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--- dark_conspiracy:chicago_synopsis_4 [2020/02/17 00:57] – [Back to Base] mike_holmes
+++ dark_conspiracy:chicago_synopsis_4 [2020/02/17 09:49] (current) – [A More Urban Farm] mike_holmes
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 Mai's attempt to entangle Jone's mind so he won't dimension walk away has instead lead to her dimension walking into some part of the Fae Realm, a massive marsh area. Her mind inhabits a tall marsh strider thing, which she controls. She drives it towards a building nearby, noting a massive mound off in the distance. Two elves try to hide from her, but she converses with them.
+{{https://i.pinimg.com/564x/73/b8/46/73b8468810cee85223c8cf2c2e326719.jpg?300}}
+Above: the marsh strider Mai controlled.
 They note an ogre approaching, controlled by tendrils from the far off mound. It attacks and Mai's strider thing picks it up and detaches the vines. From the ogre, still held, Mai learns that the thing wants to control everything everywhere, and basically consumes anything to grow. Also that it is fae and harmed by iron. She lets the ogre go, and it plods off.
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 Bull offers them drugs, and Mai asks for ones to make her forget things. Everyone gets in the van, and they drive off into the late night.
-====== Back to Base ======
+====== New Excursions Delayed ======
+===== Back to Base =====
 The group takes a trip to the Craft Bar, where Bull and Math are given briefings, and then back to the base for more. Axe shows Bull the ogre, and they discuss whether all legends have some basis in reality or not.
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 Spenser reveals that he's got a corpse of one of the things from under Union Memorial Cemetery on ice. Also it's Panix's turn with the book. But the ground bones of the thing under the cemetery can help them open portals (hence why he kept one). They decide they do want the book, and rather than wait for Panix to turn up back a the Citadel, they'll go track her down at the KAM temple where her new group studies.
+===== KAM Temple =====
+They arrive in Bull's exterminator van at the temple on the south side, to find it besieged by anti-Semitic protesters. Panix and her friends are watching things develop from he roof of the temple. The team get involved with arguments with the protesters. Leo finds an alley, and fires shots into the air, calling it in. The dispatcher tells him that a security team from the University of Chicago (not far away) is on it's way.
+Math gets involved with fighting the now chaotic crowd, and ends up injured with a broken arm. Mai uses her empathic powers to further confuse and scare the crowd, but this burns Mai out empathically. Leo shoots a would-be arsonist, and the man is set on fire. Leo finishes him off with a shot to the head, and he starts shooting into the crowd, scattering them even faster.
+From the roof, Panix uses telepathy to urge Mai to get everybody into the temple. They help each other get inside, and meet Panix there. Bull tells her that they came for the book, and she dimension walks it to herself, and then creates another portal through which everybody starts fleeing. Bull goes back outside and grabs an injured Nazi, and brings him inside, and through the portal.
+The dimension walk tunnel exits at the Craft Bar, miles from where they started. Bull thinks about how to get his van back. Panix, angry, threatens the Nazi with fire sorcery. They borrow Elspeth's car and head back to base.
+===== Returning for the Van =====
+Bull arranges a ride from a contact, and he and Mai return to the van at the Temple, discussing the pumping operation in the South Deering marsh with Louis as they go. He gives them tips on how to sabotage such a pump if needed.
+To Bull's relief, the van and it's contents are still near the temple, and he goes to check it out. Mai confronts somebody watching them from under a nearby tree. He offers to trade some information, and Mai gives him some whiskey. He says that some type of professional plain-clothes cops came and went into the van, and then came out shortly thereafter.
+They examine the van, but can't find anything, getting the feeling that they've missed something. Bull pays his contact with drugs, and they decide to swap the van for a new one at Bull's place of work.
+===== A-1 Pest Control =====
+On the way to A-1 Pest Contol, Bull's employers, Mai tells Bull stories of things the underground has done. Bull tells exterminator stories.
+They arrive at the dispatch yard, and it appears to be fortunately deserted at this time. A big "bug" clambers out of a hiding place they'd missed earlier, and it tries to get out of the van.
+{{http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VUGLsjowhK4/UXeeaM1zEQI/AAAAAAAAAMw/Wx6my5TdA4A/s1600/final+bug+1.jpg?300}}
+Bull grabs some things and they trap the bug in the van with a bug bomb going off. The noises from inside the van cease. Bull puts his stuff into a different exterminator van.
+The dispatcher, Holly, arrives with a date (apparently not having anywhere else to go), not noticing Bull and Mai. Bull and Mai flirt while listening to what's going on in the dispatcher office.
+They quietly find a container to put the bug in, and open the van. Mai stabs it to be sure it's dead... but this actually wakes it up, despite being more damaged than one would think an organism would take (apparently capable of regenerating to some extent). It runs again, and creates a racket in the process that alerts Holly that somebody is in the garage. Bull sets the thing on fire as Holly comes out of the office.
+She sees what's going on, and Bull decides to chase it with a bat. Before he can get to it, the thing stings Holly, paralyzing her, and (perhaps looking to put out the flames) climbs into her mouth.
+{{https://i.pinimg.com/originals/38/4a/26/384a26993766764f969a570ebba725d1.jpg?280}}
+Her date comes out of the office to see what's going on, and sees Bull use a pliers to pull the bug's head off, putting both parts in separate jars. Holly dies. They tie her date up and put him in the new van, along with Holly's corpse, and head out.
+===== Captive's Fate =====
+At Mai's office, Leo arrives, and they try to figure out what to do with Holly's date over drinks. They consider wiping his mind, but note that Mai won't be of any help in this (as she's still empathically burnt out). Bull comes back from the van with some drugs, and suggests using DMT to wipe his brain.
+They partake in some drugs themselves for therapeutic reasons and Leo decides to call Nell. He tries to reassure her as Bull and Mai share a trip.
+Fredrick (one of the three metal boys) pokes his head in, and when Mai and Bull come down, tells them that there's a problem out at the unicorn farm. Mai suggests that perhaps Faith can mind wipe their captive if they take him out there. They depart the office.
+As they try to leave the neighborhood of Mai's office to head for the farm, they note that there's a mob ahead trying to get ATTA (for Airborne Type Two Anthrax) vaccinations from a van that's clearly run out of supplies. This has, apparently, been a scene that's playing out all over the city at the van sites. Leo makes the decision to avoid this distraction, and drives around.
+===== Faith at the Farm =====
+After picking up reinforcements, and several detours, they finally make it to the farm. Loris meets the van, and tells everybody that one of the elves has Faith upset, claiming that Faith is upsetting the nature of reality locally. Mai and Leo argue about whether or not to side with elves. They decide to ask questions, before just blasting the elf kids.
+Faith is found on her makeshift "Throne" holding court over the farm-yard. She claims everything is fine. Mai approaches the elf kids with food. Ovil seems to want to play things down, but his little sister is concerned, claiming that Faith is bringing the Green Man and his ogres to the farm. Mai can feel that, in fact, Faith is using the unicorn's energy to break down the dimensional barriers to the Fae Realm.
+Mai goes to visit the unicorn (which the elf girl has taken to calling Candy), and convinces it to stop sending power to Faith. Faith is infuriated, and starts to lift Leo up off the ground with her telekinesis. Mai returns to Faith and the rest, and Faith drops Leo.
+Mai tells her to stop breaking down the walls, but Faith claims she's creating her own new reality, and isn't sure who's invited. Mai argues that Faith should be grateful that they saved her, when she was trying to kill them. Faith argues that it's not really being saved if she isn't free to be herself.
+Leo cuts through the argument by announcing a death sentence for Faith. He explains that she's too dangerous to be allowed to live, much to Loris' dismay. Faith stands to defend herself, and Leo puts a bullet in her head. Mai questions why he did this.
+Loris, inconsolable, pulls a gun on Leo. Mai uses wind to prevent him from aiming. So instead he puts the gun to his own head. After a brief argument, he throws his gun away and heads off into the trees to be alone.
+Mai goes back to the unicorn. She discusses the state of affairs with Beta Three, who suggests maybe she should apologize to Leo about shooting Ezra. And generally to use more diplomacy with her team-mates than force in the future.
+They decide to head back to Chicago, intending to go to the DBC finally, and leave Fredrick in charge of watching after Loris. Before they leave, Loris demands that Faith be buried on the farm. Mai wants to take her body back to Chicago so they can use it as an offering to the Tall Ones in the DBC (telling Loris that she'll be "serving the underground").
+Mai and Leo argue about who has been less responsible with killing members of the underground. Loris figures out what's up, and tells Mai she should take his body too then. Mai almost kills him, instead shooting him in the arm. Darcy, angry with Mai and Leo, bandages Loris up, and they put him in the van to make sure he gets to a doctor.
+The van ride back is very tense. They return to the base, their captive being very nervous about being brought in blindfolded. They tell Doreen to fix Loris' injuries, but then reconsider, given his morale, and to save Doreen's strength. They start thinking about the impending trip to the DBC.
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-Back to [[Chicago Synopsis 3|Synopsis 3]].
+  * Back to [[Chicago Synopsis 3|Synopsis 3]].
+  * On to [[Chicago Synopsis 5|Synopsis 5]].

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