Final Resting Cycle

Holster tells the group:

“Last week 2 women were reported missing, urban explorers The **Northkeep Crematorium**, abandoned for years. The investigators also went missing, and black smoke was seen coming out of the building’s chimney the next day.”

*Terryl and Idris do their “beginning of session” moves*

* Idris has a vision: unclear, looking thru cloudy water, a dark figure surrounded by black smoke, many more appear
* Terryl has an unsettling feeling about having to put something in the fire that you love

### A New Arrival

Surprise! Emmett’s here!

Jaime opens the door, introduces Emmett to all of the hunters (he’s very frazzled lmao)

Jaime and Callum - motorcycle, *Callum is worried Jaime will break his bike, Jaime reassures him it’ll be fine, they still need to fix the electrics at home*

Ronny, Terryl, Emmett, Idris - Ronny’s pickup truck

*They all introduce Emmett to the concept of the sect, Terryl compares Holster to the teacher from MHA, Ronny explains that it’s a bit weird that Emmett is already out on missions.* *Emmett explains that he’s sorta in a witness protection program - sent by the Manchester sect to the Boston sect*

*Everyone’s shitting on Murphy again, Terryl pulls out the flaming sword, Ronny gets a lil peeved.* *Terryl makes* *a short joke about Emmett and then makes* *fun of Holster for being a weak bitch. I’m in love.*

*Terryl claims to be “about 79”, or “maybe 160” “older than 19” “definitely 32”- Ronny and Emmett are Confused*

### Northkeep Crematorium

* Park on the side of the street
* Neglected area of the city
* Row of abandoned buildings, very large, run down, faded bricks, cracked concretes. *There’s dead ivy on the front, why is the ivy dead.* There’s snow!

*Terryl opens their wings, Emmett is excited*

Callum looks in the windows, Jaime tries to find a way in but can’t find one. Callum looks inside and sees abandoned furniture. The floor is weirdly clean! *Callum and Jaime place a bet on what it’ll be, Jaime thinks fae, Callum thinks undead. Emmett comes up and scares them.*

Emmett peeks inside, to **investigate a mystery**

* Room appears to just exist like this, it hasn’t been arranged

With a final declaration of “It’s gonna be fairies!!” Jaime opens the window and the *three idiots climb inside*

 Wolfgang does his guardian move to see what’s going on. Under the crematorium he sees a room, probably the basement, cannot see into the room. Room has always been a part of the building plan, on original documents. *Advises Ronny to keep The Boys from getting into the basement yet.*

#### Waiting Room

* Jaime, Callum, Emmett, and Terryl pile through the window
* Callum does a smelly smell and tries to get a read on where the creature went
	+ The smell is burning and ickyyyy
* Suddenly, thumping noises

#### Hallway

* Jaime steps into the hallway, and sees an uncanny valley creature slamming its head into the wall
* Everyone piles in after him
* The creature at the end of the hall *looks* human, but something is Wrong. It’s not a monster, it’s a humanoid creature that’s covered in smoke
* Terryl tries to use soothe, the creature’s head *snaps* towards Terryl, and it raises the table leg to attack
* Callum, Jaime, Emmett RUN down the hallway to back up Terryl
	+ *Emmett runs up to protect Terryl, jumping in front of them, gets hit by the falling flaming table leg, takes some harm*
* Callum enchants Jaime’s sledgehammer, Jaime tries to pin the creature with his sledgehammer
	+ *(Idris is back behind with Ronny, who’s pointing her gun at it, Wolfgang is just coming in the front doors, the rest are running at it)*
* *Jaime pins it to the wall, and the smoke wraps around his arm. As it does, it burns him (2 HARM), and he gains -1 ongoing due to the pain. Emmett unloads into the creature, the smoke clears for a moment to show a human skull.*
* Callum investigates a mystery, doin a BIG OLE SNIFF
	+ Callum sees that the creature was a cadaver encased in smoke
	+ Hasn’t seen this smoke before
	+ The smoke appears to be reanimating this body
* Callum traps it to the wall using magic, Jaime tries to talk to it. This does not work. Terryl beheads the cadaver, the smoke dissipates. It is once again a body on the ground.

*Callum heals Jaime. The body was a tall, stocky man. Had dark, matted hair, sickly pale and rotting flesh, glossed over eyes. Ronny and Emmett go to investigate the body. The man is barefoot, and there’s a white tag hanging off one of his toes. This was more than likely a dead body that was meant to be burned.*

*(At this point, Logan speaks up and we all realize she’s thought this was an ice cream factory this entire time and we all lose it, thren take a break)*

Suddenly, a scraping noise in the room. The door opens, and a woman yells at the party. This is **Danielle King**, one of the missing people. **Eva Bouchard** stands next to her.

Danielle believes that she and Eva have been in the room for only a day. It’s been a week in hunter time. Ronny explains that they’ve been gone for a week,

* Eva seems to find it interesting that there’s supernatural happenings.
* Ronny organizes the hunters to try and get these two outside
* Wolfgang investigates to find out whether there’s wards and letting them out of this space
* The hunters go back to….

#### Back to the Waiting Room

* The window is closed now, and a piece of yellowed paper sits on the desk, dated “December 5, 1991”. It’s a two-week notice for the maintenance man, who doesn’t want to be there anymore. *Keeps hearing things in the basement*
* Crematorium closed 2 months later, closed because of bad business rep.
* Building was bought, then sold to city of Boston, the man died very quickly
* Wolfgang realizes that everything started going wrong when the circuit breaker was replaced in October of 1991.
* Jaime tries to get out, door, window, break the window, *nothing opens*
* Callum begins to check for wards
* Emmet finds old newspaper clippings, company might be facing lawsuits because bodies have been going missing

### Time to Plan

* Jaime, Ronny, Emmett, Wolfgang go down into the basement
* Idris, Callum, Terryl stay at the top of the stairs with the innocents

*The party reaches the crematorium, and it is incredibly dark. Weirdly dark. Emmett asks Terryl to light their sword. The party lights their flashlights!*

#### The Crematorium Proper

* The furnace is burning, and there’s a group of 6 of the monsters around the furnace
* Terryl and Callum go in to attack them, Callum shifts (too many claws), Terryl sword, everyone readies
* FIGHT!
* Terryl stabs one, Callum throws one into the furnace, with Jaime’s help!
* The creatures move like a flipbook with missing pages
* Idris wind blasts the thing
* Wolfgang chucks one into the fire
* Terryl tosses the last one in with their sword? I think? I zoned out lol

### The Basement

* Emmett does not believe Holster is a vampire, Jaime realizes he shouldn’t have said anything, Callum yells at the party to get going
* There’s a window in a door at the bottom of the stairs, Jaime tries to look through and fails the roll
* The walls are covered in soot? Emmett guides the party into this hallway

*Cutaway to Terryl: Terryl needs to burn something valuable. They have to burn their sunglasses, and begins to explain its gonna be weird to Callum. Callum gives them a scrap of fabric to cover their face. There’s a very sweet moment between Callum and Terryl, about backing each other up. I have a headache, it did not comprehend, I am so sorry.*

* Big old server looking thing in the basement?
* Lots of wires???
* Jaime begins yoinkin wires, and then electrical wires came down to hold him against the wall
* Ronny cut the wires, and now it wants to yank da axe
* Emmett gets the vibes that the structure of the building is what’s haunted now
* And promptly shoots the circuit breaker
	+ It works really well
* Jaime tries to do the same thing, and fucks it up
* But wahtever, the party does it and breaks this thing
* All the smoke rushes into the circuit breaker, and there’s a thumping, like a heartbeat
* There’s demonic runes all on the inside
	+ “Death, Rebirth, Rift”
* Ronny cuts the heart in half after pouring holy water on it
* Wolfgang takes photos of the sigils, then the rest of the party wipes off the sigils
* The party cautiously reunites
* When everyone goes back, the building appears to be much more of a mess
* Leave, it’s 4am
* Yall know the drill