Cultist Office Drama

In the day that has not yet ended 🤪, it’s almost past midnight where our adventure continued as we walked around the parking lot and right into an office area at the center.  Inside, we found four people arguing: a dark blue-furred ratman with cute round glasses, the jerk cult lady Arta, a Loki-looking guy, and the burly guy from the kidnapping video. We were in the right place, all right. Listening in, it sounded like we interrupted their discussion about the New Born. 🤔 Obvi, so all cultists are bad cultists. Got it. Boring! 🙃 🤡

I burst in, declaring I was with Absalom Station PD and here about Arta’s cyberbullying of me and everyone else. 😜 👮 The ratman tried to distract us with cinnamon tea, but I knew that was just a ploy since cinnamon tea is expensive. ☕ I talked with Arta first, trying to ask about her cultist online activities and why she’s been sending such jerk emails. 😠🔥She gives me some half-hearted culty explanation of how it’s part of cult indoctrination and it’s either kids gotta kill themselves or join up, but she just doesn’t like kids so she sends mean messages to minors. 👶 

I tell her she’s being detained for suspicion of cyberbullying of minors and to wait to the side while we talk with the others in the building. 😡 I start up to the burly-looking fellow, who is looking damp. Like, sweating a pool’s worth of water out of his forehead damp. 🤣 💦 I tell him straight up, “Hey buddy, I’ve seen your face around.” And I sent video clips of Meldo’s kidnapping to the wet kidnapper in front of me. And he immediately tried to run. 😝 I charged him and wrapped him up in my ribbons. Just as I finished subduing the culprit, the Loki-looking guy attempted to mind-control me 🤡, but I shot him in the head with my Boom Pistol. 🔫 I yelled at the tea brewing ratman and the cultist bully Arta to back up from the altercation, stating this was an Absalom Station PD matter. 😜

After failing to trick my brain into submission, the Loki guy smashed his fist against Remy’s head, knocking him out. 😵 💔 I tried to reload my gun but missed my shots. Thankfully, Mas’Seef threw a grenade, blowing up Loki’s face and saving us. ❤️ 🥳

Once we had not-Loki entirely dead, I questioned Arta about her cyberbullying and who even was this guy trying to kill a police officer! The nerve of this man! 🔥😡 👮 She explained to us how this guy was actually a professor and also a vampire. (Who knew that weirdo from 20 minutes ago was actually right 🙃) She argued that her cult needed to kill kids for rituals, based on information from the vampire Loki gave to them about the New Born. 👽 🪐 I talked about how un-inclusive it was to do things like that, trying to redirect her campaign into something more child-friendly and less about killing kids. The tea-serving ratman, freaked out by all the drama, wanted no part in it anymore. I think he quit the cult. 😂

I collected brochures and pamphlets from Arta about the cult. Before leaving, we searched the car park for any cult evidence ☄️ 🛰️ left behind but instead, we found Meldo inside a storage container, badly bruised and bitten by the vampire Loki. 💦 🤔 That guy didn’t try really hard to hide his lunch. During our fight to the death with him, I kept insisting he was a trafficker. I was putting on more of a show as a pretend officer but I guess he really was a trafficker. It's weird being right when lying my ass off. 💀

We found a nearby EMS agent and took Meldo to a doctor, called his wife to come to us as he was in critical condition. 🩸 🏨  She paid us for our trouble and took her husband home after treatment. What was that even about, why did that guy kidnap someone just to use them as a snack? We'll never know because Mas'Seef blew up his face. Another job well done, my fellow Hoglettes! 🎉❤️

Some of the info we found from the cult documents talks about some suspicious stuff. We discovered information about a being called the Midwife, who is siphoning power from Absalom Station. Not sure what that’s about but I’ma make sure to put that name in my Assets notes. 🔍🕵️‍♂️ We settled almost all our current cases except the squonx mating habitats. But it’s past midnight and as we were banned from the community center, we are going to spend the night at Remy’s place.

In the morning, we can investigate the mystery of the missing squonx! 🐀🔍🐾