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“Good evening citizens of Agdoeg, this is Lee Kyung of channel 85 to bring you an update to the ongoing investigation of the Mogul Murders. Over the past few months the Agdoeg Police department have been following a string of murders on prestigious visitors to the city. While the trail had been cold, the investigation has caught fire as of today, as the first amount of usable evidence has been found at the scene of a new victim. Business mogul, Apollo Abdula, visiting the city for the world investment meeting for Jeup Enterprise’s was found mauled to death in his luxury hotel room at the Ivoire la Tour. For the first time since the string of murders occurred their suspect has left substantial evidence. Here’s Inspector Park Shin-woo of the Agdoeg Police Department with a statement:...”

The screen then cuts to a press conference held in front of the precinct where Inspector Park, accompanied by Superintendent General Soh Namjoon, Asst. Inspector Cho Taewon and Lead Detective Kakuzo Black, are stationed on and next to the podium, addressing the reporters in their presence.

“Today’s discovery of Apollo Abdula by Ivoire la Tour staff has led to the biggest break in our case following these string of murders.” Inspector Park begins,  “We do believe that Abdula’s murder is tied to the other four, and with the evidence gathered today we do suspect that it is a supernatural’s doing. Upon processing of the scene, we have reasons to believe that it may have been a canine-like, creature attack. And because of Apollo Abdula’s underground ties, we have reason to believe that this attack, and the others may have been gang related. With that being said, the Agdoeg Police department will be opening and active investigation on a specific group known on the streets as the ‘Howlers’ and any rumored or owned business in association with the group.” Park goes on to close the pre-written announcement, and continues on, “we are dedicated to eradicating the gang issues that have come to over run our beloved city, and we as a police force will do whatever we can to insure the safety of our citizens, and in this moment, the safety of those who come to visit our beautiful city. And we ask you if you have any information if you see anything, hear anything, or something isn’t right that you please call the Agdoeg Police Department. All tips will be followed up on. Thank you.” 

Inspector Park repeats the announcement in English, and is replaced by Lead Detective Black to repeat the announcement in Japanese before the screen is returned to the news anchor:

“Superintendent General Soh has stated on the record that all signs point to this specific group, and they will be giving updates on the investigation as it moves forward, as well as enhancing police presence in certain areas. This has been Lee Kyung on Channel 85, ‘watch us work for you.’” 

Summary: A string of hits carried out by Alucard Jeup on Dragan Jeup’s command has caught the attention of the APD. Because of the amount of police presence at the scene, and the trail catching up to the Night Blood’s fast, the most recent hit was staged to seem like a specific animal-like attack. Due to the enhanced gang activity, this has led to the APD’s assumption that the Howler’s may be involved. 

Police presence in the streets at well known gang territory has increased. APD members have been forced into working overtime on any leads and tips that come in. Howler members are advised to keep their heads down, while simultaneously trying to find out who framed them. Though a little birdy may lead them to a pond of lotus…maybe.

Required threads:

@syphavc , @vcxxangel, @rxignvc discussing the next step in the framing process

Task:

Write a self para about your muses time during the power outage and susoquently the reveal of their personal information on the forum. Do they clap back? Do they respond to the blatant breach of privacy? Will they retaliate? What of there’s has been revealed? Did they notice that more damning info got leaked than others? Do they have an inkling of who might be involved?

It was almost like a distant memory. The smoke flooding the underground as shots rang out, flames licking the dark sky as we watched La Fortuna burn, screams of rage mixed into the crunch of glass as the young vampire king walked through the destruction of his lovely Ketsuki. This devastation had followed with anarchy, at no point was any one safe, and the world underground as they knew had fallen to pieces. 

Alliances had been severed, those who were loved were lost and those who were hated were targeted with a new kind of anger. Not fueled by race and carnage, but out of the pain of it all, watching empires crumble under and invisible thumb with nothing to do in response but to watch, cry, or kill, and one by one they’d chosen their fate.

The Veil had done quite the job, plucking the petals of each gang as they made up the rose of darkness, trying to claw their way through it with nothing but justice as their guide. But in Agdoeg, it always tends to consume you. There is no virgin soul that goes unclaimed in the most vile city of them all. 

A tree stands tall in front of the luxury building, a reminder to those who’d lived to tell the tale that the war was over. As they had assumed. But rising from the ashes like a phoenix may not always make you a god, but in some cases a target.

One by one they were to crumble, and in this stance it would begin.

Slowly people gather to the evergreen tree, standing tall above the city, awaiting it’s torch to be lit up for the rest of the season. It was an honor to attend, women and children brought flowers and stuffed toys to settle beneath it’s sturdy base. Men saluted the plaque that held Nam Beom-so’s photo, perched next to a list of his accomplishments on the force. All is well.

A slight snowfall begins to cascade over the event, hoots and cheers from the kiddos and those who were finally ready to give a meaning to the cold. As the bank of flurried grew, unsuspected men and women ready themselves for the beginning of the end, some placed behind computers, others watching from above, while the main infiltrators walk around with their unsuspecting fake counter parts without suspicion, and as the festivity begins to grow in size, the anticipation grows with it. It is only when the crowd is at its peak, that the signal is given.

People begin to wait patiently, finally able to watch the multitude of lights that illuminate in the dark spaces of the tree’s branches. Oos and ahs pepper the array of citizens before the lights of the tree suddenly dim to nothingness. In a normal instance this would cause no worries, but in the event of the tree lighting the Ivoire la Tour and the surrounding companies were instructed to turn their lights off just for the lighting of the tree. Street lamps were dimmed to nothing in the hopes that the plentiful string of decorations would illuminate the square enough, the surrounding darkness of Agdoeg to enhance its glow. But as shop merchants and hotel attendants try to flip the switches they are met with nothing but the faint click, a hush falling over the crowd as their new police chief instructs them to stay calm while they tend to the tree.

It is in this silence, that the chaos ensues. 

From just across the way the gentle shwit of a bullet exiting a silencer is heard only by it’s shooter, @ashtonxvc as it’s target, pierced through the top of the thigh and then quickly again in the opposite side of his abdomen, as those connected to the Night Bloods, even adjacent are no longer safe as well. There are no pawns in this battle, everyone must be treated as a trophy. 

The young gumiho is injured but the carnage still continues. @vc-hmj is next on their list, his darkness blacker, aided in the covering of something in front of his vision. It is here he’s kicked to his knees, gagged to be silenced just like the one that felt so thick beyond the tree, and dragged by the tops of his shirt into an unknown vehicle. 

Carnage stops for no one, and a small fog begins to grow at the feet of the unsuspecting sitting prey, blinding them to the point of no return before a fake scream induced by @dalvc to begin the chaos. People begin to run in various directions, attempting to stumble through the darkness and caress their loved ones, only for their paths to be illuminated by the sound of an explosion, the tree was now in pieces wood, lights and ornaments sent flying through air like missiles with strangely accurate trajectory, the tiny blinking lights in them unnoticed by the decorators. They buzz through the darkness for their target, one, two, three then four sharp pieces imbed themselves into the abdomen of @shinwoovc, a man just trying to be a hero by the title of his badge. 

A veil covered figure decides to taunt him, stepping over the officer as he’s down to whisper something so tantalizingly dangerous in the hellhound’s ear. 

It’s happening again, the beginning of a downfall that will leave so many injured, traumatized or dead.

Though not all attacks are meant to be seen as random, their list of targets goes much further down the sheet than one would like to know. @valvc shall be next on their list, brazen and bold, this masked figure is familiar, polished with a gas mask that doesn’t seem quite right, but  attempts to approach the escaping witch and her accompaniment, @vctaewon, weapon in hand, raised in perfect poise as she should have no time to escape. Shots ring out again, the fog clouding the vision of who’d gone down in the midst of the catastrophe, though the perpetrator, as instructed, doesn’t stay to find out, all of it playing upon the screen that Noe Sang-je sat before.

The Madame( @vchyunmi ) is next, as this would leave the succubus with only one leg to stand on, if they allow her to keep that. Shrouded in darkness she is snatched into the doors of a store front, blacked out by their doing as they must take her in the cover of chaos. 

Anarchy has begun. And no one is safe.