is much stronger. Might not even be a spirit at all, and most entities that can’t be stabbed are best to be banished

* Going to be a very powerful banishing spell….hmmmmmm….

* UV light might be able to capture it?
* Holster has an old banishing spell, but its very difficult to cast

Jacques lays out the plan: catch this thing with blacklight, banish it w magic

Jaime’s looking for blacklights - finds 3 big panels!

### Back to the Train Station

Wait until after rush hour to go in. The cover story: electricians! Beeg beeg lights haha

Finally head in around 7pm - the station is a little less crowded than it normally would be. There’s two workers outside, chatting before heading off...they seem suspicious of the hunters entering - don’t leave

### Inside Platform 72

* Set up the black lights, set up spell prep

* Spell requires two people, one to speak, one to draw symbols, the creature must be in eyesight the entire time

* This room feels NASTY, the Dread Feeling
* The hunters dim some of these lights
* Terryl and Jaime plug in the black lights, Jacques and Idris get ready to recite the spell
* With the presence of black light, everything starts to fluoresce, including a shadow figure that appears to be glitching - forms into a tall man facing the wall
	+ “A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic”
* Jacques and Idris cast the spell with FLYING colors
* The creature teleports to the edge of the blacklight, gliding, not walking
* Jacques asks Terryl and Jaime to narrow the beam; it seems to be caught in the beam
* The creature stares at Jacques, says some French, and then BEANS him with a work light
* Terryl stabs this bitch, 5 harm weakness, they walk up and gut stab this thing, burning it
* The creature throws Terryl backwards, they catch themselves by teleport to standing
	+ “Oh, was that supposed to hurt? Was that supposed to be painful? Sorry, I didn’t realize!”
* Idris finishes the incantation, and in the moment of quiet, Jacques goes “Oh, I’m just getting started” and finishes the spell with a superhero pose

There’s a wave of green energy, it catches the coveralls and starts to swirl around the creature with the upside down face - we won! The hunters banish the ghost, and quickly clear out. In order to cover for the broken work light, Jacques quips about how the place is haunted!

### Aftermath

Idris and Jaime chat in the common room, and realize that every trace of the photos with the Angel of Death are completely gone. The box is now empty, and the photo on Idris’ phone is gone.

Jacques takes a nap. He doesn’t remember having dreams, ever, but he realizes after the fact that he did indeed dream. He remembers darkness, and floating. It feels like he’s underwater and in space at the same time, with something swimming by him. There’s a tree branch, a massive one. He begins to realize that the branch looks more like flesh….flesh tree in the void. There’s eyes at the back of his head, he turns around, and the man with the upside down face is staring directly at him. He wakes up.

Idris bakes Holster brownies with a little note that says “we’re here for you” and leaves them outside his door.