Characters
Daytona, misunderstood, quiet loner with a secret heart of gold
Panthalassa, do-gooder who loves to meddle in others personal affairs, a bit of a nerd
Pendleton, self-medicating overachiever teetering between valedictorian and total burn-out
Raoul, goth, rich kid, theatre kid
...and Alie, their kinda dumb metalhead friend
Events
We started the session by playing through each kid's morning routine. Panthalassa woke to the sound of her roommate Sera watching loud horror movies. Daytona noticed someone in a white Cadillac watching his house; when he went to get a closer look, it sped off. Garazi got a ride with Alie and Panthalassa in Alie's 70s Firebird. Raoul saw a series of cryptic symbols in his IM conversation with his girlfriend Emily. Pendleton got picked up by Raoul in the Lambo.
When the kids converged at Krevborna High, they could immediately tell that something was wrong. There were cops standing in front of the main doors, not letting anyone in, and their fellow students were heading around back to the football field--and they could hear screams coming from that direction. They followed suit and saw that two students, a couple who were dating, were disemboweled and hanging from nooses tied around a goal post. No one seemed to know what was going on; Officer Draghul gave Daytona a suspicious look. Eventually, Principle Dolan came out with a megaphone and told everyone to go home because school was cancelled.
Emily was, unfortunately, no where to be found.
Of course, no self-respecting teenager goes home when they suddenly find themselves with a free day to dispose of. The kids' first stop was Emily's house; Raoul broke in, but there was no sign of her or her parents inside.
Their next stop was the book store because they knew that Laura, the owner, always brought fresh-baked cookies in--plus, it would give them a chance to research the strange symbols Emily had sent to Raoul. They figured out that it was a cipher--a cipher that read "HELP ME." Laura also let them take a look at Emily's latest special order of books. Amid the Anne Rice and Poppy Z. Brite novels, there was a single book on the history of witchcraft in upstate New York. Flipping through the book, they spotted a picture of a grave in their own local Greenwood Cemetery. The name on the headstone was Imogen Garner; below her name were more of the symbols Emily used in her cipher.
Panthalassa ran out to give Thomasina, the girl she has a crush on, a cookie--but the interaction was AWKWARD.
Before they left the Commons for Greenwood, they decided to split up and check the parking ramp for the white Cadillac that Daytona saw earlier. Daytona didn't find the Cadillac, but he did find trouble: Wagner Highcross and his soccer goons gave him some shit about his mom, prompting a fight. Badly outnumbered, Daytona got his ass kicked--until Dr. F stepped in and tasered one of the soccer players. They threatened to report her, but she calmly reminded them that any authority figure was far more likely to believe her version of events than theirs. Once they left, she checked Daytona out, declared he had a minor concussion, and gave him the taser. She also gave him a bit of advice: "There are two kinds of people--those who ride and those who are ridden. You need to choose which you're going to be."
Initially, they had no luck locating Imogen Garner's grave in the cemetry. Then they were approached by a weird old man--groundskeeper Willard! He explained that Imogen was buried in the pauper's field. When asked about Emily, he said a girl fitting her description often came to the cemetery. He even handed over a bracelet of hers he had found on the grounds. When they searched for Imogen's grave in the pauper's field--they found it had been dug up and was now empty. Groundskeeper Willard didn't know much about her, but he knew someone who might--Sera, Panthalassa's roommate, who had done a civics project mapping the cemetery before she graduated.
They went to the Video King where Sera worked. Sera said that it was "crazy that it was happening again." They didn't know what she meant, so she explained that back in the early 80s there was a serial killer in the area who got nicknamed "the Lyncher" because he left a trail of dead high school couples in his wake. This made the kids want to head to the library to do a little microfiche research, but before they did they pressed Alie to talk to Sera about their mutual love of horror movies because Alie has an unrequited crush on Sera. Alie left with a pile of VHS tapes, courtesy of Sera's recommendations.
Outside, they spotted a white Cadillac pealing out of the strip mall. They decided it was time for a little hot pursuit. We'll see how that works out next time...
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