[Sodium_noir] Back to the store/enter a man in black

[Spikey]

Titus, Two-Tone, Rachel
Two Lasombras and a Gangrel
Suzy Wong

>He gestured to the manuscript, ' That there's something I dug out form 
>Akrill's secret stash, the rest of it's a load of shit I gave to Mr Mystery 
>in exchange for his services.  It's about Panic, but it's written in chink.  
>I can't read it, but I know plenty who can.  I've photocopied it and was 
>going to give the original to Panic... You, bar man,' Titus clicked his 
>fingers, ' Come here and read this to us, do it now.'

"It is in Mandarin my Khan, forgive me if I struggle with some of the word!" Seeing that Titus wasn't going to bother with a reply the barman swallowed hard and peered at the text again. "It speaks of a Lightning person, one who knows the ways of Sorcery. It says this one is a boy, a ..... one whom other men have their way with ..."

"A punk!" Two-Tone snorts out loud. Then regrets it and clamps his mouth shut.

"Yes, he was belonged to ... to the Sorcerers of a whore house in Downtown. Ah yes, I know the place, the Dragon. They took him from the streets when he was young, a little boy." he falls silent and reads for a while, turning a page. "there is quite a lot about what they did to him. I think the person who wrote this enjoyed describing the rape. But it goes on to say these sorcerers were Akuma, servants of Yomi wan .. that is what you would call Hell I believe. They used bad magic, poisoned joss. The writer is clearly knowledgeable in such things himself. I do not know this word, I think he is saying that the boy was ... promiscuous. That even the spirits of Yomi knew his flesh and that they enjoyed it. A creature he does not name told the writer that the boy made a deal with a woman, no a female spirit perhaps, and that his masters were repaid for their crimes." he sucks his bottom lip. "Not crimes against the boy, that is clear, but crimes against the writer. He does not like the boy but admits that the boy did him a service when the sorcerers were ..... consumed?"

He turns the page again.

"Ah, here the boys name is revealed. Not his real name, which the writer wanted to know very much, but a false name. A name the boy chose for himself. Oh ... the Boy, he is the man who owns the Dragon now ... I did not know ..." he looks up and then pales visibly. "Here the writer speaks of what he has seen the boy, Peter, do. How he can see beyond sight and look into peoples hearts. Also that he has the power of soothsay, he can tell the future like the masters of the I Ching. But that his greatest powers also come from Yomi wan. He says a great many terrible things about the boy and how he cannot understand his powers. It is clear the writer is a magician of some power, at least in his own mind, but the boy has some natural gift he lacks. He truly hates those who have this gift, this ability with spells and is affronted that all his years of study can not match the boys abilities. He is ashamed that the Boy is taking what belongs rightfully to him. The Whores I think.

The barman reads silently for a while, his face screwed up as he struggles with certain words or phrases. Sometimes he appears amused or surprised, shacking his head with an expression of superiority.

"The writer is a superstitious sort, not a modern thinker at all. He claims to be a servant of the thousand Hells and that he was at war with the servants of a different Yama King in the Dragon. Here he speaks of many shadowy conflicts between himself and those at the Dragon,or with other Lightning people. He compares each of them to the boy, trying to piece together the source of his powers. He thought that he would get the Dragon whorehouse but the boy is now more powerful than his old enemies. He serves yet another of the Yama kings, a Queen of the thousand Hells I think."

"Much of this is unfamiliar to me my Khan, remedies and superstitions perhaps. Spells cast in an attempt to defeat the boy. All came to nought. At the same time there is mention of the Boys growth, how he took over from the pimps in his neighbourhood. A list of the enemies he made. A detailed list. Most of the names it seems were of no use to the writer however, it does say why." more pages are turned. "What you have here is a list of whores who now work for the boy. Another list of people the boy has met or made deals with. This page with the scribbles is an attempt to piece together the boys web and who the writer could cal upon in his battle with the boy. It is, in short my Khan, a recipe for revenge or magical tactics for a war. The last pages seem overly concerned with sexual acts and the magic of ..." he looks to Rachel for a moment before looking back to Titus. "... sexual congress. Of raising power through having sex with the dead or with unnatural beasts, of the defilement of women and ways to pervert the natural with the unnatural. All of this is, in the mind of the writer, the way to defeat the boy and his allies." 


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