Vat:17 Episodes 2
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Starring: 
Amiri, 
Pauline, 
Koz
Guest Starring:
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Location: Squirrel Hill, Frick Park
Date Played: 20-Feb-2013
No Job
Pauline: I don't like to be lazy, but when the VAT says, "We haven't got a job for you, go explore town and see what happens," I can't help but use it to catch up on my daily business. I've got a house full of kids- what else can I do?
The Schenley Classic
Pauline: When we do have a job, it's providing security for the Schenley Classic. That puts me on the prowl for some doctors. It's mostly a non-event, and we were only there because Killer Bitchface killed some people in Monaco, and that got everyone all panicked.
Gruesome in Squirrel Hill
Pauline: But the real adventure of the week was the murder in Squirrel Hill. The side of a house was exploded by some force, and everyone in it pulverized into a pulp. We followed a trail deep into Frick Park, only to find a ton of rotting potatoes under a bridge and a lot of essence. We got suspicious.
We got nebby, talked to the neighbors, talked to the locals, and followed up on what Koz saw- a bunch of Jewish kids hanging out under that bridge a little before the attack. This turned into a trip to the Jewish Community Center. They were showing Beethoven, so I brought the kids along, in part because I wanted to have Sammy keep an eye on the Jewish teens and look for anybody sneaking out.
Which, by the way, _someone_'s been calling the house a lot lately for Sammy. And she keeps jokingly using the word "shiksa". I'm not going to pry, but I made sure there's some condoms in the stash. I don't care what she does, so long as she's safe.
Carrots
Pauline: Speaking of safe, we spot the kids heading back to the park. We tail them, and whaddaya know: they're summoning a vegetable golem. They've been using it to get revenge, and the mastermind is the same kid I saw last week, when doing security at the Hill festival- he won the potato carving contest.
We're mostly pulling our punches on the kids, but they're playing with forces they barely understand, and I don't care how gentle you get- people are going to get hurt. And those kids got hurt, I'm sorry to say. It's a real tragedy, but hopefully the ones that got away learned something. We talked to the local Kaballist that they lifted this magic off of, and hopefully it's done.
