[center][hr][b][u][h2][color=c4df9b]Alexander Karamazov Vanburen[/color][/h2][/u][/b][img]https://i.imgur.com/HJlmPxP.png[/img][hr][/center]

[quote]"They're all over the manor... every single glass case contains an artifact," James stated and pointed to a glass case with a dismembered statue hand inside of it. "Make sure you put that one somewhere nobody can get to it." 
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[color=c4df9b]"Sooooo..."[/color] Alex scratched his head. [color=c4df9b]"You're saying that every glass case in here contains a bloody demon sealed inside an artifact of some kind?"[/color] Unbelievable. And he didn't even bother putting any home protection systems. [color=c4df9b]"I should say that for a place with so many dangerous things in it... security is extremely sloppy..."[/color]


[quote]He said before he faded away.[/quote]

[color=c4df9b]"Das vhidanya, papa."[/color] Alexander said rather solemnly as James faded away from the world of the living to return to his life after death. Perhaps he was having a lot of fun there; no worries, no obligations, no nothing. Just an eternity of... who knows. He sure as hell had not entered the golden gates of Heaven, unless if he had repented of all of his sins right at the moment before everything went black and then white. 

One thing, though, was that Alex... Sasha was not sure how to feel when James slipped back to ghost land. The Spectre's power could only hold a spirit so long in the material world, and in the few moments that he had conversed with his father, he had went from assuredly passive aggressive to a little more cordial, and now... well, he's not sure. Was he hoping for some kind of reconciliation? Apologies? After all... while he surely showed that he despised James for leaving him and his mother back then, there was just the nagging feeling that their relationship should be mended. It wouldn't matter now that the man was dead, since he could always give him a call. Anyway...

[quote]"Honestly there's no right thing to do here, y'know?" He sighed as he shook his head. "Even if we hide them far away, that won't stop anyone from actually coming for you all if they know about the place... but we should keep 'em close to us, y'know? So we can at least protect them if someone comes to a knocking."

He nodded his head and gave Alexander a triumphant smile. 

"Because like hell I'm gonna let a bunch of dangerous ass ghosts out."[/quote]

Alex smiled back, and got up from his seat, glancing all over the destroyed mansion. [color=c4df9b]"Well... that should be a start. I suppose we can begin with the most powerful and dangerous ones, and place them in secure locations. For one, we should get a vault built in here. We're rich and we have a terramancer, so it shouldn't take long. At the meantime, though, we will have to remain in high alert. Especially since everything in here has a ghost inside it."[/color]

[quote]"It's gone and so is the vase Babylon the Great was sealed in. The witches might have taken the head, servant girl might have it, or both were taken when the mansion was broken into. We'll have to wait and see."[/quote]

Alex let out an exasperated sigh at this. [color=c4df9b]"That's just great."[/color]

[quote]"... I feel like they're gonna make themselves known very soon. Much as I hate to say it, we're gonna have to wait for one of them to come to us and hope that they make themselves known soon enough for us to do something."[/quote]

[color=c4df9b]"I remember something that Sun Tzu once said about something like that..."[/color] Alex began, but he was soon swept with silence as he couldn't remember what he had read before. [color=c4df9b]"Actually, nevermind. But yes. We'll have to wait, I guess."[/color]

[quote]"Our best bet, for now, is to look into this cult and the Triple Goddess - and hope that they don't have the Horned God," Justin started, "I have an idea of where to start - there have been reports of goats and other animals disappearing - if any of you want to come along. Otherwise, just stay put and figure out what to do with those artifacts."[/quote]

[color=c4df9b]"Sabrina, Ray, Oscar, and Shane had already left to find some leads on that."[/color] Alex glanced towards the door, which Raymond had left open. [color=c4df9b]"I think you'll have to give them a ring."[/color]

A pause. [color=c4df9b]"Thanks, by the way. I just wish that we had met in better circumstances... you seem to be a nice guy."[/color]