The Aurors: Threads

WHO: Kent Brightstar and Lien Fitzgerald
WHAT: Kent sits down with Internal Affairs
WHERE: Conference room in the NY Auror Office
WHEN: November 17, 2017
WHY: Because Kent will never stop answering for what he’s done questions
RATING: PG-13 for discussion of Salem business and language.
STATUS: Complete

( If she'd had a bingo chart for weak excuses, Brightstar would be close to giving her a prize. )

Who: Lien Fitzgerald and the Salem team
What: Interviews with the team
When: November 2 and following
Where: Conference room in the NY Auror Office
Warnings: Discussions of violence, death, Unforgivables, etc.

( Lots of rope to hang yourselves with. )

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: 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: 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
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. )

SPANS: Wednesday, October 25 at 0200 to ??

The last of the pieces are finally starting shake into place. It is now a race to figure it out before Halloween.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25
»» Early. The world turned upside down last night, time for Ben and Ariel to finally make up.
»» Brigid Playfer forces Kent's hand to deal with Sal knowing too much about Bobby Dedworth.
»» Starting the day off with a staff meeting.
»» After the staff meeting, Pamela and Miles talk through the case and try to see the bigger picture -- what is the mob connection?
»» Alistair has a secret admirer - or at least someone who wants him to follow a trail.

»» Sure that there is more than cats and family photos, Audrey and Pamela take the tablet to Alistair Sterling to crack the encryption.
»» Alistair is starts to connect the dots on the WizTech tarot card messages he has been receiving. He then sends his own Justice card back.
»» Audrey summarizes he case so far, spells out probable suspects, and shares new information from the tablet.
»» In a quiet moment, Miles calls Sal to see how she is doing and other than a headache, nothing really comes up. Apparently things are lost in translation by phone.

»» 17:30 -- Miles, ET, & Pamela pull together a team to go back to Dedworth's house and follow the scent into the woods.
»» The auror team finds Dedworth nearly dead at the ley line conversation point and ET turns on the team -- attacking them.
»» 18:36 -- Pamela calls in reinforcements to help with Dedworth and ET, who is compromised.
»» Ariel, Max, and Ben arrive to the scene in the woods and the ley line hot spot and divide up.
»» Pamela and Ben take Dedworth and get out of the woods, but not before Ben throws up one more time.
»» Max devises a plan to save ET from the curse he's under. It goes surprisingly well.

»» 18:47 -- Vengeance is mine tarot card message to Alistair with meet up coordinates.

»» 19:22 -- Pamela updates other half of team, that Dedworth is clear of immediate danger.
»» 19:31 -- Pamela let's Jack know that Dedworth is secure with her and Ben at the hospital in Boston.
»» 19:36 -- Director Duvall asks Max when he can be cleared of brain washing

»» 22:22 -- Following the trail, Alistair receives a memory of a memory (from Kent) implicating Brigid Player in some serious wrongdoing

»» 23:01 -- Alistair checks to make sure Sal is alright.
»» 23:06 -- After seeing the memory, Alistair texts Brigid.
»» 23:09 -- Alistair sets up his back up plan with Miguel incase anything goes wrong in meeting with Brigid.
»» 23:12 -- In reaching out to Sal, Kit uncovers concerns that Sal's memories has been altered.
»» 23:20 -- Eager to confirm or rather disprove suspicions, Alistair arranges a late night meeting with Brigid.
»» 23:40 -- Kit invites Sal into his mind to confirm that Sal's memories are wrong.
»» Back from the healer - Max, Ariel, and ET return to the Federal Building and they need to confirm that no one else has been compromised.


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26
»» 00:15 -- Alistair brings his findings to the Riveras who immediately call Director Duvall and lawyers.
»» 00:21 -- After seeing the pensieve memory, Melinda calls Director Duvall to share what she knows and hand over evidence.
»» Jack updates the team on incoming evidence and suspects, looks like it's going to be a long night.
»» 00:30 -- Ariel updates Pamela and Ben on what's been happening in Salem with sharing current suspects are Kent and Brigid, which prompts concern for Cate Adler.
»» 00:47 -- Ben is intense in getting Kent to come to the Federal Building.
»» 00:52 -- At Ben's urgent request, Ariel calls Cate to make sure she is safe.
»» 00:53 -- Kent confessed to Alistair that he was behind the messages, and Alistair has Kent's back.
»» 00:55 -- In far too deep, Kent tells Cate he loves her and emotions are raw.

»» 01:01 -- Kent surrenders to the aurors, tries for a plea bargain, but doesn't quite get it. (Also Ben's golems are back in a moment of excitement he kisses Kit.)
»» 01:30 -- Alistair Sterling offers full cooperation with the ongoing investigation.

»» 9:00 Armed with a warrant, the auror team goes down to the Liaison office to arrest Ms Playfer and bring her secretary in for questioning.
»» 11:30 Brigid Player was in the interrogation room and she sang like a bird.

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.

WHO: ET O'Brian and Max Rivera
WHAT: ET takes Max back to the scene of the crime
WHERE: New England Pirate Museum
WHEN: Tuesday, October 24, 9:00 AM
WHY: Pirate Suspect hunting, and meeting the new guy.
RATING: PG
STATUS: Complete

( Nope, Still Don’t Remember Anything )

WHO: Miles Hastings, Ariel Singleton, Miguel Rivera
WHAT: Miles and Ariel get some expert analysis on the runes that keep popping up in their case(s).
WHERE: Salem Field Office
WHEN: 4:00 pm, Monday, October 23, 2017
RATING: TBD
STATUS: Incomplete

( Paperwork was the unfortunate side effect. )

WHO: Sal Perksmoore-Staunton and Kit Ghezzi (featuring sickly Ben McMullen)
WHAT: Sal drags Kit to the Alesmith Aleworks for a little D/L Investigating (but not before Ben tricks her into a nap)
WHERE: Salem Auror Offices, Salem Auror House, Alesmith Aleworks Brewery
WHEN: Monday, October 23, 1:00 PM
WHY: Because there are leads to follow, and Sal is impatient. (and evidently sleepy)
RATING: PG-13
STATUS: Complete

( Who does a guy have to kill to get a drink around here? )

WHO: Brigid Playfer and Bobby Dedworth
WHAT: Scolding Bobby
WHERE: Bobby's parent's house
WHEN: Sunday morning, October 22
WHY: Because Brigid needs answers and Bobby is a liability
RATING: PG
STATUS: Complete

( Pantless Meetings )