Night of Vengeance
| Night of Vengeance | |||||||||
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| Factions Involved | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven The Midnight Coven | Humanis | ||||||||
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Cauldron Heart of the Tempest No Significant Harassment Onigiri | Duncan MacDonald | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | Duncan is MIA | ||||||||
| Metaplot is currently not filled in, but I plan to make this part of a metaplot, still to be submitted to Thematics | |||||||||
Summary
A Coven demands vengeance for an unpunished murder
Background
Sofia Doxiadis, a cyclops and a high ranking member of the Midnight Coven, a neo-anarchist awakened commune, had been recently murdered by an unknown assailant, suspected to have ties with human supremacists groups. The police investigations have been inconclusive, possibly due to some amount of tampering, and now the Coven is demanding vengeance. Jin-sung Myeong, a wealthy member of the Coven, opted to bypass the internal council and use their personal money to hire runners, to avoid both some of their sisters to fall to the allure of darker arts, and the inevitable wider scale bloodshed that would happen in case the organization at large would move against the local chapter of Humanis.
The Meet
In a slightly unusual way, the fixers contacted the runs with a certain haste, urging them to get to the Last Drop, a shady and dingy dive bar in the barrens of Puyallup, as fast as possible, as the meeting with the Johnson was set within the hour. All but Tempest managed to make it in time (she just arrived late).
Jin-sung Myeong appeared very hurried and stressed, explaining the broader context of what had happen. Sofia, a personal friend and esteemed member of the coven, got in what appeared to be a bar brawl, that resulted in her being gunned down by an unknown human. Accounts of the event vary, but there is video evidence, captured by the bar's camera system. The footage, once reviewed, showed how the cyclops was just using her words, only retaliating with magic once hit by a bottle, which then resulted in the shots fired. In the trid, the man pulling the trigger appears to sport a flaming sword tattoo, which the team identifies as a symbol of self identification within meta-racist/human supremacists organization, started as an identifier of the Alamos 20000 terrorist organization, the most extreme, violent and fringe elements of the movement, later reclaimed by the more moderate (if still decidedly metaracist) Humanis Policlub, and the armed wings under the wider organization.
The Johnson urges the team to act quickly, as recently KE declared that the case was to be investigated and prosecuted not as homicide, but rather a possible "excess of lawful self defense", which meant the perpetrator could very possibly never be put in jail. This made the witches understandably upset, and the climate of rage brewing could lead them to dark paths, both in the destructive and the self-destructive sense, so, they request that the responsible is brought to real justice, be it by assassination or, ideally, being personally brought in front of the coven's council, and his fate left to them to decide.
Before any further investigation, Cauldron comments that if the target was a patron of the bar, there are good chances he made purchases under his SIN, making identifying him easier. So, he went and tried to talk the bartender into giving him that information, but due to some competent but less then spectacular conmanning on his end, that sadly went nowhere