Still searching for Doctor White, the Illuminati were distracted from their efforts by a phone call from a New Yorker. Curiously, the caller not only knew of the Illuminati but knew how to reach them. The caller, Robin Goodfellow, told them that in a single night he had witnessed his wife’s transformation into a werewolf. Their attention wrangled, the Illuminati headed to New York to meet with him and hear his story…
While Robin made tea for the heroes, they observed books on his shelf rearrange themselves- amongst them William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Their investigation crossed with another hunter- Deimos was on the hunt for two members of the gang 137th Street. When Deimos found his prey, they began to mutter on about alien abductions.
Dealing with werewolves, poltergeists and aliens, the Illuminati split up in an effort to cover more ground. While investigating the supposed werewolf victims in the morgue, the Aurelius, William Benson and Chris discovered two puncture wounds in the victim’s neck, suggesting vampires as well. Still, as the heroes soon learned, they were not just dealing with mere vampires but rather…
“Santa’s a vampire!” the rotund vampire in the red suit proclaimed, using his magic to summon vampiric elves to fight the trio. Ultimately, Coup realized Santa and his blood-sucking minions were akin to the phantasms his magic could create. Chanting “I don’t believe in Santa Claus!” like a mantra, the Illuminati were able to dispel the illusions and were left to wonder just how much of the recent strangeness they had observed was truly real.
Realizing Robin was at the middle of it, the Illuminati regrouped at his home and confronted him with what they had learned, only to have him end the charade and reveal his identity as Puck, one of the fey who inhabited Avalon. At the word of his master, Auberon, Puck had come to recruit the Illuminati to join in on the Wild Hunt…
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