futuristicavenuebread:

Re: The Rowdy 3/Blackwing Breakout

“ Blackwing’s global search only produced two genuine empaths: Svlad Celli, who came to be known as

Dirk Gently, and Bartine X. Curlish. Both were brought in briefly as teens. However, General Scott

Riggin’s search was wide enough that a few extras were caught in the net…though they weren’t the kinds of “psychics” anyone on the research team was expecting. These four “extras,” collectively dubbed

“Project Incubus,” had a different gift entirely. They seemed to be able to “smell” the various conditions of human existence; their abilities functioned very literally like a sixth sense, as they seemed to “smell”

and “taste” emotions. But these talents were discovered to all be secondary manifestations of a much

darker central power.

The Incubus subjects are vampires.

Not the nightwalking bloodsuckers of legend, but rather something much stranger; they feed on

emotion, on the electrical energy of the human mind, which they extract in blasts of crackling pink

electricity. “Smelling” Dirk Gently’s energy on another floor, the Rowdy Three, then little more than

teenagers, used their psychic link to fool their guards and breach Dirk’s area. Feeding on the terrified young Dirk’s amplified aura, they were able to fully charge themselves for the first time since their

incarceration. This is how they escaped, with brutal, destructive force. In the aftermath, Blackwing was closed, and annexed into the CIA. Meanwhile, the Rowdy 3 have tried to make a life for themselves out

in “the real world,” forever hunting Dirk Gently, the Rowdy 3 have taken up the habit of deliberately

entering Dirk’s life in moments where it will cause him the most emotional terror, and TURNING IT UP. ”

Source: The Dirk Gently Bible (by Max Landis).