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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 6711046" data-attributes="member: 57112">Tearin' It UpTearin' It UpA Supernatural adventureIngredients:TearUnderground PassageHopeless QuestGrave NewsTraveling EntertainerCharming DevilHook“Zombies? S#!*.”“Been following the papers for days, hoping it weren't true, but you know the signs sure as shootin'. Cemetery vandalism. Strange flu. Unexplained deaths. The CDC's involvement all but confirms it. The dead are rising from their graves.”Research“Weren't she that chick from 'Merican Idol?”Macon was the first town hit, before heading up to Marietta, Reseca and Dalton. Atlanta was somehow spared, plus all the other podunk towns along the 75. A cross-reference comes up with the locations for Shells Fausey's “Tearin' It Up” tour. Zombies rise the day after she blows through. She'd been playing mostly dive bars, but she's been stirring up some buzz something fierce, and recently booked the show of a lifetime: Nashville, Tennessee.Nashville“I might have talked about waking the dead? I don't know, Wild Turkey makes me all poetical.”Shells Fausey was a semi-finalist on The Voice, but as a black female country artist never made headway in the business. When Blake Shelton stopped returning her calls she returned home to Roberta, just trying to make ends meet. That's when she met the gentleman at the crossroads.Now, the FBI may be ignorant but they ain't idjits. Well, some of 'em ain't idjits. They can put two and two together and get something relatively close to four sometimes, and they've connected the dots on Shells too. They'll pick her up for questioning before her show, if our Hunters don't get to her first. They probably won't believe that she sold her soul to the devil for one last shot. Our Hunters know better. Will these washed up numbskulls never learn? Stealing her out from under the FBI's nose won't be easy. Something feels off about her, and any sort of supernatural detection will reveal a strange aura about her. She'll register as neither living nor dead, as if she represents some sort of tear in the fabric between life and death. It's damn freaky. She'll spill that she might have maybe sort of made a reference to waking the dead when making her deal? Apparently Wild Turkey makes her dumber than two sacks of hair. Our Hunters better take Shells back to her crossroads to see if they can't get her contract tore up.Underground Railroad“My ancestors would be rolling in their graves, having some white folks smuggle me INTO Georgia. If they're still in 'em, anyway.”The FBI has the 75 locked down. Shells is wanted, so disguises might be a risky play. It's the most direct route, though swarming with agents and zombies. There's safer passage down the backroads. Plenty of re-purposed hideaways from the old slave-freeing days. Keep an eye out for stray zombies. Shells'll ask for a gun to protect herself. She's plenty handy with a pistol, if our Hunters'll spare one. She won't let up if they decline. It'll be a long trip.Crossroads“She is intoxicating. And she is mine.”The dead start rising faster as Shells approaches Roberta. By the time they reach the crossroads they will be swarming. They stop their advance only as long as the crossroads demon is summoned.Montgomery is a marvelous dandy of a demon with a stylish white suit and only the finest southern airs. He is taken with Shells; nothing the Hunters have to offer will be worth more to him than her. He will, however, promise to tell the Hunters how to stop the zombies, so long as they offer him an unspecified favor at some future juncture. No souls, nothing life-threatening, just a friendly quid-pro-quo. If they agree, Monty'll tell them what Shells already suspects: the only thing that'll stop the zombies for good is Shells' death. Whether they agree or decline, Montgomery will return to Hell at the nearest opportunity, unleashing the horde.No Other Way“Shoulda listened to them dumb stories. Maybe next time, right?”If armed, Shells will turn her gun on herself. If not, Shells will demand they kill her. All zombies stop on her death. It would take the devil's own luck for our Hunters to escape the horde with Shells, and then what? Nashville and every other town they've passed will be doomed while they search for some leverage against Montgomery. Shells wont have that on her conscience. It would take extreme lengths to confine and protect Shells. How many lives will be lost in that search, if it even bears fruit? Can our Hunters live with that?</blockquote>

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