Hunter Session 02

Previous: Hunter Session 01

When the hunters woke up the next day, Saria suggested that if they planned on leaving the apartment building anytime soon, they should make an effort to change their appearance so as not to be so conspicuous. Everyone agreed with varying degrees of reluctance (Melba was very protective of her beloved dreadlocks). By the end of the day, Marta had contacts and red highlights in her hair, Melba radically altered her style of dress, and Will dyed his hair a mixture of "Fire Engine Red" and "Bright As Fuck Yellow."

To get to know one another a little better, Chet suggested going out on the town. Looking for a place to go, the group stumbled upon an ad for a place called Gower's Nightclub. Will met up with some ravers on the dance floor and they hit it off right away. The ravers told Will they knew about a place to get really good drugs and asked him if he'd like to come along and get in on the deal. Curious, he agreed and they led him into a back room. Melba saw him go, however, and got paranoid given the events of the past few days. Stealthily, she followed them into a series of secret rooms upstairs.

Soon, Will and the ravers came to an enormous room that contained nothing but a man sitting behind a desk. The man asked the ravers if they had come for "the same deal as usual," and they assented. Realizing she was in over her head, Melba turned back to get Chet, Saria, and Marta as the ravers led Will down the hall and into a waiting room full of people. Among the crowd, Will recognized one of the men he thought he'd killed at Saigow's Restaurant. Turning on his second sight, he realized that at least half the people in the room registered as not human. He turned around to leave, only to find the way blocked by the monsters.

Meanwhile, the others rushed toward the room where Melba had last seen Will go. Will managed to push his way through the crowds and meet up with the group in the hall, but with a number of monsters on his tail. Turning to the rest of the group, Chet commanded, "Get out of here. I'll handle this." Not really knowing what else to do, they ran out to the cars as Chet prepared to fight. As they pulled out of the parking lot, they saw a number of shadowy figures coming out of a side door to the building in pursuit of one larger, bulky figure, but they couldn't make out any facial features before they were out of sight.

The group sat around the apartment worrying for a few hours until Chet showed up in one piece. He'd been injured pretty badly, with claw marks on his torso and severe scrapes on his knees and shins, which he claimed he'd gotten jumping out of the window to escape from the "rots." (Melba helped heal him a little bit, however.) The group didn't understand how he could've survived such a battle, and they understood even less when they saw Saria heal the remainder of his wounds almost instantaneously. That night, the group went to sleep safe, but no longer quite so sure that Chet and Saria were the simple hunters that they claimed to be.

Next: Hunter Session 03