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Yelena Belova ([personal profile] musicdied) wrote in [community profile] apocalypsehowcomm2022-11-29 10:57 pm

Network | Text Post - backdated to November 25 - The eyes have it

Who: Yelena Belova
Username: jelica
Warnings: arson, eyes where there shouldn't be eyes

[Yelena's message goes out relatively early on the morning of the 25th, not long after dawn.]

There is definitely some sort of cult operating out of the Holy Light Church.

Someone tried to set it on fire last night. I think there were two ignition points. One was in the communal kitchen. The other might have been in the priest's living quarters of the room they use to prepare for the sermons, but I can't confirm. They were behaving like they were trying to keep the fire from spreading from there, but without letting anyone who wasn't one of the senior members of the congregation inside.


[And yes, she is incredibly frustrated by that. Thank you for asking.]

While we were putting out the fire, I caught a glimpse of Greta Thomas glaring into one of the windows. I don't know if she was communicating with something, or was seeing through it, or was using it like a tracking device, but while she was doing it, she had too many eyes.

[There is an image attached, a sketch of an older woman with far too many eyes, seen from the side, looking up at the rough shape of a church window.

Yelena's artistic skills cap out at "decent image of a human", she's not even going to try to reproduce something as ornate as that window.]


Whatever she got from it, she was furious, and she collected some of the other church elders and went off somewhere. I doubt it was to do anything as benign as report the fire to the police, so we should all be very prepared for even more trouble to add to all the fires.
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[personal profile] aelwyn_aberration 2022-12-01 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Strangely there hasn't been much of a pressing need to research them in particular... We've dealt with a lot of avatars but rarely of the Beholding variant.

They're less active in their feeding than other cults, and they rarely actually kill their victims, just feed off their terror indefinitely.

Capturing one of the cult members and interrogating them about it would work but it would also warn them we're coming. On the other hand, blowing up the church all together and burying the survivors in the rubble is another option.
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[personal profile] aelwyn_aberration 2022-12-15 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Good point. I'm admittedly not much of a strategist.

We'll wait, try to assess their weaknesses, then bury them under their own church.