Report: Operation HOI POLLOI - Part One
10 JUNE 2000. 6:00 AM. On the flight to Sacramento, VERDANCE (Emerson Copeland) and VICTOR (Avery Fields) both knew what was coming. Five months ago, before they cornered Willem Lipton in a cabin and VICTOR took him down with two shots from a sniper rifle, VICTOR and VERDANCE candidly spoke about their experiences with the King in Yellow. During which VICTOR shared what he had learned from a communion with one of the Goetic demons that they had encountered in New Orleans. He told her what it told him: " THEY FUNDAMENTALLY MISUNDERSTAND IT. THEY THINK IT [ THE KING IN YELLOW ] CAN BE USED LIKE A WEAPON. CALIFORNIA IS GOING TO BE BAD ". The words of Bune, the unassuming demon that VICTOR had spoken with in an El Paso parking lot. Those words rang through both of their heads when Jason Swyneherd, their superior in the FBI Task Force PATCON, told them they were both heading to California as the Task Force's point-of-contact regarding a racially-motivated mass shooting car...