The Scenes

Scene 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDW-YQZVLw Sinead O'conner House of the Rising sun

A dark room, a stage surrounded by men, the low buzz of a cheap air-conditioner hums. But for the sound of a woman's voice, the room is silent. The quiet stink of sex and desperation fills the air. The stage light shines on a woman, red haired and beautiful. She holds feathered fans, she begins to dance, the fans reminiscent of wings, they cover her modestly but as she twirls they reveal slices of pale white flesh. Her purity is evident in the painful leers of the men who watch. Some look away in shame, the loneliest, the lost can not tear their eyes away. The dance shifts as the story changes, as she dances for them, we feel her lust rising, her sexuality bare, her winged fans falling with the heat of the room, she becomes slowly corrupted by the eyes on her, and her darkness arising the wings are ripped from her dancing nude on the stage, her arched back reminiscent of a snake she slides along the floor as the audiences chains her there with their view and she has fallen.

Scene 2 This Magic moment plays in the background

A man stands before a woman she is dirty, tied to the ceiling with chains, her head down, golden ringlets fall around her face, obscuring it from view. The Man takes her faces in immaculately clean He spits his words, â€œgo ahead, show us your real selfâ€¦be my inspiration.â€ Grabbing his crotch uncomfortably, he takes a silver scalpel and holds it to her eye, â€œcome on baby show me some magicâ€.

Scene 3 Music Bad Company

The camera pans over the city, the city looks like a Escher painting, the angles and lines seems to be wrong, the heavy heat aches in the head and robs the lungs. We fly in to a shabby looking building, through a dusty sun streaked window a man sits feet up on a desk cowboy hat pulled down over his eyes. Time fast forwards around him but he doesn't move. We then cut to a girl with purple hair poking at a bowl of cereal she glances up and over a man in a white suit stands staring out the window his eyes are vacant only looking inward, time passes quickly around him. We follow the girls glance out the window and cut to a man and a woman, they are dressed in motorcycle leathers and swim suits and laughing mount their rides we watch them as they ride past a sign that reads Welcome to Lake Los Vegas. They zoom past time whisking past them. The sun goes down and we are back in Sam's office. Mac sneaks in quietly and carefully sits in the chair.

Scene 4

Rachael and Sean are lounging on a grassy field the light heavy and golden the sun beginning to set. Racheal watches the sun arcoss the the horizon of an impossibly green grass hugging immecibly blue water. She has a stem of grass in her mouth. She falls back with a dramatic sigh, "I just love Vegas, no one to tell you what to do, what rules to have, and the accords don't apply here."

Main Plot

A serial killer is on the loose in the city and is targeting super naturals, the method of the kill is to drive them into thier darkest form and have them kill what they love the most and then be so distraught they kill themselves in a spectacular manner. There have been 2 kills so far, but the police don't see any link between these crimes. However Mac has a bad feeling and wants to commission Sam's help on the high profile kidnapping.

Victims

Mira Sarton
- Status: Currently held captive
- Race: She is actually a Gorgon, but the TWIST is that the killer has miscategorized her as a muse.
- Day Job: 1st grade teacher at an all girls school, she is well liked by the children.
- Killers method of death: Death by a thousand cuts, she will be blinded and tortured then he will then kidnap a bus of her students for a field trip and he will release her crazed and maddened into thier midst to turn them into stone.
- NPC friends: Ericka Markwell a fellow teacher at the school, Sofia Gallion a student who will approach after speaking to Erika she is psychic and will let them know she is still alive. Emery Clarkston, her boyfriend and currently suspect 1 and held in custody at the local jail.

Bonita Verde
- Status: deceased
- Race: Brownie
- Day Job: Housekeeper for O'Shea's Casino. She also lives there as part of her payment.
- Killers method of death: She was starved and tortured she was then released into the casino in peak hours where she went spriggin.
- NPC friends: Cousin Jasmine Olivas also works at the casino will tell them that she liked her job like to clean was almost OCD about it, and was really fond of cream. Also her father was Irish. Gordon Hobb.

Willow Sanders
- Status: Deceased
- Race: Werewolf
- Day Job: Stay at home mom
- Killers method of death: Torture and taunt her in her cage in the basement before the full moon where she then went on a rampage and killed her entire family including her 4 children.
- NPC friends: No surviving relatives however there is the cage in the house.

Monsters

Killer: Eustice Sincliar: A human

He is the step-father of Emery Clarkson. He resides on the outskirts of town.

Motive: He is a mission oriented serial killer. He is a human aware of the supernatural. It is important for him to get psychologically and physically torture his victims in order to get them to manifest their "demonic nature" most of the woman he has captured he has not killed himself but are often pushed to so far to the limit that their supernatural natures cannot be contained and they can then not live with their actions and commit suicide or in the case of Bonita Verde the police had to take her down. It is for this reason that it has been almost impossible to connect him to these crimes.

Clues: If the party talks to the son and/or goes to the compound then they will interact with him and they should begin to suspect him.

Corruption Spirits: What at first seems like a single entity seen at each of the crime scenes, but is in actuality a group of vengeance spirits called up by Mira to fight for her.

Settings

American Heritage Academy http://ahalv.org/why-aha/faqs/

O'Sheas Casino http://www.caesars.com/osheas/location.html

1457 Mesa Rd. Suburban house for sale in Summerlin a suburb of Vegas

Black Cat Club A off the strip strip club, where Fiona is currently working

Clark County Detention Center http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/depts/ccdc/Pages/default.aspx

The Compound
- Traps

DC 35 Panji Traps: Long nails or lengths of thin steel rods, hammered flat at the ends, filed into a barbed shape, then hammered through blocks of wood.

DC 35 Side-Closing Panji Trap: The most basic trap. Very cheap to make and very common. Basically a small hole covered with leaf litter, the victim's foot is impaled when stood on.

DC 40 Spike Board: The spike board is used with a pit and consists of a treadle board, one end of which is spiked. When a man steps on the treadle, the spiked end flies up striking him in the face or chest.

DC 40 Side Closing Trap: The side closing trap consists of two wooden slats, each studded with spikes, sliding along a pair of guide rods, and controlled by heavy rubber bands. When the prop holding the slats apart is dislodged, the slats spring together impaling the portion of the body passing between them

DC 45 Door Trap: Two lengths of bamboo with the cross section heavily spiked and is suspended above the door or opening via a trip wire. When the wire is tripped the trap swings down impaling the victim.

DC 45 Arrow Trap: The arrow trap is constructed of a length of bamboo fastened to a board. An arrow, powered by a strong rubber band passes through it. The rubber band is held in the extended position by a catch device triggered by a trip wire.

DC 45 Mace Trap: Mace traps take various forms, and may consist of a spiked concrete ball, drum, box or log suspended in a tree on the end of a rope, or cable. When the trip wire is pulled, the mace swings down along the path striking anyone in its way.

DC 45 Tiger Trap: The tiger trap or deadfall consists of a weighted, spike-studded board. The actuation is usually by means of a trip wire stretched across the path or track underneath the trap.

DC 45 Whip Trap: Bamboo whips are constructed of a length of green bamboo with spikes (normally bamboo) attached to one end. The bamboo pole is bent and held in an arched position by a catch device triggered by a trip wire stretched across the track. When released, the bamboo pole whips back into the straight position impaling the person triggering the trap.

DC 35 Venus Fly Trap: Consists of a rectangular frame work with overlapping barbs emplaced in a pit, on trails or a rice padi. Can be made from a metal container which is sunk into the ground until the top is flush and then covered with grass or leaf camouflage. The barbs inflict injury especially when the victim attempts to withdraw his leg out of the trap.

DC 50 Grenade Trap: Two cans are tied to trees either side of the track with the delay train and safety pins are removed and slide into the cans holding the striker levers in position. A trip wire is tied to both grenades. when the victim's foot pulls the trip wire the grenades are pulled from the cans causing instant detonation.

RAW IDEAS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuGzJVKtW6g

Fiona at the strip club

Muse 1st grade teacher and bus of kids kidnapped

The Nine Muses

The Nine Muses were Greek goddesses who ruled over the arts and sciences and offered inspiration in those subjects. They were the daughters of Zeus, lord of all gods, and Mnemosyne, who represented memory. Memory was important for the Muses because in ancient times, when there were no books, poets had to carry their work in their memories.

Muse

Calliope was the muse of epic poetry.

Clio was the muse of history.

Erato was the muse of love poetry.

Euterpe was the muse of music.

Melpomene was the muse of tragedy.

Polyhymnia was the muse of sacred poetry.

Terpsichore was the muse of dance.

Thalia was the muse of comedy.

Urania was the muse of astronomy.

Serial killer, human targeting supernaturals by making the good ones wigg out. Many fairies have both light and dark forms and the killer makes them go dark and then kills them. Metaphor for what white man culture has done to minorities.

I cannot help remembering a remark of De Casseres. It was over the wine in Mouquin's. Said he: "The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real. He shuns facts from his infancy. His life is a perpetual evasion. Miracle, chimera and to-morrow keep him alive. He lives on fiction and myth. It is the Lie that makes him free. Animals alone are given the privilege of lifting the veil of Isis; men dare not. The animal, awake, has no fictional escape from the Real because he has no imagination. Man, awake, is compelled to seek a perpetual escape into Hope, Belief, Fable, Art, God, Socialism, Immortality, Alcohol, Love. From Medusa-Truth he makes an appeal to Maya-Lie."

â€”Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore