The Black-Eyed Men, Chapter 2

Hunter: The Reckoning

Eleanor Savell: Lucida Blackletter
Nat Adcock: Lynn

- Lucida got lost in the peasant village, and noticed a variety of children carrying buckets around, filled with vommit. She discovered that it was part of a sickness that was spreading through the island. Upon applying the Sight, she discovered that these children, and whatever was in their buckets, were a blight on humanity.

- Her attempts to get in touch with Jerry failed, as he didn't pick up his phone and didn't come back to the apartment that night.

- After researching on hunter.net, she went off to bed.


- Lynn was traveling with her friend Kat on a gap year to Antigua. They went to a party where Kat quickly went off and became the life of the party, while Lynn tried vainly to fit into conversations. She met a curious man named Dave who was eating all the shrimp, and they talked for a while - she could say anything to Dave, for some reason. Out came how Kat was off canoodling with some hottie and she always ditched Lynn at parties, and so on. Dave suggested they go play a prank on the two lovers, and off they went.

- Lynn was abandoned by Dave as something moved through the reeds and flew off in front of her. Kat screamed and Lynn jumped out of her hiding place, to discover that Kat's man was lying, dead, and that Kat thought she had seen something. Moments later, the man sat up, breathing deep, but Lynn knew he was still dead. She followed him back to the party and tried to push him into front of a fire barrel, protecting her friend, but Kat quickly abandoned her in favor of her man. The two of them walked off the beach, and Lynn quickly followed.


- Half in a nightmare, Lucida awoke, drugged. There was something in the room. After trying to talk to it, she extended her perceptions to understand it, getting visions of its visitations to room after room, stealing the breath of sleeping children. Despite her attempts to fight it, is overtook her, and stole her breath as well. Her body was found that morning by a maid.


- Lynn followed Kat all the way to power plant that fueled Antigua. After discovering a tunnel down beneath it, she found a whole slew of people, children and others, slowly walking in a spiral and up to a pit, where they were being burned alive. Sneaking in, she picked out Kat from the mass and tried to lead her to freedom.

- A salamander nearby, which through the Sight was an offense against nature, transformed into a man behind a rock, claiming that Dave sent him. He tried to lead Lynn and Kat to safety, but Kat broke out of whatever trance was keeping her hostage, and started having a fit because of the people dying. Three women, or wolves, or somewhere in between, chased Lynn, Kat, and the salamander-man out of the tunnel, but when they failed to catch her, a huge tentilce ripped out of the ground, and, raging through the cave and killing most anything it touched, chased Lynn and a wounded Kat out of the mouth of the tunnel. Lynn called an ambulence and went, riding, with Kat to the hospital.