A year ago, I learned about the Truth.
And that's when someone gave me an anonymous address, and said “go
here, and you'll get your answers.”
I'm still regretting it.
Because seriously, a year ago, I
remained blissfully unaware about vampires and werewolves and
Frankensteins and ghost zombies and whatever the shit else is out
there. And, of course, the Truth. And so since then my life has
pretty much been a first-hand crash course in learning about crazy
ass supernatural shit that shouldn't exist in the first place.
I'm pretty sure I've learned at least
enough to drive me crazy at this point, if it weren't for the booze.
In fact, I think that's why everyone goes mad at the end of a
Lovecraft story; they didn't have enough liquor to deal with all the
otherworldly squids, or something. This is why I made sure the
Citadel bar stays stocked.
But you know what the worst part of
this is?
After a year, I'm a fucking veteran.
See, Brayker had MIB shit to do last
night, and Apophis was down in whatever creepy hole he lives in...and
so you know what happened?
THEY PUT ME IN
CHARGE.
How fucked up is
that? Unless it was some sick joke someone came up with, which
wouldn't surprise me because, y'know, monsters.
But y'know what?
Fuck all of you hater-ass monsters, sneering at the “puny mortal,”
with his lack of superpowers and general squishiness. Because I
actually did a halfway decent job of Cell Leader-ing, dammit. I mean,
nobody died. Well, none of our people died, so that's a start,
right?
To be fair, Barrett
was pretty invaluable, as he and I were kind of, like, co-leaders. He
did the “war leader,” thing (and did a pretty good job of it, I
might add), while I was left to the less-killy shit.
So, here's what we
accomplished on the 26th:
OPERATION: KILL
A NINJA
So, Artemis, that witchy-lady who showed up a few months ago, managed
to pull some info on one of the dudes on the most recent Wayngro
list. That Lance guy, of the Adamantium Arrow or whatever. According
(har har) to Artemis, the Adamantium Wizards are a bunch of militant
assholes who like to fight everyone. And Lance was their go-to hitman
kind of dude, who only leaves his wizard castle when it's time to go
beat someone up.
Also, he was a ninja. Because that's a thing.
So, after a bit of deliberating, a plan was hatched in which Artemis
would piss the Adamantium Ninja Wizards off by spying on them with
her magic, at which point they'd tool up to go kick her ass- which
would lead them into an ambush at Dr. Watts' theater. Dr. Watts',
Ethan Little, Dr. Watts' buddy Rick, Barrett, that new Frankenstein
dude, and probably one or two other folks who I missed went off,
fought the ninjas, and wrapped things up pretty well. So good on
them.
I'd particularly like to commend team Kill a Ninja for their
restraint- see, Lance was the only Servant amongst the lot- he had a
couple of goons who didn't know the first thing about the Truth, so
they got to live to see another day (most of them, at least).
I hate fucking around with supernatural politics, since I have no
idea what's going on with them most of the time.
Meanwhile, I stayed at the citadel, along with a handful of the
less-fighty people. We got a pair of Changeling recruits- a dude
named Tinker, who's twitchy-crazy, and a lady named Evanescence or
something, who's quiet-crazy. Welcome them aboard, everyone.
Of course, not content to just sit around, we proceeded to set out
for a TOP SECRET NO QUESTIONS ASKED CONFIDENTIAL SECRECY MISSION.
Seriously, don't ask.
While I'm not at liberty to give the details, I'll just have you all
know this was a mission of deception and infiltration, with masks and
disguises and bribes and everything. Like James Bond, only shittier.
What I will reveal is what I learned: namely, there's a
vampire-lady named Cassandra who's apparently stockpiling weapons and
heavy-duty specialized ammo (like, fire bullets hollowpoints and
stuff). I've got the feeling she's working for Shabetta and the other
vampire assholes- probably tooling up to do something big against the
Puritan werewolves. Or something. Somebody get Penny on this, 'cause
he's our go-to vampire intel guy.
So those were the two main 'missions' we had- though there's still a
bunch of other shit to worry about. A quick breakdown:
THE LIST
Go
read the previous blog entry, and look at those names. See if you can
dig up some dirt on those people. Find out where they live, their
schedules, their vices, whatever. Anything we know can be useful.
OPERATION: HOITY
TOITY FANCY PANTS
Tangentially related to The List, one of our guys, George, is going
to put together some fancy-ass social schindig to see if he can pull
any dirt on the CUT members- or if nothing else, it'll get some of
them in one place at one time, and we can make use of that. So if
that's something you'd be able to help with, let George know, and we
can get the ball rolling on that.
TURN YOUR HEAD AND COUGH
So I've heard some reports of some kind of unseasonal summer cold
going around...only it's not a cold, it's more of a
nose-bleedy...thing without any proper explanation. From the little
info I was able to gather, there wasn't any real set pattern to it,
and it's not deadly, so...that's something? Still, if somebody who
has crazy ass magic powers can look into it, just to be safe, that'd
be great. Like, could it be some kind of disease-spirit or demon or
something? Is that a thing?
(For the record, the fact that I think of these questions now means
I've gone a little bit nuts, I think. I need another beer).
Anyway, that's about all I've got right now. Really, I'm in a
surprisingly good mood, all things considered. Oh, don't get me
wrong, I'm still pretty much terrified of you people, not to mention
how okay I am with thinking about things in terms of spirits and
magic and wizards and shit.
But hey, it only took one drink this time to make my hands stop
shaking, so that's something, right?
