The Aurors: Threads

SPANS: Friday, October 20 to Thursday, November 23

Our heroes are back in NYC picking up the pieces and dealing with the fallout from case Sierra Alpha 95.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 +
»» The case is over. Everyone has their own way to deal and consequences in the aftermath.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30
»» Sal and Miles eat some breakfast while having some conversation and thinking big thoughts.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
»» The IA investigation begins with Jack's debrief to Lien Fitzgerald

»» Miles gets Ariel out of her apartment to go to lunch. Ariel takes care of comes guilt.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2
»» The IA meeting no one has been looking forward to.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6
»» Pamela is going undercover but she and Sal are discussing the case that shall not be named.

»» And Pamela also eats lunch with Miles because everyone needs lunch!

»» Things get real when Ben wants to know where Kit stands.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
»» Because Kent needs to give some answers and Lien is going to get them.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18
»» ET starts competing with Alistair in a gif looking sexy work out contest at the gym. Miles is there for moral support because he needs to competition.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22
»» ET spots a rare creature, his crush Bastien Fontaine.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23
»» Annual Friendsgiving for Miles, Ariel & ET with sides of awkward.

FRIDAY, December 1 - FRIDAY, December 8
»» Invitation to the PARTY. Competition, Karaoke and the Holiday spirit awaits!

WHAT: Closer/Stinger for Case Sierra Alpha 95
WHERE: Salem mostly
RATING: PG

After it was all said and done, there was nothing left to do but go back to New York City.

Brigid Playfer had casually strolled out of the Federal Building and quickly made it out of Salem. There was no trail to follow. Although the aurors continued to work around the clock for the next twenty-four hours. Alongside the vetted local authorities, they scoured all crime scenes, tracing any bits of magic they could find, and still found nothing. The trail wasn’t just cold, it was frigid.

Playfer’s house had nothing of value. The abandoned building Frank the Pirate used was nothing more than a den for a bored twenty year old. Not even Alistair Sterling could find trace of Brigid.

Twenty-five hours after Ariel had used stupefy to kill an innocent witch, the media descended. What had happened quickly became public knowledge - the double murder, the laced beers getting into no-maj hands, the recurrent violations of the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and especially the event on October 21, rumors of a new powerful and dangerous spell, not to mention the vast failings of the department to not apprehend the criminal Brigid Playfer, but how they had been manipulated so easily and one of their own killed an innocent woman while in auror custody.

The one small kernel of hope came thirty-eight hours later when Bobby Dedworth finally woke up.

Dedworth confessed to his dalliances with the beer and his presence at the Adler apartment the night of the murder. He had broke down in tears at that part in the story. “I was just so far in over my head. All I wanted was to let people have a good time.”

And then, one-by-one, the aurors made their ways back to NYC, heads hung low. There would be no celebrations or revels, just more work to be done and further fall out to mitigate.

WHO: Everyone or anyone in the office + Brigid Playfer
WHAT: Trying to close the case
WHERE: Auror Offices
WHEN: 11:30, Thursday, October 26, 2017
RATING: PG
STATUS: Incomplete

( Playfer was sitting very stubbornly silent )

WHO: Jack Duvall (Briefly), Brigid Playfer, Pamela Knight, Miles Hastings, & Max Rivera
WHAT: Time to bring Brigid in.
WHERE: Nomaj Liaison Office
WHEN: 9 am, Thursday, October 26, 2017
RATING: PG
STATUS: Incomplete

( Arrest Warrant for Brigid Playfer )

WHO: Alistair Sterling, Jack Duvall, Pamela Knight
WHAT: The Aurors talk to Alistair about the information he received.
WHERE: Federal Building/Auror Office
WHEN: 1:30 am, Thursday, October 26, 2017
RATING: PG
STATUS: Complete

( It wasn't the first time Alistair had been in an interrogation room. )

WHO: Kent Brightstar, Kit Ghezzi, Ben McMullen, Caroline Davis (NPC- Alistair's Fancy Lawyer)- with a Pamela Knight cameo
WHAT: Kent tries to do the Right Thing
WHERE: Federal Building/Auror Office
WHEN: 01:01 AM, Thursday, October 26, 2017
RATING: PG-13
STATUS: Complete

( Comes Around )

WHO: Cate Adler and Kent Brightstar
WHAT: Kent is leaving, Cate is a little freaked, and there are emotions
WHERE: Kent's apartment
WHEN: 12:55 am, Thursday, October 26, 2017
RATING: Language
STATUS: Complete

( Cate couldn't help but wonder. )

WHO: Alistair Sterling, Miguel Rivera, Melinda Mendoza-Rivera
WHAT: Alistair needs to sort out the things he's learned and figure out what needs to be done next.
WHERE: Rivera residence
WHEN: 12:15 am, Thursday, October 26, 2017
RATING: TBD
STATUS: Ongoing

( It was infinitely better to be inside Miguel's house. )

WHO: Kit Ghezzi & Sal Perksmore-Staunton (With interrupting Max Rivera, Ariel Singleton, ET O'Brien and Miles Hastings)
WHAT: Kit is getting down to the bottom of why Sal suddenly is acting weirder than normal
WHERE: Auror Office
WHEN: 11:40 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
RATING: TBD
STATUS: Ongoing

( This hadn't been a good day )

WHO: Alistair Sterling, Brigid Playfer
WHAT: Alistair needs to talk to Brigid. He hopes it's not as bad as it seems.
WHERE: Brigid's place
WHEN: 11:20 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
RATING: Tense, but tame
STATUS: Complete

( This whole situation made him uneasy on a level that he hadn't felt in quite awhile. )

WHO: Alistair Sterling
WHAT: Alistair receives something he never expected.
WHERE: Alistair's office, WizTech Salem
WHEN: 10:22 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
RATING: PG
STATUS: Complete

( There were already heavy magical security measures on the building. )

WHO: Miles Hastings, ET O'Brian, Pamela Knight, Bobby Dedworth (NPC); then Ariel Singleton, Ben McMullen, Max Rivera
WHAT: Miles, ET, and Pamela are on the hunt for Bobby Dedworth. Naturally, there are issues.
WHERE: Various places
WHEN: Wednesday, October 25, 2017, starting around 5:30 PM
RATING: Language and violence
STATUS: Complete

( He shook it off as one of those things. )

WHO: Alistair Sterling
WHAT: Alistair tries to puzzle out a strange WizTech post.
WHERE: Alistair's office, WizTech Salem
WHEN: 3:00 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
RATING: PG
STATUS: Complete

( Very rarely were they anything this cryptic. )

WHO: Pamela Knight, Audrey Jo Parker, Alistair Sterling
WHAT: There is more than cats and pictures of red heads here
WHERE: Federal Building, and later the WizTech offices
WHEN: Afternoon, Wednesday, October 25
RATING: GP
STATUS: Completed

(  I'm not above looking for a needle in a haystack, but it might help if I had some clues about where to look. What makes you suspect there's anything hidden at all? )

WHO: Miles Hastings, Pamela Knight
WHAT: Miles and Pamela finally get a chance to catch up. They make plans.
WHERE: Outside Salem Field Office
WHEN: Just after the staff meeting (around 9:30 am), Wednesday, October 25, 2017
RATING: PG
STATUS: Complete

( Miles intentionally lingered behind everyone. )

WHO: Brigid Playfer, Kent Brightstar, Sal Staunton-Perksmoore
WHAT: Brigid attempts to clean up some of the mess- starting with the Auror Who Knows Too Much.
WHERE: Federal Building
WHEN: Wednesday, October 25 @ 08:00 am
WHY: People are getting too close to the truth. Can't have that.
STATUS: Complete

( Who the hell is Bobby Dedworth? )

WHO: Ariel Singleton & Ben McMullen
WHAT: Making up, or at least not being mad at each other anymore
WHERE: Auror house
WHEN: Early-early Wednesday morning
WHY: Ben thinks everyone hates him, he would like that not to still be true. And because they are adults who can forgive each other. Probably.
STATUS: Complete

( Read more... )

WHO: Auror field team + Duvall and Parker
WHAT: IC/OOC team meeting to coordinate information
WHERE: Federal Building
WHEN: Wednesday, October 25 @ 8:30 am
WHY: Because this case has gone on long enough
STATUS: Complete

Director Duvall calls everyone in to share all case related information. Full attention should be diverted to figuring out what is going on and make it stop. Because you guys are trained professionals, and this is getting ridiculous. Time is running out.

WHO: Ben McMullen & Kent Brightstar
WHAT: Kent has information to share with Ben
WHERE: Abigail's Diner
WHEN: Tuesday, October 24, around 9:30 PM
WHY: Ben is a good dragon auror
STATUS: Complete

( I'm really just the messenger here. I only asked you to meet me here and now because I don't really know anyone outside of the Obliviators. )

WHO: Open to everyone eventually
WHAT: Things are about to get bad, like real bad
WHERE: Old Burying Point Cemetery
WHEN: Tuesday, October 24, 9:12 PM
WHY: Because it's what's been building toward and no one figured out to stop it
STATUS: Complete

Salem was a bustling hub in the week leading up to Halloween. The streets were full of families, kids stuffed with candy and not enough sleep, non-magical folk dressed as witches, and a fair smattering of magical folk just going around their business.There were easily a half dozen events happening around the town tonight, which was impressive for a Tuesday. The biggest draw was the Old Burying Point Cemetery and the well marketed "Graveyard Conjure."

The no-maj, Edgar Smith, a claimed descendent of Judge Hathorne, hosted the event every year. He would call on the spirits of the dead, showing those who bought their tickets how to tap into the awesome power of the graveyard dirt. Ryan Sewall not so privately thought he was a full on fraud and often held his own smaller events in a similar vein. Sewall wasn't out tonight, he kept his distance from Smith. Sewall did his best to flirt with, but never violate the statue of secrecy. For all that Smith was a no-maj he came awfully close to revealing the magical world to dozens of tourists regularly. Not that the no-majs were any wiser, but it put the local magical community on watch.

The Old Burying Point Cemetery was the second oldest cemetery in the United States. To local history buffs it was the final resting place of many involved in the Salem Witch Trials. However, many had believed the dirt to be sacred, imbued with fantastic magical power and they weren't wrong. The issue was in knowing how to use it and many lacked the skill.

That was until someone opened a valve and the whole town lit up as a beacon of untapped potential.

Through out the evening the cemetery seemed charged in a way that had everyone enthralled and into the spirit of the night. Those in attendance to the early tours would later say it was the best tour of their lives. As the night went on, that shifted into seeing something move out of the corner of your eye, or that feeling of someone watching, lingering just a hair too close.

It was shortly after nine, only two tour groups in the cemetery then, when the ground seemed to rumble. At first it could have been simply a truck driving past.

Then a few minutes later it happened again, and there were no trucks to be seen.

And again. But this time with the trees by the Salem Witch Trials Memorial swaying as if boats on the ocean.