Session 13
Sheri starts to dig for her cell phone to call Priest. On the third ring he picks up. Sheri starts to tell Priest what’s going on. He asks if they are being followed and she doesn’t think so. Daniel listens in curiously. Sheri does remember the safe house and Priest says there is somewhere there to meet them.
Dan says that he can almost guarantee that they are not being followed. Dan introduces himself and says that whoever the people are, they ran off with a friend of his from high school.
Shaw asks how Dan knew all this was going down, to which he replies, “A little spirit told me.”
Shaw gives Daniel directions and Dan says that he had a spirit keeping an eye on Jenny. He then asks what the Voice thing is about and Sheri gives a little explanation.
Shaw asks if Jenny is really the voice as Dan has never seen her do any prophecy. He also asks how they knew where the Voice was.
Rhapsody wants to note that her apartment was broken in and the spell was stolen to find the Voice.
Dan’s phone starts to ring. He picks up and his buddy says he’s almost done with Dan’s car, and wants to know where Dan is with his truck. He advises Dan to be careful there's some kind of gang war going on nearby.
They pull into the docks district and the garage door is open. Dan pulls in and asks who they are again. They all check to see if they have been followed and no one sees anything.
An older guy in his 60’s who looks like a dock worker flips the light on and closes the door behind the group. Daniel heals himself and Rhapsody pokes at him and looks at her wounds. Shaw sees what’s going on and everyone gets their turn at being healed.
Priest arrives and walks up after his bodyguards scan the area and give him the all clear. Rhapsody explains to Priest what happened. He and Rhapsody agree that their adversaries need the Voice. Daniel agrees to help out.
They take the truck to get cleaned up. In the other car, Priest asks what they know of Murdock.
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At St. Sebastian’s the group reconvenes in Pennington’s room. Daniel walks in and sees the group talking to Pennington and realizes he’s a ghost. Pennington asks what Daniel knows of Jenny, to which he replies that he didn’t know Jenny had any sort of magic, but did thing it was a odd that an air elemental agreed to watch out for her.
Pennington asks a few more questions about Jenny and they decide to look into the girl’s past. Pennington has been studying and that she is Pre-Lemurian, possibly Atlantean, who was a seer. They need to find the Voice, Daniel says that he can call the spirit he had set to watch Jenny.
Daniel manages to call the spirit and he sees it take ethereal shape. The spirit says she went west, north westerly, she’s at sea. Priest is going to see if they can figure out how they went and see if they can get a flight plan, but there wasn’t one.
The maintenance guy is on the news telling there were people looking for one of the tenants. A cop runs up to take him away for a statement. The party notices on the scene, two men in government-issue suits pulling the maintenance guy out of the way.
Sheri suggests praying for guidance as Rhaps gives Erik a call and tells him that the Voice was taken and in trouble. As she prays, they go and get equipped in the basement on the other side of the church and they re-arm and get outfitted.
Sheri is asking for a vision. Pukwudgi is sitting there saying that the Old Man told him to give a message. The others that smell of ocean follow him and that the girl need to be found before they break her. They need to hurry and that she’ll not last long. Old Blue Eyes is afraid that the other ocean people, there is a big bad one holding the girl. The boomsticks will not help. They go out there he’ll watch, but the group needs spirit weapons.
Sheri asks how to get good spirit weapons. Pukwudgi will take her to the Elk Warriors to get spirit weapons. She will meet him as soon as she can and goes to meet up with the others. Sheri conveys the message from Pukwudgi.
They head to Rhaps place and as she goes up she smells someone in her house and an FBI agent and his partner there: Agent Ramirez and Agent Muller who start questioning her. She has the walkie-talkie phones on so the party hears everything. Finally Sheri says that they might as well take them along.
Sheri gives some more information and the agents are going to follow. The third time Sheri pauses to look she finds the correct place. They put the phones on walkie-talkie mode again as Sheri heads down. The agents pull in so they can over hear.
Sheri finds the rocky area and looks around. Pukwudji pops his head out and asks if she is ready to meet the warrior brothers. Sheri says yes and climbs over the rocks and follows along to the cliffs. The agent asks if it is someone they know. Rhaps says no.
They go to a crevice and the walkie-talkie signal is lost. Sheri feels along the wall as she follows the spirit. After a while, she sees sunlight and they are out in the Washington rain forest. It looks more primeval than she has ever seen before.
Sheri makes her way over the mossy rocks and comes to a creek. On the other side there is a lodge, smoke coming out from it. Puk heads towards the lodge, Sheri following and calls out to the lodge, wanting an audience and waits. After a moment, a taller Native man pokes his head out with pronged antlers that are growing out. Puk makes introductions and says that the gods from across the water is awakening, getting his curiosity so invites Puk and Sheri in.
Finally, the agents voice concern as Rhapsody paces back and forth and Rhaps sets down the trail.
The Elk Brother sits on the opposite side of the fire and motions for Puk and Sheri to sit. He wants to know more about the gods from across the water. Puk motions to Sheri. Sheri tells of Blue Eyes from Across the Water came to her in a vision and needed her help. That he is opposed from Dark Ones from Across the Water that is interfering in all worlds. Sheri tells of what happened to Jenny. That there was ceremonies of a sickening nature, using an old sacred thing that changed people.
The Elk Brother is wondering why the white gods will not help.
Puk says that the Old Blue Eye means well but the warriors are not prepared for what they will face and that he and his brother can make the weapons. The Elk Brother is affronted and finally needs to think about helping.
They lose the tracks and split up to search. Rhapsody and Dan head up to the cliffs and find the cave via the scent Rhaps finds. The agents are still searching as the two go into the crevasse.
The Elk Brother says he must consult his brother. He must think.
Rhapsody and Dan get into the forest. They are stopped as a spear is thrown in front of them. The person tells them to leave, and Rhapsody says not with out her friend. Spear is thrown and hits Rhapsody. Rhapsody throws the spear and misses. He gives warning again and Rhapsody says ‘fine’, which catches him by surprise.
The Elk Brother comes in and mentions meeting Rhapsody and that she shows the respect deserved to them. Sheri says they are there for weapons to fight gods. That they are on quest that is very difficult.
It has been many moons since a warrior came to the lodge to ask for aid. Their own people shun them. They call Sheri White Elk Warrior. They give her an antler with a pictogram on it. They will aid her and her hunting party.
He takes Sheri’s kukri and runs blood on the blade and then pulls out other weapons for the rest of the group. Sheri thanks her Elk Warrior Uncles and goes to meet up with Dan and Rhaps. They are given weapons and head back. Pukwudgi leads them a different way and they meet up with agents.
Sheri tells them the general direction where Jenny is at and their contact was a Amerindian, a dwarf, named Pukwudgi.
Erik left Rhapsody a message and when called back, he says they have some friends searching the waters. There is a ship with a helicopter, the Marianne and Humbolt squids in large quantities around the waters of the tanker.
Ramirez goes to see if they can get transport to the tanker. Muller asks a few questions about being Jenny’s friend and why they are lending themselves into getting into trouble. Ramirez is able to get a trawler.
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Rhapsody texts Priest the tanker name and that they are with the two agents. A fisherman is there and comes over towards Ramirez. Ramirez says they don’t want to get him in trouble, etc. The fisherman holds out his hand for getting paid.
The get onto the trawler and Ramirez warns them about the operation. And that they have backup in place, though the answer seems curt. Sheri invokes her sight to get a true vision. Ramirez has a basically good aura around him, but he works for and organization called the Undergounds. He knows that he’s dealing with other supernaturals. He knows they are up against more than just kidnappers and that there is no backup. They are there to follow up on the missing agent. Muller also has a good aura, more pure and that’s all Sheri gets as Muller pulls a gun.
“Muller, what’s going on?”
“I got scanned.”
Ramirez says they’re not FBI and that they are here to help Jenny.
They fill in more details of critters and what they might encounter. Muller and Sheri figure out that they can communicate.
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Session 14
They came to a stop and loaded onto the dinghy. They come up towards the hull of the ship and it appears to be the aft section.
Ramirez says that they need a plan. Dan suggests Ramirez levitating up. They see the huge anchor chain and approach closer to take a look. More of the squids dart back and forth.
Ramirez says he can get up there and can make sure the coast is clear and then catch anyone who should fall. He concentrates for a few moments and rises up, guiding himself up along the chain.
Rhapsody follows up on the chain, moving up fairly easily. Daniel follows suit and makes up. Rhapsody helps him up and they get into where the chain is stored. They go further and see the huge winch mechanism. They don’t see or hear anything.
Sheri looks over and feels a metal ladder, rungs on the side of the wall, near the anchor tube. Ramirez heads down first. Everyone is at the bottom and Ramirez comments that it’s darker down there.
Sheri cuts off a piece of her skirt to put over the flashlight and they have some illumination. They see a metal staircase leading up to a hallway. The group follows Ramirez.
Moving down the hallway, they go another 40 feet and come to a wider passage that has several hallways leading off. There is a light there. Rhapsody takes out a highlighter and uses that to mark where they’ve been.
Muller suggests straight. They head down that hallway and Sheri starts the mind-whispering to Muller. It splits to two hallways with a door on either end up on a short flight of stairs. They talk about what to do and hear the sound of footsteps. They move back down the hallways, and Rhaps smells that it was one of the goblinoids.
They see a humanoid figure walk by to the other side of the passage. It goes 15 feet down the passage and it stops. It then turns, and sniffs the air then heads down the passage towards the group. It draws a blade.
Muller, “Plan, quick. Sheri says we need to dispatch it and I agree.”
Rhapsody volunteers to be bait and let the thing see her while the others attack it. They all pull out their knives; Rhapsody moves over towards the passage, acts surprise and runs back. The goblin follows and realizes too late that others are there. Sheri manages to stick it, slashing its throat. It spurts out blood.
They dump the body back at the chain room. They head up towards where the goblin was coming from. It winds up two stories and they come to an access door. It smells and sounds like outside to Rhaps and Muller says there is no one outside the door.
The door opens up on deck near some crates. They move to check around back in the aft section. They move from cover to cover, staggering the approach. Before Ramirez is able to run past, Rhapsody sees that there is someone above them, smoking. She saw the light from the cigarette and warned Ramirez. Sheri could see it was wearing clothes, and had something underneath a jacket.
They pull back to discuss options and decide to keep together. There are two man sized creatures that just spoke to the guard and are heading down towards the group. They go back towards the crates by the stairs to hide. The critters walk by.
They head after them to silence them first, trying to sneak up on the critters. Dan stumbles a little and they all freeze, but it didn’t sound like they were heard. Rhapsody leads the way and pauses, seeing and smelling that they went where the initial goblin was headed, not where it was killed.
They decide to go with Daniel’s idea of going aft on the inside. The get to an alcove with the door labeled in Russian. They don’t hear, sense or smell anything, and they open the door and see it’s one of the tanks. They close the door and head down the hall. They come to a wider area with restrooms and a stair way that leads both down and up. They check the stairs and it also leads outside.
They continue on and get to a corner and see a door opening and two men walk out. They appear to be crewmen, talking and laughing. They head down a hall and had food. Dan sees the two large critters move down the hall toward where the blood was. The group decides to make an interception.
They head down and where the large opening is there is a bad smell and Rhapsody stops everyone at the scent. They decide to deal with the threat before them. Rhaps goes to see one of the large ogres there. Rhapsody reports and they decide to backtrack. They get to where the restrooms are and see one of the critters coming out. It sees the group and yells at the other one who comes out, looks and starts to take off. Rhapsody goes into feral form and chases after the one running.
The critter jumps up at Rhapsody as she leaps and manages to get entangled with the critter. Ramirez uses his telekenetics to get the goblin to the ceiling. Rhapsody and Sheri book it after the one critter that was running away. Rhapsody catches up and strikes at it with her club and splatters its head.
They toss the bodies into the oil tanks. Dan unscrews the light bulb and they try to decide how and when to deal with the ogre. Sheri, Muller and Dan say aft and thus the party heads to aft. They get to a corner and they hear footsteps. They see a group of men, heading towards the stairs. In the front of the group, Rhapsody sees Alexi with four other men with guns. He stops at the bottom of the stairs and speaks in Russian and looks down the hall, then takes a breath. He talks to them as he looks around and pulls out a radio. He has the men ready their weapons and move towards down the hall way.
They get to the alcove, Rhapsody grabbing Sheri and Dan, sprinting with them down the hallway. Seems they got to cover before they were seen. Rhaps peeks and sees figures coming down and a taller figure behind them. Everyone picks their target and Rhaps gets ready.
Ramirez pops out, and they all fire. Sheri fires her first three shots. Daniel uses soulfire on one of the soldiers and hits his target. Ramirez takes his shots at the two next to each other and hits one once and the other twice with his shots. The targets that were fired upon and hit multiple times were dropped. The other two hit with the soulfire and the one shot are to their knees. Muller shoots at hers and hits three times and the one is knocked of their feet. There is a brief illumination as the one that fell accidentally hits the trigger.
Rhapsody heads after Alexi, leaping over the fallen soldiers and Alexi spins and is starting to change and takes off running. Rhapsody catches up to him and cracks him in the shoulder. Alexi finishes his transformation, growling as his clothing rips. He goes full bear and books it, Rhapsody gives chase.
Muller runs up to the guys moving on the ground and double taps one of them on the head with her pistol. Daniel blasts his target again before he can bring his gun up to bear and fries him. Ramirez says they need to do more to them since the ones in the ambulance got up. Dan does pick up an assault rifle as zombies are dispatched via super slick sacred spiffiness weapons
Rhapsody catches up with Alexi and slams him with the club, knocking him into the railing. The group runs to catch up with the ferals. Alexi comes up swinging but Rhapsody gets a hit in first and slams Alexi again in the face. Alexi staggers and tries to hit Rhapsody and manages to connect with a blow.
Sheri finds Alexi’s clothing remains. Rhapsody slams Alexi again and makes him slump to the ground. She takes her claws and RIPS Alexi’s head off. The group catches up and sees the blood all over the place. They go where Alexi was coming from and peek around the corner.
They look around and they see the hall, down by the light is a big ogre looking thing. The alarms go off. And they hear people coming down the stairs coming from the other direction. Ramirez is around the edge and sprays a couple of burst, scattering the figures as they return fire.
Dan moves to fire upon the ogre with his soulfire but fizzle before it gets there. The firefight continues. Dan tries again and manages to hit, though the burst takes a few moments to get there. It tenses for the blow, but it still hurts so it starts stomping towards them. Sheri gets a bit freaked and lashes out with holy fire. Sheri hears war drums in her head and there is the smell of wet hide and a rumble in the hallway and from behind Rhapsody there is a jet of flame. The ogre has a surprised look in its face and is fried. It gets up after being blasted and continues stomping towards the trio.
Dan tosses out another soulfire that basically clotheslines it and it falls. The group starts to head down the hallway, Rhapsody tosses the ogre back to try and trip up their pursuers. As they com up to the wider area, there are two soldiers that toss out flash-bangs. Rhaps and Sheri manage to avert their heads, but Muller gets it right in the face, which knocks her on her ass.
Sheri pops off a shot but misses. The soldiers fire at Sheri and at Rhapsody. Sheri is hit and is knocked on her ass from the impact. Rhapsody is also hit and is wounded badly but is still up and she snarls.
Dan kneels by Sheri and works on healing as he tells Ramirez to TK them or something. The one that fired at Rhapsody steps out and is yanked into the air via the TKing.
Rhapsody throws Alexi’s head at the other shooter’s head and knocks him on his ass with a little damage. Sheri looks up and shoots with the .357 Magnum hollow-points and the guy’s back explodes, still hanging in the air. Ramirez tosses the assault rifle and shoots at the guy crawling away as everyone takes cover.
Dan pops open the tanker room to take a look. He sees the man in the suit, smiles and zaps Dan with soulfire and is drained of some essence as he is flung back. The man reaches forward and closes the door.
Rhapsody stops the guy from totally locking the door. Sheri prays to the Elk Brothers for some more power. One of the soldiers gets up to attack Muller and Rhapsody sees it so goes and pops off the head. Dan heals Muller’s blindness.
Rhapsody starts to opening up the doorway, stepping to the side. There is a diffused red light there, and she smells lots of different things. Muller peeks in and crawls onto the catwalk to look down.
“Oh my God!” she says.
Sheri works on healing herself some more.
Ramirez says, “Oh SHIT!” The other ogre thing is coming his way and starts firing at it.
Daniel grabs an assault rifle and goes through into the hold, and peeks down. He sees on the metallic floor, a glowing magical symbol, about 30 feet across, in the middle is an inky blackness. Hanging above it on a chain is Jenny.
“JENNY!” he says.
Rhapsody goes in and waits for Sheri and Ramirez to get inside. Sheri goes for the shoot and scoot at the ogre with her 357. It doesn’t dodge so she hits, it hits the ground and she leaps through the door. Ramirez goes in after.
Sheri blinks, “Holy shit! That thing was in my phone!”
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Session 15
There is a 30 diameter magic circle filled with shadowy tendrils reaching a little bit out of it and the darkness is about 20 feet with Jenny dangling above it. Rhapsody shifts to her bestial form and summons her totemic animal, calling forth four spirit tigers that come into being next to her. As they form, there is the smell of primal jungle and fur in the air. Sheri looks to the suit to see if she has a clear shot, but the lighting is not that great, and she can see the guy having a shield.
'Ramirez, help Jenny!?' Sheri orders
'Uh... right?. Shit...?
Sheri shoots and the suit tries to dodge out the way, but doesn't quite get out of the way. There's a spark of energy off the suit's shields as he runs towards around the entity. The shot ricochets off the physical shield.
Daniel gathers what energy he has and uses his magic to levitate. He steps off the catwalk, heading towards Jenny.
Ramirez freaks a little at the appearance of the cats, scampers a little and looks over towards Jenny. As he concentrates, she begins to sway in the chains a bit, towards the group. Muller takes a couple shots at the enemy mage, but misses as he goes behind darkness.
Daniel sees the darkness roil and two tentacles reaches out, and he feels cold as one of the tips gets a hold of his foot. 'Get it off! Get it off!?
Rhapsody sends two of the tigers down after the mage. She goes down herself and strikes at it with her club. The club disappears into the darkness and shredded shadow flies as the mass recoils from it, but damage is not telling.
Sheri starts to pray, calling for the strength of the Elk Brothers and she hears the drums in her ears.
Daniel flails a little, still saying 'Get it off, get it off.' He uses his knife to slash off the tentacle, and the tip dissipates, as the rest of it flops back into the mass.
The two tigers move towards the suit and he fires at one and it roars in pain.
Ramirez says, 'I can't get it,' as he is unable to get the chain undone.
Muller pops a new clip into her gun and fires three shots into the darkness. But there seems to be no reaction whatsoever.
Daniel is about 8 feet from Jenny and two more tentacles reach up for him. He manages to dodge the first one and the second latches on up to the knee and tugs him down about four feet.
The two tigers both attack the mage; the other two come down to move in a flanking position around the opposite side. Rhapsody hits with the club, slugging it with the first hit and it recoils back away from the other two blows.
Sheri goes sliding down the ladder and goes down a little faster than she wants and stumbles a little but manages to get back on her feet again.
Daniel tries to slash at the tentacle and is unable to get a hit on it.
Ramirez stops what he's doing and comes down the ladder.
Muller moves around to get a bead on the mage. 'I don't see the mage. I see your tigers, but the mage is gone,' she telepathically tells Rhapsody.
Daniel is sucked into the darkness, completely enveloped and he can't seem to move at all. He comes through to a glowing green area in the middle and in the center is a man with his legs folded under him. All he sees is a silhouette.
'Stop struggling, it won't hurt as much.'
'Let me go, it won't hurt at all.'
'Sorry against orders.'
Rhapsody's tigers go after the mage, they get caught up and the guy in the middle says, 'Oh look kitties.'
Rhapsody moves into the circle and tries to bash a couple times but misses.
Sheri moves up and tries to hit, missing.
Daniel is still stuck. 'I don't suppose we can just send you back where you belong?'
'Send me back? I'm a general in the coming army.'
'Exactly why you shouldn't be here.'
'Be quiet and we won't have to kill you.'
Daniel builds up the energy and fires as the guy looks up in surprise.
'GODDAMMIT! FUCK! You're going to pay for that.'
The tendrils tighten around Daniel and squish him.
The mage says, 'Stop fooling around and kill them all.'
The general replies, 'Yeah, yeah I''m getting to it, remember, the lord said that we didn't have to kill them at all.'
Ramirez scoots down. Muller is scooting around the outside, trying to find the mage.
The darkness expands and launches three attacks against Rhapsody, she dodges the first one and the other two wrap around her. Rhapsody gets drawn into the blackness.
'What's up Pussycat'?
Rhapsody realizes who it is. 'YOU!' she snarls at Willard.
The two cats on the outside prowl around the circle.
'Enough of this now. Well done, everyone, I needed a first hand display of your abilities.' The voice has no apparent source.
'Lord Chereshe.' Willard smiles.
Chereshe tells Willard to take down the darkness. He's hesitant but Chereshe tells everyone to not take any hostile action. The darkness fades away and those caught are set down. There seems to be some kind of mind control preventing hostile action.
Bugs and flies scurry from the room and they coalesce, forming into a person who looks like a younger, more perfect version of Foster, dressed in simple black and blue robes.
'Neat trick' Daniel said.
Chereshe admonishes Willard for injuring Daniel. Willard complains of being zapped. Chereshe looks over to see how bad Daniel is. He has Rhapsody dismiss her tigers and says Fiachra would appreciate her trick.
Daniel is healed, but in a way distasteful way that makes him feel icky inside.
Chereshe says that he only partially expected them to get this far. 'I'm glad you're all here. It seems that somewhere in our recent past we came to a misunderstanding. Which is the leader? oh wait... there is no true leader in this land of the democracy.'
'What do you want with Jenny?' asks Daniel.
'Oh, I didn't know the Voice was reborn till you all brought her to my attention. I have no plans to hurt her. But the rest of you?'
'The beast responsible for the murders is Fiachra, another Atlantean lord.' Chereshe admits to taking Foster's body and the four sacrificed to bring him there. He's just an old power trying to bring a new age to the world. An age where all can profit, and be brought into new awareness. He claimed to be a harbinger of Gaeaharu, the great lord.
Willard, 'Yeah guys, we're working for the wrong side!'
Mr. Tweed a.k.a. Myrddin, is an old immortal sorcerer who has a grudge against the Atlanteans. He wants to present his side of the story.
Fiachra is doing what he thinks is best, but has fallen to a more bestial state. If he is summoned here before Gaeaharu, he would cause mass carnage.
Chereshe asks for neutrality to listen to his side of the story. He has Ramirez go up and take down Jenny, who is under what Chereshe calls a potion's influence.
The voice is the counselor of Gaeaharu.
He believes that Fiachra has an invoker attempting to bring him into this realm. The beasts are gathering essence to bring the Lord into the realm.
The pyramid artifact was used to summon Chereshe. There is an artifact like it that can be used to summon Fiachra.
They decide to do a trial alliance.
Rhapsody starts to say, 'I'm sor? wait a minute, no I'm not, never mind.'
The guards come in and Chereshe sends them back to their posts.
Chereshe suggests discussing things further on the yacht. Men are summoned to take Jenny out of the compartment and onto the yacht. They head off and the others move forward, giving them space to discuss.
They get into the yacht and Chereshe leaves them. Willard stayed there until Rhapsody booted him out of the room much to his protests. Healing is done and Sheri seeks a vision, but she is blocked or there's some kind of a null zone in seeking the vision. Rhapsody changes and washes up.
Jenny wakes up as the others are discussing what to do and who to trust. She starts to wig a little. She told she was kidnapped, but her kid is fine. Daniel demonstrates with putting up a shield and Rhapsody throws a glass at him, and it bounces off.
Jenny finally tells that she had dreams, one a couple months ago that Sarah that she caught something at school. She saw one of her classmates sneeze and it spiraled to where her kid was in the hospital.
Muller finds a shipping invoice: Kronighauser Inc
Chereshe shows up and talks to Jenny but does allow for someone to go with a video camera to show her that her daughter was okay. The group decides to work with Chereshe to keep Fiachra from coming to being. They want to do some recon first and are allowed to rest on the yacht.
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