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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 2072744" data-attributes="member: 835">...And then he looks up, because the thoughts just keep coming. His eyes move to the collected evidence in the room. Finally, Jibril speaks quietly. "We don't know what we're up against, do we. Elias followed this story all the way around the world, and found enough to write a book he thought would make him rich before even finding that shop in Harlem.  "Miriam suggested that the people who killed Elias might be the Bloody Tongue cult that was in his notes. I think she is right. This is the cult that his other letters say might have massacred the Carlyle expedition, even if Jackson was skeptical. His research focused on the fate of that expedition, right? But in tracking them down, he discovered something. Something horrible." He picks up one of Elias's notes, and reads it out loud. "Quote,   "Jackson knew what the Bloody Tongues were up to, in the end. 'They'll open the gate,' he says. I don't know what that means, but I guarantee you it will be no good, and I am sure it's not limited to creating zombies in a Harlem basement. Elias didn't live to explain it to us better, but he meant to warn people, to make them believe. He also must have meant to stop it." He waits to see if the others look at him as if he's been in the desert without water for too long.</blockquote>