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L.A By Night (Classic World of Darkness: Vampires, Werecreatures, Mages, Demons, Hunters and more)

The church was dark and quiet. The worshipers had long since gone home, and Father Walter was exhausted after coming home from the hospital and taking care of a doped up Lucas. The mouthless man, once home, had immediately wanted to go to bed. It had taken some firm coaxing to talk him into taking a shower and changing clothes before he crawled into his nest.

Lucas was now only visible by a shock of wild black hair just barely sticking out from under a pile of blankets. He had put on the first set of pajamas he could find in his dresser, which happened to be the hand made flannel ones he'd received as a Christmas present from one of the elderly women who worked in the church office. They were red with little brown, happy gingerbread men on them.

Lucas, still drowsy from the pain medication the doctor had prescribed him, didn't wake up at first. He laid on his stomach, sprawled out under what looked like far too many quilts for the season. How was he not hot? Finally, the young man seemed to notice that something was off. He turned over slowly and cracked his eyes open. He just barely could focus on the dark figure standing in his small bedroom. Lucas jumped and flailed to get out from under his mess of covers. He fell from his bed almost immediately, thumping against the hardwood floor in a mass of fabric and body. Once he managed to get himself untangled, he quickly stood and scooted with his back pressed against the wall until he was in the corner farthest from the strange man. He instinctively held his casted arm against his chest, afraid that this intruder was here to hurt him even further.

When a notepad and pen were tossed at him, the man was quick to snatch them up and hurl them back at the intruder, as if they could possibly do any sort of damage. The stranger said something about the cult, but Lucas wasn't exactly in the mood to cooperate. When he, finally, met the man's eyes, he seemed to ease up a bit. This stranger didn't seem to be here to hurt him...maybe he should tell him about the cult. At least, whatever shockingly little he knew about them.

L.A By Night (Classic World of Darkness: Vampires, Werecreatures, Mages, Demons, Hunters and more)

Yeah, but that doesn't really work well in an Rp though. It's typically frowned upon to just mind control PCs, you know?

L.A By Night (Classic World of Darkness: Vampires, Werecreatures, Mages, Demons, Hunters and more)

I may have Lucas pitch at least a small fit. It'd be pretty OP if Hector could just irresistibly mind control people.

And not as fun

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Wraith looked up to the second and third floors. There were various holes in the roof and floor that allowed him to see clear out into the night sky. He drifted up through one of said holes and began to look around some more. Nothing else seemed amiss aside from the various indications of a fight.

Wraith flew through the third level, then landed himself on the roof. He could see out over the slums of Gotham. All seemed quiet, aside from two approaching vans. Ka'van watched them until they pulled into the Rhymer parking lot. Large, roided up men began to pile out. At that, the shadowy figure flew back inside and hurried to find Nuke.

"I don't mean to cut out investigation short, but I think we may have visitors. Approximately six of them. Probably some friends of Bane."

His feet touched down silently beside the brightly dressed man, just as the doors upstairs burst open. The floorboards began to creak in protest under the goons' weight. Ka'van turned his red eyes upwards, watching the heavy boots shuffle just one floor above him.

"I'll run a distraction," He said. With that, he flew straight up through the floor, his body phasing through the old boards like smoke. There was a shout, then multiple gunfire. The men yelled in frustration as their bullets went right through Wraith without causing any harm. Then, the ghoulish hero reached out one arm, using his telekinesis to lift one of the heavy men into the air. That didn't make for a very happy goon.

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

I'm here!

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Shrug. I can just change it if it's too much of a problem. They could see the blood and the scene of a struggle and just not know who was involved.

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Hey so you guys can totes decide if Wraith and Nuke stumbled upon a crime scene or not.

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Wraith floated down in front of the old, skeletal building that silhouetted itself against the dark Gotham sky. The fallen sign out front read "Rhymer Manufacturing", but this place hadn't been manufacturing anything but trouble recently. The front entryway was collapsed, and the building itself looked far past condemned. Wraith approached it silently, looking around the empty, cracked up parking lot for a bit before the roar of a motorcycle drew near. He watched as his back up, a man he didn't really know too well, pulled up and dismounted his vehicle eagerly. The man, Nuke, was dressed very brightly. There was nothing stealthy about him at all; Ka'van just hoped he could make up for that.

The cloaked figure turned his burning red eyes back towards the darkened building. He had little trouble seeing in the dark, but he worried for his human counterpart. Should he step wrong, he could easily fall through the floor.

"I am not sure," Wraith said, his voice soft, but clear enough to be heard over the typical sounds of the city night. He moved towards the building, his movement smooth. He almost seemed to glide. "Be careful of the floor," He said as he levitated himself up over the fallen debris and drifted inside. Once engulfed in the darkness, his form seemed to almost completely disappear. The only thing visible were the two floating, bright red orbs of his eyes.

Ka'van lowered himself to the ground once he found a more sturdy looking level. The manufacturing plant had been closed for quite some time, and the air inside was stale and old. On the dusty floor, however, he could see recent tracks. They led to what looked like a large scuffle in the middle of an open space. There was some rotten, damaged wood laying around, as if the fight that occurred here had included it somehow. Ka'van lifted himself up off the ground as he investigated the scene, so as to not taint it with more footprints. He looked down at a fresh trail that led off into a dark corridor and began to follow it.

"It looks like there was a fight here," He said aloud, although he figured his comrade would have gathered this by now. "Perhaps this was where one of Batman's children were led before their demise."

The hall that Ka'van glided down opened up into another room, which was filled with crates labeled "juice". Out of curiosity, he phased his hand into one and pulled out, well, juice. It was apple juice. "Part of a decoy, maybe?" He said softly, mostly to himself. He set the jug down and turned to keep searching. Dark spots on the floor caught his eye. Blood? "Nuke," He said, beckoning his companion to come give him a second opinion. "Perhaps we should take a sample of that blood off the floor, to see if it belongs to one of the sidekicks." That would certainly confirm if they were here or not. Maybe this scene could give them a clue as to what happened before they were killed, and where Batgirl was taken.

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

I edited my post to include his radio out

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

And little scary is?

lol I kid. I'll have him radio out for backup (let's just pretend he has a radio shuttup) and Nuke can answer the call