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 Rattled by her near-death experience and astral projection, [[wod:geist:pcs:erika|Erika]] decides to head home to rest and recover her nerves. Before she departs, [[wod:geist:pcs:peter|Peter]] heads out to their cars and removes the transmitters from her and [[wod:geist:pcs:isobel|Isobel]]'s cars. Erika departs, and [[wod:geist:pcs:david|David]] asks Peter to check his Honda Civic as well, as it was left at the Botanica. Peter obliges, and carefully goes over David's car. He finds nothing, but he and David get into a heated discussion about music and the ten-year age gap really hits home as Peter has no knowledge of Metallica or Clearwater Revival. Peter eyes the two bugs and estimates they're worth about five hundred apiece, they're fairly high-end. The krewe regroups inside the Botanica to discuss what to do next, and they decide to stick with their planned excursion into the Underworld tonight, even without Erika. They plan to meet at the X at 8 o'clock, and then they go their separate ways.
-Isobel goes to a sporting goods store to get some supplies for their excursion tonight, and then she heads home for a nap. David hits a hardware store for supplies and then heads home for a nap as well. [[wod:geist:pcs:anita|Anita]] reopens her shop and is immediately swarmed with a gaggle of Latina biddies as soon as her friends leave. The Latinas spend most of their time gossiping about her //gringo// customers and subtly one-upping each other, which Anita ignores while she examines her depleted stocks once again. She is startled to find [[wod:characters:cat|the orange cat]] on a high shelf, watching her. It meows at her and she hisses that he has to warn her when he reappears. The cat replies that it just did, but shuts up as soon as the Latinas discover his presence and swarm over to him to pet and coo. Anita realizes that this was doubtlessly the cat's plan all along, and leaves him to distract the old biddies.
+Isobel goes to a sporting goods store to get some supplies for their excursion tonight, and then she heads home for a nap. David hits a hardware store for supplies and then heads home for a nap as well. [[wod:geist:pcs:anita|Anita]] reopens her shop and is immediately swarmed with a gaggle of Latina biddies as soon as her friends leave. The Latinas spend most of their time gossiping about her //gringo// customers and subtly one-upping each other, which Anita ignores while she examines her depleted stocks once again. She is startled to find [[wod:characters:victor|the orange cat]] on a high shelf, watching her. It meows at her and she hisses that he has to warn her when he reappears. The cat replies that it just did, but shuts up as soon as the Latinas discover his presence and swarm over to him to pet and coo. Anita realizes that this was doubtlessly the cat's plan all along, and leaves him to distract the old biddies.
 Peter realizes that his death and the Bargain have shaken his morals significantly, so he heads over to Indian Orchard, to pawn the transmitters. He ends up at Gus's Pawn Shop, a place known for electronics and shady deals. A Caucasian woman in her thirties eyes him from behind the caged register area, and immediately recognizes Peter as a cop. Peter gives the formal "I'm not here to entrap you" speech and manifests his keystone memento – the liberty dollar coin – to aid in his false story of being out on disability but getting screwed out of his disability payments. The woman seems to buy it, so Peter hands her the transmitters. She examines them carefully and takes one partially apart to look at the interior components.
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 They head down to the Professor's room and find the skull still rammed in the wall. Anita starts looking for paper, but Peter pulls out his policeman's pad and pencil and hands it to her. Anita scribbles a quick note and rams it into the skull's eye socket. There is a sickening squelch, and the note is sucked into the skull and vanishes. The krewe decides to "show the flag" and walk around the hallway for a bit, to establish their intent to remain in charge. A few ghosts acknowledge them with respect, but most don't seem to notice them at all. David ends up talking with a female ghost named [[wod:characters:edith]]; he's pretty sure Edith died in the mid-1800s and was of German descent. The others ask a few questions but Edith seems comfortable talking only to David. David learns that no one has seen the bloody-eyed slavers in the past few days, and she doesn't know why the ghost was shattered and nailed to the wall. She says that the Professor is "entertaining lady friends presently," but she knows nothing else. David thanks Edith, and thinks he recognizes her from an old picture in the Fort, a German restaurant in Springfield.
-They walk down to the door leading to "the temple," but decide not to proceed as their guide isn't with them. On their way back they pass the "Frogger room" and they hear the sound of a computer running Windows XP booting up. Curious, Anita pokes her head inside and spots one of the [[wod:characters:faceless|faceless ghosts]] sitting at the kitchen counter playing with a Dell laptop! She goes inside and coaxes the ghost to let her take a look at the computer, while the others hover in the doorway. The other ghosts are still playing Frogger, but this ghost reluctantly lets Anita look at the laptop. Anita realizes it's a Dell XPS from 2007 and seems perfectly mundane. She memorizes the Dell service number on the bottom and decides to look it up when she gets back to the land of the living. She hands the laptop back and the faceless ghost wipes her fingerprints off the machine with his sleeve.
+They walk down to the door leading to "the temple," but decide not to proceed as their guide isn't with them. On their way back they pass the "Frogger room" and they hear the sound of a computer running Windows XP booting up. Curious, Anita pokes her head inside and spots one of the [[wod:characters:groups:faceless|faceless ghosts]] sitting at the kitchen counter playing with a Dell laptop! She goes inside and coaxes the ghost to let her take a look at the computer, while the others hover in the doorway. The other ghosts are still playing Frogger, but this ghost reluctantly lets Anita look at the laptop. Anita realizes it's a Dell XPS from 2007 and seems perfectly mundane. She memorizes the Dell service number on the bottom and decides to look it up when she gets back to the land of the living. She hands the laptop back and the faceless ghost wipes her fingerprints off the machine with his sleeve.
 The krewe turns to leave the hallway when the Professor's door opens and [[wod:characters:melissa|a woman]] steps out. The woman is in her late twenties and is wearing hiking boots, jeans, a hoodie, and a backpack; her skin is pale and her hair very dark. She is as startled by the Sin-Eaters as they are to see her, as she bears no obvious death marks yet she's not breathing. Peter tries to surreptitiously snap a picture of her with his cell phone, but suddenly she's in front of him with her hand clamped firmly over the device – and the Sin-Eaters didn't see her move! She growls that she is a guest of the Professor and thus covered by the privacy agreement they approved, so Peter deletes the picture of her palm. Anita apologizes as [[wod:characters:assistant|the ghost in the power suit]] steps out of her room.

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