slayer karen confesses killing vampires to priest!macalaure
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She nods. "Who's the zombie?"

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"Jack O'Toole."

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" - oh. You know what, nevermind, that doesn't scale. Any ideas on the weirdly old cheerleader?"

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"Wait, what about Jack O'Toole should make us despair of widespread zombification as a measure to prevent humans dying? The weirdly old cheerleader is Amy Madison, or is possessing Amy Madison or impersonating Amy Madison."

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"He has a knife named Katie and he waves it at people. - I realize this sounds like it's not much in the way of evidence but I'm not very optimistic."

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"Is that the zombification, though? Was he like that before?"

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"I dunno, how long has he been a zombie?"

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"Didn't catch that, sorry."

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" - I guess if we want to be good scientists then we can at least compare whatever happened to Jack O'Toole to whatever happened to Chris Epps's brother. I guess. Probably we can find some dead person who doesn't terribly mind." She sighs heavily. "I'm going to check on the monkey demon, you figure out whether there are any ways to counter bodily possession or shape-changing spells, we can regroup later and investigate various zombies, and if you think of anything that could run in the school paper to influence kids to take some kind of suspicious depression cure then I'll do my best?"

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"You could publish a review, I guess. It's music. It's really pretty. Maca- uh, Michael recorded it."

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"Oh, music is way less suspicious than most things it could be! We can totally get people to listen to music. Somehow."

The first two syllables of Father Michael's real name are definitely getting recorded in her Notes About Not-Archangels, that's how this game works.

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He hands her the Walkman. "Here you go. It's pretty subtle. There's a version that's not subtle at all but it went over worse with patients."

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"Neat. So I'll write about this - I'll need a thing to call it and like a place that it can be obtained - and I'll check on the monkey demon situation annnnd I'll see you tomorrow to talk about protecting cheerleaders?"

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"Sounds like a plan."

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"Good talk, coach."

So she gets a location for the monkey demon and investigates the house of Andrew, Tucker, and Jacob Wells, where she finds that Tucker has a whole bunch of weird stuff in his basement, but he insists that the demons are 'pets' and that they are tame despite the fact that a lot of them appear to be attempting to gnaw through the bars on their cages.

...Paging Alex, I wanted to be cool and handle this myself, but I actually have no idea what to do about the fact that these high school students have like six different demons in their basement.

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Yeah, that sounds a bit complicated. Did you see the demons? Do they look okay?

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They're momentarily contained, but not very well. They're mostly angry and..... scared, I think.

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I'm going to come on over.

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If you think it's necessary. I guess I don't super know how to send them back wherever they should be on my own. Sorry.

She gives Tucker a stern lecture about keeping exotic animals in poorly-made cages and lets him know that she's going to contact someone who'll handle the situation without getting him in too much trouble.

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He's there about five minutes later.

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Tucker wants him to know that this is all a big misunderstanding and the animals are totally happy. The demons do not look totally happy.

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"If that's so then it'll be cleared up as soon as I talk to them." 

 

He sits down in front of the cages and makes a strange sound low in his throat and gives the demons concepts - afraid, safe, comfortable, in pain, hungry, scared - to communicate.

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The demons are NOT comfortable and do NOT think they are safe. Most of them are scared. All of them are VERY UPSET. One of them is full but it thinks it's maybe full of something that isn't really food. This one wants to KILL EVERYONE. This one is a baby and misses its mom. 

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He sends all of this to Tucker.

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Tucker is pretty freaked out that the school gym teacher is a telepath. 

"So obviously I have some things to learn about demon care," he says, nervously eyeing the basement exit.

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