Welcome To The World Of Darkness
Chapter 4 Great Balls Of Fire
During the week the group branched off to go to work {Sin'Dera and Stray Lung}, learn {Dana and Shadow}, or goof off {Nazo and Trent}. It wouldn't be possible for them to battle on those nights so they made arrangements to meet at Sin'Dera's at 5:30 PM on Friday.
Monday and Tuesday, Nazo and Sin'D noticed mysterious activity around the Cathedral. Nazo began setting up security and booby trapping the windows. Sin'Dera looked over the paper as she watched Nazo carry yet another crossbow to set up by a window. "Maybe this has something to do with all the night activity. 'Bowling Club at Midnight', how odd is that?"
"Well, if you excuse me..." She grinned as she finished the job. "I have a werecat to torture." With that she climbed the stairs to the bell tower and let herself out onto the roof. She began pulling the terracotta roof tiles out of her bag of holding and placing them other the original ones. It took her the rest of the day to do the area.
Speaks-in-Shadows was in the closet under her, but detected nothing strange. He was engrossed in trying to learn to read with the aids that Sin'Dera had provided.
Sin'Dera called Trent and asked him if he could come over the next day to check it out when she got off work. She hadn't seen Salys or Gander since Sunday.
Sin'Dera, Trent and Nazo sat out in the courtyard next to the left wing of the building in the evening shade. They discussed the strange atmosphere surrounding the place.
As they chatted, the window to the closet opened and Shadow climbed out. He leapt gracefully onto the roof and found himself riding it off the edge. He took a step then another, but the tiles slid faster then he moved. He hurtled to the ground as terracotta shattered on the walk and bounced in the herbal garden. He landed in a disgruntled crouch and everyone laughed lightly at his expense.
Nazo had been backing away the whole time and since nobody was looking at her she turned into a fox and got out of there before the werecat could kill her. She showed up on Dana's doorstep.
Dana looked at her. "What did you do?" She smiled as she let her in.
"My dwelling place is being encroached upon." Sin'Dera spoke to the fellow Sluagh. Whispers went around the table. Four others were gathered in a dark and secret place that non other were invited to, not that they could have fit into the door if they had been.
"So this tea is for a specific reason...I gathered that there was trouble in your area." The eldest spoke with a solemn sigh. As Graybeards went she was by far the wisest Sin'Dera knew. She was the Mistress of Spiders, listening to their words and having their help in learning secrets.
"Yes Eleanor. I fear it is Caring Tec as we spoke of before. Has anyone noticed anything strange. Children's excessive fear perhaps?"
"Ah yes, the other night I was under a boy's bed and he started screaming. Horrible noise I tell you." Bradly, the antiques dealer Sin'Dera used since before her Chrysalis, shuddered in remembrance. He continued after regaining composure. "And the nightmare Glamour is abundant."
"It seems to be concentrated in the warehouse district." Caitlin, the Virtual Romantic of the group, looked up from her laptop. Her sharp features illuminated were by the glow of the screen. "Unfortunately the exact location keeps moving." She was seventeen but had been aware of her Fae self since she was twelve.
"So can you calculate the location for me for Friday?"
"Let me analyze it and send you an e-mail on Thursday or early Friday." She nodded, her short hair unaffected by the movement.
"Thank you."
It was a long while before she left the little tea party and went home through a tunnel.
When Sin'Dera arrived at her house, after walking from the library across the street, she discovered Trent, Nazo, and Dana were already there. Trent was watching TV with Gander who had crawled out of the woodwork. Salys was indeed passed out on the couch next to the liquor cabinet. Dana was doing homework in the research room, which was full of maps, books, and surrounding a worn table was -strangely enough- old, comfy, high-backed, velvet chairs.
Nazo was in her bedroom, though Sin'Dera chose not to disturb her and instead went to her own room and got some fresh clothes and went into the women's room to take a shower.
Dana finished her homework and went to the kitchen to make dinner. By the time Stray arrived it was all being placed on the buffet counter. As they ate Stray brought up the news. "The lawsuits have been dropped. The kids must be gone now. We have to go save them."
"Oh, I got an e-mail that said the children are at this address until tonight, so we need to go." Sin'Dera handed Trent a slip of paper, knowing he had memorized the city map.
The group gathered up their things and went out to the van. Rowena was asked to keep watch over the cathedral while they were gone and get them if there was a problem. Trent spotted some Goth teens across the street. He took some weed and went over to them, while Stray Lung got in the van. Sin'Dera was stuck in the Cathedral's doorway, looking at a young Bob in the group. She was going over cloning hypothesis in her head.
Nazo was stealthing after Trent, when the kids attacked him. She pulled out her gun and shot it in the air. Then looked back to Dana who was stopped on the sidewalk. "I was stealthing, why am I shooting a gun?"
She didn't receive an answer. It didn't matter really. At the sound of the pistol firing the Goths scattered like pigeons. The mage fixed his sites on one and channeled drunkenness into her. The lagging female Trent singled out hit a pole and fell to the ground. All he could get from her was that she was wasted.
Randomly Trent tied her up to the pole with some twine and left her there, walking away casually. He started checking out a red sports car, considering stealing it at random {random and Trent are obviously friends}. Eating-Doughnut-Officer-Bob {the original Bob from the first night} came walking down the street, and shock of all shocks, he was eating a doughnut.
"Nice car." He remarked to Trent.
"Oh, yeah it is. I was just looking it over." He straitened up and looked at Bob with a smile.
A pedestrian in a blue shirt and jeans with long brown hair was walking down the street. Out of the clear blue sky a lightening bolt came from the sky and hit the man coincidentally named Tobes. Pigeons flocked to peck at the corpse.
Lightening struck twice more when the man twitched. Unfortunately it didn't kill any of the pigeons that resumed ripping at him. Officer Bob was busy gaping at the scene and Trent escaped to the van. Nazo went in also. Dana dragged Sin'Dera over and shoved her in.
They drove to the nearest alley and Dana and Nazo vailed the van. The group went to the reported address. Trent scanned for life and sensed ten humanoids and three dogs. He also noted eight sleeping forms. Undetected they drove into the warehouse's yard and got out of the van. Leaving the doors ajar they stealthed into an open loading dock. A truck was backing into it and barely missed the van, but lady luck was on their side.
When the truck reached it's station and the back was opened up they knew there was something undead in the truck.
Trent linked everyone mentally. :Gander?!:
The presence was made known to him. :Yah, what?:
:You could have helped vail the van. You just did yourself?:
:So?: Trent shot Gander the finger mentally. Gander returned a rather personal mental image. He decided to move on.
There were Vampires talking to Mandys in the area. Moving to other side warehouse, the group spotted a Mandy on the catwalk. Crossing their path was a dead thing that was walking. Off to the left were male and female punk Bruha.
In a corner five vampires were surrounding the abducted kids. A Mandy was trying to be a childcare provider. Gander picked up a crate with his mind, making it spin faster and faster. He then dropped it on the vampires, rendering them all unconscious. Bouncy balls explode from the devastated crate, shooting every which way. Nazo grabs several and shove them into her x-space bag.
Trent pulled out his lighter and lit off a fart as he expelled it. The fireball set the vampires and Mandy on fire. Toxic fumes billow from the bouncy balls in thick purple clouds. Paradox hit him, setting his head ablaze with chimerical fire. His hair itched intensely.
Several of the children were also on fire. They grab kids put them out. "Trent, that was just so wrong on so many levels." Dana took an uninjured child's hand, using her powers to calm the child. Gander cast Quicksilver and took one child to van with super speed.
Stray Lung was happy that he returned and took the two he had been left with. He was already bruised from the struggling and hysterical children. Stray killed an attacking zombie with his sword, slashing through it easily.
A monster with big claws and fangs blocked the group's path, accompanied by a Mandy. Sin'Dera ducked behind Gander, instructing the children to stay together. Nazo, her spoon of sunlight shining a focused beam on the vampire, was first to challenge the Bruha. It howled as its flesh bubbled under the ray of sun.
Invoking Wyrd, Dana attacked Mandy with her sliver staff. Sin'Dera decided to take a risk and ran forward. Her knife dug deep into Mandy's shoulder, before she retreated to the safety of slut cat-boy's shadow. Mandy rushed him and belted him in the face with her police club.
Dana knocked her back from him. Mandy landed hard on the ground. "Let's get out of here." Her suggestion was coached by the fact that there was a horde coming after them. Dragging, toting, and shoving, the gang got the children to the van.
Trent brought up the rear. He ripped off a plank from a wooden crate and set it a blaze. He pitches in into the crates screaming a battle cry. "Yippy Kai yai yea mother fuckers!" He jumped in the van and jerked the door shut. Three thuds hit the side of the vans then there were dogs yelping.
They made happy trails, driving out of there as fast as they could.
Speaks-in-Shadows spent the early part of the day sunbathing and reading on the roof. He watched everyone go out and hop in the van, but didn't make any move to join them. As the last ray of light slipped below the horizon, he swung back down to go back through the window. He smelled Nazo strongly and frowned examining the area.
He carefully opens the window and watches a bolt whiz by. A now empty crossbow was to his left. He slipped into the window, sniffing unappreciatively at it. He left it and went in search of food. The quest was forgotten immediately.
Something went zooming at him. A Toreador was using Quicksilver to zoom around him. The maze of moveable walls was rearranged and he had to shove things around to chase the undead being. Several windows were damaged before the two spilled out in the street. The vampire, which was injured from Crinos form attacks, jumped up in a tree. As the werecat followed he jumped out and danced on his head.
The werecat collapsed into a big furry lump. The Vampire drank deeply of the blood bank, restoring all of the blood he had used before picking up the werecat and stuffing it in his car.
Rowena flew up to the van and tapped incessantly on the window. "A vampire is attacking Fluffy." Dana told everyone.
"So, it is werecat we're talking about." Sin'Dera pointed out. "It's not like he'll need help."
Stray Lung shook his head. "But we better check it out. Remember the dogs?"
"Oh yah." She nodded. "Um, give the next mother both kids and the phone number of the other kid's parents." It was agreed upon and they dropped off the children at the next family's house. They made their way back to Sin'Dera's. "Someone has shadow." She pointed as they pulled up out front.
The young magic users spilled out of the van and began to strategize. Stray Long killed the car with a spell, forcing the vampire to face them. Sin'Dera gave her glamour to Dana so she could take on her changeling form. The vampire looked away so she didn't dazzle him. She took her scythe and slashed the Toreador and circled back around to her friends.
Botch decided he could use his newfound ability once more. An inferno shocked the undead man and he ran away. "We have to get him to a doctor." Gander looked at the damaged werecat with a scowl.
"We could kidnap one or maybe a vet?" Sin'Dera said before shaking her head. "Nazo and I can keep him alive then when he is conscious he can heal himself. Get him in side."
Blood was oozing from his body, pools were on the ground. It didn't look good. Nazo and she weren't the most adept in medicine, but it would have to do. If he survived the night then he would be fine.
Chapter 4 Great Balls Of Fire
During the week the group branched off to go to work {Sin'Dera and Stray Lung}, learn {Dana and Shadow}, or goof off {Nazo and Trent}. It wouldn't be possible for them to battle on those nights so they made arrangements to meet at Sin'Dera's at 5:30 PM on Friday.
Monday and Tuesday, Nazo and Sin'D noticed mysterious activity around the Cathedral. Nazo began setting up security and booby trapping the windows. Sin'Dera looked over the paper as she watched Nazo carry yet another crossbow to set up by a window. "Maybe this has something to do with all the night activity. 'Bowling Club at Midnight', how odd is that?"
"Well, if you excuse me..." She grinned as she finished the job. "I have a werecat to torture." With that she climbed the stairs to the bell tower and let herself out onto the roof. She began pulling the terracotta roof tiles out of her bag of holding and placing them other the original ones. It took her the rest of the day to do the area.
Speaks-in-Shadows was in the closet under her, but detected nothing strange. He was engrossed in trying to learn to read with the aids that Sin'Dera had provided.
Sin'Dera called Trent and asked him if he could come over the next day to check it out when she got off work. She hadn't seen Salys or Gander since Sunday.
Sin'Dera, Trent and Nazo sat out in the courtyard next to the left wing of the building in the evening shade. They discussed the strange atmosphere surrounding the place.
As they chatted, the window to the closet opened and Shadow climbed out. He leapt gracefully onto the roof and found himself riding it off the edge. He took a step then another, but the tiles slid faster then he moved. He hurtled to the ground as terracotta shattered on the walk and bounced in the herbal garden. He landed in a disgruntled crouch and everyone laughed lightly at his expense.
Nazo had been backing away the whole time and since nobody was looking at her she turned into a fox and got out of there before the werecat could kill her. She showed up on Dana's doorstep.
Dana looked at her. "What did you do?" She smiled as she let her in.
"My dwelling place is being encroached upon." Sin'Dera spoke to the fellow Sluagh. Whispers went around the table. Four others were gathered in a dark and secret place that non other were invited to, not that they could have fit into the door if they had been.
"So this tea is for a specific reason...I gathered that there was trouble in your area." The eldest spoke with a solemn sigh. As Graybeards went she was by far the wisest Sin'Dera knew. She was the Mistress of Spiders, listening to their words and having their help in learning secrets.
"Yes Eleanor. I fear it is Caring Tec as we spoke of before. Has anyone noticed anything strange. Children's excessive fear perhaps?"
"Ah yes, the other night I was under a boy's bed and he started screaming. Horrible noise I tell you." Bradly, the antiques dealer Sin'Dera used since before her Chrysalis, shuddered in remembrance. He continued after regaining composure. "And the nightmare Glamour is abundant."
"It seems to be concentrated in the warehouse district." Caitlin, the Virtual Romantic of the group, looked up from her laptop. Her sharp features illuminated were by the glow of the screen. "Unfortunately the exact location keeps moving." She was seventeen but had been aware of her Fae self since she was twelve.
"So can you calculate the location for me for Friday?"
"Let me analyze it and send you an e-mail on Thursday or early Friday." She nodded, her short hair unaffected by the movement.
"Thank you."
It was a long while before she left the little tea party and went home through a tunnel.
When Sin'Dera arrived at her house, after walking from the library across the street, she discovered Trent, Nazo, and Dana were already there. Trent was watching TV with Gander who had crawled out of the woodwork. Salys was indeed passed out on the couch next to the liquor cabinet. Dana was doing homework in the research room, which was full of maps, books, and surrounding a worn table was -strangely enough- old, comfy, high-backed, velvet chairs.
Nazo was in her bedroom, though Sin'Dera chose not to disturb her and instead went to her own room and got some fresh clothes and went into the women's room to take a shower.
Dana finished her homework and went to the kitchen to make dinner. By the time Stray arrived it was all being placed on the buffet counter. As they ate Stray brought up the news. "The lawsuits have been dropped. The kids must be gone now. We have to go save them."
"Oh, I got an e-mail that said the children are at this address until tonight, so we need to go." Sin'Dera handed Trent a slip of paper, knowing he had memorized the city map.
The group gathered up their things and went out to the van. Rowena was asked to keep watch over the cathedral while they were gone and get them if there was a problem. Trent spotted some Goth teens across the street. He took some weed and went over to them, while Stray Lung got in the van. Sin'Dera was stuck in the Cathedral's doorway, looking at a young Bob in the group. She was going over cloning hypothesis in her head.
Nazo was stealthing after Trent, when the kids attacked him. She pulled out her gun and shot it in the air. Then looked back to Dana who was stopped on the sidewalk. "I was stealthing, why am I shooting a gun?"
She didn't receive an answer. It didn't matter really. At the sound of the pistol firing the Goths scattered like pigeons. The mage fixed his sites on one and channeled drunkenness into her. The lagging female Trent singled out hit a pole and fell to the ground. All he could get from her was that she was wasted.
Randomly Trent tied her up to the pole with some twine and left her there, walking away casually. He started checking out a red sports car, considering stealing it at random {random and Trent are obviously friends}. Eating-Doughnut-Officer-Bob {the original Bob from the first night} came walking down the street, and shock of all shocks, he was eating a doughnut.
"Nice car." He remarked to Trent.
"Oh, yeah it is. I was just looking it over." He straitened up and looked at Bob with a smile.
A pedestrian in a blue shirt and jeans with long brown hair was walking down the street. Out of the clear blue sky a lightening bolt came from the sky and hit the man coincidentally named Tobes. Pigeons flocked to peck at the corpse.
Lightening struck twice more when the man twitched. Unfortunately it didn't kill any of the pigeons that resumed ripping at him. Officer Bob was busy gaping at the scene and Trent escaped to the van. Nazo went in also. Dana dragged Sin'Dera over and shoved her in.
They drove to the nearest alley and Dana and Nazo vailed the van. The group went to the reported address. Trent scanned for life and sensed ten humanoids and three dogs. He also noted eight sleeping forms. Undetected they drove into the warehouse's yard and got out of the van. Leaving the doors ajar they stealthed into an open loading dock. A truck was backing into it and barely missed the van, but lady luck was on their side.
When the truck reached it's station and the back was opened up they knew there was something undead in the truck.
Trent linked everyone mentally. :Gander?!:
The presence was made known to him. :Yah, what?:
:You could have helped vail the van. You just did yourself?:
:So?: Trent shot Gander the finger mentally. Gander returned a rather personal mental image. He decided to move on.
There were Vampires talking to Mandys in the area. Moving to other side warehouse, the group spotted a Mandy on the catwalk. Crossing their path was a dead thing that was walking. Off to the left were male and female punk Bruha.
In a corner five vampires were surrounding the abducted kids. A Mandy was trying to be a childcare provider. Gander picked up a crate with his mind, making it spin faster and faster. He then dropped it on the vampires, rendering them all unconscious. Bouncy balls explode from the devastated crate, shooting every which way. Nazo grabs several and shove them into her x-space bag.
Trent pulled out his lighter and lit off a fart as he expelled it. The fireball set the vampires and Mandy on fire. Toxic fumes billow from the bouncy balls in thick purple clouds. Paradox hit him, setting his head ablaze with chimerical fire. His hair itched intensely.
Several of the children were also on fire. They grab kids put them out. "Trent, that was just so wrong on so many levels." Dana took an uninjured child's hand, using her powers to calm the child. Gander cast Quicksilver and took one child to van with super speed.
Stray Lung was happy that he returned and took the two he had been left with. He was already bruised from the struggling and hysterical children. Stray killed an attacking zombie with his sword, slashing through it easily.
A monster with big claws and fangs blocked the group's path, accompanied by a Mandy. Sin'Dera ducked behind Gander, instructing the children to stay together. Nazo, her spoon of sunlight shining a focused beam on the vampire, was first to challenge the Bruha. It howled as its flesh bubbled under the ray of sun.
Invoking Wyrd, Dana attacked Mandy with her sliver staff. Sin'Dera decided to take a risk and ran forward. Her knife dug deep into Mandy's shoulder, before she retreated to the safety of slut cat-boy's shadow. Mandy rushed him and belted him in the face with her police club.
Dana knocked her back from him. Mandy landed hard on the ground. "Let's get out of here." Her suggestion was coached by the fact that there was a horde coming after them. Dragging, toting, and shoving, the gang got the children to the van.
Trent brought up the rear. He ripped off a plank from a wooden crate and set it a blaze. He pitches in into the crates screaming a battle cry. "Yippy Kai yai yea mother fuckers!" He jumped in the van and jerked the door shut. Three thuds hit the side of the vans then there were dogs yelping.
They made happy trails, driving out of there as fast as they could.
Speaks-in-Shadows spent the early part of the day sunbathing and reading on the roof. He watched everyone go out and hop in the van, but didn't make any move to join them. As the last ray of light slipped below the horizon, he swung back down to go back through the window. He smelled Nazo strongly and frowned examining the area.
He carefully opens the window and watches a bolt whiz by. A now empty crossbow was to his left. He slipped into the window, sniffing unappreciatively at it. He left it and went in search of food. The quest was forgotten immediately.
Something went zooming at him. A Toreador was using Quicksilver to zoom around him. The maze of moveable walls was rearranged and he had to shove things around to chase the undead being. Several windows were damaged before the two spilled out in the street. The vampire, which was injured from Crinos form attacks, jumped up in a tree. As the werecat followed he jumped out and danced on his head.
The werecat collapsed into a big furry lump. The Vampire drank deeply of the blood bank, restoring all of the blood he had used before picking up the werecat and stuffing it in his car.
Rowena flew up to the van and tapped incessantly on the window. "A vampire is attacking Fluffy." Dana told everyone.
"So, it is werecat we're talking about." Sin'Dera pointed out. "It's not like he'll need help."
Stray Lung shook his head. "But we better check it out. Remember the dogs?"
"Oh yah." She nodded. "Um, give the next mother both kids and the phone number of the other kid's parents." It was agreed upon and they dropped off the children at the next family's house. They made their way back to Sin'Dera's. "Someone has shadow." She pointed as they pulled up out front.
The young magic users spilled out of the van and began to strategize. Stray Long killed the car with a spell, forcing the vampire to face them. Sin'Dera gave her glamour to Dana so she could take on her changeling form. The vampire looked away so she didn't dazzle him. She took her scythe and slashed the Toreador and circled back around to her friends.
Botch decided he could use his newfound ability once more. An inferno shocked the undead man and he ran away. "We have to get him to a doctor." Gander looked at the damaged werecat with a scowl.
"We could kidnap one or maybe a vet?" Sin'Dera said before shaking her head. "Nazo and I can keep him alive then when he is conscious he can heal himself. Get him in side."
Blood was oozing from his body, pools were on the ground. It didn't look good. Nazo and she weren't the most adept in medicine, but it would have to do. If he survived the night then he would be fine.