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Notes on Deerington, as things happen. Objective: Keep track of what's happening and gather as much information as possible. It's the only way we're going to find our way out of this. If anything happens to me, there's a backup copy of these notes in my desk.

Last updated: March

September

Woke up with Korra and Naga in a town that calls itself Deerington. Told that:

it’s a dream

there’s no way out, but that people do leave

some people have been here for at least three years

Vira-Lorr believes that the kid behind all this—her name is Sodder—needs to be saved in order for us to be saved

the months are called something different here

the month called October, coming up next, is really bad. We're being told to prepare weeks in advance, stock up food & supplies and prepare ourselves for the worst.

September 15th-30th

chased by a mob of monsters called zombies, seem to be weak to light

had to rescue another person from some gnomes

the “locals” (creepy pastel people) keep telling me to light up my porch. Bought a pumpkin, Korra wanted to carve it. We’ll see what happens.

(Note added later: we met my parents and Avatar Aang. Someone claiming to be them, over the pumpkins. Dad said he was proud. Pretty sure it’s a trick.)

October

October is here, and it's as bad as promised. At midnight Korra and I both experienced pain that I can't describe very well. It even got Naga. Changes include:

house looks different, inside and out

all the water is blood: taps, rivers, streams

no sun, and instead of the moon, eyes. DON'T look at them; they make your thoughts audible

monsters everywhere

stained glass with our own memories

I'm seeing shadows and hearing voices that have no source. I've checked everywhere

Bolin is here, and the last thing he remembers happened three years ago at home. He looks younger, too. Time doesn't make sense here, but at least I know he's safe.

Note: walking through any door has about a 50% chance of shoving you into a tiny elevator that tries to drown you in blood.

Korra and I are running out of medical supplies. No one has been able to sleep. I'm going to get more

ran into Lysithea. We got trapped with a monster that is apparently from her home and used to be a person, had to take it out. Lysithea took down a power line to do it

library seems to be a safe space

circles of tiny skeletons are also safe, will give you useful stuff

Shiro has been here a long time, knows what he's doing.

something happened to Korra. she turned into a dark spirit. I'm going after her

it happened to me too

Okay. I've recovered, I'm in the library. It's safe here. This creature is encouraging us to tell each other stories, so I'm going to write down what happened to avoid it in the future. Korra turned into a dark spirit. She looked like Unalaq, and she thought that I was Zaheer, tried to attack me until she changed. Got big enough to throw me, and threw me into a house.

I woke up and tried to find her, but this black stuff formed around me, like ink, but it was sticking to me, and I could feel it happening but I couldn't do anything to stop it. I turned into some giant, fiery thing, and I knew I had to burn down as much as I could. It was like I could sense the layers in Deerington, and I had to tear them apart. I would have stayed like that, completely powerless, if Kristoff hadn't found my tattoo (it peeled off) and showed up in my head to bring me back to myself. I don't know what I would do without him. I'm staying in the library for the rest of the month unless I can help other people turn back.

There are these slits of light in the sky, and screaming. It can't mean anything good but no one has an explanation. It's like everything I thought I was doing as that thing actually did something.

November

All those earthquakes and strips of light got this place back to normal, kind of. The maps all changed: the river seems to be gone, and more importantly, there are sinkholes.

the one by the hospital was here before

the one by the mountain has standing stones. Korra discovered if you meditate by them, your powers stabilize, but you're wrecked for a while afterwards. So far it seems to be about a day. If you go the other direction, there's an underground ocean, and fruits that turn you into some kind of mer-creature.

I explored with Rei, and if you go far enough, there's another Deerington full of deer statues. Apparently, when you die, one of these appears. There are a lot. More than there are current Sleepers. They look like they've been here for ages.

some of those weird light slivers are still around. It looks like they lead to another world, or another layer?

there's a skeleton in our backyard

The Dog-Keeper gave us backpacks with survival equipment. Like he thinks we're going to need them. He seems to the most helpful of Deerington's residents.

Korra is gone. I watched it happen. It was like she exploded. I need to make sure

December

I died. Made the mistake of looking for Korra, and I wasn't thinking clearly. Went into the trench, and somebody was there. He wasn't acting like himself. Shocked me. I died the same way Ming-Hua did exactly 7 days ago.
Korra is still gone.
Death in this town isn't permanent. It makes you sick the first time it happens. You come back in a field that goes on as far as you can see. There's this creature, like this world's deer but with a mask, and a massive black tree. If it offers you fruit, eat it: it brings you back.

food seems to do something here, look into that later? we were told eat to food from the jar in the baskets when we first arrived

The Delivery Dogs are gone. The Fire Station shows signs that someone has been living there, even though it's covered in dust.

in the fire station is a book with all the dates people have appeared and disappeared and reappeared. way too detailed. someone is keeping track?

I brought home a collar. It was the only thing I could take with me. "If found, please return to the people" is printed on the back.

Wu is here. Hou-Ting Wu. Another person from home.

the stars are moving

There's no justice system in Deerington, but there can't be. I talked to the person who killed me. He claims he was possessed. That just believing a thing like that can happen makes it happen.
The 15th Things get really bad around this time of the month. A running list:

Ice zombies of anything from people to animals. Controlled by something? They're smart.

ended up in a car, driving through a blizzard, convinced I was breaking up with Wu. It happened three times, and we crashed every time. The illusion broke when we crashed. Wu was injured

trapped in a house that made me forget who I was and what I was doing. It was like being in a dream. Nobody knew who they were, but the houses were creepy and filled with photos of people's families and things I remembered.

Vira-Lorr and Lysithea posed a theory: that we have to know who we are and understand ourselves. Wu said something similar, that this place is testing us. We're the key to something.

January

Woke up to a message from Fern. Varian was trapped in something like a spirit cocoon. I went to investigate, but he seemed unhurt

covered in weird veins, it looked like he was sleeping

On day 6 of January, I walked outside to go to work and ended up trapped with a lot of other people at the Grady Hotel. There's a funeral program with my name on it, talking like I'm dead. Apparently my funeral is in 3 weeks. That can't mean anything good.

are we being herded? does Sodder want us safe, or does someone want us in one place to take us out? are we being distracted from something?

There's going to be a party here, apparently

it's too perfect

Varian woke up. Said he went home, had his leg back and everything, lived through several months without remembering Deerington, and then woke back up after only 3 days here. mid-month

If you walk away from the hotel, you end up at a beach. I've been twice, and I keep forgetting my notebook, no matter how hard I try to remember it. We're definitely being distracted

Diarmuid has been collecting information. Mother Superior—who hates us, by the way—is definitely trying to keep us contained for some reason. and Sodder's mother loves us and likes music. I need to go see her.

The party was everything you'd want a party to be, but the way we woke up was something else. Deerington was empty and completely dark.

I don't think this is a dream. There are people here who can't be dreaming. They're dead at home, or they don't have a home to go back to.

February

February started badly. I was paralyzed. Forgot who I was.

that's happening a lot, recently, between the houses and the cars and that party

a voice said "you will be reborn soon"

what if we aren't dreaming at all? What if there's another Mako back home who's just living his life?

February 3rd
Put on the collar and woke up as a dog in a place called Nome, Alaska. With the Dog-Keeper. It was a memory of another time and place.

he talked to Sodder, before she fell asleep. Seems like they were friends. She wanted to be a firefighter, too. Thought they were heroes

Deerington burned after Sodder fell asleep. The townspeople thought she shouldn't have been.

there are more kids. The Dog Keeper really hammered that home. It isn't just Sodder, and we're going to have to make a choice. We need more information about that choice.

I woke up with a vial of hair. The Dog Keeper said it would be important, that we would need something real.

February 9th

Wu's heart was in a box in my house. I had to put it back in his chest. He wasn't himself without it. Why is this not the weirdest thing anymore? He's fine now.

the Wastes keep giving me things that they claim are real. They know more than they let on. Something is different about them versus us. It's like we break the dream by being here. Is that why Mother Superior hates us?

February 11th
Korra is here again. She doesn't remember anything, but she does know what happened with the coup, which is more than Wu and I remember. I didn't seem any different at home. Somehow.

new theory: we aren't dreaming at all.
February 12th
Bill Cipher, Varian, Fern, and Ford are all working on a way to stabilize this place. Something with portals and getting through all the layers at once, fighting all the guardians. It's not going to work.

it didn't work

Bill was lying

I think they almost broke Deerington

February 25th
The rest of this month was bad. These flowers with eyes in them sprouted around town at the same time as living rodent skeletons, also covered in flowers. If you touched or looked at the flowers, you'd end up physically in either your memory or someone else's. I saw some things I'd rather not rememeber.
Something made alternate versions of some people appear. It happened to me. Still trying to figure out how. Another version of me who thought he was a nonbender from a place called New York City showed up, claiming to be me.
He got bitten. By one of the rats, and ended up trying to control Chloe Price and keeping Wu locked in his own house. He thought they were in danger.
I can't let that happen again. Wu had to destroy him by destroying the flower he was holding. I don't want to know what he would have done if Wu hadn't done that. The rats got Raleigh, too, made him threaten us, and for some reason I have that other me's memories in my head.

possible that we really are other versions, if one of them could show up here.

I need to know more about how time works in other worlds

March

The dream is breaking.
A tentacle came out of the floor to give me a letter. Apparently the Mayor wants to have some Sleepers over for tea on the 12th. He doesn't trust Mother Superior, thinks she's breaking through, and wants to get us to the Lab for some reason. Says it won't be easy.

possible that it's a trap

we need more information so I need to go

March 3rd

flowers & rats disappearing, thankfully

objects and people have started falling from the sky & slamming into things

if the dream is breaking, what happens to our supplies? People need to be prepared

something crashing & thundering in the distance occasionally

March 5th

Wrote up a list of necessary supplies and asked everyone to start stocking up (did not cause a panic, no matter what Wu said)

also asked about timelines in different worlds to find patterns

need to set up supply caches around town; Ruby's given me a list of people to follow up with

Time Notes

fixed points in time, unchangeable or hard to change, common across worlds. Manabu suggests "fate" or "destiny"

manipulating or changing time more common than assumed

in some cases if fixed points that "need" to happen are changed, time will try to fix itself

described as a river in many cases. or a ball of yarn.

some worlds have experience with alternate universes or versions of people, sometimes created by making one decision and not the other

March 10th

went looking for the sound with Fern, found something eating holes in the town. Not just food. Buildings, trees, animals.

clustered around places with a lot of deer statues and the sinkholes. source of most horrible things?

found massive creatures. don't seem to want to hurt us, but were willing to... latch onto us somehow

March 12th
Tea party time. I'll report back when I get back. This is probably a trap.
March 20th
finally got back from the Lab. I had to go multiple times. No Fluids, no notebooks, nothing. The Mayor warned us.

trapped in a facility, given pills

women with blurry faces tried to convince all of us we were dreaming or making deerington and our own worlds up

the more pills you took the easier it was to believe

had to escape through the vents, gathered hair like the Dog Keeper asked we passed:

a man's body, covered in veins, on a bench

what looked like Cynthia Sodder, rocking a baby, hoping everything would be alright. a memory?

Mother Superior, trying to wake up. She looked bad. Bloody and unhinged.

the Dog Keeper. recognized us, gave us more hair and told us it was important

Ramona, in a straitjacket, screaming that Sodder is the only reason we're all here and that she has to live

an illusion of Sodder's. she was drawing. asked what kind of monster we would make.

a mirror. hair that might be mine & Wu's?

Time for Wu's birthday
March 23rd
Wu was killed by Sam Winchester
March 23rd
Kristoff is gone. So are Anna and Chloe. So is Bolin

Shiro's Notes about Mother Superior

She was the right hand of Julia Sodder's grandmother. Part of some race of ... giant people. Pthumerian? Pumerian? It's spelled right in Peter's notes. Anyway - the Pthumerian Queen wanted to make some kind of god. She did a ritual with the moon, and Mother Superior helped.

I ... don't know what happened with her between now and then, but as far as I know, she's the one responsible for locking Julia away. Putting her in whatever state she's in now. And Mother Superior hates us. She's cut off our supplies, made us fight to the death, put us on trial

She's done everything she can to try and wipe us out.

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