Unrest Underfoot

Threat
This is tied closely to Imbalance of Power.

The thing is, the US isn't the place it used to be. The Occupy Movement shook DC up bad, and since a lot of the Masonic magical structure relies on the power of patriotism flowing through it, that means they're hold over things is weakening enormously, and lots of nasty supernatural underdogs are waiting to take advantage of this collapse. The Raiths in the outer city want the inner city and are in deeply entrenched conflict with the Skavis (despite insisting that they are on the same side, naturally). Even inside the Masons there are a lot of young bucks who think that the order has grown stagnant and self-centered, and want to take it in a brand new direction, leading to endless rows and debates. A lot of Masons aren't liking being ignored by the mundanes, when they're doing so much for them, as well. Of course, on a more personal level, loads of people who are out of power want to get higher, they just need to get rid of whomever is in the way.

The reason this is truly a Threat, rather than a Theme, however, is that its also rather literal. Washington DC was built on a swamp, and lately small places in the city have been slowly bogged up, often from sewage pipes bursting (a street here, a basement there), and there have been freak localized tremors here and there. It's almost as though something big (very big) is waking up.

Aspect: Unrest Underfoot

Faces

 * Loraine Raith

No one really believes her last name is Thunder. Most people aren't sure she actually knows her first name. She's a homeless drug addict on the cheap (that is to say, alcoholic), but she's known to be surprisingly sensitive in both senses of the word, having beaten the crap out of more than one bastard who she thought had it coming, and having seen quite a lot of things coming before they did. Lately, she's been talking a lot about some sort of sleeping giant. Then again, she wears a tinfoil hat.
 * Cora Thunder

A Steward of the Masons, Nores Gutierez is a frustrating man in his thirties who is getting increasingly sick of retaining such a low position after all the years he's put in, and is increasingly convinced he should be running the show. He has some support from young and low level members, but it's not enough to overhaul things. Horatio goes outside of the Masons regularly when he wants to get things done. He's supporting Julius Williams for that very reason. Considering that Nores Gutierez is a Minor Practitioner who specializes in crafting, the help is often quite useful.
 * Horatio Nores Gutierez