Previous Murders

Tuesday Night (cont.)

Theo's Sixth Sense was going off, so the vampire must have been still around. So he separated from the party, and started to mutter under his breath "I really need to talk to you. Give me a sign".

A pebble whacked on his head. So he wandered off in a quiet alley. Sure enough, the creature

Vampire Mina Nerissimo

descended next to him. This was the svelte vampire girl from the bar. Theo and her got talking and she revealed her name, Mina Nerissimo, and that "we didn't kill these two corpses. Someone else is trying to blame us" and "We are not the only ones who can exsanguinate and seal the wounds" and "You find out who did, and we shall be eternally grateful. Eternal with a capital E. Meet me here tomorrow and midnight."

The party proceeded to the second site, closer to the Delaware river.

This place was also guarded by a cop, but he was a lot more bored and a lot easier to distract. So they managed to investigate the site. There was less blood here (or else the Police had cleaned it up).

Wednesday Morning, June 4

Theo and Mort did some supernatural research; besides vampires, there were four groups of creatures that can heal similarly: the Sidhe (fairy folk), the Arisen (mummies), the Mages, and the Sin-eaters (the possessed). However, the Sidhe, Arisen and Mages use blood in their rituals, but not the Sin-eaters.

Also, Sledge did some work through his police contacts. About ten years ago, there was a similar spate of drained bodies found. Five bodies, all drained, all healed. A Detective Eleanor Street was the head D on this, but she left the force soon after this. The case was never solved.

Wednesday Night

Vampire Oberon Sanchez

That night at the Khyber Pass Bar & Grill, where Juan worked, both Brother Theo and Mort's hackles rose; their sixth sense could detect a supernatural disturbance nearby. Sure enough, a vampire was at the bar chatting up a girl there. Ebony bravely confronted him, and he motioned her out the back to "have a word". When alone, he slammed her against the wall and lifted her up by her throat. He was named Oberon. He knew about Mina, but knew nothing about these murders. He was just pissed at the party for confronting him. There was no love lost between Mina and Oberon.

Midnight rolled around and Vince and Ebony went to the rendezvous to meet Mina. They had an altercation with three street punks; the leader of which was shot in the head by Vince. They hid his body in a skip.

Mina arrived and demanded an update. There wasn't much to report apart from Eleanor's case of ten years ago. Mina wasn't in Philly then, so had no recollection herself. She would meet them in two night's time, this time at the base of the gang-way onto the battleship New Jersey, now a floating museum in the Delaware river.

Thursday Morning, June 5

Sledge managed track down where Eleanor Street had ended up : New Caledonia. He phoned and eventually got through to her. The lead was promising, but Eleanor refused to say anything too damning over the phone. So Sledge decided to fly out there. The flight cost $5000 and would take twenty hours via Los Angeles.

Friday Morning, June 6

Det. Eleanor Street

Sledge arrived in Nouméa. Detective Eleanor Street now worked for the island police. She met
Sledge at the airport and they got chatting. Eleanor admitted that she was ridiculed by her police colleagues over her theories of the Supernatural being involved; so much so that she left them and shifted out. It took Sledge a while to reassure her, and that he, too, believed in the Veil.

When Sledge mentioned the mummy, mage and fae theory, Eleanor suddenly recalled that the Philadelphia Natural History museum had a collection of Egyptian artifacts, including some mummies, and that a night guard had been killed back in 2004.