Home Front

### NPCs

Eric Anderson, Cassandra, Chad Matthews, Carter Coombs, Allison, Remi, The Eighth Expression

Rhett and Bok-Hui head to Maine looking for Allison and the others after receiving a postcard with the address of a cottage on the coast. However, on arrival, they are met by the Eighth Expression, who is looking for information on something to do with Queensmouth. Bok-Hui shoots him in the head, but he seems utterly unharmed. They decide to run, and barely escape with their lives thanks to Bok-Hui's driving and Rhett's illusions.

Back in town, they find society slowly collapsing around them. They stop to hunt for supplies and come across Eric Anderson and Remi in the same garage. Rhett and Eric manage to defuse a confrontation with white supremacists who were spoiling for a fight, after Rhett intimidated their leader by reading his mind.

Eric and Remi take Rhett and Bok-Hui to the Hidden House, a camouflaged cabin Eric has been building in the woods in hopes of surviving the collapse of civilization, and are reunited with Cassandra, Allison, and Chad. On the way to the Hidden House, Bok-Hui discovers black flowers that are blooming out of season, and believes they are related to the unnatural bees that can't be seen by people without powers.

Rhett offers Eric a session of psychic psychiatry, but the two find themselves trapped in the mental space, menaced by manifestations of Eric's traumatic experieces at Gerhardt Manor and Rhett's own suppressed traumas. Eric tells Rhett he has a way to escape, and shatters into pieces. Rhett brings them out through a window and, back in reality, is left with a black feather that somehow has manifested in reality.

Meanwhile, Chad calls for help while on patrol. Bok-Hui goes looking for him, and finds the white supremacists have been fused into a hideous monster, with two of their heads on long tongues emerging from a frog-like mouth on the third's head and wielding a weapon that looks like a gun but is fused to the body as well. The creature nearly kills Bok-Hui, but suddenly departs to follow a signal it received.

Rhett and Cassandra go out to find Bok-Hui and bring her back to the Hidden House, safe but badly wounded. There is no time to rest, however, and the two are kitted out and sent to Queensmouth to find out what is happening on the island, which they learn is the worldly home of Henry Colfax and occupied by Sol Invictus.

Rhett and Bok-Hui use fake IDs, illusions, and eldritch trickery to pass the guards and onto the ferry to Queensmouth. The plan was working, but the Sol Invictus guards were delayed by the arrival of the monstrosity that nearly killed Bok-Hui. A guard sees through the disguise and is about to kill Bok-Hui, but Carter Coombs arrives and brutalizes the Sol Invictus forces. The guards send the ferry across to keep its cargo safe, and go to war with Coombs and the beast. Their attacks on Coombs build up an eldritch charge on Bok-Hui, who unleashes it on the monster in an apocalyptic blast.

Bok-Hui and Rhett make it safely across to Queensmouth and use a combination of fast talking and psychic magic to pass the Sol Invictus guards on the island side. They drive away quickly, and are flagged down by a wild looking man named Notus "Adventure Danger" Fredericks.