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“Fine enough, your choice. You can help me look for all the things we have to check.” Kosara nodded with a shrug.” There will be the signs of demonic activity to check, people deaths and so much more, might take us a good half of the day to go through it all if we are really detailed about it.” The huntress stated, pulling her jacket so she's ready to get going. Never go without your jacket was her creed. The leather jacket can save your life in case you are attacked by many things! Apparently leather was a good armor material who knew! That sarcastic thought aside she quickly hopped in the car of her gramps.

“Abe, I'm concerned about this all...” She admitted while they were traveling to the library.” I have the sneaking suspicion that this pot is going to blow up soon and the storm will not be small at all.” She said to him with concerned voice. Tell it her intuition if you will, but this had the underlying traits of something big that was just hiding underneath the veils of normality, but it was starting to spill over and the seams were showing ready to burst.” I just wanted to say that if something happens, do know that I'm glad I came to live with you, gramps.” She smiled.

She was suspecting one of them might die which was part of the way of hunters. You couldn't win them all after all and she had to tell her good ol grumpy gramps that she loves him. Call her a big softy underneath that sexy hunter persona if you will.

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"Nice horse Declan." Heather was doing her best to not laugh. She did turn to Olivia and said "I request not being basement group." Heather was going to add that she would take watch for the group when the PI guy came out.

She recognized him from seeing him at the cafe. He warned them the house wasn't safe and showed off a covered wound. Heather didn't much care for the idea of going into the house before this development now she really didn't want to go in there. She looked to Olivia and then glanced at Finley. They were the driving force behind this trip. It was up to them. Though Heather still would much rather be the look out.

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Jenna nodded, a bit irritated but also not surprised that her cousin hadn't opened up the letter. She and Finley were the amateur investigators in this town, though Jenna fully intended on making her dream a reality. She'd get out of this town, officially change her name to what her father intended for her - Jenna Rydzynski - and go into business as a private investigator. Jason and Lydia were the only members of her family that she'd bother letting have her number. Everyone else could go to hell as far as Jenna was concerned.

"I'm going to go check out the evidence locker," Jenna announced, grabbing her bag. She was about to walk out by herself when she sighed, feeling Tony brush at her heels. He wanted to come with her. She nodded at her dog, grabbing his leash and clipping it onto his collar. "You're welcome to come if you want to, Lyd," Jenna said as she stepped out the door, waiting a few minutes to see if her cousin and her stolen child/cat would be joining her on the walk to the police station. Jenna just hoped Tony would growl at any of her "friends" that they saw so they'd know to stay away.

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"Pass on the basement. I'll take the inside of the house," Robin said, though he cast a glance at Heather in hopes that she would accompany them, despite the danger. A rubbernecker's dream would be snooping around at the site of the murder, but at the same time, he didn't want to find anything straight from a horror flick. Robin was surprised there were no cops left behind to guard the area, even city cops. They did however, the guy from the cafe, Declan, and his–– horse? Well, that was certainly a sign he was back in Red Lake...

Just a bedraggled detective, injury and all. PIs were in that in-between space between cop and civilian. He'd go ahead and call him cop-adjacent for now. Though he believed the man when he said that the house was dangerous –– his leg was proof of that –– it was probably just bad luck, and like lightning, it never struck twice. "Thanks for the warning," he said sincerely, "but I think we'll all be fine." Finally he turned to the others who might be heading in the same direction, past the PI and into the house. "We can split up once we're inside, take different parts of the house. If the structure's bad, it might be best not to have all of us standing in one room, right?"

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Lydia didn't know really what to do in this sort of situation. Everything was really weird to her, this whole demons and shape shifter thing or whatever you wanted to call them. Trying to piece together everything was kind of making her head spin a little, but she remained calm. To think that the guy she had been with yesterday might have been killed by a demon, it was still strange to her, but she'd try to help Jenna out if she could.

"I'll come too Jenna," she said in response to what Jenna was going to do. They needed to see what else was in that letter, even if it was nonsense, it might still be helpful. She turned to look at the kid, "You want to come with Robert?" she asked him with a smile. She didn't know if he wanted to come, but she might as well ask him, as she headed for the door.

Declan hadn't even noticed everyone standing around out front until Olivia spoke up and called him out, as well as Heather. The tone of Heather's words almost seemed to tease. Declan turned bright red.

"My mom made me take him." Declan rubbed the back of his neck firmly, smiling shyly. "Yeah, Oli. Now the party can start." he joked.

He listened to Oli's plans, feeling more and more that this was definitely The Mystery Gang. Split up and look for clues? Classic Scooby-Doo shit right there. Only in this situation, he and Oli were the monsters. Luckily they were the good kind, in this scenario.

"I think I'll take the basement, as well." He jogged to catch up with Finley, walking just behind her as they approached the house. Declan wasn't worried about anything till the door to the house opened up and a tall figure stepped out. Declan quickly whipped his knife out from its sheath and stepped out in front of Finley.

Once he saw it was the P.I., he relaxed slightly and slid his knife back into the sheath, but let it open with his hand on the top of the knife. Ready to use.

"As he said, we'll be just fine, man."

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@BlueSky44 @Morose Robert stared at the dog Tony for a moment, then towards Jenna when she announced that she was going to be going to the police station. He looked over at Lydia when she said that she decided to join her as well, he gave a slight shrug and nodded towards her. "Sure why not." He said before shifting back into the kitten form and then started to crawl up onto Lydia's shoulder. They would get there no problem at all, there was a young officer manning the main desk. He looked up at Jenna and Lydia as the pair of them came into the building. His name was George Jennings, he gave Jenna a friendly smile, and then spotted the two animals with them. "You know this isn't a petting zoo right?" He asked jokingly. "What are you doing here anyway Jenna" He asked.

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Olivia looked at Miranda, Robin and Heather when they said that they preferred to go and check the main house, which was fine by her she was more interested in going into the basement. "Miranda you can go with Robin, and if Heather wants to you can stay outside and stay guard or follow them, up to you." Olivia said smiling towards Heather she had a feeling that her friend wasn't to keen on going into the house at the moment. She then turned her head towards the door as she noticed the PI coming out of the building and started to approach Finley, and warning them that it wasn't really all that safe to go in. She noticed the gash on his leg when he revealed it biting her lower lip for a moment.

"Thanks for the warning, but I think we will be fine, I really just want to make sure that my friend is alright and all." Riley said softly towards him, hoping that the PI would understand. "There's a health clinic that I intern at, you should really get that checked out and make sure that it isn't infected or anything." Olivia suggested, she knew that going into really rotten and musty places and you got a cut that they would be bad.

Olivia decided to make her way towards Miranda and then gave her a hug before she decided to enter the building. "We will be just downstairs." Olivia said giving her friend a loving smile, she didn't want to admit it but she had a crush on her friend as well. Olivia turning and quickly making her way back towards Finley and Declan, and made her way towards the outside side entrance towards the basement. Her eyes wondering down as she started to make her way down towards the stairs, the officers spent the last five days picking the place clean of evidence. There was still the bit of blood where the murder had happened.

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As Abe drove down the road he looked over towards his niece when she expressed concern that this was going to be a lot bigger than everything else has been so far. He couldn't help but agree with her on that as well, and nodded slightly. "We will be able to beat this thing, whatever it is though." Abe said towards her and gave Kosara a friendly smile and gently patted her on the shoulder, aside from his long dead wife Kosara was probably one of his favorites in the family.

"Love ya to." Abraham said giving her a smile, he really wasn't the type for the mushy stuff, but he did love her and would take a bullet for Kosara if need be. As they got to the library Abe started to drive up at the townhall, after the five days they had cleaned up the scene already now. As he made his way into the library area of the building Abe moved over towards the old set of computers, there was a librarian there who looked pretty young and bored out of her mind reading a magazine.

"So what do ya wanna look for first?" Abe asked as he pulled up a computer chair and sat down next to it, they usually had it all connected to the internet and they could do the research there. "Also we looking for the history of the town to?" Abe asked looking at Kosara.

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Well Harry couldn't say he didn't expect this outcome. The kind of kids that would roll out to an active crime scene and poke around it in the middle of the day weren't the kind of listen to warnings about safety. And unfortunately he had neither the time, energy or strategy to effectively talk them out of their little plan, especially since he had a new obstacle in getting around in the form of the bleeding gash on his left leg. So with a quick "thank you," he made his way back to his car.

As much as he wanted to go talk with the Halsey woman Mrs. Walker had mentioned earlier, the injury really needed to be looked after first. He had seen serious injuries that had become infected when he was a child. Rotten, frostbitten, discolored flesh. Pustules, crusty casings and amputated stumps where fully functioning limbs once were found. Oil workers they may have been, and the situation far more precarious, the images remained transfixed in the back of his head, and he didn't want to end up like one of them. Once securely in his vehicle, he pulled out his phone and quickly looked up the location of the clinic that one of the girls had mentioned.

However, when he tried to drive, he found a sudden pain shoot up his leg. Seemed that it didn't like him pushing his foot forward like that to power the accelerator and pump the break. Well there was no way he was going to do something like call an ambulance, or worse, his clients for a ride. So for the time being, he'd take things slow, try to keep his foot stiff as possible, and just suck it up as best as he could until he managed to get to the clinic. It wasn't all that far away, and he'd been through worse before. If there was a real downside to this whole situation, other than wasting time and money he could be spending working on the case, it was that the blood was ruining the interior of his Riviera. It'd take forever to wash out all the bloodstains.

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"Hmmm..." Kosara made a sound of pondering as they were getting settled with the old computers that were used in the library." I say we slip the search." She declared, pulling her notebook from a pocket and a pen to go along with it. She was going to keep also good old analog notes on this just in case." Abe, I will get searching for the hystory of the mayor and signs of demonic manifestations while you can do the deaths and the oldest hystory of the city." She proposed with a smile, pulling a browser on the old computer to pull internet.

"This way we will cover most ground in the quickest manner!" Kosara stated with a huge grin, as she pulled the weather reports on teh area in the time of the mayor's death. If a demon appeared it wouldn't be hard to imagine a few freak weather phonomenons after all. That and it was quite the quick search, weather was a well documented nature effect after all. Heck the country even had it's agency to do so!

"If you discover anything suspicious write it down so we can cross check it later. That way nothing will escape us." She called, sliding and starting to scribble in her notebook, separating the page into dates.

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Heather wanted to apologize if she had come off mean to Declan, but the time wasn't right, she'd have to remember later. For now, she fidgeted for a moment indecisive if she wanted to go into the house or be outside alone. Yep, she was not going to be alone she decided. "I'll go in," she put on a brave face and followed Robin inside. She glanced back before stepping over the threshold and hoped that whoever (if anyone) came in after her would leave the door open.

"Right behind you Robin." She said, then added as she held up the flashlight. "You want to take lead?" Heather was really hoping he wanted to because she certainly didn't.

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Jenna raised an eyebrow, seeing Robert shift into a cat again. Tony growled a bit as well and Jenna just shot her dog a look, instantly getting him to quit it. He was fairly well trained and obedient - mostly to Jenna. With other people, it was largely hit or miss if Tony would do what was asked of him. He knew who was alpha and who wasn't - and in his mind, Jenna was alpha and everyone else was at the bottom of the pack. "I know it's not a petting zoo," Jenna said bluntly.

"And they don't generally stock those with a single cat and dog...I'm here to do a little bit of work before going to lunch with my cousin," she explained. It wasn't uncommon for her to come in and do a few minutes of work before she'd head out for lunch or the school day. She never reported her hours incorrectly or failed to get her work done. She knew that the more she talked, the more eyebrows she'd be raising. "Tony, stay," she told her dog, before she headed back to the evidence locker.

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Finley was already feeling antsy with having to deal with the group of people she didn't want to hang around with. So when the PI came out and began to read her the riot act of not hanging around and it being dangerous or whatever, she had every intention of flipping the dude the bird and cursing him out before stomping into the basement, but it seemed the others beat her to the punch.

What worried her was the brief glance she gave Declan as he came up with a knife. Granted, he put it away quickly seeing the PI come out, but the fact he had a knife anyway and was prepared to use it worried her. Defense was all fine and good, but she hadn't expected it coming from him.

Once the PI left to lick his wound, she turned to see that Declan and Olivia would be joining her. Out of everyone there, it was her best bet. "All right, let's get this over with." She made her way into the basement, noting hints of blood already there. It being an abandoned building, she wasn't surprised the lack of clean-up done.

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"Gotcha," Robin said, conscious of Heather's reluctance to enter the house in the first place. He shot her a reassuring smile, and didn't make any jibes about murderers or monsters or any number of other gruesome ends that could befall them. He was secretly glad that Miranda took point for that reason alone, volunteering before he could get a chance to.

"I bet the PI's ransacked this place already, but let's see if there's anything he didn't catch." Robin didn't like the look of the floorboards underfoot, and didn't trust them to hold his weight, but nevertheless he pushed on. He would go for an attic, or a room out of the way, upstairs, at the very least –– strange happenings never occurred in a kitchen or a ground floor half-bath. If it wasn't the basement, it would be somewhere more fitting of an uncomfortable atmosphere.

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Lydia smiled when Robert shifted back into a kitten and crawled onto her shoulder. She helped him up, before she followed after Jenna, though she hoped that her dog would stay away from Robert or something, since he had chased the kid behind things in the house. She did not want him to run off or something outside, she wanted to keep an eye on the kitten as opposed to losing sight of him because of a dog.

She followed after her cousin to the police station, perfectly fine with letting her take the lead when they got there, unlike Jenna, she wasn't exactly known with the police department. Lydia didn't say anything to the officer, but she did give him a smile when they walked in. His comment about it not being a petting zoo made her want to laugh a bit, but she didn't just waiting for Jenna to get what they needed from the evidence locker.

Declan pulled his hand back and shoved it into his pocket, slowly following behind Finley till he noticed Olivia go towards Miranda and give her a hug. He chuckled to himself when he realized how long the hug took, then the flash of expression that crossed Miranda's face when she most likely noticed it too. Declan could see Olivia make her way back over, but Declan watched Miranda a bit longer, watching her make her way into the house.

Declan turned away from the house and followed Oli and Finn to the side-of-the-house entrance to the basement. Suddenly he was starting to regret coming. What was he even doing here, anyway? He could be at home out of the rain

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@BlueSky44 @Morose "Alright then, i'll let your pops know that your in." He said as Jenna headed over towards the evidence room, Robert jumped down off of Lydia's shoulder and quickly trotted off towards the corner of the building. He then shifted back, there was a small alleyway between the sheriff department and the store next to it. A few seconds later Robert came back in his human form, and sat down at a seat in the reception area which was pretty small. He looked up at Lydia, for a moment he was curious about what was with her cousin. "So why does Jenna seem so grumpy?" He asked looking at her. As Jenna headed into the evidence room, there was a small table and several shelves containing various boxes of evidence in the town.

There Jenna would see Jeanna leaning forward going over the case files and evidence that Jenna wanted to look for. Her attention quickly turned towards her, and raised an eyebrow before pushing some of the stuff aside. "What were you looking for Jenna, anything I can help you with?" Jeanna asked looking at her, Jenna would be able to see the crime scene photos of James Tanner the buy who was mauled to death as well as the crime scene photo's of Ryder's crime scene as well.

@Dragoknighte Harry would be able to get to the clinic with no problem, however he would start to feel pretty dizzy from the blood loss, he would most likely end up needing some stitches. Once he got into the clinic itself he would see an older gentleman manning the front desk as he was going over some computer work. He would look up and see the blood stained pants and looked over at him and stood up, it looked like it was a pretty slow day as he motioned for him to come over. "So what happened to your leg?" He asked as he started to pull out some paper work for him to sign insurance and patients name and all that medical stuff.

@McHaggis@Kirah@Damo021 As the three entered the house the air would certainly smell very old and musty as well, they would notice the slightly broken down roof from the upstairs, the house certainly had seen better days. They would see the very same picture that Harry had seen earlier, and they would also see the broken floorboard where Harry had fallen earlier as well where he had gotten his injury. In what looked to be the living room, they would see some old furniture covered up in what looked to be sheets. It did feel like something out of an old Scooby Doo show, the floors would let out a creepy creaking sound as they entered the house.

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Olivia looked over her shoulder towards Declan for a moment, and then over at Miranda blushing slightly she continued down into the basement. As her eyes scanned the area, she made her way down a few aisles she stared at the creepy old looking mason jars filled with various weird and creepy things. She really wasn't all that sure why the officers didn't take them, maybe they were still looking through some of the evidence seeing as some of the shelves were completely empty as well. She turned her attention towards Finley and then Declan once more. "So what do you think went on down here?" She asked, as Olivia made her way slowly towards the end of the room and stared at what looked to be a very creepy looking altar of some kind.

Olivia backed up slightly as she sniffed around, she would also get the scent of the dried blood from when James died Declan would be able to smell it as well. She continued to look around the room, Finley would find what looked like to be a torch holder on the far side of the room, and it looked like it could also be moveable as well, as if it was a switch of some kind.

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Abraham nodded. "Your the boss." He said jokingly as he went over towards the archives section and started to go through the history of Mayor Ryder, and leaned back when he ended up finding a local news article dating to about five years ago when Mayor ended up winning the election for the towns mayor the headline stating. 'Ryder wins local election by a landslide!' Abe leaned back as he started to go through the article and read it over, he knew that most demon deals either lasted up to either five or ten years depending on the contract that they signed.

To most people it didn't really sound all that much information, as Kosara did her search she'd end up getting two weather reports, one dating about a week and a half ago when Riley Walker went missing. There was a brief thunderstorm earlier in the day, and then quickly left as it came. Then one about the time when mayor Ryder was killed, same weather phenomenon, Abe looked over towards his niece and the turned the monitor to face her to show what he ended up finding on his search. "What did you find?" Abe asked.

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The vertigo wasn't helping Harry get this wound treated at all. He had hoped that tying it up would be enough to keep it from actively interfering with his ability to act, but it seemed that he either did a shoddy job of jury-rigging a bandage (entirely possible given how rushed he was to wrap up, and his general lack of medical experience), or the wound was a lot worse than he had first thought. But the main issue was making sure that he focused enough to remember which way was down as he finished driving to the clinic, and afterwards, actually getting inside.

When he got to the counter, he steadied himself against it with one hand, relying entirely on his right hand to do all the hand things required. The most difficult part was reaching across his entire body to reach into the opposite side pocket so he could retrieve his wallet. However, once he had wrested it from the soaking maw of his trousers, Harry was able to easily produce his driver's license, insurance card as well as accidentally dumping $20 in one and five dollar bills all over the counter. Whoops.

"I was searching the abandoned house at the edge of town as part of my investigation into Riley Walker's disappearance; I'm the private investigator hired by the Walkers, and the floor suddenly gave way. I nearly fell through the floor. When I pulled my leg out, I saw it'd been pierced by some of the underlying wood." Harry explained as plainly as he could while the room continued to whirl around his head. Trying to withhold any information in some attempt to cover up what he'd been doing would only make them more likely to miss any potential maladies he might have contracted from the injury. And honestly, the last thing he wanted to do right now was have to answer more questions than strictly necessary. So he tried to give the man as much as he could need so his leg could stop leaking everywhere as soon as physically possible.

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Finley entered the basement and, by all counts, it was as creepy as she imagined it would be. It would obviously house a murder. It looked like something out of a horror movie. She half expected to run into a serial killer intent on picking off horny teenagers. Maybe she did need to be wary of that PI...

She glanced at the room and her eyes immediately hit the torch holders. "What kind of place still has torch holders?" She walked over to it. It was dusty and old but otherwise would do the job if they had a torch (and who the hell has those anymore?). She touched it, aware of how gross it was until she noticed indentations. It seemed it could be moved.

"Hey, this holder can be moved. Think it's a switch of some kind." And, of course, without much warning, she moved it, hoping to trigger the switch.

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Miranda had taken the lead, Heather was perfectly happy with that as well. It wasn't her and that was what mattered. She followed in the others steps making sure she gave enough space between them and herself that their combined weight wouldn't be on the same floorboard. The house had a tense feel to it, or maybe that was just her own fear. Every step the floor creaked. The odd picture in the foyer caught Heather's attention.

"Who is Siegfried Becker? Judging from the outfit that's an ancient picture. Did they even have photography that long ago?" She picked up the picture and flipped it over to see if there was a removable back to the frame. "Could be a reenactor?" Heather opens the back of the picture but she doesn't find anything worthwile. She closed it back up.