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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9493920" data-attributes="member: 7041055">The night I died. by Robin D Laws. “Mr. Black and Mr. Blue are some of the most persuasive men in America,” said Trey.Lala started sprinting. “You can't persuade when you can’t catch!”October 30, down in Nawlins. Lala Santinella has an uncommon problem. Her daughter Devi’s orphanage is hemorrhaging money. Despite getting the location for free (it was the former home of self-destructive vigilante The Penitent), the place had ten children and two French chefs. Silver candlesticks, caviar… A bit upscale for a charity.JP Diamond, hometown detective, was achieving greatness with his girlfriend Captain Ivanova… until he disrupted the afterglow to question her loyalty. And worse, she decided to storm out and crash on his sister-in-law’s couch. So he had two women mad at him.Elsewhere in town, Thaza O’Rourke decided to steal a pocket watch from a visiting Arabian prince… and as an ex-con, the suspicion fell on the Jade Jaguar, Tácito Uriel Velasco.Oh, and there was a case! Kent DeWitt, society swell, was worried that his fiancée had gone around the bend. The players visited fiancée Therese, who she said was perfectly fine. Just ask her housekeeper, Mrs. Boutelle. The group was suspicious, but overplayed their hand and we asked to leave.Thaza, the cat burglar raised by apes, decided to case the place. And soon enough, Therese was sleepwalking through the New Orleans fog. Not the safest move…Luckily, her criminal guardian angel was able to guide her away from some French Quarter muggers! Therese arrived at her destination, still unconscious… the local zoo. The sleepwalking woman had a one-way conversation with an entity she called Queen Nitocris, requesting more time. Thaza watched warily as the walker woke, shadowing her home and preventing further mishaps.The next day was just as rife with incident. The group investigated a Pickman exhibition at a local gallery. There, they found Therese had been associated with society matron Juanetta Crane. But when they tried to visit Crane, her street was filled with a jazz funeral. And she had given all her money to something called the Anthropos Foundation.The group needed a way to get Therese alone, so they invited her to a fundraising holiday party at the orphanage. They confronted her, and she shared the horrible truth.She had been in a car accident six weeks ago, but her soul was pulled back into her body because of Kent’s love. If the group would break up her engagement, she could pass on to heaven and he could move on. Until then, they were cursed, and would suffer for knowing she malingered between realms.The ZSS foursome decided to visit an open house of the Anthropos Foundation. Of course, they shouldn’t do it as detectives, so it was time for Halloween costumes!JP, who had patched things up with his girlfriend, decided to go as a parrot and dress his pet parrot up as himself. Tango was mostly OK with this, but kept chewing on her tie. Tacito, picking up on an Egyptian theme to the case, decided to disguise himself as a mummy.  Lala wore a Mina Harker stunt-double costume, and Thaza was the Headless Horseman.Awkwardly, the Anthropos mixer was not a costume party. Still, the group got the lay of the land: a collection of society folks were here, hoping to have leader Trey Natal solve their spiritual problems. (The most amusing problem was Lorna Geary, who claimed the spirits made her unlucky in love… as she successfully flirted with Tacito and Thaza.) There was a boring speech, and the group learned that the society wasn’t founded on magic… Simply flim-flam, rewriting wills, and hypnotism!  But that meant that Therese was…Sleepwalking into the local zoo! Lala put all her driving skill to use, roaring through the fog like a banshee. The group arrived just in time to stop poor hypnotized Therese from opening the leopard cage!Thaza freed the local apes, demanding they follow her instructions. Unfortunately, they were very distracted, stopping the cassowaries from clawing them to pieces!The group confronted the crooked zookeeper who worked for Trey, but quickly realized there was little to be gained by fighting wild animals. instead, they fled to the police, making one of the weirder reports of the night.After that chaos, Teresa wanted to return home. The gang insisted on protecting her from vengeful criminals, and she was safe in her room… until Mrs. Boutelle gave a command. The brainwashed girl dove for the street, only to be saved by Thaza! The ‘Horseman’ swung on a strand of Halloween lights, saving Therese. Lala tackled the old woman, who was secretly Trey’s mother and a vital part of the conspiracy.It was solution time. Kent and Therese agreed to be wed immediately, taking their honeymoon “anywhere but New Orleans.” Thaza reluctantly cleared Tacito’s name. Captain Ivanova used Tango the parrot’s ability to repeat speech to guilt her boyfriend. Lala made a sensible fruit-and-oatmeal breakfast for the orphans.</blockquote>

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