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nextgen_misc ([info]nextgen_misc) wrote in [info]marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-05-31 20:54:00


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Entry tags:inactive - anselm, inactive - karen lynch, inactive - matt walker, inactive - michelle clarke, inactive - shelly drumm, plot-"spirt of vengeance", team - midnight sons

Who's gonna hear you cry, when there's more of them than there are of you?

 

The Chicago Police Department sees its fair share of weird and unexplainable things on a daily basis, the kind of thing no cop talks about if they value their jobs. Tonight is one of those nights.

The police respond to a disturbance at a warehouse on Pier 36 around 9 pm and walk into what can only be called a charnel house. There is blood everywhere, and at least twenty bodies litter the inside of an inverted pentagram made of gold filigree on the floor the large warehouse owned by Molson’s Meat Packing. No one wants to think about how fitting the name is currently.

In the center of the room lies a stone table roughly the size of a full-size bed. The table is splattered with blood that runs down into the floor as well. Scorch marks mar the intricate tapestries on the walls and the masonry beneath them and there is a foul odor in the air. At the northern end of the warehouse, on a raised dais, is a golden chalice set with several precious stones that gleam in the now-bright light.

These cops don’t know what’s going on , but they do know who to call when weird stuff like this happens: Detective Karen Lynch.



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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-07 02:46 am UTC (link)
"You planning on watching? You know how much you dislike watching me do that." It wasn't that she had to do anything in particular to get conversational with the dead, just that the very idea of it seemed to set Matt's teeth on edge.

"Twenty of them?" Shelly frowned. "Do we know what god they were worshiping?"

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-07 02:53 am UTC (link)
"Not a god. A demon. I managed to cobble that much from the crime scene." Matt tells her. "It was bad, Shelly. Real bad. Something like this had to be going on for a few months and none of us picked up on it."

He takes a deep breath to focus himself, wishing that he smoked right now, so that he could say he was trying to quit.

"And yeah, I need to be there, because I've got some questions I need answered. I'll get over the whole 'Necromancy Freaks Me Out" thing." he says.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-07 10:23 am UTC (link)
"If this thing is as bad as you're saying and I'm going to be dealing with the dead, I don't care if you're having a NFMO moment later I'm not sleeping alone. I deal in the dead; doesn't mean I don't find it creepy."

She paused and looked at him with one eyebrow raised in silent warning to keep himself together then swiped her badge to unlock the door. However, as she pushed the door open she suddenly froze, the door just slightly open. Inside, Shelly's friend and colleague Patrick was sorting some of the paperwork on the slew of bodies that had been brought in.

"Hey Shells what's going..."

"You need to leave, Patrick." Her voice had a weird tone to it and Matt would notice her posture changing slightly, defensive. "Police business. Go get some coffee. It's going to be a long night." Patrick started to argue, then saw her eyes and simply nodded, leaving the morgue and passing Matt carefully as he left. When he was gone and she and Matt were closed in the morgue, she moved to the center of the room.

"If you know of any protective wards you can throw around me personally right now would be a very good time." She was already shaking and she hadn't even asked the dead for their audience yet.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-08 01:24 am UTC (link)
"You think it's going to be that bad? Looks, Shelly, if this is going to be a problem, then we don't need to do it. I can ask someone else." Matt says, turning her around to look at him.

"If there's a chance you could get hurt doing this, I don't want to risk it." he says, looking down at her.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-08 01:26 am UTC (link)
"This is my job, Matt and we both know that your best option to get information here is me. No one else in this city who would be willing to work with you is going to be competent. It's okay. Just...watch my back."

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-09 12:40 am UTC (link)
"I'll be right here. If anything goes wrong, kill the ritual and stop. No need to call down something nasty for information." Matt tells her.

He gives a kiss for luck.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-09 12:44 am UTC (link)
She wanted to tell him it wasn't a matter of killing the ritual, but she didn't. There was no need to worry him at this point. She smiles at him when she pulls back from the kiss and then away from him, going to the body closest to her and begins her ritual. For her, working with the dead always started with thanking them. After that, her eyes seemed to go very distant as she all but actually slipped into a space between worlds.

"I mean no harm," she started. "I seek to help. I seek answers."

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Re: A Little Later
[info]nextgen_misc
2011-06-09 01:44 am UTC (link)
The spectral outline of a woman, identical to the body before them, appears in view.

"Hello? Can you hear me?" she asks, her voice tight and afraid.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-09 01:48 am UTC (link)
"Yes. I can hear you. I am glad to hear you."

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Re: A Little Later
[info]nextgen_misc
2011-06-09 02:41 am UTC (link)
"I...I need help. I think I died." the woman says, looking in the direction of Shelly's voice. To her, Shelly is just as vague and spectral as she is to Shelly.

"I think I helped do something bad and now...there's a monster out there." she says.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-09 09:52 am UTC (link)
"You did die. I am sorry." There is genuine compassion in Shelly's voice for this girl. She looks lost, bewildered. "What happened? Why do you believe there is a monster out there? If you talk to me, perhaps I can help."

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Re: A Little Later
[info]nextgen_misc
2011-06-10 01:37 am UTC (link)
"My friend, Jennifer, said she knew about this...party. She said it would be fun. I didn't know what to expect, and it seemed okay, until the chanting started.

Then...they dragged some guy in from outside. He was all wet and they said he'd make a good sacrifice. I thought it was some kind of play." the woman says, her voice breaking.

"They were about to kill him and then...he changed. He turned into a monster and started killing everyone. Then /another/ monster showed up and started helping him.

And then they started /fighting/!" she says, breaking down in tears.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-10 01:39 am UTC (link)
Shelly reached out a hand to the spirit of the girl.

"I promise you no monsters can harm you now. None will harm you. Did the monsters say anything? Did they call each other names?"

She knew Matt had his own questions. As soon as he started asking them, she'd share them.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-11 01:04 am UTC (link)
As it stands, Shelly is asking the first questions that Matt has, so he doesn't say anything yet.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]nextgen_misc
2011-06-11 01:07 am UTC (link)
The ghostly woman sniffles.

"I didn't hear much. One of them was accusing the other of being a 'destroyer' and said some name...it began with an 'N'. Nico...something." she sniffles.

"I miss my kids." the woman says quietly.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-11 11:27 pm UTC (link)
Shelly hopes Matt is getting this. As is, her heart goes out for the woman. She had no idea what was going on.

"I will make certain that they are okay. And I will speak to the loa on your behalf so that you may watch over them," she offers gently. "Is there anything else you can recall about what happened? My friend and I want to stop this from happening to anyone else."

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Re: A Little Later
[info]nextgen_misc
2011-06-12 04:14 am UTC (link)
"Both of them are powerful beings. I could feel it. One had a head made of pure flame, and the other looked like a bull.

But the one with the fire on his head...he didn't attack all of us. Just the leader and a few other people. The one with the bull-head seemed...a little scared of him." the woman says.

"When the Bull-creature ran away, the fire-head guy followed him. I was dead by then." she says.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-12 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Shelly nods.

"The information you've given me will help greatly. And again, I promise that I will speak to the loa on your behalf." She looked to Matt to see if he had anything else to ask.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-12 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Matt looks to Shelly and shakes his head. She'd give him a lot of information with just that.

"Tell her that someone will check on her children tonight." Matt says, wanting to offer the woman some peace.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-12 11:03 pm UTC (link)
Shelly nods.

"We will check in on your children tonight. Thank you for your help. You have done an incredible amount of good. Thank you."

And unless the woman has more to say, Shelly slips back fully to the living.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-13 12:16 am UTC (link)
Matt goes to Shelly immediately, holding her up.

"Hey, you okay?" he asks, concern coloring his tone.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-13 12:17 am UTC (link)
Shelly pushes Matt aside briefly and stumbles to a sink where she promptly retches.

"My gods, what they were dealing with was vile."

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-13 12:59 am UTC (link)
Matt holds her hair back, as good boyfriends do.

"The other being she described...it sounds familiar, somehow. I can't place it, but I know I've heard of something like it before." Matt says, wracking his brain for information.

"The lone survivor they've got kept saying they shouldn't have summoned it, and was talking about sin and a bunch of other nonsense.

Whatever it is these people summoned, we need to get out in front of this as quickly as we can." Matt tells her.

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Re: A Little Later
[info]blackmagicwoman
2011-06-13 01:00 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, we really do," she says as she wipes her face and mouth. "First, though, I have to go check on some children. Make sure they are safe and taken care of, no matter what."

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Re: A Little Later
[info]this_fire_burns
2011-06-13 01:35 am UTC (link)
"Okay. I'm gonna head home and try a few spells to see if I can locate anything.

Should I stop at your place when you're off tonight?" Matt asks. "Or are you coming by mine?"

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Re: A Little Later - [info]blackmagicwoman, 2011-06-13 01:37 am UTC
Re: A Little Later - [info]this_fire_burns, 2011-06-14 12:17 am UTC

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