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apocalypsehowcomm2021-08-31 11:55 pm
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[Network] Collecting Information
Who: Andrew Jaeger
Username: a.jaeger
Warnings: CW: Body horror, burns, mass burning deaths, human sacrifice. More will be added as needed
Good evening, all. For those I haven't met yet, my name is Andrew Jaeger and I'm looking to compile the information gathered in light of tonight's rather disturbing events. After several discussions, it seems like some of us have different information and I'm looking to put it all in one place, discuss it, and if possible, decide on a course of action.
I'll start by reviewing what I've been able to discover about the carnival over the course of this week:
* The Funhouse seems to have some sort of disorienting effect for those that go through it. I suffered this myself as well as witnessing others affected. I...found myself chasing someone that wasn't there, and when I came to, I was very confused and upset. I had been chasing an innocent bystander instead.
[That's hard to admit, but he does anyway. It's important that all the details are there for people, even the ones that hurt.]
* Photographs of the building reveal nothing concrete, though I did find some distortion around the ticket booth when I took shots of that. More on that later.
[He'll enclose those photographs here: there is some blurriness and warping around the ticket booth. Maybe he just took some bad pictures? Maybe, but the ones he took of the Funhouse look perfectly fine.]
* A psychic investigation of the ticket booth confirms that the train jumped the rails and crashed into a wall at the trainyard, then burned with people trapped inside.
I did catch something interesting before the fire, however, from the people in the car before the crash: "The end that will be a new beginning". This is a theme that seems to recur with the circus, so I thought it was worth noting.
* I don't believe that Pyre is human. If he is, he's possessed of some kind of unnatural power. He apparently has some sort of criminal history, possibly arson, that Fenix helped him out of, and he started out at the circus doing technical work before he began his show. He seems very loyal to Fenix, and very enamored with the idea of fire in general. "Wax poetic" in his own words...
I also witnessed him melt his hand down to the bone, and then regenerate it. He did this right in front of me, inside his private tent while we talked. I didn't see any signs of accelerant or pyrotechnics, he just snapped his fingers and his hand burned.
[Yes, that last bit gets added casually, because isn't that the sort of thing that happens all the time? Of course it does.]
* If the circus is drawing power from the fear they inflict during their shows, I'm worried about the possibility of a mass-casualty event. If the train wreck was some kind of offering or sacrificial rite, then another certainly isn't out of the question. I hope I'm reaching, here, but I'm not sure that I am.
I'm available to talk publicly or privately about any of these details, if it helps anything, but I would very much like to hear from anyone who talked to the other employees of the circus or found anything else of note. I haven't shared the information given to me by other ADI investigators, I'll leave it to those individuals to jump in with what they have.
Thank you for your time, and I hope this helps us form a clearer picture of exactly what's going on and what we're meant to do about it.
Username: a.jaeger
Warnings: CW: Body horror, burns, mass burning deaths, human sacrifice. More will be added as needed
Good evening, all. For those I haven't met yet, my name is Andrew Jaeger and I'm looking to compile the information gathered in light of tonight's rather disturbing events. After several discussions, it seems like some of us have different information and I'm looking to put it all in one place, discuss it, and if possible, decide on a course of action.
I'll start by reviewing what I've been able to discover about the carnival over the course of this week:
* The Funhouse seems to have some sort of disorienting effect for those that go through it. I suffered this myself as well as witnessing others affected. I...found myself chasing someone that wasn't there, and when I came to, I was very confused and upset. I had been chasing an innocent bystander instead.
[That's hard to admit, but he does anyway. It's important that all the details are there for people, even the ones that hurt.]
* Photographs of the building reveal nothing concrete, though I did find some distortion around the ticket booth when I took shots of that. More on that later.
[He'll enclose those photographs here: there is some blurriness and warping around the ticket booth. Maybe he just took some bad pictures? Maybe, but the ones he took of the Funhouse look perfectly fine.]
* A psychic investigation of the ticket booth confirms that the train jumped the rails and crashed into a wall at the trainyard, then burned with people trapped inside.
I did catch something interesting before the fire, however, from the people in the car before the crash: "The end that will be a new beginning". This is a theme that seems to recur with the circus, so I thought it was worth noting.
* I don't believe that Pyre is human. If he is, he's possessed of some kind of unnatural power. He apparently has some sort of criminal history, possibly arson, that Fenix helped him out of, and he started out at the circus doing technical work before he began his show. He seems very loyal to Fenix, and very enamored with the idea of fire in general. "Wax poetic" in his own words...
I also witnessed him melt his hand down to the bone, and then regenerate it. He did this right in front of me, inside his private tent while we talked. I didn't see any signs of accelerant or pyrotechnics, he just snapped his fingers and his hand burned.
[Yes, that last bit gets added casually, because isn't that the sort of thing that happens all the time? Of course it does.]
* If the circus is drawing power from the fear they inflict during their shows, I'm worried about the possibility of a mass-casualty event. If the train wreck was some kind of offering or sacrificial rite, then another certainly isn't out of the question. I hope I'm reaching, here, but I'm not sure that I am.
I'm available to talk publicly or privately about any of these details, if it helps anything, but I would very much like to hear from anyone who talked to the other employees of the circus or found anything else of note. I haven't shared the information given to me by other ADI investigators, I'll leave it to those individuals to jump in with what they have.
Thank you for your time, and I hope this helps us form a clearer picture of exactly what's going on and what we're meant to do about it.
un: aberration
Of course, when I did the exact same thing to him and pretended that I was aspiring to avatarhood and threatened to kill him as a way to feed whichever God I'd be feeding, he got very upset and angry. So methinks he's not particularly good at taking it.
I don't know how true his claims of cruelty free fear feeding is, but at the very least he seems to believe it. That being said, he was painfully stupid.
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It makes me wonder if there are other people with powers who could be so easily picked up by groups like the circus, turned to the cause of spreading fears.
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But yes, that does seem like it could happen. A circus that acts as an easy mode to get people hooked on driving people wild with fear, and then when the circus is no longer able to keep them stuffed...
Well. Then they'll have to find their own ways of seeding terror, won't they?
Re: un: aberration
[You like dangerous games, don't you, Aelwyn?]
But he knew what you were talking about. That they *are* gaining power from the shows. And when he burned his hand in front of me, he seemed disappointed that I wasn't frightened.
He seems very much in Fenix's thrall, if nothing else. And caught up in his own power.
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He did. I think the best metaphor to use for him would be to say he's an addict being drip-fed fear, and he doesn't have the brains to think "hey, maybe the guy who's feeding me fear doesn't have my best interests at heart."
Ultimately, I'm not sure if it's better for him to be on his own or still under Fenix's wing. (Pun intended.)
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[Magic in his world can be very addictive, like any form of power or adrenaline rush. It's certainly not unreasonable that it would be true here as well.]
And that is a difficult call. With Fenix, he's able to terrorize a much larger group of people, but it might be keeping him from more destructive uses of his abilities. He said he was in trouble with the law- arsonist seems rather likely.
I think we need to know more about the whole situation and their bigger intentions before we can make that call, unfortunately.
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These types of people know how to disappear.
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Pyre said they're heading to Boston next, so following them there may be an option, but that's a much bigger crowd to deal with. More potential victims, more witnesses.
I wish we had more immediate options at hand, but unfortunately it doesn't look that way right now. Even if ADI heirarchy gets back to us right away.
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Well. It's not like they can't just... you know. Kill the dude. But that's probably something to be discussed in person.]
I think we should have an in-person meeting. Nobody in the higher echelons allowed. Just so we can determine an approach as a group.
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I agree. Off ADI grounds, someplace neutral where we can talk. It's getting late tonight, but perhaps in the morning?
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