The party arrived at Morgan Village just after lunch. They passed through the little village (Holiday Inn, hotel, general store, gas station and a few houses), and traversed down the southern edge of the Morgan Woods, along an unsealed road, and stopped at where the Morgan creek left the woods (about the middle of the bottom edge of the rectangular woods).
Here, Cello cast her Locate Person spell using belongings of Cletus and Drowbar.
- Cletus was located in the general store of Morgan (bordering on SW corner of the woods)
- Drowbar was in the north-eastern corner of the woods.
Jacob and Leon went into Morgan to investigate and, sure enough, spotted Cletus. He was with two others. They were on heavy motor-bikes, and dressed as bikers. The gang patch name was "Morte Christe".
Asking around, the bikers had been in this area for "about a month". The four escapees had escaped the penitentiary six days ago.
While the group was waiting by the creek, several bikers passed by, some going west and some east. In fact, this kept up all day.
Jacob & Leon returned and the whole party went west down the road. There was a big biker camp here, on the SE corner of the woods, with heaps of bikers, like about 40. The party withdrew back to the Morgan creek and made camp (a la RV) there.
Having no further need for Cello, Jacob took her back to Philly (she had been paid her $2000 in advance).
Thursday night, June 26
All the bikers came into Morgan and went to the Morgan hotel to drink and party.
Reginald reconnoitered and hung about in a corner of the bar.
Leon and Theo kept guard in camp, fishing in a swimming hole of the Morgan creek. Leon caught a huge cat-fish.
Ebony and Sledge sneaked down the road to the site of the biker camp. Sledge had his gen II night-vision goggles, and Ebony had her Etheric goggles (which act as gen 3 night-vision goggles). There were two biker chicks in camp tidying, and no-one else. Ebony and Sledge melted into the forest and headed down a forest path to the site of where Drowbar had been located by Cello's spell.
Thursday midnight, June 26
An hour later they came to the site. There was a clearing in the forest with two log cabins, a well, a small woodshed and an outhouse. It looked olde worlde, but it was all faux and made of modern materials.
They snuck inside, the place wasn't even locked, and did a little search. They guessed seven were staying in the cottages.
The bikers left the hotel at 2 am and headed back to their camp.
They then followed some other forest paths. They found nothing of significance, but this took a goodly time and it was 5 am by the time they got back to the RV to sleep.
Thursday 5:10 am, June 27: New Moon
Friday sunrise 5:34 am, June 27
Brother Theo was up at first light to perform matins, and Reginald for his morning acoustic calisthenics. They then proceeded to make a noisy breakfast, much to the annoyance of the sleepy Sledge and Ebony.
Then fished all morning. Leon caught another cat-fish.
Friday midday, June 27
Not wanting to give the bikers any grounds for suspicion, they upped camp and headed into Morgan to the Holiday Inn camp-ground. Jacob got himself a room here too.
Friday sunset 8:33 pm, June 27
Theo and Jacob arrived at the Morgan hotel before dark and got an outside table near the door. Theo had his back to the door so that all the bikers would need to pass near him.
Sure enough, the entire Morte Christe gang arrived, and they streamed in to the hotel. Theo made careful note as to how many set off his Sixth Sense veil detection.
The total was 34 bikers, 10 biker-chicks. 15 of the bikers set off Theo's detector and 1 of the girls. So this meant 16 were either fae or werewolves.
Meanwhile, Ebony and Sledge snuck back into the forest and headed down a second forest path off the biker camp. This lead about twenty minutes to another clearing. In here, were some standing stones. But Ebony's etheric goggles revealed a hovering, swirling cloud-like mass, the size of a bear, right in the centre of the circle. This thing didn't appear in Sledge's goggles at all. Many of the stones of the circle had been scratched, too, by large claws.
They headed back up to the cabins, and waited, and waited. The intent was to take out some of the bikers, so Sledge had his PSG1 with a night-scope (gen 2).
Saturday early morning, June 28
Drowbar arrived with six others. Sledge decided not to make the kill shot, after all.
Sledge and Ebony headed back to the standing stones. It was the same as before (cloud and all), but there was fresh urine on the grass. So they headed back through the forest to Morgan.
Saturday morning, June 28
Jacob phoned Cello and described the standing stones. He deliberately didn't mention what Ebony had seen.
She said standing stones are normally built on the site of ley line crosses. She suggested a nexus could be built there.
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