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What Are You Listening To?

Lamplight

<Snipped quote by Antarctica>

I guess I'm trying to think, "Okay, my character's here... What now?"

@Raqueltrper

Your biggest lead is that Clara Mathews is missing, and that some chatter within Stone's Throw pointed to something out of the ordinary, perhaps inhuman. As a member of CASS, this type of thing is up your alley—now's your chance to pursue that potential lead. Perhaps you can use the intel that Marker gave you and track down the individual tied to the IP. That person, as Marker said, is somewhere in Stone's Throw. Maybe he can help you nail down a location.

What Are You Listening To?

Lamplight

Almost sounds like this Wendigo is infected with something :D

@Tally Dor

This wendigo is connected to something, that's for sure.

Lamplight

Jordan
Jordan

@Passable Writer

<sup>As Jordan listened to the myriad voices in her head, she could feel her vision swim, shifting the space around her as it became consumed in an all-encompassing fog. As it dissipated, Jordan found herself standing on a dirt road. The area around her was pitch-black, save for the sky above, glittering lights of the stars doing nothing to brighten the space. Here, Jordan could feel a great heaviness and an even greater dread. Somewhere in the dark, somewhere on this road, someone was breathing raggedly.

"Listen, child. On this road, a contract was forged between Man and the first of our fallen brethren. The one whose soul is bound to the dissipating sands of time—they are your charge. They made a foolish mistake for the sake of revenge."

Jordan hears the breathing getting closer, becoming gravelly and bestial. A newfound gravity begins to sink her shoulders.

"Salvation awaits them, but only you can deliver unto them its glory. What I ask of you is no small matter; you face..."

Jordan watches as a silhouette grows in size, standing at nearly double her height. Antlers, crooked and thorned, threaten to pierce the very night sky, and two hollow white orbs where its eyes might be assumed to exist dare to invade the Divine's very being with simply its gaze.

"...Hell itself."

Beneath the head of the hulking silhouette, Jordan notices a glint in the dark. A pair of coiled serpents, made of silver, devouring themselves as they submerge into the black. She hears a growl as the silhouette lunges toward her, claws outstretched.

Before she can react, the scene has changed, revealing the southern road to Stone's Throw. She has returned to the present, the last frame of the vision burned into her mind: a decaying skull, rotting meat sloughing off the discolored bone in chunks. The jaw of the creature, unhinged and wide, threatening to swallow her whole. The skin, rippling with muscle and scars and abscesses, weeping a sickly fluid. The thirst for blood. The creature, in her newly awakened reliquary of knowledge, seems oddly familiar. The name is dredged from a memory she didn't know she had until now, until it's sifted from the deep and made clear to her.

There's a wendigo in Stone's Throw.</sup>

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Iustina Anghelescu
Iustina Anghelescu

@enmuni

<sup>The place was silent for several moments, the signs of someone inside only made apparent through the toppling of some glass object from within. For a time, there was no answer to the knock at the door, but then, it swung open with the width of a hand, the grizzled face of a hungover man peering through the crack as a familiar of cigarettes and faint alcohol wafted out. He sighed, thinking the woman at the door was someone else, but then he heard her speak.

“Good morning. If you have a moment, I’d like to ask you a few questions about the Clara Mathews situation.”

The man stared at Iustina, casually failing to rub the graying stubble on his chin. His eyes shifted in various directions almost imperceptibly, as if the world decided not to stay in one spot. With a gruff clear of this throat, he repositioned his body, standing just a little bit firmer, the sparse light of the sunrise illuminating his lack of a shirt.

"You a cop?" he asks.</sup>

board games

Haven't played Arkham Horror. I'll have to give that a try. Same with Horrified. I think it plays along the same lines as Arkham Horror, but deals more with cryptids than cosmic horror.

Lamplight

I will try to catch up soon.

Is there anything about Arbor I should know?

If I'm honest, I may be a little confused as to why Julie was dropped off at this spot particularly.

@Raqueltrper

Arbor's part of the BPA, and he's been practically everywhere you've been when you've investigated your cases with CASS. He doesn't share many details about himself, and he doesn't think highly of what he considers small-time agencies attempting to do big-time work. He takes his cases seriously, but he doesn't take you seriously. He's not exactly full of himself, but he is very prideful.

No reason why you were dropped here. Just wanted to start everyone in different spots that were somewhat sensitive to the plot.

Lamplight

Sorry. Been busy. Responses will be delayed.

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