A high-tech submersible brought the group up to the shoreline once more, giving them time to chat if desired.  They had been giving a brief bit of information on the situation, clearly drawn from a mix of hero and police reports.<br/><br/>Five days prior a portal had been opened in a barn just outside of town by an unknown individual.  The photographs, as analyzed by Aether, a local sorcerer, spoke to a poorly trained and impulsive hand.  The containment circle had been improperly drawn, the materials used were incorrect, and the entire set-up was intended to contain a summoning, not contain a portal.  There was no body, but there was a great deal of blood, in the barn itself.  There were at least two dead in the farmhouse, though the report mentioned that they were 'still sorting the body parts.'<br/><br/>Aether predicted that a small flock of Imps, sadistic, intelligent, but ultimately weak and cowardly, demons had been released.  They would, he predicted, either seek to increase through own power through worship, or seek out a powerful master to serve.  Attached were a number of newspaper clippings and printed out forum posts that he suggested as leads.<br/><br/>A local street gang had exhibited strange powers when seizing control of Riveroak Park.  The police had yet to move in to expel them due to the riots.<br/>A dozen prostitutes had vanished in a single night.  The police figured it was a byproduct of the riots, Aether figured otherwise.<br/>A local politician had been spotted, his maid claimed, with a 'black dog with glowing red eyes' by a journalist.  The maid had later been found murdered in her apartment, which had been locked from the inside.<br/>A villain known for his use of magic had been freed by unseen assailants while being transported between prisons.  The guards had all been killed by being impaled, burnt, or slashed.