Abe finished removing the fingerprints as best as he could from the truck.

And Dean was back to himself.



[OOC: We can move out of combat time]

Dean came around like a man coming out of a diabetic coma, his eyes slowly gaining some semblance of the man he was, his movements becoming more fluid and natural.

He made a pained sound, and then a groan. "Ugh...I feel like shit." he told the others and out a hand to his face, only to smear blood on it. "Looks like we won?" He asked with uncertainty

Cailin nodded to Abe without saying anything, then looked around as she answered Dean's question. “Depends on how you determine victory.” With one dead though, she doubted they had the same definition…

“Removing the blood,” the young angel started to answer Abe, “Or at least making sure it can't be analyzed, wouldn't be a bad thing I suppose. Though maybe you may want to get some samples of the wolves' blood. Don't you have anyone who'd be able to track them from it? Or divine their location or something?”

"Well, it went twice as badly for them as for us.  But since there were just the five of us, and no idea how many of them... I'm not sure that's a win for us.  If his sacrifice means we can track down and put an end to all the Banshees praying on humans?  Maybe."  Abe answered Dean.

"Might as well try," Commented Abe to Cailin, as he looked around for something that could carry the werewolf blood, trying to keep the samples separate and to keep from touching any of the blood directly.  If he couldn't find anything better, he pulled out the brass he had picked up and used the three casings to hold the samples.

Taking the staff, and any other useful hardware that was left on the truck, he moved a safe distance away from the road and beckoned the others to do so as well.  "I'll open a portal for you guys, then I'll get that thing burning before I come through."

He opened the portal, and began lining up a shot on the gas tank with the staff weapon.  He took plenty of time, hoping to make sure he wouldn't have to try again.

If Abe thinks he can (both capability and Baron Vega's permission) open a portal to a proper area of the club, he will do that.  Otherwise to home.

Abe gathered werewolf blood in the brass he had gathered. It wasn't easy and he got more blood on the outside of the case than on the inside. He carefully handed them to Tom.

They moved all the remaining hardware from the truck

Abe gestured for several seconds and a gash appeared in space. It was rimmed with vines and it bulged in the middle until it became a perfect circle of vines. The outer bound of a portal leading back to civilization.
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"Go, quickly."  Abe told the others once the portal was open.  He himself turned to start lining up his shot on the gas tank.

He had considered firing a bullet into the tank from closer, then using his own fire magic to ignite it.  However, that would have had danger of ricochet and left a silver bullet on site somewhere.  After five seconds of fiddling with the awkward thing, he figured it was as good as it was going to get and pulled the trigger.

Cailin watched Abe take the blood samples with her head tilted to the side, obviously pensive. It would have been quite easy for her to Orb somewhere, take the right tools for such a thing and Orb back, and it would only have taken her a few seconds, a minute at most…except that she had no idea where to Orb for that. Or more precisely, she had no idea where she could Orb for that without being seen. She'd have to address that at some point.

When the portal opened, Cailin watched what was on the other side curiously, but she didn't seem to be in a hurry to go through it, leaving everyone else go first, Abe included. After all, since she could just Orb there herself, there was no point rushing it. And should something go wrong, Abe could need help.

Plus, it wasn't like she was in any danger herself, no matter what happened with the van.

Dean carried Tom's body through the portal and Tom carried the brass of blood. But Cailin waited.

Abe aimed the staff weapon at the truck for as long as he thought it would improve his aim and fired. And this time he hit the truck and it went up in flames.

As Cailin refused to enter the portal, Abe walked through it and the portal disappeared behind him.

Now she was alone with the burning truck in Plaster City while the rest of them were in the private levels of Arcane Lux. Not far from the Baron's office or the conference room.
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Abe nodded his thanks to Cailin for the cover before stepping through the portal.

He collected Jack's gun and his extra clips, hoping to be able to make good use of them against those that had killed him.  "Cailin will orb herself here or wherever when she wants to."  He informed those who had gone through before him.

He started toward the conference room to see who was there, knowing that not just the Baron, but Isabella and Asil would need to hear what had happened.  He let the group know what he was thinking.

There was a MIB stationed outside the conference room door and he opened the door for Abe. Inside, he saw the Baron, Asali, and Isabella who all turned towards him when he entered.

Abe stepped into the room, and allowed the others time to get in as well if they desired , before speaking.  His face started to twist with emotion, then he shut it away and reported perfunctorily, "We stopped the Banshees from taking the truck and anything in it.  We killed two of them and they escaped with the bodies.  We kept samples of blood from three of them including the dead, in case that would let someone track them.  However..."

He choked slightly, and the muscles in his face had a short battle of their own.  He clamped< it down again and turned to face Isabella most directly.  "We want to express hour deep regret that your mentee, Jack, was killed in action on the truck tonight.  He was dealing with one of the Banshees, while another took advantage of his distraction to kill him.  We want to extend our deepest sympathy to you in your loss.

As the portal closed, Cailin hesitated a bit: was she supposed to follow? After a couple of seconds, she shrugged, then Orbed to her clients: they were likely going to talk about what had happened and their plans going forward, so if she wanted to guide them - or pretend to guide them since she knew next to nothing - she'd have to be there.

Once there, she stood to the side, content to stay out of the way - and silent - for now.

21:53, Today: Cailin Weber rolled 8 using 3d6.  Orbing to the Arcane Lux.

Cailin orbed to the Arcane Lux and appeared near the others.

At Abe's report, the tone in the room instantly turned somber.

"I'm sorry for your loss," De la Vega said. "Quick thinking on the blood. Please take that to Sparrow when we are done here and ask her to do that for us. What were they after?"

Abe held up a staff rifle.  "A ton of these as well as some less violent-seeming tools."  He nodded to Cailin. "Our advisor tells us that these are from a sci-fi television show.  They fire powerful bolts of fire.  They are inaccurate, but the wolves seemed to have trained with them as one was able to pick one up and immediately put it to good use."

Getting the chance to focus on something martial, Isabella instantly went to investigate the staff weapon. It didn't take her long to get it ready to fire, but she didn't.

"This is definitely something I need to investigate. What about the less violent tools? What do they do?"

Abe traded the hand device to Isabella, taking to staff to let her examine it with both hands.  "It made a vertical column of light, slightly taller than a person.  Then it winked out and we've not been able to do anything else with it."

He looked over the staff again as she worked with the hand device.  "If you've got a machinist, we could mount some grips and sites on this and have a pretty reliable-seeming rifle.  Though with the lack of a fire-related vulnerability in foes, it might just be better to squirrel these away to keep them out of others' hands."

"I would have to agree with that," Asali said. "These would be much more valuable to the wolves than they are to us. They should be locked away or destroyed."

Isabella put the device on and tried to make it work, but couldn't. She handed it to the Baron who tried it on too, without success. He then handed it to Asali and she too made the cylinder appear around her.

"It seems I found it. And what does this do?"

Abe shrugged.  "Not a clue.  The feelings I got from the item were safety, peacefulness, enlightenment, and time.  Not really sure how to interpret that, and we didn't have time to test it as it stopped working almost as soon as I got it started."

"It seems this is something I will have to investigate myself, so I will look into those feelings of yours. See if that gives me anything. And Isabella, if you look into those weapons."

Isabella nodded.

"Do you know where those weapons were coming from or where they were going," De La Vega asked.

Abe shook his head numbly.  "I had thought to wipe our fingerprints from the vehicle, but didn't think to search for a manifest of any kind."

He held up the blood samples.  "Unless there's anything else, I'll work on getting these to Sparrow."

Unless stopped, he stepped out into the hall and texted Sparrow to let her know where she was, and to ask her where to meet.

"It came from the direction of Naval Support Activity Colorado Desert," Tom said. "There isn't much else out there other than desolation. Unless someone drove cross country from the prison. Not that that proves anything."

De La Vega nodded.

"We will be replacing the fake ashes at the cemetery with his real ones. In case you want to know were Jack's remains will be," Isabella said.

"You did well," the Baron said. "Please prepare yourselves even further to fight the wolves."

"Let me know when we know where they are," De La Vega instructed Abe.

Abe sent a text.

Abe nodded to the Baron.  "Yes, sir."

Once he had ascertained Sparrow's whereabouts, he concentrated for a while before opening a portal rimmed in green leaves.  "If anyone needs me, just call."  He stepped through and disappeared.
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Cailin nodded, then as Abe left said, “Well, if you don't need me, I'll be...” she pointed a finger to the ceiling, as if it explained everything.

“Don't hesitate to call me if you need anything. I can't promise I'll be able to help, but it doesn't hurt to talk.” With that and if no one had anything to say about it, the young Angel Orbed away.

Abe opened a portal rimmed with green leaves and stepped through it into a luxury apartment.

Cailin orbed "Up There".

A portal opened and Abe sent the three remaining staff weapons to the private section of the club and then he closed the portal.