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Diana and Jane deal with the aftermath of Morris' rampage and find more layers to the mysteries and strangeness of the world they have descended into. | Diana and Jane deal with the aftermath of Morris' rampage and find more layers to the mysteries and strangeness of the world they have descended into. | ||
==What Happened== | ==What Happened== | ||
After parting ways with Morris and feeling the unsettling sense of being watched fade, Diana headed for home to sleep and determine her next course of action. Carter would need time to work his craft on the Row, so there was no point rushing back there immediately. Better to leave things a few days and then swoop in and take advantage of the chaos. The next few days would be spent digging into the financial secrets of Blackmouth, and of Ormwood Development in particular. | |||
A day of calling in favours, digging up information and following threads later and she did not like the picture that was coming together. Ormwood Development was a shell assembled only for the project that bore its name. Beneath the surface lay a score of land management forms, small businesses and independent contractors, all of them clustered about three points of interest: '''Greyburn Enterprises''', Alan Coleman's company that seemed to be the beating heart of Ormwood Development, '''Delgado & Murray''', attorneys and legal support to the whole enterprise, and '''Hafford 1020''', the source of the money and the outer layer of a Matryoshka doll of shell companies that lead back to '''Pinnacle Solutions''', which belonged to Theodore Slocum. | |||
Slocum. That was the third time that name had come up. Nathan Slocum had been a part of the group who had sealed the Tree in the '80s, and it had been an angel investment from his will that had started Condor. Diana was starting to feel like a pawn on someone else's chessboard and she did not like it. She turned on the news as a distraction to let the information settle and saw footage of a traffic accident, a car going through the front of a bar in Ormwood. Morris' indiscretion, but it had been edited to remove him, to make it a simple traffic accident. Shocking but mundanely so. She searched for the footage she had seen before but it was gone, video and channel, without a trace. | |||
Paranoia crept up her spine. Something had wiped away the evidence of Morris' actions. Something been watching Morris, watching them both. Something could be watching her at that moment. | |||
==People Encountered (in order of appearance)== | ==People Encountered (in order of appearance)== | ||
* '''''[[Diana Graves]]''''' | * '''''[[Diana Graves]]''''' | ||
* '''[[Price]]''' - Shown the inhuman truth by Diana and Jane. | |||
* '''''[[Jane Barrows]]''''' | * '''''[[Jane Barrows]]''''' | ||
* '''[[Hecate]]''' - Watching Diana and Jane in the Upside Down. | |||
* '''[[Hecate]]''' - Watching Diana and Jane in the | |||
* '''[[Nicole Morgan]]''' - | * '''[[Nicole Morgan]]''' - | ||
* '''[[Quinn]]''' | * '''[[Quinn]]''' | ||
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Diana and Jane deal with the aftermath of Morris' rampage and find more layers to the mysteries and strangeness of the world they have descended into.
What Happened
After parting ways with Morris and feeling the unsettling sense of being watched fade, Diana headed for home to sleep and determine her next course of action. Carter would need time to work his craft on the Row, so there was no point rushing back there immediately. Better to leave things a few days and then swoop in and take advantage of the chaos. The next few days would be spent digging into the financial secrets of Blackmouth, and of Ormwood Development in particular.
A day of calling in favours, digging up information and following threads later and she did not like the picture that was coming together. Ormwood Development was a shell assembled only for the project that bore its name. Beneath the surface lay a score of land management forms, small businesses and independent contractors, all of them clustered about three points of interest: Greyburn Enterprises, Alan Coleman's company that seemed to be the beating heart of Ormwood Development, Delgado & Murray, attorneys and legal support to the whole enterprise, and Hafford 1020, the source of the money and the outer layer of a Matryoshka doll of shell companies that lead back to Pinnacle Solutions, which belonged to Theodore Slocum.
Slocum. That was the third time that name had come up. Nathan Slocum had been a part of the group who had sealed the Tree in the '80s, and it had been an angel investment from his will that had started Condor. Diana was starting to feel like a pawn on someone else's chessboard and she did not like it. She turned on the news as a distraction to let the information settle and saw footage of a traffic accident, a car going through the front of a bar in Ormwood. Morris' indiscretion, but it had been edited to remove him, to make it a simple traffic accident. Shocking but mundanely so. She searched for the footage she had seen before but it was gone, video and channel, without a trace.
Paranoia crept up her spine. Something had wiped away the evidence of Morris' actions. Something been watching Morris, watching them both. Something could be watching her at that moment.
People Encountered (in order of appearance)
- Diana Graves
- Price - Shown the inhuman truth by Diana and Jane.
- Jane Barrows
- Hecate - Watching Diana and Jane in the Upside Down.
- Nicole Morgan -
- Quinn
Locations
- The Upside Down - the otherworld outside the Chambers, named by Jane.
- The White Raven - visited after an excursion into the Upside Down. Things were learned
Notes
- Diana learned many things about Ormwood Development and its twisted corporate schemes, gained Inspired Condition
- Much information and favours traded in the White Raven