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THE HYPNAGOGIC:HOUR PODCAST. EPISODE 59, “SPECIAL BREAKING NEWS REPORT” JULY 11, 2023. (PART 2)
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DYLAN: We should probably start with the sewer findings and then go from there, that seems like it’d make the most sense and I don’t think I even got the full run-down on what it is we stumbled across.
ERWIN: Listeners are gonna need to head to the supplemental blog for this one to see exactly what I ended up finding, but to take you through a little bit of the investigative process first so you understand how this was obtained in the first place – there’s a reason Quaeromancy spells aren’t on the repertoire when it comes to basic or even higher magical education at UBrite, if you don’t actively seek this out in the Hall’s library, you’ll never even know it’s a sub-discipline that exists. Basically, it’s the uh, it’s the harnessing of psychic forces into latent psychic abilities to locate objects that are lost, which tends to be you know, a pretty heavy-hitter in my personal toolbelt despite the fact that it’s pretty much a dead art and I would highly highly recommend that you all add it to your skill bank too if any and all books about it don’t get pulled off the shelves after this episode. Once we got down there, I cast a general Quaerere on the area to start the search and after narrowing it down to smaller, more specific searches tied to the suspected victims of the Tunnel Murders… I ended up finding something very interesting and very weird: If you pull up the picture now, you’ll be able to see it, it’s a ghoul tooth. 
DYLAN: We’ve got our specific type of undead narrowed down, then – and we know a little bit about ghouls, they’re zombie-adjacent “creatures” that maul vampires for their blood instead of mortals for flesh, right?
ERWIN: That’s what we’ve been taught, but if you happen to do a little digging into a series of references called the Encyclopedia Vampirica – which we also found in the Moonwood Archives and I’ve been reading on them literally all night since we came across that tooth – zombie-adjacent and undead are the only things your average Caster would even know, but it goes much, much deeper than that. They don’t maul vampires for their blood, they’re basically Thralls that are blood-bound and completely in the service of a specific Vampire for as long as they’re being fed… they’re failed progeny. For whatever reason, if the Embrace doesn’t quite take the way it’s supposed to, the would-be progeny doesn’t end up as a vampire, they end up as a ghoul and are immediately indoctrinated into a mind-control type situation with their would-be sire, who then allows them to feed off their own blood periodically in order to keep them under their control. It’s part of like, the Vampire ecosystem and food chain at large. 
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THE HYPNAGOGIC:HOUR PODCAST. EPISODE 59, "SPECIAL BREAKING NEWS REPORT" JULY 11, 2023. (PART 1)
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ERWIN: WwwWwwWelcome back to the fifth dimension conspiracists, it’s not another Monday at Midnight when you’re joining us, it’s Tuesday now, but we’re coming to you live and on-location from our investigation in Moonwood Mill for a very special breaking news report. For this excursion into the Valley of the Uncanny, we ask that you bust out a few cloves of garlic, prepare your colloidal silver spray, as always, don your finest Anti-Mind Tampering gear, but most importantly, don’t forget to familiarize yourself with a little helpful spell called Lumina Sol, it gets uncomfortably dangerous in the darker corners of our realm during the Hypnagogic Hour. I’m your host, Erwin Pries– 
DYLAN: And for everybody out there joining us for the first time, I’m your co-host, Dylan Sigworth. We uh, we don’t have an ad roll prepared for the top of the hour like we usually do, and no, the “powers that be” over at PowerSip have not yet emailed Erwin back about that coveted sponsorship, so we’re just gonna get right into it and jump straight into the update. There’s been a lot of unexpected happenings in the past 24 – 25? 26? hours: so many that it still feels a little surreal, to be honest. 
ERWIN: Confirmed, first-hand evidence of The Hall of Arcane Knowledge using their Task Forces to conduct illegal memory searches on potential witnesses with no warrant, discovering that the werewolves in this town are secretly hoarding thoroughly documented histories of the magical world’s most infamous warlock cabal after The Hall of Arcane Knowledge tried to completely scrub them from any and all records, finding out about the warlock cabal’s involvement in the Tunnel Murders, where they are in present day if my theory is correct, and we even found some physical evidence of what’s really going on around here that you know the Hall isn’t going to be forthcoming about to the public... Surprise surprise, it’s not an investigation on their part, it’s, you guessed it, a cover up. Yeah I’d say that’s a lot of happenings, we’ve been pretty busy. It’s been a long day, and to be honest, even I’m a little confused on where to start here ‘cause there’s so much.
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3 POST CREDITS BONUS SCENE, PART III - “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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MAX: You’re shorter than me, you have no room to call anybody a hobbit, Smurfette.
GEMMA: When I get down from here you’re getting turned into a rat too! MAX: If you can get down from there, why do you need me to call off “Lurch”? [he smirks smugly, perking a brow in her general direction.] 
WOLFGANG: [As Gemma continues to struggle in her attempt to free herself, he tips his head to the side thoughtfully as if he’s suddenly noticed something, setting her down perhaps not as gently as he could have before he leans in to get right in her face, narrowing his eyes into an uncomfortably keen gaze that catches her off guard a little.] Huh…
GEMMA: Ec– Hey. Excuse you? [She blinks a few times in utter confusion, leaning back a little bit to put some distance between them.] Is there a reason you’re invading my bubble or –?
WOLFGANG: [Snickering with a roll of his eyes, he shakes his head at her question, turning around momentarily and reaching out to grab her phone out of Max’s hand before he offers it back to her.] I guess I have to call you something besides killer-bait now.
GEMMA: Because you suddenly remembered that I have an actual name? Did I accidentally kick you in the head or something?
WOLFGANG: Because your eyes are green, smart-ass. Like… there’s some brown there, but still, mostly like dark green.
GEMMA: [Not quite sure what to say to that, she just stares at him silently between more confused blinks, freezing up like a deer in headlights.] 
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3 POST CREDITS BONUS SCENE, PART II - “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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GEMMA: [Quickly ducking back behind the building to get out of the line of sight, she frowns as she pulls up her iMessage chat with Rohan.] it’s official, we hate cinderella barbie, her bitch sister is audrielle ernest of all people. [a series of nauseous emojis]  also i may be banished to tartosa for the rest of the summer, idk yet, my aunts are following me around but we have somewhere to be first before i get whisked away into exile. be ready tonight by 10.
ROHAN: Ready for what?? [skeptical emoji] Can’t be anything more exciting than a trip to the convenience store or something right our summer curfew’s 11:30. Also yikes… sorry about Audrielle, hope the wedding is off forever.
GEMMA: yeah about that, when I get home I’m gonna look up the doppelganger spell which will take care of the curfew problem but anyway we’re going to sneak into the werewolf bar in moonwood mill. idk max wants us to come for some reason.
ROHAN: As in Villareal?!?! MAD MAX?!?! This isn’t even about the bar which is also a dumb idea and I shouldn’t have to explain why it’s a dumb idea even if the Duplicato plan is kinda genius but why tf are we going ANYWHERE with Max?! The only reason I’d ever willingly be in the same room with HIM is to perform an EXORCISM. 
GEMMA: idk bro he’s really hot and it makes me wanna do whatever he says [tongue out emoji, followed by the sweaty emoji and a heart eyes emoji.]
[There’s a panel of Rohan’s visible disturbed confusion before cutting to a shot of Max grinning, texting from Gemma’s phone while Wolfgang has her slung over his shoulder, gripping her tightly in both arms to keep her from wiggling down to attack him like she did at the coffee shop.]
GEMMA: CALL OFF LURCH AND GIVE ME MY PHONE BACK RIGHT NOW, YOU EVIL HOBBIT! 
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3 POST CREDITS BONUS SCENE, PART I - “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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[Gemma rounds the corner of the studio to make her way toward the front, where her aunts are waiting, but stops just short of coming up on the other girls from her ballet academy who are hanging out after class and chatting… it is then that she recognizes the voice of Emilia’s little sister, Audrielle.] AUDRIELLE: – My sister went to have dinner over there and like, announce the engagement and meet them formally, right? The crazy mom started screaming and freaking out and completely ruined the entire night – Emmie left in tears before they even got to dessert. As far as anyone knows the wedding is up in the air now if not completely off, which, like, Thank the Fates. He seemed relatively normal, but everything that comes attached to him definitely isn’t.
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXX. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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MORGYN: There was no need for you to intervene and even less of a need for you to knock them both out, Caligari– I had it. 
CLIONA: You’re ever so petulant when you don’t get to do everything your way. [She smirks at him, lightly and teasingly pinching his cheek before kneeling down and turning her attention back to their unconscious quarry.] Which would be halfway bearable if your way didn’t take so damn long; not all of us enjoy being out amongst the civilians, Ember, nor do we find pointless dueling with the skill-impaired to be even remotely entertaining. It’s a simple Memoria Quaerere that should have taken two minutes. 
MORGYN: You would think then, if your primary concerns were efficiency and time management, that you’d be searching the minds of the actual busy-bodies in the sewer tunnels instead of their look-outs.
CLIONA: The “look-outs” aren’t covered by legalities, which you would know if you’d bothered to ask: Pries’ mother, like all Casters of Mischief, has an iron-fisted mastery of loopholes and is no slouch when it comes to looking after her own; Erwin and Sigworth are protected under Independent Investigator licenses filed on their behalf, they have … something of a right to go digging, as long as they don’t get in our way and they turn over anything they might have found once it’s been photographed for their records. Why do you think they weren’t apprehended before they got down there? … Are you going to interject at some point, Sabine dearest, or are you just going to stand there until The Aether freezes over while you wait for us to stop talking?  SABINE: Sorry... I just wanted to let you guys know I found residuals from the casting of a Quaeromancy spell and it seemed kind of relevant…? To the discussion you were having?... Do you think there’s anything to find?
CLIONA: [She shrugs at the question, dusting herself off before rising to her feet.] We’ll see, won’t we, darling? Word around the Hall is that Pries does have an almost uncanny attention to detail, so if anything was left down there, undoubtedly, he’ll retrieve it.
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Back to the task at hand . . .
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXIX. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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DYLAN: … That explains the weird amount of existential dread you have. [He smirks.]
ERWIN: I got hit with that pretty early – for our seventh birthday, instead of taking us to Whimsywood like we wanted, The Colonel thought he’d skip amusement park lines, save a couple hundred bucks and took us on a “way better adventure” to tour the lab that spawned us. There weren’t any rides or junk food, but hey, we got to look at all the other tadpoles growing in a room full of synthetic goo pods. I didn’t find out that that wasn’t normal until I was like 15 and Mom put on one of those “Circle of Life” documentaries for our health and wellness credit in homeschool. DYLAN: Just so you know– [he sighs softly, reaching out for a gentle grab onto one of the many straps of Erwin’s backpack to pull him back a little bit, missing and instead just tugging on his hand, getting him to face him so he can look at him straight-on.] Clone does not  mean replaceable– not to me. I don’t want “another Pries” out of a lab… that means be careful anyway so I don’t have to spend the rest of my life in mourning, okay? If you hear anything even remotely dangerous, spell first and ask questions later. ERWIN: [His smile softens as he blushes feverishly, awkwardly chuckling at the very tender and heartfelt sentiment.] You worry way too much, handsome… Breakfast is on me when we get out of here, not if.  ELIZA: Do I have to be present to witness you two having a romantic moment in a sewer, or can you postpone this for another, perhaps more appropriate time?
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXVIII. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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DYLAN: What happened to “the Warlocks are a completely different assignment”?! And they’re involved with fucking necromancers?! Some of the warlocks dual cast as necromancers?! When was I gonna hear that little detail?!
ELIZA: [She smirks, not being able to help herself.] That’s called lying, that’s what he does when he thinks the truth is going to get him yelled at. 
ERWIN: I didn’t lie that time! I swear, to the Fates, that I had no idea going into this that it might have something to do with the Warlock Cabal or that they were allied with necromancers until we went to the archives and I found that box with the book in it! Look at me– in the eye– I didn’t know.
DYLAN: [He purses his lips, scrutinizing and studying Erwin’s face for a moment.] I swear to the Fates myself that if anything happens to you, I’m gonna join that stupid Necromancer club, learn whatever screwed-up secret spell they know to bring you back, and kill you a second and possibly third time with my own bare hands, depending on how pissed off I am. 
ERWIN: [He grins, as if he knows just exactly how idle of a threat that is.] There are a few perks, I guess, to being one-half of “the world’s first set of Science Babies” – if I get merked out here, which I won’t, but let’s just say hypothetically I did, you can save yourself the necromancy class and just head to whatever weirdo lab my parents got us from; see if they have any more Pries hanging out in Inventory that they hatched in secret. [He laughs]
DYLAN: Wait – “World’s first set of Science Babies?” ERWIN: Yeah, Liza and I aren’t natural fraternal twins, we’re technically speaking genetic clones, apart from different genders, completely identical– you know, “designer babies”, made to be like, way more advanced intellectually and magically than other children; we were the prototypes for what’s now a not-so-outlandish idea in the world of modern Magica Medicina. Mom and The Colonel grabbed up their clinical trial VIP ticket thanks to the old man’s rank and a very generous donation to the lab, but they couldn’t decide if they wanted a boy or a girl when it was time to order up, so they just kinda said “what the hell, since we’re already guinea pigging it, give us both” and that’s how we got here.
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXVII. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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ERWIN: What I think is really weird is that, according to this newly acquired outside research, apparently this exact thing happens every twenty years like clockwork and has happened since the 1920s. Ten victims fitting the same profile every single time end up dead and dismembered, equal numbers of boys and girls, and then it quits for a while until twenty years pass and it starts up all over again. I don’t know what you make of that, but it leads our anonymous author and me to believe that this is some kind of ritual The Second Order is performing as an homage or whatever to the First Iteration and no one can remember it happening because of Sage-induced memory wipe fuckery being afoot, you know, so no one gets the idea that black magic is still very much a thing – or The Second Order is doing the memory wipe to keep themselves hidden, but either way, memory wiping has to be involved somehow. I know, “A dusty weird book left to rot in a non-descript moldy old box” isn’t concrete evidence, but if we’re taking anonymous author’s word for this, and at this point we have no reason not to, the bodies from these ritual sacrifices are always found in the Tunnels – which means while we’re down here, we could be stumbling across two fresh corpses if they're keeping to a strict schedule. That’s not what we’re looking for, by the way, what we’re looking for is any tiny piece of physical evidence that might have been overlooked by the Task Forces investigating this thing– any clue we can scrape up that’ll help me either prove or disprove that “working theory” or possibly, fingers crossed, crack the case wide open. We’re getting close, I can feel it.
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXVI. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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ERWIN: 3) This has something to do with the warlocks and the Ordo Secundi Mortis – necromancer secret society, before you ask what that is. Remember in Core Magical History 101 and 102, the discussion around the topic of black magic being outlawed and made punishable by death after the whole giant magical war that caused the Porphyral Vale to split happened? That was the first iteration of The Ordo Secundi Mortis that started that shit, they spawned the vampires when they tried to wage a war on the Sages in an attempt to overthrow them. Their leader, some pompous piece of rich douchebag named Vladislav Straud, was fucking around in warlock stuff on top of necromancy, trying to make himself and his whole entourage immortal and rumor has it that some of them succeeded, but not the way they hoped. Anyway, when he was in his prime of practicing black magic, according to this book I found, Straud had a certain type of victim, sacrifice, whatever, that he preferred. Young, dark haired, dark eyed Casters that hadn’t been fully trained into a discipline yet: he picked out those particular physical attributes since– this is really fucked up– he liked the way they looked when their bodies were transformed into an undead state, and he chose the age group because their magic was more raw, potent, and unpredictable which he would absorb during the death ritual with a spell called “Vitae Sorbere” to make his magic more powerful. Plus, you know, the souls were still relatively fresh for his patron to devour at her leisure – not that he really gave a shit about the souls as much as he did the corpses, ‘cause that’s what he got out of the deal. He turned ‘em into, for lack of a better term, zombies: made them serve in his undead army, bound them to follow his every command, shit that necromancers moonlighting as warlocks do. Where the rest of the warlocks come in is that after the second iteration of The Order had to go deeper underground because The Sages and their army were winning the fight the Ordo picked and started threatening to roast their chestnuts over an open fire and made good on that threat with like 90 percent of The First Order, the other guys who were also doing sketchy shit that could end up with them being sentenced to a weenie-roasting joined up to boost the numbers of their ranks and keep them all from being put up on the Stake.
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Well this did not at all work out like I thought it was going to (I didn't care either way cause I had something planned for each path, but was not expecting a tie. 😂) SO, first one to reply with one of the options gets to be the tie-breaking vote.
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXV. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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[Rejoining the investigation already taking place in Moonwood Mill, we find Tomax playing lookout with Emilia while Eliza, Dylan, and Erwin sneak their way down toward the tunnels.] 
ELIZA: A working theory on who would do something like this and exactly what we’re looking for would be really helpful right about now– 
DYLAN: Well – [he has to pause for a bit, glancing around to make sure he isn’t being watched as they descend into the ditch.] From re-reading the dossier with the informant’s testimony, the victims were already in a state of being undead when they were dismembered – but the parts they found don’t show any distinguishing marks of a vampire or a werewolf attack, which a werewolf attack wouldn’t make any sense anyway, as far as the undead thing and what killed them all initially goes. The theories that make the most sense are 1) The werewolves that live here – or more likely that insane asshole Greggorius Lunvik acting alone – are killing newborn vampires that are trying to hunt outside their territory and are in the tunnels looking for victims no one would really miss, thus any vampire wounds would be already healed from the First Death and the werewolf or wolves responsible for the massacre of the baby vamps are just tearing the ever living shit out of them on sight instead of coordinating a planned effort. The scenario makes logical sense, but it doesn’t account for why the victims all fit a certain profile and the dossier did specifically say that the undead couldn’t be identified as vampires. 2) The vampires are killing young Casters elsewhere and leaving pieces of them in the tunnels to frame the wolves for whatever the fuck they’re doing – which also doesn’t explain why the victims fit only a certain demographic and it also doesn’t explain why they’re undead but not vampiric when they get ripped apart, so there’s holes no matter which one you try to run with.
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXIV. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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Founded in 1622, in the city of Bleakmore within the Realm of the Porphyral Vale, The Esoteric Order of the Second Death, or the Ordo Secundi Mortis, was a secret society of wealthy and influential Untamed Spellcasters experimenting in the Black Arts of Necromancy and, later discovered, Forbidden Invocation. Spearheaded by Vladislav Straud, a world-renowned Necromantic Caster and Count of the Westrein-Broassau region of Eshuavania, The Order of the Second Death grew to great power, rivaling the authority of the Hall of Arcane Knowledge by the year 1690, due to their vast legion of soldiers comprised of the reanimated dead bound to their control. Count Straud as the Head of the Society was believed to have been long deceased during this most prosperous era, having passed the Order of the Prime Magus to his grandson, Vladimir, according to documents archived by Hall of Arcane Knowledge Historian at the time, Finchwick Charm. The true identity behind the alias of Vladimir, however, was the key to discovering that The Ordo Secundi Mortis had begun to delve much more deeply and recklessly into dangerous warlock magicks, particularly a ritual involving the summoning of Lilith, the mother of all demons, whom the Order revered as "Mother Night" or Mater Noctis. Trading the souls of their sacrifices to Lilith as their patron, tapping into magic no mortal was ever meant to perform, the Ordo Secundi Mortis struck a deal with the source of their Dark Power that would grant the Highest ranking members of the Order perfect immortality, intending to use this gift to their advantage as they plotted to wage a war against the Hall of Arcane Knowledge and overthrow the Council of The Four Sages.
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(SEMI) CHARMED KIND OF LIFE: EPISODE 3, PART XXIII. “GENESIS IN BLACK”
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