Today in the Trinity Universe: heaven or hell! judgment!

[aberrantangels]

The article in the Aberrant corebook is undated; I think I got the date from the relevant supplement.

November 12
[Aberrant] Graham Herron, current holder of the Houston Tornado "franchise" (urban defender license), is found shot, stabbed and beaten to death near Dime Box, TX. His corpse is reportedly marked with symbols associated with the Church of Michael Archangel, a fundamentalist Christian sect which holds that "aberrants" are literal demons from hell.

Sheriff Tom Boddard, who found the body, says "[t]here must have been a lot of the Michaelites to take one of these boys down," but says he wasn't aware of a Michaelite compound in the area; he speculates they came from Austin or Nacogdoches, which presumably both host Michaelite presences. "Powder burns marked the weapons as having been discharged at close range."

A spokesman for Micah Piper, Grand Deacon of the Austin (TX) Michaelite compound, while not actually admitting any role in Herron's death, says that the Tornado "obviously met his match in God's Chosen." Online Michaelites echoed the sentiment; Suzanne Haslett of Virginia asks "Why should we weep for the passing of the Devil's own?" Lucy Corgan, age seven, boasts: "My papa has a gun that will drop an aberrant dead in his tracks, and so do all his friends."

Linda Raphael (evidently done with Operation Upgrade) and fellow Devries Elite™ Elijah Crane head for Houston to "rally some novas interested in justice." Piper counters with a warning: "The righteous God is with us, you spawn of Satan. We've got enough guns and faith to lay you out just like what happened to your friend." Sounds to me like they have more faith in their guns than in their faith, but money and gunpowder do talk, don't they?

Comments

[md_donighal]

There are things I did, as Beacon of the One Race, that I will regret at least once a day for the rest of my very long life. If I'm very lucky, I will get my karmic scale just about balanced by the time I die.

But I have no regrets about cheering when James pulped Micah Piper's head, and only a vague regret of that lack of regrets. My only regret as to the manner of the Grand Deacon's death is this: it may have paid off enough of his karmic debt that he got reborn as an actual human the next time around.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

That's peculiar. Dime Box is a tiny, tiny village about 60 miles east of Austin and nearly 200 miles west-southwest of Nacogdoches. Houston is closer to Dime Box than Nacogdoches...

... and there's also the fact that Nacogdoches, at least in our universe, has a population of well under 50,000 people, whereas Austin has nearly a million people now, and the greater Houston area has about four million.

Was Chief Wiggum investigating this death, or something?

[aberrantangels]

I got nothin', osrry. Except, from the sound of things, evidence that the White Wolf writers responsible know as much about Texas as they do about Scandinavia, or possibly less.