KRAKEN headquarters

We've arrived at Seattle.

We're waiting on the signal to raid KRAKEN headquarters. I don't really know why there's anything more to it than just going in and getting things done, if we're going to do anything.

Maybe that's just nerves talking, though. Right now, I'm really anxious to get in, get things done, and get out. And by "get things done," I mean "beat the shit out of some monsters."

Seattle

Will and Adrian, the KRAKEN members we captured at the raid a while back, told us something interesting. Apparently, KRAKEN has moved their books to Seattle. AMU is planning on going there, as is a Newborn servant named Genome and someone ARC thinks could be involved called Kareena.

 

Speaking of Genome, they've stated that Seattle is where KRAKEN is going to summon the Newborn. I don't see any reason to trust them, and neither does the rest of ARC, but considering how many people are headed there, we're planning on sending several people there just to make sure things don't go totally to hell. Myself included, despite the fact that I've mostly been assisting Jenn with research and logging so far.

 

Not sure why. I guess Leo, Robin, and I have, admittedly, glommed onto Jenn's team- or, rather, Locke's team. See, Jenn doesn't work alone, despite coming off for all the world like she would (I say this affectionately). Rather, she's part of an ARC task force made up of her, Daisy, Jameson Wells, Samuel Navarre, and their leader, William Locke, who for whatever reason everyone just calls Locke. Jenn and Daisy seem to have taken to us, at any rate.

 

So, yeah. I guess we're just... going along because they are. 

An addendum

I didn't mention this earlier, because I've been really busy, but our local headquarters were raided by Archivists shortly before Leo and I joined. They took one of the books that KRAKEN had stolen from the AMU, lending further credence to our belief that AMU is a front for the Archive. Fortunately, we still have one of the other books, a translation of a series of Sumerian tablets related to the Fears' presence in ancient Mesopotamia. We don't know what KRAKEN would have wanted with either of the books we'd gotten from KRAKEN, since both of them were volumes of Sumerian translations... or rather, we didn't until we asked them. As it turns out, this is part of their stupid scheme to summon the Newborn. Figures.

We still don't know what KRAKEN is planning to do to actually summon the Newborn. Do a little dance, put on a talent show, something like that. The problem is, this also means we have no idea how to stop it, or whether it will work. This means there's a slightly-higher-than-zero chance that they may actually succeed in summoning the Newborn's true form, and we won't know how to stop them.

Great.