Ravenous

[vesta]

Alexander pulls the bike over on the way to wherever he and Lucy are headed to eat unhealthily and fishes out a phone to call everyone’s favourite sex chat-line.


So Lucy and I had another talk with Oliver.

Going on the threat I got, they eat the hearts. The gang goes out, finds a victim, kills them, and then takes the body back to “her” to prepare. No idea what the preparation is, but I guess that would be the ritual you're talking about.

The house is in Morrison. We know the street it’s on, I’ll pass it to Sera to confirm.

He gave a couple of names. Victoria and Brandon, although there are others he didn’t name. And another name that might mean more to you guys: Jörmungandr. Lucy said something about a serpent eating itself and recreating itself. Oliver also mentioned a dragon, maybe the same thing?

Oh, and Lucy picked up the licence plate of the van used in the killing she saw. I’ll see what I can dig up on it. She thinks that the pack is all-male, too. Maybe that has something to do with Her or the ritual?


There’s a muffled conversation as he checks with Lucy if he’s missed anything before the message ends.



[Niko – I’m tired, chuck in anything important that I might have missed. Howl – you want anything rolling for the plate check?]

[errin]

The muffled conversation involves a female voice coming from over Alexander's shoulder. Lucy reminds him that Jörmungandr is the Midgard serpent. In Norse myth it's believed when the serpent lets go it's tail the world will end. Maybe Victoria is trying to remake herself. Maybe only a Thor can defeat her. Maybe Oliver just had a thing for Norse myth and thought it sounded cool to call Victoria a dragon.

One last thing she'll muse, and she doesn't even know if it means anything or not, but Brandon being the only named male could mean he's leader of the pack. And the house that Oliver mentioned, they should all be there.

She'll remind him that there are sketches of the four men she saw up at the chantry.

Then it's probably time for them to go and eat all the fatty, sugary food they can cram into their faces.

[UKrose]

From Danny -

Hey there fun peeps. I'm going to take a look at this whole serpent thing, see what I can find out and well, try to figure out if there's anything else to do with this. I'll let you know what I find out, after all, what greater thing for a musician to do than follow his muse and feed his cravings? Don't make me get you all Marvel Figures for Christmas!

See you on the flipflop.

[-ix-]

Hermetics in town. Planning to operate on their own.

Just be advised they are here, and as they update me (if they do), I will update you.

-K.

[-ix-]

Be advised - newly arrived Hermetics missed scheduled check in.

[UKrose]

Update from Danny:

Okay, so I did some reading and googling, yeah baby, googles is your friend in some cases. I found about this whole world serpent deal, guess what? It's deeply founded in Norse mythology and when the serpent who Odin threw into the sea grew big enough he began to bite his own tail. Now, the story goes if he lets go of that shit, the world will end.

According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children by Angrboða, the wolf Fenrir, Hel and Jörmungandr, and tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard. The serpent grew so large that he was able to surround the earth and grasp his own tail. As a result, he received the name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent. When he lets go, the world will end. Jörmungandr's arch-enemy is the god Thor. It is an example of an ouroboros.

Guess who else is deeply into Norse and does shit in a whole new state of world domination.... Well, the Hagalaz. Ask Kalen for more details. There's this whole massive diatribe I could... aww fuck it, I'm on a roll... Okay, here goes:

These guys are freak nuts of the tenth order of ultimate dominion. They're also Norse nuts.... Believe in the whole Valhalla and I guess it's fair to say that they sort of behave like Loki, but without the totally hot rocking long hair and dirty smile Avengers thing.. Le sigh!!

Think, chaos, think riot. They see the world as weak and push to overthrow it, intent on replacing it with a Valhallan society. So, world serpent... Hagalaz... How this whole group we're up against fits into this, I don't know... But I figured as how it was a good idea to tell you, and so did Kalen, and I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaay over my thirty word limit! LOL

Anyhow!! They actually do this thing, from what I understand (which isn't much to be honest). They sort of, manipulate the masses. Or a core of a group, think about the riots you've seen anywhere in the world, some where in the mix, some fucknut with a complex gets it into his head to throw something, a group around him all jumped up on the "atmosphere" throw more.... next thing you know, those riots in London are happening. Or France... Or LA. These dudes like to make others do their dirty work.

Peace, love and good happiness stuff.

Danny.