The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

#23900004170 04/29/2006 08:39:09 The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

Note: This thread will be updated now and then with notes, news items and oddments. Think of them as clippings slipped between the pages of Sieges's journal.

Oh, and that journal can be read here: The Road Through Perdition

from The Sentinal: April 26 -- Horrifying Discovery in South Vauxton

Jarred Minturn, owner and maintainer of several small office buildings surrounding a pair of ornamental reflecting ponds near the center of South Vauxton, made a shocking discovery today while he and a crew were draining the ponds to repair some suspicious bullet holes in the ledges of the ponds.

At the bottom of the ponds were found several dozen bodies riddled with bullets; investigators on the scene speculated that the killer or killers were armed with small machineguns. The victims were all wearing red shorts and white tee shirts, signifying them as members of the Runners gang, which has plagued the area for years. Redpills are suspected to be involved in the slaying. Said Minturn, "It was nasty to find that mess in my ponds, but something needs to be done about those hoodlums. They've lowered my property's value."

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#23900004206 04/30/2006 13:08:24 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: April 30th -- Weapons Collector Reports Missing Sword

Merton Hannaford sr., a professor of Medieval Studies at Barron University, returned home from attending evening Mass with his family to discover a reproduction medieval sword had been taken from a wall display in his family's home in Maribeau. On determining that none of the family members had misplaced it, Hannaford notified the proper authorities. No traces of a forced entry could be detected: the thief or thieves bypassed the townhouse security system and opened the locks, carefully resetting the system and relocking the door on their way out.

"The sword isn't a priceless artifact," says the author of The Bull of Heaven: Tales of the Merovingian Dynasty. "But it has immense sentimental value to me and my family: it belonged to my daughter, Mercy, and I was keeping it if she ever came home." Hannaford's oldest daughter, Mercedes "Mercy" Hannaford, 21, vanished mysteriously some six months ago after leaving work in a bookstore in the Historic District; members of the Redpill subculture are suspected in having some involvment in her disappearance, and they may have had something to do with the sword's disappearance. Neighbors report having seen a young woman in a long coat and sunglasses -- the favored attire of Redpills -- in the neighborhood of the complex where the Hannaford family resides. Authorities are seeking any information regarding this break-in.

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#23900005510 06/12/2006 20:29:15 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: June 10th -- "I still keep watching for her" Local Professor celebrates missing daughter's life

MARIBEAU -- "She was so full of life," says Merton Hannaford, sr, professor of medieval studies at Barron University, describing his daughter Mercedes "Mercy" Hannaford, who would be celebrating her twenty-second birthday today, had she not disappeared under mysterious circumstances on November 6th last year.

"She might have been a quiet girl who kept to herself, but she'd enter a room and it would be as if someone had lit a candle. Her light might not have filled a room, but it would soften any shadows and people would feel at ease."

About his daughter's disappearance, Hannaford says, "She'd been having a few problems balancing going to college and working at her job. She was a clerk at a bookstore in the Historic District." He added that Mercy had bouts with "manic-depression-like symptoms. Not enough to require her to go on medication, but enough that she'd go through these spells where she'd work intensely, digging her spurs in, followed by periods of deep depression. She could take anything on the chin or she'd be easily shatter, it was hard to predict."

He went on to describe his daughter as "a bookish sort, full of dreams and ambitions", but that she was also a competition-level foil and epee sword-fighter. "She used to joke about how she was always tripping over her own feet or running into something when she was doing something ordinary, but once she had a sword in her hand, she had the grace of a cat and just as much fight in her."

The family has held together since then, but it has proved difficult for them to move onward. "Christmas was the hardest; she disappeared so close to it, we had a hard time putting much heart into celebrating. Easter was easier, since we had had time to grieve and move on down the path. But now, when we'd be celebrating the start of her very existence..." At this point, Hannaford had to pause from an overflow of emotion.

Mercy's younger sister Marina, a student at Charlemagne Secondary School, had this to add: "Come on home: you're going to miss your own party, Merce."

Hannaford has worked closely with public and private investigators following his daughter's disappearance. "There aren't many leads," he reports. "Some have speculated she may have fallen in with members of the Redpill subculture." Hannaford doubts these reports holding true. "Mercy is a gentle girl, and the Redpills seem most noted for their violence. She wouldn't fit in with them at all."

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#23900005592 06/15/2006 17:11:22 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

(( Hey, nice stuff! SMILEY ))

-Alice

[Follow the White Rabbit]
"They have to catch me before they can kill me."
"I like this game already."
"What is a wish, but a prayer to anyone who will listen?"

#23900005674 06/17/2006 12:46:32 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

AlicethePattern wrote:

(( Hey, nice stuff! ))

-Alice

((Hee, thanks! I've been having a lot of fun with this and I hope you have as much fun reading it!))

The Sentinel: June 15 -- Pond Diver ID Wanted

The caretakers of the Mallory Gallery in the Historic District are offering a reward for any information leading the identity and whereabouts of the dark-haired young woman seen jumping off the parapet of the plaza in front of the establishment and into a large ornamental pond nearby. Witnesses first thought it was a suicide attempt, but the diver was seen to surface and emerge from the water before attacking some local gang members who congregate in the area.

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#23900005746 06/22/2006 15:39:22 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: June 20th -- Strange Intruders Rampage in Creston Heights Museum

A young woman in her late teens or early twenties clad in an unseasonable black trenchcoat was seen running through the lobby of the museum late last night, pursued by several wild-looking bare-chested men armed with shotguns. This occured not more than ten minutes after the same young woman along with two males, one with red and black tattoos on his face, entered the museum through a back entrance and stepped into a freight elevator leading to a storage area under the museum. The woman fired on her pursuers with what appeared to be small machine guns; within moments, her male companions re-emerged from the elevator and fired on the bare-chested men, killing them.

Law enforcement was called to the scene, but there were no traces of the gunmen and gunwoman by the time they arrived. This occured during the first of the museum's Free Sunday Nights. The curator of the Creston Heights Museum, R. T. Klempt, is considering discontinuing this event, which would have allowed local residents to view the museums treasures free of charge every Sunday night for the summer. "If it's going to attract this sort of behavior, we can't put the collection or our visitors at risk."

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#23900005881 07/01/2006 21:46:53 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: July 1st -- Fireworks Cause Public Nuisance

Residents of Richland and Westview have complained to local authorities regarding some amateur fireworks displays which have been set off repeatedly all over both districts the past few days. The racket has purportedly broken out near several public phone booths around which members of the Redpill subculture have been seen to congregate. "At least it's a break from the usual gun violence and kung-ful fights these troublemakers generally engage in," says one landlord in Camon Heights, "But -- holiday or not -- it's no less annoying."

A small dark-haired woman in a sleeveless red blouse and an unseasonable black trenchcoat has been spotted during some of the displays. It is not known at this time whether or not the woman is involved in this activity, nor if she is connected in any way to the Redpills.

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#23900005957 07/10/2006 05:43:00 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: July 3rd -- Gang Leader Found Killed, Mauled

UNION HILL -- The body of a local street gang leader, known only as "Scorch", was found by maintenance workers on the roof of an apartment building, apparently gunned down by an unknown attacker or attackers. The incident may be gang-related, as the assailant cut a capital letter M inside a circle and a captial letter N inside an atomic symbol into the victim's body. Police have no leads at this time.

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#23900005961 07/10/2006 23:00:12 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

((I too am enjoying these, keep at them SMILEY

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#23900006005 07/14/2006 12:49:22 Re: The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

Darminian wrote:
((I too am enjoying these, keep at them ))

((I have to confess, these are a *LOT* of fun to write, but at the same time they're a great challenge, since I'm taking an outsider's POV for every single one, and thus I have to limit the amount of information I share, since an outsider -- in this case, obvious Bluepill reporters -- certainly wouldn't know quite what's going on. Very tough to do, but I think it makes for some incredible writing.))

The Sentinel: July 14th -- Injured gang member spotted, vanishes

Passersby report seeing an injured man in red and black, his reddish hair worn "corn row" style, crouching close to the entrance to the Blue Line Subway in Dannah Heights, accompanied by two other persons, a chin-bearded man in his late twenties or early thirties, and a dark-haired woman in her early twenties. The woman, clearly distressed by the situation, shouted at one witness who wishes to remain anonymous, prompting them to call for help. Once EMTs arrived on the scene, all three persons had disappeared. Only a small trace of blood on the ground indicated that they had been there. This incident may be related to a brawl reported in nearby Midian Park. The witness, on looking at a photo array, identified the injured man as a member of a Mafia-like crime family known as "The Devil's Advocates".

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#36300003864 07/21/2006 18:09:12 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: July 18th -- Shootout reported in McLean Tower

AKASAKA -- A cleaning crew working the graveyard shift in the offices of a company whose representatives wish to remain nameless report hearing a commotion on the floor above them. One brave soul ventured upstairs to find two groups of people engaged in a heated firearms and martial arts fight. Three young men in their late teens exchanged shots and blows with a chin-bearded young man in his late twenties, a dark-haired young woman in her early twenties and a tall, pale-skinned man with a distinct red and black cross-shaped tattoo covering much of his face; the last is known to be a high-ranking member of a Mob-like family known as "the Devils' Advocates", the identities of the others are unknown at this time. The cleaning crew called for security who in turn notified the police, but officers arrived on the scene to find no trace of the combatants. A burglary gone bad was suspected, but there was no sign of forced entry and nothing was reported stolen or missing from any of the offices.

#36300003868 07/21/2006 18:12:03 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

((Thank God for the return of the Edit button. Go on to the next entry...))

#36300010231 07/29/2006 08:32:21 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: July 28th -- Obituaries: Merrill Parsifal Hannaford, 29, graphic designer and madrigal singer

The graduate of Renoir School of Design and Barron University was tragically killed by unknown persons in the offices of Twiller and Jeeter Promotionals, an advertising agency in Chelsea where he worked as a graphic designer. He leaves behind his mother and father, Doctor Merton Hannaford, sr. and Irenia Plantarde-Hannaford, his older brother Major Merton Hannaford jr, 32, and his wife, his younger brother Merlin Hannaford, age 24 and two younger sisters Mercedes, age 22 and Marina, a high school student, as well as his two young nephews, Tyler and Connor Hannaford.

Merrill was known in the community as a poet and a singer of madrigals, who frequented Rennaissence festivals and similar events under the guise of "Guillimar the Balladeer".

A memorial service is planned but the family has chosen not to disclose the time or place, and also requests that donations be given to the Order of the Rosy Cross and Grail.

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#36300015106 08/03/2006 12:21:21 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 3rd -- Night-time explosion rocks Lamar construction area

Residents of the apartments close to the construction site for the new Mahath office complex were startled by an unscheduled explosion which occurred at around 11 o'clock last night. Police arrived at the scene to find a large hole in the sub-structure of an incomplete section of one iof the towers being built. It is not known at this time what kind of device was used, or who was responsible for this, but the remains of a small device were found in the rubble. A former leader (until now presumed deceased) of a Mafia-like mob family known as the Devil's Advocates was spotted in the vincity of the construction site, along with a group of young persons -- several males and one female in their late twenties through early thirties -- but it is not known if they were involved in the explosion.

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#36300016203 08/04/2006 12:49:56 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 4th -- Family of slain artist, ballad-singer outraged

MARIBEAU -- The parents of Merrill Hannaford, a graphic artist who was killed in last Friday's attack on the head office of Metro Glass, along with his fiancee Casillda Roberts and a dozen of her co-workers, are threatening to file suit against city officials for not releasing his body. The Capitol City coroner's office has witheld turning over the bodies of the victims to their respective families, pending an investigation. "We're trying to determine the cause of death," says E.D. Samuel-Baroni. "It hasn't been easy to nail down what killed these people: there wasn't a physical mark on any of them, and yet their internal organs were burned horribly. We've never seen anything like it."

Merton Hannaford, a professor of medieval studies, regrets having to resort to civil action to obtain the body of his son. "I feel we have no choice," he informed the Sentinel. "It's a terrible thing to have to cut through legal red-tape just to be able to bury your own child." He adds, unable to control his grief, "We've been through enough this year," doubtlessly referring to the disappearance of his daughter Mercedes.

Merrill Hannaford and Casillda Roberts had recently announced their engagment and were planning to have their wedding this October at King Clovis's Faire, a medieval festival held annually, which Merrill regularly attended in the guise of a lute-playing ballad singer.

#36300019687 08/08/2006 14:10:21 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 6th -- Racket on church roof

SOBRA SHORES -- An evening Catholic Mass being held in the First Unified Church was briefly disrupted when loud thumping noises could be heard over the south trancept of the brownstone structure erected in 1856. Lemuel Norrell, a caretaker at the church, went up to investigate, when he found two men -- one of them blond with red and black facial tattoos, the other with a crimson mohawk-hairstyle -- and a dark young woman arguing. Mr. Norrell went to call the police, but by the time they arrived on the scene, the mysterious trio had vanished.

"I've seen the girl here before: she often attends Mass or just comes to pray and think and light candles," says Mr. Norrell. "She dresses a little oddly for someone so devout, but she's a quiet girl. I hope those hoodlums weren't bothering her, though it seems like the tattooed young man was with her."

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#36300022948 08/12/2006 14:15:37 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 12th -- Unexpected visitor to city coroner's office proves to be gunwoman

CRESTON HEIGHTS -- E.D. Samuel-Baroni, the city chief coroner, reports that at around 4.30 yesterday afternoon, a small, dark-haired woman entered, requesting permission to speak to the head of the department. When a secretary refused her admittance, the woman reached inside her trenchcoat, drew out what appeared to be a sub-machinegun and laid it on the secretary's desk and repeated her question. "We had no choice then but to listen to her," says Mr. Samuel-Baroni. "She calmly requested us to release the bodies of the victims in the July 18th terrorist attacks downtown, and allow their families to bury their loved ones."

He went on to relate that he and his colleagues tried to refuse her request, pending their investigation, but the woman replied by drawing another sub-machinegun and calmly repeating her request with the added admonition: "If one of these people was a family member of yours, you'd be doing everything you could to get them back so you could just lay them to rest." Says Mr. Samuel-Baroni, "I could do nothing else but sign the releases." He admits that he was tempted to make a show of signing the proper forms, "But considering her professional air, I realized we were dealing with a career criminal: she doubtlessly has a network of associates who may not be as reasonable as she was. With all the violence we've had recently, I couldn't risk any further senseless acts." The forty-seven victims have since been released to their respective families. She further requested that if it was reported to the papers that a crazed woman barged into the coroner's office, guns blazing, that she would be "very displeased at your lack of professionalism".

The coroner's office has been witholding the bodies of the victims, in an effort to accurately pinpoint the cause of death in all. Mr. Samuel-Baroni and his assistants have concluded that the cause may have been isolated radiation, since the victims showed no external injuries, yet their internal organs were badly burned. It is not known at this time what sort of device the unknown assailants used to commit this crime.

The woman who approached the office was dressed in red and black, the colors of a crime syndicate known as the Devil's Adovocates, which has been showing signs of considerable more activity as of recently. Her identity is still unknown at this time, but police sketch artists are preparing an image to be released to the public.

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#36300029885 08/20/2006 11:36:14 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 18th -- Students mourn the death of charismatic literature teacher

DANNAH HEIGHTS -- Members of this year's senior class will be starting their school year on a sombre note. An attack by an apparant anarchist group has left several teachers and school maintenance workers dead, including Zola Arnolt-Brecht, a beloved teacher of British Literature. Marina Hannaford, who admits she will be repeating her senior year for disciplinary reasons, was the most outspoken of her classmates. "I never really liked reading much: I'm one of the girl-jocks, you might say. But Miss Zola made it interesting," she says. "This has been a crappy year for me and it's just getting worse. I want out of all this."

Grief counsellors will be on hand to offer support to the shaken students. School officials have announced that the August 28th opening of the school will be postponed until future notice.

#36300030411 08/21/2006 12:18:05 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 21st -- Personal Ads

N -- Just wanted to tell you that I love you and I want the whole world to know it. Your, S

#36300034960 08/28/2006 11:35:15 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 28th -- Barron University announces faculty cuts, course reconfiguration

STRATFORD CAMPUS -- Following massive budgeting cuts and the removal of several courses from the school's roster, university administrators have had to downsize several professors. The most agressive cuts came to the humanities courses, including the history and literature departments. Says Merton Hannaford, a longtime professor of medieval studies at the prestigious hall of learning, "At first I couldn't help seeing this as another burden, but in time, I'm looking at this as an oppurtunity to experience real freedom. I've had an offer to work in an archaeological site in southern France at the behest of a university benefactor, on the site of an 5th century fortification, and now I'm free to pursue that." When asked as to the identity of this benefactor, Dr. Hannaford replied that he knew little about the individual in question, except that he is "an expatriate French billionaire who wants to preserve the remains of his country's past in order to educated future generations".

#36300035935 08/29/2006 13:30:40 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: August 29th -- Gangs assault swimmer in Murasaki

Late last night, a dogwalker who wishes to remain anonymous reports hearing machinegun fire and shouting near the spring running through Yueng Park in the northwest section of the neighborhood. The dogwalker went to investigate the cause of the commotion and spotted a small woman dressed in black and red trying to escape from a mob of gang members milling about in the shallows of the spring. These troublemakers were later identified as members of the Jade Moon, Black Tiger and Shuriken gangs of Shinjuku, Murasaki and Ueno respectively. The gang appeared to be trying to attack the woman using machine guns and Asian throwing stars. The dogwalker contacted the police, but once they arrived, the gang members had either left or had been gunned down by unknown persons. Several discarded throwing stars, made of a porous ceramic that appeared to have been treated with some toxic substance, and bullet casings were found close by a trail of blood, several large rocks covered with blood, and torn pieces of fabric leading to the water. Park officials and a police diving team examined the spring, but found no sign of the woman, althought the bodies of several Black Tigers were recovered. The violence appears to be gang-related.

#36300043517 09/07/2006 12:47:52 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: September 4th -- Police Log

TABOR PARK -- An off-duty officer spotted a robust young man in his late twenties with auburn hair running past the Yellow Line subway entrance, carrying a young woman in her late teens or early twenties. The woman appeared to be in medical distress, but the witness, even after pursuing the couple, was unable to catch up with them.

#36300047060 09/11/2006 22:12:19 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: September 11th -- Body of missing accountant found

ACHAN -- A city sanitation worker returning home discovered the body of thirty-two year old Alban Jamison Fluth, a junior accountant at Metacortex, lying behind a dumpster behind a bar known to host an illegal "fight club" in its basement after hours. Mr. Fluth disappered eleven weeks ago and was believed to have mingled with members of the "red pill" subculture. Prior to that, he was known to frequent establishments such as the above-mentioned "fight club", under the assumed name "Khnumru".

Police have no leads into the identity of the killer. However, crime scene investigators found the body, riddled with bullet wounds and bruised from several punches to the head and face, had been drained of its blood. "Whoever did this [also] stopped to remove all the rounds fired into the victim," says crime scene investigator Lucien Frost. "We're looking at a trained killer here: Army Special Ops or an assassin, not just some punk who had a beef with this guy."

#36300050999 09/16/2006 20:41:36 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: September 14th -- Missing Security Guards stymies company head

Industry Square -- Local business owners are puzzled at the sudden disappearance over the past few days of several dozen members of Corporate Security, a for-hire security operation run out of Stratford Campus by one Horatio Black, a business owner of somewhat questionable origins who has managed to clear his name of many disreputable claims levelled against him. These security guards either failed to show up for work, or disappeared while they were supposed to be on the job, taking the graveyard shift late at night. Police visited the homes of these individuals, but there was no trace of them, or any sign that they had returned home.

"It's like they vanished into thin air. Whoever is responsible for this is putting my clients, the community and my company at a terrible risk," says Mr. Black.

Local residents and several office workers taking late shifts report having heard loud screams and terrified shouts late at night, but there is nothing to indicate this was in any way related to the disappearances.

The Sentinel: September 15th -- Tribute left on minstrel's grave

Maribeau -- An unknown individual left a bunch of purple hyacinths, a bottle of mead, a pair of leather wrist protectors and a roll of parchment-like sheet music on the grave of Merrill Hannaford, a graphic designer known for his minstrelsy at local medieval festivals, killed along with a dozen others in the July 28th terrorist attack on the head office of Metro Glass. Along with the items was a note written in red ink on parchment paper, reading: "Rest easy, my brother. My kinsman has avenged your senseless death."

#36300054074 09/20/2006 16:26:04 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: September 18th -- Popular Family restaurant reopens under new name

CRESTON HEIGHTS -- Ernesto's Italian Cuisine, a family-owned establishment located in the north west section of the neighborhood and frequented by dozens of locals for it's home-made food and cozy atmosphere, has reopened following an unexpected three-day hiatus. Says Ernesto Falerno, the manager, chief cook and former owner, "I had some long-neglected debts to pay and putting the business up for sale was the only way to free my family from them." He went on to assure the public that the quality of the menu will remain the same: "Someone else may hold the keys now and the name may soon change, but my family and I will still be here, making you the best gnocchi under the sun."

The name of the restaurant, which has been a neighborhood mainstay for over thirty years, is expected to change to Marrano's Italian Cuisine. Mr. Falerno said he couldn't tell us much about his new partner, whom he knows only as "Signora Marrano"

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#36300055657 09/22/2006 12:31:02 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: September 22nd -- Personal Ads

To Mercy: I know youre still out their. If youre reeding this, meet me tonight at midnite on the steps of the padestrien overpass thing in front of my shcool. From Rina

#36300059387 09/27/2006 07:56:46 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The first one is out of sequence, it's still but no less interesting:

The Sentinel: September 10th -- Teen leaves vampire cult

MANSSEN PARK -- A runaway teenager, Nels Halving, age 17, who had left his family home in Hampton Green some months ago to join a bizarre vampire cult/gang known as "the Disciples", has returned home following a brush with death.

"We were hanging out behind an apartment building, waiting for someone to come out, when this little girl dressed all in black came and started shooting at my companions," the young man relates. "I figured we... they could overpower her and stop her, but she killed them. They promised me immortality, but they died." Nels goes on to relate that the girl "stood up, looked me in the face and told me, 'Go home to your family, boy. You don't want to end up like them. I seen this thing happen and it ain't worth it'. After seeing those guys die, I didn't want any part of what they offered me."

It appears the young man may be suffering from hallucinations, probably drug-induced. He claims the young woman had "big long claws" on one hand and that the bodies of her victims "started falling to pieces when she touched them with those claws". Nels's family has admitted him to a local hospital for an evaluation.

The Sentinel: September 26th -- Domestic dispute in the Vault

LAMAR -- Late last night, shortly before last call, a bartender in the popular nightclub known as the Vault, reports overhearing parts of a heated argument between a young woman in her late teens or early twenties and a heavily tattooed man in his late twenties or early thirties. Several times the man slapped his companion across the face, causing her to howl "like something out of a horror movie. I was going to call security and have them removed, but the two of them freaked me out completely," reports the bartender, who asks to have her name witheld. "The both of them sounded like they were possessed or something. I heard the guy call the girl 'daughter', but he looked more like her older brother." The pair seemed to calm down after a moment, before leaving withouit further incident.

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#36300060542 09/28/2006 16:29:53 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: September 29th -- Local Professor Relinquishes Search for Missing Daughter

By the Sentinel Staff

STRATFORD CAMPUS -- “It’s not something I’m giving up on easily, but sometimes you have to know when to lay down a burden you’ve been carrying and move on from it,” says Professor Merton Hannaford sr., a professor of Medieval Studies at Barron University. That burden would be the search for his missing daughter Mercedes “Mercy” Hannaford. The eight-month investigation into the disappearance of the now 22-year old literature major and competition-level swordswoman has turned up empty.

Even Major Merton "Tony" Hannaford jr, an Army Special Ops and Mercy’s oldest brother, could find no leads to track down his younger sister, not even when he enlisted the aide of friends with access to government resources. “Wherever she is, she either doesn’t want to be found, or she may be dead,” the thirty-two year old Gulf War veteran reported. Professor Hannaford would prefer to remain positive and hope that his daughter is only in hiding and living under an assumed name.

“She probably could remain very hidden if she wanted to. She always was the shy violet,” he says. “I’m going to play devil’s advocate here and say that it’s her decision to live whatever life she’s chosen: she’s an adult now and I have to respect her decisions. My only hope is that she’s happy wherever she is and that she’s found friends who will look out for her.”

#36300064262 10/04/2006 15:49:53 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: October 1st -- Police Log

Dannah Heights -- Residents in the area called in yesterday evening to report seeing several well-dressed young people running across the rooftops of the buildings in the vicinity of the exclusive Club Sphinx, and that one young man appeared to have either jumped or fallen over the edge to his death. Officers who arrived on the scene found no sign of the miscreants or a body, and believe this may have been a college hazing prank.

October 2nd -- Club Duality owner reports disturbance

Kedemoth -- Fabien "Argon" Argones, owner of the popular Club Duality reports that two persons -- a tall man in his mid-thirties with black facial tattoos and a short woman in her early twenties, both wearing ornate red leather trenchcoats barged into his establishment last night and accosted one of his patrons, an otherwise harmless-looking young man with white-blond hair. "The gal seemed like she was bugged about something, so I offered to smooth things over with her and the fellow," Argones reports. "But then she turned on me and threatened me if I didn't leave her alone. Some people, they just don't have any manners now, do they?" The young man reportedly left the scene in a great hurry, pursued by the two intruders.

Officials believe this may have been a domestic dispute, possibly a romance going wrong. Argones has responded to the incident by stepping up security in and around the club, but informs us it will remain open to all.

October 3rd -- Gun battle on Bathory Wharf

Bathory Row -- Dockworkers unloading a cargo freighter reported seeing several people chasing a well-dressed, slender young man in grey through the alleyways between the crates stored on the wharf, then hearing shots fired close by a warehouse. Officials believe it may have been related to a recent upswing in redpill gang activity.

October 4th -- Bizarre, cultish activity in Club Daemon

Sobra Shores -- A group of four young people -- three females and one male -- possibly "redpill" gang members, entered the establishment late last night, where two of the females, one with shoulder-length black hair streaked with purple, the other a dishwater blonde, began fighting one another. Once that fight had broken up, the purple-haired female engaged a short, brown-haired female in a similar struggle. The purple-haired female then collapsed. A bartender reports that, "The brown-haired girl then fumbled at the purple-haired girl's torso. I don't know what happened, but the dark girl got violently ill and crept off into a corner. Then the blond went out and dragged in one of those gang goons that hang around the alleyway. Looked like she'd beat the guy up somehow. Well, she dragged the guy over to the corner where the dark girl was. I went to look later, but there was no trace of the guy. I don't know what the hell was going on. It was like some kind of cult initiation."

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The Sentinel: October 7th -- Police Log

Residents of Creston Heights living in the area around Creston Heights Park have reported hearing strange growling and shrieking noises late at night, as if some unknown animal were running loose. Gang activity has also decreased, but no bodies have been discovered. Experts suspect an exotic predatory animal, possibly a wild cat or a jackal may have escaped from an eccentric collectors' personal menagerie, but nothing fitting the description has been sighted in the area, nor have there been reports of any escapes or thefts.

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#36300069607 10/11/2006 07:34:00 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

[b]The Sentinel: October 11th -- Minor Security Breach at Rennaissence Fair[/b]

CENTER PARK -- "I know not what to believe," says Alphonse "Rothbart the Minstrel" Clarendon, referring to an odd incident which occurred towards the end of a performance by the Merrie Bande of Revyllers. The group of five men and three women, all performers of medieval ballads and madrigals, were paying tribute to their late bandmember Merrill "Guillimar the Bard" Hannaford, one of their founding members and a promising young graphic designer who was senselessly killed in a terrorist attack on the head office of Metro Glass, along with a dozen others including his fiancee. Their final ballad, "Dragon for Sale" -- a favorite encore piece which "Guillimar" was especially fond of -- was interrupted by some shingles falling off the roof of a nearby booth and onto the stage. None of the musicians was injured, but security found the commotion was caused by a dark-haired young woman clad entirely in black, sitting perched on the roof. Security tried to remove her, but the young woman quickly escaped, jumping to a height and length not humanly possible.

A bystander with a digital video camera filmed the incident. Police are analyzing the tape at this time, but have yet to identify the young woman. Mr. Clarendon and his bandmembers are thought to have agreed to help identify the girl, but further information is currently unavailible to the Sentinal staff members.

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#36300073359 10/16/2006 16:47:29 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: October 14th -- Mysterious RenFair Intruder Identified

CENTER PARK -- With the aid of facial recognition software as well as social networking, police have identified a roof-running intruder at last week's King Clovis's Faire as Mercedes "Mercy" Hannaford, a college student who dissappeared after leaving work at a bookstore in the Historic District on November 6th last year.

"It's definately her," says Alphonse Clarendon, a performer at the fair who spotted the younger sister of his late friend and fellow musician Merrill Hannaford. "They showed us the cleaned-up version of the photos and it definately looked like her."

However, authorities have also matched Ms. Hannaford's photo to images on a security tape from a break-in at Creston Heights, which left three security guards and a SWAT captain dead. Ms. Hannaford was seen in the company of a group of known members of a Mob organization who go by the name the Devil's Advocates, firing on the security team with a pair of sub-machineguns. Clarendon and several mutal friends find this allegation hard to believe.

"The girl's really sweet and harmless: she wouldn't hurt so much as a fly, much less kill someone," said Alisia Mergenthal-Clarendon, Alphonse's wife and a close friend to Ms. Hannaford.

Professor Merton Hannaford, Sr., Ms. Hannaford's father has been notified about the discovery, but there have been no replies from him. The noted author and medieval historian has been working on an archaeological site in a remote area in the mountains of southern France and has not returned our calls.

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#36300087227 11/02/2006 13:25:54 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: November 1st -- Arcane Prank at Ascension Monument

ROGERS WAY -- Park maintenance workers discovered the top of the edifice plastered with tarot cards, each one the Death card taken from several different decks, as well as a message scrawled in red: "The Knives Will Be Manifest". An expert on cult activity has been consulted by local auhorities, but the display appears to be nothing more than an especially bizarre Hallowe'en prank intended to look like cult activity.

#36300088020 11/03/2006 12:27:02 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: November 2nd -- Mysterious offering at Westview Church

SOBRA SHORES -- Lemuel Norrell, a caretaker at First Unified Church reports that when he entered the church this morning to prepare the sanctuary for a Catholic Mass to be held in honor of the feast of All Souls, he found every single candle at each of the statues in the ambulatory lit. Several small incense burners had been placed in the sanctuary as well, and a bag containing several thousand dollars was placed under the baptismal font with a note reading, "For the souls of those taken by the reaper's hand". There was no sign of a forced entry, and no tangible evidence of the mysterious benefactor's identity has been discovered. Local authorities suspect the money may have been left by some member of a crime organization, but are so far unable to trace their identity.

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#36300093626 11/11/2006 13:05:29 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: November 11th -- Possible arson prevented near soon-to-reopen nightclub

SHINJUKU -- A maintenance worker at an apartment building across the street from Club Masamune reported to police that they had found a cache of gasoline cans, dynamite, a roll of fuse wire and a computer printout copy of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" stashed on the rooftop. Local residents report having seen a dark-haired young woman in a black or red trenchcoat "rummaging around" on the rooftop, but it is not known if she was in anyway connected to the discovery. Police and a bomb squad arrived on the scene to find the items had been removed and a wooden box full of small golden hourglasses put in its place. A "shock-headed" dark-haired woman in a somewhat unseasonably low-cut black gown was spotted on a nearby rooftop, but police were unable to follow her to question her.

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#36300122615 12/17/2006 14:54:08 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: Wedding announcements -- December 17th

Justin Reynolds--Mercedes Templar-Bonness

The couple were married in the park close to the lake in Tabor Park, Richland district. The groom is a computer systems technician in the employ of an expatriate French billionaire; the bride part owns an Italian restaurant in Creston Heights. A gathering of the couple's extended family and friends was presentn to witness the exchange of vows. The groom wore an elegant white tuxedo while the bride wore a white V-neck satin gown, designed for the occassion by her mother. The couple were blessed by the bride's father, Simon Templar, a nightclub owner most noted for rennovating Club Masamune in Shinjuku. At the moment the couple was pronounced man and wife, snow began to fall softly on the gathering.

#36300137659 01/10/2007 15:41:22 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: December 29th -- Unknown woman searching for missing girl

GRACY HEIGHTS -- Several residents and business owners report that a woman in her early twenties approached them, asking if they had seen "a small girl in her late teens" in the area and showing them a photograph. No one had seen anyone matching the description or the photograph, but the same woman was later seen entering a largely abandoned apartment building in Guinness Lake, but no one has seen her leave the building. Residents on the lower floors of the building report hearing some "scuffling around" on an upper floor, but the superintendant claims this to be merely a sign of a "rodent problem".

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#36300150843 01/27/2007 10:07:46 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: January 23rd -- Extension on Winter Clothing Drive Finds Continued Assistance

Various businesses in the International district of Capitol City helping distribute the donations of winter coats provided by an anonymous donor have reported no difficulties in finding help distributing their packages to the district's needy. Several young people have approached to help, including a number who are suspected of belonging to the Redpill subculture.

"I was amazed," says Chase Pantaleoni, manager of a novelty distributor in Shinjuku. "You hear about how violent and bizarre these kids are, but the three or four who've showed up to help deliver the donations were very polite. One of them, a little bit of girl in her twenties, seemed really enthusiastic, kept gushing about how she'd had a lot of help along the way and how she just wanted to 'pay that forward', like in that movie. People never fail to surprise me."

Several other business owners in the same neighborhood, who had also helped take part in the clothing drive, also report seeing a girl who answered to the same description, often accompanied by either a silver pony-tailed man dressed in a red trenchcoat or a young man in black with spiky blond hair.

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#36300163380 02/10/2007 17:11:40 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: February 10th -- Commotion on club roof in Baldwin Heights

The owner of a club near the center of the neighborhood reports hearing what sounded like gunfire on the roof, late last night. Neighbors report seeing a group of two women and a man, all in their mid-to-late twenties, firing on a group of bald-headed men clad in long black silk jackets that "looked like something they'd wear in a kung-fu movie". Police arrived on the scene to find no signs of a struggle whatsoever, "Not even a bloodstain or a bullet hole."

There is an unconfirmed claim that this may have been a publicity stunt to advertise "The Burlyman Rebounds", the latest in the "Burlyman" franchise of movies, comics, and video games, but a spokesman for the franchise has not yet returned our calls regarding this incident. The owner of the club, who wishes his establishment to remain anonymous, says if it is, he did not authorise permission for the roof to be used for this sort of display.

#36300164675 02/12/2007 12:52:29 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: February 11th -- "Burlyman Chronicles" Franchise Creators Claim Complicity in Rooftop Advertising Stunt

Following the bizarre gun and martial arts battle on the rooftop of a nameless club in Baldwin Heights and witnessed by several startled residents, Joe and Bill Aronsky, the creators of the "Burlyman Chronicles" franchise have come out of their usual "creative seclusion" to announce that this was "merely a publicity stunt" to raise interest in the next cinematic installment, "The Burlyman Rebounds", due in theatres in March. City officials are calling for an apology and reparation from the creative duo, to the tune of a fine for creating a disturbance and payment for police overtime in investigating the nuisance.

It is believed at this time that members of the Redpill subculture were employed in the stunt.

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#36300165550 02/13/2007 15:52:59 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: February 12th -- Shootout in Congregational Church

CAMON HEIGHTS -- A possibly gang-related scuffle sent church workers and the last of the congregation which had attended evening services scurrying for cover. A red-haired woman in a red trench-coat with distinctive red and white facial tattoos, and a shorter woman in a long black gown entered and accosted a man in black with dishwater-blond hair. They seemed to be questioning him, but when he refused to speak to him, the woman in red attacked him; "It looked like something in one of those darn Bruce Lee movies my husband likes," said a 68 year old woman who wishes to remain nameless. The sacristan, Jean Whitecliff, tried to approach the group, but admits, "There was something about the woman in black that made me pause. At one point, she handed the man a cellphone, and she happened to glance in my direction. I couldn't see her eyes, since they were behind sunglasses, but I felt her gaze pierce through me like a knife, like she was trying to read my soul."

Mr. Whitecliff called in the authorities, but by the time they arrived, the two women had disappeared, leaving behind the body of the man, shot and stabbed to death, through the lower chest. Preliminary reports from the city coroner's office indicate the body was completely drained of its blood and the internal organs were somehow extracted without cutting into the torso.

Disoriented girl found near Sushi bar

MURASAKI -- Two young women and a man in a white suit were seen trying to coax a girl in her late teens out of the door way of a popular restaurant in the center of the canton. Members of a local gang were seen trying to attack the girl, who seemed "dazed and acted like she'd wandered from hospital", according to Daisuke Matamura, the head of the waitstaff at the restaurant, but the trio who approached the girl were seen chasing off the gang members. "She seemed lost, and they seemed like family members looking for her. I hope she recovers soon and they can take care for her," adds Matamura.

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#36300168483 02/17/2007 11:35:09 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: February 17th -- Injured man spotted near Congregational Church

CAMON HEIGHTS -- A second-shift worker at the nearby Cormorant Casino returning home caught sight of two young people -- a man dressed entirely in white and a woman in black -- apparantly trying to remove a bullet from the shoulder of a third man, known to be a member of a terrorist organization identified only as EPN. The worker, who wishes to remain nameless, called for the police, but by the time they arrived, no trace could be found of any of the three.

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#36300174984 02/26/2007 15:49:01 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: February 26th -- Bizarre Fight in Camon Heights Church

Late last night, a group of local residents on their way home from a late evening penance service report seeing a pair of young people dressed in "Halloween-like" costumes -- one dressed like a vampire, the other like a werewolf -- attacking a young couple in the hallway leading to the vestry of the church. Reportedly, one of the pair of victims matched the description of Zack Freeman, who disappeared some time ago after a strange attack on him and his girlfriend. "I thought I'd walked into a rehearsal for a scene from 'Underworld'," says one young resident, who wishes to remain nameless. But others were not so amused by the strange incident. "These young folks need to learn that churches are places for people to find comfort and strength in the Lord," says longtime resident Marion Shaker. "Ever since those Redpill kids started hanging around near the phone booth not far from the church. fighting all the time, we haven't been able to get any peace and quiet here."

Church officials and the local interfaith council are considering tightening security in the historic church.

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#36300211907 04/12/2007 11:19:20 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinal: April 12th -- Bizarre break-in, gunfight at clothing store

MARA -- The owner of a small consignment shop was closing up for the night when she reports that the previously locked front doors blew upon and two men in dark suits rushed in, pursued by a young woman in a "gangsterish" trenchcoat and fedora and a young man with spiky scarlet hair, who opened fire on the intruders, driving them out. No injuries are reported, but the facade of the shop was damaged by the attack. "Redpill" subculture members as well as rogue Federal agents are considered to blame for the incident.

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#36300228477 05/01/2007 15:39:44 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel: May 1st -- Shootout, Intruder in Clothing Store

SHINJUKU -- Mr. Ling Wei, owner of a used clothing and leather goods store close by a teahouse in the northern section of the neighborhood, reports that last night's police action has damaged his place of business. The Hong Kong emigre tells us that gunshots shattered the frong windows of his establishment, but this was not the extent of the damage. Two members of the SWAT team attempting to intercept the wife of a known criminal boss chased a young woman armed with a pair of submachineguns into the entryway of the building, where she tried to take cover behind a display case of costume jewelry. Gunfire was exchanged and the SWAT members apparantly killed the targetted woman. "Then something strange happened," Mr. Wei reports. "A man in red came rushing in by the back door and he knelt over the woman. Next thing I see her get up and run out the front door with him. Not a scratch on her. No blood. Nothing."

The identity of the woman and the man are unknown at this time, but they doubtlessly belonged to the crime syndicate involved in the incident.

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#36300231281 05/06/2007 10:14:16 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel -- May 6th: Bullet holes mar church

CAMON HEIGHTS -- Members of the Episcoplian community gathering early this morning for Sunday service were stunned to find bullet holes and bullets lodged in the floor behind the back benches in the main chapel of the historic church. Officials report that the slugs they recovered appear to come from the same submachinegun. Members of the Redpill sub-culture are to blame for the damage, as the plaza in front of the building has become a gathering place for the violence-prone young people. Church officials believe this incident may be connected in some way to the young couple -- a silver-haired young man and a dark-haired young woman with pale skin and a tattoo of a dragon on her upper back -- frequently seen making a public display of their affections in a back bench of the church.

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#36300266743 06/22/2007 08:20:11 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel -- June 14th: Chalice stolen from Museum Exhibit

CRESTON HEIGHTS -- Dr. R.T. Klempt, curator of the Creston Heights Museum, reports that a 1st century chalice, which some claim to be the Holy Grail of legend, has been stolen from a travelling exhibit, "Myths and Magic: the Art and Artifacts", during a rolling blackout that hit the area around the popular Downtown center for the arts. The thieves appear to have been professionals, and may have triggered the blackout to disarm the musuem's security cameras and containment doors inside the exhibit halls.

A reward of $500,000 has been posted by the museum and the owners of the collection for information leading to the arrest of the persons involved. Asked why anyone would steall the chalice, Dr. Klempt replied, "There are so many legends attached to the Grail, stories of it's alleged powers, I can imagine that someone with enough time and money and ambition to claim those powers would stop at nothing to claim it."

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#36300268115 06/24/2007 12:23:01 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel -- June 24th: Stolen Chalice Returned to Museum Exhibit

CRESTON HEIGHTS -- Almost as suddenly as it disappeared, the 1st century chalice reported missing from a private collection on public display for the summer has been returned to its display case. Dr. R.T. Klempt and a team of preservationists examined the artifact, findig no signs of damage except for a tiny chip in the base of the carnelian cup. "The gold casings on the knop and base are unmarked and the pearls, rubies and lapis lazuli set into it are all in place," the curator reports. "Most thieves would have taken the gems and the gold, but it's a relief that they left it intact, as well as returned it."

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#36300305424 08/17/2007 20:42:17 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel -- August 17th: Letters to the Editor

I'm writing about a piece Mr. Bonafacio wrote about those Redpill subculture people. The ones he'd heard about were no good, but my grandma and I just met one who'd make him think different.

We live in Sobra Shores, in Westview. Nasty place, and those Legion guys don't make it any better. We were walking home from Mass the other night, when these guys jumped out of the shadows, grabbed us and told us to give them money or they'd kill my grandma. I was ready to fight these guys, but my grandma kept telling me to just give them the money, even though we didn't have much between us.

Then this girl in red with a white pimp hat came out of nowhere and started shooting at the guys, with big guns. They let us go. She yelled at us to run away, but we were too scared. She killed them, and they had to be twice her size. I got up and started to help my grandma up, but the girl was a little quicker than me. She offered to walk with us back to our apartment, so that nobody else bugged us. Grandma was a little nervous, but the girl in red told us we could trust her. Like she said, no one bugged us after that. I saw a couple Legion guys walk away from us very fast.

Something seemed odd about her, so I asked her if she was one of those Redpills. She told me she was, "more or less". Grandma got a bit mad with her, telling her she shouldn't be wasting her time on drugs and fighting, but the girl said, "There's a lot more to us than that. I assure, you, I only fight to protect others." Then she went away. I haven't seen her since, but if I could, I would bring her to meet you and have you talk to her.

Jesus-Maria Cruz

#36300315365 09/01/2007 23:18:10 Re:The Road Through Perdition: Notes Along the Way

The Sentinel -- September 1st: Possible haunting of cemetary

MARIBEAU -- Eileen Roberts, mother of Cassilda Roberts, a secretary at Metro Glass slain along with a dozen others last August by a band of Redpills who raided her workplace, reports having spotted a young man who matched a description of her late daughter's fiance, Merrill Hannaford, walking through the cemetary early this evening. "I was visiting Cassie-Rose's grave, whe I heard someone gasp behind me. I looked over and I saw Merrill standing there, several feet away, rubbing his forehead as if it were in pain. I tried to go to him, but I stumbled on a small headstone, and when I got up again, he had gone."

A cemetary caretaker reported having seen the young man as well, whose look-alike also died in the same attack that claimed the life of Cassilda Roberts. A local psychoanalist suggests these "hauntings" may be the lingering after-effects of the grieving process, if it is prolonged. But a parapsychologist claims to have seen several ghosts walking through the same graveyard. "Considering that Mr. Hannaford died suddenly and violently, his soul might well be trapped between the here and the hereafter."