Maybe the police will put the pieces together, while investigating the
disappearance of young girls. Possibly a curious journalist will stumble
over the story while wondering why three aircraft are hired every year,
heading out at the same time to Mt Erebus, Nyiragongo & Mauna Loa. Or
possibly Heaven will notice. The young Shedite responsible for the scam
would prefer it if Heaven didn't notice first; they might work out that he's
not sacrificing maidens to the volcanoes.
It's quite simple, really. All three volcanoes are open
mouthed, and all are Tethers to Divine Fire. Most humans have heard tales of
sacrificing maidens to appease volcanoes; if they 'discover' that the
practice is being continued, the public outcry should cripple all three
Tethers, and start the process of twisting them towards Demonic Fire.
Of course, since each volcano has a powerful Seneschal, actually sacrificing
maidens would be instantly stopped. Instead, the Shedite has been recruiting
kooky individuals who were in the vicinity of young girls when they
disappeared, and once recruited, the kooks take a privately funded flight to
one of the three mountains each year. Careful use of his resonance to
corrupt the memories of the kooks means that several of them believe that
they have participated in sacrifices to the volcanoes, and the paperwork
for the trips shows that the kooks went on their first trip the year the
girl disappeared.
Sooner or later, someone is going to 'discover' that a secret cult has been
sacrificing maidens, and The Media will have a field day. At that point, the
Shedite plans to explain what he has been doing to Belial, and ask for three
volunteers to load up their Vessels with water barrels. The kooks will
insist at their trials that unless the sacrifices continue, the volcanoes
will erupt; on the day the kooks name for the ceremony, the three volunteers
will go Celestial, and materialise under the volcanoes; instantly boiled,
the water & Vessels will explode, triggering all three volcanoes
simultaneously. As all three volcanoes are frequently active, the triple
eruption could just be coincidence....
By this point, the Shedite will be riding already suicidal girls and pushing
them to jump into the volcanoes - "be a heroine, and save the day". He
figures that between the Word shift caused, and having to deal with Triads
determined to punish the Gabrielites who have been allowing human sacrifice,
the Seneschals won't be able to prevent the suicides.
If it works, Belial gains three new Tethers; perhaps the volunteers for
Vessel explosion would be interested in becoming Seneschals? As for the
Shedite, well, the Demon of Sacrifices to Volcanoes has such a nice ring to
it.
Unless he's stopped, of course. What are the PCs doing? And no, they don't
even have the Shedite's name - just a suspicious character or three, who
belong to the same organisation and all of whom where near a girl who
disappeared in suspicious circumstances...
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