I've heard back from my contact. Apparently the group I've been investigating in called Felix Fauoni, and they've been in the peripheral vision of the agency almost as long as it's existed. The information he got pretty much lines up with the file my client sent me; their appearance tends to coincide with a rise in possible supernatural activity, they have often been accused of thefts, and there's always plenty of unclassifiable weirdness. There is one thing (apart from the name) the agency data had that wasn't in my client's file. Out of sixteen documented and confirmed appearances of the Felix Fauoni, eleven coincided with the disappearances of children. I don't know what the statistics are for missing children, but I have a feeling that's significant.
A tour of the city revealed more anomalies. I found evidence of heightened supernatural activity, but most of that was around places or things that already have a reputation in local folklore and history. According to the news a man turned himself in last night for a murder committed over a decade ago, a murder for which another man was sent to prison. I also passed by three different car crashes as I made my rounds, and just an hour ago I saw a woman being talked out of suicide by some random bystander. She was planning to jump off a cliff over by the ocean, and when the guy started talking to her I thought she was just leaning over to see the water and he was just some crazy eccentric. The dialogue and everything was so like something out of a cheesy holiday movie that I would have laughed if not for the fact that there really was a life on the line.
Oh, and the dogs are all acting crazy. Not aggressive or scared like normal omen type stuff, just..crazy. Jumping up and down. Chasing things that aren't there. I think I saw a stray dog rolling down the sidewalk. It was rolling like an oddly shaped barrel when it came into my view, and it was rolling the same way when it left it.
On the upside, I know the name of the blue-haired girl. She's Cynthia, and I bought two of her and her group's CDs today, and I keep just saying her name and giggling...And I got no useful information out of that encounter. Maybe she's a siren. That would fit better than succubus. I could see her in a slightly less human body luring sailors onto the rocks and I really need to think about something else because the thought of that girl happily luring men to their deaths should really inspire very different feelings from this. But at least there aren't any signs of dark energy around her. But there are the car crashes from today and the missing children from those other times.
Why does nothing about this case make sense??
One last thing. I saw someone--an older man in expensive but worn clothes--today who...just creeped me out. I tried to follow him but that didn't last long. I got a picture and the coloring and the runes both pretty much screamed malevolence. He didn't look that unusual, but he reminded me of some unknown thing. When I got back to my motel I found what I was looking for. There's a creature that appears a handful of times in stories and folktales throughout history, the most prominent appearance being in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe entitled The Man of the Crowd. There isn't much known about it, but we know that it likes big crowds and big cities. And we know that it's dangerous. I believe I have some notes from an old analyst somewhere around here. More on that when I find out more.
Anyway, just sitting around observing has gotten me as far as it can. Tomorrow I visit the fortune teller.
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