After spending a few weeks convalescing from my injuries, I got a job at REI and moved into a house in Home Park with Lana. I was pondering what I wanted to do for my Summer Court project, considered taming a briar wolf or something. Jake came up with something that he let me get in on. He had apparently been working with the autumn court the past few weeks. An alarming trend had been occuring, a number of portals had been opening up across colleges within the past few months. However, at had been amateur hour over with the “Fallies”, and Jake approached Queen Violet about taking a more active role in the matter.
Georgia Tech had been one of the colleges experiencing this phenomena, as discovered when something from the other side tried grabbing Nehemiah Rumples' grandson. Jake proposed “sweeping” the campus for portals, closing them off and trying to find any fetches that may be lurking about. She thought it was a great idea, and so we went about recruiting people for the task. I gave Lana a call, since we would need to close the portals from the other side, and she was pretty good at navigating the hedge. I figured she'd be a help at getting us back to the real world without too much trouble. I assumed Holden would be in also. Jake put a flier out at Glamour Shots and got a few more takers.
The first was a bad-ass lady named Nefertiti Ennis. She was a scary, mountain of a woman who did work as a bouncer at the Slaughterhouse. Cool place, I may have to step in the ring there one of these days. But I digress, Nefertiti wasn't just muscle though. She's also a talented chef, and was excited to hear we would be meeting Nehemiah at some fancy restaurant called Halfbaked.
Our other taker was Ugly Archie. We found him at Glamour Shots, hanging with a couple of fine honeys in schoolgirl outfits. At least I think they were outfits and they weren't actually schoolgirls. Anyways, looks like Ugly Archie's party to try to get into the Spring Court was a flop, so I guess he was trying to get into the Summer Court's graces.
After we met the entire team, we met with Nehemiah at Halfbaked, and he gave us the contact info of the folks who had been doing the initial investigation of the incident with hiss grandson Bob. We met them at a Waffle House, they being Sabina Chaya and Ilya Novosi. Yeah, that Novosi last name wasn't a coincidence, turned out the guy was Lana's brother. Anyways, they gave us some background intel while the two siblings bickered.
A few days later, Jake hacked into GT's computer network to get access to their student records. Using that information, he used a program to highlight potential victims- those who had experienced a sudden and unexpected drop in academic performance. We split up and checked out the names on his list. I ended up getting some gaming geek. Or rather, his academic downturn could be explained by his recent addiction to some online computer game.
Thankfully, Lana's charge seemed to be what we were looking for. She texted us and we lay in wait after the class they were in got out. Jake stopped her under the guise of trying to get me the hookup. Hey, the girl, Claire, was kinda cute, I wouldn't mind getting her number. Alas, she was so out of it because of whatever ordeal she had been going through that she wasn't going for me. Lana followed her back to her sorority house and snuck us in. She had a portal in her bedroom closet, and we pondered what we would do…