Just for a second or two. There's something about the layered nicotine haze, illuminated within and without by rhythmic flashes of colored brilliance, surrounded by sheer walls of titanic sound, and stirred into convective motion by the gyrating throngs. Occasionally, time will freeze for split-seconds, just long enough to notice that everything around you has stopped in mid-motion. By the time you start to question if you're the only one who has noticed it, things have started up again.

And then, very rarely, in the void above the dancers, and below the lights, Things will appear. Briefly. Indistinctly. But there all the same.

Initial analysis ran down the line of a variant summoning method, one not involving the usual chants/sacrifices/whatever. As the night went on, though, it became increasingly clear that what I was seeing WAS, IN ACTUALITY, a summoning ritual. However, it was faulty. The measures were imprecise, the steps, slightly off-canter. That explained the transience of the effects: only occasionally, through sheer happenstance, did the ingredients mix together in their correct proportions, and then, only for a moment.

It struck me: Alzis knows this. He knows that the right music, the right lights, the right air, and the right dancers, at the right time, can rend the Barrier as surely as a sacrifice and a spell.

Effective immediately, all members of Cell P (including myself) are forbidden to set foot into clubs of this sort, unless on an enforcement action. There is much too much at stake, and the seduction is real. It is currently tactically impossible to constantly investigate every single night spot for activity of this sort, so I am now categorizing clubs in the same light as other suspected regions of activity, with regards to response measures.

In other words, a night club is to be treated in the same way as any other possible cultist's den.

I advise other regional Cells to take an inventory of the night life in your area for suspicious activity, and to take measures as necessary. I also *strongly* advise that Club Apocalypse be put under as close a watch as possible, and shut down the instant something out-of-the-ordinary appears.

It is also my guess that MJ-12 has come to the same conclusion. A campaign of club shutdowns, supposedly organized by "grass-roots community groups" who are concerned about the noise levels these clubs generate, is currently taking place in the SOMA (South of Market Area) of San Francisco. This started about six months ago, quite out of nowhere, and the oft-cited "trigger incident" was a shooting outside of one of the clubs. The opposition is vocal, but small, only moderately organized, and consisting mainly of club owners.

The tactics used to close down are suspect. Targeted clubs are first subjected to denial of necessary permits (liquor, dancing, music, et al) by the City, which normally starves them to death over a protracted period of time. By the time the club finally dies, people don't care anymore. For those more troublesome venues, which are able to continue operating even after those measures, stronger methods are often used. Clubs will be forcibly closed down after drug raids, or outbreaks of "riots" and the like.

It would seem that MJ-12 is using the SOMA as a test bed for possible major nationwide crackdowns on nightclubs. Once all necessary data (currently positive for the method) is gathered, the plan can be opened up to include all of the 50 states. Any action involving a nightclub in the SOMA of San Francisco should be undertaken with *extreme* caution, as there is a distinct possibility that MJ-12 operatives will be on-scene.


Agent Primus...out.