(The events listed below were recorded by Persephone Kouris)

Thursday April 30th, 2015

Oh gosh diddly dee it's that time again where I am the one to chronicle our misadventures in the lovely greater Emerald City area. Huzzah! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Alright, so the word I got from Meridian was that he was working on some art. He had some purple prosy exposition bullshit on the finite details of what he was doing, but I didn't care enough to pay close attention. So yeah. Art. Ava accompanied Korey to her classes so I stayed behind with Jacob at the clinic and passed the time playing on my 3DS. I'm really missing my consoles now... I also wrote out an... apology note to Orpheus, in hopes he might come out and I could talk to him again, since he... likely has information that at least I would like to know about. I left out a small tub of Miracle Grow as a means of showing my sincerity as well. He's a rose, he's got to love it, right?

Back with Meridian (ugh) he gets a phone call from the Seneschal (who's name is Pat, apparently) regarding diplomatic... matters. Some emissaries from the surrounding freeholds were coming to visit, so Meridian was tasked to set up this... party event thing to welcome them all and... you know, Spring Court bullshit. Who the fuck cares. The important note was that it's to happen this Saturday at 8 PM, so that is VERY soon. When the phone call was finished, Meridian did a quick hi-bye and grabbed Jacob to do some clothes shopping. Look, I totally appreciate about looking cute and beautiful, it's important, I get it. But... one can look good while saving money, you know? Gotta save money to spend it on more important things. Like video games. And food.

Oh, while everyone was out, there was a knock at the clinic door. I answered it and it was this... woman who introduced herself as Beverly. She's been the one dropping off information about Jacob, his past and his fetch. And that was what she was here for again. She handed me a manilla folder that upon looking at it after she had left, contained a bunch of print offs from Ancestry.com. There is a photo in the folder though. Black and white, a family. Noted on the back was "Grandpa Jed, Margaret, Molly, Jimmy, Clarence, June 1947, New Mexico." Obviously Jacob was in the photo, and assuming that the names were listed in order from left to right, his real name is Clarence. ...I almost don;'t blame his fetch for becoming a serial killer, with a name like that. Eesh. I put the folder away in Rowan's office for them to see whenever they got back. Still no word on Dmitri. 

Meanwhile Ava has been sitting in class with Korey, apparently one of her electives being ancient Greek history and they were learning about Jason and the Argonauts. Apparently Orpheus was among them. Well, what a coinkidink. As one does, Ava is half paying attention, but her focus was to make sure that Korey was doing fine. (Also Ava had chased off some creepy "fedora" (really trilby) wearing dudebro that wanted to confess to Korey. Go Ava!) Ava finds she has a voice mail from Benji and she calls him back after class has finished up. He gives her some details that he's found out of other changelings having had encountered Panya (or other mummies) and what happened to them over the years. Or rather, millennia. 

The first is in 300 BCE, a mummy, possibly Panya, was in China when it was known as the Kingdom of Chu, or whatever, she was looking for something called the "Lao Sutra". She encounters something called a... "yaoghai" which looked like a motherfucking huge ass bear that may or may not have been a True Fae. It was terrorizing this village and to stop it, the mummy "called down the Heavens", wiping everyone, including some changelings that were there, all out.

The second is in London in 1593. Agents of Kambetet were looking for something called the "Plague Box" as well as this Black Queen. The box got destroyed on accident which turns this changeling into an undying bearer of plagues. So they buried them to make sure not everyone got the Black Plague 2.0 and died. Welp.

The third was in New Jersey in 1938. Some... "extradimensional incursion" occurred (so aliens?) at Grover Mills. Some mummies, Agents of Nesu, were looking into this. Then a being, affected by a blast of "mummy energy" got bad burns, their skin peeled off to reveal murderous worms that attacked everyone and so they killed the thing with fire.

So this all sounds very delightful and promising. 

Ava talks further with Benji, the two just... agreeing that Diego will be TOTALLY fine. But, it's also revealed that this... Duke of Windswept Blossoms has reappeared, wishing to communicate with Panya. Ava tells Benji that this Duke is a total douche. A douchebro? ...A dukebro? Anyway. Everything is TOTALLY fine. 

Meridian finally finished up with Jacob and returned home, and Jacob came back to the clinic. While Meridian was making phone calls to arrange plans for the party, he got a knock on the door. It's fucking Orpheus, saying he needs "assistance with matters of the heart" and heard that Meridian seemed to have expert advice. Dear. Fucking. God. In true Meridian fashion he goes on again in overly expressive exposition on the details of "how to woo and impress me". In short saying that because I have a werewolf as a boyfriend, CLEARLY I must like it rough, doggy style, hairy and to be dominated.

Orpheus being the gullible moron that he is takes it all in without even a grain of salt. Meridian also says that Orpheus must be "well equipped" (please kill me) and proceeds to strip Orpheus down and try to... see if any of his parts work. They don't cause spoiler: he's reanimating a corpse. Meridian then sets Orpheus up to gain some "education" via gay porn (cause yes, I am a man with a penis. Totes.) and of which Orpheus studied with great vigor and took notes. It was at this point that Meridian unties a dude and let's him go. ...I really don't like the man. He also invites Orpheus to the party. SIGH. 

Back with Ava and Korey, they're in the student union building and while walking, Ways stop and stares at something. It's a poster for an older movie called Lady Godiva and would be showing tomorrow night. While they were distracted, Korey had wandered off. Ava manages to spot her booking it across the lawn and gives chase. Poor Korey though tripped over a napping person and completely wiped out. Like straight up face-planted and even slid across the grass. Poor girl. Ava asks why she was running but Korey won't give an explanation and tells her to forget about it. Mm... that's concerning. Yes, could be she's just trying to avoid our craziness and get back to her normal life but... mm... Anyway, Ava asks her if she wants to see a movie tomorrow night and Korey agrees. They begin to make their way back to the clinic.

So, with Jacob out of Meridian's hands he was back to his wanderings between the clinic and the Hollow, for now hanging out in the Hollow. His wanderings took him to Meridian's place and... finding Orpheus. Apparently upon meeting him, Jacob slapped him, yelled "Respect your Queen!" and promptly ran back through the Hollow into the clinic and then told me. Well, I needed to talk to Orpheus but I also knew that Orpheus at Meridian's was THE WORST COMBINATION POSSIBLE and promptly went on over. I found him in a room with a laptop just blasting gay porn and, ugh. I told him that Meridian was an idiot and he should NOT listen to him but, I guess Orpheus is an idiot too since he was saying that "Meridian is an expert on love". Meridian told him to "exert his dominance" over me and so Orpheus tried to grab me. I easily side stepped him. Tried again. Same result. I was even able to casually turn off the porn while dodging him. It was... rather pathetic. I eventually grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back. I see of trying to drag him back to the clinic through the Hollow. He resists, but I can manage. However, once in the Hollow he... shudders and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Him, like the real rose-plant Orpheus crawled out through the mouth of the body, leaving behind the corpse and disappeared into the Hollow. Fucking creepy and also fucking great. ...Fucking great as in it's totally not. Diego comes in and I let him know what's going on and he agrees to help me look for Orpheus. Jacob joins the hunt as well, and I try to lure him out with Miracle Grow but none of us can find the little thorny bastard. 

It's around this time that Ava and Korey are returning to the clinic, pizza in hand. Seeing no one inside the clinic, they step inside the Hollow and... welp, find Orpheus's discarded host body. Korey of course screams and promptly runs out and I come over and catch Ava up to speed on what's going on. With four of us looking, we eventually find Orpheus up in the rafters, refusing to come down apparently in fear that I will likely murderlate him. We first communicate with him by asking him yes and no questions. Give one shake for yes, two for no. We don't get very far and eventually see if we can try to talk to him by like... texting or just plain ol' pencil and paper. He opts for the latter and he does come down. I tried to tell him that I VERY much prefer him as a plant, but he said he didn't want to stay as such. He insisted he needed a penis (god damn you Meridian). We also ask him if he could... not just take the blood and bodies of innocent people and try to see if maybe he could subsist on animal blood instead. He thinks that might work, and with the power of Amazon Fresh, have a bucket of pig's blood delivered within an hour. Once it arrives, we stick Orpheus in the bucket and it seems to work alright. He claims it doesn't taste as good though. Sigh. Then there's a knock on the door. Specifically, the one that leads out to the Hedge. Meridian slides back the sliding eye hole and sees it's a grim reaper like figure there. They say they've come for Orpheus at the behest of Hades. While Meridian is... doing what he does best on distracting the figure, I debate internally if I should just be done with the fucking plant and hand him over. As if reading my mind, Ava asks what we should do. Or rather... who do I hate more: Orpheus or Hades? ...Well. Orpheus may be a creep. But he's not a kidnapping rapist monstrous creep. So the decision is easy. I carefully grab the bucket Orpheus is in and the rest of us quietly get on out of the Hollow and into the clinic. The robed figure comments that Orpheus is gone and Meridian shoos them on their way. 

We're back in the clinic and I set Orpheus down, he writes more on what he can do to get me to like him. He writes off "read Jane Austen?" and in all caps "BE LIKE MR. DARCY??" (So footnote, I guess Orpheus does do other things besides stalk me. While he's in various host's, he watches their movies and TV shows. He watched BBC's Pride and Prejudice like this. Plus other things.) I ry to explain to Orpheus that there are different TYPES of love. Not just... sexual (I don't even know what to call whatever it is Meridian does all the time). But then I get a text. From Dmitri! <3 It just says wtf and... ah yeah. I left him over 20 texts, a number of missed calls and voice mail. But can you blame me? I didn't know what was going on and some fucking creep had his phone! If he can freak out about something happening to me, I get the same rights. The topic of Zerxes comes up and I let him know that it's straight up an Empire moment that hey, he's my father, and he wants to kill my fetch or rather, basically my twin. And cue the Star Wars jokes, as well as to why I love Dmitri so fucking much. Ava goes to check on Korey but she's finds that she's gone. I send a quick text to Korey, just asking that... for her to please be okay and get back to me soon... Ways disappeared as well and Rowan finally comes back from wherever they were at. And then Ways is back again, saying they didn't want to teleport in and out of Rowan's clinic without their permission, but Rowan says that Ways can teleport in and out as they please. We explain to Rowan what all has happened while they were gone, with Orpheus, the party that's coming up and so on. I ask them what they should do about the body and... well... Rowan's solution was.... creative. I didn't go out and see it, but apparently they decided to give the Hedge entrance a medieval flair. Decapitated head on a spike with the frozen dick in its mouth and the body holding a... starbucks cup? ...My motley is fucking nuts. 

Nothing of particular note happens for the rest of the evening or the night. I haven't gotten a response from Korey, though Dmitri is finally making his way back via train. Benji texts Ava back more on the Duke, saying he and Panya met and that... Panya giggled once he was gone. Ava is understandably alarmed as are most of the rest of us.

Friday May 1st, 2015

In the morning Rowan goes to check on their... macabre artistic piece in the Hedge. It's since gained a few crows. When they come back they take Ava and Diego shopping. I debated upon going with them but I figured, fuck it. I'll just wear the dress I borrowed from Meridian again. I don't give a fuck if he judges me for it. I check up on Orpheus, he's made a bit of a mess and had drained a good bit of the bucket's contents. I ask him if he still wants to go to that party and he says he does. So that means he needs a body. Well, he can't have any random schmuck off the street. I tell him that should he have any host's, they need to come from the deplorable members of society. The ones that I guarantee no one would miss. So dudebro's really. Well, rapists, murderers, Republicans, fucking greedy CEO's... but they kinda all fall under the umbrella term of dudebro. Anyway, I transplant Orpheus into a proper pot with some dirt (and the blood too) to uhh... make him look a bit more... presentable and take him along to a club. I scope out the place, and I point the biggest bag of sagging dicks of the place. "That is your target, Orpheus." I quietly told him. That was when I felt a prick and was suddenly drowsy. I tried to send a text to Rowan that I was in trouble, but I blacked out before I could.

While I was possibly getting murdered, Ava, Diego and Ways went to go see that Lady Godiva movie. The one rather curious thing mentioned was that Leofric was a character in the movie. Ava asks Ways if Leo had gotten the name from this movie, but says that he much older than it, yet is still unsure as to why he was drawn to this movie. ...Moving along.

Meridian continues to be on his phone frantically organizing everything for the party. While doing so, there is a giggle, but no one is around, and a flower arrangement dances across the table. He demands the workers to stay all day and all night watching over everything and if anything moves, to move it back. Parties are srs bsns. 

While Rowan is back at the clinic, their phone rings, with the caller being Liz. She says she has something of Rowan's, so Rowan takes Jacob along and goes to the location that Liz told them to go to. Apparently the "something of yours" is me and the location being the club. I see that Orpheus is looking like his... weirdly anime Lestat self and ask him what happened. He told me a... monster of shadows and forest attacked me. What I get from Liz is that this creepy old dude in his 80's drugged me, Orpheus went nuts which frightened all of the clubbers and Liz came to do damage control. When Rowan and Jacob arrive, Jacob looks around the club and finds a syringe. He gives it to Rowan so they can examine it later. We go to the security room to see if we can get any footage on what happened. Like said, creepy old fuck stabbed me with the syringe. When I blacked out I dropped Orpheus, who proceeded to go ape shit (he looked like the Sarlaac Pit from the shitty remastered Jedi movie, yet somehow more menacing even though Orpheus is a good bit smaller) and he grabbed the dude I had pointed out earlier (and dear god it was horrific. Like xenomorph facehugger kind of terrifying, jesus.) Orpheus tries to go after the creep that drugged me but he fled, along with all the other club goers. Jacob had tried to pull up anything he could gleam on his fetch, but all he could get was like... his fetch being in a van stuck in traffic, with it smelling like vomit. Creepyyyy. Well, I still had a headache, so I opt to go home, get some food and actual sleep. I take Jacob and Orpheus with me and leave Rowan alone with Liz so they can... go clubbing together. You're welcome Rowan. Orpheus played some music on his guitar on the drive back. I asked him where the fuck he keeps the thing and he says it's "an expression of his soul and summons it when he needs it". ...Great. Too bad he couldn't have summoned a shotgun and blew Jacob's fucking fetch straight to Hades. 

My crew all come back to the clinic around the same time that Ava and hers do and I let them know what happened with me and Jacob's fetch, as well as where Rowan is for the night. Ava proceeds to text her support to Rowan. She's quite the little avid shipper on deck. Meridian meanwhile had some... orgy after getting more organizing for the party finished. He gets a call and apparently some people are locked in a closet. Once again the work of his doppelgänger. Meridian says he'll let them go once they've put everything back. What a douche.

In the middle of the night I wake up to some... cold hands around me and I thought it was Orpheus being fucking cheeky (since when I had grabbed him before, he felt cold) and I get "That's not what you usually call me." ...Dmitri had come home sooner than expected. The train had broken down, they rented a car and he wanted to surprise me (how sweet~ <3). He uhh, met Orpheus though and there was some... brief violence but Diego told Dmitri that everything was cool, that Orpheus was meant to be here which... yeah I guess it's true. We can keep an eye on him and well... keeping him seems to piss Hades off and I am all for pissing that shithead off whenever I can. So... we've added a sentient rose to the group party. Yay. But, in all seriousness, I was glad to see Dmitri again, safe and sound.

 Saturday May 2nd, 2015

The next morning, I tell Dmitri of the party and invite him to come along, whether Meridian wants him there or not. I ask him of what... how his... initiation thing went. He explains that he had to do a number of tasks and tests in order to get into this tribe called the Iron Masters, and I guess that's where Zerxes is some.. big alpha male dicklord. Dmitri so graciously tells me that some of the tests were a bit life threatening but assures me that he would have gotten out okay either way. ...Thanks dear that's comforting. In the mean time Rowan was trying to fid out anything more about Jacob and his fetch, like if he had any records in the professional medical industry kind of thing. They don't find too much, save for some alumni association in the 60's at the university of New Mexico with medicine as well as... Roswell in 1947. So Jacob was totally taken by aliens. Ava tries to find out anything more on the connection between Lady Godiva and Leofric via the library but finds nothing of note. 

At the party proper finally, it's... quite the scene. It looks like a forest of blown glass, with the colors being a bright Spring day and slowly fade into the night with little tiny lights. I have to begrudgingly admit, Meridian does have some artistic sense. The emissaries of the other Freeholds arrive. From Portland's Columbia Freehold is Denise, a Swimmerskin Beast that looks like an otter (aw!). Then from the Gas Town Freehold of Vancouver, B.C. is... a Polychromatic Fairest that looks like a fucking living Lisa Frank piece. And HIs name is Sprinkles! Even Meridian decides to avoid him for the entirety of the party as much as he can. The rest of us do the same. But I mean, Dmitri and I are only there for the food anyway. Then finally, from the Lilac Freehold in Spokane is a Farstrider Ogre named Buck Jackson. ...Good lord these people are all characters. Orpheus is at the party as well, when I took a glance around. And unlike what I told him, he took Meridian's advice. He looked... taller, a bit more muscular and... sigh, hairier. I will really need to try and get Orpheus to not take any more of Meridian's half baked shit advice. There's a sudden piercing noise that made me jump. I had thought something was happening like at the coronation but... Sprinkles! had seen Ways with his little dark red bow tie on. ...Well, can't blame him. Ways is already fucking adorable and now he was even cuter with that little bow on. 

Not much really goes on at the party for a while. Apparently Meridian's evil twin is somewhere here, and guard was given a suspicious watermelon that is then stowed away in the kitchen.

Ava gets a text from Benji with the alert that the Duke is trying to convince Panya and some fellow mummies to crash the party. Ava tells Meridian what's going on and it's decided that Panya and her peeps are fine, but absolutely NO Duke, other True Fae (obviously) or anything/one that the Duke sends. Liz is also invited and shows up in a pantsuit. She meets with Rowan and discreetly gets some of their blood to see how the party really looks. Meridian introduces Liz to the Queen and well, guess Liz is kind of a big deal in the vampire community. So, that's cool that we have another pretty awesome ally. 

Panya arrives with some escorts (Benji is among them) and the other two mummies, who are introduced as Nesu and Kambatet. They areof course introduced to the Queen and all three seem to be... a part of some various... mummy guilds and orders? I don't know. Meridian spots his double again and approaches them. They had a woman on their arm whom they shoo away and Meridian takes the double into another room to have a more private chat with them. So, surprise surprise, it turns out it's Beverly, like from the Winter Court. She's one of those Mirrorskin Darklings and has been posing as Meridian purely just to fuck with him, apparently. ...Kind of a bitch move but... Meh?

When Meridian and Beverly come out, he sees that there appears to be an intense discussion between the Queen, the emissaries, Panya and the other two mummies. Meridian interrupts and deescalates the conversation. Panya approaches Ava to talk to her in saying that she and Meridian have differing opinions on their "Masters" as opposed to most changelings. Ava does confirm that, yeah, that's true. Well, Ava won the lottery on not getting a super douche of a Keeper and Meridian... Meridian is fucking broken and brainwashed into thinking that his Keeper is magnificent. ...Yet he's not a Loyalist? Hmm... Panya makes the passing comment to Ava that the Duke noted that Diego is quite... competent. And then she kinda wanders off. I guess social charisma is not a particularly high stat for Panya. Ava finds Diego, drinking quite a good bit of scotch. I... guess he's not taking well what's happened with Benji. Being immune to mummy weirdness and well... the whole "separated by a fuck ton of years" deal. Can't really blame Diego when he upgrades from a bottle to a bucket of scotch. 

Meridian eventually pulls Panya aside to have a conversation with her, basically putting in relatively polite terms to fucking shut up about True Fae to the other changelings. But that they, he and Panya, could certainly have a discussion on the matter at a later time.

THEN Meridian gets a call from security that some of those Homeland Security douches are here now. Fucking christ, is every kind of entity trying to turn up to this? Meridian has his security moved to discreetly keep an eye out while he goes to meet with the MIB at the door. It's a woman that greets him, giving the name Agent Trailer. She's asking about the party as well as what has happened to the Staff while Meridian... nonchalantly dodges the question and affirms that they haven't been invited to the party and that besides, they are not at all dressed up enough for the occasion. So, surprisingly, it all ends peacefully, with the woman giving Meridian her card and he gives her the card of a tailor he recommends. With that, Homeland Security leaves.

Mercifully, no one else uninvited turns up. Meridian confides to the Queen about Beverly and her odd little pranks on him, as well as asking about the woman she was with. Her name is Jessica and she is... suspicious. It's recommended that he, and by proxy, the rest of us, investigate her.

Rowan spots Beverly and approaches her. They let her know that Jacob's fetch is in town and attacked me but, whoo, I'm okay. Beverly says that a few bodies matching his M.O. have cropped up. And Rowan says alright, but if any exsanguinated bodies are found, not to worry about it. Rowan, she's part of the Winter Court, of COURSE she'll worry about it, even though... we kinda got that... hopefully under control now. Anyhoo, Rowan simply says that if she hears anything of what Jacob's Fetch is doing, to let them know. Meridian and Rowan eventually chat up some and Meridian says that Beverly has been the one behind the whole third doppelgänger bit, as well if they know anything on Jessica. Rowan does not but says they will do what they can to find out. WHICH leads Rowan to asking Liz if SHE knows anything on Jessica. Apparently, Jessica is akin to what Liz does, except instead of for vampires, it's for mages. And that the really scary thing about them is that they can change reality on a deep, fundamental level. That's... also terrifying. Liz also says that they're blood doesn't give nearly as nice of a nice. She compares changeling blood to shrooms and mage's to nyquil. ...Ew. Ava also tries to ken Jessica to see if she can get like... a wibbly-wobbly magical sense on her. Apparently her weird-ness is close to changeling weird-ness but it's... off somehow. Not really right. Huh. Ava also later stated that she had felt the sensation a few times, while at Meridian's actually. So apparently Jessica was also a part of the fuckery with Meridian. Ugh.

Finally, the party begins to die down, guests leaves. No one was attacked or killed at the party and no bomb, supernatural or not, goes off while people are leaving. So... success? The Queen approaches Meridian, congratulating him on how splendid the party went. She does mention however that there has been some... fallout in regards to the box, its contents and who's been after it. The good news is that they're not mad at US. But... the bad news is that who they ARE mad at may affect all of Seattle. And that's not cool. Cause while I'd be more than happy to have two enemies take each other out, I'd rather they don't do it in my yard. They can take it over to Forks. 

Meridian gathers us all up into a group, along with Dmitri, Liz, Benji and Panya to discuss these matters. So apparently it was something called the God Machine that had made the staff and box in the first place, and that some entities, like the True Fae, are pissed with it. The Duke has bee trying to make a pledge with Panya, but thankfully she's savvy enough not to go for it. It's agreed upon that we need to monitor the situation and make sure it doesn't get too out of hand, and that we should all do our part to help in that. Dmitri does reveal though that apparently an army of werewolves from St. Louis is coming to deal with the threat of those fundamentalist extremist werewolf fucks from Issaquah. (So I guess, like it or not, I will be meeting my glorified sperm donor soon.) It's requested that we, the Motley, get some contact information of the Duke to try and see if we can... have a discussion with him. Panya is able to provide that. 

With that, the rest of us leave to go about our own business for the rest of the night. I guess these past couple of days weren't TOO awful. Although what Meridian has been telling Orpheus definitely is... I'm worried about Korey too. I'm such a fucking dumb, ignorant fuckwad to have called her a doppelgänger. I didn't mean it. I was talking to Zerxes and that was the language I used and I fucked up and fucking parroted it. I'll need to find her, and properly apologize. Probably let her hit me too. I definitely deserve it. I mean... sisters shouldn't do that shit to each other, right?