Chicago mission summary
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wynnRose, Dimitri, Amrita, Lila, Aurelius, Tia, Eric, Adrian
The team was briefed on a series of deaths in Chicago, where the bodies had been drained of blood, occasionally missing organs, and sporting a laceration to the forehead. Wynn suspected a possible link to to the yuan-ti black market in Japan, which is why he was sending Eric, who had been involved in that investigation.
Arriving in Chicago, the team split into three to investigate crime scenes. Amrita & Tia discovered something amiss in a building near one of the scenes of attack. Eric, Aurelius, and Lila discovered a strange symbol which Aurelius identified as an occult marker of those who worshiped the patron God of Mind Flayers, Illsensine, meaning this was something different than what had happened in Japan. They reconvened with the others, who had run into Adrian Ivashkov, a Moroi vampire that Rose had crossed paths with in Chicago before. He let them know that many of the victims seemed to be Hunters and took them into a Hunter's bar, run by Robin Wood. Eric, Aurelius, and Lila caught up with them there as they discussed Hunter gossip about the "Monster" and what they'd discovered. Someone else was listening and piped up with his own interest - unknown to them this was Sylar, the very person they were hunting. Robin brought up that the creature was drawing an influx of hunters, and someone was bumping them off - mostly likely the Corsone Syndicate, who used the symbol they'd discovered. Lila brought her extensive familiarity with crime family politics into play, attracting Sylar's attention
Robin also directed them to another Hunter who was on the case, who didn't 'play well with others'. This was a certain surly Dean Winchester and some of them went to speak with him as Lila & Sylar spoke alone outside. Dean explained to them that an oracle had had a prophecy about an 'ultimate monster' coming to Chicago, and hunters had been flocking here to destroy it. Most of the monsters they were taking out, however, were employees of the Corsone Syndicate, and they were striking back by killing as many hunters as they could, under guise of the "Monster". Dean suspected that Corsone would try to recruit the actual monster, and Dean suspected whatever it was, it could pass as human. He figured Corsone was using hunters' deaths to try to draw the creature out so he could attempt to seduce it into working for him, and claimed that they'd been following him specifically. Lila was unhappy with this plan and suspected moving to speak to Corsone directly, and Sylar butted into the conversation under the guise of being Jack, a crime scene investigator. He got Dean to admit that like most of the victims of the "monster" he had a special ability as well - he could see invisible horrors that most people didn't even know existed.
Realizing Tia and Amrita hadn't checked in, they called and found out they were in trouble next door. They'd found a young woman's body drained of blood, and realized someone was still there. Tia had stayed behind to stave the thing off, and ordered Amrita to run for it. With Dean along, the others caught up to the warehouse and found Amrita. They helped Tia take down her attacker, a vampire sporting a Corsone tattoo that marked him as in the syndicate's employ. Rose, however, recognized the vampire as Davin, who had once hunted vamps with her when she lived in Chicago, and who she had assumed was dead. He claimed that Corsone was the only one who would take vampires in to give them legitimate 'work', and that he was having them clean up after the Monster, scavenging the corpses it left behind. They convinced him to take them to Corsone, but warned them that he had a prophet on his staff, that was how he knew where the Monster would leave its corpses before the police could find them.
Tia mind linked both those who would be going in and those staying on the outside, and Davin led Dean, Lila, Rose, and Dimitri to the Diner where Corsone housed his operations. Lila managed to talk them past Tony the Choker and they were taken into the creepy back warehouse, tailed by one of Corsone's minotaur bodyguards. They were taken back to meet Louis Corsone himself - who was actually a mind flayer in a pin stripe suit, enjoying a brain for dinner.
The team was briefed on a series of deaths in Chicago, where the bodies had been drained of blood, occasionally missing organs, and sporting a laceration to the forehead. Wynn suspected a possible link to to the yuan-ti black market in Japan, which is why he was sending Eric, who had been involved in that investigation.
Arriving in Chicago, the team split into three to investigate crime scenes. Amrita & Tia discovered something amiss in a building near one of the scenes of attack. Eric, Aurelius, and Lila discovered a strange symbol which Aurelius identified as an occult marker of those who worshiped the patron God of Mind Flayers, Illsensine, meaning this was something different than what had happened in Japan. They reconvened with the others, who had run into Adrian Ivashkov, a Moroi vampire that Rose had crossed paths with in Chicago before. He let them know that many of the victims seemed to be Hunters and took them into a Hunter's bar, run by Robin Wood. Eric, Aurelius, and Lila caught up with them there as they discussed Hunter gossip about the "Monster" and what they'd discovered. Someone else was listening and piped up with his own interest - unknown to them this was Sylar, the very person they were hunting. Robin brought up that the creature was drawing an influx of hunters, and someone was bumping them off - mostly likely the Corsone Syndicate, who used the symbol they'd discovered. Lila brought her extensive familiarity with crime family politics into play, attracting Sylar's attention
Robin also directed them to another Hunter who was on the case, who didn't 'play well with others'. This was a certain surly Dean Winchester and some of them went to speak with him as Lila & Sylar spoke alone outside. Dean explained to them that an oracle had had a prophecy about an 'ultimate monster' coming to Chicago, and hunters had been flocking here to destroy it. Most of the monsters they were taking out, however, were employees of the Corsone Syndicate, and they were striking back by killing as many hunters as they could, under guise of the "Monster". Dean suspected that Corsone would try to recruit the actual monster, and Dean suspected whatever it was, it could pass as human. He figured Corsone was using hunters' deaths to try to draw the creature out so he could attempt to seduce it into working for him, and claimed that they'd been following him specifically. Lila was unhappy with this plan and suspected moving to speak to Corsone directly, and Sylar butted into the conversation under the guise of being Jack, a crime scene investigator. He got Dean to admit that like most of the victims of the "monster" he had a special ability as well - he could see invisible horrors that most people didn't even know existed.
Realizing Tia and Amrita hadn't checked in, they called and found out they were in trouble next door. They'd found a young woman's body drained of blood, and realized someone was still there. Tia had stayed behind to stave the thing off, and ordered Amrita to run for it. With Dean along, the others caught up to the warehouse and found Amrita. They helped Tia take down her attacker, a vampire sporting a Corsone tattoo that marked him as in the syndicate's employ. Rose, however, recognized the vampire as Davin, who had once hunted vamps with her when she lived in Chicago, and who she had assumed was dead. He claimed that Corsone was the only one who would take vampires in to give them legitimate 'work', and that he was having them clean up after the Monster, scavenging the corpses it left behind. They convinced him to take them to Corsone, but warned them that he had a prophet on his staff, that was how he knew where the Monster would leave its corpses before the police could find them.
Tia mind linked both those who would be going in and those staying on the outside, and Davin led Dean, Lila, Rose, and Dimitri to the Diner where Corsone housed his operations. Lila managed to talk them past Tony the Choker and they were taken into the creepy back warehouse, tailed by one of Corsone's minotaur bodyguards. They were taken back to meet Louis Corsone himself - who was actually a mind flayer in a pin stripe suit, enjoying a brain for dinner.