(The events listed below were recorded by Persephone Kouris)

Sunday, March 22nd

For reasons untold it has fallen to me to record the... frankly unnumbered series of events that have befallen of myself and my... what was it that they called a band of changelings? Motley? Ah fuck it. Whatever. If some of the events catalogued are missing details or factually incorrect it was one of two reasons. One: I was not there. Two, which leads into one: why should I care? ...Well, I do care, about a good few members of our merry band actually. Some of what happened off camera from me elsewhere is important. Mostly.

First order of business. Ava had passed her trial for her initiation into the Summer Court and passed most spectacularly. That last part may be a bit of embellishment from me, but I like to think that Ava quite readily and whole-heartedly embraces the heart of Summer and its courtly ideals. However, Ava nor anyone involved with her initiation will not talk about what happened during it. Just shifty glances and some low mumbling. Eh, just another noodle incident to add to the spaghetti bowl we've got already. 

Meridian was tending to the business of bringing his... I don't know, blood room (is that what one should call it?) together by sacrificing a goat in it. I don't know if that's all he did and I don't WANT to know what else happened. Frankly the man is why us Fairest have such a foul reputation with everyone else, ugh. At some point Meridian acquired a butler, but only for a short period of time. ...I'm getting ahead of myself. I will come back to this. 

Rowan had gotten donuts and coffee (and hot chocolate for Jacob) for that crew's breakfast. Why is this important, I don't know, I'm just jotting it down, that's what I'm supposed to do with this fucking thing right? Afterwards, Ava tags along with Mi-Ok to walk her to her AA meeting. Poor woman surely needs it. 

Now me? Well, I had gotten up that morning and wanted to get breakfast but oh good god what I found. Spoiled bacon, questionable food items in the cupboards and a PINE SCENTED AIR FRESHENER IN THE FRIDGE. AN AIR FRESHENER. IN THE FRIDGE??? I miss Dmitri's apartment more and more, and I haven't even been here long. He kept his place nice, in stately condition. That included the fridge and not having air fresheners in it! I'm pretty sure that's a health hazard! All those chemicals? Christ. Well, I'm certainly not eating spoiled bacon or mystery food from the cupboards so I do the only rational thing and go shopping. When I get back, however, Joanna is at the table drinking a beer (when it's not even 10 in the morning? I really see why now Dmitri was not keen on joining these guys sooner). As I am making some breakfast she questions me a bit, on what my "deal" is. Just... I've been friends with Dmitri for years? I've known about him being a werewolf all that time? We're tight? Bro's? Joanna said that Dmitri was rather vague about me and wanted to know why that was. But I mean... it's Dmitri. I love the guy won't say anything more on that here, don't do it Seph but he has a reputation for being a bit... quiet. He still does that with me even and it's fucking ANNOYING but... that's who he is. Still, she wasn't buying what I was saying. ...If I am going to stay with them for... who knows how long, and Dmitri trusts them enough to be here with them and bring ME here, I'll need to open up to them too. I just told her that there is... something, but I would have to talk about it later. This seemed to suffice. After breakfast, I get a visit from Ava, who promptly gives me a sign of religious dudes in a circle with a slash mark around it. "No Religious Soliciting." Ha. I love it. And that was when I actually heard in person of her passing the Summer Court initiation, which makes me glad and I let her know of such. Ava was disappointed about having missed my brawl with that fucking bitch Melody. Oh I remember that herpes riddled cunt's name. Got to when I will put her fucking head on the wall WHERE IT BELONGS. ...Anyway... continuing on... Ava told me of this guy that was following her and Mi-Ok. Like the dude looked to be straight out of a Marvel movie with how laughable his "incognito" guise was, apparently. Ava and Mi-Ok got a picture of him and, plot twist! He turned out to be that guy from the green sedan, the head of security for that AER corporation or whatever. More of a plot twist, looks like... Ava's brother's boyfriend. Crazy! The plot thickens.

In the meanwhile, with Meridian he had called the Spring Court to ask if they were the ones who had sent him his butler and they declined to have done so. But they DID tell Meridian that the Spring Queen wanted us to look into some... Lionel Bennet fellow. He's not married with five daughters, alas. He decided to contact Rowan to get their assistance on handling the guy, because as I later heard, Rowan was "the least worst" option. See what I mean about Meridian? Fucking rude and soiling the name of GOOD Fairest everywhere. ):< Rowan says they will accompany Meridian to see this Mr. Bennet figure tomorrow... but that this evening they would go see Benjamin (the guy that's Ava's brother's boyfriend) and for reasons I cannot fathom Rowan allowed for Meridian to come along. 

Then while that was happening, Jacob is out on the Ave (alone? No one was watching the kid? Jesus fuck we're awful) and sees some other Ave rats around his age, hanging out. Jacob spotted a sandwich in a baggie on the ground and I guess some other kid too. They were trying to grab it but the sandwich... moved away. And this kept happening. Jacob I guess went to go see what was going on. He had noticed the sandwich being on some sort of string and led into some back alley. Someone, or rather someTHING was literally fishing for poor street kids. I'm sure it's friendly. Jacob had cut the string and some monster movie scream was heard, with the "string" splurting blood and the "sandwich" having reverted to being a tongue. Understandably and SMARTLY so, Jacob had noped on out of there and rushed back to the clinic, telling Rowan of what had happened and Rowan, in turn, texts Bones to see if he can find out more information on this thing. I guess that's what had preoccupied the guy today, since I didn't see him at all today or the next. 

We as a group finally all meet up at the clinic, since word had gotten around of going to see Ava's brother's boyfriend. Getting redundant to keep saying that, but everyone else was, I'm just logging it here. There's something about people looking on FaceBook to see if that was really Benjamin and there was some discovery of Fetches being there... as in, Ava's and her brother's Diego. ...I~~ guesssssss I forgot to mention such little details to Ava. Ahh... welp. Well, there's too  much blathering going on, not enough action, so Ava and I hopped in Dmitri's car and just began to head on up to Bothel, because Meridian decided a gift basket was crucial. And while that was happening... Rowan had texted me some interesting information on that brief misadventure.

There was no butler apparently, but a homeless man shoved into Meridian's closet. What WAS discovered, thanks to the security footage, is that some Meridian look-a-like is running around doing some odd things, from being the one to put the poor hobo in the closet to slaughtering the goat. Apparently all kinds of things are just cropping up today with people's Fetches. The plot thickens more to an unhealthy, sludgy degree. I'm glad Korey and I have an understanding of sorts about our situation. (Which reminds me, I need to get my (our?) 3DS from her, I've been dying to play some Pokemon or Zelda again.) Since Ava and I were going to get to Benjamin's place first, Rowan strongly urged me not to do anything rash. Pfft, come on now, it's me! Everything was going to be just fine... I thought... I hoped. Well, we DO get there first, and the house is like... so stereotypically your suburban, fancy-shmancy white neighborhood house. People are home and we are able to spy Benjamin inside... and the Fetches. The car barely pulled to a stop before Ava was out, at the door and furiously knocking. I got out quick like to be right there behind her. Be support, of some sort, was what I told myself. Benjamin is the one to answer the door and he steps outside. He knows who Ava is, the real Ava, and what... the other Ava and Diego are. Apparently this was discovered via security footage. Convenient. But then things become a loud shit show when Fetch Ava comes out, with a fucking gun and there is a lot of swearing and a lot of yelling. (Fuck you, no fuck YOU was the basis of the argument) And THAT is when Rowan and the rest get here. Ya know, as much as I like to get angry, to yell, curse and all that good stuff. Doing that where my newfound buddy of Summer could get her face blown the fuck off is NOT the greatest place or time to be doing that.

When Meridian and Rowan come up... ughh... I don't even want to recount what just... Meridian seduced the Ava Fetch and... the noises. Okay, okay, stop. Stop. Ignoring that not so important sub-plot, back to our main show. Diego, well, Fetch Diego comes out eventually, and is confused as hell about what is going on. Ava tries to tell him of what happened, how she and him were taken by faeries (which yeah, out loud sounds just dumb and absurd) and of course he was not believing us. Well... Rowan and I decided to drop our Masks to give him proof about who and what we are, we say we are. Rowan and Benjamin discuss of what is going on with the object that was found in the Bertha tunnel, and that we've come to... a sort of consensus of agreeing that neither of us want whatever the damned thing is to fall into the wrong hands. So, yay alliances? ...I feel bad for Ava though. Diego had gone off (kicking the tires of Dmitri's car |:<) and she went to talk to him... it's... it's rough. I know my first meeting with Korey was...

After that... debacle we figured it'd be good to get some dinner. Indian was the agreed upon cuisine. Our next business was to see about this... Lionel Bennet guy. We had gotten a home address for him, and were figuring out some kind of plan. What we came up with was that Rowan and I would pose as door-to-door religious folks (how ironic ¬_¬) to distract the guy if he's home while Meridian and Ava break in. If he's not, we still go on with the plan anyway. There's some talk about Meridian and his butler and Rowan decided to do some looking up on Meridian to see if they could perhaps find his Fetch. I honestly wasn't paying a huge amount of attention to this since I was texting Korey. I had heard Ava's Fetch mention having nightmares when Ava came back, I wanted to see if Korey did too. She said though that hers were dreams, not nightmares, of me being a dark queen and trapped. ...Spooky how on the money that was. That was when I said we had to meet up so I could borrow the 3DS, which she's cool with. Korey doesn't seem to be nearly as nerdy as I am about video games, which is weird, since we're both supposed to be... kinda the same person. And I'm getting distracted. Meridian's Fetch's name (or maybe his real name?) is Jeff Barker. God how perfect. Yes. The distaste on Meridian's face was glorious. It was art. Guess the Fetch is in Portland or so? I lost some details there, who cares. Then it's decided for Mi-Ok to stay over at Meridian's place to... keep an eye on things. Brave soul. No way back in hell would I do that. ...I can't believe by the end of the day I was happy to see that fucking houseboat.

Monday, March 23rd 

Apparently at some point during the night while Mi-Ok was staying over, Meridian had (supposedly, the security camera's actually make it dubious) gotten over on the bed and danced over her. Naked. I'm REALLY glad I wasn't over. Well, we get ready to head on to this Lionel Bennet's house to investigate. We found a few things. First that there were piles and piles of moldy and rotting pizza boxes, takeout and fast food, completely untouched. The whole house looked like one of those... model places you see in magazines. Everything had a layer of dust, save for a place at the table and a spot on the bed. Nothing in the bathroom was used. Not the tp, the shampoo... clearly something completely inhuman was in this house. Rowan did a quick search to find out who owned the house and for how long. Homeland Security were the technical owners and bought it a few weeks ago... and by coincidence (oh SURELY it can't mean anything more) it belonged to some couple before that died in a car crash around the same time the house was bought. Between the lot of us we got some hair too, since Rowan has some buddies that can do a DNA test on it... So, as a group, we decided to wait for the guy to get home and interrogate him. ...Christ that was ALL day. Fuck, SO boring. Just cleaning all damn day. Bet Dmitri's job is more exciting than what we did. Well, Lionel gets back at around 5:30, and more creepily, is not at all disturbed to find a bunch of strangers waiting for him in the kitchen in the dark. Rowan had tried to determine if he was normal by trying the handshake trick to feel his pulse. Was legit. What was NOT legit though was that Mi-Ok had upped her senses to get a better sense of smell of the guy. He smelled like a car engine... clearly he had to have been some kind of robot, but was FURIOUSLY denying it. As well, Mr. Roboto wasn't really giving us any favorable answers. Not on the nature of cube, what Homeland Security was doing with it exactly. Just stuff we already had figured. He did mention however that he was keeping it safe in his office from unwanted groups, such as the True Fae (like Hades...), mages of various factions, and beings from before the dawn of existence. We got him to clarify that. He mentioned something called The Endless, The Empty Hunger and... (I needed Dmitri to spell this out for me else I'll just call it Saggy Susan) Sag'suga Isim. It has something to do with werewolves and their mythology apparently... The robot mentioned too of how the object would NOT be put back in the ground, for reasons that again he would not disclose to us. Did so happen to mention he had a key card on him though and one could quite easily get into his office with it. ...It was bloody and violent to get that keycard, but luckily we made it out okay. ...Except for Mr. Roboto, I kind of clawed him up, and Meridian shot him once in the chest and the second time in the head. (And GOD that gun shot was loud! Fucking hell Meridian!) We couldn't just leave a corpse here and tons of evidence, and burning the house down, while could get rid of a lot, they would still find a body. We opted to open a door into the Hedge, put the body and carpet through, THEN burn the house down while we made our way through the Hedge. What could have POSSIBLY gone wrong?

...I had such high hopes I didn't have to go through the Hedge too much. There's a lot I'd like to know about the biological flora of the place, certainly, but... in a more FAMILIAR part of the Hedge. We were going along, and things were... fine... but then Ava had heard something, she recognized someone being in pain and went right charging through. We all go after her and... much, MUCH to my horror... it's Cerberus... fighting something that appears to be a giant man with antlers. Ava wanted to fight, to help this... antlered guy (who's her Keeper?! What?! Why would she wanna help him???) but he told us to go. If Meridian hadn't stepped in to convince Ava to leave, I would have tried to see if... I could have used some past, queenly influence on Cerberus. He obeyed me at times when I was... when I was Hades's wife. I even gave... gave Cerberus little head scratches, on all three heads... but fortunately, so fortunately we were actually able to get out of there in one piece. I don't like at all what this poses for our group. Just... what is Hades doing?

We all get home, and for the second day I'm glad to see the house boat, but especially Dmitri. Just... so glad to see him, hug him. He said he and the others had been out, doing some... job. That there was a spider creature and Dmitri had gotten hurt a bit. He was saying he was fine, patched up but... mmm... |:< ...When I told him about what had happened with Lionel, and the things he said were after the object, he got real pale when I mentioned the... endless thing... I don't like how things are getting more complicated, going more and more to shit. I got out of the fucking Underworld to ESCAPE Hell, not to get back into another one! ...Well, fuck it. This seems like a fine place to finish this off. It's late, I'm fucking tired. Deal with this shit in the morning.