The Aurors: Threads

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: Jack Duvall and Pamela Knight
WHAT: Reporting in on her trip to NYC
WHERE: Temporary Auror HQ Salem
WHEN: Tuesday morning bright and early
WHY: Jack's got questions, Pamela's got answers
RATING: Expected discussion of police cases (including murders and violence)
STATUS: Complete.

Pamela was really pleased that Jack was in town to deal with all the garbage that had come down the pike. Most of it the team hadn't even entirely brought on itself--it wasn't really their fault someone had drugged them--but it was making all their jobs harder and the repeated changes of command hadn't done the work any good either. Jack was a solid boss and his skills at keeping crap off the heads of his team were impressive. And it also meant she wasn't one of the people answering to angry Congresswitches and Liaisons, so Pamela was doubly grateful.

She knocked on the door of Jack's makeshift office to check in after her day in NYC, a bag with his favorite bagels and some cream cheese in hand, waiting to open and break the stasis charm.

WHO: Kent Brightstar, Ryan Sewall
WHAT: Kent receives a late night visitor at work
WHERE: Salem Animal Emergency Clinic
WHEN: Tuesday, October 24, 01:38 AM
WHY: Dr Brightstar can't catch anything resembling a break
RATING: R (for language, and possible violence)
STATUS: Complete

( Feast or Famine in the Graveyard Shift )