Dark*Matter: Discovery, the Beginning

[iwatt]

Seeing the skelton crumple down, Larry let's out a loud victory holler. "Burn baby burn!".

Seeing the bones begin to reassemble makes Larry pause in id celebration. "What the hell!" Turning towards Cyrus and the Hispanic, he calls out, "Bring some books to build a bonfire. The fire seems to hurt him." Turning back towards the reassembling nightmare, Larry pokes it once more with his torch.


OOC: BTW, it's "Mierda". Feel free to consult me on any spanish cursewords, it is my maternal tongue .

 

[industrygothica]

Still groaning fromhis wound, Nick scrambles to find some paper, be it a book, magazine, or scratch paper laying around for notes. He hears the celebration going on below and peers over the balcony to see what's going on. His eyes open wide as he sees Akhentanen's bones begin to reassemble themselves, and he runs back over to Meredith and her waiting matches.

He quickly shreds whatever paper he can find makes a small pile of makeshift kindling. After it catches, he takes the urn and places it in the middle of the fire. Instinctively, he grabs Meredith and backs away to a semi-safe distance.

 

[Falkus]

Nick and Meredith ignited a fire, and placed the urn in it. Almost immediately, white flames ignited on the outside of the urn, and in less than a second, the blaze completely consumed it, burning white hot for a few seconds. When the flames vanished, the urn was gone, leaving only a hole burnt into the floor.

In the main library area, a circle of golden light snapped up from underneath Akhentanen's remains. It was blindingly bright, forcing everybody to avert their eyes, and when it disappeared, the remains of the skeleton were gone. All that was left was the bronze short sword that Cade had taken.

And then, the front door of the library burst open, and three men in blue uniforms who were carrying guns burst in. "Chicago police, nobody move!" they shouted.

 

[Friadoc]

"About time," shouts Cade as the light envelops the skeleton, but before the cops burst into the room.

However, as soon as the cops arrive Cade stops staring at the sword in his hands, dropping it to floor and trying to look as law abiding as possible, he says as he points to ponytail-man's corpse, "The man you're looking for is right over there, officers, the dead guy with the ponytail."

OOC

Cade will be quite co-operative with the authorities, in fact he will let them know what happened from his perspective with ponytail-man, but he will keep the skeleton-pharoah close to his vest until he knows what the other people in here will say on the subject.

Also, on a side note, if possible, Cade is gonna keep the sword, a trophy of his first jaunt on the shadowy side of things. *grins*

By the way, his sidearm is holstered and secure, although it will show that it has spent rounds. Cade has a permit and license for the weapon, as well as being a bonded and licensed security operative/contractor.

 

[Shayuri]

When she hears the voices from below, including the police, Meredith sags with relief against the table.

"It's over...we actually won. We..."

Then she blinks as what happened actually sinks in.

"My GOD! Do you realize what just happened?!" she blurts at Nick. "An actual supernatural event! And I have it on my camera! From the murders to the...the skeletong, to the urn...all of it! I even did some research, dug up some backstory, but that's nothing compared to...to..." she waves a finger at the stairs. "It's proveable! All those Egyptian curses and mummies and so on! We can PROVE it!"

Meredith gasps in a breath then asks, "It's lucky you were here though. How do you know so much about all this? Are you some kind of...I don't know...magician or something?"

 

[kinem]

(ooc: Thanks jw. I may take you up on that. I got the spelling from some web site.)

Diego sits down on one of the remaining intact chairs and opens his jacket and shirt to try to take a look at the wound.

"What ... happenned? Did I go crazy and start smashing ..." looking at Cade "Was it you who stabbed me dude ... or was it a ... skeleton?"

 

[industrygothica]

"My GOD! Do you realize what just happened?!" she blurts at Nick. "An actual supernatural event! And I have it on my camera! From the murders to the...the skeletong, to the urn...all of it! I even did some research, dug up some backstory, but that's nothing compared to...to..." she waves a finger at the stairs. "It's proveable! All those Egyptian curses and mummies and so on! We can PROVE it!"

Meredith gasps in a breath then asks, "It's lucky you were here though. How do you know so much about all this? Are you some kind of...I don't know...magician or something?"

"Magician?" grins and shakes his head. "No. I'm just an archaeologist. I just happen to have done a lot of research on Egyptian lore."

Nick sits back and leans against the wall, his arm resting on one knee with his other led outstretched in front of him. Regarding her camera, Nick says "Better hold on tight to those. You're going to need them. The police are never going to believe any of this. In fact, I can't think of anyone who will. Well, except for one..." Nick trails off, deep in thought. As quietly as possible, he tries to get to a computer without being noticed by those below so that he can confirm any sort of contact information to the Hoffman Institute.

 

[yestotom]

Cops? I knew this would happen. I'm screwed. As soon as the cops enter, Cyrus is immediately aware that he must hide his guns. Unless he is clearly in front of the cops, he will try to sneak into the nearest stacks and hide his guns behind some books.

 

[iwatt]

Clearing the action and putting the safety of his newly aquired gun, Larry put's the gun behind his back. Moving towards the wall, he looks for a fire extinguisher with which to put out the fires. After he is done with that he'll try to move towards the refernce desk and try to settle Janet's nerves.

Cops. At least there was a lot of witnesses.

[sblock=OOC] Larry will hide the credit card he palmed, using Sleight of Hand.[/sblock]

 

[Falkus]

OOC: Everybody gains 1200 experience points

Rechecking the Hoffmann Institutes's website soon turns up phone numbers for their Chicago office, and a general e-mail address that can be used to contact them.

Outside, the rain has stopped, and the police start rounding up everybody who was at the library, and taking them outside, as more police cars and ambulances show up, as well as a few detectives in unmarked cars. Soon, the library was sealed off as the authorities conduct their investigation.

All of the firearms and weapons that you have on you are confiscated, at least temporarily, by the police. Meredith's camera is taken as well (for evidence), but they miss the memory chips she hid in her purse.

Soon, the detectives and police officers were taking statements from the other patrons and staff members of the library, which tended to, from what you could overhear, be fairly hazy on the exact circumstances of what happened after the murderer was killed. They either didn't get a good look at what happened (doubtful), are deliberately lying, or just simply don't want to accept the truth.

When the police finally got around to your group, a blond woman in a white trench coat interceded, flashing her ID and quietly talking with them for a minute, before walking over to you.

"I'm Agent Angelena Lear," she said, quietly. "The other officers think I'm a police detective specializing in cult crimes. I'm actually a member of an organization known as the Hoffmann Institute, and right now, I'm the only person here who's likely to believe anything you might have to say about the supernatural events that happened here tonight."