The following lengthy page gives a chronological order of events that occured in the Modern Fantasy character universe.
If you want to see the timeline for its sister universe, Trans in Barking, click here.
Phillip Lilac, an immortal fruit bat vampire, is confronted by a Templar Knight on the way home from a market. Using his silver tongue and intimidation, he manages to scare off the knight. He heads back to his manor before the sun rises, sharing the good news with his equally-immortal friend Xavier Kaster.
It's of note that during these times both immortal men lived under the names of Dives Tactus and Lucas Eternus respectively, however. Their more proper names wouldn't be adopted until the 21st century.
Sir Damien Wools-Fyre sacrifices his life to prevent his king from being assassinated. After the assailant is captured and killed by the rest of the king's men, Damien's body is layed to rest and tales are written of his bravery. His king lives to an old age and serves his people well thanks to the late knight's sacrifice.
The Grapeseed Jewel is created within a winery on the eastern coast of the country Centauri. Its flavor only improves further over time, while its availablility diminishes over time and their price tags soar in response. By the 2020s, only the most finest of CEOs can get their hands on the remaining wine bottles.
The Lightforce vigilante group is established in secret. They work diligantly for a better world, adapting to the times under their long-living leadership of a wizard individual named Vortex. A codename that would eventually stick as one's real name.
Due to equipment failure, a jetliner full of prestigious wizards crashes within the Ventricle of Polar Heart. It is impossible for humans of any kind to venture within the region's center, leaving the corpses and debris to decay under the beyond-ice-cold lake.
The life essences of the deceased wizards would free themself from their corpses, all joining together and then intertwining with the debris of the sunken jetliner. They would form themselves into a new magical articificial intelligence called MARGOT. As she begin to live her life in the Ventricle of Polar Heart, she took it upon herself to slowly build up a facility she would call Machina Nostra Innovations.
This process would take many decades, with the latter construction being handled by holographic and android employees that she creates as her technology and facility improved. By the time of the 21st Century, the facility and its countless robotic employees outshine anything a human could dream of in their science fiction novels.
Slowly but surely the workings of the secretive vigilante group Lightforce get murkier with each passing year. Only a few more decades remain before their heroic ideals fully melt away into more sinister equivalents.
Lightforce shifts its ideals from a secretive vigilante group looking to better the world, to a secretive militant group looking to control it instead. The original form of the group is mostly purged from history, though few remnants remain. Regardless, they hold strong to their new militant ideals and move their operations to the Skillet Frontier. Construction begins on their new homebase, known as Site 84. Their leader now takes on the title of General Vortex to further reflect the change.
Construction begins on the Seeds of Gold Casino in Lily Outskirts. Many residents of the then-quiet suburb protest the construction, though are powerless in actually stopping it.
The Ossium cult is established, focusing their belief on the blessings that consuming blood brought to them. They would be based out of the state of Illen, living and operating within the abandoned Ol' Vincent Library. Their reign would be cut by the end of the decade however, as Lightforce's leader General Vortex would kill every member. This gruesome event would haunt former Ossium member and protector Yuri Saint-Marie and prevent from ascending to the afterlife. She would live as a ghost in a mental hell that looked like the library, surrounded by shadows of every other member that was killed.
Authorities in Illen visit the Ol' Vincent Library, seeing the scorched remains of the abandoned library. It is unknown to them who started the arson, nor would they be able to identify the many remains present at the site. Fear of extreme hauntings would hold off any attempts to bulldoze and clean the site. Nature and snow would slowly take hold of the area over the decades that followed.
The Seeds of Gold Casino opens officially in Lily Outskirts, acting as the first casino in the state to exist outside of the northern city of Amaryllis. It attracts the attention of professional gambler Jackson Ethers, who becomes a regular a the establishment.
Phillip Lilac, an immortal fruit bat vampire, is attacked by a vampire hunter wearing the disguise of a peace-loving hippie. He successfully fends off the hunter, disposing of the body later with his equally-immortal friend Xavier Kaster.
It's of note that during these times both immortal men lived under the names of Oriole Plum and Jude Bixler respectively, however. Their more proper names wouldn't be adopted until the 21st century.
Burger Barn, a fast food chain focused on burgers, begins operating in the southwest of the Woven Republic. Some locations make themselves known in the desert lands of the Skillet Frontier.
Growing in unbelievable numbers and strength, Site 84 and its Lightforce units strongarm the Secure Trustees into working as a contractor for the militant group. In reality, the Secure Trustees are forced into allowing the militant group to carry on whatever plans it has in order to prevent threat of nuclear actions being taken on the country of the Woven Republic.
Famous professional gambler Jackson Ethers enjoys another night of striking it rich in the Seeds of Gold Casino, in the suburb of Lily Outskirts. Drunk outta his mind, he decides to hit the slot machines late in the night. A malfunction in one of the machines occurs, exploding right after he pulls the lever upon it. His arms are completely blown off immediately, with him collapsing dead from massive blood lost following this.
Following the death of patron Jackson Ethers, the Seeds of Gold Casino is shut down by authorities of Linked West. Attempts are made in the years that follow to demolish it, however reports of intensive hauntings scare off workers every time. It is eventually fully abandoned by the state entirely, deemed a lost cause for nature to deal with instead.
Nearing the end of the decade, Funky Friday's Celebratorium enact a new ruling for how their animatronic entertainers are managed. During the night hours when the building is closed, the machines are programmed to walk the premises. Most branches of the entertainment chain take up this ruling, however others find it to creepy and keep them in an offline state during this time instead. Either way, supposedly this is meant to keep the machine's joints 'limber' and help them update their pathing function.
The Vertigo Agency's Illen branch is established in the late '80s, situated deep within the cavernous Earth underneath the state. Their main focus is specializing in rather plain environmental sciences as they analyze the plants, fungi, and crystals that dot the cave system surrounding the facility.
Developer Sheena Foolie creates a game known as Journey of Bippo for the Field System I console. It's a side-scroller adventurer with tons of levels and basic upgrades for the player character. She makes a few copies of this due to lack of proper funds, and submits it to a game show in Downing, Woven Republic in hopes that others show interest.
Interest in Journey of Bippo is low, with many present at the show criticizing the game heavily. Only one fan, a wizard named Tommie Pinwheel, would love the game immensely. He wishes for her to make a sequel, but she doesn't have the money, time, nor motivation to pull off such a project. She gives him a copy of the game to take home, along with concept art and game ideas written on paper. The rest of the few copies are destroyed by Foolie as she gives up on making games.
Tommie Pinwheel uses his powers to enhance his personal copy of Journey of Bippo. The game becomes incredibly fun and addicting as a result. However, it has adverse effects on his body and mind. The game leaves his possession at one point, and is found sitting in an alley. It sees a string of owners over the decades that follow, cursing each on that comes in contact with it.
August 1995
August 25: Aurelia Ambrose is born. As she slowly grows up in the years that follows, she is groomed by her parents to be a vampire hunter just like themselves.
July 1997
July 16: Bailey and Bethany Quindell celebrate their shared 21st birthday together at their father's manor in Sweet-Kiss Oasis. A photo is taken of the sisters during this special moment. Two copies of it would be made, each one given to the respective sister to put away in safe personal keeping. Both copies would be preserved for decades to come.
During this year, the Vertigo Agency selects gym teacher and bachelor Miller Piedmont to take part in their first attempts at cloning humans. The project is successful, as three children are cloned through Miller's genes. Each child would grow at a normal pace for humans, though their personalities and appearances would differ drastically from themselves and their shared 'father'.
Despite the success, the project would prove too costly to intitate any further. The data is archived for the remaining days of the Vertigo Agency, before its demise by the hands of Site 84 and its Lightforce units. In turn, the fall of the latter years later would lead to the data falling into the hands of the Secure Trustees - the government for the Woven Republic. The Trustees would monitor Miller and his 'family' in secret from that point forward.
December 2000
December 23: A young Glory Fantasy experiences an encounter with the Flatwoods Monster cryptid. It makes its appearance in the woods outside her grandmother's home, darting to the sky and flying away soon after being seen.
March 2002
March 16: Réne Fairweather and her wife Glade O'Possum decide to leave the country of Boreal and take the family to the country of the Woven Republic to the south. Along with their children Marty and Ash, the family settles within the state of Opossum Valley.
A scientist at the Vertigo Agency, Jason Millveille, finishes a new build of his in-development MMORPG known as Project Marigold. It is the final update this game will receieve, never seeing a finished and proper release. It only currently supports single-player gameplay, with the rest of the world filled with barebones NPCs.
The FLICKERING STARDUST project is put in a resting state, with the artificial intelligence within named M.A.S.O.N. being disabled for nearly two decades.
The purge on the Vertigo Agency begins as part of an initative started in Site 84. Nearly all employees are murdered by Lightforce troops sent out by Site 84, under the orders of General Vortex. The Agency's headquarters on the west coast are the only facility to still be standing in a decent state, due to its cleaning measures that run for years to come. Other facility chapters however lay in either a ruined state or are totally destructed to the point you wouldn't even know anything was there.
Lucy Silksphere escapes the assault on the Vertigo Agency's headquarters by diving out of a window, falling to the sea below, and safely swimming to the shores of Linked West. She begins her descent into madness following this day, traveling east along the country.
Jason Millveille survives the purge on the Vertigo Agency, fleeing the Woven Republic and finding safety in Dewbreak Island under a new identity - Roger Clements.
Summer: Waever as a child visits Silver Creek Junction, Corrimet with her family as part of a vacation. She spends time there with a friend, who helps her explore gender identity through painting nails. It serves as a good memory to come for years, being the catalyst for her transitioning to a woman in later years.
Summer: A young Jenny Dillo spends a few hours at MARIGOLD SPLASH PARK! with her parents. This happens regularly each summer over multiple dates, with each time spent here being wonderful for the family.
Glory-Ridge Farms is invaded by aliens, with the husband of the farm killed by repeated laser-based gunfire. They take the wife (now a widow) hostage and use their machinery to carve multiple circular wounds into her back, before sending her back to her farm.
Attempting to treat her wounds, Mrs. Glory-Ridge is begged and pleaded by the nurses and doctor to keep her mouth shut about the event, fearing the worst if the authorities found out.
DoveHeart Games' team moves into a proper studio within Rubberneck Peak, following the success of their previous two games - Secret Pylon and Secret Pylon: Synthetic Twin.
Independent investigator Waever Nuelle explores a scoop, dubbing it Case 35-AB: The Putrid Spectrum of Waters Street.
Independent investigator Waever Nuelle explores a scoop, dubbing it Case 79-FJ: Howls in the Alley / Bubbling Dumpsters.
December 2010
December 10: Cinders Effigy, head of DoveHeart Games, brings an unknown cameraman into her team's studio in Rubberneck Peak. This acts as the first of many recordings made during the development of the studio's next game - PSYTANTALUS.
Each member of the DoveHeart Games' team is introduced to the camera, giving a basic idea of who they are and any fun facts about themselves.
January 2011
January 1: DoveHeart Games does a presentation breaking down early concepts for each drastically-different section of the upcoming game PSYTANTALUS. Each section spurred from a dream each team member had, alongside having its own visual and gameplay style to fit it.
July 2011
July 4: On the roof of their studio, DoveHeart Games' team and the accompanying cameraman watch the fireworks above the city. Depending on who you ask, they're either celebrating the country's birthday or the date the country's monarchy was established.
An immensely loud and bright surprise firework knocks the cameraman out, and they're soon checked on by the nearby game developers.
August 2011
August 19: Sydney DuBois of DoveHeart Games sits within the studio's kitchen, drunkenly rambling to the cameraman present. One of the topics discussed is the imp's frustration with an ex-girlfriend that wasn't happy to learn her boyfriend had a pussy. During this, Sydney realizes he's scared the cameraman and awkwardly tries to calm himself and them both down.
Sydney leaves for a moment to grab a bucket. With the cameraman's device still recording, the imp throws up in the bucket and then passes out on the floor. Unsure what to do, the cameraman turns off the kitchen's light and carefully leaves the studio for the night.
Alcohol is banned from the DoveHeart Games studio following this incident.
August 31: Ritchie Mavericks, an otter lad, passes away due to unknown circumstances. His mother has him buried in a grave at Flemmings Cemetery in Corrimet.
October 2011
October 31: In the early morning of Halloween, the cameraman for PSYTANTALUS' documentary explores the dark studio on their lonesome. During this exploration, they take a break to turn on and play an arcade game called REVENGE OF GLUBBULON-Z.
When heading out for the night, the cameraman accidentally bumps into and gets scared by Cookie Bridges. Awkwardly, the cameraman leaves as a frustrated Cookie goes on to their early morning shift.
February 2012
February 27: Bree Seeker and Cinders Effigy discuss the former's section of the PSYTANTALUS game. It confuses the latter, as the two begin to discuss stealth-based videogames from the past.
Sydney DuBois and Lucio Willows discuss the latter's game slice, giving suggestions here and there. They set the plans to find a way to transition between each other's game slices more smoothly and believably.
An argument breaks out between Bree and Cinders, as the two fight about whether or not the rat lasses' game makes sense. After getting insulted, Cinders gives into her anger and strikes the face of her employee. In an instant she regret it and feels dreadful, receiving a spit in the face in return.
As Bree storms off, Lucio goes after to check on her. In complete disbelief, Sydney leaves as well. Now just left with the cameraman, Cinders stammers through the tears about how ashamed she feels about what she did.
May 2012
May 14: After taking a test, Geneva Coleman finds out that she's pregnant. Her spouse and lover, Cookie Bridges, is over the moon in response and calls up coworker Rudy Tarmack to share the goods news.
May 15: In the early morning, Bree Seeker and Rudy Tarmack find themselves accidentally locked out of the DoveHeart Games studio. They shoot the shit outside until a locksmith show up.
Eventually they find out the cameraman has been sitting in their car nearby recording and not helping at all. This pisses the two off, as the cameraman scrambles to split the scene.
September 2012
September 24: During a late night shift at the DoveHeart Games studio, Lucio Willows has a breakdown. He tries to call up his mom for help, but it only ends in him freaking out further and straining his voice as he yells out in grief.
October 2012
October 1: Rudy Tarmack and the studio's hired cameraman work together to take out some trash. In the middle of this, the two are surprised by a woman named Dawn Pinhole,
Essentially, Ms. Pinhole blames the DoveHeart Games studio for causing trouble nearby with the recording sessions of her team's podcasts. Geneva Coleman and Bree Seeker come out to see what's going on, and soon this tense talk turns into a heated argument.
A nerve is struck when Dawn has the audacity to repeatedly insult the pregnant Geneva and her future child. It reaches a boiling point as the Mareep lass grows immensely furious with the constant rude comments. She's soon held back by Rudy and Bree, threatening to kill Dawn if she ever shows her face around here ever again.
While in highschool, Eileen Persimmon learns from her father that there is plans to move the two of them out of the Woven Republic, past the sea to its north, and into Boreal beyond that sea. Such move comes on the heels of the father being offered a government job in Boreal, working under the country's leaders - The Royal¹ Twins². However, such move plans upset Eileen greatly and in turn makes her father feel dreadful. Wanting the best for his daughter, Eileen's father cancels the move and in turn turns down the job offer.
February 2013
February 5: Geneva Coleman suffers a miscarriage, losing her daughter Viola in the process. She almost dies following this, but survives. Doctors claim its a miracle that she's still breathing.
A month later, the tense couple would attempt to head back to work despite this. It would only end as terribly as one could expect.
March 2013
March 3: Geneva Coleman has a nervous breakdown in the stairwell of DoveHeart Games' studio. Her spouse Cookie tries their damndest to calm her down. The grief of her miscarriage is practically eating her alive and making her suicidal as a result.
Cookie does everything in their power to comfort their wife and ensure she stays alive for many years to come. They both continue working on PSYTANTALUS, even if the path to recovery will still be a lengthy one.
April 2013
April 2: Bailey Quindell and her sister Bethany stand in a hospital room, looking upon their father who lays in what will soon be the bed he passes away on. In his final words, he tells each daughter that he's set aside a lot of cash for the two of them. He wishes that the two succeed him as mayor, acting in a joint role for the sake of Sweet-Kiss Oasis. As he finishes speaking his plans, he lets them know how proud he is of both and dies after a weak "I love you two to the Heavens and beyond it."
Both siblings enter a two-week process of both grieving in private and preparing for their roles as joint mayors of Sweet-Kiss Oasis.
April 17: The former mayor of Sweet-Kiss Oasis is officially announced to the public to have passed away. Plans to hold joint mayors succeeding him are scrapped however, as both of his daughters have emerged from their grieving quite different from their prior appearances.
Bethany Quindell acts rather sophisticated now, taking her role as the next mayor far, far too seriously. Her mannerisms and way of speaking reflect this change, baffling the rest of the Estate's employees around her. To make matters worse, Bailey Quindell now refers to herself as Bark Queen. She takes the changes her sister went through and puts her own Medieval Era-styled flair upon them. In a moment's notice she takes a flight out of Centauri, venturing towards the Woven republic with plans to 'start a kingdom' with her girlfriends there.
Nobody can explain why both sisters have changed, let alone why they now hate each other immensely. They settle with the solo mayor of Bethany and lose contact entirely with the 'Bark Queen' they once knew as Bailey. In her starting year as mayor, Bethany struggles to keep up with the work despite her serious attitude.
April 21: Bark Queen links up with her girlfriends, and outlines a plan for their futures. She pictures herself with a pretty-in-pink castle situated in a forest in Linked West, ruling as its queen. Next, she pictures her girlfriend Famous as a cult leader following the teachings of the deity Their Crimson. Lastly, she believes the future is set for her other girlfriend Shane to become a famous talk show host, using her fame and connections to aid her girlfriends in their own factions too.
It all sounds insane, which only entices the girlfriends to give this ungodly ambitious future a shot. It takes a lot of work and the late father's cash to make this all a reality, but the gals all pull it off by the time they work through the rest of the decade. Mayor Bethany Quindell is completely oblivious to this all during her rule over Sweet-Kiss Oasis in Centauri. It is unknown how their late father would react to these drastic changes in each daughter's life.
June 2013
June 7: Within the DoveHeart Games studio, Jeff Vincents of the In-Development Series conducts an interview with Cinders Effigy. The two discuss the game studio, its prior projects, and what can be expected with the upcoming PSYTANTALUS.
Cinders pulls off the ultimate blunder by telling the interviewer that the game will release at the start of October this year. It infuriates Sydney DuBois who watches the interview from afar. He storms off, with the noise of him slamming a door causing the interview to take an abrupt quick break.
Following the interview going public, more friction forms between Cinders Effigy and her team due to the false release date announcement.
Summer 2013
Summer: In her teens, Jenny Dillo spends the Summer watching her mother slowly die from an unknown disease. Her schoolwork plummets, not caring for anything aside from watching a fever eat her mother alive each night. Eventually the moment comes, with the mother passing in the middle of the night. The memories of this Summer would haunt Jenny for years to come.
August 2013
August 29: Lucio Willows and the studio's cameraman head outside at night for a smoke break. There, the two are greeted by Rudy Tarmack and soon enough the group takes a break together.
During some small talk, a connection is formed between Rudy and Lucio. It gets more intimate as the night goes on, and soon enough the two start making love on top of a dumpster. Following this night, the two official become a couple and eventually will move in together in the months that follow.
November 2013
November 2: A massive fight and slew of arguments occur between everyone at DoveHeart Games. Whether through violence or by hard words, it all boils down to PSYTANTALUS being the cause.
During this whole mess, incidents had occured of course. Sydney DuBois winded up getting knocked out cold. Lucio Willows was hit with a computer monitor, causing the screen to shatter and his arm to get cut up in return. Cinders herself has a black eye that's swollen shut, paired with a broken nose that is still leaking blood. Lastly, Bree has a bruised cheek alongside some teeth knocked out in the scuffle.
Eventually everyone is able to calm down, as the injured Cinders takes charge. She puts forth a discussion about just getting the game out and stringing together whatever's nearly finished. The project's grown too ambitious, and any more years spent perfecting it will only lead to more pain and trauma for all team members.
They all agree upon aiming for a Christmas release, though if it's missed than they'll make peace with the delay instead of freaking out.
December 2013
December 1: Bethany Quindell now fits in the role as mayor perfectly, having found the key to her success through constant training and increasing her diet immensely. She pushes this mentality onto her current employees, fattening them up in extreme degrees as she had done for herself the past few months. They adjust to the change well surprisingly, and Sweet-Kiss Oasis soon flourishes well following these changes.
December 24: On the morning of Christmas Eve, all of DoveHeart Games and the cameraman meet up in Cinders' personal office. There, they ready themselves as the public release of PSYTANTALUS is being uploaded to the public. Eventually it finishes, with Cinders readying a big speech thanking everyone for their hard work.
PSYTANTALUS is released online - a day early - onto digital storefronts, marking the third official release from the DoveHeart Games studio.
Opossum Valley Radio, a pirate radio station operating out of a traveling RV, begins broadcasting to the airwaves of Woven Republic. They specialize on reporting on strange occurances in the country, including topics such as ghosts, monsters, aliens, and even scary, unexplainable parts of nature. The mix between a chill cohost and a brash, swear-heavy loud one appeals to listeners immensely. They pay temporary representatives now and then to do their interviews with locals before reporting on their scoops.
June 2015
June 3: Missing the coldness of Boreal, Glade O'Possum and her wife Réne Fairweather move to the Woven Republic's state of Illen. While their daughter Ash joins them, Marty O'Possum decides instead to stay in Opossum Valley with her then girlfriend (now wife) Avalon Boyer.
December 2015
December 12: After turning 18, Ash O'Possum moves out of her parent's household in Illen and ventures out of the country of the Woven Republic entirely. She, along with her partner (now spouse) Ferris 'Neil' Porter settle in a small home in Windpeak, Centauri. From that day forth, they spend their time together doing parkour stuff, street art, and creating zines made from old magazines.
Waever Nuelle and Zeph Nixie visit Lake Mellows in Silver Creek Junction, investigating sightings of something strange being seen within the lake. Nothing was ever seen, and the two chalk it up to be an elaborate prank by children played on adult locals in area.
January 2017
January 11: Acolyte Autumn is given the task by his cult's leader, Famous Prophette, to kill an individual wandering outside sort of near the hideout's entrance. Reluctantly, he ventures into the cold and snowy forest with a machete.
Darcy Telfone wanders through the northern forest of Linked West, dazed and confused after a night of partying. She has no idea to get home, and soon finds herself ambushed and tackled by Acolyte Autumn. She almost winds up getting killed, but Autumn loses his nerve and throws his weapon towards a tree instead. He lets go of Darcy, and falls back into the snow crying his eyes out.
Darcy convinces Autumn to escape his cult with her, taking him in for awhile until he's able to get back on his feet. They do their best together as new friends to hide from the BONEZONE cult, going as far as to change their names too. They both have an interest in disc jockeys, and decide that said names should reflect that. Darcy Telfone and Autumn Ferry become DJ DUMMY TUMMY and DJ FALL FOOTWEAR respectively.
January 31: Dusty Crest Lake in Corrimet, Woven Republic starts experiencing an strange phenomenon. Crater-sized holes begins forming in the lake, showcasing only the black voids within. The water levels of the lake are undisturbed somehow, but poor wild fish sometimes get pulled within the holes.
February 2017
February 1: Furnishings of the Friendly Man in Fort Crisp, Opossum Valley has sightings of non-human and shadowy demons haunting the rafters of the warehouse.
February 5: Glory-Ridge Farms in Corrimet, Woven Republic is investigated by the Secure Trustees on claims of alien activity. Crop circles can be seen formed in the fields, along with unexplainable circular scars found on the widow who owns the farm.
February 6: Opossum Valley Radio sends their own contracted employee to investigate the alien events at Glory-Ridge Farms. Later in the day, independent investigator Waever Nuelle conducts her own investigation, unfamiliar with her new competitors.
February 9: Opossum Valley Radio sends their own contracted employee to investigate the non-human, shadowy demon sightings at Furnishings of the Friendly Man. Later in the day, independent investigator Waever Nuelle conducts her own investigation.
February 10: An unknown nature agency affiliated with the Secure Trustees arrives to Dusty Crest Lake, and they begin to record information about the area's strange phenomenon.
February 14: In the morning, an unknown nature agency affiliated with the Secure Trustees finishes their analysis of Dusty Crest Lake's crater-sized holes. It is unknown what this date consists of, let alone what it contributes to. Their former presence is only learned about later that day by third party investigators.
Opossum Valley Radio sends their own contracted employee to investigate the crater-sized holes forming in Dusty Crest Lake. Later in the day, independent investigator Waever Nuelle conducts her own investigation.
February 15: Around noon, the independent investigator Waever Nuelle takes a break from her work to spend time with her friend Zeph Nixie in a forested area near Lancesler, Opossum Valley.
Jersey De'Ville and her wife DJ KEROSENE spend their day off eating at a fancy restaurant that servers pizza. During a trip to the restroom, the cyborg KEROSENE takes off her mechanical face and feels the void that it leaves behind in the carved-in fleshy face. It scares the shit out of a random woman leaving a stall nearby.
In the late night, a meteor crashes into the cottage of a woman living within the Nilbrook Mountain Chain. She's unharmed thankfully, though most of the house is severely damaged by the impact.
February 19: Both a representative of Opossum Valley Radio and Waever Nuelle visit the Nilbrook Mountain Chain's lone cottage at the same time accidentally. They investigate the meteor that crashes, discovering a tiny flame-based alien in the process. It is quickly trapped within a jar, with the Radio's representative running off with the specimen in anger.
Later in the night, the representative makes a call from an college lecture hall. Afterwards he successfully delivers the alien specimen (and its jar container) to Opossum Valley Radio.
February 23: Waever Nuelle and her friend Zeph begin investigating how to get in contact with Opossum Valley Radio, hoping to confront the hosts in person at some point.
February 25: Waever Nuelle heads to Memory-Oak Forest in Opossum Valley, meeting a couple of snow leopard husbands (Adam and Luther) camping out there. They describe to Waever seeing a cryptid that is a beast made up of multiple animal parts.
A young Pharo Lou-Blanke and a bunch of classmates from a college fraternity attempt to kill the beast lurking in Memory-Oak Forest. They severely wound it, but it survives and winds up killing everyone but Pharo. The lone red wolf hitchikes to make his way home, forever traumatized by the event. He soon drops out of college, beginning a trend of self-destruction, depression, and suicidal attempts.
Waever, Adam, and Luther flee the forest amid the gunfire and beastly roars. They eventually drive off to Zeph's house. Here the two husbands spend some time at the squirrel's house until they get back on their feet. However, this eventually turns into a permanent living situation as the three transmen become super close friends.
Opossum Valley Radio reports on the cryptid sightings later in the day.
March 2017
March 12: At midnight, a dreadfully late show takes place at the Red Marbleback Theater in Opossum Valley South. Madmen storm the stage at one point, spewing fire from their mouths towards the performers and crowds alike. They are never caught, due to the theatre's strict no-phone policy. Business following the theatre plummets, taking months to even begin to recover.
Later in the day, Waever Neulle investigates the event on her own, seeking the assistance of the stage's performers Jane Jindowe and her spouse Mal Monroe.
After Waever leaves, Opossum Valley Radio sends in their own representative to do their own investigating. They are paid double for their service, due to having to interact with the obnoxious jester and mime spouses.
Nearing midnight, Waever is called to Zeph's home to see an assumed alien device. The device is used as a bargaining tool with Opossum Valley Radio, with a meeting being set up at an abandoned drive-in theater nearby. She brings the device to Marigold Cinema, is threatened in hiding by someone representing Opossum Valley Radio, and is then not only knocked out but also kidnapped by that same person.
March 13: Early in the morning Waever Nuelle has a near-death experience, almost being killed with a chainsaw by her kidnappers. She bravely accepts her death and blacks out, only to find out she was never going to be harmed in the first place. When she is freed, it is revealed the two hosts of Opossum Valley Radio were screwing with her to see how freaked out she would get.
Later in the day, Waever Nuelle is informed that the past few days were all part of surveillance and trickery done by the radio station. They apologize for going so hardcore, assuring the badger that they meant no real harm. The former alien device is found out to be fully manmade, as part of such trickery. In addition, the previous flame-based alien was safely sent back to the stars by Opossum Valley Radio. After further talking, they form a short friendship of sorts.
Waever Nuelle recieves a kiss from Jersey De'Ville, before she is dropped off at her apartment in Opossum Valley proper. She would never see the radio hosts in-person again for at least 3 years.
May 2017
May 9: Having lived with each other for some time, DJ DUMMY TUMMY and DJ FALL FOOTWEAR wind up dating each other. Wanting to really live up to their names now, both become actual disc jockeys and are quite successful as the years going on. Bouncing from show to show helps ease their worries of ever being found by the BONEZONE cult.
June 2017
June 23: While surfing with friends, Julie Mercury is hit by a massive and quite deadly wave. It takes a long time for her to surface, and the waves only get deadlier by the second. Unable to reach her, many of her friends assume she drowned.
Despite everything, Julie Mercury surfaces to the top of the water alive and well. However, it becomes quite noticable that her appearance is now akin to a massive sphere, as her entire body is inflated extremely. The waves bring her to the shore, where she rolls for a bit before being stopped by her friends.
Late into the night, Julie Mercury is checked into a big hospital and monitored for the next few days. During this time, any attempts to deflate her prove futile. Her bodily totally ignores any serums, magical assistance, tools, etc.
Thinking that her own life might have been saved due to Her Divine's efforts, Julie Mercury enters a lax religious life where she follows the beliefs of the goddess.
June 27: Doctors are certain at this point that Julie Mercury now qualifies as a permablimp. In addition, they fine heavy amounts of magical essence residing within her body now. However, they urge her to not dabble into it until she's had time to settle with her new form. She is carefully discharged from the hospital and taken in by a friend that helps house her new massive self.
August 2017
August 2: While living with a friend, Julie one day attempts to dabble with her powers. She learns quickly that she's quite well at levitating objects with her paws. Her friend is amazed, and encourages her to test out the spells more and more. It becomes clear that she can pull off a lot of tasks through magic alone despite being a permablimp. Word of Mercury now spreads to the eastern end of Centauri, in Sweet-Kiss Oasis.
Mayor Bethany Quindell quickly reaches out to Julie Mercury and her friend, wanting to do anything she can to help out the lemur lass. It's decided that a home will be constructed in Emerald Rise that will suit the size and needs of the permablimp lass perfectly. The Mayor stresses that it will be fully paid for on her behalf, though Julie still takes up a job as a call center representative for Wirestone Solutions despite that.
A construction team is sent out to Emerald Rise, and they work hard and long to build Julie's new home. A few wizards are enlisted to help speed up the process.
November 2017
November 20: Julie Mercury moves into her new home by herself. It's location and ammenitites prove vital in making sure she not only has an easy time taking care of herself, but that she gets the privacy from the public that she yearns for. She's happy just being a humble call center represntative, not a popular permablimp that evaded death.
The goddess Her Divine watches over Julie from afar. She's thrilled to see her plans work out well, and indirectly gains more influence within Centauri through Mercury.
Wintertime 2017
Winter: Working a shift at a restaurant, Jenny Dillo recieves a call that her father has been in a terrible accident. She drops to her knees, crying up a storm. After she's barely calmed down, one of her coworkers drives her to the hospital so she can visit her father for the last time. The sight of his mostly-bandaged body would haunt her even worse than the fever-stricken mother from years prior. Her father would pass later that same night, leaving Dillo with neither of her parents now as she moved into her young adulthood life.
Jenny drops out of college and bunks with a friend for the rest of the Winter and the following year. She then spends time living with her friends Smoltz and Transqueen in Opossum Valley, until she's able to buy her own place in a small, cheap apartment complex.
November 2018
November 30: Marty's grandfather prepares a buttercream cake for his granddaughter's wedding. Her mom Glade attempts to enter the kitchen now and then to help, but is shooed out. In response, Marty's grandmother Eileen would laugh a hearty laugh that she mastered her youth as a sailor.
December 2018
December 1: Marty O'Possum and Avalon Boyer get married in a church out in Illen.
February 2019
February 3: Marty O'Possum's grandfather passes away peacefully in his sleep. It's not much of a surprise to the family, he was getting up there in years. A small funeral is held near his home in Boreal.
April 2019
April 21: Astronomer Pyra Merritt heads out of Lake-Point's Observatory in Illen to venture southward with a team towards the Skillet Frontier. Their joint goal together is to observe the stars that shine above those desert lands and record everything they can.
April 23: Pyra and her team are guided by cowboys throughout the Skillet Frontier, with everyone traveling upon domesticated horses.
June 2019
June 15: Gym teacher Ferra Jaelynn runs into some car trouble on the way home from a trip. Stuck near the northern woods of Linked West, he attempts to call a tow truck but winds up getting mysterious individuals. It's a hectic fight, with the individuals spitting on Ferra and running away near the end of it. Back on his feet, Ferra begins to head into the forest to track down his assailants.
Near the front gate of the Kingdom of Bark Queen, Ferra catches up with his assailants and beats the ever-living hell out of them. Archers upon the castle walls prepare their crossbows, but are told to stop immediately by the Queen herself. She ventures out of the castle and comes face to face with Ferra. A discussion is had, and the Queen uses her silver tongue to persuade the gym teacher to quit his job and work for her instead.
Ferra begins his training as a proper knight of Bark Queen's castle. He enjoys the constant combat and makes the most of his new living situation. Over the next two years he rises up the ranks and becomes the head knight of Bark Queen's forces. His past life never catches up with him, with relatives and past coworkers assuming that he merely went missing and died somewhere.
Waever Nuelle leaves Opossum Valley and begins her journey to one of three locations she's decoded from an old letter given to her by Jersey De'Ville. In the midst of this journey, she travels across the Woven Republic, utlizing truckers and kind civilians to carry her along the roads that lie ahead.
May 2020
May 2: Entertainer brothers Julius and Lionel Starstruck venture north of St. Befree towards a strange church in the mountains. Venturing inside, they learn the private gig they were booked for turns out to be a trap. Both get knocked out by the mad scientist Lucy Silksphere and her chimera asssitant / wife Jennifer Doolie. Lionel wakes up later, finding himself strapped to a metallic table tight. Soon he gets zapped by tons of lasers above, finding his form turned from a potoo lad into a sock puppet lad.
In the midst of the experiment, Julius Starstruck manages to break free from his chains. Fueled with rage, he beats the ever-living hell out of the mad scientist and assistant. Quickly rescuing his brother, the two get out of there safely and keep a low profile for the next week. By the time the scientific wives wake up, they accept their losses and move onto other experiments that don't require live subjects.
May 11: Julius and Lionel Starstruck resume their comedic shows, despite the fact the latter is a sentient sock puppet now. It works in their favor surprisingly enough, as the new form and same old jester style pairs together nicely. Outside of the shows, Julius does his best to help Lionel adjust to his new life just fine. The bond of the brothers only grows stronger with time!
May 20: Victory Ethers heads to their favorite shooting range in Linked West's southern region. They use their recent money for deals to really make the most of the long session. During this, a Kingdom of Bark Queen archer in plain clothes begins to chat up the slimy Leafeon. One thing leads to another, and Victory winds up taking a job at the castle as an archer.
Their skills prove to suit the job far too well, as they rise up the ranks quickly. Eventually they wind up being the head archer, training the novices and leading groups in exercises within the adjacent forests.
June 2020
June 15: On the anniversary of DJ KEROSENE and Jersey De'Ville's marriage anniversary, Waever Nuelle makes her appearance in the Woven Republic's southwest. Chatting with the two radio hosts, she affirms that she wants to travel with the two and form a relationship in the process. It's fully accepted, and a whole new set of adventures for the three lovebirds is started.
A Mr. Elleners is hired by the Kingdom of Bark Queen to travel to an island that hosts the former headquarters for a science facility known as the Vertigo Agency. Alongside being wired cash, he is threatened with assassination by the Queen's hired sniper if he doesn't fulfill the order. It is done as a facade however, as the secondary plan is to get him to farm information from the Nebula Order & Education afterwards under a semi-witness protection type-deal. It's truly amazing how Bark Queen and her associates can conjure up a convulated plan such as this, and for what results is anyone's guess.
July 2020
Sometime July: Benny Coalescene begins working as a mechanic for Site 84, a military-aligned facility hidden under the sands of the Skillet Frontier. It is unknown how she pulled off getting such a secretive career.
Lorrie Schearz begins her work as a personal assistant for Shane De'Blaine, talk show host. Alongside this, she is given the secondary role of scouting for the Kingdom of Bark Queen's leader, Bark Queen. It's a odd an jarring task, but Schearz puts up with it not only due to the pay but also her inner determination to let nothing phase her. Especially no matter how weird or even illegal..
August 2020
August 15: The Nebula Order & Education sends two of their employed wizards - Marty O'Possum and Presto Momento - to investigate a strange building that rests on an island off the coast of Linked West, Woven Republic. Here they get captured by security systems within an abandoned science facility known as the headquarters to the Vertigo Agency. After experiencing horny mischief that expands the two wizards' bodies temporarily, they stumble into an individual known as Mr. Elleners.
It is learned Mr. Elleners was employed by a woman known as Bark Queen to investigate the facility and take whatever remaining research it has. This only partially pans out, as Mr. Elleners is taken in by the Order as part of a protective initative. If he were fully let off without invervention, he may have risked being assassinated by the Queen's hired sniper.
This begins the investigation of the defunct Vertigo Agency, leading to a whole slew of mysteries and adventures for the Nebular Order & Education to partake in.
Bark Queen uses the following period of semi-witness protection of Mr. Elleners to farm information of the Nebula Order & Education. She eventually is able to find a backdoor into the wizard faction's servers through this method, and passes it onto her hired hacker.
September 2020
September 5: The movie and television director Sockbuppey Fluffsnoot endures a major dissociation episode, leading to hallucinations of areas far from her home in Opossum Valley. She is found laying on the beach of Memory-Oak Forest by her spouse, Lenore Spire. Taken back into the house, she begins a process of healing from her trauma that's built up over her youth.
November 2020
November 22: Many employees of the Nebula Order & Education are sent to the former headquarters of the Vertigo Agency, a mysterious science facility lost to time. They begin combing through whatever information lays on the facility's servers, alongside dismantling the building and returning the island to its natural state.
Devin Laurence, an employeed wizard of the Nebula Order & Education, finds a personal videogame project saved onto the servers of the Vertigo Agency. He saves it to a removable drive, intending to pass it onto his son Clyde.
November 27: Devin Laurence visits his son Clyde, gifting him with a copy of unfinished MMORPG he found during his investigations at work. The unfinished game is known as Project Marigold (2003 Build).
Clyde Laurence begins exploring the unfinished build of Project Marigold. A former player profile known as BL4D37R1X is noticed, but the beaver lad opts to make his own character instead to start the game fresh.
BL4D37R1X, a character within the 2003 build of unfinished MMORPG Project Marigold, wakes up from a long slumber and goes about his life within the game. Due to former technology that sat within the computer that the game build was originally created in, it is made clear quickly that BL4D37R1X has gained some form of sentience.
During a playthru of Project Marigold, Clyde and BL4D37R1X somehow both recognize the living presence of each other. A sort of relationship is budding between the real beaver and the digital gator.
December 2020
Middle of December: The relationship between the real life beaver lad Clyde and digital gator BL4D37R1X is made known to the wizard Devin Laurence. It is at this moment that BL4D37R1X starts referring to himself as Jason Millveille, a name belonging to the former scientist the created him.
Seeing the importance of his son and the digital gator's relationship, Devin begins formulating a way to bring Jason into the real world.
Devin Laurence begins a trip back towards the headquarters of the former Vertigo Agency. He enlists the help of his friend Stardew Lucky, who takes the two across the water by boat.
Devin Laurence returns to the server room of the Vertigo Agency, or at least what's left of it before the building is fully demolished by the Nebula Order & Education. Here he begins a process of mixing together leftover technology and his own magical essence to bring the digital Jason Millveille into the real world. It works, at the cost of catching the attention of coworker Carmichael Kentz who is furious.
Carmichael Kentz brings his coworker Devin Laurence, Devin's son Clyde, and Clyde's now physical partner Jason to a secret interrogation area present within the Nebula Order & Education. He attempts to grill and chew out Devin, but is struck back with brave resistance and anger from Devin. Carmichael backs down, letting his coworker go free and not interfering with the relationship of Clyde and Jason.
Jason Millveille - the current, young, and polygonal iteration - is brought to the labs present within the Nebula Order & Education. He is examined by the magically-inclined scientists there, hoping to understand how his digital form can exist within the real world with no connection to any sort of computer. This research is logged in the Order's archives, with the wizards sending Jason back home to his partner Clyde afterwards back in Thomson's Way, Linked West.
December 19: Aurelia Ambrose's mother is jailed after being caught attempting to murder a whole family she falsely claimed were vampires. In the months that followed, the mother would attempt to fight every other inmate she could, thinking they were accomplices to vampires.
December 22: Glory spends yet another night trekking the deserts of the Skillet Frontier, in hopes of finding alien life in the skies above. It proves fruitless, as usual.
December 24: With not a care in the world for any Christmas Eve celebrations, Glory Fantasy is tipped off about a secret facility under the sands of Skillet Frontier. Following the information given her to by her friends at Opossum Valley Radio, she heads out to meet a former employee that'll get her inside the mythical Site 84.
McKenzie Florence, a former janitor of Site 84, meets up with Glory Fantasy at a secluded gas station at night. She gives what information she can about her previously workplace, Site 84, along with some credentials and a uniform. As soon as Fantasy heads off, so does Florence as she prepares to go into hiding from her former employers for a long time.
Glory Fantasy arrives at the abandoned Runesbrook Trainstation, the site that lays above the entrance to Site 84. After taking a quick pit stop at the nearby Burger Barn, she ventures into the trainyard and finds a secluded maintenance shaft with a keypad on the wall. After successfully entering the code, she knocked out by a surprise security guard. Her minds races through fever dreams before she awakes in the morning.
December 25: On Christmas morning (a couple minutes past midnight), Glory Fantasy is awoken by a security guard stationed at the underground entrance to Site 84. She is given a rundown of the facility by the guard, seeing the many military-focused projects within the facility. Nothing alien-related, that's for sure.
While bullshitting a work shift, Glory runs into a mechanic named Benny Coalescence. She takes up the mechanic on the offer for cleaning up the server room, hoping in the process she can smuggle home some alien-related documents.
Whilst 'cleaning' Site 84's server room, Glory finds a artificial intelligence project named FLICKERING STARDUST. She downloads it to a USB, keeping it safe within her pockets until she can return home. She leaves the facility, having some final chatting with Benny along the way.
After being knocked out on her departure from Site 84, Glory Fantasy supposedly was found dazed in a sleepwalking-like state. The motel owner helped her return home safely following that, waking her up proper in the afternoon.
Glory Fantasy plugs in the FLICKERING STARDUST-filled USB stick into her laptop. It awakens (and frees) an artificial intelligence named M.A.S.O.N. The AI lemur learns not only was he put in a sleeping state for almost two decades, but also that his owners shifted from the Vertigo Agency to Site 84.
Before any further information can be learned from Mason's internal server, he destroys the USB stick and tells Glory that they have been tracked to the motel they're in. They steal a car in the parking lot and drive off into the desert together, free from the angered Site 84 / Lightforce officials that have now locked down the hotel and taken in civilians for interrogation. A sad ending for a past home, but an exciting future laid ahead for the new duo of friends.
M.A.S.O.N. aims to better blend in with the modern, living world by changing his name to purely Mason. A simple change, but an impactful one nonetheless.
January 2021
January 19: After working for both Shane De'Blaine and Bark Queen for six months now, Lorrie Schearz has proven loyal enough that the two wives (and their third wife Famous ProphetteFamous Prophette) are ready to properly welcome her into the fold. As part of this welcoming, Lorrie is given a bundle of ten final tasks to prove that she's ready for a more intense world ahead. Each task works in the interests of both bosses and the cult leader, advancing each factions many goals.
January 20: Lorrie takes on the first of her ten tasks ahead, the first of which is practically escorting (off-duty) court jester Broadcast Symphony around Linked West. Practically an easy starter task, made more instant by the fact Broadcast breaks into Lorrie's apartment to begin the escorting.
Lorrie and Broadcast travel around the state together, visiting a mall and later a strip club. After being fully satisfied at said club, Lorrie drives the wacky swan jester back to Bark Queen's castle. This is the first time Lorrie properly sees the castle that her second boss operates from.
January 21: Lorrie continues on with her tasks on behalf of Shane and her¹ wives². She visits a candy shop in Carnation Grove named Bewitching Confections. Here she meets the Charmante siblings, Mixxy and Louie. After introducing herself and giving a codephrase dedicated as an order request, Mixxy and Lorrie head downstairs into the shop's storage.
Mixxy gives a better idea of her work to Lorrie, both for the shop and Bark Queen. Before giving the goods Bark Queen requested, the candied supplier suprises Lorrie with a kiss as well as a business card with her personal number scrawled on it.
Hooked from the first encounter, Lorrie begins seeing Mixxy Charmante more often during each other's free time. After some time, the two officially hook up as girlfriends.
January 23: Lorrie Schearz partakes in a magical endurance test crafted by Bark Queen's archwizard Ethan Riles. She's put to sleep, entering the test's simulation through her dreams that Ethan controls back in the waking world. It's terrifying, leading to fever dream-like experiences as she's almost killed within it. She eventually survives the test, waking back up in the real world. Tired but triumphant, she heads home.
January 24: Heading to a butcher's shop named Little Valley's Choice Cuts, Lorrie begins another task she was assigned. There she meets the butcher Alec Jetlag, and travels with them into the back chop shop of sorts to pick up an order. She's completely dumbfounded upon seeing a corpse in the back, being drained of its blood. Before she can do anything further, she's knocked out and abducted.
Once concious again, Lorrie Schearz wakes up in the BONEZONE Cult's hideout, in the northern forest of Linked West. Realizing who she's dealing with, she calms down as she's been told about the cult and its leader before by her two bosses. She forms a quick friendship with the eccentric leader, Famous Prophette, who in turn regards Lorrie as "more precious then diamonds and marrow intertwined". This task done as a way to introduce Lorrie to the BONEZONE Cult in-person, and see if she was fearful of them. Of course she was not, perhaps due to her own blossoming fucked-up nature within..
January 26: Lorrie Schearz heads out to an abandoned church in the state of Scorsborro. Amongst its ruins, she finds a spirit named Sleepy Voltz haunting it. She holds strong against the attacks put forth by the ghost, eventually convicing Sleepy to bargain with here. With a bit of good talking, Lorrie convinces Sleepy Voltz to trade the abandoned church for a war bunker somewhere near Burrowspeak Valley in the state. Once freed of the haunts, the BONEZONE Cult visits the church now and then for their blood-fueled rituals.
January 27: Ferra Jaelynn, lead knight for the Kingdom of Bark Queen, spars with Lorrie Schearz in the dungeon as part of a training session. It proves fruitful, with both sparring partners getting in a lot of great shots on each other with the blood to show for it. Through this, Lorrie learns how to better take advanatage of situations where she is unarmed.
The sparring sessions and other training regiments become regular in the future, helping Lorrie to keep her weight in check despite her partner Mixxy tempting her with sweets regularly.
January 28: Thomas De'Blaine takes Lorrie Schearz with him on a meeting, hoping to score more advertising revenue for Shane's talk show. It almost falls apart, when the sponsor (a woman named Turner Major) rejects the deal entirely. Tired of getting disrespected by the sponsor, Lorrie grabs a letter opener on the desk and uses it threaten the woman into giving Shane more advertising. It works, with Thomas and Lorrie walking out triumphantly.
Lorrie's true self is beginning to show after six months of working with Shane De'Blaine and Bark Queen, along with the odd tasks recently and ahead. Thomas doesn't even hesitate to call her psychotic, despite working in their favor today. It is unknown what murkiness lays in Schearz life prior to all these encounters.
January 31: In the town of Little Valley, Linked West, Lorrie Schearz makes contact with Bark Queen's personal hacker known as Plastic Dottrix. She is debriefed about a handful of information pertaining to the Vertigo Agency, the Nebula Order & Education, and Site 84. Finally, she's given information related to her upcoming final task ahead.
February 2021
February 1: Destiny Lucky and Lorrie Schearz team up on an operation focused on assassinating a politician named Mr. Prismine. After reaching the politician's island by boat, Destiny stays out of sight circling the island now and then while Lorrie heads inside. The tapir lass plays the role of a maid arriving for her shift to a major party held in the island's manor.
During the party, Lorrie successfully propositions the politician for some sex in his private bedroom. Before that can happen however, she leads him to the bedroom's balcony with a perfect view of the water below. From her boat, Destiny executes a perfect headshot on the politician as he leans against the balcony. It's an instant kill, with Lorrie left to stash the body in the bathroom.
Lorrie leaves the mansion through the balcony access, landing into Destiny's arms far below. You can only imagine how strong this assassin must be to handle a catch that far up so well! Before they leave the island's perimeter, Destiny triggers a bomb from a remote she holds on the boat. The explosive itself goes off in the politician's private bathroom, absolutely destroying his corpse in the process and causing panic within the mansion. The duo escapes by sea successfully, completely unnoticed from the authorities approaching the island following the explosion.
February 2: Lorrie Schearz, having finished all her assigned tasks over the past two weeks, meets all three¹ villain² wives³ in person. It is here, upon the stage of Shane De'Blaine's talk show, that she is welcomed into the trio's fold by both her bosses and Famous Prophette.
It is at this moment that Lorrie finally has let the evil groomed within her blossom, letting the madness intertwine itself into her daily work life fully. She will be warped by it further as time goes on, whilst still maintaining the perfect facade in her public life.
April 2021
April 8: A team of wizards are sent out to the coast of Westburry, Linked West. Marty O'Possum, Presto Momento, and Orville the Loyal are tasked with taking care of a monstrous and huge kraken that is attacking the poor coastal town.
A second team of wizards are dispatched by the Nebula Order & Education, though for a completely different task. Carmichael Kentz and Aberdeen Fritz are sent to the cold caverns of Illen's mountains, joining up their coworker Maria Ulmahn along the way. A set of weather-ready clothing is dispatched to the group by teleportation.
While the second team explores the cavern, Marty O'Possum of the first team is almost swallowed alive by the kraken. She is spared however, as one of the twelve gods intervenes and teleports her outside the beast. Comically, she is then slammed by one of said's beast tentacles soon after.
The second team stumbles upon an abandoned and decrepit facility deep within the Soft-Spoken Caverns. It appears to be a remnant of one of the Vertigo Agency's many facilities that are dotted across the Woven Republic. Through the exploration of the facility, they find a server that still is powered and functioning. Carefully they extract it best they can without disturbing volatile fungus nearby.
The first team of wizards successfully defeat the kraken, taking one of its eyeballs as proof of the victory. They begin heading home.
With unfortunate comedic timing, the second team is still exposed to fungal trouble on the carefully extract server itself. They find themselves gaining extreme amount of weight due to the released spores. They begin the long, heavy, and grueling return back to the Nebula Order & Education.
Both wizard teams turn in their assignments, with the latter heading to the Order's medical wing in order to begin working off that extreme, temporary weight incurred back in the infested and decrepit facility.
The Director, leader of the Nebula Order & Education, makes a call to its friend Ezekiel Jetstream. A plan is made for the cyborg skunk to utilize it's own cybernetics to not only unlock but begin decrypticing the contents of the recovered Vertigo Agency server.
Due to horny curiousity, Aberdeen Fritz is given some recommendations by her doctor about a potential practice, town, and organization to consider all looking into if she wishes to experiment with expansion more in the future. All this vague information exchanged between the two is a private matter only for Aberdeen and her wife Ellora Showtime to experience together off-screen.
April 13: Aurelia Ambrose's mother passes away in prison, following a deadly fight with the warden.
April 22: Chelie Spritz can be seen teaching her class of clowns, mimes, and other clown-adjacent amateurs in Shenanigan-Spirit University. The session boils down to what it takes to properly work on your mischevious profession. An assignment is given to the college students, where they must document each part of their own entertainment identities they wish to partake in as a future career.
April 24: Ellora Showtime, a professional mime, enjoys her day-off at her townhouse home in Greater Lane Heights, Pembroke. Relaxin' activities she partakes in this day include gardening, making a couple of sandwiches, and watching some television. Later, her combat mage wife Aberdeen Fritz returns home from work all dusty and bruised. The two cuddle up on the couch, having a delightful rest of their day and night together.
April 30: Elliot Loosie flies out of Linked West and into Pembroke for a short vacation. During the first day of the vacation, they stop in the city of St. Befree to have a romantic night with a mime named Clef Anaphora. Sex is had that night and the partridge in absolutely wowwed by the sergal's moves during it. They order food and take it easy for the rest of the night, enjoying the shared afterglow.
May 2021
May 1: Melbrook Kinwood and her partner Thrash Ensemble take a three-week vacation in Silver Creek Junction, Corrimet. They settle in at a hotel known as the Golden Willow Suite. It's nice to take a break from the West Coast, they think, looking forward to the more cozy and plain Midwest.
May 4: Elliot Loosie flies back home to Linked West, finishing up their vacation in Pembrook.
May 7: Elodie Malicieux and her girlfriend Dreamy Orion drive into the city of Greater Lane Heights together. A dinner is planned night between the two and Elodie's family: her mothers Petra and Skippy, as well as her sister Prism. Said dinner takes place at a themed restaurant known as Comedic Cuisine, set on the edge of the river that cuts through the city. Despite the skunk's worries, she relaxes and has a lovely night with everyone. Perhaps someday in the future the mothers will have the pleasure of referring to Dreamy as their daughter-in-law!
May 8: Two skaters, July Houndstooth and Smoltz Ripley, begin recording a tape of their skills and runs in Opossum Valley. Most of the recording takes place in The Catacombs, a name given to an abandoned and unfinished subway system beneathe the city of Marseille. During July's run, she takes to tricking between the roofs of the abandoned rail cars and later along the edges of a massive pit full of water and rocks ahead. After seeing July survive her run with style, Smoltz takes a go at doing whatever they can with their board as the camera's rolling on them.
Security guard Frank Duchamp works a night shift for the entertainment venue chain known as Funky Friday's Celebratorium. Whilst doing his rounds at a location in Everly Branch, a power outtage occurs. He fixes the generator on-site, and discovers someone else present in the building. Lo and behold, one of the on-stage animatronics is now alive which causes Duchamp to faint.
May 9: In the morning after his shift, Frank Duchamp and the now-alive and sentient animatronic (who calls himself Dustin Fairfax) have a meeting with the building's boss. After an awkward conversation, the boss willingly lets the animatronic bat go on and live his life away from the entertainment venue. In addition, Frank is giving some paid time off to help cope with the prior night's fright.
May 10: Chroma Bow livestreams one of his many painting sessions to his chat. He paints a scene where a bunch of clowns in a clown car are terrified as their vehicle goes flying off a cliff. Morbid, but also ironic considering he's a professional clown himself in his free time. All this is done from his cozy living room in Sharrisburg, Melladohna.
Noise Feeback goes to a concert with fellow juggalos somewhere in Melladohna. Everyone gets rowdy to the point of fighting each other as they mosh. It's a delightful time, with all the booze and blood to make it even better.
May 11: In the city of Gale-Break Mixx'n, Manuel Vermillion leaves a bar after performing a set at a small bar. It went stellar, as folks couldn't get enough of his singing voice and musical saw. After leaving, he witnesses a bunch of Fascist skinheads in the alley threatening to kill and rob a guy. He rushes in, taunting and beating the ever-living hell out of the assholes. After rescuing the individual, it's made known that the clowny raven saved Pharo Lou-Blanke's life. A cab is called for the red wolf, as Manuel helps him get back home safely to his apartment.
May 22: Frank Duchamp returns to work at Funky Friday's Celebratorium, following his impromptu break. Meanwhile, his new roommate Dustin has done his fair share of research into the modern world beyond the Celebratorium. Perhaps in due part to his mechanical and computer-like nature, he seems to have adjusted just fine to this whole 'living' deal.
Melbrook Kinwood and her partner Thrash Ensemble make the heavy and dreadful journey back to Linked West, ending their vacation in Corrimet. It appears the time spent in the town of Silver Creek Junction has fattened the two immensely, with Thrash practically becoming immobile. The awful vacation leads to Melbrook sending an email to independent investigator Waever Nuelle, hoping the badger can warn folks to stay away from the expansion-crazed town. Both partners spend the rest of their year working off the newfound pounds until they reach their former selves' sizes.
May 25: Independent investigator Weston Fredericks get tipped off about a strange scoop. Through a forwarded email from his friend Waever, he learns of a strange town in the Woven Republic's midwest that has led to its visitors leaving with hundreds of pounds piled into their bodies in very short time.
May 31: Weston Fredericks pulls into the town of Silver Creek Junction, Corrimet. He settles in for the night for a two-week stay at a hotel known as Golden Willow Suites. This begins his investigation into the town's weight gain-related antics.
June 2021
June 1: Weston Fredericks awakes on the second day of his investigation into Silver Creek Junction, ready to properly explore the strange town. Doing a weigh-in, he's surprised to see he's already begun to put on weight at an accelerated pace. He meets the guest service agents, a pair of twins named Stella and Austin Wilbach, of the hotel he's staying at. The two give him a good idea of what to see and do in the town, in which he takes mental notes to investigate all that's mentioned. Before heading off, he enjoys the hotel's complentary breakfast.
June 2: A now-chubby Weston explores the pool at the Golden Willow Suites. Whilst relaxing there, he learns of a tour guide in the area's adjacent forest. He adds it as a potential lead to check out later in his investigation. He enjoys some dessert-like booze offered by a vendor near the pool, and later samples some more food at the hotel's dining hall.
June 3: Around ninety-two pounds have found themselves adding to Weston's frame during his investigation of Silver Creek Junction. He visits a bakery in the town, known as Sweet Treasures. There he meets the baker Ella Sournoise, and buys some of her fattening wares.
June 4: Weston spends time on Lake Mellow's beach, getting a better idea of the area surrounding the hotel. He chats with other guests present, sampling on treats offered throughout the night by passing hotel staff.
June 5: Weston partakes in a tour headed by Lyle Mavericks. Along with a group, Lyle guides him and others through Primrose Woods. The nearby Nilbrook Mountain Chain grabs the attention of the incognito investigator, noting down in his head to travel along it soon. With comedic timing, Weston's pants rip during the tour.
June 6: Weston hits a milestone, as his weight makes its way into the 300s proper now. There's no signs of it stopping anytime soon, however. He spends some time at the Junction Station restaurant, hoping to learn about its head chef named Lauren Bell-Firth. However, upon meeting her it is learned that she and others are already aware of his no-longer-discrete investigation. She threatens him, forcefeeding him food for nearly an hour and then having her and the nearby hotel's staff send him back to his suite.
June 7: Now known as a troublesome investigator, Weston is forced to work more quickly to discover the true mastermind between Silver Creek Junction's antics. With nothing but a 'Divine' individual to go off of, he heads to the top of his hotel and surveys the land for more places nearby worth investigating. His weight continues to rise each day and night, ticking down a physical clock towards his potential immobility.
June 8: Weston Fredericks continues his investigation on Silver Creek Junction, this time traveling a bit out of town to see the future site of the Golden Ride Casino. There he sees that the fattening aura of the town does indeed stretch past its limits, affecting those working on the site. Masquerading as a representative of the town, he learns from a foreman on the site that Silver Creek Junction has been providing meals to the workers.
June 9: Dustin Fairfax shares his future career plans with his roommate Frank Duchamp. It appears the animatronic bat wishes to take up a job as a rodeo clown for a wrestling-focused entertainment show in the state of Sweetslurry Edge. The idea of losing his quirky friend to the wild wild west is depressing, but it looks like the bat's mind has already been set.
Weston Fredericks attempts to scale the Nilbrook Mountain Chain adjacent to Silver Creek Junction. It's very exhausting, especially for an opossum lad pushin' into his 500s now weight-wise. Meanwhile, back at the hotel the¹ siblings² that run the front desk take their scheduled break in private. They come to agreement that the detective snooping around lately is no trouble to the town, and that their mutual friend will handle him in the end.
June 10: Weston Fredericks spends most of his day in the dining hall section of the Golden Willow Suites hotel. Alongside stuffing himself silly with food, he reviews all the notes he's taken so far during this investigation. It seems fruitless to him, but he will continue exploring leads until he can no longer physically move.
June 11: Frank Duchamp and Dustin Fairfax part ways as the animatronic bat follows his new life as a rodeo clown. Their last time spent together as friends is in a part of Dunhworth County in the state of Sweetslurry Edge.
Dustin scores a job at Moraine's Big n' Rowdy as a new rodeo clown. He settles in at the township, resting his metallic heels in a room at the Ruby Hideaway hotel.
Weston Fredericks meets a room service server at the hotel, who goes by the name of Tristan Rollins. Thinking this might be the lead he needs to find this mysterious 'Divine' individual, he schedules the milk snail's services for the next night in his own suite.
June 12: Dustin Fairfax works his first show at Moraine's Big n' Rowdy, as he's slotted into a match with the champion wrestler known as Royale the Bone-Cruncher. Both put up a damn good fight and show, as the rodeo clown ends it by hogtying his bull opponent. The audience loved the whole thing, and Royale quickly begins to respect his new coworker.
Dustin continues to put on good shows with his coworkers over the summer, whether it's fighting the wrestlers or simply being a goofy clown amongst other clowns. During this, a curious cowboy with his horse pulls into town and has his eyes on the animatronic bat.
While recieving room service from Tristan Rollins, Weston Fredericks attacks the milk snail lad and forces him to give up the location of the mastermind behind Silver Creek Junction's antics. As soon as Rollins gets out of his shift, he leads Weston up into the Nilbrook Mountain Chain to meet an individual known as Her Divine. The opossum detective is alone now, with a goddess.
Conversing with the goddess known as Her Divine leads Weston Fredericks to be expanded to a blob-like state, ensuring that he is unable to attack nor escape her presence. They come to an agreement that the detective's case ends here, and that a contract is formed between Weston, his close friends, and the Goddess. He's returned to his previous obese weight, and given the abilities to adapt to it fairly easily. Should he or his close friends ever work against the interests of Her Divine again, they shall be banished to a realm of endless gluttony.
June 13: In Milwater Horizon, Weston Fredericks meets up with his friend and fellow independent detective Waever Nuelle. He shares all his findings with Waever, along with informing her of the contract she and a few others have been unwillingly entered into with the goddess Her Divine. The two head off, with the opossum lad beginning his work to shed all the pounds gained during his sugar-laced vacation.
June 23: Dustin Fairfax and the mysterious cowboy known as Zeke Colorado finally meet, with Royale the Bone-Cruncher watching the bat's back nearby just incase things go sour. It's made apparent quickly that the cowboy is head over heels for the rodeo clown.
After a discussion, a proposition is brought forth where Zeke asks Dustin to leave behind the show and travel with him and his horse into the Skillet Frontier together. Farewells are made, a relationship is formed insanely quickly, and the two ride off into the frontier upon a pet horse named Ruby.
July 2021
July 3: Clyde Laurence and his partner Jason Millveille drive on down to Sweetslurry Edge. During their trip they visit Moraine's Big n' Rowdy to see a wrestling match featuring the star wrestler, Royale the Bone-Cruncher.
During Royale's fight with a couple of clowns, he launches one of them towards the audience bleachers. It causes a domino effect of havoc, as food and drinks accidentally spill over audience members and fighting between them ensues after. Clyde and Jason avoid getting tangled in it, having a blast watching the chaos ensue. Royale himself is laughing up a storm and he's trying to break up all the fights.
July 13: The skater Smoltz Ripley wakes up one day in their apartment suite to find their girlfriend Transqueen Rudolph is missing. Upon finding a ransom note from a cult known as the GentleToken, they rush out to begin a rescue mission for Transqueen.
Smoltz Ripley travels between Opossum Valley South in Opossum Valley and Fale's Reach in Pembroke. Along the journey, they enlist the help of their friends Avalon, Burst, and Elodie. Everyone travels together, eventually finding a warehouse in Fale's Reach that acts as the hideout for the GentleToken cult.
Deep within a cave full of massive gems and crystals, Marty O'Possum works a wizard assignment with her coworkers Orville the Loyal and Presto Momento. She recieves a call from her wife Avalon, learning of the hostage situation that Transqueen is in. Unable to lend a hand (due to being many states away and underground), she wishes the best for the group.
Fighting breaks out within the warehouse, as the friend group fight against goons belonging to the cryptocurrency-based cult. They eventually confront the leader in an upstairs office, blocking the group from entering by shooting constantly through the open doorway.
Seeking the perfect moment, Elodie takes advantage of the cult leader needing to reload his gun and lobs a brick into the office. It knocks out the cult leader, allowing the group to safely enter the office. With perfect timing, a bookcase falls over soon after and out Transqueen emerges from a secret room she attempting to break out of. Snapping the ropes the goons had tied around her, she happily reunites with her partner Smoltz.
On the way out of the GentleToken cult's warehouse hideout, the friend group turn up the thermostat and then knock over a ton of shelves that housed cryptocurrency mining rigs. They leave from the mess of a warehouse triumphant, beginning the rides back home.
July 29: Another day is spent working on Riolle Farm, in the fair southern Midwest state of Koremach Edge. During the night however, it is robbed by a fruit bat vampire named Count Açaí.
July 30: A theft is reported on the Riolle Farm, as splattered messes can be found in the basement storage of the farmstead home. During the night, posted farm security confront the returning vampire thief. Fighting ensues, which leads to the two farmers-turned-security being bitten. Reacting poorly to the vampire's venom, they swell up in spherical shapes and turn blue from all the juices that manifested within them following the bite.
August 2021
August 3: Farm staff have been medicated following the incident a few nights prior, returning to their normal hues and sizes. Jamie Thistle, spouse to the farm owner Sheila Riolle, takes it upon himself to confront the beast later this night. It ends poorly, with the scarecrow doggy individual suffering the same fate as the previous farmers-turned-security.
August 4: Furious at the harm done towards her farm, her wormers, and her spouse, Sheila Riolle takes it upon herself to confront the troublesome nearby vampire. Not wanting to risk any trouble, she finds where the beast lives during the day. She drags the vampire out of their cabin in the Indigo.
Nearly killing the weak Count Açaí with a shovel, the red river hog woman changes her mind suddenly. Instead, she forms a deal with the vampire: Protect the farm during the night, undo the venom effects upon Jamie Thistle, and be paid in fruits and veggies following each shift. It's accepted, and a working relatioinship begins between Count Açaí and the Riolle Farm. Over time, this will form into a proper friendship too in regards to Sheila and Jamie.
August 7: The friend group of Jenny Dillo, Zeph Nixie, Adam Roletta, and Luther Tellamet enjoy a smoke session in Nixie's home in Lancesler, Opossum Valley. While watching TV, Jenny notices a news segment talking about the planned demolition of a water park in Melladohna called MARIGOLD SPLASH PARK! After some convincing by the armadillo lass, the group plans a roadtrip to the water park for both fun and satisfying the nostalgic Jenny.
August 8: Jenny Dillo and her friends embark on their roadtrip, passing through parts of the state of Melladohna. As the afternoon goes on, they stop at the Marris Eats diner for some dinner and then later rest at the '97 Inn. Its proximity towards the defunct MARIGOLD SPLASH PARK! makes it a great resting point for the friend group today.
Desmond Vicos of the Cape Goldenridge Rockets continues to prove himself an excellent baseball player, specializing as their star pitcher. Radio stations all over marvel about his talents at such a young age and lanky frame.
The governor of Pembroke holds a press conference, praising the state's police forces for their handling of the GentleToken cult in Fale's Reach. However, the reality is the authorities only found the messy remains of the warehouse and it's unconcious cultists within. Smoltz and their friends won't get the true praise for handling the cult, but they don't give a shit really.
The BONEZONE cult out in Linked West continue to cause more trouble for the coastal state. Independent investigator Waever Nuelle attempts to research it in her work with Opossum Valley Radio, but drops the case due to the severity of interfering with the cult's efforts. Her and her¹ wives² are thankfully safe due to their constant travel across the country.
August 9: Jenny Dillo and her friends break into the abandoned MARIGOLD SPLASH PARK!, and begin their exploration of the late water park. While the lads fuck around, Jenny uses the park's remains to reflect on memories spent her with parents as a child, years ago. She misses them dearly, breaking into tears having to come to terms with them being long dead and never returning.
Zeph Nixie helps comfort his friend Jenny Dillo, allowing her to speak more calmly about her late parents. When everyone's back in good spirits, the friend group leaves the water park's remains and begin the ride back home towards Opossum Valley.
Jenny Dillo makes peace with not being able to see her parents ever again. She focuses on living a long good life, knowing her late mother and father would both be proud.
August 13: The Cape Goldenridge Rockets have their last baseball game against the Linked West Sparks, at the Bronze Galley Stadium in Gale-Break Mixx'n. To no one's surprise, they win and take home the trophy for the year.
August 31: Lyle Mavericks, an otter lad, visits the grave of his late brother Ritchie. It's been a decade since Ritchie passed, and Lyle shares what news of modern times he can with the grave in Flemmings Cemetery.
Friday Philadelphia does a photoshoot in Flemmings Cemetery, utilizing the help of her friend Evie Aldine. During the photoshoot, a strange figure is present in the background of some of the photos. Looking towards the real life location, the two spot a monster lurking and they both run out of the graveyard together. Funny enough, it only scared the more hardcore Friday whilst fascinating the more cutesy Evie.
September 2021
September 1: A day after spotting the beast in Flemmings Cemetery, Evie Aldine calls up her friend Friday Philadelphia. To the pufferfish lasses' surprise, the cutesy opossum wants to head back and find the beast. It's rejected, but Evie is still determined. She has breakfast, leaves her home, and catches a bus to enlist the help of other friends.
Raccoon lass Goldaline and her fruit bat girlfriend Frequency enjoy the summer sun in their backyard. Whilst grilling and swimming, they welcome their friend Evie to the backyard festivities. The opossum lass tries to get the couple to drive her to the cemetery, but they reject the proposal due to fear of Evie's safety. To make up for it however, Goldaline offers a quick ride to a different friend's place so that Evie can try finding someone else to back her up in her upcoming investigation.
After getting a ride, Evie winds up at the home of opossum couple Ryann and Michelle. Catching them chilling on their porch, she hits them with her plan to investigate the Flemmings Cemetery beast. Surprised by the bold plans, they take her up on the offer. Grabbing a bat with nails, the three venture off towards the cemetery later in the night.
In Flemmings Cemetery, Evie confronts the beast alone while Ryann and Michelle keep their distance. The cutesy opossum lass eventually comes face to face with the beast in the more forested end of the cemetery. Now seen, it's apparent that the beast is a monstrous version of a water opossum and demon. They try to intimidate Evie with beast-like mannerisms and a dead wild squirrel, but it fails. To make things more awkwards, Evie ends up shaking paws with the beast. Realizing this scare attempt is failing dreadfully, the beast speaks to Evie and tells her to return tomorrow, alone. They leave, and later the three more human opossum gals depart too.
September 2: Evie Aldine heads to the Flemmings Cemetery alone, wishing to speak more with the cemetery's monster. She learns the 'monster' goes by the name of Emily Jean and was born in this graveryard alone years ago. Emily Jean is more curious of Evie than anything, surprised that a human that treats them like a normal person even exists. They plan another hangout session together for the near future.
September 9: Aurelia Ambrose's father lays upon his deathbed, slowly dying from a type of cancer he refused to believe existed. In his final words he cursed vampires and threatened to wipe them out for 'poisoning him'. With both parents now dead, Aurelia would only spiral even further into her family's obsession with killing vampires.
September 13: Moya Florence and his partner Jules Diamond watch a wrestling match, which featured the famous wrestler Dougie. It's a real argument whether or not Moya will remember this match due to being high out of his mind that night.
September 16: Sockbuppey Fluffsnoot and everyone else in her household unknowningly come into contact with a strange blue pollen from Memory-Oak Forest. It progressively causes everyone there to swell up over the day.
Transqueen Rudolph picks up some medicine intended for undoing temporary inflation-based effects on the body. She brings it to the Fluffsnoot household near the Memory-Oak Forest, helping to deflate everyone and kill off the quirky infection.
Lucky Timmons, head foreman in charge of a mining operation within the Soft-Spoken Caverns, is interviewed for a news segment. He talks about his team numbers dwindling during the operation. Supposedly some sort of beasts and possibly even ghosts are deep within the cave system and are causing these disappearances.
The BONEZONE cult's activities in Linked West are getting worse. Reports come in of strange individuals being spotted in the forests, family and friends disappearing over night, and even drained corpses being found stuffed in dumpsters throughout the state.
Val Victoria takes the worse possible lesson to learn after fighting an inflation-based infection. She orders a 'recreation' bike pump online before heading off to bed, letting her dreams fill with downright naughty thoughts.
September 19: Evie Aldine and Emily Jean hangout more and more at the cemetery, forming a proper friendship. The cryptid demon even helps make a secondary entrance in the cemetery, so that Evie never has to worry about getting locked out nor locked in. It pleases Emily Jean to find out that Evie never grows bored of spending time only in the cemetery.
October 2021
October 1: During one visit to Flemmings Cemetery, Evie brings flowers to Emily Jean and asks if they want to be partners. The gesture means the world to the cryptid, and sure enough they accept the proposal. Many visits and times will be spent at the cemetery for years to come, as the two's relationship only grows more lovely with time.
October 4: Evanie Fritz, a wealthy land developer based out of Illen, holds a party in her mansion. All her friends come into Tinsel Bends for this party, only to be horrified to witness her assassination that same night. Her killer is never brought to justice.
Hired hitman Destiny Lucky successfully assassinates Evanie Fritz, camped out in a sniper's nest within the Burrowspeak Mountain Range. She heads down the mountain and leaves the scene by car. On the ride back to the Kingdom of Bark Queen, her driver and coworker Dewey Alexander shares news he's learned about a curious site within Illen.
Lorrie Schearz, scout for the Kingdom of Bark Queen, is given the task to visit the abandoned Ol' Vincent Library in Illen and investigate some remains that belonged to a psychic long ago. After a long ride with Dewey, the tapir scout is dropped off at the site of the former library, in Illen's Nestled Hills. Finding the bones, a bony paw manifests above them and yearns for a handshake from Lorrie. She obliges, and is soon transported to a realm that recreates the library that once stood here proudly.
Venturing into the mysterious mental-library, Lorrie Schearz witnesses many shadowy figures both inside and out. Entering the library, she eventually finds an office upstairs that has a psychic within. After conflict between the two dies down, Lorrie holds a discussion with the long-dead psychic Yuri Saint-Marie. She discusses her past, the final days of the Ossium cult, and a warning for the modern-day BONEZONE cult and its affiliates. It is believed that the wizard that wiped out the Ossium cult still walks among us and will strike again.
Lorrie helps Yuri Saint-Marie finally ascend to the afterlife, by pretending to execute her by close-range gunfire. It works, and as a result the tapir not only wakes up back in the real world but also now carries within her the Ossium cultist's psychic abilities. She leaves the site by car once again, taking a long ride back to the Kingdom of Bark Queen.
Lorrie Schearz shares her experiences had in Illen with Bark Queen and Famous Prophette, both present in the queen's chambers. After she is dismissed, the two wives have a personal chat that illuminates fear in each other's factions surviving the future ahead. A promise to survive is made, and both begin to seek adding novice wizards in general to their ranks.
October 31: Sylvester Bucket, a cameraman for the SHANE talk show, has a terrifying nightmare with themes of violence, surrealism, and police brutality. After a set of strange and scary events in the nightmare, he awakes in his bed and throws up.
December 2021
December 1: Glade O'Possum combs through the clearance section of a drugstore, and finds an ornament of reality TV star Damien Pellans. She adores it immensely, and makes sure her and her wife don't leave the drugstore before buying it. It'll make a fine, hunky addition to the Christmas tree later in the month!
December 6: Marty O'Possum and wife Avalon Boyer prepare for a trip to Illen, intending to spend some time with Marty's mothers during the Winter. Not quite Christmas itself, but close enough for the wives and parents both.
December 7: Jill Florence drives her friends Marty and her wife Avalon to the Songbird Airport in Opossum Valley. There, the wives catch a flight to Cherub Airport in Downing and later another flight to Crystal Kaufman Airport in Illen.
A family based out of Dewbreak Island take a vacation in Illen, during their college son's Winter. Marty and Avalon overhear the conversation the family has, learning about a physics teacher named Professor Clements and principal named Ms. Fabrice.
Marty Opossum's mothers pick up her and her wife Avalon from the Crystal Kaufman Airport in Illen.
December 8: Marty O'Possum, her mothers, and her wife all head out to Belmont Creek for a trip on a large touring boat. Discussions are had about work, and especially the safety of the wizard daughter. Avalon assures them that Marty will be safe for many years to come, helping ease her worries.
December 9: Marty O'Possum, her mothers, and her wife help decorate the Illen home. Inside, Marty practices her dragon transformation spell in front of her mother Glade. It's a delight, despite the adorable transformation providing zero tactical advantages in combat and other work situations.
December 10: Marty O'Possum, her¹ mothers², and her wife spend the day watching movies together. At one point, her mother Glade gets in a really excitable and hyperactive mood talking about the movie Spurs and Saviors. This moment really shows that the quirky apple doesn't fall too far from the as-quirky tree. Avalon cringes at this moment, realizing her wife Marty will only get sillier as the decades go on. She'll make peace with it, as love conquers all.
December 11: Marty O'Possum, her mothers, and her wife visit a fancy restaurant in Tinsel Bends, Illen that's called Delectatio Aurea. It seems to be a relaxed time, until the place is robbed by a bunch of goons with guns. This situation only grows more tense by security guards and civilians both getting gunned down.
Marty O'Possum is frustrated by all the violence and death going on, so she takes it open herself to risk her life by attacking and neutralizing the robbers. It works, though she learns a lesson this day that not everyone can truly be saved from conflict. In the bittersweet celebration that follows, she calls up the Nebula Order to have someone come in on her behalf to talk with the authorities. The family leaves, heading back to the Illen home.
December 12: Marty O'Possum and her wife Avalon end their vacation in Illen, and begin the flights back home to Opossum Valley.
December 26: Android and wizard Ellie Knokkswitch is given the assignment of combing through an old server that once belonged to the Illen branch of the defunct Vertigo Agency. In the process, she briefly meets cyborg Ezekiel Jetstream who prior helped decrypt said server through his cybernetics.
Ellie departs from the Nebula Order & Education, with a hard drive copy of the now-decrypted server. Through assisted teleportation, she arrives in her home city of Venetian in the mountainous state of Downing. After a good walk, she arrives within the Rose-Gold Hideaway district of the city where her townhome sits.
Beginning her search through the files, Ellie comes acrossing a folder titled 'PROJECT FILES - RETROGRADE TESTING' with a massive zipped-up secondary folder within. It's a lengthy and long process to unzip this folder, leaving her to retire to bed as it slowly progresses through the night. When it finishes, the .exe program within is taken to the front of the hard drive's files by its own mysterious control. It eagerly awaits the deer's interaction the next day.
December 27: Starting Christmas in the most boring manner, Ellie checks out the newfound .exe program present in her work-related hard drive. Her computer provides a warning about insufficient power however, so she readies a connection to her own android body to help lend her own to the process. By doing this, she unknowingly not only frees a powerful computer virus but permanently intertwines it with her own internal systems.
The computer virus known as RETROGRADE makes itself formally known, manifesting in the vision of Ellie at all times. It can interact with technology in the real world, but only can be seen by other people if its displayed on a proper screen in the area. It begins to torment Ellie, thriving off of wreaking havoc all around the townhome's interior.
December 31: After a hectic set of days tormented by Retrograde, Ellie attempts to call her work to get some help. The virus stops this attempt however, and a stressful set of conversations and arguments take place. During these, Retrograde learns that the scientists that made it have been dead for decades. It tries to shrug it off, though it's still apparent that the news distresses them underneath that bold facade. Ellie retires to bed by the end of the night, frazzled and exhausted. It's a rough end to the year proper for the deer.
January 2022
January 4: Enjoying a day of peace and starting the next year proper, Ellie takes simple notes on inventory orders from long ago and small-time clients that worked with the Vertigo Agency's Illen branch. It's interrupted however by the computer virus Retrograde's nonsense however. Arguments and heated conversations take place once more, with Ellie reaching a stunning realization: Without access to the deer and technology in the area, Retrograde is virtually powerless. In addition, the virus cannot even leave the close proximity of Ellie. The implications of this pisses off Retrograde immensely, who smacks the ever-living hell out of Ellie with one powerful punch.
While Ellie Knokkswitch is knocked out cold, Retrograde snoops through her laptop nearby. It conducts its own research into its former creators out of both curiousity and some form of missing them dearly.
January 8: The friend group of Marseille Billintz, Clyde Laurence, and Jason Millveille venture towards the abandoned Seeds of Gold Casino in the suburb of Lily Outskirts. After a cold introduction out front in the crackled parking lot, they venture forward into the infamous and haunted ruins.
Within the ruins of the Seeds of Gold Casino, the friend group ventures into the main gambling atrium of sorts. There, Marseille tests out one of the old slot machines that still live after all these decades. He loses after his spin, but in the process catches the attention of the spirit of Jackson Ethers. Marseille attempts to fight the spirit with a blessed sword, but quickly watches as the spirit turns the blade into dust. The three friends are then captured by the spectral hands Jackson summons, and brought to three separate sections of the casino.
On his own in the casino's basement level, Jason awakes and explores what he can in hopes of finding either his boyfriend Clyde or friend Marseille. At one point he ventures into a boiler room, only to find himself trapped in there by the spirit. Jackson puts forth his first expansion-focused mischief, as he forces one of the pipes into Jason's mouth. Hot water is pumped into the low-poly gator, slowly rounding out his entire body and weighing him down heavily.
Clyde awakes to finding himself in the casino's laundry room. He ventures out into the hallways proper, eventually stepping into the Seeds of Gold's kitchen. Much like his partner below, he finds himself trapped inside and subject to Jackson's horny troubles. Tons and tons of ghostly pastries are forced into the beaver, making his weight rise after each and every bite. He eventually passes out from all the sugar, putting on hundreds of pounds as he rests.
Last of the friend group to face lone trouble is Marseille. He travels between suites and hallways to eventually find himself in a lounge of sorts. A balcony nearby looks like a possible escape plan for the Gallade Pokemon lad, however the drop looks quite deadly. As he attempts to leave the lounge, he's confronted by the troublesome spirit. After some arguing, he is constrained and a fireplace bellow is forced into his mouth by Jackson. Here begins the process of inflating the rebel to goofy and large proportions.
A fattened Clyde and a waterlogged Jason eventually reunite in the casino, struggling to both move and breath on account of their sizes. After they've taken their break together to relax, they venture forth to find and save their friend Marseille.
Marseille is found by his friends, though unlike the other two he's completely immobile and massive. It's gonna be a real nightmare pushing that blimpy Gallade throughout the hotel.. Meanwhile, on his own the spirit Jackson plans to put on a real fireworks-styled show. Fiddlin' with the underworks of the casino, he manages to start a massive explosion and fire begins to spread throughout the remains of the Seeds of Gold.
Using all force they can muster, all three friends escape the casino through the balcony present in the upper floor's lounge. They safely survive the long fall, using the blimpy Marseille as a cushion for their own massive bodies. While catching their barings in the snow-covered parking lot, Jackson makes one final appearance. He flies above the burning casino ruins, gives one last triumphant message, and flies off east towards the rest of the Woven Republic. It is unknown where he intends to haunt, though its out of the hands of the three massive friends unfortunately.
Terry Shenz and other wizards of the Nebula Order arrive to the scene, doing the best they can to put out the fire of the blazing Seeds of Gold Casino. A lucky buttdial earlier on Clyde's phone is what alerted his own wizard father of the trouble present earlier. Likewise, the father called his own coworkers to track down the location and aid the friend group. Said friend group is then transported to the Nebula Order to begin their process of shrinking back down to their original sizes and weights.
January 10: After two weeks of tormenting done by Retrograde, Ellie Knokkswitch hits her breaking point. She uses her powers to lift and choke the virus, threatening to kill it and herself if this will end the bullshit she's endured. Retrograde is flung out of the bedroom and locked out by magical chains. Catching its breath, Retrograde uses the next set of hours alone in the kitchen and living room to not only reflect on its actions but also snoop through Ellie's laptop some more.
Seeking forgiveness, Retrograde later that night apologizes awkwardly and genuinely to Ellie. In addition, it provides the android with very important and deeply hidden information it found within the work-related hard drive. This information, copied from the original server, proves massively vital. The apology is accepted, and the two begin to unweave their rocky relationship and begin walking on a path of friendship instead.
January 11: Retrograde and Ellie head off to the Nebula Order & Education together with their new findings. After being introduced to The Director and its assistant Hera, Retrograde shows off what it found to everyone. The most important of such findings is the names of two scientists that possiblysurvived the purge of the Vertigo Agency: Jason Millveille and Lucy Silksphere. They will provide the next lead during the investigation of the mysterious Vertigo Agency.
Alongside names, other findings are presented by Retrograde. One of which includes a video of the scientist Lucy Silksphere successfully escaping the attack on the Agency's headquarters. She can be seen evading gunfire as she dives out a window and crashes into the ocean far below. Second, a photograph of scientists is shown on a projecter. A younger Silksphere and Millveille can be seen in the photograph from long ago. It is far from a coincidence that the latter shares a name with a young gator that's already been involved with the Nebula ORder.
Ellie and Retrograde are dismissed, successfully completing their investigative mission together. They relinquish the hard drive and its contents to The Director, and begin heading back home together as friends.
January 30: Rory McDonnell, a teller for Pockets & Promise Banking, goes in for another day of work. During their shift, Rory and others are surprised by gun-toting and mask-wearing robbers that take control of the bank. They're professionals no doubt, as they easily gun down the security guards all present on the main floor. By gunpoint, Rory is forced to take three of the robbers to the vault down below as the fourth robber mans the main floor doors and customers.
After successfully breaking into the vault through Rory's 'assistance', the gang readies themselves to gun the angelic capybara down. Through quick thinking and a silver tongue however, Rory is able to successfully barter for their life by offering to help the gang escape. The group loads their riches into the van, as Rory readies up the vehicle. Surpa End, the warehouse and port district of the city Venetian, is the destination and Rory takes the robbers there safely and discretely.
After the van is unloaded, Rory barters for their life once more by disposing of the van. They drive it into the ocean nearby, making sure to hop out before the big splash ahead. Their reward for all this help is a punch to the face, causing them to black out for hours. While they're knocked out, a business card is tucked into their pockets. Later in the night, a dock worker finds Rory, helps wake them up, and offers to drive them home safely.
January 31: Rory McDonnell heads to work and is immediately pulled into a meeting with their boss. It becomes clear immediately that they're getting fired, which happens to be the cleanest option to prevent anyone getting jailed and keep the bank still open. Unemployed, the capybara heads home and has a depresing call with their mother. Before they head to bed for the night, they find the business card for Gianni Family Deli in their pants pocket. It's a silly sight, but a curious one nonetheless.
February 2022
February 1: Following the random business card, Rory heads to the Gianni Family Deli for a meal and a possible job. While enjoying a sandwich, Rory holds another call with their mother. The owner of the deli, the fabled Papa Gianni himself, listens in to the call. After the call, the capybara and deli owner chat for a bit. Gianni figures he might have a job perfect for Rory and invites them into a back office behind the deli's counters. It's followed up by an even more intense and stressful conversation, as it becomes clear the deli owner and his family are in bed with the city's infamous St. Nowhere's Mafia.
Rory is given a chance to become employed again, alongside joining the St. Nowhere's Mafia if they prove themself resourceful enough. They're given the task to assassinate a former member of the mafia, known as Tommy Sapphire, who's planning to snitch to authorities. With the threat of death at the most and unemployment a the least, Rory gives into the insanely risky task and prepares to head to The Quartz building in Venetian to find Tommy.
February 3: Rory McDonnell enters the Quartz building in Venetian and takes the elevator up to the 45th floor. They step out into a suit store by the name of Kelli's and begin chatting up one of the employees. During the conversation, the capybara can spot their target in the background heading towards the restrooms. They excuse themself and head to the restrooms to confront Tommy.
In moments, the hare is grabbed by Rory and held tight. During the struggle, the capybara pulls out a knife and slashes the throat of the snitch. The body is hidden within one of the stalls, with blood cleaned by a cloth that is later placed over the now-dead hare's wounded neck. After locking the stall from within, Rory departs the store triumphantly.
Following a call made after a successful assasination, Rory finds themself heading back towards the Supra End district. There they meet the now-maskless leader of the St. Nowhere's Mafia, Lorraine Plutos. The capybara is offered a chance to join the mafia and accepts it, taking a pseudo-job at the docks as a cover for it. They venture together into the Dellis Fares warehouse and head into the basement level. There Rory is introduced to other mafia members Calico Danvers, Marble Danvers, and Christoff Bernard. A new chapter of the angel's life starts here, with them taking the title of the mafia's Chariot.
February 28: Myles Illusion, his boyfriend Liam Carnation, and their friend Rivera Liteworkz all decide to enjoy a day at the Everly State Fair in Cape Goldenridge. During the festivities, they wind up going overboard on snacks, drinks, and food to the point they put on extreme amounts of weight. Liam takes this to extreme levels as he lumbers about in massive form, distracted and away from the others.
Royale the Bone-Cruncher ventures to the Everly State Fair to take part in a wrestling match with one of the local wrestlers. He shouts out his friend Dustin Fairfax and then begins the match. To no one's surprise, he puts on most of the fighting and beats his opponent with no trouble at all!
Dogwood Augustine meets Liam during the fair and is amazed by the pooltoy cat lad's looks and growing size. He's swooned immediately, and uses his own charm to convince Liam to partake in the fair's eating contest. To no one's surprise, Carnation takes home the gold with no problem! The gang reunite and decide to head home for the evening.
March 2022
March 2: Dogwood Augustine enjoys a private and romantic night with Liam Carnation, the latter of which is still immense from his time spent at the Everly State Fair a few days ago. Hearts fly, a bed collapses, and the two friends look forward to more sex-focused hangouts in the future.
March 5: DJ DUMMY TUMMY and spouse DJ FALL FOOTWEAR perform a show on the top floor of the Windsbreak building in Linked West. Rivera Liteworkz scraps her plans for going, still recovering from all the weight she gained at the Everly State Fair earlier that week.
March 10: UFOs are reported flying over the Indigo Woods in Koremach Edge, freaking out nearby locals. Hell of a way to get ready for Spring this year..
March 14: Opossum Valley Radio decide to investigate the UFO appearances in the Indigo Woods of Koremach Edge, sending out their lead (and only) journalist Waever Nuelle. She is backed further by friend and fellow investigator Glory Fantasy. Lastly, Glory's new co-investigator and friend Mason joins the party as well. The latter two meet up with Waever at a rest stop situated three miles away from the Indigo Woods.
As if Waever Nuelle didn't need to be reminded that she's continously put on weight over the years, Glory has to point it out further by describing her as "like a fucking pillow". This is not intended as an insult however, as the sphynx cat is head over heels over the revelation. Such crucial infomation indeed!
The investigators stop at a diner called Greasy Joe's Hideaway for an interview with a couple of locals. While Waever and Glory catch a booth together, Mason stays in the car outside incase things get hectic. Richter Byte and partner Tylers Delta meet the two detectives, joining their booth. They talk about a time spent recently in the woods during a smoke session late at night. There, they recall having spotted a pizza-shaped UFO that was metallic and grey in design. It flew west throughout the sky, making whoosh-ing noises and showcasing bright red lights.
Continuing the investigation, Waever and her friends visit the Riolle Farm that lays adjacent to the Indigo Woods. During the afternoon, they interview the owner Sheila Riolle about the nearby UFO sightings. Her descriptions of the sights and sounds match the ones brought up by the chill couple back at the diner. Before the investigators decide to explore the forest, Riolle implores they wait until night time and bring the farm's security guard with for safety. They accept, waiting til' night falls upon the farm.
Count Açaí guides Glory, Mason, and Waever through the Indigo Woods at night. During the travels, Glory freaks out because she's certain the Count is a fruit bat vampire. It's handled quickly that she is correct, though they assure the group there's nothing to worry about and that their safety is promised. Reluctantly Glory accepts it, while the others make peace with the reveal in turn.
As the group travels through the forest, the Count stops everyone as they fear dangerous individuals are nearby. They use their own shadow manipulation powers to cloak the entire group from sight. In hiding, they witness sophisticated and militant aliens patrolling the area. During the patrol, the Flatwoods Monster makes and appearance and fights the aliens. It's a very easy and gory victory for the cryptid, leaving no galactic survivors.
Before departing, the cryptid tears off a piece from the now unmanned alien ship. While dropping it near the cloaked group of investigators and vampire, the ship begins to self-destruct as a way of hiding its existence from humanity. The cryptid flies away from the forest, leaving the group to breath a sigh of relief once their alone again. They take the strange remaining UFO technology from the forest floor and head back towards Riolle Farm.
March 15: Waever, Glory, and Mason make their way into the city of Crackled-Peak South, which is positioned along the northern borders of the state of Palewater. There, they enter the apartment where their friend Weston Fredericks both lives and holds his personal office. After banging on the door to Weston's suite, the group is surprised to see a half-dressed client (Tristan Rollins) getting ready and leaving. After said 'client' departs down the stairs, the group enter Weston's suite together.
Weston is informed by his friends of the recent events that have transpired in Koremach Edge. Of note is the description of the aliens encountered the prior night: communication by pulses, scale-like bodies covered in eyes, and very fancy uniforms befitting military grunts and generals. Before finishing their conversation, he warns his friends to perform for the aliens to return at some point for the technology that sits in Weston's office. For better or worse, the alien tech is entrusted to Glory and Mason to care for until that time comes.
April 2022
April 4: Majestic Planning manages to secure the land and plans for a new entertainment venue in the city of Crackled-Peak North. Known as DuPont Movieplex, this mega theatre promises twenty-five standard screens, five mega-dome variants, a full staff ready to serve within the movieplex's built-in kitchens, maneuverable seating, sturdy counters, and the combination of only the finest sound systems and displays. A lengthy description given straight by the ever-so charming Xavier Kaster.
April 15: Xavier Kaster, the personal secretary and assistant to CEO Phillip Lilac, gives a tour to investors. There, they travel within the Majestic Planning Offices in Crackled-Peak North's Majestic Building. He selles them quite well on the business, with the CEO making an appearance at the end of the tour with free wine bottles for the investors. Business, you can never tire of its grimy silver tongue.
In Lilac's personal office, he and Xavier go over agenda plans for future building projects. Right now, they're struggling securing some land in Pembroke that would suit a casino nicely. The problem exactly is that a construction group there is already deadset on their current job of setting up a library there instead. Phillip intends to somehow swing a deal with the head of the construction company, Weston Knox, and change the plans to fit Majestic Planning and friends' casino project instead.
April 17: Jeffrey M. Turntone holds a meeting with Phillip Lilac and Xavier Kaster in the Majestic Building's CEO office. There, the chipmunk talks about his plans for casino in Pembroke, offering up possible names such as Diamond of the Sea, The Golden Anchor, and Twinklin' Treasures. He reiterates that the construction head Weston Knox is still the biggest pain in getting this project started however.
However, he tells the two before him that Weston's brother Clancy is in town this week. Phillip takes advantage of this, planning to convince the brother to have Weston hear out Lilac's plans. Jeffrey departs, eager to hear sometime soon if things work in his favor due to Lilac's efforts.
April 18: The 37th annual Cars, Trucks, and Mechanical Marvels convention takes place, held in the humble Crackle-Peak North and its Rosebud Square Convention Center. Present in attendance is Clancy Knox, brother of construction head Weston Knox. Phillip Lilac sneaks into the event, taking advantage of the back employee entrance and uses his vampiric powers to knock out and rob a security guard in the process. In disguise, Lilac masquerades as a security guard looking to help Clancy deal with some sort of trouble. It works, and he takes the oblivious honey badger lad into one of the private back rooms at the con.
Confronting the badger in a room alone, Phillip Lilac is able to intimidate Clancy Knox enough into setting up a meeting in Majestic Planning with his brother Weston. Afterwards Lilac lets Clancy go free, knowing well enough that he won't attempt to snitch to authorities about this whole fiasco. Satisfied with himself, he heads back to the Majestic Planning building and tells his assistant about the upcoming meeting.
April 19: During a phone call, Phillic Lilac relays the good news to Jeffrey Turntone that a meeting has been arranged between Majestin Planning's CEO and Weston Knox's construction crew. It's a delightful thing to hear, making the plans for a casino on the east coast even more possible now. Turntone is unable to attend said upcoming meeting however, due to family plans and fearing that his appearance might upset Weston.
Celebrating with some strawberry wine, Xavier Kaster is caught by surprise as his boss and business partner sticks his fruity fangs into his back neck. It's frustrating to say the least, as the juicy venom flowing through Kaster causes the poor flying fox to start swelling up like a big, and dreadfully round grape. It's a sexy moment for the boss, who takes advantage of the whole event. This unfortunately has become a semi-common occurance for Xavier, who still partially enjoys it all honesty.
April 20: On a quite sober night, Weston Knox and the rest of his crew attend a meeting at the Majestic Building. Majestic Planning aims to strike a deal with the construction company, Knox Working Hands, in order to faciliate building a casino in Pembroke instead of the currently planned-for library on the same land. The meeting goes over poorly, with Phillip Lilac bringing in the alternative plans to hold a private one-on-one meeting with Weston personally in Lilac's private office. The chances of Weston beating the ever-living hell out of Lilac are immense.
A fight ensues in the private office, with Lilac and Weston both landing hits on each other. However, the fruit bat vampire gets the upper hand during the battle and sticks his fangs into the burly honey badger. Those fruity juices flow through the badger, causing him to swell up and expand in purple-shades. Now completely defenseless and humilated, he is forced to submit to Lilac. That's not enough of course, as Lilac brings the rest of the construction workers into the office.
Forcing his own crew to witness the spherical and purple Weston Knox, Phillip Lilac seals the deal on the company working for Majestic Planning instead of their previous clients. The library project in Pembroke is scrapped entirely, as they take on Turntone's casino plans instead. In addition, Majestic Planning is also hooked up with a bonus, unexpected set of land near the Indigo Woods in Koremach Edge. When all is said and done, Weston Knox is returned to his former not-grapelike form and departs with his crew.
Phillip Lilac calls up Jeffrey Turntone and gives him the good news that his plans for building a casino in Pembroke can now fully be realized. After the call ends, Phillip Lilac begins to plan for building in the newly-secured land near the Indigo Woods. The first step in doing this is researching and taking advantage of the current owners of the land, Sheila Riolle and spouse Jamie Thistle.
May 2022
May 10: Pharo Lou-Blanke attempts to kill himself by jumping off a balcony at the Fairbranch Apartments in Gale-Break Mixx'n. It fails however, as his ex boyfriend and roommate Davis Links pulls him off and inside the living room. When things calm down, the raccoon gives the depressive red wolf an ultimatum: Get your shit together in two weeks or you'll be kicked out of this apartment and become homeless. A harsh decision that's been budding for years in Links' mind.
May 11: Pharo heads to a coffee shop in Gale-Break Mixx'n called Silver Brews. There, he runs into his friend Lucky Hoover in the middle of his barista shift. On Lucky's break, the two venture into the back alley to shoot the shit as they smoke. The Sneasler Pokemon friend does his best to comfort Pharo in these tough times. In addition, he passes on some advice on how Pharo could possibly get out of his depression rut. One such advice is relieving some stress at a strip club, of which Lucky passes on a business card from the place to Pharo.
May 14: Davis brings his ex Pharo along with a trip to a grocery chain named Monroe Market, though the idea was the red wolf's primarily. Whilst shopping, they get into small arguments here and there. Later, on the way back to the car the red wolf accidentally lets the now-empty shopping cart go riding into someone's parked car. In a rushed panic, Pharo accidentally slams his tail in the passenger door of Davis' car. An embarassing evening for the wolf.
May 16: Nervously, Pharo Lou-Blanke visits a strip club by the name of Stardust Secrets. There, he buys a private room with one of the strippers so he doesn't wind up making a scene near the public stage. Funnily enough, he finds out said stripper is an old school friend by the name of Goldlink Fantastics.
It's a bit awkward, but Goldlink doesn't mind using the session to allow Pharo to vent non-sexually instead. Pharo doesn't believe he has a chance surviving in this world, but his old friend assures him that he does and he has to hold onto hope. It's the only thing a lot of us got these days really.
At a party with friends, a drunk guy attempts to start some shit with Moira Pilson. She retaliates by smashing a glass bottle against his face, lodging tons of shards into it in the process. Others at the party give her high-fives after this, while the drunk recovers in the kitchen with his friends. Before leaving the party, the drunk mumbles an apology and passes a fresh beer to Moira.
May 19: Pharo awakens one day to Davis telling him he's hooked him up with a job interview - mostly thanks towards Davis' uncle putting in a good word with others. Heading to the Gale-Break Mixx'n Halls of History, Pharo goes into an interview with a security guard position. Bernice Tinsel, head of security, handles the interview as she asks a bunch of questions and lays down the general rules. The interview ends early and poorly when Pharo throws up on himself in the middle of it.
May 20: On a late night, Pharo and his friend Moira Pilson travel together along Gale-Break Mixx'n's river walk. Moira talks about recent experiences she had at a party. Following this, she makes it clear that Pharo needs to toughen up in life immensely.
To prove her claims, she runs over his foot with her wheelchair and then tells him to punch her in response. After refusing constantly and freaking out, Pharo panics and attempts to punch and misses incredibly as he falls into the adjacent river. When he climbs back onto the cement pathway, he looks up to find Moira proud that he even attempted the punch.
May 25: Against his best judgement, Pharo Lou-Blanke goes to a bar in Gale-Break Mixx'n and orders a bunch of drinks. He gets drunken and more bold over the night, having a fun time shooting the shit with an old gnoll fella. Eventually he convinces the guy that he wants to spar, and the Gnoll has a blast beating the ever-living hell out of Pharo.
Nearby, the bartender and a jellyfish-dog fella talk about the rowdiness. The latter, named Rodney, takes fancy to the drunken idiot and plans to help Pharo get back home later after hes's rested and sobered up. News travels and Davis Links finds out about this night, becoming severely disappointed in Pharo.
May 26: Rodney Splatter helps Pharo Lou-Blanke get back to his apartment following last night's drunken brawls. Before leaving, they pass on their phone number to the wolf they fancy. In the apartment parking lot Pharo calls out for Davis above to let him in, but the ex tells him that he's wasted his chances and is now officially homeless. The rain starts coming in to make this moment even more of a bummer.
Clarity hits Pharo, and he yells to convince Davis to hear him out longer before the raccoon heads back inside. It's at this moment as the rain pour down hard that Pharo finally understands that life is bullshit and that's what makes it so damn fun. As he's fucking about in the rain he takes his first step in living for himself and finding hope in the years ahead. Davis comes on down from the suite and into the parking lot proper, ready to bring his ex inside.
The friendship between the two begins its journey of mending, while a budding romantic relationship begins between Rodney and Pharo. Later in the Summer ahead, Pharo moves out of his exe's apartment and into his new lover's place instead.
May 27: The Director of the Nebula Order & Education assigns a mission to wizard employees Carmichael Kentz and Aberdeen Fritz: find an interview ex-Vertigo Agency scientist Jason Millveille. During this assignment, they are to take on the personas of a married couple named Simon and Gina Berret respectively.
Following previous investigations and discoveries relating to the defunct science facility, it is learned that the former scientist is living on Dewbreak Island under the new name of Prof. Roger Clements. Carmichael and Aberdeen are tasked with going to the island, making their way into the college Clements works at, and obtaining a genuine interview with him about his past.
May 29: Carmichael and their coworker Aberdeen begin their assignment to find and speak to Prof. Roger Clements. They start by first traveling to the state of Corrimet, catching a flight out of Milwater Horizon Aiport and later landing in Dewbreak Airport and its respective island. After leaving the island's airport, they catch a ride to a hotel known as Deep Breaths Hideaway and begin preparing their plans.
Carmichael calls up Shore-Light College, talking to them about their plans to enroll their totally-real son named Henry. Prior to this obviously legit enrollment, a meeting is prepared between the 'parents' and Prof. Roger Clements. After the call finishes up, the two immediately make their way towards the college.
After meeting chatting with the college's principal, Shannon Fabrice, the two 'parents' are taken on a guided tour of the college by librarian and substitute teacher Collin Mullins. The tour ends with the parents being taken to the fabled professor's office, who welcomes the two in for a proper private meeting.
Carmichael and Aberdeen put on a friendly chat for a bit, talking about their 'son' and the college. However, the facade drops when they ask the professor about his former time spent at the Vertigo Agency as well as his former name. Clements panicks and prepares to jump out the window of the office. However, he's stopped as the wizards use their spells to block off the potential exit. The professor fears for his life, assuming that the two are actually assassins for the militant Site 84 and its Lightforce units.
The two wizards do their best to calm down the professor, revealing their true intentions in the process. Clements still refuses to share any information, terrified that it will lead to him getting killed or at the least having to move and start his life over yet again. He's told about his former fellow scientist Lucy Silksphere, and given photos both of her past and near-present. He appreciates the update given on her survival at the least.
Clements is told about his old video game he worked on years ago, Project Marigold (2003 Build). Along with being passed an archived copy of it on a USB stick, he's told that life was breathed into the character present in the game and now he walks in the real world as the new Jason Millveille. A photo of Jason and his partner Clyde is given to Clements, who now agrees to talk for the sake of his 'son'.
Prof. Roger Clements tells the two wizards about the Vertigo Agency, both its intentions and what it was like working there. It's learned that a chunk of their funding came from the government of Woven Republic (the Secure Trustees), hospitals, and police precincts. The biggest source of funds came from their client, Site 84 and the Lightforce soldiers within it. Said client is revealed to be lead by an ancient wizard named General Vortex, who would later initiate the purge on the Vertigo Agency.
The two wizards also learn that Site 84 is hidden beneathe the desert of the Skillet Frontier, which is present in the southwestern end of the Woven Republic. Working in hiding, it's made clear that the eventual goal of these militant goons is to take full control of the country and later the planet by force. Before the conversation ends, Clements requests that the two wizards find a way to set up a meeting between himself and his 'son' Jason in the near future.
After turning in their assignments, the two wizards leave their boss and its secretary to converse in private. There, The Director makes it clear to its secretary Hera Danewright that war with Site 84 is looming in the coming year. However, it is made urgent that the Nebula Order & Education must make allies with a few budding factions in the Woven Republic to help aid in that fight. The searching and learning process begins on that front.
June 2022
June 12: Clyde Laurence and his partner Jason Millveille catch a flight out towards Dewbreak Island. Once there, they intend for Jason to meet his 'father' Prof. Roger Clements for the first time ever. They first spend some time at the Deep Breaths Hideaway, first having a sloppy makeout sessions, then taking a nap, and finally ordering some pizza at night. There's a bit of discussion about how awkward the meeting tomorrow is gonna be with 'dad'.
June 13: In the morning, Clyde makes a call to the fabled professor and arranges a time for everyone to meet later that night outside of the college. Until that time however, the couple kill time in New-Creek Lane by visiting a retro game store. Killing time further, they wind up going to a party store, other stores, a burger place for lunch, and back at the hotel for final planning.
The awkward meeting between Clements, Clyde, and Jason takes place outside the parking lot of Shore-Light College. Soon after they venture to a seafood place on the island's coast for dinner. They talk about everyone's jobs to help break the ice. Noticing that things are still awkward, Clyde tries to make Jason comfortable by bringing up a funny day spent in Sweetslurry awhile back. Recalling all the mischief that went on during a wrestling match, you can really see Jason's anxiety melt away as he keeps talking.
Jason and his 'dad' begin talking more comfortably, learning more about each other's lives. You can really tell in this moment that the father-son relationship is now blooming proper, as each loves the other strongly. Eventually the trio heads to Clements place, and they have some final conversations for the night. Before heading off, Jason takes a photo with his father and it warms Clements' heart immensely.
Later in the week Clyde and Jason head back home, catching a long flight that brings the two back to their home state of Linked West. Jason keeps up with his father through phone calls and video chats. Clements is truly proud of the fine, young adult that his son Jason has grown up to be. As a plus, Jason thinks his dad is pretty chill and cool as well.
June 17: The friend group of Pynchon, Elliot, Melbrook, and Thrash decide to play a tabletop game together for an evening. Said game is known as CRITTER QUEST EXPANSION PACK, featuring kinky elements tacked onto a generic adventure of saving a medieval princess. Ingame, the players take on the roles of Priestly Pynchon, Sir Elliot of Carnation, Melbrook Nimble-Paws, and Archmage Thrash.
By the end of the session, Melbrook succeeds alone in her adventure in saving the princess. With enough fantasy and fictional horny action for the night, Melbrook and her partner Thrash leave Pynchon's home. Elliot decides to spend some more time with Pynchon however, getting into some real life horny antics in turn. The end result of these wacky times is two massive, spherical, and cranberry-juice filled idiots smooshed together with an extra bit of "this game room is absolutely wrecked now."
June 18: Back to their normal hues and sizes, Elliot and Pynchon have to go through the awkward ordeal of explaining to the latter's landlord why a massive chunk of the house is red-stained rubble. The two find a way to sort through the mess proper, but the chances of either learning their lesson is a slim zero.
July 2022
July 6: Continuing investigations into the remnants of the Vertigo Agency, wizards Terry Shenz and Maria Ulmahn are tasked with tracking down and interviewing the troublesome Prof. Lucy Silksphere. They're sent off towards the town of St. Befree in Pembrok to begin questioning locals in the area about her whereabouts. Unlike Prof. Roger Clements, this task will be miles tougher due to Silksphere's brash and reclusive nature.
Questioning of locals goes as well as you'd expect when trying to track down a scientist gone mad. The wizard duo consider calling it for the night, beginning the walk back towards their motel for the week. However, luck strikes them last minute as a owl lad named Clancy Ryans comes onto the scene. He hooks them up with meeting a set of eccentric potoo brothers who had to deal with the infamous Silksphere in person.
Interviewing the potoo brothers goes a bit awkwardly at the start, what with one of said siblings being a sentient sock puppet. This leads into the wizards learning that Silksphere had once taken Lionel Starstruck hostage and conducted experiments on him that lead to his current small and adorable form. Soon they learn that the mad scientist is not only hunkering down in a church in the mountains, but also has an assistant made from different stitched up body parts.
July 7: Terry and Maria travel into the Nilbrook Mountain Chain in search of the abandoned Chapel for the Lost where the mad scientist and her assistant / wife resides. It's a hell of a search, but eventually Maria finds it as she scopes the land from on top of a tree. As the rain comes pouring in, they quickly travel towards the church and search for a way inside. A broken window can be spotted high up in the back of the church's exterior. Terry carefully levitates himself inside, and then repeats his spell in getting Maria up there too.
Entering the church together, the two wizards travel into the basement and begin combing through everything present. While the church's inhabitants are away, Terry and Maria get to work as quickly as they can. Maria finds a naughty photo of the mad scientist and assistant, confirming fully in that moment that the two are in a relationship. Information about experiments can be found next, one pertaining to an in-progress death ray and the other being a body-enhancing serum that's taken a quite odd turn in its developments. At one point, Terry finds an old photo of Prof. Silksphere and Prof. Clements posing together, dating back to when the Vertigo Agency stood strong decades ago.
During the investigation, Maria and Terry begin looking over a corkboard littered with quite recent photos and notes. To their terror, they learn the mad duo has been constructing a behemoth of sorts that they intend to use to wreak havoc in the state. Grabbing a map off the corkboard, they rush out of the chapel and follow its directions to the coast towards the north. Time is of the essence, as they're certain Lucy and Jennifer are there with the behemoth currently.
Professor Lucy Silksphere and wife Jennifer Doolie marvel upon the behemoth they've created together. It stands tall, sporting a long flowing mane, many differently colored and stitched together buff limbs, and a skull-like face with empty eye sockets. They test out its strength, and are proud to see it unroot and throw a mighty tree with ease. However, the wizards arrive bringing all this fun testing to an early end. The behemoth's 'moms' are lifted upon its shoulders as everyone prepares to battle.
To the mad duo's surprise, their behemoth 'child' named Craig has no interest in actually fighting. Its gentle giant nature infuriates its 'moms', as they begin to criticize and insult Craige repeatedly. Frustrated with its rude mothers, it tosses the two into the sea and then bids farewell to the wizards. It walks north towards the country of Boreal, eventually leaving sight as it fully submerges itself beneath the ocean's surface. During the whole display, Jennifer and Lucy sneak away from the coast and rush back towards their chapel to barricade themselves within.
Having already been present in the chapel basement, Terry is easily able to teleport himself and Maria there and avoid any traps set up by the mad scientist and assistant / wife. The duo then easily use their spells to remove the hatchet from Jennifer's grasp. The mad scientist herself hides underneath a bed behind Jennifer, fearing for her life greatly in this moment. An argument breaks out quickly, quelling any attempts to start fighting on either party's side.
Maria eventually is able to use reason with everyone present, alongside coaxing out the mad scientist from beneath the bed. She assures Lucy that her old friend Clements is still alive, well, and has a son now too. Seeing a photo of Clements and his son Jason persuades her to share what info she can remember of the final moments of the Vertigo Agency. Eventually, the wizards come to agreement that Jennifer and her mad scientist wife will not be harmed no turned into authorities as long as their research is contained to smaller, non-lethal portions. Before the wizards depart, Silksphere is given the phone number of her old friend Clements.
July 1: Claude and Isaiah's parents take a vacation down to Centauri. They absolutely enjoy all the sights, sounds, and events present in the hot country. Sweet-Kiss Oasis proves to be a fan-favorite for watching sunsets in. Windpeak on the other hand grabs the attention of dad, who winds up dragging mom along to each and every store he can.
July 8: Maria Ulmahn and Terry Shenz return to their boss, The Director, and turn in their findings from interviewing Prof. Lucy Silksphere. Alongside this, they meet Benny Coalescence, a former mechanic of Site 84. She tells the wizard duo, The Director, and its secretary Hera about working for Site 84 and what happened following her final day of employment. It's quite hard for Benny, who eventually breaks down into tears and is escorted away by The Director so that she can get privacy and calm down.
As they depart the 'office' together, Maria and Terry are told to be ready for an upcoming war with Site 84 and its Lightforce troopers. In addition, they must also prepare themselves for when unlikely allies are made with the Nebula Order & Education for said battle.
July 15: Claude and Isaiah's dad almost panics as his laptop nearly breaks. Mom gets to work and winds up not only saving it, but also cleans it as best as she can both inside and out.
July 19: Claude and Isaiah's mom is sent in a client's phone, which they appear to have accidentally fused with their smart watch and fitness bracelet too. At best, she'll be able to save the phone during the 'surgery'.
July 20: After living with his ghostly sibling for well over a decade, Claude Laurence begins his quest in helping lay his brother Isaiah to rest finally. Isaiah is ready for this moment, as he wants the peace and quiet of the afterlife way more than the confusing and scary living world he's stuck in. They leave the Doberman Condos together, venturing out into the streets of Rubberneck Peak.
Upon reaching the old site of Prancy Towers, the two brothers find that it's become a construction site for a Majestic Planning project. The foreman guarding the front gate (Violet Beretta) refuses to let Claude enter the site. Disappointed, the two decide to take a breather and order coffee at Cinnamon Cafe nearby.
After recieving their order, Isaiah notices a curious couple of individuals nearby and requests that Claude talks to them. He has a hunch that they might be wizards, and sure enough he's correct. The wizard Sigourney Merry can feel the presence of Isaiah physically, which piques the interest of her coworker Terry Shenz. Claude gives his whole sphiel about his late brother and plans to help lay him to rest.
Terry details a simple plan for helping lay Isaiah to rest properly. The twins need to find a photograph of Isaiah, a piece of clothing he once wore when alive, a sentimental object that Isaiah adored, and lastly a container of magical essence. The last piece can be provided by the wizards once Claude has a decent enough container to keep it secured within.
Once all the objects are obtained, Claude must bring them to the place where Isaiah died. In this case, they must journey to the highest point of the construction site nearby. After that, he will be entrusted to make a ritual circle, place the objects within, focus on good memories had with Isaiah, and finally lay him to rest.
Claude and Isaiah begin collecting the objects first, traveling between Rubberneck Peak and their hometown of Yellowrock Coast. For the latter location, this involves taking a train and visiting their parents directly, spending some time in the household before snooping about for ritual-worthy objects.
Terry and Sigourney at the Cinnamon Cafe help to bless a container that Claude has on him, manifesting magical essence within it. Now with everything he needs, he and Isaiah make their way to the construction site. They wait til' nightfall and then climb some boxes to help them reach and sneak through a hole in the fence.
Carefully, Claude and Isaiah sneak through the construction site as they evade security guards. Eventually they reach the top, where Claude attempts the ritual to lay Isaiah to rest. It doesn't work surprisingly, prompting the twins to leave the site quietly and call Terry for help.
In Claude's apartment suite bedroom, he and Isaiah are dumbfounded as to why the ritual didn't work. Terry, who they invited after call, offers an explanation. Basically, the reason Isaiah isn't able to move onto the afterlife is because he and his brother Claude love each other deeply. Neither can be separated from the other, even after the day comes decades from now when Claude croaks from old age. They both accept this life, with Isaiah trying his best to learn not to fear being in this living world as long as he's got his brother around.
July 20: The Nebula Order & Education are in the middle of attempting to expand their business into Boreal, hoping to build a facility high above the sky like the one in the Woven Republic. The leaders of Boreal, known as the Royal Twins, are very hesistant to even let that have a chance of happening. Each Twin is confident that their own employed government wizards serve a better purporse than the Order could in Boreal.
A elderly spider woman in Yellowrock Coast makes predictions of the future. One prediction mentions a 'toy' being made that leads to a group fighting itself during its creation. Another tells of the deitys fighting for control, with the outcome in the end being the strangest victor. Next, she predicts a plane crashing somewhere and the only survivor being either rescued or punished by faith. Lastly, she hints towards beasts rumbling under the sands of the Woven Republic that will require a group of unlikely allies to put said beasts down.
A holiday detected to politicians takes place in Rubberneck Peak. It seems ridiculous as a concept, and even more silly once the parade starts moving through the street.
Newcomer band BEATSTIK FUNK puts up fliers looking for a new drummer. It's a mystery what happened to the previous one, though they most likely just upped and quit.
A couple of handymen carefully place a sign for a new bodega coming to Rubberneck Peak. In other news, man watches paint dry.
The Royal Twins announce that in order to liven up the country of Boreal's workforce, requirements for immigrating here will be made ever-so slightly easier.
A preacher following Her Divine's teachings does an interview with a news reporter from Rubberneck Peak. It appears she really had an impact on her interviewer, as they put on nearly two hundred pounds in the two weeks that followed.
A strange vortex appears in a lake adjacent to Breezy Vein, Boreal. The Royal Twins urge the public to not start yelling about the aliens landing, chalking such beliefs up to pure nonsense. The local papers report on exactly what the Twins said not to anyway.
Claude and Isaiah's grandma is taking a vacation in Centauri, enjoying the sunny hillside Windpeak. She sends a poster card and twenty dollars to Claude.
July 23: While on assignment in the country of Boreal, Terry Shenz and his coworker Sigourney Merry stumble upon a device in a burnt out office. It appears to be known as the Divine Software, and has affiliations with the goddess Her Divine. They return back to the Nebula Order & Education in the Woven Republic, passing on this device to their boss.
August 2022
August 15: What seems to be a normal day of work on Riolle Farm turns out to be a troublesome one when Xavier Kaster and his associates show up. Through some sort of legal loophole, Sheila Riolle and her spouse Jamie Thistle learn that land the farm sits upon is now under Majestic Planning's ownership. They're offered a chance to talk about this further with the CEO of said real estate company, however.
August 17: Playing things cautiously, Sheila and Jamie bring along their friend and farm security guard Count Açaí to the meeting with Majestic Planning's CEO, Phillip Lilac. Masquerading as the accountant, the Count puts forward the facade of being known as 'Chauncey Açaí'.
During disagreements, it becomes clear to the Count and Lilac alike that they are both fruit bat vampires that come from rival clans. The threat of getting the cops called of them forces Riolle and the gang to leave with only frustrations. Phillip Lilac prepares to tighten security at Majestic Planning following this meeting.
August 19: Sheila, Jamie, and the Count discuss the failures of the previous meeting. During this talk, they learn more of the history between the Count's clan and Lilac's. Similar tactics, though drastically different handlings of mingling against humanity. As the conversations die down, Count Açaí makes it clear that they haven't given up yet and dart off back towards the Majestic Planning building. Sheila and Jamie quickly get in their car, hoping they can catch up in time before too much chaos ensues.
Count Açaí infilitrates the Majestic Planning building, utilizing their manipulation of shadows, strength, and cleverness. Many security guards are taken down in the process as the vampire works their way up the building's floors. Eventually they reach the floor with Lilac's personal office and take care of all the guards present. During the commotion, Xavier Kaster escapes the office through a secret passageway and hides until things are safe again.
Face-to-face, Phillip Lilac and Count Açaí battle each other within Lilac's personal office. Each does well to land shots on each other, pushing the limits of boths' strengths. At one point, the Count does the unthinkable and bites into Lilac. After yelping in pain, the CEO returns the favor with his own bite attack in turn. Each vampire's fruity venom now makes its way in each's body, beginning a slow process of changing the hues of their fur alongside causing the bodies to swell up with foreign juices. Sheila and Xavier arrive on the same floor as the office, and join Xavier Kaster until the battle is over.
Eventually, Lilac is far more exhausted from the swelling weight upon him than the Count is with their own. Fueled with rage, the Count administers more bites upon the cowering Lilac. It's at this point that no doubt Count Açaí is the true victor as well as still mobile. The non-vampires enter the office finally, witnessing the spherical and blue-tinted Lilac being put in his place by the extremely fattened and purple-tinted Count. Completely immobile and defenseless, Lilac gives in and makes sure Xavier returns the land back to Sheila along with disallowing any further hostilities on behalf of Majestic Planning.
August 21: During a sunny day, Xavier Kaster and Phillip Lilac drive to Riolle Farm. Tired and weakened from the sunlight, a chubby and no longer blue Lilac gives his apologies to the farm owners and its security. Words are kept in that the farm truly is in Sheila's hands now, and no further troubles shall come. Before they leave, a chubby and blue once again Count Açaí holds a private conversation with Lilac.
Count Açaí threatens Lilac whilst also offering an olive branch of peace. It's accepted, even if Lilac didn't have much of a choice. The second half of the conversation revolves on seeing what information the CEO knows about a mysterious vampire from a clan separate from each other. They learn said individual is living in Boreal, and that Lilac will later forward any other information he knows to Sheila. The rich bastard departs with his assistant, never intending to fuck with Riolle Farm ever again.
September 2022
September 4: In a storm drain present in the outer city limits of St. Dupont, two cars full of folks working for Shane De'Blaine await the other party present in a weapons deal. One car is filled with cultic enforcers, the muscle that Shane employs. The other has a couple of enforcers (Torres Cincinnati and Quetzal Merrick) backing up Shane's sibling Thomas and a middleman for their deals named Nelly Corinthian Jr. They discuss plans regarding the deal ahead.
A mafia lead by a man named Aurelio show up to the scene, readying themselves for the weapons deal. Introductions are made, a discussion is held, and both partie's goods are shown off. Everything seems to be going just perfect, with Thomas and Aurelio shaking each other's hands to finalize the deal. However, like clockwork the deal is busted by a bunch of soldiers from Site 84. They're lead by Colonel Neverglade, who urges both Shane's enforcers and the mafiosos to put down their weapons and accept their arrests.
A firefight breaks out amongst the groups, as the enforcers and the mafiosos team up to fight off the Lightforce unit sent by Site 84. It gets rather gruesome, with at one point Aurelio getting shot right through the forehead and dying instantly as he hits the ground. To make matters worse, Thomas catches a bunch of bullets to their body's side. Nelly rushes to get them out of here alive and into an escape car. The two sit in the back seat, as enforcers Torres takes the wheel and Quetzal fires off from the passenger seat.
Torres drives through the Skillet Frontier, evading the Lightforce forces entirely. Nelly does his best to keep Thomas alive even as they bleed out severely. Eventually the car stops in a small town set within Dunhworth County, in the state of Sweetslurry Edge. Everyone in the car rushes Thomas into a medical building and gets them into urgent care immediately. The enforcers make sure nobody else leaves nor enters the building while Thomas is in surgery. If anyone asks, the front desk attendant promises they won't snitch and will bullshit some vague lie if asked.
After finishing another episode of her self-titled talk show, Shane De'Blaine is put into a phone call with her middleman Nelly Corinthian Jr. She learns of what happened to the both the weapons deal and her sibling in general. Acting fast, she catches a ride with associate producer Dupree Marion and the two rush to Dunhworth County for Thomas' sake.
Shane rushes into the operating room to check on her sibling Thomas. Thankfully, the doctor worked overtime to do what she could to save them. However, the rest of the work will require either a more proper hospital or the help of wizards. Thankfully the latter can be handled by taking Thomas later to the Kingdom of Bark Queen and requesting the assistance of archmage Ethan Riles. Getting some privacy finally, Shane and Thomas talk about what happened and then shoot the shit together like true siblings that love each other would.
September 5: Shane De'Blaine and her sibling Thomas take a car ride together by just themselves, following the latter being released from the Dunhworth County medical building. It's a long drive to the castle, but once they get there they'll patch the last bits of Thomas up just fine with magic. They kill the time until then by just having another normal chat for once, free from work, deals, and other stressful shit that goes on on the regular for the two siblings.
September 18: Friends Ellie Knokkswitch and Retrograde prepare for a hell of a virtual adventure, as they must log themselves into the Divine Software device and see what information is provides regarding the goddess known as Her Divine. They go through multiple simulated trials that act as Security Clearances before they can gain access to the device's data vault.
Successfully piercing through all layers of security in the device, Ellie and Retrograde enter the virtual data vault and come face-to-face with Her Divine inside. After answering questions and holding a professional discussion, Her Divine gives the two a choice: Work with her and enter into a contract with the goddess, or work FOR her and help her reshape reality in her fattening and inflated vision. They choose the former, and are freed from the device.
In reality, they find themselves to have been fattened at some point. They roll with it for now, heading towards the Nebula Order & Education to present their findings to the Director.
September 27: Glory Fantasy awakens to find herself held in some sort of futuristic prison cell, constrained in a contraption made of lasers and metal arm bands. After spotting an alien maintenance worker, it's made apparently quickly that she's been abducted and is within a UFO. A convenient small power surge occurs, destroying both the contraption holding her hostage and the camera watching her. With the element of surprise, she knocks out and robs the maintenance worker tending to the camera. Now clothed and armed, she begins to search for any other human captives onboard.
Weston Fredericks is also onboard the ship and in a cell, both wide awake and being interrogated by an alien. During the interrogation, the alien is attacked and killed from behind by Glory Fantasy. It's a gory display, as she makes great use of a multitool and its many functions that she stole prior. She frees her friend and Weston quickly changes into his now-dead interrogator's outfit. Grabbing a weapon from the corpse, he readies himself for fighting alongside his fellow investigator.
As if there weren't enough captives onboard that knew each other, Waever Nuelle can be found in her own prison cell as well. Terrified for her life, she fears the oncoming sounds of fighting that take place outside the cell. Thankfully, its her friends that enter the cell soon enough and free her from her constraints. Reluctantly she takes an alien-styled shotgun and joins the fighting alongside her friends.
In the cockpit of the alien spacecraft, the holographic and lemur AI named Mason is held captive and used as a power source for the ship. He attempts to talk shit to the alien captain and her lackeys present. This ends poorly, as he winds up getting tortured through shocks. Outside of this room, a mighty and muscular soldier guards the only entrance and packs a heavy piece of weaponry.
The crew of investigator friends valiantly fight the muscular alien solider, eventually causing it to drop dead. Its laser-based minigun of sorts hits the ground, and Glory takes it upon herself to equip it. Together they open the doors to the cockpit room, utilizing smoke that pours in as a form of cover. The bold cat lass fires off every possible round she can, while her friends take pot shots from cover. Alien bodies go down one by one, until eventually only their captain is all that remains alive.
One lucky shot to the head is more than enough to put down the alien captain. It's a gory mess as her head explodes upon impact, but one that puts an end to the stressful firefight. Mason is freed from his container, reuniting with all his friends quickly after. They all work together to find a way to pilot the ship back home while it's still mostly intact.
Things take a dire turn however, as the haeavily wounded captain uses the final strength she has to turn on a device she hid away. She slumps down, sputtering the last bit of blood from her previously exploded head. With that final move, a self-destruct sequence has been initiated within the ship. Everyone prepares for a crash landing, as the ship hurtles towards Earth at high speeds.
In the desert of the Skillet Frontier, government-backed agents known as the Secure Trustees watch the skies. The highest ranking individuals in the Woven Republic's government fear the oncoming spacecraft they've detecting racing towards the Earth. The ship crashes down and lights up the sandy desert with its mighty flames and many sparks. As Glory and her friends crawl out of the wreckage, they're met with the many agents rushing to their location by trucks and SUVs.
Glory Fantasy and her fellow investigator friends are held up at gunpoint by Secure Trustee agents. Agent Sunburst heads the operation alongside her second-in-command, Agent Rustbelt. The friend group is interrogated and treated as if THEY were aliens themselves. It's a very tense situation that almost winds up with them getting arrested at best and killed at worst. Mason thinks quickly and attempts to defuse the situation, as snipers ready their shots from a distance.
Using old memory banks relating to Site 84, Mason attempts to convince the agents that he and his friends work for the militant Lightforce unit. Perfectly providing secure codephrases and callsigns, he succeeds as the Secure Trustees present begin to freak out. Agent Sunburst calls off the operation, making it clear that attempting to quarrel with Site 84 in any capacity will result in only trouble. She apologies as her second-in-command promises that this event will not be recorded in their records.
Leaving behind the ship on its last legs, the Secure Trustees agents all pile back into their vehicles and leave the crash site. Thankful to be alive, the friend group prepare to leave the desert and head back to their respective homes. Waever calls up her own wives to help pick up everyone in the Opossum Valley Radio RV. It can be assumed that any evidence of the crashed alien ship is gone by the time they leave, as the technology dissolves itself into nothingness within the desert sand.
October 2022
October 2: Ellie Knokkswitch and friend Retrograde are in the middle of trying to shed the pounds they've gained after their last mission together. They take a break, relaxing on the couch together and watching televsion.
Retrograde interrupts TV time, and asks a serious question to Ellie. Since their last mission together, Retrograde really thinks that the two of them could be a great couple together. After some more talking about the subject, Ellie accepts and the two proceed to hug and then makeout on the floor together. Ellie Knokkswitch and Retrograde are now officially dating each other as of this moment, with their relationship holding strong as hell for the rest of their lives together.
October 15: In the town of Shakefaire, astronomer Pyra Merritt pieces the final bits of her investigation into the goddess known as Her Divine. She readies herself for sharing the troubling findings tomorrow with her colleagues and later many government officials across the Woven Republic. In these final days of her normal life, she makes the mistake of being she can truly stop the mighty plans of a deity that could quite literally wipe her from existence in a moment's notice.
It is of note that during these normal days and ones that came before, Pyra is an underweight individual and within her late 30's. The former would not last however, as the goddess Her Divine has other plans regarding the zebra shark's body.
October 16: Astronomer Pyra Merritt awakens to find herself now within a candy-coated and edible realm known as Divine's Eternal. Her reason for being her is following attempts to work against the goddess known as Her Divine and whistleblow the powerful being's nefarious plans. Trying to maintain her sanity and keep her sanity, the astronomer makes notes of her experiences within this realm of temptation.
She explores the beaches of Divine's Eternal, taking note of the many smells and designs of this edible coast. Within this same day her first meal her makes it quite apparent that the rules of weight in this realm are highly exagerrated. Going to bed that night, Pyra feels the discomfort of her full stomach fighting against the constraints of her uniform.
October 24: Sitting in a forest present in Divine's Realm, Pyra struggles with the newfound weight she's gained in the past week. It's insane how quickly she's gone from skin and bones to a tad bit chubby. Exploring the forest, she learns that even the wildlife is candy-themed as she catches and gazes upon gelatinous fish in the river. Cracking off pieces of chocolaty bark from local trees, she readies herself for more exploring and looks towards the mountains in the distance.
October 31: Marseille Billintz throws a Halloween costume party with his friends and others. Clyde and his partner Jason wind up going, dressing up as a clown and mime respectively. They get piss drunk together and have a hell of a night together!
November 2022
November 4: Bark Queen rallies a group of her knights and troops to the front gate of her castle. They are lead by the tanuki knight Ferra and the slimy-Leafeon Victory. Orders are given to all present to investigate a strange military setup to the south, within the surrounding forest. Knights and archers alike move south together following said orders.
Colonel Pristine leads a group of Lightforce soldiers within the forests of northern Linked West. Whilst being spied on by archers and knights of Bark Queen, it is learned the soldiers are investigating the area for the Kingdom of Bark Queen and the BONEZONE cult's hideout. A noise is heard from beyond the camp, and a couple soldiers are sent to investigate. It turns out to be a trap, as the knights and archers in hiding ambush them.
Battling takes place at the camp, as Lightforce units take on Bark Queen's archers and knights. The casualties are high, with Lightforce winding up being the victors as they pull out. At this point, the only survivors of the knights and archers are their respective leaders and one low-ranking archer that's on death's door. Ferra and Victory pull the archer out of the bloody battlefield, rushing him to medical attention back at the castle proper.
Bark Queen is brought up to speed on the battle that took place due south of the castle. It depresses her greatly, though she's thankful at least Ferra, Victory, and the heavily wounded archer lad lived despite it. Said wounded archer is brought into surgery in the castles medical wing, as the nurses, doctors, and magically-inclined head Doctor Victoria Sherry work on him. Thankfully, he pulls through and begins a one-to-three week-long process of healing.
The Queen readies herself for more conflict ahead, but takes a moment to let her mind and body rest first. She takes on Sherry's advice on finding more factions to ally with before she brings war to Site 84 and its Lightforce unit. As the first step, she begins plans to hold a meeting with her wives Famous Prophette and Shane De'Blaine.
November 9: In the central garden of The Kingdom of Bark Queen, a meeting is held between the leaders of the BONEZONE Cult, the talk show SHANE, and the Kingdom itself. They discuss plans for handling the future war with Site 84 and its Lightforce unit. In addition, they speak upon what they know currently of the defunct Vertigo Agency and the active Nebula Order & Education.
Through the hacker Plastic Dottrix's efforts, Bark Queen makes known that the factions present in this meeting as well as the Nebula Order & Education both share the common enemy of Site 84. Said information is gleamed from reports that were sent to the Queen whilst the hacker had snooped remotely through the Order's servers. After a long discussion and arguments, it is accepted fully that the three wives and their factions must learn more about the Order and eventually ally with them against Site 84.
Plans are made to carry out regular duties present in each wives' faction, as it will give the Nebula Order a chance to easily spy on them. In turn, this will allow the faction to come close to spying on the wizards in turn. This indirect mutual spying will aid each opposing group in learning about each other, before a tense meeting will occur amongst all their leaders. For further prepartions, each villainous wife decides upon their favorite magically-inclined individuals to accompany them in the eventual meeting with the Nebula Order & Education's leader.
Bark Queen notes that when Site 84 and its Lightforce unit is wiped completely from the planet, she will attempt to finally deal with her sister that holds great power in the neighboring country of Centauri.
November 19: Having spent a month within Divine's Eternal, Pyra Merritt lumbers up sugary mountains in barely fitting and quite tattered clothing. Her weight has only continued to pile upon her frame with each day passed. At one point, she's attacked by wild wolves whose bodies are made up of ice cream and syrup. She successfully fights them off and kills the pack of dessert mutts. Using her head, she notices some of the syrup on the corpses are quite hard and could be used as materials.
Hours pass, and there stands a proud and tired Pyra wearing handmade clothing and armor cobbled together from pieces of the candy-coated lands. She looks off towards the distant canyons, planning her next destination through this wretched realm. Until then however, she gets some rest under the odd moonlight.
November 24: Eileen Persimmon heads into her regular therapy appointment with Dr. Mosyne in Windpeak, Centauri. Topics brought up include her stressful job at Coronation Uplinks, possible future job as personal assistant for Mayor Bethany Quindell, her relationship with her father, and general anxieties. Said future job is set up through her father's connections, which span between the countries of Centauri, Boreal, and the Woven Republic. The reasoning how the father is able to pull off these connections is left a mystery, however.
By the end of the session, Eileen works up the nerve to work towards that new job offer. She schedules her next therapy appointment to take place the day before she meets Mayor Bethany Quindell in person.
November 28: Eileen Persimmon puts in her two-week notice at Coronation Uplinks, preparing an end to the 'working as technical support' chapter of her life.
December 2022
December 8: Tired and quite obese, Pyra Merritt trudges through the cotton candy-covered and dreadfully hot canyons. She eventually loses hope in herself, falling to the ground and beginning to feast upon the edible land she lays upon. During her feasting she considers her possible future as an immobile blob of a lass. It almost seems enticing, but she soon snaps back to reality and begins to vomit up everything she's eaten in the past ten minutes.
Utilizing the rush of the gross experience and the andrenaline flowing through herself, Pyra hoists her body off the ground. At this point she is fully nude, as her body had outgrown even the oversized apparel that she's crafted for herself. She must continue on her journey however, taking advantage of the next time she is able to craft an even drastically larger outfit for herself.
December 11: Eileen Persimmon heads to her therapy appointment, which is held before the first day of her job as Mayor Bethany Quindell's personal assistant. She discusses the bundle of feelings she has regarding tomorrow's first day.
At night, Eileen in her bed begins to dream about a surreal realm made up of filing cabinet hills, a keyboard sea, and stacks of paper that fall from the sky like snow. Behind herself the cabinets continue to stack onwards infinitely, blocking out any chance of her dream self spotting the sun. This dream only leaves her confused, not sure what other emotion is stirring within her mind beyond that.
December 12: Eileen drives north to the Quindell Estate, which is located in her home town of Sweet-Kiss Oasis. Upon entry, she greets the receptionist Nora Thyme and partakes in a guided tour of the manor. The tour ends at the Mayor's office, with Eileen entering it soon after.
Eileen Persimmon and Mayor Bethany Quindell meet in person, discussing future work plans ahead. In addition, the Nickit lass is introduced to Deputy Mayor Lucius Memoriam as well as Bethany's personal lawyer Connie Bell. When the meeting ends, Eileen leaves both nervous and confident at the time same time. She makes a pitstop to the estate's kitchen, enjoying some sweets baked and offered by the head chef Lydia Quarters.
At night, Eileen in her bed begins to dream about a distant ship that slowly sinks into the sea. Beyond it, a red buoy glows ominously as it bobs upon the water. Questions fill her mind about the mysteries regarding her new job. She wonders anxiously if the ship is herself and the buoy is the sirens calling out to her with doom.
December 17: Ash O'Possum and her husband Ferris Porter are threatened with jail time after damages occur to a building in Windpeak during their weekly parkour runs. Seeking to get some good PR, Mayor Bethany Quindell sends in her lawyer Connie Bell to handle the case on the couple's behalf. They hit a homerun in the case, managing to get any charges and possible fines dropped entirely. Word spreads immediately of the Mayor's kind gesture, with emphasis being placed on the fact that the couple didn't have to pay a dime for Connie's help either.
December 27: The Director of the Nebula Order & Education brings together a group of its employed wizards for a very important meeting in its office. It begins to assign tasks to everyone present, each one pertained to investigating one of the three factions: The Kingdom of Bark Queen, the BONEZONE cult, and the talk show SHANE. It hopes that with these investigations conducted that they can learn about their someday temporary allies very well and prepare for their joint fight against Site 84 and its Lightforce unit.
December 28: After two weeks working as Mayor Bethany Quindell's personal assistant, Eileen comes to learn that she's put on at least thirty-three pounds. While a normal person would be absolutely dumbfounded by such extreme gains in a short period, she takes it as some sort of good sign of being healthy. I suppose rational thoughts will have to be saved for when her chubby figure grows quite wide and hefty in the coming months.
Handling emails for the Quindell Estate, Eileen Persimmon works hard to convince a priest named Reverend Artemis to take on an exorcism mission requested by Bethany Quindell. The idea is to cleanse an abandoned mall called Delícias do Vale of the many spirits that haunt it. However, due to the Reverend's heavy schedule pertaining to other exorcisms and masses alike, this mission won't have a shot at actually happening until sometime around the Summer of 2023.
At night, Eileen in her bed begins to dream about herself walking up a flight of endless and decrepit stairs. She holds onto the railings for deep breath, stopping now and then to catch her breath. A thought stirs in her mind about if this dream respresents herself in the future as she continues to work for the Mayor. Could everything in her life fall apart in due time? Probably not, Gods-willing.
December 29: Terry Shenz does an interview with DJ FALL FOOTWEAR and his spouse DJ DUMMY TUMMY. He learns of the cultist past of DJ FALL FOOTWEAR, along with getting a brief idea of how the BONEZONE cult operates.
Of note, Terry learns that every member gets their black fangs and unique eyes after partaking in the blood-focused initiation process. A member is taken down to the blood-filled springs, are forced to drink lots of it, and go through their transformation alongside gaining a decent bit of weight. DJ FALL FOOTWEAR himself has lost most of that weight by modern times, but still has the same fangs and eyes since then however. He has no interest in trying to 'fix' either.
After Terry Shenz leaves the household, both of the disc jockey spouses get extremely crossfaded and are able to repress this night from their memories the next morning.
December 31: Ending the New Year with work, Presto Momento journeys into Linked West's Lily Outskirts to prepare for her assigned mission. Perched on a rooftop with camera and audio equipment, she begins recording the back parking lot of the Lily Republic Medical Center. Her goal is to catch a recording of the nurse Merrill Buckshot, as they're rumored to be a cultist of BONEZONE.
Spotting the nurse taking a break in the parking lot, Presto prepares for her provided equipment to catch a audible recording of Buckshot. A delivery truck arrives at the lot, sporting the branding of Mercury's Travels. The driver steps out and heads inside the hospital with the nurse. They soon return together, pushing carts full of coolers packed with blood bags. The blood bags are loaded into the truck as the two hold a conversation with each other. It becomes clear that both are confirmed members of the Bonezone cult.
During Presto's recording, the two cultists discuss how most of these bloodbags come from a poor child that bleed immensely in the hospital. The kid didn't make it, but neither cultist could muster the care for that. Some of the blood bags are marked with SHN, as they're intended for delivery straight to Shane De'Blaine. Before finishing her work, Presto takes notes and makes sure to denote both cultists as 'FREAKS'.
January 2023
January 2: Aberdeen Fritz and fellow magical coworker Maria Ulmahn venture to a film studio in Marseille, Opossum Valley. There, they interview director Sockbuppey Fluffsnoot about her experiences being on Shane's self-titled talk show.
She recalls being treated like shit on the set, as well as noticing that the audience was made up of cultists. Past the cultist audience, she points out how the security officials on set look like very menacing cultists as well. The last bit of info she provides is that she overheard Shane make a call to one of her wives.
January 3: Ellie Knokkswitch and her partner Retrograde enter a virtual space crafted by the latter. Here, they're both able to see a physical recreation of the servers present in the Nebula Order & Education. Venturing within further, Ellie sees a manifestation of the employed hacker for the Kingdom of Bark Queen: Plastic Dottrix.
Readying some destructive virus tools, Ellie and Retrograde remotely hack into and break down the laptop of Plastic Dottrix. They also manage to take back files that were stolen from the Order in the process. Plastic freaks out, and proceeds to destroy the laptop in her apartment suite's bathroom. It's too late however, as the dynamic lesbian duo have gotten everything they've needed from the now-dead laptop.
Finally finding a moment of peace, she readies her phone to report on the event to Bark Queen. However, she's met with a text from Retrograde taunting her. She freaks out further, needing a long period of non-electronic peace before she can even think of trying to get in contact with her Queen.
January 9: Orville the Loyal enters the candy store known as Bewitching Confections, wanting to investigate what he can on the place being used as a supply depot for Bark Queen. There, she uncomfortably mingles with one of the store owners, Mixxy Charmante. Mixxy uses laced sweets at one point to force feed and daze Orville. Meanwhile, a representative of the Queen picks up a delivery from the basement storage. In a trance of sorts, Orville begins to grab some sweets and treats and readies herself for purchasing it all at the counter.
After paying for her goods in a daze, Orville comes to her senses and rushes to the parking lot to catch the delivery person. The latter drives out of the lot quickly, and the bard-mage begins to pursue in her own vehicle. The car chase cuts through Linked West quickly and haphazardly, ending somewhere near the forest that shrouds the Queen's castle. Orville doesn't want to take the risk of driving offroad today and lets the delivery person escape into the woods.
January 10: Nearing one month of employment, Eileen's total weight has pass the 200 pounds threshold. She overthinks how she looks in her tight outfit to the point that gets very frustrated. Distracting herself from such thoughts, she ventures out of her office at the Quindell Estate to clear her mind. Stepping into the hallway, she bumps into the maid known as Malcolm Corkscrew. He can tell she's stressed out of her mind, so Malcolm brings Eileen outside and into the estate's garden for a proper smoke break.
The smoke broke does the mind good, as Eileen is able to calm herself down thanks to Malcolm. She inquires into Malcolm's experiences working years at the estate, in which he describes it as strange and 'different'. He refuses to clarify further on it, as the Nickit lass will learn what the maid means in the coming months.
At night, Eileen in her bed begins to dream about being present in a court room where she's on trial for a unknown crime. Everything gets odder by the second, as she notices everyone else present is just herself in different uniforms and wearing different personalities. When the judge slams her gavel, Eileen awakes from her nightmare. She can only infer that the dream has something to do with her conscience lately.
January 15: In an abandoned factory in Linked West, Lorrie Schearz attempts to teach a class of novice wizards how to fight and protect themselves. However, it's cut short the moment she finds Marty O'Possum spying on her nearby. She makes a lesson of the plushy opossum woman, beating the ever-living hell out of her in front of all the students. She dismisses the class, wanting to handle the rest of this just one-on-one.
Lorrie almost kills Marty, but pulls back after she lets the opossum talk about why she's here. Realizing that she's only speaking truths and that she'll need her help later this year, she lets the jester-mage live. The psychic gives her final remarks and insults, before telling Marty to focus heavily on training for when the big day to fight Site 84 together comes. She departs, soon teleporting herself back to the castle with her own powers.
Marty gets up, dusts herself off, and walks out of the factory and into the moonlight alone. She's in a hell of a lot of pain, but still knows she completed her task as intended.
January 20: The Director and its personal assistant Hera Danewright begin to comb through the reports provided by employed wizards over the past almost-month. Just through short glances and summaries, they both feel like they've learned a lot more about The Kingdom of Bark Queen, the BONEZONE Cult, and the talk show SHANE.
Getting ready to take all reports and archive them, The Director finds itself getting an unexpected phone call. The person on the other end is revealed to Bark Queen. She requests a meeting with The Director, and makes it clear that her wives will be present. A meeting is set for the near future, as all four factions with discuss their temporary allyship ahead and the battle with Site 84 beyond that.
January 24: Agent McKennel of the Secure Trustees is tipped off about possible shady dealings going on regarding Mayor Bethany Quindell in Sweet-Kiss Oasis. After holding a discussion with her superiors and Centauri's government, she is given the all clear to investigate this. Later that evening, McKennel boards a flight out of Milwater Horizon, Corrimet.
January 25: Agent McKennel arrives in Centauri and makes her way to Sweet-Kiss Oasis. She flashes her badges at the Quindell Estate and is allowed an interview with the mayor. During discussions, she finds herself overinduldging on the coffee and treats offered by the mayor and her personal assistant, Eileen Persimmon. The interview goes over swimmingly for the mayor, with nothing worrying the Secure Trustees agent present.
Agent McKennel takes a special tour of the Quindell Estate, being allowed to dawdle in each room and do a light sweep of the area. Nothing illegal nor heinous shows up in her searches, as one would expect.
In private, Connie Bell asks the mayor if the agent needs to be 'dealt with'. She assures them that the situation can be handled without lethality just fine. In addition, she adds that there doesn't need to be any additional tension added between herself and the Secure Trustees of the Woven Republic.
January 28: Slime boyfriends Burst Dewwdrop, Lucid Retros, and Fizzy Carbonate head to a thrift store in Lancesler, Opossum Valley known as St. Marine Thrift. They have a fun time combing through all the goods on display in many different sections of the thrift store.
A cashier named Marsh is brought to assist Burst and his boyfriends with opening a locked case that has an old game cartridge inside. Upon inspecting said case however, the skunky cashier freaks out and insists that it is not sale and shouldn't be on display. His fear can be seen bluntly by all three, and they ask if he needs an ambulance to be called. Not wanting to cause a scene, he brings the locked case and the slime boyfriends into the back office of the thrift store.
Marsh tells a story on how the game within the case, Journey of Bippo, has a very cursed history to it. It sounds like nonsense to all the boyfriends, and Marsh realizes no amount of talking with make them believe him. Reluctantly, he lets them have the game within for free and rings it up with the rest of their orders. He fears for the safety of these three immensely, feeling shame in even letting them have such a cursed object.
The slime boyfriends begin playing the game in their living room, unwittingly allowing themselves to be cursed over time. Burst becomes the most addicted of the group. The curse does its best day by day to make the boyfriends get fatter and fatter which has wild effects on their home and work lives.
January 29: Within a temporary dimension, a meeting is held between the leaders of the Nebula Order, the Kingdom of Bark Queen, the BONEZONE Cult, and the SHANE talk show. There, a temporary truce is made between the factions with plans to fight together against the militant Site 84 and its Lightforce soldiers later this year.
February 2023
February 1: Agent McKennel of the Secure Trustees finishes her investigation on the Quindell Estate and Mayor Bethany Quindell. By the end of this, she seems to have put on roughly 115 pounds.
Upon taking a flight home and talking with her superiors, she chalks up her larger figure to just being part of her metabolism slowing down. They do not wish to prod into the question further, even if they don't believe her. Regardless, the case is marked as resolved and archived within the agency's vaults.
February 5: Eileen attends an appointment with her therapist, and it's quite obvious that the Nickit lass has put on a lot of weight in the past few months. She refuses to discuss it as first, instead focusing topics on Mayor Bethany Quindell, her boss. After recounting a story about how the Mayor handles affairs, buttons fly off Eileen's shirt as they can no longer handle the hefty stomach and breasts pushing against them. Feeling defeated, she begins to talk about her weight finally and what she think is causing it to rise greatly.
At night, Eileen in her bed begins to dream about a lake on fire that is surrounded by many piers. Each pier has unmanned cars flying off them and into the fiery water ahead. She refuses to drive her own vehicle off the pier she's at, instead powering it down and stepping out of the driver's seat. She takes off most of her clothes and stares into the burning water.
Dream Eileen refuses to enter the hot waters, turning her back to them and walking away from the fiery lake. Many unmanned cars honk as she passes them, but she disallows herself from giving into anger within herself. When she awakes in the real world, she takes whatever lesson she's just learned to heart.
February 10: Taking charge in his home's living room, an obese and exhausted Fizzy is finally able to break the cursed cartridge of Journey of Bippo. Before the cursed and broken cartridge loses all of its power, it fires off one last bit of energy towards the slime doggy. Now, Fizzy lays on the floor just as immobile and blob-like as his boyfriends nearby. He musters the strength to grab his phone and call his friend Marty for help.
Employed wizards of the Nebula Order & Education arrive at the Carbonate household, and begin to help the three shed the blob-like weight they've put on over the past two weeks. It's a tiring day, but they're back to normal before the next sun rise thankfully.
March 2023
March 2: Eileen moves out of her apartment and into a personal bedroom at the Quindell Estate. It is in this same bedroom she has already become accustomed to working in prior. Now her work computer and bed are only just a few steps away. It can be assumed at this point that part of her has become a lot more comfortable integrating herself into the Quindell Estate more properly.
March 3: Lynne Maroon works an average shift at the Rubberneck DMV, acting as a customer service representative. During her shift, a customer named Aurelia Ambrose makes a scene in front as everyone. Claiming Lynne is a vampire, Ambrose fails to garner anything but contempt and eyerolls from anyone else present. She rushes out of the DMV, now determined that she has a mission to kill the vampire who she met that day.
Lynne's month ahead is filled with nothing but dread and annoyance, as the last thing a discrete vampire needs is a loud and combative hunter stalking her constantly.
March 5: Late at night, Aurelia Ambrose works within her secret workshop in the Rubberneck Peak Librarian. Despite the building being closed at this time of the night, the librarian has free reign of all its facilities.
Basic and messy plans are made proper for Aurelia to kill Lynne Maroon, the vampire. She cements this mission by finally donning her hunter's uniform that's been passed down through her family's generations.
March 8: Lynne Maroon enjoys the night life, spending it within Rubberneck Peak's many parks. She has a good time chatting with a woman and her pet dog that's present. Meanwhile, Aurelia watches from the shadows as she plans to confront the vampire.
After revealing herself, Aurelia scares Lynne and prepares her speech before attacking the poor woman. However, she's stopped early as the vampire pepper sprays the idiotic hunter and leaves the park and heads home. Stumbling in pain, Aurelia eventually leaves and drives back to the library with a stinging face and frustration in her mind.
March 11: Pyra Merritt treks through fluffy and sweet cold lands, now fully accustomed to the laws of Divine's Eternal. She stands at over a thousand pounds at this point, though fully in control of her massive frame. There's no more fear in her heart, and no longer will she find herself becoming prey to the temptations always present. She seeks shelter in a cave, sleeping peacefully as snow falls outside.
March 12: Safe in her home at night, Lynne calls up her mom and dad as she explains her recent experiences with the troublesome vampire hunter. Both parents try their best to convince Lynne to fight back against the hunter, but she hates being combative in any form.
Aurelia stalks the vampire once more, hiding within the bushes adjacent to the home's kitchen. Peering through a window that's slightly opened, she hears portions of the call and misinterprets the conversation immensely. Eventually she spots some wild raccoons nearby, freaks out, and runs off into the night panicked.
Lynne ends the call early as she investigates the commotion. To her displeasure, sure enough her least-favorite stalker is at it again.
March 15: Closing up for the night, Lynne is the last customer service representative present in the Rubberneck DMV. Only other known person still here is the security guard, who excuses himself to restroom. Like clockwork however, the other restroom door opens slowly to reveal Aurelia from her hiding spot.
Aurelia attempts to kill Lynne with a dagger, but is pulled away by the security guard once he returns from the restroom. Angered, the hunter breaks free from the grasp and rushes out of the DMV. Lynne is helped back to her feet and after an argument is sent home. Since she won't report the attempted murder to the police, the security guard takes it upon himself to do so.
March 16: During her librarian shift, Aurelia is visited by some cops who are following up on the attempted murder from the prior night. In a private back office, a conversation takes place between the hunter and an officer - Sergeant Montgomery.
During the private conversation, it becomes clear that the sergeant is also against vampires of any kind. She tells Aurelia that if she can more cleanly and successfully kill Lynne, then Montgomery will do everything in her power to let her off the hook. In addition, she would make sure any case following Maroon's possible death is never solved and eventually closed.
March 21: Lynne Maroon's car goes dead on the ride home, prompting her to call in a couple of mechanics to come check it out. When the mechanics arrive and get to work, Aurelia waits nearby until her car is back in working order. Before the mechanics themselves can leave however, they are soon ambushed by Aurelia and knocked out cold.
A fight occurs between the hunter and the hunted, with Aurelia eventually cutting the arm of Lynne with a dagger. In hesistant retaliation, Lynne slashes the back of the hunter with her claws. Lynne flees the scene by car as Aurelia fights through immensely pain and frustration. Bloodied and injured, she too then flees the scene before the mechanics begin to wake up.
March 22: Mayor Bethany Quindell conversates one-on-one with Eileen in the doggy boss' office. Bethany uses her vague words and actions to make it clear that she's happy to see the Nickit lass put on more and more weight as she works in the estate. Such gains are made ever so smoother by the fact she's fully moved in at this point too.
Ava Speed and Prospero Hilton, two bodyguards that are part of the Mayor's security detail, take Eileen Persimmon to a shooting range so that she can learn how to fire a gun and protect herself. She's brought to tears upon holding the weapon, let alone realizing there's possible lethal dangers ahead in her life. After barely calming down, she struggles to fire at the wooden targets ahead of herself.
At night, Eileen in her bed begins to dream about standing before an unknown gravestone. The dream is short-lived however, as she refuses to even entertain the thought that she could be responsible for the corpse that rests below. Upon waking, she treats herself to coffee and pastries from the estate's kitchen.
March 25: Incredibly exhausted and working herself to death, Aurelia begins to hallucinate the ghosts of historical vampire hunters within her secret workshop.
She uses the words of the imagined King Erratos, Justin Gunthrie Sr, and The Purger to motivate herself to keep fighting against the vampire - Lynne Maroon. She passes out triumphantly.
March 26: In the early morning, Aurelia Ambrose has a nightmare. In it, she dreams of being ambushed and murder violently by vampires within the Rubberneck Peak Library. It's quite gruesome, waking up the hunter in a panic.
Grabbing her shotgun from beneath her bed, Aurelia patrols around her apartment suite and its balcony searching for any vampires. She finds none as one would expect. Placing the shotgun back under the bed, Aurelia takes a lengthy and anxious shower before her mind can even begin to relax.
March 30: Disappointed that the past week has only been daily failures in her quest to kill the vampire, Aurelia drinks herself into a drunken breakdown. She begs for the comfort of her long-dead parents in these dreadful times.
Lynne Maroon is angry as can be, having arguments with both of her vampire parents over the phone. Eventually the volume and tensity of the call settles down, as Lynne takes the conversation to a new turn for once.
She reminds her father of his former non-vampire business partner that he took under his wings for a good few centuries. Lynne considers that maybe she can do the same for Aurelia as a way to protect herself and use the powers of the hunter for good rather than mindless slaughter.
One may make arguments that Lynne wishes to do more than befriend her constant stalker and potential murderer. In these strange and chaotic times, it seems anything can be possible - for better or worse.
March 31: Aurelia Ambrose breaks into the home of Lynne Maroon, toting a shotgun and planning to murder her tonight no matter what it takes. While she combs through the whole household rambling, Lynne utilizes her own powers to hide within the shadows.
Seeking the right moment, Lynne emerges from the shadows in her bedroom and knocks Aurelia out cold with a lamp. Carefully, she places the unconcious hunter onto her bed and waits for her to eventually wake back up.
April 2023
April 1: Aurelia wakes up on the bed of Lynne, in complete shock upon seeing the vampire nearby. Figuring that she's finally failed for the last time, the hunter surrenders and anticipates her own death by Lynne's hands.
Lynne refuses to kill Aurelia, noting that she's never wanted to do so. Despite this, Aurelia breaks down in tears and curses herself for failing her family. Through the tears, she eventually listens to what the vampire has to say.
Through awkward words, dangerous choices, and insane logic, Lynne is able to convince Aurelia that they work better as a team rather than enemies. In addition, she offers Aurelia the power of immortality alongside this. Aurelia accepts, excited by the concept of using an allied vampire to fight against others for centuries to follow.
If things weren't as strange and crazy enough, the two discuss potentially forming a relationship. Sure enough, they begin the slow and steady relationship together.
April 2: In Lynne's kitchen, the process for bestowing immortality to Aurelia takes place and is successful. It's an intensely intimate and dreadfully silly process, with the resulting outcome being a swollen, juicy, spherical, and red-tinted Aurelia taking up most of the kitchen. She'll be back to her old self soon enough, worry not.
April 4: Within the General's Quarters of hidden military facility Site 84, a meeting takes place between General Vortex and its Colonels Neverglade, Pristine, and Simmons. Plans are in motion for the militant forces to seize full control of the Woven Republic before the year ends..
Site 84 and its Lightforce units finish combing through the eastern coast of the Woven Republic, having finished their search for any potential enemies that may surface against them.
April 8: Eileen Persimmon uses her break during work to visit the head chef Lydia Quarters. She asks the Munchlax woman what she knows about the Mayor after having worked for her for years. Lydia discloses what she can, basically summarizing a long story where the Mayor in her youth was able to become the strong political woman she was by giving into a gluttonous and heavyily-trained streak. The idea of being in total control paired with a dominating frame faired well for the Mayor, thus she would bring all her employees into the same mindset to empower and fatten them in turn.
Vocally, Eileen thanks Lydia for the brief history lesson. In her thoughts however, Eileen thinks that everything she just heard is insane and she fears that she'll become immobile as the months of work continue on.
At night, Eileen in her bed begins to dream about being trapped in a room that's both flooding and shrinking at the same time. It's overwhelming, leading her to awake in a sweat-filled panic. Quickly she writes down everything to comes to mind, both good or bad. When her thoughts have been fully exhausted onto paper, she forces herself to get back to sleep before the sun rises.
April 9: After visiting their mother Sinéad at the Breezy Meadows Community Home, Rory McDonnell is brought on by fellow mafioso Calico Danvers for a job. The two must silence a college teacher by the name of Irene Royals, who was witness to a murder of one of her students.
The two mafiosos venture off to the town of Ambrose, confronting Ms. Royals at the Humble Pie apartments. This confrontation eventually ends badly, with a chase ensuing and eventually Royals driving her car off a rickety bridge in the Bismark Woods.
Calico and Rory finish of Royals, after the angelic capybara recovers the woman's body from her sunken car in the nearby river. The two then take the body far out to Hickory Bridge, melting it and burying it far below the roads above. Job finished, with far too much blood spilled. Just another day for the St. Nowhere's Mafia.
April 21: A meeting takes place within the war room of the Kingdom of Bark Queen. Present is the ruler herself, Bark Queen, and some of her most important loyal subjects: knight and personal bodyguard Damien Wools-Fyre, Duke Maxwell Thresh, and Archwizard Ethan Riles. Their discussion revolves around training the castle's forces in anticipation for the seige against Site 84 and Lightforce this Summer.
The novice wizards under Bark Queen's rule continue to receive regular training by Lorrie Schearz, the head scout and psychic trainer for the Kingdom of Bark Queen. Roughly 81% of the wizards seem to have a good hold on things, whilst the remaining 13% are a pain in the ass to teach.
Roles begin to shift a bit within the combat end of the Kingdom of Bark Queen, as those that don't fit the mold of wizardry, archery, or knighthood are instead pushed into cleaning, cooking, and medical roles. Nothing to be ashamed of really.
April 29: During Flight 394A, a mysterious attacker in a physical disguise emerges from seemingly nowhere and begins their assault and heist on board the aircraft. Many are injured and others are killed by the attacker as belongings are looted. To make matters worse, all communications outside the plane are made impossible due to an EMP device utilized by the attacker. Eventually the individual opens one of the doors and escapes by parachute.
At night, Followers Zoya and Victor depart the Wings of His Strength church and journey to the Speckles Woods of Speckled-Heart Province, Boreal. When they arrive in the forest, their plans of collecting logs are sidetracked due to a strange crackled sound being heard on loop. Upon investigation, the two find the unconcious and heavily injured body of the mysterious flight attacker and their belongings. Both the individual and every belonging found half-buried in the snow are brought back to the church by the two followers.
April 30: Within the Speckle Woods of Boreal, Speckled-72 news correspondent Lourie Michels details the investigation going on in the area following the plane hijacking, theft, and assault. All around her are paladins of Boreal's Shield - which represents both the government and army of the country. As she speaks, the paladins comb the forest for any signs of the mysterious individual and any belongings. It is ultimately a fruitless effort however.
Paladins Nasir and Janine make themselves known at the Wings of His Strength church. After a conversation with Follower Cyrus, they are given access to investigate the church and interview everyone else present. Despite the church secretly harboring the fugitive and their goods, the two paladins find nothing in their search and everyone's interview seems believable. They thank the church, its followers, and Reverend Quincy for complying with the investigation. Departing, the paladins find no reason to investigate the church any further during this case.
May 2023
May 1: Site 84 and its Lightforce units begin combing through the Midwest of the Woven Republic. Their goal is to snuff out any potential troublemakers that may surface before Lightforce's country domination plans can be put in motion.
May 5: Within the Heron Apartments of Linked West City, Lorrie Schearz and her partner Mixxy Charmante share a bit of a tender moment. You need all the care you can get before going off to fight some soldiers.
Aether Miro, a wizard fighting for Bark Queen, proves to be a promising individual within the castle. They regularly are grouped with the knight Livia Blade and the archer Sable Murmur as a dependable trio of sorts. Mishaps and goofs are still to be expected here and there, but at least the three are trying their best for their queen.
May 7: The mysterious hijacker and attacker of Flight 394A awakens in the library of the Wings of His Strength church. Most of their body sports bandages and one of their eyes is permanently sewn shut with stitches. They attempt to leave the room, but soon find themselves overwhelmed by their pained body.
Soon the individual is discovered by Follower Nadia, who helps them back into the bed within the library. It appears the room has been configured into a makeshift hospital room and the individual has been recovering in it for nights.
May 13: Eileen breaks down in the front gardens of the Quindell Estates. She is brought to the fountain by Sophia Winkle, the groundskeeper. There, the two sit on the edge of the fountain's bricks and talk for awhile. During this conversation, Eileen learns she's always had the opportunity to fight against the weight gain through many methods but subconciously accepted it with open arms at every opportunity.
Sophia comes up with a bright idea to help Eileen learn to love herself and every pound that's been put on herself in the recent months. They end the conversation early, heading off to bring the idea up to the Mayor for approval. Eileen doesn't know what the rhino has planned and attempts to stop it, but is far too late and out of shape to catch up up with Sophia.
May 16: Deep within the BONEZONE hideout, a communal bonding and morale boosting event takes place. Famous Prophette, leader of the cult, rallies her followers and dunks each and every one within the crimson springs. As a gesture of humbling herself, she allows the cultist named Astrid the Acolyte to help dunk her within the spring too. An experience much akin to a sensual adult baptism, with all flavors of heresy allowed.
Follower Nadia of the Wings of His Strength church in Boreal helps to wheel the mysterious hijacker and attacker of Flight 394A into an office. After she leaves, the individual and Reverend Quincy hold a conversation with each other about recent events, what's ahead, and the reverend's own past. During this talk, it is revealed the mysterious individual will be given the name of Pascal Morris during his stay and time spent recovering in the church.
May 24: Pascal Morris attempts to leave the Wings of His Strength church during the late night. Despite his attempts, his body is still too weak and injured to handle much. As he just barely stands in the open doorway of the church, an individual grabs Pascal from behind.
Reverend Quincy reveals himself, holding back Pascal and urging that he returns to his bed. The coyote complies and is carried back to the makeshift hospital room.
May 26: The Director of the Nebula Order & Education holds a massive speech with its employees, doing the best it can to keep up everyone's spirits as the battle against Lightforce looms forward. Afterwards, the olm holds a private conversation with Marty Opossu, a Mage of Public Safety. Whether or not Marty wants to accept it presently, she must be part of the battling ahead and have some faith in herself to come out of it both alive and triumphant.
June 2023
June 3: On the main stage of the talk show SHANE, Shane De'Blaine and her sibling Thomas hold a meeting with all employees and enforcers present. Much akin to other factions as of late, the two siblings are getting everyone ready for the reality of the fighting ahead. If such battles are successful, then Shane's will go on a small break so that anyone that fought on the frontlines can recuperate before getting back to business. If fate leads to failure however, then Thomas will do everything in his power to ensure that the surviving employees and enforcers are cared for financially and guided out of the country safely.
For the next three weeks, select employees of SHANE take on a fast-tracked and intense set of combat training sessions. It's grueling, but better to be safe than sorry as the threat of militant fascists looms ahead.
Outside of the Wings of His Strength church, Pascal Morris utilizes cruches and holds a conversation with one of the church's patrons. The patron is very understanding, even as Pascal bullshits to him a story about his injuries. A cigaratte is shared and lit, adding to the good time before the two head inside the church.
Pascal Morris leans on a wall in the front of the church, near the entrance. He watches a mass take place ahead of him, as all the church's main followers and reverend are present. He analyzes each individual and gets an idea of what they're like. Follower Rufus grabs his attention the most, as he makes plans to sometime converse with him one-on-one in private.
June 13: Pascal Morris is finally returned to perfect health, though all the bandages and stitch-up eye remains. They must be changed weekly, lest he wishes to face grueling constant pain and possible infections.
On the front steps to the Wings of His Strength church, Follower Rufus smokes alone in the night. He's soon greeted by a recovered Pascal, who joins in for a conversation and smoking. It seems like these two understand each other the best, and it helps to ease the frustrated and confused mind of Pascal.
June 17: A select group of Nebula Order wizards venture out to Vertigo Isle, off the coast of Linked West. The island has been completely taken back by nature at this point, with no remnants of the former Vertigo Agency headquarters standing these days. Terry Shenz and Carmichael Kentz take charge during the meeting held here, gauging everyone's feelings about the looming battle against Site 84 and Lightforce.
During the meeting, Devin Laurence makes a request to coworker Maria Ulmahn: If I die during the fighting, please watch over my son Clyde and his partner Jason. The request is accepted, even though she has more faith that nobody present is going to perish in the near future. This good gesture will be remembered for the future, playing a major factor in the improving friendship between the two wizards.
The meeting is called early after Aberdeen Fritz cracks a joke about giving a name to this select group present of herself and her coworkers.
June 18: In the early morning, Dr. Embry Iota of Site 84 partakes in one of his many projects that was assigned to him by General Vortex. It's a frustrating time, and having subpar fellow scientists only makes it more of a pain in the ass to manage. A disturbance can be heard elsewhere throughout the facility, adding to the anger boiling within the komodo dragon scientist.
Site 84 is breached through the facility's main hangars, as rouge factions begin pouring in through the desert lands above the opened ceiling doors. It is now that the Nebula Order, SHANE, BONEZONE Cult, and the Kingdom of Bark Queen all work together to fight every militant fascist and associated leaders within the facility. Bullets fly, spells are cast, arrows pierce, and swords slash in the chaos following the rest of the night.
Not wanting to wind up a corpse, Dr. Embry Iota stows himself away in a secure container within his lab. It locks nicely from within and is made of some material that sure as hell can survive every element known to man.
Quetzal Merrick, an enforcer under Shane De'Blaine's command, manages to ambush the shrew Colonel Neverglade within the southern end of the Site 84's firing range. She shoots the ever-living hell out of the shrew's back, sealing the fate on the soon-dead colonel. Fellow enforcer Torres Cincinnati finishes the job by joining the execution and firing some rounds into the head of the shrew.
Within a weaponry factory of Site 84, the knight Ferra Jaelyn is able to stun and daze Colonel Pristine on the floor. Before the chum salmon can come back to their senses, archer Victory Esthers operates a control panel on a catwalk above. Through the combined work of both of Bark Queen's loyal subjects, Pristine is soon engulfed by molten iron pouring out of a massive conainer above. Her screams for help go unheard as she burns alive and perishes quickly. Ferra and Victory hug each other for but a moment, before getting back to fighting the rest of the Lightforce units in the facility.
Colonel Simmons escapes an auditorium, not wanting to wind up getting killed in the chaotic gunfire within. She is persued by the Nebula Order wizards, Presto Momento and Orville the Loyal. Passing through many halls and stairwells, eventually Simmons is cornered in a burning lower level of the facility. She is given a chance to surrender and change her ways by the two wizards. However, Simmons reads this offer as her being imprisoned and tortured by the wizards, and instead decides to use her own guns to commit suicide. After a two simultaneous bangs can be heard, her body slumps to the floor with only a partial jaw remaining on the ruptured head. Disappointed but still in the fight, Presto and Orville leave the lower level together to avoid the approaching fires and smoke filling up the rooms.
Marty O'Possum and temporary ally Lorrie Schearz enlist the help of Sir Damien Wools-Fyre to breach the bunker doors of General Vortex's guarded internal warehouse. Within the warehouse, they dodge the many distant attacks by the General and soon come face-to-face with it. However, it ends badly as the aged wizard and general is able to overpowered the two women. The two are grasped in sludgelike, giant paws and constricted to the point they can feel their bodies giving away. Nearly both women find themselves on the verge of death during this moment.
Lorrie fakes her own death, tricking the General into freeing her from the grasp. However, when the moment is right she reveals herself to be still kicking and fires off a heavy concentration of magic towards the General. It's strong enough to knock it right to the ground and disable its powers for the moment. Marty fires herself back up after getting freed, and prepares to smash the brains out of General Vortex with her spectral hammer.
Marty O'Possum is stopped from killing General Vortex, as the villain wife trio of Bark Queen, Shane De'Blaine, and Famous Prophette emerge. They wish to deliver the death blow, so Marty helps bring herself and Lorrie out of the facility while they still can. Famous Prophette slashes away at the General as the other wives stamps down upon its limbs. Following the death of the General, an self-destruction sequence tied to its life essence is initiated within the facility.
Secure Trustees agents Sunburst and Rustbelt interview a deer mouse woman on a farm in the Skillet Frontier. In the horizon, the city of St. DuPont can be seen. It is there within that city the husband of the deer mouse woman lays in a hospital bed. Supposedly some hostile monstrousities had attacked the husband earlier, and the Secure Trustees agents learn about the case now. Before they can finish the interview however, they are alerted to a massive explosion that can be heard deeper within the deserts of the Skillet Frontier.
All the non-Site 84 factions are able to safely escape the Site 84 facility as it explodes into ruin. Watching from the clifftops at night, the groups celebrate and begin to enter a temporary truce between the Nebula Order and the joint factions of the Kingdom of Bark Queen, SHANE, and BONEZONE Cult.
A curious secure container flies out of the facility during the self-destruction. It is completely undamaged by the explosions, fire, and whatever else. What purpose it will serve in the future is unknown right now.
Secure Trustee agents are on their way to the ruins of Site 84, unaware of what battles went on let alone the fact that they're going to be soon combing through said ruins specifically.
Before everyone departs, Lorrie Schearz punches Marty in the face just to ruin the good moment of victory. Such is life, I suppose! Regardless, she and the rest of the Nebula Order still depart triumphantly afterwards. Site 84 and its Lightforce units are no more.
June 19: In the morning, teams of Secure Trustees agents and clean-up crews comb through the mysterious ruins that lay in a burnt and destroyed mess in the heart of the Skillet Frontier desert. After collecting enough material of a similar nature, they learn that this is remnants of Site 84 and corpses belonging to the Lightforce units. The remains of General Vortex are taken back to the secretive headquarters of the Secure Trustees.
A mysterious and intact container is taken out of the smoldering ruins, containing a comatose but alive individual witin it. This surviving and unconcious member of Site 84 is transported to the Helm, the headquarters of the Secure Trustees. The individual is cared for and investigated within the medical section of the headquarters.
June 23: Venturing through the Skillet Frontier together, Dustin Fairfax and Zeke Colorado decide to take a break for the night. Hopping off their mare Ruby, the two stumble upon a desert flower known for causing hallucinogenic experiences upon ingestion. The two decide to partake in it, ready for whatever quirky and psychedlic times are ahead.
Dustin and Zeke trip together, experiencing a bunch of cartoonish and heavily exaggerated scenarios that all revolve around their bodies expanding in varying fashion. Themes of weight gain, inflation, and even berry-focused expansion are present and cranked to intense levels. In reality however, their bodies slowly swell up with fat to a more manageable degree.
Livestreaming personality Luminous Sybil decides to hold a charity event. She and her mod team works with the helium-focused company Curious Air and the LGBT-focused activist organization Stardust Solidarity. Alongside promoting the associaties and raising money for charity, Luminous' main goal to see how long she can marathon a game whilst quirky inflation antics take place on stream.
Whilst livestreaming the game Monsieur Monroe's Manor, Luminous Sybil is slowly inflated each time a ten minute time interval passes in addition to each time she reaches a game over within the game. As she approaches the five hour mark of the stream, Luminous must accept defeat as she is too inflated and round to possibly hold a controller let alone see the monitor below. She thanks everyone for watching and donating, anticipating deflating through medicine as soon as the stream goes offline.
June 24: Reality sets in, as the fattened Dustin and Zeke begin to sober up following the end of their mutual trips. Lumbering through the desert practically naked, they take a quick break before heading to the closet small town clinic to begin shaking off that newfound weight. Ruby follows them along the way, thankfully not having to carry either of the massive cowboys for awhile.
In the couple months that follow, medicine of the modern fantasy-variety sure does what it can to burn off that extreme weight induced by the desert flower and its quirky chemicals within each petal. Soon enough they'll feel like their old chubby and muscular selves and be ready to ride off into the Skillet Frontier once more. Giddy-up, Ruby!
The comatose Dr. Embry Iota is cared for by the Secure Trustees medical facility within the Helm. He is put on a hormonal therapy during his recovery, acting as a new age way of putting someone into witness protection. It's an accelerated process, speeding up the results far faster than expected. Following the start of this therapy, the komodo dragon is given a neutral and anonymous identity until their new role and title can fully be crafted by higher-ups in the facility.
June 25: Reverend Quincy holds mass within the Wings of His Strength church. He teaches individuals of how His Strength can empower one another in these troublesome times.
Meanwhile, Pascal Morris attempts to take back his gun and belongings from the Reverend's office above. His efforts are cut short when Follower Zoya walks in. Pascal threatens to kill Zoya before he attempts to escape through a window behind himself.
Through descalating the situation, Zoya successful takes the gun away from the coyote and embraces him in a pained hug. It appears the time spent here holds him back from genuinely harming anyone within.
June 27: Eileen heads on a business trip to Emerald Rise, which is situated near the western coast of Centauri. She catches a private jet entrusted to the Mayor's staff and makes it there in no time. After resting her heels at a hotel for a couple hours, she catches a cab to the home of Julie Mercury.
After conversating through intercom on the front steps of Mercury's home, Eileen is let inside the large household. She ventures into the room Julie is present in, and is surprised to see that the lemur lass is a individual that is permanently in a quite spherical and large inflated state. When Julie asks Eileen what she has to do to make the Nickit lass comfortable in her own quite fat body, Eileen resorts to panicking and breaking down into tears.
Through charisma, magic, and kind gestures, Julie is able to calm Eileen down. A regular occurance at this point for those dealing with the dutiful but dreadfully nervous Persimmon. Julie begins to talk about her own life and how she came to be the self-described blimp that she is. Bouncing off of that life history, she makes Eileen realize that she's gotta roll with the punches no matter what and that loving herself is one hell of a tactic for doing so. Peace and acceptance of herself is finally both registered fully and accepted in the Nickit lass' mind.
Upon getting back home to the Quindell Estate late in the night, Eileen dreams of walking through a quite normal and pleasing field. There's still many questions in her mind about the Estate, its Mayor, and the dealings that go on beneath the good public relations. She accepts that it'll take a long time to answer any of these, focusing her energy instead on self-love and working through her daily nervous nature.
July 2023
July 2: Follower Victor is accompanied by Pascal Morris, as the two travel to the Speckled Woods to chop wood for the Wings of His Strength church. During this time, they hold a conversation with each that helps to shed a bit of light on Pascal's continuing confusion and frustrations. Despite being in perfect health, the coyote still chooses to spend more time living within the church in a guest room of sorts.
July 13: Pascal Morris spends time in the church's main mass area during the late night. He thinks carefully about his future ahead, as he plans to leave the church calmly and ready the following morning. Before he leaves however, he gathers up all his belongings and begins to record an audio tape for the others that live and serve within the Wings of His Strength. After recording, he leaves it behind for the others to find as he leaves the church for good and begins his new life.
July 14: Reverend Quincy and the Followers gather within the church's library to listen to the final audio tape of Pascal Morris. During the recording, the past Pascal reminisces on his time spent in the church. He gives specific comments to each individual, thanking and apologizing to each one depending on their experiences had together prior. At the end of the recording, he requests that the tape be burned and everyone complies. After the tape is burnt in the fireplace, everyone readies themselves for the day and extinguishes the fireplace before leaving the room.
Off the southeastern coast of Boreal, Pascal Morris catches a ride on a ship heading south towards the eastern coasts of the Woven Republic. He carries with him his gun, a fake passport and ID, and enough cash to last him a good few months before having to get a job. It's not known at the time where he intends to go once they land, but he's still hopeful for his new future.
July 20: Astral Navigations begins another mission upon an unknown planet, with the Goldflake-Prime Crew at the helm. Leading this crew as its captain is Venetian Corinthian. Xe is supported by other crewmates and polyamorous spouses Juniper Tesseract (scientist), Mia Bishop-Willow (medic), and Redwood Scratch (engineer).
The spouses land their spacecraft upon the planet, and are soon greeted to the visuals of multiple floating islands making up the fragmented planet. Each isle sports a shade spanning between greens and blues. In addition, most isles are covered with a dusty surface and a rocky, geometric underbelly.
July 26: The Goldflake-Prime Crew of Astral Navigations continues exploring and learning about the unknown fragmented planet of green and blue floating isles. Early observations seem to make clear that there is absolutely zero life on the planet in terms of civilians, critters, and even monsters.
It's discovered that some of the floating isles are much more dense than the others, giving the idea of caverns existing under their dusty surfaces. In addition, geysers are spotted upon some of the isles. Each one spews out a plume of bubbles at random intervals.
July 30: The Secure Trustees announce to the Woven Republic's citizens that a terrorist cell known as Lightforce was fully eliminated thanks to their efforts. They allow the press to comb through the recovered remnants retrieved from the former Site 84. The actual factions involved in taking down Lightforce do not interfere in this false campaign, wanting to lay low for some time and not start friction with the nation's government.
August 2023
August 1: The Goldflake-Prime Crew of Astral Navigations continue to explore the unknown planet they traverse upon, utilizing their jetpacks to move between the varying floating isles. By this point, it's learned that the geysers present on some of said isles are very rich in helium especially. Other compounds within are present, though their specifics are unknown at the moment.
An accident occurs while traversing the floating isles, as a geyser surprises Venetian Corinthian with a face-full of bubbles. Xe is knocked back for a moment, and appears to have accidentally cracked the front of xyr face mask's glass viewing window. Xe is rushed back to the ship and examined medically.
During examinations of the captain, Mia Bishop-Willow is stunned to see its wife beginning to inflate. A serum is injected into the Fearow captain, stalling the expansion in progress within xyr body. Xe is left to hopefully rest off the medication working against the ensuing infection.
August 2: The surviving and captured member of Site 84 is no longer comatose. They still reside within the medical facility of the Helm, under full control and jurisdiction of the Secure Trustees. They're not quite ready to speak yet, finding themselves still weak from June's antics. However, they can hear and see things decently during this time.
Redwood Scratch of the Goldflake-Prime Crew can be seen tinkering with an upgrade to the team's jetpacks. She hopes that her proof of concept for a dashing function can be fully utilized within said 'packs. Such an upgrade would aid in future exploration and, Gods forbid, escaping persuing troublesome folks and beasts on other planets.
Juniper Tesseract, the lead scientist for the Goldflake-Prime Crew, is preparing a medication for the team to take on set intervals. The goal with the serum is to ensure that any possible future infections on this helium-rich planet can either be killed off entirely or at least slowed immensely.
Venetian Corinthian's infection had only worsened as xe slept, as its soon revealed that xyr body has expanded to a comically huge and spherical form. While no further growth is present, the fact that the crew's currently available medications are useless in dealing with this is troublesome. Juniper begins the process is hopefully creating a cure to her spouse's condition.
Until Venetian's condition can be reversed, xe resides within the lower level of the crew's ship. Xe takes up far too much space within there and can only wobble in place. Juniper and Mia's work has been moved to the middle level of the ship due to no inflated wonder taking up all the space there.
August 9: Venetian Corinthian of the Goldflake-Prime Crew still is dealing with xyr infectoin-induced inflated form. Mia Bishop-Willow stays with xem in the ship to help with anything during this time. Meanwhile, Juniper Tesseract and their wife Redwood Scratch explore a cavern present on the helium-rich planet.
Samples of crystal chunks, vine bits, and bits of liquid present in the cavern are collected by the scientist and engineer. The two also hold discussions about the future, hoping to formulate a cure for their spouse and captain.
Whilst leaving the cavern, the ground breaks away under Juniper's boots and she finds themself falling into a spring below. She picks herself back up, readies her jetpack, and flies out of the spring and hole respectively to return to Redwood. No damage has occured to her body nor suit, however it appears the spring's liquid has seeped in through both regardless.
Scientist Juniper Tesseract is rushed back to the Goldflake-Prime ship as the infection spreads throughout her body quickly. Soon enough, they're just as inflated and spherical as Venetian. The two now accompany each other in a tight space within the ship's lower levels. For better or worse, the situation leads to the planet being given the name of EXOPUFF by the crew.
August 12: Mia-Bishop Willow continues to work on a hopeful cure for the inflation infection brought about by the EXOPUFF planet. Most of the work is a hybrid of its own knwoledge and Juniper's prior efforts when she was still mobile and not spherical.
Redwood Scratch is able to repair the comms system for herself and the rest of her spouses. A featur is restored in each crewmate's face mask where simply maneuvering one's ears can trigger the comms system to be enabled and disable on the fly. Communications between all four spouses is much easier now, regardless of location and circumstances.
In further improvements, Scratch has reconfigured the team's space suits to be more form-fitting incase this inflation scenerio or any other flavor of expansion happens again suddenly. However, we'll need to deflate Juniper and Venetian before they have a chance to put those suits back on, of course.. Finally, the jetpacks of the crew have been tinkered with to enable and automatic propulsion system to help guide a potentially expanded crewmate back to the ship. Strange circumstances lead to marvels, it seems.
Discussions are attempted between Juniper and Venetian about their potential future as permablimps. It's depressing to say the least, and the conversation is halted for the sake of both spouses' mental health.
August 21: A workplace accident occurs and as a result Mia Bishop-Willow is accidentally exposed to the inflation infection present on EXOPUFF. It is immobile by the time a potential cure is created, though priorities shift to have Redwood take the team off of the planet instead. Regardless, the potential cure is safely taken and put away by the engineer..
Redwood makes preparations to chart and automatic flight off of EXOPUFF and back towards Earth, where the crew will land back at the headquarters for Astral Navigations in Cinnamon Coast, Centauri.
August 22: Redwood Scratch communicates with the Administrator of Astral Navigations, through a monitor present on the ship. Plans to return home are given the full go-ahead by the homebase, as well as the situation at hand being fully communicated to the folks back home.
While getting ready to take flight, Redwood Scratch comes down with the infection. Despite one's best efforts, it appears a weak form of the infection was festering within her body since everyone walked upon the surface of EXOPUFF in the month prior. With no incidents to propell its progress prior, the infection only just now kicks into effect.
Due to overdoing it on taking preventative medications against the infection, Redwood is in massive pain as her body and the infection fights off the abundance of chemicals within herself. In addition, she continues to expand slowly every moment. Finally, as if things weren't dire enough, an automatic flight home can't be made until she physically turns off the ship's failsafe system.
Slowly but surely an expanded Redwood reaches the failsafe and finds that she can't reach the panel due to her massive gut. As a last ditch effort, she fetches the potential cure she stowed in a compartment on her suit. She opens up her face mask and then downs the serum within the vial, praying that its effects kick in.
The inflation-based infection fully takes place in Redwood, making her as spherical, massive, and practically immobile as the rest of the crew. Soon enough, her body shakes ominously as the suit she wears practically explodes off of her. Mia fears that her spouse literally exploded, but soon is greeted to the sight of a fully cured and nude Redwood.
With the cure being a success, Redwood in her normal shape and size disables the ship's flight failsafe and intiates the automatic flight back to Earth and its country of Centauri. She then begins the process of trying her best to recreate the cure Mia and Juniper made together. It's a success, and each of the other wives are cured of their inflation-focused woes.
August 31: The Goldflake-Prime Crew successfully lands back in Cinnamon Coast, Centuari. Their arrival is celebrated by the rest of those present at the headquarters of Astral Navigations. A small quarantine period is held to make sure the ship and the crew are fully purged of EXOPUFF's contaminents before they are allowed to head back home triumphantly.
September 2023
September 9: The surviving and captured member of Site 84 is now able to speak and move to varying degrees. They act just as they did back to working under the General's thumbs in prior months. It's as plain as day to themselves that their body has changed due to the accelerated hormone therapy taking affect each day.
This unnamed and neutral individual is soon given the title of Agent Pallium, along with the role of being a transwoman held as prisoner within the Helm until her fate is decided by the Secure Trustees present. Agent Pallium doesn't want to accept it at first, but soon comes to terms with her former Site 84 and Lightforce employers being mostly wiped out. Anyone else has defected and gone into hiding in hopes of a new life.
September 11: Spouses Debonair Lucas and Riley Faire wind up on an adventure traveling all along their home country of Loopswill Island. During said adventure, they take on multiple tasks for individuals of different regions, towns, and cities in order to fulfill their true goal: Break into the ruins of the Marks, Miller, Maxson Departments building.
September 15: Debonair and Riley venture into the ruined lobby of the Marks, Miller, Maxson Departments building. There, they witness the destruction that took place due to the cave-in from the week prior. They descend into the mouth of the caverns below, using a natural entrance made in the previously mentioned chaos.
As they explore the caves, the two spouses come across a very circular section with paths curving along the edges. As they descend down the paths and the many star-shaped crystals glowing out of the walls, they venture to a small isle and springs at the center of it all.
On the cavern's spring-surrounded isle, Debonair takes it upon himself to put on a strange mask-like artifact that sits upon some rocks. For a limited time, he witnesses a cosmic, star-filled realm with implications of the universe's Gods being present. The overwhelming experience is cut short once professional wizard Terry Shenz discovers the two spouses and takes them both back to the surface.
Employees of the Nebula Order have arrived and begun their investigations of the caves below the ruins of the Marks, Miller, Maxson Departments building. Terry Shenz takes it upon himself to interview Debonair and Riley, trying to make sense of why they were trespassing and what was witnessed from the artifact. Afterwards, plans are made to have a member of the Order watch over the two spouses for a couple weeks. Gotta make sure these artifact-exposed lads are all safe and sound after all..
October 2023
October 1: Agent Pallium is escorted by a nurse to a private room for interrogation. There, she is interrogated and grilled by the Council of the Secure Trustees. These shadowy and mysterious individuals act as the joint leaders of the Woven Republic. They decide that the fate of Agent Pallium will be up to the jurisdiction of Agents Sunburst and Rustbelt. Until the day of judgment arrives, Agent Pallium is sent to a prison cell within the Helm and resides there for the weeks ahead.
On the week of Dreamy Orion's birthday (October 3rd), she and her partner Elodie Malicieux decide to take the work week off for some real silly festivities. Essentially, Elodie successfully talks her girlfriend into attempting a week of being inflated semi-permanently. Mischief ensues as a result, both at home and out in public. As the week goes on, Dreamy is drawn more to the idea of making this a truly permenant life change.
October 06: Elodie Malicieux wakes up, hungover and feeling dogshit from last night's partying with her (at the time) inflated girlfriend Dreamy. In her dreadful hangover-coated times, she completely forgets that her own sister Prism was coming over to hangout and pick up some things from the household. Whether she likes it or not, she has to let Prism inside and witness the blimpy skunk snoozing on the couch.
For what seems casual at first, soon turns into an argument outside as Prism pieces together the plans of her mischeivious sister. She scolds Elodie for trying to force Dreamy into a lifestyle like this. Prism urges Elodie to not pull bullshit like this, and that such a lifestyle change must come from within initially and be done responsibly with lots of preparations beforehands. As a result, Elodie knows the only responsible move is to return Dreamy back to normal tomorrow at the end of her birthday week.
This does not fully close the door on such an experience, as Dreamy will still remember this week fondly for years to come - even in her normal not-inflated form during her working days. Whether a lesson was fully learned or not is anyone's guess.
October 14: A new day is dawning within Machina Nostra Innovations, as an android is created to add to the countless roster of mechanical critter folks present within the facility. It's up to you, the flesh-based viewer, to decide whether or not this event is lathered with sarcastic tones.
October 27: Sitting by a campfire she's crafted in a dessert desert, Pyra Merritt is visited finally by the goddess Her Divine. The deity has accepted total defeat, seeing how the zebra shark still has her sanity and mobility despite living in this realm for over a year now. They conversate together peacefully, even if the more powerful of the two is quite frustrated about her failed plans.
Pyra is offered a chance to return back to her former life, provided she and Her Divine stay away from each other and their respective plans at all costs. She refuses however, as she is totally at peace with the life she has now. There's no fighting her decision, leaving Her Divine completely dumbfounded at the honesty and strength. Seeking to never deal with Pyra ever again, Her Divine gives her final parting words and leaves this instance of the realm entirely.
Curiousity hits the former astronomer's mind, as she reflects upon the Goddess mentioning a reward being bestowed to her soon for her acts of determination in Divine's Eternal.
November 2023
November 13: Agent Pallium is kidnapped from her cell, naked and confused. Soon she is taken to an interrogation room, where she is handcuffed to a chair and has a ton of water poured over her head. An attempt at waterboarding, if one could call it such.. There she is greeted by Agent Rustbelt and Sunburst. The two give her the decision to either work for the Secure Trustees as a forensics scientist or being executed by bullet. She accepts the job offer begrudgingly, still expecting to be executed regardless. However, her life is spared and her work begins as an employee instead of a prisoner.
December 2023
December 01: Eileen Persimmon, the personal assistant to Mayor Bethany Quindell in Sweet-Kiss Oasis, Centauri - is called in by her boss to prepare oneself for a trip to the Woven Republic. During this trip, Eileen will be entrusted with the tasks to pick up a handful of supplies for the mayor. In addition, any remaining time on the trip is urged to be spent enjoying the country's Linked West state to the fullest. The latter of which Eileen absolutely makes sure to do for her own sanity and pleasure.
December 03: During her flight towards Linked West, Woven Republic, Eileen Persimmon winds up chatting with a wizard claiming to be part of an organization known as the Nebula Order & Education. This wizard, known formally as Maple Finley, proves to be quite the alluring character. Before it finishes conversating with Eileen, the alluring sergal gives a business card with its personal phone number present upon it.
In other words, Maple informally asks Eileen out on a date, or, at the least, a fun one-night stand in Linked West City.
Once settled in at the Platinum Suites in Linked West City, Eileen receives a phone call from Mayor Bethany Quindell. She documents all the locations she'll need to visit within the state to pick up supplies for back home. After the call finishes, the Nickit woman decides to delay her work by one day and allow herself to have one hell of a night. She calls up Maple Finley, and sure enough the two women go at it like wild animals within the suite's bed.
December 04: Eileen bids farewell to Maple, having enjoyed one hell of a night of raunchy sex and what-have-you. In the morning that follows, Eileen cleans herself up and readies herself for picking up supplies within the state now. This moment proves to be hell of a milestone for her, as she can now say confidently that she's scored.
December 05: Handling her tasks like a goddamn champ, Eileen Persimmon visits the final location in Linked West that Mayor Bethany Quindell has ordered her to visit. This winds up being a candy shop known as Bewitching Confections in the town of Carnation Grove. It seems to be a casual experience, as the lone employee Mixxy Charmante hands over a package towards the customer. It appears Mixxy's brother Louie is away at the moment, busy with a matter down in the state of Cape Goldenridge.
As Eileen leaves, Mixxy slowly begins to start realizing certain aspects of the visit and its order. Similiarities bubble in their mind, as aspects of Eileen's boss seems oh-so dreadfully familiar to their own boss Bark Queen. It doesn't take long before the shop owner realizes they just fulfilled an order for Bark Queen's estranged sister. The realization floods the mind with fear and anxiety, as Mixxy rushes to close up the shop and leave to go visit the Queen herself. In the process, she takes her laptop with her to better illustrate the obvious similiarities.
Soon after arriving at the Kingdom of Bark Queen in Linked West's woods, Mixxy holds a conversation with their Queen in her throne room. They share their experiences and ensuing realization with the Queen, sending both fear and anger alike into Bark Queen's mind. An impromptu meeting is called, as Mixxy Charmante and Bark Queen's personal bodyguard Sir Damien Wools-Fyre head off towards the castle's 'war room'.
December 06: Just a bit after midnight, the Kingdom of Bark Queen's war room is filled with interesting characters. There is Bark Queen herself, accompanied by her supplier Mixxy Charmante, her personal bodyguard Sir Damien Wools-Fyre, her duke Maxwell Thresh, and finally her archmage Ethan Riles. There, everyone watches as Bark Queen utilizes Mixxy's laptop to browse articles and videos pertaining to the Queen's estranged sister. There's no doubt in the Queen's mind that her mayoral sister is thriving well and that it's only a matter or time before the two must meet again. Here, Bark Queen makes it clear that she intends to find a way to kill her sister and put an end to a past that haunts her.
December 08: Within the courtyard garden of the Kingdom of Bark Queen, a meeting takes place between the Queen herself, both of her wives - Famous Prophette and Shane De'Blaine - as well as their favored psychic Lorrie Schearz. Here it's made clear of the upcoming conflict between Bark Queen and her sister, as well as the duties Lorrie will carry out before it and after regardless of the outcome. In the meantime, Lorrie is tasked with putting together a special package for Mayor Bethany Quindell on Bark Queen's behalf.
December 11: A day prior, Eileen Persimmon returns from her work vacation to the Woven Republic. Presently, the same woman enters into her mayor's office with a package that has been checked over multiple times for anything dangerous. Present here are Quindell's personal lawyer/assassin Connie Bell and deputy mayor Lucius Memoriam. Upon sifting through the package, all the trinkets begin to paint a picture for Bethany of her troublesome sister Bailey. Furious, she makes a mess and goes into a violent rage. By the time she calms, it's made clear that she must ready herself for confronting her sister in the days ahead.
One of the mysterious trinkets in the package gives a date and time for the sisters to make a discrete phone call to one another. Here, plans for meeting within the Woven Republic for a battle to the death will be made.
December 14 - 15: What is night for one is day for another, as both Mayor Bethany Quindell and her sister Bark Queen (previously known as Bailey Quindell) hold a conversation over isolated payphones in discrete locations near their respective headquarters. The battle to the death is accepted, as Bark Queen secretly communicates a location for her sister to meet her at for said duel.
December 17: Battling and confrontation takes place for what seems like the final day of both Bark Queen and Mayor Bethany Quindell's lives. The two duke it out within an isolated room in former's castle. During the conflict, memories of each other's youth flashes through the minds of both sisters. It almost comes to an end as Bark Queen has the upper hand and is able to deliver a final blow to her troublesome sister.
Despite such an opportunity, Bark Queen is unable to bring herself to kill her own sister. She feels sorrow and regret, feeling as if she's failed her late father. Seeing her sister in such a state of genuinely remorse fills Mayor Bethany Quindell with both adrenaline and mental anguish alike. Here, both sisters break their kayfabe and apologize for even considering killing the other, let alone carrying on years of hatred towards each other.
Bark Queen and her sister Mayor Bethany Quindell forgive each other, and begin plans to form permanent peace between the Kingdom and the Mayor's estate. A secret relationship to the public, and a public relationship to all those working under both sisters. After announcing said plans to each other's forces present in the castle, the two sisters are escorted to the medical wing to heal up after such a mighty battle.
Such peace will stand the tests of time, no matter what obstacles lay ahead for both Bethany and Bailey. In addition, the partnership will extend between Bethany's people and the combined forces of Famous Prophette and Shane De'Blaine. Evil bitches thrive, if you didn't get the memo.
December 18: Six months following the destruction of Site 84 and toppling of its Lightforce units, Agent Pallium finds herself having fit within the employment of the Secure Trustees. Living within the Helm, each day finds herself moving between different sections of the headquarters as a forensics scientist. Much like her previous employment, she's worked up the rung to be the most important individual within her hierachry group. Even with a altered body and new name, I suppose some things never change do they?
December 22: Spouses Debonair Lucas and Riley Faire venture off of their home country of Loopswill Island, looking forward to a vacation in the city of Amaryllis of Linked West, Woven Repbulic. Booze, slots, and enough scantily-clad men to make your heart explode with excitement!
January 2024
January 01: Agent McKennel, a field agent for the Secure Trustees of Woven Republic, goes about another work day within the Helm. At the moment, she has a fully opened schedule for the day. After combing through the emails and programs on her computer, she takes on one of three cases for the day. No matter where she goes, thrill and potential death awaits. Don't worry about that last part though, she'll find some way to cheat it.
March 2024
March 19: A day-in-the-life montage sequence of Miller Piedmont and his three children - Marcy, Maverick, and Milo - takes place. Just your average day for each member of the family. For Miller, he tends to working a gym class at Opal North Elementary as usual in Opal's Shine, Loopswill Island. Meanwhile, in the Woven Republic, Maverick works his shift as a librarian at Donny M. Gould Library in Belmont Creek, Illen. Staying within the country, Milo carries out janitorial work in the Sweet-Flake Comforts of Lily Outskirts, Linked West. Finally, for the last key individual within the same country as one's siblings, Marcy in Breckenridge, Scorsborro readies himself for recording a sexual video that he'll later sell online for his fans.
All-in-all, the Piedmont family's montage-like introduction here sets the stage for an upcoming family get together in the father's home country of Loopswill Island.
March 20: Miller Piedmont, a gym teacher working out in Loopswill Island, contacts all his oversea children to prepare a family vacation together. A bit of bad blood can be seen brewing between siblings Maverick and Marcy, foreshadowing conflict late in the vacation. Regardless, all three children would make the prepations to travel to Loopswill Island in the coming days to spend time with dad.
March 23 - 27: All members of the Piedmont family - Miller and his children Maverick, Marcy and Milo - spend time together in Opal's Shine, Loopswill Island. It has its good moments and its bad moments alike. While the siblings generally seem to get along with dad fine, there becomes an obvious troublesome conflict between Maverick and Marcy in particular. On the night of March 25th, the powderkeg that is their conflicting lifestyles comes to a blow in Miller's home.
Maverick's responsible and posh nature clashes hard with Marcy's pornographic lifestyle and relaxed personality, leading to both siblings to yell and lash out at each other. Final sibling Milo takes charge after the room is cleared to go chat with and hopefully talk some sense into their siblings. Eventually it works out, with both siblings apologizing for their dickhead behavior and making the moves to better understand one another.
After the vacation is through, all siblings head back home to the Woven Republic and the respective states they hail from. It will take some time, but Maverick and Marcy will grow to better appreciate each other as siblings. Thank the Gods for this, for this makes Milo and their dad's life a hell of a lot easier to deal with as a result.
April 2024
April 12: Darby Murray, a database administrator for Hundley Exchange, decides to call it for the night. Currently, their boss is requesting a meeting with them at the top of the building. Regardless of choices made tonight, the city of Opal's Shine in Loopswill Island will call to bush dog in the hours ahead. That, and their lovely partner Maxie Cola will be with them no matter what happens after the credits roll.
April 16: Entertainment company Funky Friday's Celebratorium sends out their La Zafiro-based engineer, Celeste Mateus, overseas to the Merriment Manufacturing plant in Centauri. She is tasked with documenting the abandoned plant following the acquisition of both it and the now-defunct competitor Rosebud's Radical Rentals. Little does she know that horrors wait within, and that her employers don't expect her to survive.
Using a digital camera, voice recorder, and a small selection of tools on her belt, Celeste explores the plant throughout the day. It starts off lonely and plain, as the plant has long-since been lost to time and nature alike. Later, it becomes clear that she isn't alone within Merriment Manufacturing as the rotted endoskeletons within still cling to life. An unknown mechanical woman also warns Celeste to get out over the intercom, before everything goes to shit.
Celeste winds up running and hiding for her dear life, as the zombie-like endoskeletons chase her down in hopes of tearing her limb from limb. She hunkers down in a mysterious room in the basement level, barricading both the door and vent exits of her temporary saferoom. The latter doesn't last, as the mysterious mechanical woman breaks through and makes her angry debut.
A rotted animatronic known as Brady Bray makes her debut, tackling and trying to kill Celeste for her stupidity as she scolds the engineer. Formerly of Rosebud's Radical Rentals, Brady is the only remnant of the company that is still recognizable. She's also very much sentient and intelligent, unlike the endoskeletons that still try to break into the room. Eventually Brady winds up punching a concrete wall and gets stuck, while Celeste decides to free her.
Brady winds up being freed by Celeste and eventually gives into reason as she decides to help the engineer deal with all the endoskeletons. Later, she escorts and clears a path for the engineer as they reach the outside parking lot late at night. After some more discussions and logic being thrown at the animatronic, Brady decides to go with Celeste back to the Woven Republic. The new friendship will ensure that Brady can still function for many years, resting within the apartment of the sheep woman. Roll credits, it's been a hell of a ride.
May 2024
May 03 - 04: The stage is set in La Zafiro, a coastal city within the Woven Republic's state of Palewater. During the night and within a construction site, hired assassin Destiny Lucky is briefed on her mission ahead by the elusive hacker Plastic Dottrix. In brief, Destiny is tasked with entering the luxury hotel Lazuli Lodge, infiltrating its penthouse level, and doing a bit of sabotage in a political-focused party within the lavish suite.
Her mission is issued by her boss Bark Queen and done on behalf of said employer's sister Mayor Bethany Quindell. She herself is currently competiting against a woman named Moira V. Forager III for the mayoral election of Sweet-Kiss Oasis, Centauri. What relevance this has to the luxury hotel in the Woven Republic is that Ms. Forager's campaign team is working within the penthouse suite tonight and trying to keep their scheming out of the home country of Centauri entirely. Gotta make it hard for Bethany's goons to meddle on home soil, you know.
Destiny makes her way to and then into the Lazuli Lodge, masquerading as a guest named Melanie Abeline. By the time she reaches her personal suite, she steps out onto the balcony to retrieve her intel from an unknown Bark Queen-affiliated wizard positioned on nearby rooftops. Said intel contains a viral serum in a vial, its antidote in another, and a small USB stick that allows backdoor access for whatever it's plugged into. The serum itself is delay-based, laying dormating in the hosts body for roughly an hour after ingestion. Once the timer passes the infected individual will then inflate large and spherical with blueberry juices, becoming permanently immobilized and finding their mental state change to one of bliss and acceptance.
The assassin makes her way to the penthouse level, traveling from her suite's balcony all the way up the exterior of the hotel and its many ledges. Once at the penthouse level, she causes a distraction to help herself successfully sneak onto the balcony connected to the suite's living room. She then takes her time to mingle with the party, sabotage its food and drinks with the serum, and find the campaign manager who rented out the entire suite - Dima Loretta.
Dima and Destiny chat away, with the latter easily swooning the campaign manager enough to warrant a one-night stand in the isolated and private suite bedroom. Dima gives access to her laptop after having sex with the assassin, assuming she can worm Destiny into being her personal assistant going forward. After being left alone in the bedroom, Destiny times her time to allow Plastic to hack the laptop (through backdoor USB access) and spread tons of false evidence to pin the upcoming juicy chaos on the campaign manager and the candidate she represents. Meanwhile, having been infected by the serum through fucking Dima, Destiny pops the antidote and pukes out her guts in the adjacent bathroom.
Destiny successfully completes her mission, escaping the hotel and using the expansive chaos that ensues in the penthouse level as a cover. The followin day, she watches the news at a Palewater airport, seeing that everyone in the penthouse was successfully infected and that the evidence found at the scene paints everyone but herself as the cause for such strange bio warfare. Needless to say, Mayor Bethany Quindell wins her bid for re-election in Sweet-Kiss Oasis, Centauri.
June 2024
June 13: In the dead of night, Ash O'Possum and her husband Ferris 'Neil' Porter make a surprise appearance in Opossum Valley, Woven Republic. Here begins a three-day long impromptu visit to Marty O'Possum (sister of Ash) and her spouse Avalon Boyer. They spend the time mixed between chilling at home, visiting the city of Marseille together, and attending an independent wrestling show.
June 15: Marty O'Possum is called in on short notice to take on a job, working on behalf of her employers at the Nebula Order. Here she ventures in the early morning to the city of Marseille, Opossum Valley and arrives at an office building known as Millward Industries and Consulting. She is given the brief rundown that an otherworldly beast composed of tentacles, sludge, far too many fangs, and even more eyes has run amok in the office levels of said building.
Despite her sister urging her to not get involved, Ash O'Possum and her husband Ferris make their way to Marseille and infilitrate the body where Marty is fighting for her life against the beast. After a triumphant entrance through a window that faces one of the adjacent buildings' rooftops, the couple helps distract the beast while Marty searches for its heart. She eventually finds it nestled in a server room, and manages to cause it to burst through a swing of a spectral hammer she summons.
June 16: The two opossum women and the jerboa walk out of the building in the early morning, triumphant and absolutely in pain. They answer some questions from the press before making an aching journey back home to the Strawberry Suites apartment in Ferros Creek. The visiting Centauri-based couple spends the last day of their trip peacefully within the apartment, before bidding farewell to Marty and Avalon later that night.
July 2024
July 3rd: The stage is set, as we're introduced to the daily lives of two woman: Brooke Aster and Wachovia Mylio. Brooke Aster, a Ramis-Maris outrider, goes about her day as she readies herself for her duties as an outrider for Caspian's Order. There, she departs from her underwater home of Caspian Caverns and heads towards the surface of the Astral Gulf.
Meanwhile, above the Astral Gulf sits the research lab of Astral's Gulf. There, Cinnamon Coast resident and Centauri native Wachovia Mylio is shown tending to life as a marine conservationist. She is accompanied by coworkers and friends Devon Holo (a marine botanist) and Euka Cambri (a marine zoologist).
When the late evening rolls in, secret contact is made at the edge of the piers adjacent to Astral's Beacon. Here takes place another hidden date between the land-dwelling Wachovia and sea-dwelling Brooke. It's made clear that the two have been dating each other for a long time, and have been friends for even longer that. Star-crossed lovers, a tale that carries risky romance and tense times to follow.
July 4th: Following her date, Brooke Aster is surprised by fellow outrider and friend Cove Arcturus. The two hold a chat not too far from the surface of the Astral Gulf above. It's made clear that Cove knows what's going on with his friend's secret relationship, and he warns her that this'll end badly if the leaders of the Ramis-Maris people find out.
July 7th: Within the throne room of Caspian's Order (the 'kingdom' and castle-esque part of Caspian's Order), a meeting is held. Here, two rulers are present: Chancellor Pulsar Estuary and his twin sibling Sirius. The two siblings have dissociative identity disorder, sharing both the same two-tone leafy seadragon body and leadership over the Ramis-Maris people. Second-in-command is the genderless zebra turkeyfish known as Minister Delta. Lastly, a nameless Ramis-Maris civilian is present asking questions unheard by the viewer.
The Minister and the Chancellors make known the dangers of the land-dwelling humans above Astral's Gulf, and then dismiss the civilian present. Following this, a brief conversation is had between the remaining three about humans creating oil rigs, venturing into space, and their siphoning of Earth's resources. After this, the Minister is dismissed as a private, unheard conversation is held between the sibling rulers.
July 9th: Astral's Beacon and its occupants take a break from work to have a bit of small chat here and there. Devon talks about the Cherry-Neilmann oil rig resuming construction to the south of Astral's Gulf. Wachovia and him both seem deadset that the efforts to stop this construction have and will continue to be fruitless. Euka tries to be positive during the process, seeing if anything in the local newspaper can bring some good vibes in.
During this time, Wachovia seems rather distant and lost in thought as she looks out the window. Devon can see it plain as day, but doesn't fully know about the secret relationship at this point - let alone the Ramis-Maris people as a whole. A bit of support is offered, before Wachovia heads out of the research lab to get some fresh air.
July 13th: Another late-night date takes place between Wachovia and Brooke. In the early parts of it, it seems quite lovely as Brooke presents a homemade coral necklace to her land-dwelling lover. Later, it becomes a lot more sad and tense as Brooke fears their relationship being discovered by her people.
She breaks down in tears, visualizing a future where she might be killed by knights within Caspian's Order in retaliation for her secret relationship and contact with a human. In present, real times, Wachovia does her best to comfort her before they both head back home.
July 14th: Just past midnight, both lovers are confronted by others that have discovered the secret relationship fully by now. For Brooke, she is almost killed by a fellow outrider named Michah. While she winds up getting her arm injured by a trident jab, Brooke successfully escapes the fight while her friend Cove steps in and takes on Micah instead.
Brooke attempts to swim back home, stopping near the cavernous entrances to catch her breath and tend to the injury. Soon enough she is found by Minister Delta, who is accompanied by a group of knights for Caspian's Order. The injured Ramis-Maris lass is detained by the group, for a trial awaits. Meanwhile, Cove and Micah reach a stalement, as the latter rushes back home finding the fight pointless. Cove follows after her, winding up being detained soon after along with his friend.
While all this trouble takes place down below, above the Astral Gulf we find a more awkward and less-tense reveal taking place in front of Astral's Gulf. Eventually Wachovia comes clean to her¹ friends² about Brooke and the Ramis-Maris people. However, she urges the two to keep this a secret and to focus on their regular work for the safety of the Ramis-Maris folk.
When the morning proper rolls around, a trial takes place for Brooke and Cove before the court. After discussions held between them, the¹ rulers², and the minister, a final set of orders are issued. For the safety of herself and her people, Brooke is to be imprisoned for three years in a cell within the underwater Kingdom's dungeon. Cove on the other hand is issued a two-week window to capture Wachovia and bring her before the court. Any act of rebellion will result in the death of Brooke, Cove, or even both of the two Ramis-Maris individuals.
July 19th: Late at night, Wachovia readies herself for another date with her sea-dwelling lover. To her surprise, Cove makes an appearances instead and tells her of what happening that early morning of the 14th. After discussions on what to do, Wachovia decides that she'll ready herself for being taken in in a few days and holding a diplomatic discussion with the Ramis-Maris leaders for Brooke's freedom.
In the meantime, Cove will be tasked with grabbing material processed by his people and bringing it to Astral's Beacon. The idea is whatever he brings forth will be used to improve the durability and strength of the diving suit Wachovia will need for her journey ahead.
July 23rd: Wachovia is giving the final debriefing on both her enhanced diving suit and oxygen tank. Her suit has been enhanced with the clothing material of the Ramis-Maris folks' - thanks to Cove bringing them forth and Devon weaving the material into the suit itself. Meanwhile, the oxygen tank works as both a storage and a recycling sort-of contraption, allowing for at least 24 hour of diving before she'll need to find somewhere to surface out of water and restart the process.
When questions arise around the scientific logic of the contraption, Euka makes it clear that a bit of magical essence gifted from a friend elsewhere in the country was used to fill in the technological 'gaps'.
Wachovia bids farewell to her friends, knowing that the chances of her having to remain with the Ramis-Maris folks for a prolonged period are high. Can't risk letting a possible whistleblower going free after your first meeting after all. We'll see what the¹ rulers² below have to say about this, as Cove and the human begin their swim-focused journey to Caspian Caverns.
Nearly midnight, the trial of Wachovia Mylio against the Ramis-Maris people takes place. It's tense to say the least, but she still holds to having a diplomatic conversation with all involved. During it, Minister Delta makes it quite clear that she believes the human should be killed and cannot be trusted at any costs. The rulers both grow tired of the genderless Minister's dramatic and bloodthirsty nature, and threaten to punish him for it. There's even an implication that such nature could lead to chaos in the kingdom if left to continue.
Holding herself to diplomacy, Wachovia advocates for the safety of the Minister. After further conservation, a final verdict is made by both rulers. It is decided that Wachovia will be required to live with the Ramis-Maris folks for a whole year, only being allowed limited access beyond the underwater caverns under supervision and orders of the Minister. This same limited reach will carry to Brooke as well, who will be freed soon after this meeting.
The Minister will be urged to never strike against either woman, lest he wishes to face death himself. Finally, Cove will handling communications between his people and Astral's Beacon above. No further human contact beyond Wachovia, Devon, and Euka will be allowed past this. The meeting ends, as orders are given to escort Wachovia to her lover and to free the latter from her cell.
July 24th: Brooke is freed from her cell within the dungeon of Caspian's Order. She is reunited with her lover, and given a brief idea of what went down and what lies ahead. Here begins the new life for the two of them, with what orders Minister Delta having for the two in the future being unknown currently. One can assume a working relationship between the monarchial city and Astral's Beacon begins following this morning.
October 2024
October 20: After having spent two years in Divine's Eternal, Pyra is completely dumbfounded one day to find another living human present in the realm. The individual makes herself known as Olivia Summers, a former physicist based out of Milwater Horizon in Corrimet. The zebra shark is curious at first if this is some form of trickery by Her Divine, though it's dropped as the two begin to conversate and travel together. Soon enough, the question of whether or not the devil ray lass actually existed prior to this day does not matter in Pyra's mind.
Pyra is thankful for not only finding another living person in Divine's Eternal, but one that shares similar interests and stays just as strong amongst all the sugary temptations. Her friendship with Olivia will only grow in time, with someday the two properly entering a romantic relationship with each other.
December 2024
December 12: While working her dockyard shift in a small little office shack, Eon Wintertide is alerted by her boss Eckhart Wintertide that there's trouble brewing at Mistletoe Academy. Upon arriving at the Academy, a meeting is held between Eon, the academy's dean Elijah Wintertide, and Eon's sister Emmy Wintertide. If you haven't caught on by now, these events revolve around an island of clones.
It's made clear through this meeting that Emmy was caught fighting other students during class, and as a result is being placed on a lengthy suspension (the rest of the school year). In addition, she's expected to return during the Summer for a mixture of high-school classes and helping clean classrooms. Finally, she will have to repeat her entire freshman year all over again. Between constant around-the-clock festivities and a life stuck on an isle of one's fellow reindeer clones, Emmy hates this life immensely.
A second meeting is held after Emmy is dismissed, for the contents are too heavy for a teen like herself to handle. Elijah makes it clear to Eon that if her little sister continues down this troublesome path, she'll be sent to a facility where she'll be corrected - whether by means of medication, juvee, or even violence. On top of that, Eon would lose custody of the younger clone entirely. All-in-all, it's looking grim as Eon leaves the Academy both worried and furious as she punches a locker hard.
December 13: Emmy's first day of suspension is spent having to put up even more Christmas decorations while her sister is at work. Meanwhile, the latter has an awful work shift due to overhearing her coworkers badmouthing her and her sister.
December 16: A surprise visit is made to Eon and Emmy's household, as here steps in Elroy Wintertide (cloning administrator for the Ezekiel's Legacy project). The conversation seems to be a casual mock-therapy session at first. However, it soon delves into darkness as the administrator makes clear Emmy's potential grim future to her face.
After the surprise visit, both sisters are at their lowest of low mood voice. While trying to comfort her, Eon is soon met with a breakdown an outburst by Emmy - the latter claiming her life is over and that she hates the former immensely. Emmy smashes the nearby TV screen with her paw, injuring it and then storming off to the bedroom as Eon cries alone.
December 18: Eon Wintertide overhears more shittalking about her and her sister by coworkers during her shift. As a result, she loses her cool and confronts them by beating the ever-living shit out of the main source of it. In response, authorities take in Eon as she's fired from her job entirely.
Late in the night, Eon returns home and is escorted to the door by a couple lawmen working under the island's premier. Emmy eavesdrops on the conversation, which revolves around Eon being given a notice she'll have to show up in court the day after Christmas to receive her punishment. After the lawmen leave, it's made clear that neither sister can realistically spend the rest of their dreadful days on Wintertide Isle.
December 20: Eon Wintertide partakes in a private, online conversation with her long-distance girlfriend Ivy Ranger. Like all previous chats she's held with Ivy, this conversation is through a secretive and homemade chatting program housed on a USB stick. If anyone in power knew of such chats, Eon would face lethal punishment for communicating with an outsider.
After venting her recent woes and incoming troubles to her girlfriend, the two long-distance lovers ready themselves for plans to get Eon and Emmy off of the island safely and out to Boreal - the home country of Ivy Ranger.
December 21: Eon spends dinner one night telling her sister of the plans, leading to the latter's excitement. By this point, Emmy's long-since forgiven her sister following the outburst earlier in the month. Can't really be mad forever at someone you still love dearly, right? Packing begins later that night, while Ivy does her own prepwork overseas.
December 23 - 24: Through stealthily breaking into the dockyard at night, Eon and Emmy Wintertide are able to secure an unbelievably souped-up and powerful speedboat on the docks. However, their clean escape is cut short as a security guard discovers them right when they're getting ready to head out. Emmy panics, throws a toolbox at the guard, knocks said guard into the nearby cold water as a result, and then slams the autopilot button on the speedboat.
The two sisters successfully escape the island, despite the alarms blaring and authorities being made aware of the situation. They manage to remove a tracking device on the speedboat along their journey to Boreal. Meanwhile, the premier of the isle - Eleanor Wintertide - makes it clear in a meeting with Eckhart that this entire situation will be covered up to keep the public unaware of what went down. Any future resistance to her rule and the island's way of life will be met with secret killings. Hell of a mindset for a Santa Clause stand-in, eh?
December 25: On Christmas night, Eon and Emmy Wintertide successfully make it to Boreal before the souped-up speedboat dies out. After traversing upon this new land for an hour and change, they finally meet up with Ivy Ranger at a diner named Hearty Hallow. After a well-earned late night dinner, a new life in Boreal will begin for the sisters' and the older one's lover.