I start the day, or night depending how you look at it, earlier. I head over to the bar to talk to Richard. I know what I'm going to give Kat for Christmas but I need some insight into the Uratha side of things and Richard knows Kat very well. Ohm is already up as is Red and they both decide to head over with me and have a drink. Irish coffee is a great way to start the day. We also talk to him about the oddness of the gauntlet strength at this school we've been investigating. All of the usual signs for the weakening of the gauntlet are not present. We also talk to the shaman of the pack who doesn't have any explanation either. We just chalk it up to something related to SnB. Regardless it does seem whatever it was has happened over a lengthy period of time. So we ask the shaman if he could go to the school and strengthen the gauntlet. He agrees and as soon as dusk falls we tell Danno our plan and we accompany the shaman. A couple of the wolves go with us, the shaman has his own bodyguards.
Nothing seems to have changed with the school. Still that same evil stench of fear. The shaman finds the relative center of the building and begins his ritual while the rest of us stand guard. Soon the images of the dead children start flickering in and out. The images coupled with the general feel of this place begin to unnerve the wolves a bit. I put out a gentle wave of calm and tell everyone to stand fast. Nothing here can harm us. It works a bit and about an hour later the shaman is finished. We start to head for the exit when Red notices something in the corner. It is a gun and it wasn't there yesterday. It's a police issue beretta. Danno immediately scans the area for corpses, one of the perks of being Death. Well maybe perk is the wrong word, either way it's one of the things he can do as Death. There is a new corpse and he leads us to it. We enter a room towards the back and Danno says the corpse should be right here at his feet. We don't see anything. I peer into twilight and through the gauntlet and still don't see anything. Ohm scans the room for hidden entrances or compartments and turns up nothing. I extend my mind into twilight and move through the floor. Underneath us is another room with no apparent exits. It looks like a half finished classroom but I still don't see anything there. I return to my body and inform the others. We are all a bit perplexed as to where this corpse is. Danno does his other Death trick and takes over the corpse. When he returns to his body he says the corpse belongs to the capt whose mind I entered yesterday. Danno did not know where the room was that the corpse was in but it was filled with death and nasty instruments of pain and suffering. SnB was in the room with him. They chatted for a bit about and death and things. Danno had that look of wanting to kick kittens and he started off to one of the bathrooms. We stopped him and he said he was going to call this things name and kill it. I told him I think this is a bad idea. This is an ancient and powerful fae and we don't even know where this room actually is. We have no guarantee we can even get back out. I point out that this thing is bound to this location and we have strengthened the gauntlet. I will change the records of ownership to us and I will close this school down. Without a supply of children to feed on this thing will eventually starve. With the appropriate wards and the already nasty feeling this place exudes nobody is going to go near it. Danno is ok with the plan but breaks all the mirrors just in case. Ohm is not comfortable with leaving this creature here like that. I suggest we go talk to the Lady Abigail about it. If it comes down to it I will place a ban on the whole building preventing any consciousness from entering it.
The Palace is quite abuzz with activity. Lylith is busy telling everybody what to do. Apparently she is very much in the christmas spirit. The Lady Abigail is not in the usual places, we find out she is in her personal quarters. Never been in there before. We take a special elevator to the top of the Palace and it opens into a waiting chamber for her quarters. She calls us in and we find her staring out a window. The chambers are huge. A quick measurement shows it being way to large to fit at the top of the Palace. More of that Space magic going on. The Lady Abigail says that Lylith does not want her to be out in the Palace while she is decorating. She doesn't want to ruin the surprise. Lylith is such a strange creature, one day she is throwing cars and impaling vampires on light posts, the next she is a 9ft tall Martha Stewart. We inform the Lady of SnB and what we have done. We feel the best way to deal with this thing is to leave it trapped there but we thought she should know about such a creature residing in her city. She is ok with our plan and even dispatches some gargoyles to keep watch over the place. This makes Ohm feel better. We thank her for her time and excuse ourselves. For the meantime we have things taken care of and with christmas fast approaching we have our own preparations to be making. On the way out I decide that we should probably tell Lylith about our present for the Lady. I don't want it to mess with her decorations. I don't want to see what she would do with a glue gun. Lylith is curious and returns to the warehouse with us and we unveil our lifesize snow angel. Lylith loves it and says she can work it into her decorations.
We all head off to do our own little things. I have some jewelry to make.
Cygin