Investigation #5: Joker, Roy, & Mac: The Haunting of 601 North E Street

[Rex]

I don't see an image and I can't download the link either.

[Bluehorse]

how's this?

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[Rex]

That works for me.

[Taaz]

Well i can see it, but I dont think its fresh anymore

[Scott308]

Lionel "Freight Train" Williams

My pleasure. Lionel smiles at Elizabeth as he gently sets her down, trying to make her as comfortable as he can when he does so. He then hurries outside to where Jamie is being prevented from advancing by Sgt. Hightail, signaling her to roll film. Standing tall and looking as imposing as he can, he begins giving orders to Hightail. I'm glad to see the police have arrived, Sergeant. This is still a dangerous situation, so we would appreciate it if you could form a perimeter to keep people away. We've already captured several spirits, but there is still at least one extremely dangerous, potentially deadly, specter present. We have multiple people with injuries inside who will need some sort of medical attention, we'll try to get them outside to the paramedics as soon as it is safe to do so, but having additional people inside right now could be a disaster so please do not allow them to come any closer until we say it's clear. Looking directly at Jamie and her cameraman, he continues. I'm going to bring the press a little closer so they can get better footage as long as they accept the personal risk involved. I'll let you get back to setting the perimeter and we won't bother you any more. Thank you for your hard work, Sergeant. When he gets some sort of confirmation from the channel 4 news crew, he escorts them midway to the door, telling them in no uncertain terms that they need to stay right there. He then glances over to see the damage to the Ecto, sighing and shaking his head, before heading back inside.

Browbeat: [5d6]=19; Ghost Die: [1d6]=6

[Urson]

Joker
Joker hurries upstairs, traps in both hands. Guys! I am back! What do we need....?

[GreyWolfVT]

Roy awaits how he might be of help, and thinks of his knowledge of the occult perhaps something will give him an idea.

Occult [5d6]=17

[Bluehorse]

The Haunting of 601 North E Street
The Warlock's Presence.
September 10, 2018, 2:25 pm
Sunny and warm with a light northerly breeze.

Joker's Field Device Timer:  18/18

There is a crackling sound from the Living Room followed by a loud bang! and a smell of ozone begins to fill the lower floor.

Joker no sooner sends his text asking the team upstairs what they need when he hears and smells the device he cobbled together finally give out. If there is anything you want to do with this, feel free to address it. He then heads upstairs to ask the team directly, carrying up the empty traps.

Julia seems to look at the witches with some apprehension. The church girl looking at the goth girls with a nervous smile of someone that really doesn't like the company they are in but was taught to at least try not to show it.

Lionel put Elizabeth down and her sisters quickly took up supporting her so she could stand while he went out to meet Jamie as she is arguing with Hightail about press access. The channel 26 folks are busy interviewing the arriving authorities but the Channel 4 cameraman notices Lionel and nods, rolling tape. When he rolls through his instructions like a professional, he can tell Hightail is a little skeptical which seems his normal but he looked from the house to Lionel and nods, getting on his radio. Set up a parameter, no one in or out. Press to the point in the yard indicated by Williams only and at their own risk. Paramedics, stand by for casualties. Let's block the roads both ways and seal off this block to traffic... he gives Lionel one last glance that seems half warning before joining the other officers to assist and coordinate.

Jamie smirks that spunky smile of hers and moves forward. Come on, Lionel... Tell me the truth. Can you get me inside there?

Upstairs

Mac steps back as Jason's and Roy examine the mummified bat in the wall. Poor thing was probably sealed up in there alive.

Roy 17+Roy [4d6]=12 Please don't forget that a specialty is an additional 5 dice on top of your regular stat

Roy and Jason both begin recalling similar practices both in old northern Europe as well as some native American cultures of using living creatures as vassals or guardians over treasures and sacred places where they would be entombed alive. Some of these stories lead to the ghost storied of places like graveyards and burial sites being guarded by the undead that would rise and ward off trespassers or even chase them all the way home where horrible things would occur. Some even more vague tales would be of animals or human sacrifice in a similar manner as a way to force all or part of a sorcerer's soul into the husk (corpse) left behind, which could then be used for all kinds of nefarious reasons by those that practiced dark enough magics to commit such affronts towards nature and the natural order; not the least of which was the harvesting of souls and harnessing of negative energies for powerful summonings or even the creation or powerful undead. Neither of them has any doubt that this is in fact the Phyllactory.

When Roy asks what they can do to help, Jessica doesn't hesitate. Give it to us.

Kelly shoots her a look and turns back to Roy and the rest of the team just as Joker arrives upstairs.: What she means is that if you give it to us we can take it back home, cleans it, and make it so no one can use it for whatever the Warlock has in mind.

The witches upstairs wait for a tense moment as if everything weighed on the next moment. All eyes falling on Roy.

Inventory:   

Ecto: 1 PKE Extention for Phones, PKE Extention, Ecto Goggles - M, 1 Slime Blower, 1 Sniffer
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Jason: Phone, Proton Pack
Lionel: Phone, Proton Pack
Roy: Phone, Proton Pack, Trap, Ecto Goggles - M
Joker: Ecto Keys, Phone, Traps x3
Mac: Phone, Proton Pack, Ecto Goggle - A.
Julia: First Aid Kit.
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Witches: Mary Duncan's Book of Shadows, Hex Bag
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Joker's Field Generator: Shorted out. Sandwichboarded to the Livingroom Floor. [Proton Pack, PKE - A, 2 Traps cobbled together for a Field Generating Device]

Phylactery in the Attic Wall. Pic

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Brownie Point Spending:
None this round.

Actions?
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Brownie Point Pool:
Dr. Jason O'Roarke: 44/214 @@
Lionel 'Freight Train' Williams: 110/188 @
Roy O'Dowd: 60/157 @@
Dzjokar "Joker" Jelal: 193/260
David "Mac" McAuslan: 47/191

Julia Dunst: 44/44

Jessica: 11/75
Kelly: 13/75
Elizabeth: 34/75

@ = One free re-roll without ghost die.  Merry Christmas 2019 & 2020!

[GreyWolfVT]

Roy not accustomed to having all eyes on him, takes a breath then nods his head agreeing and steps aside. "Won't do any good for us to try and lock it up like we do the ghosts. I think you all are more properly suited to dealing with these things."

[Urson]

Joker Modifying Joker's actions.
Joker separates enough components to ensure that the remains of the device are NOT a fire hazard before he goes upstairs.

Do we not have the Slime blower? Perhaps a layer of positive slime wouldhelp these women.

[Scott308]

Lionel "Freight Train" Williams

Sighing, he replies to Jamie, finding it really hard to resist that smile. I'm serious, this is a really dangerous one. There's a lot of injuries, and it's not just us in there. There's another group helping and they may not be thrilled to be on camera- I would not want them mad at me. Just...just be careful and try to not get the women on camera until you check first, please. I gotta get back upstairs and help finish this up. He begins heading back to the attic. Oh- be on the lookout for an orange cat. If he's still around at the end of this, I think I'm gonna bring him to the firehouse.

[Taaz]

Jaon nods along with Roy, Although, we would take it as a personal favor if you kept us in the loop. Heck if you wouldn't mind an observer I'd be interested in recording what you do, could help another franchise at some point.

[GreyWolfVT]

Roy sighs at the mention of on camera "OH lord someone should go see if the media has arrived. I don't want to be around when the news vans show up. Joker it might be worth a shot of that positive slime on the whole house for all I know."

[Bluehorse]

The Haunting of 601 North E Street
The Warlock's Presence.
September 10, 2018, 2:30 pm
Sunny and warm with a light northerly breeze.

Upstairs

Joker Morns the inevitable loss of his field generating device, but on a lighter side realizes that with some tweaks on the design and some more appropriate components that could stand the kind of stress it was under, it might be made functional for the future. Meanwhile he contemplated using a slimeblower to counteract the energy in the mummified bat they have found and identified as the lich's Warlock's phelactory.

Julia takes a look at it and makes a face. That is equally cool and discussing....

Elizabeth shoots her a look. It's used to house one's soul after they have died in order to keep them alive. The only way to make one is to kill an innocent. How cool is it now?

Roy & Jason both seem to agree to let the witches have the phylactery and consider the slime idea same as Joker, but then Jessica steps in. We need to take it as it is for now... it is the only way we can make sure to strip out the energy from it...

Kelly takes out a black cloth the size of a table cloth for perhaps an end table and holds it under the long-dead bat before lifting it up and carefully taking it off it's resting place without touching it.

The witches begin filing out down the stairs and Kelly looks back at them. I promise this is the right thing to do. he looks at everyone but speaks mostly to Roy it would seem.

Out Front

Lionel feels bad about having to tell her this, but he tells her how potentially dangerous it is inside and how she should stay put.

Jamie she eyes him a little and then gets a look of understanding. You're serious aren't you? Like as bad as the hospital basement?

Group of... she then perks up. You mean D.O.O.R. is here? That's fantastic!

Orange... cat.... okay, sure I'll keep a lookout... she seems confused by that but agrees all the same.

As if on queue, some of the witches at this point begin exiting the house and looking apprehensive about the commotion outside. Most of them covering their faces when the cameras come up and focus on them.

Jamie looks from Lionel to her camera man and speaks to him. Don't get their faces, okay? to Lionel. We'll blur them if one sneaks through on video, okay?

Inventory:   

Ecto: 1 PKE Extention for Phones, PKE Extention, Ecto Goggles - M, 1 Slime Blower, 1 Sniffer
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Jason: Phone, Proton Pack
Lionel: Phone, Proton Pack
Roy: Phone, Proton Pack, Trap, Ecto Goggles - M
Joker: Ecto Keys, Phone, Traps x3
Mac: Phone, Proton Pack, Ecto Goggle - A.
Julia: First Aid Kit.
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Witches: Mary Duncan's Book of Shadows, Hex Bag
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Joker's Field Generator: Shorted out. Sandwichboarded to the Livingroom Floor. [Proton Pack, PKE - A, 2 Traps cobbled together for a Field Generating Device]

Phylactery in the Attic Wall. Pic

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Brownie Point Spending:
None this round.

Actions?
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Brownie Point Pool:
Dr. Jason O'Roarke: 44/214 @@
Lionel 'Freight Train' Williams: 110/188 @
Roy O'Dowd: 60/157 @@
Dzjokar "Joker" Jelal: 193/260
David "Mac" McAuslan: 47/191

Julia Dunst: 44/44

Jessica: 11/75
Kelly: 13/75
Elizabeth: 34/75

@ = One free re-roll without ghost die.  Merry Christmas 2019 & 2020!

[GreyWolfVT]

Roy nods his head "Yes ok take it as it is Kelly. I'm not in charge but I trust you."

[Taaz]

Jessica steps in. We need to take it as it is for now... it is the only way we can make sure to strip out the energy from it...

Energy...hmm..I guess you probably shouldn't touch it... He puts his hand out twords the thing but without actually touching it and closes his eyes. "Now what genius, you gonna use the force"I..uhh have a sensitivity to some paranormal stuff now, just you know being mystical

I don't know if there's anything you would like me to do or whatever, but I can say point blank Jason knows they know whoever has it, hes pretty sure its the Mayor, and if he can get any vibe that helps back that hunch, or tells him he's wrong is basically what I'm doing, I can roll Occult or whatever if you would like.

[Urson]

Joker
Joker trails the others out of the attic. Are we sure there is nothing else? No other failsafe for this 'wizard'? If he does not get a definite 'all- clear', he'll spend a little time searching more of the area where the phylactery was found, and the floor where the thing manifested.

If he is assured there is nothing else, he'll go back to the living room and salvage whatever parts he can from his gadget.

[Rex]

Mac

Mac follows Kelly, keeping the wrapped bat in sight.

[Scott308]

Lionel "Freight Train" Williams

Thank you. I don't know if they care...well, they're hiding their faces. They definitely don't want to be on camera. And I never told you who they are- you just made a guess. Maybe just say we received help from local citizens, OK? Let me go see what's going on. I'll be back when I can and I'll talk on camera. Probably. I don't want to piss anyone off- well, anyone here, anyway.

Lionel will wait a moment in case Jamie has a response, then he will head back inside to get a status report.

[Bluehorse]

The Haunting of 601 North E Street
The Warlock's Presence.
September 10, 2018, 2:35 pm
Sunny and warm with a light northerly breeze.

Upstairs

Jason, let me know if you want to add anything in, I am stuck between letting you play this out how you like and not bogging things down, but we can always amend things as needed. Don't hesitate to let me know and we can do the Weebly Wobbly Timey Wimey thing, okay?

When Jason mentions his Abiility the witches... all of them... pause and stare. Kelly, already holding it in the cloth, holds open the bag a little for him and Jessica waves him on over.

What Jason Experiences:

There is a wave of very potent PKE that hits him when he reaches out to the seemingly creepy but benign bat corpse. It physically hurts and you feel the distinct sensation of being hit with a concussion-like a sledgehammer hitting concrete in both your hands as well as your mind it comes on so suddenly. You don't know why, but you are sure this only exists because something very bad happened. This can only be described as pure evil.

Like I said, we can treat this part as a pocket scene as long as we need to if you want to elaborate on it.

Roy & Mac follow Kelly and the other witches down, down, down, down the stairs while Jason & Joker do a final sweep of the house and find it is effectively Nuetral. This is usually a good thing and what professionals would look at as a typical job well done, but in this town with so much residual energy, it feels oddly suspect. This is now one of the few neutral pockets you have come across since being in Fort Smith. In fact the only reading they can get is from the Phyllactory as it moves away, and the cloth Kelly is holding it in seems to be absorbing most of the PKE much like a lead box would radioactive material.

Julia looks like she has a retort on the tip of her silver tongue but keeps it to herself and leaves with the guys, keeping herself as far away from the witches as she can.

Elizabeth shoots her another look before a pair of her sisters begin helping her down the stairs, one taking each shoulder which might be considerably safer than Lionel carrying her down 3 flights of stairs.

Out Front

Lionel gets a reassuring nod from Jamie as she turns to the camera and begins talking to make a little A-Roll footage for later as the Blackwells begin filing out. Half of them are actively covering their faces, the rest seem more passive or even bold as they gather in the yard and try to move out of sight. Police are quick to begin intercepting them and asking questions, soon they are slowly dispersing and it becomes clear that the police are outnumbered and cannot stop each and every one.

The Channel 26 crew move in for the money shot of Elizabet being carried down the stairs of the porch as she and the majority of the witches move out. The two helping her clearly do not want their faces on camera but cannot hide as they help her down. Elizabeth hisses something at him and about 8 witches surround her and obscure the camera's view. Oddly enough it is at that moment that the cameraman mentions something about his camera rebooting...

Elizabeth and her group getaway and avoid the rest of the EMS people as her group goes one way and the others almost systematically begin to disappear into other directions, causing casual chaos as they do since the police don't seem to know which way to concentrate their efforts and always seem to be redirected in the wrong direction much to Hightail's frustration.

Meanwhile, Channel 26 actually manages to step in front of Jessica as she exits and begins trying to obstruct her exit as he barrages her with questions with a camera in her face. She seems to handle it well but never stops moving.

Lionel likely looks for that Orange Cat in the last place he saw it, in the room where they fought with the possessed statues and the cat may very well have saved his life. All he finds are the piles of rubble left from those statues and a clay flower pot stylized to look like a fluffy orange cat.

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Things wind down quickly and once the PD has the all-clear, they move in and begin taping off the property and the house as they begin their own investigation. The EMS people and Fire Dept. move in checking the team for injuries after unsuccessfully trying to intercept the Blackwells as they made their exit... Where are the witches now anyway?

One of them comment: What did these guys get into?

One of the Police is standing beside the Ecto, jotting notes and looks up at the first GB to show up. Hey, I have to file a report... this vehicle was involved in an accident down the street. Sideswipe. You were working an emergency, so it isn't qualified as a hit and run, but we have to get this paperwork moving and check for negligence... Who was the driver?

Jamie will be waiting on the lawn for Lionel and anyone else wanting to give a statement.

Hightail is busy trying to organize the situation that quickly got out of his hands as the Blackwells made their exit. He snags....

1- Jason
2- Joker
3- Lionel
4- Mac
5- Roy
6- Julia
[1d6]=4

Mac stepping in front of the big man and looking him in the eye. Okay... I need the real rundown of what happened here. First off, who here is hurt, so we can get them treated, second, I need names of all those that were here and left, and third just give me the details, preferably in order, what happened. You can take it nice and slow. I am going to be on this all day it looks like.

Cool: Official Authority [7d6]=23 G: [1d6]=3

If you want to resist you will have to roll a higher cool than he just did, but you are certainly feeling both the professional burden and the weight of the law he carries with his position on this one.

Anyone wanting to try for a last-minute boost in PBs can roll Mod Cool for their interview on camera with either news station.

Inventory:   

Ecto: 1 PKE Extention for Phones, PKE Extention, Ecto Goggles - M, 1 Slime Blower, 1 Sniffer
======================================================================
Jason: Phone, Proton Pack
Lionel: Phone, Proton Pack
Roy: Phone, Proton Pack, Trap, Ecto Goggles - M
Joker: Ecto Keys, Phone, Traps x3
Mac: Phone, Proton Pack, Ecto Goggle - A.
Julia: First Aid Kit.
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Witches: Mary Duncan's Book of Shadows, Hex Bag
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Joker's Field Generator: Shorted out. Sandwichboarded to the Livingroom Floor. [Proton Pack, PKE - A, 2 Traps cobbled together for a Field Generating Device]

Phylactery in possession of Kelly. Pic

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Brownie Point Spending:
None this round.

Actions?
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Brownie Point Pool:
Dr. Jason O'Roarke: 44/214 @@
Lionel 'Freight Train' Williams: 110/188 @
Roy O'Dowd: 60/157 @@
Dzjokar "Joker" Jelal: 193/260
David "Mac" McAuslan: 47/191

Julia Dunst: 44/44

Jessica: 11/75
Kelly: 13/75
Elizabeth: 34/75

@ = One free re-roll without ghost die.  Merry Christmas 2019 & 2020!