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[07 Jun 2009|05:00pm] |
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The envelope was waiting for him when he returned to his suite, under the box of cookies Hannah had sent over, and Oliver sat down and read the note the blonde had enclosed with the gift first. Chuckling, he ate several of them, pronouncing them the best damned store-bought cookies he'd ever had, then folded up the note and stored it away for safe-keeping. Jessica was out someplace, and he poured himself a drink while going through his messages. The search for a condo was proceeding, and he was scheduled to see several places in the coming week. Perhaps he would ask Hannah to come along. The spellcaster picked up the envelope and carried it out onto the balcony, the glass of scotch and the box of cookies in tow.
The evening was balmy, and Oliver took up a seat in the comfortable chair the Fairmont provided while munching a cookie, opening the white envelope with the official letterhead on it. It was from his grandmother's solicitors, Wexford and Sons, and he removed the pages to read them over. He felt a pang as he recognized Amelia's graceful handwriting, brushed crumbs off of the carefully penned missive.
Dearest Oliver,
( By The Time You Read This )
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| Mustering Out (Inquisitors Reilly and Carruthers |
[07 Jun 2009|05:12pm] |
Note: Takes place before the portal jump
William Carruthers gestured at the bound vampire. It lay on the table, thrashing and trying to break free, but it would not succeed. Carruthers had been at this far too long to allow something like that to happen. His students stood across the room. For many of them, this was the first time they had seen a vampire face-to-face. While his duties often took him away from home these days, he liked to come back to the headquarters of the Inquisition and give these young men and women a proper lesson.
“Now, as you can see, the vampire is, in many ways an animal. It lives off the main driving of all animals: fight, flight, and *ahem* fornicate. This does not mean they are not clever, and can not use some of the human faculties they are given.” Wearing the white lab coat, he walked to a nearby table and drew on a pair of rubber gloves and goggles.
( Chain of Command )
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| The Long Arm of Anger |
[07 Jun 2009|09:29pm] |
San Francisco, California
Broad Rock Cemetery
Present Day
San Francisco had demon trouble. A lot of it. Nobody really knew why, but a few occult experts had a guess. If you closed a Hellmouth, the mystical pressure had to escape somewhere. Occasionally, it bubbled up near the Golden Gate bridge. Thanks to an amateur witch's spell in 2012, the bay was now home to a family of sea monsters, which eased out of the water on their bellies once per month like alligators and munched on toddlers and family pets.
Unfortunately, though vampires might be proven real, not all cities enacted body burning codes. Here, the legislation was wrapped up in yards of red tape, so hunting vampires had an old school flavor. Cemeteries still housed the undead.
Broad Rock was on a steep hillside. Paved paths wound about the monuments and graves, trees offering shade to statuary and plastic cups of fake flowers. People took their dogs for walks there during the daylight hours. At night, it belonged to the vampires. Peter was old, sired at age forty in 1933. Afterward, he made a coven out of his wife and children, and when they were dust, he spawned a new generation of family. In total, seventy-eight vampires could rightfully call Peter 'father', and he was good at it, considering himself a patriarch. Tonight, he crouched next to a freshly turned grave and waited for his newest son to rise.
The first bloodied fingers burst through the dry soil. They flexed and grabbed for the night air.
( Birth of a Vampire )
( The Cat's Out of the Bag )
[NPC Jennie Parkinson by Paul. NPC Peter by Kate.]
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[07 Jun 2009|10:38pm] |
Electronic Correspondence to Inquisitors
Subject: Information and Primary Objectives
Sent by: H. Maragos
Priority: One
Requesting: Reply With Information From Reconnaissance
( Updates )
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