The team spent a day resting at their newly gained mansion. Leon worked on his god-scanner and did what he could to digitally secure the accounts of the last owner of the group’s home. Later in the day, he decided to hack into the computer and then into the email of a man, Dorian Enzo, who was apparently ranked above the now deceased Titanspawn, Luke went out and worked his contacts, finding a number of other potential Titanspawn mafiosos and consolidating the physical resources of the drowned man Titanspawn. He later hooked up with a girl of indeterminate age (though she was certainly NOT fourteen). Vishka tended his meditation garden and Socrates filed a travel report back to his school. Ash filed her own report to the Moon Foundation, which was greatly impressed with the work done so far. Of the less than 100 agents of the group, this team had found far more artifacts and information than any of the others. The Shadowness spent time turning her rooms into a Shadowness-cave while Hinata worked on bringing the medical room up to her standards. Kaz rested and scoped the place out.

After the day off, the group decided it was once more time to go forth and find relics. They first went to an old church in a small village near the sea. The town was fairly small, housing mostly shepherds and farmers. The group made their way unmolested to the church, which was laid out in a cross shape. Inside they found two old ladies praying. The group tried to speak to them, but the women essentially ignored the group in favor of their prayers. Unfortunately, on the spot where the relic should have been, there was nothing.

The location the group had for the relic was before a statue of St. Luke, so Kaz chose to speak with the statue while Luke and Leon went to see if they could find any clues in the less public areas of the church. Kaz learned from the statue that the church was visited nightly by a “servant of the Lord.” Furthermore, he discovered that the angel seemed to appear over the very place where the relic was supposed to be. Luke and Leon found first a fairly useless storage closet and second an office with a priest inside. He didn’t respond to questions in English or Italian (though he did speak it later), but did respond to Leon’s attempts in Latin. He argued faith with Leon for a while, then, when conversation turned to the relic, he related the tale of a woman who, on this spot, had seen an angel and altar. She used the altar to sacrifice to God. Leon pushed for further information, but the priest refused. This exchange ended with Leon grabbing the priest with his flaming arm and being called a demon for his troubles.

Leon and Luke knocked the priest out and returned to the main church, waiting for the time when the angel was said to appear. The old ladies left, bothered by the group’s presence. After some waiting an angel did appear. The group was already in position. Luke, Leon, and Vishka were closest to the spot where the altar would be. Kaz was hiding atop a statue of Jesus. Ash was resting amongst the pews. The Shadowness was watching for potential attack from outside. Hinata was near the main entrance and Socrates was reading, and editing, a Bible he’d found.

The angel appeared slowly, seeming to draw ambient light into a tighter and tigher form until it manifest. At first, it didn’t seem to care much about the party… The is, until they approached it. As had been hinted at previously, the altar was nowhere to be seen, but the angel was in it’s place. Vishka and Leon began to question the new arrival. The angel gave terse answers referring to “my lord” and implying that he was fully aware of the lineage of Titan, God, and Scion. The angel seemed content to spar verbally until he felt that the party might be on the verge of attacking. Then he erupted into blinding light. More than half the party was blinded and the angel was gone. Hinata healed the others and opened up a new dialogue with the saint statue.

Amidst the ramblings about the beauty of the angel, there was little to be gained from the statue. Leon, however, noticed that there were marks where the altar should have been on the floor. Thinking about things from a physics standpoint, Leon realized that because the angel had control over light, it was possible that it was warping light around the altar to make it invisible. While the group might not be ready to face the angel, they had discovered it’s greatest secret.

Somewhat frustrated, but not ready to pack it in, the group moved on to their next target. Meanwhile, Leon’s owl traveled through the stained-glass window and headed to the north of Italy, seeking out the location of the man who was supposedly overseeing the Titanspawn the party had defeated.

After some traveling, the group ended up outside of an abandoned auto-factory. They debated how to get in for a few minutes, until Ash simply used her sword to cut the locks off of the main gate. Once inside the group broke out their flashlights, lamps, and Leon’s flaming arm for light. Rats and roaches scurried away from the light, vanishing almost completely.

The group searched through the factory and got to the point where the relic was supposed to be, but again, there was nothing there. It was around this point that Luke noticed, via his x-ray sunglasses, the fact that the walls all had rat-sized, but cleanly made, tunnels running through them. The group started searching for the rats until they came to an old office in which Luke could see a writhing mass of cyborg’d rats. The group was a little disturbed by the discovery, but was more disturbed when a couple members of the party heard the rats whispering “is it safe,” “is it hidden,” and “do they suspect?”

The group chose to try talking to the rats, but the creatures spoke in a rather unintelligent hive-mind form and the conversation went less distance than the earlier conversation with the angel. Annoyed, the group decided the best plan of action was to kill as many of the rats as possible at once. Leon found a tank of propane and the team used their high explosive rounds to blow it, and the majority of the rats to kingdom come.

After a short further search, they found a safe which, when cracked, revealed a divine bronze set of cogs set onto a shaft. When they took this cog back to the main floor, they discovered that while it couldn’t power the entire complex, it could activate the lights while touching an electrical cord. After a little deliberation, Kaz chose to speak to the cogs, which told him that they were made by Hephaestus and used to activate relics created by the forge god, including clockwork owls like Leon’s. It was about that time that the owl checked in to let Leon know that it had scouted out the mafia man’s home. The team decided that the report was a good cue to head for their own home so that they could prepare for their next move.