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From: [sefton, amanda]
I've been spending the time since we got back researching the whole Aitkins mess, and I think I can explain what happened there. This is going to be a long report, so bear with me here.
Amora, also known as the Enchantress, is the Norse "goddess" that we first ran into in Asgard and who showed up again during that mess with Baron Zemo a few years ago. This last plot of hers revolved around getting Thor, who seems to have been exiled by Odin into a human life for being a wanker, under her control. So she'd have privacy for this, she set up an inversion ward over Aitkins and the surrounding area, that reversed any magic in the area. Scrying wouldn't show anything, location spells would bounce off and any offensive magic would rebound on the user - which would be why I still have tingling in my hands from trying to blast the bitch.
Um, sorry about the language, Prof.
Any way, Amora decided to get Loki involved, probably because she needed more magical oomph to control Thor. Once his avatar - the Sons of Hel leader - was on the scene, Loki's chaos magic started leaking into the area. Only with the ward, it couldn't go anywhere, so it built up and started messing with the townspeople. Add in Amora's personal brand of magic - she specialises in seduction, jealousy, twisting matters of the heart, that sort of thing - and Aitkins wound up going crazy. To the tune of sexual abuse, torture and the rest. There was no serial killer, just a town turning in on itself under Amora's influence.
I really, really, really hate this bloody woman.
When Garrison turned up, Amora apparently decided to make him the focus of the ritual she needed to take over Thor. It's a sacrificial thing, called the Blot, and Garrison was supposed to the sacrifice. Only, there was another magical influence on him that Amora didn't know about. I have a feeling Loki might have, tho'.
Back last year, with the Halloween-gone-wrong, Garrison picked up a curse. I thought it was something to do with my magic, since it was one of my old relics that caused the whole problem there, but it looks like it was the relic itself. Some kind of chaos magic, which was why I couldn't fix it, since chaos magic tends to make mine go haywire. Garrison was kind of a lightning rod for this relic, having been hanging about too much chaos-based magic with Wanda and me when we were tracking down Farouk during that Templar business, so he was the one cursed by it. Which would explain, um, the whole not being able to have sex thing.
Any way, Garrison turns up in Aitkin already cursed and Amora's ward reversed the curse. Which was why certain other things happened - his curse worked on the attraction certain people already felt for him and ramped it up to the point we didn't care about anything else - including how he might have felt about things. And stuff. But it did do one good thing, in that he wasn't impacted by the Loki/Amora chaos magic combo that was fucking with the town. And it saved our arses as well.
At the end, when Garrison was fighting Thor and caught the hammer... There's legends that Thor's hammer can open any door, smash any wall. When the hammer met Garrison's double curse - the Halloween one and the Blot - there was a whole feedback thing and basically the energy backlash broke Amora's wards. Which was why we were able to get free of her whammy on us. Amora gets stabbed in the gut by Paige - nice work there, Guthrie - everyone else stomps on Ice Giants and Brand turns up to take Thor into the protective custody of SWORD. Yeah, I don't know who they are either, but they're connected with SHIELD and messing with things that we used to have free reign with. I'm not liking it.
So that's what happened. Garrison's still recovering and will need a bit more down time, but I'm sure the Doc and the Prof have things under control and he'll be right as rain in no time.
If you need to ask any questions about all this, I'm your girl. Just buy me a beer first - I'm going to need one after all this typing.
A.
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From: [sefton, amanda]
I've been spending the time since we got back researching the whole Aitkins mess, and I think I can explain what happened there. This is going to be a long report, so bear with me here.
Amora, also known as the Enchantress, is the Norse "goddess" that we first ran into in Asgard and who showed up again during that mess with Baron Zemo a few years ago. This last plot of hers revolved around getting Thor, who seems to have been exiled by Odin into a human life for being a wanker, under her control. So she'd have privacy for this, she set up an inversion ward over Aitkins and the surrounding area, that reversed any magic in the area. Scrying wouldn't show anything, location spells would bounce off and any offensive magic would rebound on the user - which would be why I still have tingling in my hands from trying to blast the bitch.
Um, sorry about the language, Prof.
Any way, Amora decided to get Loki involved, probably because she needed more magical oomph to control Thor. Once his avatar - the Sons of Hel leader - was on the scene, Loki's chaos magic started leaking into the area. Only with the ward, it couldn't go anywhere, so it built up and started messing with the townspeople. Add in Amora's personal brand of magic - she specialises in seduction, jealousy, twisting matters of the heart, that sort of thing - and Aitkins wound up going crazy. To the tune of sexual abuse, torture and the rest. There was no serial killer, just a town turning in on itself under Amora's influence.
I really, really, really hate this bloody woman.
When Garrison turned up, Amora apparently decided to make him the focus of the ritual she needed to take over Thor. It's a sacrificial thing, called the Blot, and Garrison was supposed to the sacrifice. Only, there was another magical influence on him that Amora didn't know about. I have a feeling Loki might have, tho'.
Back last year, with the Halloween-gone-wrong, Garrison picked up a curse. I thought it was something to do with my magic, since it was one of my old relics that caused the whole problem there, but it looks like it was the relic itself. Some kind of chaos magic, which was why I couldn't fix it, since chaos magic tends to make mine go haywire. Garrison was kind of a lightning rod for this relic, having been hanging about too much chaos-based magic with Wanda and me when we were tracking down Farouk during that Templar business, so he was the one cursed by it. Which would explain, um, the whole not being able to have sex thing.
Any way, Garrison turns up in Aitkin already cursed and Amora's ward reversed the curse. Which was why certain other things happened - his curse worked on the attraction certain people already felt for him and ramped it up to the point we didn't care about anything else - including how he might have felt about things. And stuff. But it did do one good thing, in that he wasn't impacted by the Loki/Amora chaos magic combo that was fucking with the town. And it saved our arses as well.
At the end, when Garrison was fighting Thor and caught the hammer... There's legends that Thor's hammer can open any door, smash any wall. When the hammer met Garrison's double curse - the Halloween one and the Blot - there was a whole feedback thing and basically the energy backlash broke Amora's wards. Which was why we were able to get free of her whammy on us. Amora gets stabbed in the gut by Paige - nice work there, Guthrie - everyone else stomps on Ice Giants and Brand turns up to take Thor into the protective custody of SWORD. Yeah, I don't know who they are either, but they're connected with SHIELD and messing with things that we used to have free reign with. I'm not liking it.
So that's what happened. Garrison's still recovering and will need a bit more down time, but I'm sure the Doc and the Prof have things under control and he'll be right as rain in no time.
If you need to ask any questions about all this, I'm your girl. Just buy me a beer first - I'm going to need one after all this typing.
A.
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Date: 2012-09-19 07:07 am (UTC)~J.