Of Monsters and Gods
18th of February 2007 A.D.
"It's not just the one," you explain to the trainees. "The White Council has been infiltrated by several evil wizards..." Several sounds like less than a dozen without technically being a lie, no need to panic them. "These are people willing and able to break the Laws in subtle ways..."
"Don't you go crazy if you break the Laws?" Tina asks sitting up. "That's what everyone told us, like you want to break them more and more until you're not even 'you' anymore just like a serial killer or a...." She glances at one of the nearer vampires and changes the word she was about to use: "Monster."
Ho, boy I am not the one who should be having this conversation, you think, but before you can give it the ol' College try Carlos steps in.
"Depends on when you do it and how you do it. Someone falling off the cliff without even knowing there's a cliff is going to flail and scream all the way down, but if they know what they're doing, if they throw themselves off then they can be quiet."
"But... but... it's like that liver an' beans feller, what they' call him?" Terry scratches his head and offers. "Hans Lecter? A dozen of him can't make a team right, they'd be all up in each other's livers."
Some of the others look a little green at the comparison, some are nodding and a few are fighting back a case of the inappropriate giggles. You can relate.
You hate to take the comfort away from them but better that they find out now than in the field some day. "Not how that works, monsters don't have to be stupid." There are a lot of silent nods among the Jade Dogs.
"Isabela..."
"No need to tell me, not going home tonight don't wanna catch some kind of spook like that ass who screwed with my laptop, hang tight and make sure the future White Council enforcement wing doesn't get bored and start setting the pool room on fire."
"Hey...!"
"You have a pool room...?"
"I think they'll be OK," you say dragging Carlos to a Sarah's newly vacated office to lay out the truth in slightly more detail, not all the detail, not even close, but everything you shared with McCoy and everything he's shared with you as you work the phone.
Harry assures you he'll get right on calling his old teacher, though he's less enthusiastic on Morgan, more for your sake than his own you suspect. If anyone would be paranoid enough to realize how much you know it would be Donald Morgan. Little though you may know the man that much you're sure of. Tiff is coming of course, she sounds like she's been getting bored since the trip into Hell, but you are surprised that Olivia jumps at the chance to help the Council without a moment's hesitation. Then again maybe it's less 'the White Council' and more kids she can see herself in.
Regain 1 Essence -> Now at 12/18
Then you pull out Donnar's card... Given his reputation some of the Senior Council may not thank you for involving him, but that's OK since it means there will be a Senior Council to get upset.
"We have an Outsider problem..." you start recounting the same things you did to Carlos, the presence, its awareness of you and the previous suspicions of traitors in the Council. "You need to warn the Merlin and the Gatekeeper."
The old man waits through your whole account, not interrupting once then asks bluntly: "How do you know it's an Outsider problem? No, let me rephrase that, how do you know it's an Outsider problem significant enough to warn the Gatekeeper?"
[] Stonewall him, you are not going to reveal your sources (Charisma+Etiquette vs ???)
[] Try to feed him the same half-truth you did Carlos about being able to see when someone is spying on you and look back (Lie: Charisma+Subterfuge against ???)
[] Write in
OOC: Maeve would have been annoying in her own way, Odin is inquisitive, that is part of his nature. One thing to just say 'I'm good at divination' quite another to claim to have cracked a conspiracy that has eluded the Council for decades, 
