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— Alejandra recovering as ReignOfEvil.com prosecutions move forward
St. Louis, Missouri: Alejandra is said to have completely recovered from her kidnapping ordeal as the St. Louis District Attorney won indictments against all arrested cultists. After a pitched battle with a mixed Team Tomorrow roster, all but one of the members of the Missouri chapter of the church, including all of its nova members except Astaroth, were either killed or captured.
"Pax heard it," Ragnarockette explained. "The victim was sending out a literal SOS below the normal range of human hearing. Once he followed the sound to its source, it didn't take long for us to get a search warrant and bust up their plan. Believe it or not, they were going to actually sacrifice her! The baseline cultists thought it was some sort of demonic spiritual thing, but apparently Astaroth knew better. He had some sort of bizarre quantum-transfer device beneath the victim, and a light show to cover up that the 'ritual sacrifice' was really a technological method of transferring her powers into him."
Though both Utopia and independent scientists have confirmed that the device could have theoretically been effective, the police report on the battle differs somewhat from Ragnarockette's account. According to accounts from both the Utopia support team and the imprisoned cultists, the battle was very even for nearly a half hour, with blacktech-armed 'monks' removing the advantage Team Tomorrow gained with its superior number of novas. The arrested novas have been transferred to the Bahrain facility for holding and treatment, while Astaroth himself (itself?) remains at large.
The church's lawyer continues to insist that the arrests are a violation of the cultists' First Amendment rights, and expects all charges to be dropped eventually. Meanwhile, Project Utopia and GMB, Alejandra's record label, have both volunteered resources to the District Attorney's office.
Ironically, while the name "Astaroth" became attached to demonic influences during the Middle Ages, it is originally the name of a Semitic fertility goddess.
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