Treading Water With One Arm

I did my due diligence, even as I perused the blogs. Again, I can't say I understand this world of ours anymore, but it appears that Jack has either perished, went to sleep, stasis, or something else. On that subject, I informed the new head of Sanctuary that I owed a favor to the community, and that I'd pay it back if they need.

Having said that, NGL when someone starts referring to themselves as a god, I tend to take a few steps back.  A lot of things happen when one starts talking godhood, not the least of which is that you might feel your thoughts and believes trump others thoughts and beliefs.

The thing you may have noticed is that I am stalling, and that's because reading that notebook full of crazy gave me almost nothing to work with, as to whom I am dealing with.

I did see some multi-armed figures drawn in it, but for the most part it told me a story I was familiar with. A pre-lingual bit of artwork that showed groups of people, and some of them marked, others not so much.

I was reminded of my own need to hunt down 'certain targets', though I never understood more than that. I assumed they were tainted, that they were exposed to the Hollow Man, and therefore were the proper quarry.  The way I figure it, a lot of issues in the world only touch you if you've already been a part of it. That old perception filter that most people didn't ever notice, that's a part of it. Think about how Sanctuary has all these wards up, but people leading mundane lives go through it all the time. Surely some of them are evil, or commit violence, and yet they aren't spontaneously combusted.

Holy shit, maybe that's why some people spontaneously combust, maybe there was some sort of spell or ward or whatever in an area that could only touch the life of one already tainted by the supernatural.

Wow.

Enough musing for now, back to work. I've got to find out something more about Matchbook's condition, but I admit I've hit something of a wall right now. The Hollow Man never really did anything that made his victims/proxies super strong.

Unless all that deal with Conduits was coming back into the light.

God, I hope not, but then again, with all the strangeness in the world, maybe it's just how its always been, we just refused to believe it.

I do believe I am in over my head.