Arc 14: Choc's Way Home

## Session 1 (5/21/2022)

* During the month
	+ Anne has started going under a pseudonym, taken on an appearance with a vaguely mixed skin color and blonde hair
		- Been helping to rebuild the city, talking to River more
	+ Jo’s been playing the commander role in Denver
		- Pretty much boot camp training the Vanguard troops
		- Been looking at munition reserves with Scott: stocks are good, but not long lasting
	+ The Doomsayers have been interested in Denver’s nuclear reactors
		- Atom stopped reactor 2 from blowing up, and has been working in security, research, and development
	+ Addie’s been training with the Vanguard, taking them on missions
		- Been working on relationships between factions and Denver
		- Helping build up Denver and root out any remaining Combine influences
	+ Choc also helped build up Denver, get production started on palmcorders for help with communication
		- Went back to Sumpter to continue building up the town
		- Been working on Derpy’s new body and disconnecting the their bond
	+ Levy’s been studying the snowflake and looking through Denver’s information archives
		- Went back to the Library to deliver the Swarm schematics
		- Found Throckmorton’s terminal and hacked in, gaining access to Denver’s satellites and cameras/listening devices
* October 5th, near midnight
	+ Addie and Choc are sitting in a mobile commander center van, looking on monitors wirelessly connected to Vanguard helmet cameras
		- The Vanguard are infiltrating a building full of plague zombies, testing out new gear to keep the disease off them
		- The group’s lieutenant, Jordan, was vetted by Rat
		- The group is able to clear out the place with minimal trouble
		- Addie uses her healing magic to examine the group, finds one, Roy, with his suit punctured by bits of bone
			* The bloatbellies’ disease had started to spread through this blood
			* Addie uses Clara’s power to help heal him, and tells the others to be careful, and sends all of them off to downtime
	+ Addie and Choc head back to the city’s main HQ
		- A Junkyard representative, Steve, is meeting with them to discuss cooperation with Junkyard
		- Addie tells him she has seen Junkyard’s people around and is suspicious of their intent
		- Levy arrives back in the city with the Snowflake, and checks in on Denver’s spy systems
			* She finds people from Junkyard secretly scavenging inside the city
		- Levy arrives into the meeting room, confirming Addie’s suspicions
			* She gets Steve in a death grip handshake, successfully asserting her dominance, and gives Addie the exact x y coordinates of Junkyard’s scouts
		- Addie has Steve put on lock down, and gathers up her fellow Templars and some Vanguard to capture the Junkyard scavengers
			* They successfully track them down and capture them, without any bringing too great a harm to anyone

## Session 2 (6/4/2022)

* Unrelated flashback to a few months ago, a few days after the Summit at the end of June
	+ Addie and Adeline had written up a summary of what happened at the Summit and spoke to Junkyard Radio to get the information distributed
	+ They set up a very minor rapport with the man who runs the station, Richard McLaun
	+ Ike is the largest financial supporter of JYR, and thus has a large sway over the media
	+ Choc, after multiple negotiations, started funding JYR as much as Ike, and signed the contract in the Union’s name
* In continuing from the encounter with the Junkyard Scavengers
	+ With John’s input and Addie’s insistence, the group decides to let the scavengers go
		- Choc first takes all the firing pins out of their gear without telling anyone
		- This action will have consequences
* About a day later, at 2am
	+ What’s been going on lately
		- Former Denver slaves have taken up Vanguard gear
		- Due to the nature of the deadland, John has all industry stop after 10pm for a mandatory curfew
	+ Party activities
		- Addie
			* Patrolling with Rat and a group of Vanguard
			* Rat tells Addie he’ll stay in Denver to train the new Vanguard leaders, may head out when they train their new trainees
			* Addie confidese hehr stress in having to manage so many relations between factions and deal with multiple problems
				+ Rat tells her she needs to delegate, he can help look into Texas and the OPEC problem
				+ Despite not wanting a repeat of what happened with Vickers, Addie agrees to his help
		- Choc
			* He’s rigged up an old apartment with traps and has been staying there
			* Ryker drops by and tells Choc Antoinette sent him: she’s in a bit of trouble and she needs help
				+ The town had been under attack from raiders, zombies overflowing from the east, and she didn’t find the most trustworthy people to help drive them out
				+ A man named Stoker came into town with scavengers, wanted to move in and supply commerce, and helped drive out the raiders
				+ Then, after a while, people started dying in odd ways, drained of blood, people started to leave and that’s why Haven’s refugees are in Junkyard
				+ Antoinette needs help getting Stoker and his people out
			* Choc agrees and the group will move by 4pm
			* Choc contacts Addie, and she agrees
		- Levy wakes Joel up to help her with an experiment
			* Levy takes him to her makeshift lab where she stores the Snowflake in a locked container
			* She asks Joel to pump radiation magic into the Snowflake, seeing how it takes the energy
				+ The artifact glows immediately, but not much else happens besides a bit of frost on the viewing window
			* Levy gathers the metal of the artifact is not from our world, it’s more dense, has its own sort of gravity
				+ In a mountain lab, the Agency had used a new kind of bimetal to lock down Harrowed, thought little is known about it
			* Snowflake is ‘eating’ the magical energy
			* At Joel’s questioning of the purpose of the experiment, she tells him she doesn’t trust him, that he’s switched sides easily before
				+ Levy tells Joel to keep info about the Snowflake away from Addie, that she’s working to figure out how to control it
	+ Lieutenant Gray, one of Rat’s people, finds Addie later in the day, tells her people from the Library are looking for her, that Warner had put in a good word about her
		- She finds a couple men in long red coats waiting for her
		- One, Stuart, greets her, and says they’re they’re looking for an archive/lab of gene splicing technology in Bunkie, Louisiana
			* It’s a very quiet mission, a deal is being worked out with the Union on solutions to a food deficit problem
			* The place was owned by Pentacorp
* The group sets off toward Haven, Louisiana
	+ Choc hooks up a Harley Davidson sidecar to Addie’s bike so Joel can ride with Addie and River
	+ During the ride
		- Levy tells the Librarians that the group has an artifact, and they question locking it up in the vault
		- We run into toxic raiders, but dispatch them, and make it through Dallas without too much trouble
		- We see signs of life, of construction, but no people for miles
	+ It’s about 80 miles out from our destination that we see a muscle car on the road in fairly decent shape
		- The occupants say they could use some directions, been lost for hours and need guiding toward Haven
		- Choc radios Addie, expecting a trap, and they prepare for trouble before pulling over to a gas station with the two strangers
		- The two people get out of the car, a man and a woman, they look to us, and as they do, a light glints have a cylindrical object from the gas station
			* Soon after, the gas pump next to the duo explodes

## Session 3 (6/18/2022)

* Pick up where we left off
	+ 6 gas mask wearing guys come out of the gas station
	+ They had fired a rocket at one of the gas pumps, and though no more fuel remained to explode, the woman was heavily injured and the man wounded, launched 10 feet away
* Combat starts
	+ Ian rams his monster truck through the gas station, crushing two Hartman soldiers
	+ The civilians
		- The man is burly, in his mid-40s, shaved head, rough goatee, shogun strapped to his thigh
			* Spends his time getting up
		- His companion, a woman with short hair, is heavily burned
	+ Addie drops River and Joel at the building, telling them to watch Ian’s back, and heads back toward the civilians
		- She uses her magic to heal the woman fully
	+ Choc follows Ian’s lead, blindly missing Joel and River with the tank, and tows down another operative on the opposite side of the building
	+ River gets shot by a Hartman soldier that jumped her in the chaos, but Addie takes the wound with her magic
	+ Choc vaguely notices a soldier in near invisibility, and shoots the roof down on top of him
* After combat
	+ Addie heals up herself and the civilian man in a healing sphere
		- Choc notices the man’s arm burn briefly before it heals after the light’s gone
	+ The man introduces himself as Brice, whom Choc recalls as Antoinnette’s security supervisor
	+ Choc and Addie examine one of the Hartman soldiers, seemingly from the same group as those in Denver and near the Damocles bunker
		- These look different, ‘upgraded’
		- Insides of the body are warm, like a living person, but the outside is cold like metal
		- Internal organs are missing, only some are present, the most essential
			* Ulcers and growths hanging off those present
				+ Organs that tried to grow?
			* Curiosity: if trying for efficiency, why not double up on essentials?
		- These people were altered without surgery
			* Addie recalls something Atom said, about mutants born now with birth defects
		- Armor is attached to their skin itself
		- Pure gray blood, no red mixed in
	+ Choc notices no tech spirits are directly attached, but float around them, want the “essence” of the bodies to grow stronger
		- A couple gun spirits seem especially eager, feeding on the violence as well
	+ Choc talks a gun spirit into entering the Hartman soldier’s gun
		- It wants to shoot the group, immediately craves violence
		- Choc hands the gun to Ian, tells him to “have fun”
		- The gun initially shoots on its own, and Ian has to hold it to the sky, trying to control it
		- Choc recalls a way to take away its ability to shoot at will, sets limits on the spirit’s abilities to act on their own, much to their displeasure
	+ Ian and the gun spirit agree on their name to be Sickle
	+ Addie threatens to destroy the gun if it hurts anyone it’s not supposed to
	+ Choc uses Derpy’s eyes to view more into the net, and speak to the lingering tech spirits
		- The spirits say they’re there to feed on the microchips in the guns, gain their processing power
		- The microchips are broadcasting the location to tech spirits, attracting many
		- When asked why they don’t eat the microchip spirit, Sickle says it’s trapped in a cage
		- Choc looks inside the gun’s components, finds a trigger with C4 connected to it with the note “From Germany, with Love” with an R next to it
			* Choc redirects the trigger’s electricity with his metal arm, stopping it from exploding
	+ Meanwhile Ian tells Sickle he doesn’t want to hear them talk constantly about wanting to kill everything around them, so he hooks up the gun to his helmet hud to get a text version of the spirit’s rants
* The group gets back on the road and heads into Haven
	+ Couple werewolf skulls on pikes, sign that saves “Haven” spray painted on a placard
	+ Ian notices several nightscopes glinting in the night, not trying to hide themselves much
	+ Ryker and Brice raise their hands, say this is a normal greeting so no people with ill intent come in
	+ Choc notices the walkways he’d set up with Antoinnette are gone, burns on old planks, bullet pocked ground, vehicles covered in car fluids: a fight happened recently
	+ Brice says there was an attack, he got shot by some sharpshooters while trying to set defenses
		- There’s a group in the area, the Tarbaby Clan a gang/family of toxic shaman, they were stirring up trouble
	+ Addie asks Brice if he’s familiar with the area, he says he knows it like the back of his hand
		- Addie radios Choc quietly, asking him if Brice knew the area so well, why would he have needed to ask us for directions earlier
		- As the group parks their vehicles and gets out, Choc asks Brice about the burns he noticed when Addie healed him
		- The man feigns shock before attempting to slash a clawed hand at Choc, who shoots the ground in front of him
* Combat begins
	+ Choc’s shot causes the ground to sink around them, trapping him and Brice
		- Addie drags him out of the trap
	+ Martha pulls out a shotgun, taking a shot at the group, grazing them
		- Ian uses Sickle to violently mow her down, and she drops
	+ Choc uses his hand cannon to blast Brice before he can turn into mist, harming him and Addie in the process
		- This action will have consequences (ADDIE IS PISSED)
	+ Brice is stunned, and Choc fires his submachine gun into him until he’s downed
	+ Addie yells at Choc for friendly fire, and slices up the remains of Brice’s corpse before Choc can attempt his vampire tooth extraction
* A heavyset biker man walks up and greets Choc, saying he didn’t think he’d see the day Brice was put down
	+ He tells Choc “King, we need your help”
	+ The man’s name is Bubba, a name he was given, not chose
	+ Addie asks who the woman was, and Bubba tells her she was one of Brice’s favorite bar maids, once he got fangs, he took a focus on her and made her one of his thralls
		- About 7 years ago, Haven was just a few shacks and ruins, Choc and Antoinette moved in and called it home, building it up and attracting people from all around, pushed out raiders
		- The Jeagerfields, the former name of the Tarbabys, came into the area again a short while back, took up base in the Cadson labs, started raiding the town
		- Antoinette hired mercenaries to take them on, Stoker and his people, and drove the Tarbabys out
		- Brice came back from the mission twisted, started enthralling the town a while after, and Stoker’s closest turned the town into a source of food
		- Stoker keeps the town isolated, lets few leave, and only with supervision to scavenge and hunt
		- Tarbabys show up every few days at 12, shoot up anything in their way, anything in sight
			* Hank is the leader of the group , got the position from his brother
			* There’s a former member of the clan in the bar
				+ She’s been here a few weeks, didn’t want to be involved with her people any more
				+ Name’s Charity
			* The Tarbabys have a grudge against Haven for driving them out
	+ A lot of people have bite marks on their necks
	+ Addie asks Bubba about Martha, he says she was a sweet girl
* Most of the group heads to the bar to meet up with Charity and the rest of the town to talk about next moves
	+ Addie stays behind, looking over Martha’s body
	+ She tells River she’s tired of seeing people die and nothing changing
	+ Addie uses her resurrection ability from Clara to bring Martha back to life
	+ She carries the woman into the bar with her, to Ian’s shock
		- He seems extremely taken aback, saying he didn’t think bringing someone back like that was possible
* Addie takes Ian aside privately to tell him about her abilities, and the truth about Simon and Baphomet

## Session 4 (7/11/2022)

* We open in the town bar, a six foot tall woman in flannel handing out guns to the civilians
	+ Most don’t look trained, fighters taken by Stoker to the labs
	+ Ryker hugs the woman, and they kiss
	+ The woman is Charity, the Tarbaby who left the gang
* Addie talks to Charity
	+ Her dad led the Tarbabys, was deep into the research in Cadson
	+ Charity got sick of her dad’s shit and left, helped Antoinette in the raid to drive them out
	+ They’d taken to calling those under vampire control “Renfields”
	+ Sheriff Grissom made his allegiance obvious: been hosting vampires in his house
	+ She mentions her people couldn't get the excess pipes to open while they were there, those that drained the excess toxic waste: we could access the place through the tunnels if we could open them
	+ The Tarbabys are here to pick off Stoker’s minions, but Brice and Grissom are why they don’t go on an all out assault
	+ Stoker hasn’t been in town since they took over the labs, has his base there
	+ There were tubes in the lab’s basement, looked like human bodies in there
		- Her dad had a terminal he didn’t let anyone see, studied and observed but didn’t seem to have time to do much else
	+ Her people favored turning sludge into weapons, warping the ground around their enemies
* The group preps for Grissom to make a move with his own goons
	+ Ian knows best way to break a thrall spell is to kill the controlling vampire or break connection with their prey
		- Breaking connection can take hours or days with the help of a skilled syker
		- However, the thralls are still living people, and susceptible to sleep and suffocation
	+ Choc makes knockout gas to deal with the thralls, sets up barriers around the bar
* The attack begins a short bit later
	+ A lone gunman, stout and covered in grime, shambles out into the middle of the street, shot and injured
		- Blood on his neck
	+ The street pavement roils up into bubbling mud as two other armed men walk up behind him
	+ Burning mud geysers assault the barriers, at least two toxic shamans on a rooftop fueling them
		- Choc repairs them on the fly
	+ Addie advances on the wounded man, tossing him away from the burning mud
		- She gets grappled by threads of mud that rise up, but breaks free
	+ Charity uses her own magic to pull the two shaman off the roof in an avalanche of sludge
	+ The man Addie threw twitches and jitters, howls as his teeth elongate, skin tears off and he and another turn into nosferatu
	+ Grissom jumps out his window, trying to use the distraction to escape, but Ian uses Sickle’s targeting to down him
	+ Addie downs the nosferatu and joins up with the others near Grissom
* After combat
	+ Addie points out they should question Grissom, Choc rips off his jaw, Addie yells that they can’t interrogate him if he can’t talk, Choc gives the man some of his own blood to slurp so he heals rapidly
	+ Grissom says he’s going to explode soon, because Stoker has a strong hold over him and doesn’t want him to talk, but he hates him anyway and will say what he can
		- Stoker’s in the heart of the facility
		- Working on making more vampires, and nosferatu instantly
		- Releasing chemicals into the water supply to test results
		- Some shaman from the Tarbabys have started working with Stoker, and Hank’s not happy
		- Landmine defenses at the entrance of the building, activated in the presence of magical energy
	+ Grissom then explodes
	+ Wiping the gore off, Addie and River gather the injured civilian thralls and Addie heals them up

## Session 5 (7/16/2022)

* A short while earlier
	+ Levy and the Librarians had peeled off earlier to scout out Bunkie while the rest of the group went to Haven
	+ As they neared the town, gunshots rang out, blew out their tires, and chased them back to Haven
* Addie and Charity talk after the battle
	+ Without Brice and Grissom in town, the Tarbabys will likely move in, take out the town’s biggest guy (Bubba) as a show of strength, and take over
	+ Levy arrives with Warner
	+ The group agrees to send the civilians out of town, with Ian, Joel, Charity, Warner, and the other Librarians guarding them
	+ Addie uses Beast Friend on 3 blue jays to scout ahead
* Heading into Bunkie (AKA, the group actually pulls off a plan!)
	+ The group heads toward the town through the swamps
		- During the ride, Choc’s tank catches on a bumper in the road and it screws up the insides
		- While Choc fixes it up with Addie’s assistance, a sniper starts taking shots at the group
			* That motherfucker took out one of my blue jays
			* Choc is able to temporarily repair the tank’s nuclear core, takes a shot at the trees, and the group drives off quickly
				+ I’ll be back 😠
	+ In town
		- Addie’s blue jays help them find a garage to park in, and point out sniper scouts on the Cadson roof
			* Levy sneaks ahead, invisible, and finds a sewer grate to enter the labs
			* Addie and River, using invisibility devices from Levy, and using Choc’s tank fire at the magic mines surrounding the facility as a distraction, enter in the grate
			* Choc, also invisible, follows soon after
			* During this, Levy releases Choc’s knockout gas into the AC systems of the lab, knocking out the thralled civilians and the unsuspecting shamans
		- On the inside
			* Inferring from Charity’s information, the group heads into the basement labs to find Stoker
				+ In the first room, Levy hacks into one of the computers with Choc’s help
					- She finds info on the Salamander Project (mission: manufacture the perfect being to connect directly to the Hunting Grounds on instinct, connecting to the progenitor (Levy would know, Sybil Rose)), as well as cloning info on plants and animals, an experiment to use an apple/snap pea hybrid for food stores, data on Sybil’s clones, and how the lab’s machines work
					- Levy grabs it on two data slugs
			* Choc dropped his invisibility as soon as they got inside, and not long after we’re there, a voice sounds over the speakers: “Well well, seems we have an intruder. Hi there, little intruder.”
				+ Choc serves as a distraction while Addie, River, and Levy head deeper in
			* Down a couple halls, a red-haired woman, Levy would guess a clone of Sybil like her, banging her head hard against a pane of glass
				+ To avoid her, we enter a door nearby
			* Meanwhile, back in the first room
				+ The voice speaks to Choc, saying he’s the cause of his progeny, he recognizes him from Redwater. Back then, he was just a simple Combine soldier under Blood Anne before he was turned by Toussaint
			* Back to Addie, Levy, and River, still invisible
				+ There’s a table on the opposite side of the room, an apparent woman’s torso, no legs or hip, she has dark skin, and seems to stir slightly
				+ The woman’s hand clenches slightly before she leaps onto Levy’s back, putting an arm around her neck, despite Levy’s invisibility
					- Addie drags her off
					- Levy uses Empathy to get insight into the woman: she’s angry, confused, in grief; her names Antoinette, she’s hungry, thinking about meat, and wants to destroy anything working for Stoker
				+ When Antoinette reveals her identity, Addie tells her they’re there to stop Stoker, there with Choc, and she calms down slightly
				+ She’s a Harrowed
				+ Her legs had been used to fix up the woman, the clone, in the hall
					- She says the clone doesn’t speak English
					- Levy says she might be able to talk to her, mentally, either she can convince her to help them, or she’ll attack violently
			* Switch back the office
				+ Stoker appears from mist in front of Choc
					- Stoker tries to puppet Choc, but fails
					- Stoker gives him an offer: leave with his allies, and he’ll let Choc live, otherwise, he’ll introduce him to his daughter
					- Choc tells him he’s going to beat him with his own jaw
				+ Addie radios Choc that they found Antoinette, he tells Addie to get her out, Addie tells him she’s going to help, and they need a way out regardless
			* The group steps out from the room with Antoinette
				+ Levy connects with the clone’s mind, and the two talk in a mindscape that appears like a living room in a log cabin
					- The girl says her name is Sala
					- Levy tells her they’re connected, she wants to talk to her
					- Levy asks why she’s here, and she says it’s because “they” want a new “big lady”, the people in lab coats call her the progenitor
						* She’s a copy of the progenitor, she doesn’t know what that means, but she knows it makes her different, a lot of people are after her, that’s why her dad protects her
						* Levy tells her about Sybil Rose, the woman they’re made after
					- Sala asks why people would want to kill her, and Levy tells her only people she hurt would want to kill her, and asks if she hurt anyone
						* Sala goes quiet, says there were people who wanted to hurt her dad, he said they compromised her safety, they did something bad, so she made them go “poof”
					- She tells Levy Stoker is her dad, and Levy asks if she likes her dad
						* She says he’s nice to her, he protects her, gives her food she wants
					- Sala says she wants to go to the Rocky Mountains, she read about them in a book, and Levy says she could take her there
						* She likes reading books, and Levy tells her she used to be a Librarian, she can share books with her
					- Sala doesn’t know how old she is
					- Sala knows her dad does gene research, and Levy tells her sometimes people twist it into ways it shouldn’t be used
						* Levy says sometimes they use it to create people to hurt other people, like how she herself was made, and says that may be why people want to hurt Sala, they think she was made to hurt people
					- Levy tells her a story:
						* There was a town in Louisiana, and there were people there. And it grew, and grew, and grew, and the people were happy. They laughed, and played, and created new things. They were surrounded by bad, and yet, still made the best of what they had
						* One day, bad people came. They wanted the people to be upset and scared, not happy. They took those townspeople away, into the bad places. Took the mayor away, hurt her, and took so many others that tried to fight back. They were taken to a place like where Sala was, used for research.
						* They wanted to make a person to make an evil person, like themselves, stronger, to use to get rid of people they didn’t like. They made her, called her their daughter, and tricked her into believing people wanted to hurt her. They made their daughter feel scared, so she’d do things she didn’t want to do.
						* And then one day, some people came to save the people taken away by the evil man. And they asked the girl if she wanted to come with them, and she said yes. She went with them, and she was happy.
					- Sala asks if the girl is her, and Levy tells her it could be, if she wants it to
					- Levy misspeaks and calls her Sara, but the girl likes it, and wants to be called that
					- Sara says she wants it to be real, but thinks she’ll need help, and Levy says her and her people will help her
					- Levy gives her a pinky promise, she promises she’ll help her, and Sara promises not to hurt anyone her dad tells her to, and they hug
					- Levy snaps out of the link, tells Addie the girl is safe to approach, and they’re going to help her
			* Back in the office, Choc is greeted to alarms ringing, lights flicker and change to a red color, and Stoker calls over the speakers: “Sala, I told you I need to, they’re trying to hurt us.”
			* In the hall, Sara doesn’t move, and Levy walks up to her
			* Choc walks out of the office as Stoker disappears into mist, meeting up with the group and telling them to get Antoinette out
				+ He’s grabbed by Stoker who solidifies behind him, grabs him, and turns them both into mist to move to the floor above
				+ Addie yells for River and Levy to get Sara and Antoinette out of the building to safety, and rushes up the stairs after Choc
				+ River does not listen, hands Antoinette off to Levy, and rushes after Addie as Levy leads the two others outside the building
		- Boss fight
			* Stoker materializes him and Choc on the floor above, and throws him against the wall
				+ Choc rolls to his feet, gets under Stoker’s guard, grabs his jaw, and fires bolt into his face, wounding the vampire heavily, though he starts to heal
			* Addie arrives, barreling through the wall, and creates a reverse Safekeepin’ miracle, trapping Stoker within a circle so he can’t escape
			* Stoker pulls out a pulse rifle and fires multiple shots off at Choc
				+ Choc takes a hit, and Addie uses her magic to take the next hits for him, which would have been killing blows
				+ Addie’s armor is damaged in the attack
			* Addie stumbles back to her feet and bisects Stoker, taking him out of combat
		- After combat
			* River heals up Addie’s superficial wounds
			* Choc rips off Stoker’s jaw and begins beating him with it, Addie just watching by the sidelines
				+ It’s a few minutes before Choc speaks, telling Addie he’s done with this, with the fighting. He’s back where he started—fighting got him nowhere
				+ He says he can start back here, if Ann will let him, he wants to go home
				+ Addie tells Choc she’ll keep an eye on Stoker while he goes to see Antoinette
		- Choc goes outside
			* He meets with Antoinette, and she’s still overcome with hunger for meat
				+ He lets her eat one finger at first, she says she needs more, and he doesn’t hesitate to offer more
				+ She says she doesn’t want to hurt him, Choc replies she can’t hurt him any more than he’s hurt himself, and the hunger consumes her
			* River runs back to Addie, telling her something bad’s happening
				+ Addie runs out to find Antoinette ripping out part of Choc’s heart with her teeth, her body parts regrown
				+ Addie rips her off him, grabbing her by the neck and slamming her into the ground
				+ Addie begs Clara for help, and Clara answers, allowing Addie to mend Choc and bring him back
				+ Addie asks River to hold down Antoinette before she passes out from exhaustion
				+ River curses, getting a hold on Antoinette and holding her sword to her throat
					- Choc wakes back up, and tells River that’s not necessary, he trusts her, Antoinette promises she won’t lose control again
		- Addie’s out cold for a short while, and brought back inside while Antoinette gets her own turn beating the crap out of Stoker
			* Once the immediate hatred’s out of her system, Choc asks Stoker if he turned anyone else
				+ Stoker says he made two more vampires, one that went to Junkyard, another that decided to wander the wastes, most likely got themselves killed
			* Addie urges them to end it here, not let this follow them, and the 3 of them finish off Stoker for good
			* In the aftermath, Choc says he’ll try a more peaceful route with the Shamans that worked for Stoker, offering them a home, a better offer, and Antoinette rounds up the no-longer-puppeted civilians
			* As they’re talking, the table in the center of the room moves, and Addie trips up an invisible Ryker
				+ Addie confronts him about the sneaking, and he says he’s working for Charity’s people, this cult, and they’re interested in what was in the lab
				+ The cult, church, is keeping things on the down low until they can get out some sort of cure, he’s not sure, for hunger and other things
				+ Ryker has two slugs, with all the data in the lab like Levy had, Levy confiscates them
				+ He says the church’s name is the Net Watch, he’s trying to get more answers
* The group heads back to Haven
	+ And confronts Charity
		- Without any words spoken, she gathers Ryker blabbed her secret, and seems irritated and defensive
		- The group emphasizes they just want to talk
			* She says she can’t tell many details because of religion, because of her church, which believes humanity’s ascension to superiority can be done through the use of technology
				+ Addie groans, saying it’s goddamn eugenics, and Charity’s quick to clarify it’s superiority against the horsemen, not any people over the other
					- The Reckoners created this world, and to fight them, need to improve technology, to pray, to reach a higher state of being
				+ They don’t worship a god or being, but a place, the Net
				+ Trying to unlock the power of the Net through prayer and reflection, aggressive use of technology, research along with Saint Reinhardt’s advancements, giving unlimited access to power
			* Charity says she’s willing to share research if we’ll act in kind
				+ Levy says she’s willing to share the research on animal and plant cloning/DNA, but there are somethings she can’t share, and needs to delete
				+ Charity simply says “okay”, and agrees to keep a dialogue

### Text RP

#### Gregg

On October 18th, not long after returning to Sumpter, Addie was approached by a Law Dog named Henry, who told her Gregg and Heru were wanted for the murders of multiple people.