We spend some time regrouping and making plans for what happens next. Needless to say, Didier is out of his mind (worse than usual, anyway) over what happened to Kathy.
Ray goes back to San Fran to drop off Roland and get fresh cash and new cell phones for our new identities. Ray has the one cell phone Roland gave the group (so if it explodes, that's who'll be hurtin).
Apparently, Ukiko, the elder Japanese wisewoman we had spoken to a few days previously, got in contact with Adam somehow (he was vague on the details) and said he should talk to Kay right away. Kay was in hospital in San Fran, Adam was not. We arranged to have Adam transferred to hospital in San Fran where Kay is.
Ukiko also gave Adam a book on Kanji and told him there's more in that book she gave Hazel than those two spells (I think I misreported it earlier as three spells), and that they needed to get the book translated. She also explained about Fowler a little: that the Utaraks (of which Fowler is one) are aligned with "the Dark One"--which is usually, but not necessarily always, bad news. Kage, she said, is his own player. The Dark One and Kage are working at cross-purposes, which is why Fowler's helping us--for now. But Ukiko warned against becoming servants of the Dark One.
Adam is able to get in to talk to Kay. Her uncle, Nakamura, is there. She apparently has a list of people allowed in to see her, and Adam's *alias* is on the list. So he's allowed in to talk to her. Ray isn't, so he waits out in the lobby. Nakamura says the earthquake destroyed everything at Still Mountain. (I made a mistake earlier, when I said Didier started back to Still Mountain and then learned it was destroyed in the earthquake--that was in this session, not the previous one.)
Other names for the "Dark One": "Crawling Chaos," "Bloated Woman," "Black Man"
Metallica: "The Thing That Should Not Be"We do some research into the Ekloffs and decide we're going to New Hampshire next, to look for Timothy Ekloff's brother Alan, who was admitted to a mental hospital there after being acquitted of his sister's murder.
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the lightHybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming freeFearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwellCrawling chaos, underground
Cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed
Fallen city, living death
[chorus]...
Not dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may dieDrain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be
[chorus]...
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