____ "What do you mean you're leaving? You can't leave," said Anti-Spawn.

____ Lock sighed. Her hesitation was obvious, but so was her decision. "Aww, you big dumb demony thing. You were always such a loveable wittle bear."

____ "I'm not a bear, I'm a murderous fiery demon."

____ "Yeah, suuure you are." She pinched his white, malleable cheek.

____ "You can't just leave with that, that psychopathic clown. Yeah he meant something to you at one point, but then he died. Died, Lock. He's dead. Did he even tell you how he came back?"

____ "Something about rising."

____ "I always get a rise when I look at you, Pumpkin."

____ "Shut the #### up, or I'll rip you in half."

____ The man in the purple suit started laughing. "Touchy, touchy."

____ Lock put her hand on Anti-Spawn's shoulder. "You was always good to me. But, it's Mr. J. He's my puddin'. I belong to him and when he's around I just feel so weak, like a murderous school girl again. That's true love."

____ Anti-Spawn's eyes began to steam from the fire within them. "I thought you wanted to change, weren't we going to play the hero thing?"

____ "We was. But as Mr. J says, that's not who I am. He says I'm a killer, always has been, always will be. How can I change my true nature?"

____ "That's not who you are. You don't have to be that person anymore, you can choose your own path. I was called a monster for as long as I've been out of Hell, but I'm not one. Not anymore."

____ Lock stared at the ground, hiding the pretty eyes that Anti-Spawn had grown to adore. "I'm sorry," she said. She turned around and walked toward the man in the purple suit, who was grinning wildly.

____ Together they turned and walked off.

____ "What about Psynox!" Anti-Spawn shouted after them. "What about the team!"

____ But she was already gone.




____ Gangles must find the others, thought the short man with the determined expression. Gangles is the best detective! Wahh! Will find them. He scurried through rooftop to rooftop, before a scream scared him. He dove into a nearby well and waited there, uneasy and cold.

____ "Gangles is the night, Gangles is the night," he kept whispering to himself through shivers. Then there was silence. The cool night air made the water in the well much colder and the little man didn't want to stay there longer than he had to.

____ He climbed out, and found a body splayed out against the hard stone of his hiding spot. Gangles was unsure about what to do, but after reminding himself that he was, in fact, the night, he reached over and poked the body with a stick.

____ Poke poke, poke, poke, poke. Then the eyes blinked open. Gangles dropped his stick and ran.

____ He looked back and saw that the body was now standing. Recently turned by some wicked fiend, it would now join the other terrors in the darkness.




____ Wineskin realized earlier on that while she and Rexinator were flying they wouldn't be attacked by the bloodsuckers. The creatures had wings, but most couldn't get five feet off the ground. Psycrow explained that they were probably for gliding and quick bursts.

____ "Like sugar gliders," he said.


____ The three of them soared away from the town, where a big object awaited them in the distance.

____ "Where are we going?"

____ "My friends and I arrived here on a ship known as the Ark. I'd forgotten about it, but once we get it started again we can use the ship's weaponry to fry these hungry little bastards and save the town."

____ As they drew in, Wineskin waved her hand around in a circle and formed a small lazy swirl of light. The light illuminated the ship in the distance. Well, what was left of it.

____ "Those greedy ####s!" Shouted Wineskin.

____ The ship had been salvaged for parts. Many pieces were missing, scrap was left randomly around the hull, and some was even smashed or in pieces.

____ "That's a huge ship."

____ "It used to be. Now look at it. The merchants must have done this while we've been separated and hiding out in the inn. ####. #### this damn town and everything in it."

____ They rode back to the inn.


____ Unfortunately, the inn had been torched to the ground. On a misshapen wooden plank outside, someone had written "No more outsiders".

____ "Great. Just great. Come on, there's a huge hospital near the center of town, we'll hide out on the roof. Maybe we'll get lucky and find Reaper and the others hiding there too."




____ The black ooze bubbled and popped as the young woman stepped through it and into the dark tunnel. Her rainbow outfit and blonde hair created its own light.

____ "You," said a low voice. "You are the wrong one."

____ "Oh," said the young woman. "It's cool. Man am I hungry though, there a burger place around here?"

____ "You must return."

____ "In there? Nah."

____ "You must return," a scythe glinted in the dim light.

____ "Wait let’s talk about this."

____ A pale woman hovered towards her out of the darkness. She had ripped flesh and a flowing green cape.

____ The scythe would have dropped, if a rumbling in the tunnels hadn't alerted them both to the presence of something new. Something was running and it was running hard.

____ The young woman held out her palm and beam of rainbow light shown through.

____ Coming towards them was a hulking man, at least seven feet tall. He was green, with crimson pants that looked like a smattering of leather and hide. Across the man's muscular chest a lightning bolt had been carved into his body leaving a huge noticeable scar.

____ "You must return," came the voice again.

____ The scythe was pulled back, and the scarred man leapt towards them, brandishing a huge battle axe in one hand and a falchion in the other. The falchion slashed into the pale woman, carving through her flesh like a pen into an old book. The battle-axe knocked her back.

____ "RUN!" Bellowed the scarred man. His voice was thunder and rage.

____ The young woman ran through the tunnels, she knew the pale wraith would only be distracted for so long.


____ Some time later, she reached the town above.




____ The man was dressed in red, from head to toe. "Dat way you blood cannot see," he said one time, jokingly. There was an old church beside the castle, and from his current "investigations" he knew that's where they'd be.

____ After climbing a wall near the edge of the structure, he eased his way through a creaky window and onto the rafters. He crawled along the rafters until two figures entered the great doors of the church near the other end.

____ "Look we work together," the girl was saying.

____ "Yeah we work well, really well. I do a lot of things...really well. I'm just sayin' " Said a hairy man.

____ "I'm not having sex with you,"

____ "Come on sweetheart, they must call you Box for a reason."

____ "It's Ghost Box, you dog. And I don't like men."

____ "Have you even tried? I bet I could turn your whole world around."

____ The girl grabbed a chain from around her belt, and engulfed it with fire. "Keep pushing me."

____ "Oh I like where this is going."

____ There was some rustling outside and a scream which cut the engagement short. The hairy man nodded and exited the church to find out what was going on.

____ Yas good. She is good target, thought the man in red. He lowered himself off the side of the rafters behind her and silently slid down until he was behind the pews. He pulled a rope out of his pocket and started sneaking towards her.

____ Just before he reached her, one of the windows to the church shattered and the girl fell to her knees. She grabbed at her neck, started coughing, and then died in the aisle. The box she was holding tumbled under a pew.

____ Sniper.

____ The hairy man burst through the large church doors and saw the girl's body bleeding all over the floor, with the man dressed in red beside her.

____ "What have you done?!" Growled the man.

____ "It vasn't-" but there was no time. The hairy man was running through the aisle on all fours.

____ The man in red tried to fight back, but the hairy man's green claws had become massive. They dug into the red man's chest rapidly and savagely.

Mafia: Midnight - does that indicate a second mafia?

Midnight Sons as mafia theme? Damian Hellstrom, Ghost Rider, Jennifer Kale, Morbius, Werewolf by Night?

Recruitment looks much different than the first two.

Not sure what to make of Gangles and Lock n Load. Writeups seem to indicate Lock is not town anymore. Maybe IR is just pretending to be her?

Hairy man seems like the mafia killer.

Don't see Rokk's kill, so I'm trusting him for now.

No kidnapping last night either.

Girathon, what can you tell me about your night last night?

OOO! OOO!

Rokk. BANG! Natta.

I also think Danni Carlyle is still out there unless she was a ghost-write, but I'm inclined to believe the Mafia has two Ghost Riders.

Why the hell wasn't quebbs given more protection?

Damn. I'm pretty sure I was messed with last night.

*shakes head*

GIIIIRRRAAA?

Those top two statements are not related.

The first was an observation worth pointing out.

I have reason to believe Girathon was targeted last night, so I'd like to find out if he noticed anything.

Vote: colonialbob

I targeted him last night, I failed my action, and now I'm seeing my character come across a dead body that turned into a vampire.

I have strong suspicion that colonialbob was recruited to the cult last night. If there is, in fact, a cult (which I think we're all assuming there is right now), I think they took advantage of people looking past colonialbob to recruit them as a relatively 'safe' choice that people would look past.

If not, colonialbob needs to do some explaining (though if he's truly been recruited, he may not be able to do any explaining). That, or if anyone targeted me for any kind of misdirection or block or other mischief last night, they should speak up now on colonialbob's behalf. Which could very well be the case since a body was found, not necessarily the person I was 'looking for' and attempting to target.

Either way, unless someone else has good information for us to go on, colonialbob may be a very good place to start our investigation today.

Tunnels dark. LOST! LOST!

You see Turg?