The Group

  • Zoe Kallas – waitress at grandparents’ diner in Arlington; journalism graduate looking for a real journalism job. (Changling who has no clue, mother was fey of Summer Court)
  • Ely Vantide – debt collector – all kinds of debt. (Emissary of Power for a Dragon)
  • Kyna Quinlan – wizard of Irish descent. New to the White Council. Muscle for Ely.
  • Walter Ballard – were-leopard and therapist to the Supernatural.


February 2, 2008
At the Diner

  • The group was at the diner. Ely and Kyna were in Ely’s booth. Walter was eating a bran muffin and tea at the counter after a session with a nocturnal client. Zoe was serving them.
  • Kyna and Ely saw a man dressed in black outside looking through the window. The man looked like Neo from the Matrix and seemed to be staring off into space.
  • Walter realized that he was using a glamour to achieve that appearance. He might not have actually looked like that or be doing what he appeared to be doing. Ely ordered waffles for himself and pancakes for Kyna.
  • Kyna left the diner. She walked past the man and noticed that he smelled like brimstone. Then she used her Sight and saw a very bright light, like looking at the sun. He level of power was very high. She closed her Sight.
  • Ely sensed that something was wrong outside. He looked around and saw a hazy outline around the man that was maddeningly familiar, but he was not sure what it was.
  • Kyna walked back toward the diner. As she past, the man said “puny human” and backhanded her into the window, and there was a loud bang.
    Walter took another look at the man, but he did not stand out.
  • Zoe saw that the man was an Ice Dragon and wondered why no everyone was running in panic. Walter saw that Zoe was stressed and offered to talk her through her troubles, but she declined.
  • Ely realized that it was his boss, who made that kind of a scene, and who probably did not come into the diner because it was accorded neutral. He went to the doorway to converse with the “man.” In the end, he gave Ely a card that was taped shut left.
  • Ely returned inside and tried to use a knife to slice the tape, but the knife was frozen and broke off. He opened the card. There was an address and a time: 800 E Street SE and 4:00PM. Zoe found a card in her tip jar with the same information and $50. Walter received a text with the same information from a Patient.

Preparations

  • Walter went home to get some sleep. He usually got up at 4PM as his patients most came to see him at night.
  • Kyna reviewed her magical preparations and spell inventory. She prepared a 4 shift Shield spell into her wand.
  • Ely cleaned and loaded his weaponry.
  • Zoe let her grandparents know that she was going out that evening. Then she took a nap and dressed for the appointment.

The Appointment

  • Ely saw Zoe’s invitation, so he and Kyna knew she was going to the same appointment. Walter received a text from a patient, so he did not tell anyone.
  • Walter and Zoe ran into each other at the Waterfront Metro stop. Ely and Kyna drove there and parked at a meter near them.
  • They determined that they were all going to the same appointment at a run down townhouse in a row of run down townhouses. Walter knew that this was not where that patient would want to meet.
  • The sun was setting. Ely knocked on the door and his hand went right through it.
  • Zoe noticed a seven and a half foot tall hairy thing with fangs and claws. The man was naked from chest up and covered with an abnormal amount of Italian looking hair. He hit Ely, but it did not appear to phase him at all.
  • Walter determined that the man was genuinely angry. Ely figured out that the hairy man was not mad at him, but didn’t think he understood what Ely said.
  • The man started speaking in some Scandinavian language. Walter tried to non-verbally calm the situation down, but it only seemed to focus the man’s anger at him.
  • Ely tried to get the man’s attention back on him. Zoe brandished her mace. The man pushed Ely aside, grabbed a spear, and prepared to throw it at Walter. Zoe shot her mace at the man, but she missed.
  • Kyra stepped in front of Walter and raised her Shield spell. The spear embedded itself in the Shield.
  • Walter showed his invitation up. The man went for another spear.
  • Ely tried to remember something the man might understand and said “Halt!”
  • Zoe tried to hit him, but the man evaded her fist. Kyra’s Shield blocked the spear. Kyra hit him with a force wave and pushed him back a little.
  • Walter noticed that the man was protecting Ely, so he backed away. When he did so, the man gestured Kyna to approach and pointed to Zoe and said something.
  • They approached and the man sniffed them. The he handed Ely a card taped shut. Ely opened it. It said “Did you bring a virgin?” in nice calligraphy referring to Zoe. Ely replied in the negative. The man gestured to get one.
  • Zoe and Kyna both remembered that there were certain kinds of beings that needed virgins to procreate…