Jacob's Pilgrimage 12-22

December 22.



            Train rides are normally very peaceful, very surreal. This one was no exception, at least after the point that I got over the fact that my mind was playing ticks on me. I sat back and relaxed, listening to the sound of the train tracks clicking away as we rushed across the country side. I worked what little talents of the Disquietism Transmutations to ensure that my interactions would go as pleasantly as possible. I ate, I talked, I enjoyed myself… it almost felt like I was a human.

            Then, just an hour before the train pulled into Seattle, I felt it. There were Pandorans on the train. I was aroused by a sound on my window, when I looked, one of those wicked things were peeping through at me. It didn't take long for me to have sneaked out onto the roof of the train to go in search of the wicked things.

            Roughly a dozen of them waited for me, the Sublimati from before leading the host. Once again the weak little Pandorans were of little match for me, most of them were tossed off the train in fact. The Sublimati on the other hand was a challenge.

            We were at each others throats as soon as the last Pandoran was down, I'm not sure why he waited for me. Fire and Claws are my allies, and over time I was able to overcome the wicked tentacle's he had coming forth from his back. I'm still not sure what he meant 'he's watching'. Must have simply been a ignorant message shifted and corrupted in the failing brain of the flux infused beast.



            I got to Seattle, and the first thing I did was looked up some of the local churches. Just on the edge of this town, I found a small little run down cathedral. I found Church in there, along with Miss Melody to my pleasure. It turns out that she was the one who first told Church about it, though it had slipped his mind. As almost did the presents that I had gotten them.

            Church was over-joyed at my gift, and my generosity. 'Very human' he said, it made me feel good. Miss Melody didn't seem as excited, said she already had an I Phone, though it still awarded me a soft kiss from her. I think it meant more to her then she let on.

            The Cathedral was developed into out base of operations. We had Miss Melody go out and get us some maps, note-books and other objects that we would surely need. Church stayed back and held down the fort, working out things with the priest folk that lingered there. I had a few connections from my darker days that I was going to dig up and ask.

            It turn's out that since my last visit to this fine city, the bloodsuckers of the area had quite a falling out with the local Ordo Dracul. It appears that they tried to pull a fast one on the community with an artifact back while they were having an infestation problem with some strange threat to their kind. Doesn't bother me, their business is theirs and ours is ours.

            The major down side to this fact was that Faye, the shadowy librarian that I use to barter with, had turned to ash upon a wicked cross. Stupid Lancea leaches. So the vampire community had no real aid for me, so I decided to do some digging around.


There is one thing out there that I rarely like to deal with. Those so called 'enlightened' humans that call themselves the Awakened are always more concerned with the knowledge they obtain, then the way that they must obtain it. So the idea of trying to look one of these crazed bastards down was not something that I was looking forward to.

It so happened, that I have a few tricks up my sleeve that aids me in matters such as this. After a bad run in with some Awakened awhile back, I had mad an effort to learn a few tricks to know where they are, so I can avoid them. I also happened to learn a few tricks that allow me to appear like something that I wasn't a helpful little trick.

After some digging around, I managed to find a place where they liked to hole up in. While they were swapping tales of magic spells gone astray I'm sure, I slipped a message in that I was looking for someone with some knowledge about Pandorans. That will catch their attention, now all I do is sit-back and wait.


Jacob.