Every now and then, a strange signal blinks on the live-dead map. Question marks above the dot represent how much knowledge about it the Underworld Central's Death Headquarters lacks. Kuolema, the Master Death and ruler of the Underworld, sends out his reapers to investigate, yet each time they come back empty-handed. Convinced they are just incompetent idiots, he decides to find this mysterious intruder while performing the obligatory centennial surveillance of mortals. Of course, it's 2020 and the pandemic is in full swing. His plan does not go as conceived. ONC entry using the prompts 36 and 57, both featuring Death as the main theme 2k words achieved - passed the 1st round 8k words achieved

Armed with magic and a gun, Nicole Hallian works as an investigator in the Supernatural Investigations Bureau (SIB) branch office located in the town of Callahan's Morrow. She likes her job, but not these days when mysterious abductions make the front pages in the newspaper. People are scared and SIB is getting nowhere with the investigation. Just as everything seems black, a prominent supernatural figure, Giuseppe Viola, arrives back in the town. Nicole unsuccessfully tries to extract some information from him; a vampire as old as him is a tough nut to crack. But not everything is as it seems to be: Nicole's boss, Adrian Crawshaw, has a few skeletons in his closet - and those come to bite him in the ass. He would love nothing more than everyone staying unaware of his connection to Giuseppe, no matter how much easier life could be if he made peace with the past. As a dead body thumps to the ground in front of the investigation team, members of the SIB office branch form a tentative partnership with Giuseppe to get to the bottom of this unresolved case.