maskormenace | JANUARY 10TH, 2016

THE MAJORITY REPORT: JANUARY 10TH, 2016

GOOD TO BE SELFLESS
As seen initially on all major news networks, then on the RSS feeds of news sites:
The gala event of the season was sixty-five million years in the making. Sorry, that's 3.5 billion. The history of life on Earth was on display at De Chima, featuring appearances by some of prehistory's most famous faces. But it was a real, baby T. rex that stole the show, and the hearts of those present. Funds raised by the event benefitted SELF, a new organization providing help to non-humans.

HE'S GOT GAME
As seen on Lulzfeed, Rumblr, BlueTube, everywhere!:
Do you follow Agito and Hiro? Do you like twenty-four hours GAMING LIVESTREAMS? DO YOU SUPPORT CHARITY? Then good news! Agito and Hiro, technologically savvy imPorts, have already played to fundraise (a la Extra Life) on the 1st to raise money for the Heropa Health Clinic.

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
As seen on reporting from national news television, international news cycles, newsprint, amateur BlueTube videos mostly of the green fog descending, botanists discussing the jungle that had replaced Heropa:
Crisis had struck dear Heropa on the day of January 2nd 2016. We thought we could at least have some relative peace in the new year but it only took one day before an incident struck. On the 2nd imPorts were alerted to another imPort causing trouble. What appeared to be a criminal running a rampage turned far worse. A heavy green fog would roll in that day and consume all of Heropa. Many of the citizens and some of the local imPorts were lost inside the fog but the fog was not the only unwelcoming and ominous thing that took place.

When the fog lifted Heropa no longer stood the marvel that we all knew. Instead a jungle took it's place and one can only describe it as a frightening sight. Clearly the work of an imPort had been at hand. Only but a few hours later did we receive a video that revealed the cause of the jungle landscape, one that we dare not show. In short, it had turned out that someone we thought a hero was merely wearing a mask to hide darker intentions. Many would know him as a sprightly character from fiction, one we all grew up with and loved, but instead has proven to be more sinister than we realized. His name, is Peter Pan.

Many imPorts gathered to the edge of the Jungle to thwart whatever spell he had cast and didn't return for four days. On the sixth of January on lookers outside of what could be considered Peter Pan's twisted Neverland saw a golden light spread out from the center of the jungle and like it had never happened, Heropa stood once more.

The locals who had been trapped in Neverland had this to say. "We were trapped, not just inside there but in our own heads. We didn't remember anything about ourselves, but this warped nightmare we were made to think we lived. I don't remember much of it but it was just horrible. The things I saw, the things I did..."
More people commented that it was like some mass brainwashing, that made them do Pan's bidding or worse: be his play things for his brainwashed mass. It can only be described as insidious. Formerly cursed witnesses had said some people had actually died inside the jungle, though the proof of that is still unclear. Ongoing investigations are looking into finding some of the missing people that were inside Pan's Neverland.

In related news, officials believe that in a string of kidnappings that have happened in Maurtia Falls was done by none other than Pan himself. Care takers of some of these children often commented that before the victim was taken they would often speak of a figure playing pan pipes, something that Peter himself is known for. There is no trace of these missing children yet but we are assured that they will be looking into this.

We are still looking from comments from the brave imPorts who thwarted such an evil but we remain here to ask; Where is Peter Pan now? Is he alive? Do we have to fear another curse?

OUT OF YOUR SIGHT
As heard on international air waves:
The girl that Moscow claimed to be Lachesis is now missing.

OUT OF YOUR MIND
As seen in the 24-hour national news cycle:
Moscow has been issuing threats against imPorts. They claim that unnamed imPorts have made attempts against the native human they claim to be Lachesis, and now they have finally succeeded in their plot. The Secretary of State to the US has issued this statement: "Moscow does not have Lachesis, and our imPorts have made no move against this fable. This is but base propaganda intended to spark tension."

But word from Moscow is adamant. ImPorts will pay.

CODE SWITCH
The Homeland Security Advisory System has moved from PLUM to STYGIAN BLUE because of Pan's antics. Thanks, Pan.

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Jesus, that’s a terrible thought.

[ All the more so because Luke is probably right. Gansey is taken vividly back to the attack last month, the injections that were purportedly studying them while making them ill. Nanites. They’re an interest. ]

I wouldn’t call that any kind of safety. The ideal would be finding a way out of here before any of that happened. I won’t be told it’s impossible. We’re just not looking in the right place.

Speaking of, how has that research you've been up to going?

Well, I heard from Dorian – Dorian Gray, I don’t know if you know him – that there were dealings with a ghost a while back, before my time here. Quisma was his name. He appeared and spoke to people, apparently, and of course the presence of hauntings can be one of the signs that a ley line is close.

[ ‘Of course’, as if this is everyday parlance. It is when you’re around Gansey. ]

Anyway, we hunted around the cemetery to see what we can find, but if he’s still there, he didn’t feel like talking. I didn’t get much of a reading.

Still, onwards and upwards. I haven’t found the right place to look, that’s all.

Haven't met him yet, no.

I've heard of hauntings as well, but the source was Lucifer. I'm not particularly convinced checking those out are anywhere near a good idea.

[A thoughtful pause.]

But if it's just ghosts you need, I can introduce you to a son of Hades.

[ A son of Hades.

Yes. Gansey imagines there would be ghosts with that. The suggestion also starts a little unease in his chest, but he ignores it. ]

I think we'd do well to avoid the Devil, even if it's tempting. Especially if it's tempting.

[ He gives Luke a little smile. If there's anyone he could trust to avoid a deal with the Devil, it's this boy. Luke's already been burned with that once. ]

So, son of Hades. He'd be well acquainted with ghosts, I imagine?

I'm fairly convinced he prefers them to the living.

[In some wry moments, he assumes it's entirely why Nico puts up with HIM at all.]

That is to say yeah. The dead and undead are completely in his domain.

You know, one of my best friends is a ghost.

[ He feels the need to point that out, just to make it clear that he's not giving preferential treatment. ]

But what do you mean, his domain? He could find one? Give one the strength to manifest?

I remember you mentioning.

[The answer is mild, thoughtful.]

He can make them manifest, I'm sure on. I can't say for sure about finding, honestly.

[ So, this is most likely a question Gansey doesn't want to know the answer to. But he never has been able to temper his curiosity, so he asks it anyway. ]

Well, how would he make them manifest if he didn't know where they were?

[Luke's tone is extremely neutral.]

By command and usually with an offering. [He lets Gansey make his own assumptions as to what that actually qualifies as. He'd probably as Nico later, himself. He continues, a bit of humor returning.] I've been told fast food is vastly preferred by the long gone.

[ Oh, Jesus Christ. That sets Gansey’s skin prickling for so many reasons. He’s suddenly profoundly glad that Noah is not here to see him talking about it. ]

So he can control them, then.

[ Yes. Profoundly glad. He briefly closes his eyes, focusing. And lightening. ]

I didn’t think ghosts could eat at all, never mind express a preference for McDonalds. If your friend can call them forth, can he also sense areas where ghosts might manifest naturally? Places strong with their energy, in other words.

Iron clad.

[He gives that some thought, from Nico's tendency for graveyards to instantly knowing when he'd picked a nearly death free location to initially meet.]

... Yeah. I'd confidently go with that as a yes.

All right. Well, then I want to meet him. You’re on good terms with him?

[ Better than with Clarisse, with any luck. Gansey doesn’t think Luke would recommend him otherwise. ]

Close enough to a partnership to call it that.

[It's hard to be on worse terms than he is with Clarisse. Certainly possibly, but it takes work.]

Let me know if you hit Nonah at any time, I'll drag him out. He can use some sun.

JANUARY 10TH, 2016

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