because the lives of the wicked should be made brief

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freya, bonnie, jo, shep, liv, luke, annie, rowena | williamstown

[deathlessness]

[Ezra and Rusty's warnings allow them to have plenty of time to find the bodies and contend with them. Let them know that they're going to need the help of Gemini witches. The younger members of the group (aka not Freya), put them all in a group chat as they come at things from different angles, but after some creative spell work and a lot of brute force, Freya sends a single text to the group chat.]

I found them.

[Then she drops a pin for Williamstown, Virginia.]

I can be there in two days.

1/?

[fifthbase]

I can be there in an instant.

[moralitypolice]

I can do two days. Did what I track down help?

[pricetags]

One day for us

DONE

[drugdeals]

We were already on our way. Guessing we're the first to arrive. Anyone want any souvenirs?

1/?

[geminated]

We can get everyone colonist hats and bonnets from the gift shop so we can be on theme.

[Because she sees the pin and it seems like it's almost directly in the middle of actual Colonial Williamsburg.]

[deathlessness]

[In reply to Bonnie:]

It did. True names are hard to combat.

[In reply to Rowena:]

Now you're just showing off.

DONE

[saveslives]

I'm also on my way. Thank you for this, Freya.

The twins and I can scope it out and get the lay of the land.

[Will or will there not be a theme? Remains to be seen.]

1/?

[moralitypolice]

Then David came through

[fifthbase]

🪄

DONE

[drugdeals]

Maybe even literally.

[saveslives]

So far, anyway. There's probably more we haven't deciphered yet, but we at least have enough to get started.

Let us know if you run into any trouble.

[And with that she will head of to meet her siblings, and they will play the touristy part, wandering through the village as though they're just your average tourists, learning things about the founding of their country.

Magic-perception checks please.]

[drugdeals]

( Luke's in tourist mode (2), distracted by the historical spectacle. )

This is all a little on the nose, isn't it?

[geminated]

They probably didn't know that the original building they stashed the bodies in would turn into a historical site four hundred years later.

[His sisters are a little more on the ball, Liv (14) moreso than Jo (10). She finds herself staring down the corridor, past some of the other original buildings, to a large structure on the far end of the growns.]

Let's check down there.

[Jo follows Liv's eyeline, before glancing down at the map of the park she grabbed on their way in.

"That's the courthouse." She pauses before raising an eyebrow. "They host witch trial reenactments there."]

[drugdeals]

Also on the nose. Accidentally.

( He peers down the corridor, but doesn't move inside. He flanks his sisters. )

And, reenactments? Unless they're Monty Python's, who gets tickets to - well, I guess, The Crucible.

[saveslives]

[She shrugs, before pointing to the description in the brochure.]

Apparently what they actually reenact is a real court case. But it'll be a good opportunity to get inside and poke around.

[drugdeals]

Real poor taste. But, lets snoop.

( Bye a mini-broom, maybe. A beer. It's the selfies we took along the way. )

[saveslives]

[It doesn't take much for them to get on the line for the reenactment-slash-building tour, and eventually they make their way inside to their old courthouse, with tight spaces and high seats but she can feel the familiar magic of their coven. The edges of a cloaking spell sitting somewhere on the edge.]

You feel that?

[drugdeals]

That's ours.

( Any Gemini would recognize it as his (nat 20) draws him and his siblings inside. )

[saveslives]

[Liv comes up behind them, and feels the brushes of it against her own magic senses. "It feels like the one on the house. Did that spell just ... follow us wherever we went?"

Jo glances around the rest of the building, trying to find where, exactly, the cloaking spell is anchored. She can't quite see it, but Luke can feel that pull dragging him towards the magistrate's seat at the head of the room.]

Something like that. Dad said it was anchored to the threshold of the front door. They would take those wood pieces each time they built a new compound.

[drugdeals]

( Luke goes to the edge of the stadium seating, hands resting on the wooden gate. )

That chair's made of wood.

[saveslives]

I wouldn't be surprised if that wall isn't real.

[They start to shuffle them into their different seats for the reenactment portion of things. They'll come back at night, with the rest of their coven. But for now, they have to go back to playing tourist.

Shep and Annie are the next to arrive that evening, followed by Freya, Bonnie and Rowena the following morning, and Jo makes them all dinner as she lays out what they learned from the information Bonnie gathered.]

Aside from the fact that the space is cloaked, the book Bonnie got from Harvey says there's some kind of protective layer. Locks that need to be opened before we can make it through to the bodies themselves.

[moralitypolice]

( "Locks that we each will unlock," Rowena says. "In order to reach the bodies that have been lying in wait for centuries." )

Bodies that, until now, were well-hidden, and until we learned the Gemini curse was built into their preservation, they might have stayed gone.

( But they're there. They are all sure, thanks to Freya.

"Are we all going to be focusing on different locks?" Shephered asks. )

[saveslives]

The book alludes that the respective locks are personal to the person who's trying to break the curse. So I'm going to assume that we each have our own locks.

[Freya nods as she muses. "Likely some kind of chambre de chasse. They're quite common in New Orleans. Think of them like a magical escape room - follow the clues to find the key to escape the room."]

[moralitypolice]

( "Is that where escape rooms originated?" Rowena asks, musing on the idea itself. )

Once all the locks are open, we'll come face to face with their bodies. Six of them. The last six.