[network/open] Receipts 2

[thedoctorsmate]

Who: Donna Noble
Username: supertemp
Warnings: character death, animal (rat) death, arson, hypersomnia, pica

((ooc: Everyone please feel free to threadjack around, have your characters respond to each other, rather than Donna! Her suggested groupings for different phenomenon may not be ICly correct, so please feel free to have your character correct/debate her on anything. She has also missed some events/happenings that she wasn't paying attention to or present for, so please feel free to fill in the gaps!))

Hello and welcome if you're new to Gloucester! If you're not, this is the second one of these I'm doing and we're making a bit cleaner. I've put the full notes I have in an attachment to this post. I'll just be updating with new stuff I've added for the most recent months and requesting everyone fill me in on details from recent months so I can add them to the guide for new arrivals. If you've got an idea what powers they're associated with, I'd love to hear it.

Also, there are notes here referencing Garner Cinderbrook. I'm broken up to bloody pieces about him dying. Wouldn't mind hearing about him from anyone else, if you knew him.

[Everyone will find SuperGuide.txt attached.]

A Guide to Supernatural Phenomenon in Gloucester - It's Kind of Awful

The most important place to know in town is Dogtown, a big park to the north in the city, surrounded by a fence. A LOT of weird phenomena seems to start there. Never enter alone, and try to keep people unaffiliated with ADI out. The place is getting weirder and more deadly by the day. Below, you'll find a header for each of the Entities. I've tried to group encounters with different phenomenon (and avatars) under a specific Entity header. Some of them are more debatable than others. Everything's subject to change with a greater understanding, and I'll be updating this regularly with new info. Phenomenon are listed in the order of the date we encountered it.

New in September:

Desolation

• The avatar Pyre may be back on his way to Gloucester. Or at least some sort of Desolation avatar who wants to circle around the area. Jaeger did some digging into recent news reports and found that there's a new trend of 'fire shots' going around that are causing fires. He's seen a few photos and has been able to track someone in a specific jacket heading toward Gloucester. It's not the same person every time, but the jacket seems to be the same.

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• Ava's graveyard music came back. Same effects as the year before, but people ended up going into full-on comas this time.

Spiral

• Garner had a previous conversation with Fenix Down (avatar for the Desolation) who said that some drawing by M.C. Escher was actually a cursed object that had hallucination-type effects. The tearabouts of the drawing are currently unknown. Possibly tied to a recent sale of an Escher art piece to some rich guy in California.

New in October:

End

• A few people went to investigate the Better Loaf Than Never bakery, which has been selling tombstone bread. Cortana found that a few rats she fed the bread to died a few days after eating it. She thinks they probably died of fear. Given what we saw later in the month with the place becoming weird and the owner locking himself into the bakery to keep baking... yeah. That bread was cursed.
  
• ADI brought in a specialist from Copernicus to train everyone on lucid dreaming in an effort to combat Ava. This time, the dreams seem to have been focused around turning people into avatars and experiencing the power can comes with inflicting nightmares on people. And probably killing them. Yelena was able to figure out that Ava was probably a girl named Amber from Wolf Trap, VA. The sleep attacks like we've seen started ten years ago after Amber was the only survivor of a house fire. When we finally encountered Ava/Amber in dreams people were able to pull her out of the dreams and discover she was actually a young woman. She killed Garner. ADI killed her.

New in November:

Flesh

• People have been eating weird things. Like, dangerously weird. Don't eat weird things. I caught Jessica in Admin trying to eat her stapler. She told me it was a croissant. Please stop eating anything you didn't get from a vending machine or someone in the canteen.

Comments

[haircaring]

Wow.

You're like CRAZY organized. There's so much stuff in here.

[thedoctorsmate]

There's a lot of stuff that's happened!
You see anything strange the last little while?
Oh!
I should've put something about that thing we had to deal with in the bog.
Eugh! How could I forget?

[haircaring]

Who could blame you? It sucks to remember.

I did have to deal with some like
evil twin stuff? Last month. Me and a friend of mine. Super weird.

[thedoctorsmate]

You're gonna need to elaborate.
Like... you, but with an evil mustache sort of evil twin?

[haircaring]

Like exact copies of us going around behind our backs trying to ruin our social lives. And also trying to kill us.

Which is like, good luck taking over my life after you were trying to mess up my entire reputation?

[thedoctorsmate]

Wait, wait, wait!
Okay, so, Becky in Accounting keeps accusing me of stealing her pens.
Like just walking up and taking them.
You're saying these things are just pretending to be us?
Bloody hell!
How do we get rid of them?

[haircaring]

Shit, be careful. That's probably gonna escalate.

...okay before I answer that I want to make it clear that these guys are SO not even human. This is full monster fighting territory.

[thedoctorsmate]

[That's an ominous way to start things off.]

If you're about to tell me I need to murder this thing...

[haircaring]

Talking didn't work. Trust me, we tried!

It got pretty self defense pretty fast.

[thedoctorsmate]

What about catching them and, I dunno, trying to figure out where they came from?
Maybe put them back there.

[haircaring]

If you want to try it and want some backup, sure?
Like maybe a different situation would go down differently. Or planning a trap and not walking into one. I don't know.

[thedoctorsmate]

I just can't really imagine being able to do that, you know?
Punching someone or kicking them to get them off.
But to kill someone?
A person who looks like you?
Just don't know that I could do that.

[haircaring]

[ There is. A pause. ]

Yeah.
I hope other Donna's cool. Seriously. Try all that diplomacy shit.
This place could use some non crappy endings to weird stuff happening.
Just be careful.

[thedoctorsmate]

Can't imagine she's particularly cool if she's trying to get me in trouble, but I'll... see what I can do.
Thanks for the intel, mate!

[haircaring]

No problem. Just be safe out there. The supernatural detective thing is cool but crazy dangerous.

[thedoctorsmate]

You don't have to tell me twice.
I'll stay safe.
You do the same!