There once was K'Immie called Larca ...
Nope, I don't do limericks.
Mac ran into Immortal Larca in Peru n 1830, when Larca was posing successfully as a god, called interestingly enough, "The Decapitator." Mac's guide was sick, so when Larca sacrificed him, all the congregation got sick and started dying. Larca thought that sacrificing Mac might get him back in the good graces of his flock, but someone thought otherwise and wrecked the ceremony, enabling Mac to escape. Larca's fans turned on him and made his life unpleasant until he managed to escape.
In modern Seacouver, Larca is up to his old tricks, though with a new twist. He seeks out pre-Immortals and is there for their first death/resurrection, at which point he tells them he's God and they're angels, and they're to do his bidding. Without anyone to contradict this reasoning, they become his faithful servants. The fact that he punishes lack of faith with beheading makes the new converts a little more eager to please.
And what does God really want the angels to do? Kill Satan, of course. In case you can't tell the players without a program, the role of Satan is being played unknowingly by Duncan MacLeod.
Duncan is taking his run down the street when his is set upon by Larca's chosen angels. Mac is upset that they'd want to behead him on Holy Ground, and comes to the conclusion that someone has been messing with them.
Larca appears, looking like Jesus with white robes, long hair, and hands raised in benediction, and the mystery is solved, but not the problem. The angels believe Mac is Satan, and they are still out to kill him. One of the angels goes back to his old church to seek The Truth of the Matter, which brings the Reverend Thomas Bell into the story.
Bell allows Mac to talk to the angel, but the angel refuses to hear. Bell then demands to know the truth, and Mac introduces him to Joe. Bell decides that Mac is not Satan, a decision that seems all the more reasonable after he witnesses Larca beheading an angel and taking the Quickening.
Mac manages to lure Larca off Holy Ground and beheads him, then he joins Joe for drinks and discussion.
Questions:
1. Given the trouble Mac runs into when he runs outside, might he not consider buying a treadmill? The dojo could use one, anyways. Maybe a stairmaster, too. Time to upgrade the dojo?
2. Larca seemed a lot more benign to his followers as The Decapitator than as an ersatz Jesus. He seemed to suffer identity crises as he moved from one godhood to another. If he had survived the encounter with Duncan, what might his next act have been?
3. Is Larca mentally unbalanced or is he just an Immortal who takes every advantage? How does his godhood compare to that of Kamir?
4. We might take moment here to reflect on Duncan MacLeod's running, with sweat glistening off those legs, his move to grab the sword from the car, his look of semi-terror when he realizes the angels want to take his head right there on Holy Ground.
5. I think Reverend Bell bought the whole Immortal story way too easily. I think he would have been on the phone with his fellow preachers, and on his knees praying to make sense of it all, instead of calmly taking it all in with Joe. What do you think?