A Mess of a Saturday!
By now you have heard the serious news reports about what went down at the Red Dragon Inn Saturday night. We really are shocked and dismayed by the behavior displayed by both the proponents of Prop 37 and the critics. We are not shocked that the Inn became the heart of the confrontation but we cannot believe that an official word has not come out from Panther in any of the news media outlets. We do hope that he makes his thoughts known on the matter soon.
We have debated how to handle the incident as serious journalism is not exactly what we do. We cannot, however, ignore that the incident happened and there’s a different account for every article or report that is out there. All we can do is report the information that our sources were able to report back to us.
The madness started when Darien, one of the leaders of the Prop 37 movement, began speaking to a ever growing crowd outside the Inn. The news outlets have estimated the crowd from anywhere from fifty to a thousand people but our sources are saying that it was somewhere in the range of one hundred to two hundred angry folks. This Darien fellow certainly knows how to get a crowd going because they were pretty darn livid!
Now even our sources can’t say who started the violence. There were punches swung from the mob but there are also reports of gunfire from those who were in the Inn. Everything got violent so quickly that it’s hard to say who started the violence.
We hear that Prof. Jolyon tried to reason with the crowd and, in particular, Darien but reason and logic didn’t seem to be on anyone’s list of priorities. Evidently, Prof. Jolyon even took a pretty nasty blow to the head in the melee that ensued. We do hear that he will be fine and that is great news!
Poor Rekah got caught up in the mob and was shoved to the ground in the chaos. We hear that she even lost consciousness for several minutes. After being pulled from the crowd by a priest and Sassy Serena and then tended to by The Many Faces of Fio, we hear that she was alert and doing well. T.M.F.O. Fio was quite frantic when she initially saw Rekah getting pulled into the fray. In fact, we hear that she even began to run out from the relative safety of the Inn after her friend until she saw that the unknown priest and Sassy Serena had it under control. T.M.F.O. Fio and Rekah are such dear girls! And maybe Sassy Serena’s turning around herself!
Things got particularly bad when SLUTtacious Darcy completely fell apart because her brother, David, was unable to make it into the Inn when the violence started. We hear that David was able to escape unhurt but SLUTtacious Darcy was a sobbing mess. Ryan dashed back into the crowd to look for David but came out with a little girl that he saved from being trampled. Major brownie points in our book!
Mega Mom Icer did NOT help matters. However, we think she had good intentions. The crowd was definitely intimidated by her which made them even more aggressive. When fires start being lit she blew ice on them. Obviously, the crowds were further enraged by the show of magic. Matters for M.M. Icer have got even worse in the days that followed that incident. Our sources are working hard to get accurate information on that so that we may relay that to you.
Keeper Neo was part of the crowd attempting to calm things down. We hear that his voice too was drowned out by the crowd. Evidently his brother Jin and one of their friends actually played a major role in finally dispersing the mob. Word on the street is that some sort of empathy spell was placed on the mob. The scene that was left behind was definitely surreal. The number of casualties fluctuates depending on which source you choose to believe. Clearly, though, people died, people were injured.
Doc Eva and Manly Mason arrived after much of the crowd had dispersed. We hear that she looked over several of the dead but that, for the most part, those who were injured had left by the time she had arrived. Awful Ali, Lucky Lawyer Lucien, Hunky Hudson, and Queen of Class and Sass Sylvia were all late to arrive but when they did they were shocked by the scene and the events that had happened shortly before their arrival. Awful Ali, in particular, appeared quite distraught. We’re sure that it was because his wife, T.M.F.O. Fio, was caught up in the whole mess. Let us tell you, it was quite a hug that he gave her when he finally found her.
Rarely do we use this blog to make a stand but we feel that now we must. Many of us here at the Den of Gossip have seen beings face prejudice for merely being what they are in the countless cities we have been in. In fact, we have, unfortunately, faced some of that same prejudice. As a community at-large — both magical and not — we must stand shoulder to shoulder and refuse to allow this to continue!
Take care and stay safe!
Edited: September 12th, 2009