NIGHTCRAWLER83

UPDATE 2

Bishop got a letter from an old friend. Some one he knew back in the cult, his best friend since he was a kid. And i would have been jazzed to hear about that if she also wasn't asking him to go back to the church... We're all going, though. Herma got us all together for a "party" at the inn they're staying at but failed to mention that SCYLAS would be there. That slime popped into the room with an arm around me and expected us to be all onboard to help with their problem. i mean, I wasn't happy to see them. Miles wasn't as freaked as he should of been and JC didn't seem to understand how dangerous they were! Whatever. one of scylas' angels we defeated got caught up with the cult and they need OUR help to get him back. i don't know how I feel about working with Scylas, but what was being done to their angel... Not great stuff. Angel blood does some wild stuff to vamps and they need to keep him alive to keep getting it...

The Eternalist Church was set back up in Los Angeles. they crawled their way back in after they got raided by B*********n, i guess. Upped the security too. they had a WHOLE magic code system in place or something, which was giving Bishops friend Bianca trouble outside. We got let in by one of the bodyguards, a werewolf named Spencer.
So like, it's dark in there. DUH vampire den. but they have these candles and painted over stained glass and HUGE freaky marble statues of their leader Hazel. This lady is old. like even vampire old. She was supposedly turned by the first vampire EVER, Morbius. she does these turning ceremonies where she makes the members of the cult into vampires, which is supposed to be super special because she's so old and powerful. Feels wrong, feels bad. I found a bunch of... stuff... in the pews and. I can't even begin to imagine Charlie growing up here.

we got into the catacombs of the church while Bishop caught up with Bianca. Hazel sleeps under here. Being an old vampire means you have to sleep a LOT apparently. she was napping for like, 2 weeks. The tunnels got small. and also covered in bones (which like, i'm no stranger to bone floor but still. yikes). We ended up running into Daisy down there in one of the freaky "jesus ripped from the crucifix and broken mirror" rooms and now i think Miles is adopting her. Kind of. I don't know how that sort of thing works. Further in we found just. Walls of these porcelain dolls. it felt like it went on forever. and then we started seeing people we recognized. even Bishop
We ended up finding where the angel was being held. Some chamber deep in the catacombs where he was strung up against the wall unconscious... There was some divine binding seal literally built into the tiles of the floor, so Herma and Scylas couldn't go in. COMPLETELY repelled from the room. i was up to ME to try and get the angel out because MILES wouldn't go in and help me. Guess that was strong magic because even i felt something in there. Guess it could tell I had Herma in my head for a while. GOD it felt like I was wearing that HORRIBLE suit i used to have to wear to mass when i was a kid... I wanted to rip my skin off...

We freed the angel and Scylas took him off somewhere safe but we still had to go get Bishop. I think the most terrifying thing about everything that happened that day (well, maybe second to seeing the fucked up doll of my boyfriend marking him for death) was Bianca pouncing on me and spilling that Bishop and I were dating, which i was NOT ready for yet. apparently she could Tell??? (according to Herma everyone could...) she asked me what my intentions were...

the mass wasn't really like what i'm used to but. they've got the pews and the candles and the cup everyone's drinking from, everything else. Hazel shows up and i'm holding Charlie's hand and i don't want to let him go when she calls him forward. But i do and she says some shit about prodigal sons and he drinks from the chalice of blood. then our group gets called forward, Herma Miles and me. (Herma turned the blood into wine, i didn't have to drink the blood. not really a wine fan tho...) Then she says they had a special turning, HIM, and I didn't even think twice about jumping in and throwing holy water in her goddamn face.
maybe i SHOULD have. because then i nearly got bodied by that werewolf Spencer. Miles jumped in an saved my ass though. Herma set off a spell that revealed Hazel's whole plan to use the Church as a means to gather power to rival the gods and kind of took over the whole "god battle to the death" with her. Rest assured she got turned to DUST

Hopefully this is the end of us and vampires for a while. give me at least a couple weeks before i have to see another one...