[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

[clavesregni]

Caitlyn scowls. If it's random, that means there's nothing for her to figure out, no logic or deduction that can make it make sense. And, perhaps more importantly, randomness is much, much more difficult to stop.

"I thought you said in Dogtown that you were a queen."

She doesn't know what a temp is, or where Chiswick is, but she can guess from the context and Donna's tone that it's a menial job and a working class place. It doesn't change her opinion of Donna; Caitlyn's met queens, and she's much more impressed by Donna than by any of them. But she is curious.

[thedoctorsmate]

"That's... I mean before I started traveling. And I only met the prince because I was traveling with the Doctor." She lifts one hand in a half-shrug. "Wouldn't have happened if he left me back home. And he... it was complicated. I did become the queen. But it-" Donna bites her lip. "The prince needed me for something. That's why he wanted to marry me. He said he loved me, but I really don't know how much of that I believe. He needed a queen to sacrifice to death. I could've been anyone."

[clavesregni]

"Anyone can become a queen, if they're born to the right parents. Most of them are petty and dull, or manipulative, or warmongering. All they care about is accruing power and wealth for themselves, and they can't be bothered whether their people are homeless or starving."

She frowns intently at Donna.

"You'd be a better queen than any of the ones I've met."

[thedoctorsmate]

"Yeah?" Another half-shrug. "Only lasted a few weeks. Left my handmaidens with the tools they needed and the place became a Republic after the Doctor and I sorted the deal they'd got themselves locked into with some aliens. For the best, honestly. Rudolph and his mum weren't fit."

She takes a deep breath. "Anyway, that's enough sad old stories from me. Point of all this and what I was telling you before is just... just having a team is a good thing. Even if you didn't have one before and you're used to working alone. I wouldn't have survive in Goritania without my handmaids and the Doctor wouldn't have been able to figure out what was going on without them, either, I reckon. We've got a team here. Best to make use of it where you can."

[clavesregni]

Caitlyn nods.

"Yes, I'll. I shall endeavor to keep that in mind." It doesn't come naturally to her, and the idea of having people who want to work with her, who want to work, is certainly novel. But things are different here than they were back home, and she can try to remember that.