The Story So Far

July 9th, 2041

 * team arrives, Speaks to Mayor and Bill
 * fights and defeats a Turned
 * team asks questions of Bill before crashing at his house

July 10th, 2041

 * wake up, team breakfast
 * Anna escorts Gwen, Donovan, Lucy, and Sterling to Dr. Marsh's for questioning
 * Frank goes out to question the town
 * Anna goes out to (???)
 * team meets back up at Bill's to question Marcie
 * team questions Marcie, eats steak, gets drunk, and passes out

July 11th, 2041

 * team wakes up and reconvenes at Bills's - team splits into groups for side conversations over breakfast


 * Ky, Donovan, and Gwen explore Gwen's safehouse
 * 1) Lucy and Sterling sit in the office to discuss music


 * Team meets for lunch
 * Team visits Hiram and questions him regarding the town
 * Team makes preparations before jumping in the van to head off to the mayors
 * Team goes to the Mayor's, kicks some ass, makes some mistakes
 * Team goes to Bill's, says goodbye to frank, and hits the road

July 12, 2041

 * drive straight to vampire brothel (Gwen driving)
 * the vampires split the party, Gwen and Donovan get bit, Ky gets tempted into turning into a vampire by Alex who also flirts with them.
 * crash in neighborhood that night after vampire brothel

July 13, 2041

 * Sterling gets new clothes from Lucy
 * driving scene with Ky
 * tire blows

July 14, 2041

 * Thunderdome in Kansas City

July 15th, 2041

 * Arrive at Longs Peak. Driving into the Rockies, Gwen sees something moving in the flurry of snow. Car stops, Gwen investigates, finds a Turned deer. The snow has the visibility at zero, and they stumble upon a ranger station and spend the night.

July 16th, 2041

 * The party start trekking up the trail. Lucy gets snagged in a trap, Louis finds them and brings them back to camp. The van is subsequently buried under snow.
 * We meet Dr. Patel, Maury, and Louis, are told that their fourth explorer was lost a week ago.
 * They take the party to The Keyhole, a recently revealed archeological site that depicts humans and yetis living symbiotically.
 * Donovan and Gwen sneak away and venture deeper into the caverns, stumbling upon an archway blocked by a big rock.
 * Ky uses Big Magic to move the rock, which knocks them out
 * They go into the arch room and find more artifacts and an altar with glass marbles
 * Research group (Gwendolyn, Maury, Patel) gets excited at the new find and calls it a day, planning to take notes and pictures the next day. Everyone but Sterling and Gwen leave.
 * Gwen discovers that the altar has been moved recently. With the help of Sterling, they move it enough for a smaller party member to slip through.
 * Gwen slips into the tunnels and reads the runes. She comes back out and they leave for the night.

July 17th, 2041

 * Lucy, Patel, Maurice, and Gwen go to the caverns while Louis, Sterling, Donovan, and Ky stay back at camp to see if Ky can pick Gonzalez up with their telepathy.
 * Ky attempts and cannot find her, though the Keyhole just comes up like telepathic tv static
 * Meanwhile, Patel, Gwen, Maury, and Lucy find that the boulder that Ky moved the day before was back in place, which puzzled everyone. Lucy smashes the boulder and they re-enter the altar room. There, they find that the altar also moved back into place
 * Lucy, Gwen, Patel, and Maury all work together to push the altar and open the door again, only Maury slips and cuts his hand on the altar, getting poisoned by the magic.
 * Louis takes Ky and Sterling go on a hunt while Donovan makes his way up to the Keyhole to offer research assistance, and ends up escorting Maury back to camp so he can patch up his hand in the med bay.
 * Lucy, Gwen, and Patel explore the tunnels and end up getting lost due to the tunnels magically shifting. They are lost for about 30-45 minutes.
 * Lucy tries to use magic in the marble she pocketed, and instead her magic deflected the infection that the life magic caused.
 * Donovan and Maury come back only to find the cavern empty. They realize that the ladies went into the tunnels, and that their guide twine had been cut. Donovan was ready to go after them, but Maury didn’t want to be alone on the surface, so they start going through the artifacts in the cavern.
 * Sterling comes back from the hunt while Ky and Louis prepare the deer they caught. He isn’t happy when he finds that Gwen is lost in the tunnels, and makes Maury and Donovan go into the tunnels with him.
 * Maury can see through the shifting tunnels because he’s infected from the Life magic, and finds the women before leading them out to safety. Once he’s outside the tunnels, he begins having more pain in his hand, and it’s discovered that the magic in the tunnels and on the altar Turn people, and that Maury was Turning.
 * Lucy attempts to cast out the evil in Maury, but finds that the magic and his life force are tied together, and that the infection would have to be replaced.
 * Gwen and Lucy yell at each other. Sterling intervenes. They bring Maurice back to camp and break the news that he’s Turning to both him and Louis. Donovan and Lucy stay back in the caves to have a smoke.
 * Gwen gives Maurice an injection that suppresses the turn, and stays up all night researching.
 * Donovan joins her after awhile to help with research, and is grieving over Maury.

July 18th, 2041

 * Gwen gets a call from Qiān and she finds out that the Keyhole is a magic hotspot, as well as three ways to fix Maury.
 * Donovan picks a fight with Sterling, blaming him for forcing Maury to go into the tunnels. That if he hadn’t done that, Maury would have been fine. Gwen tries to keep the peace and get them to talk civilly, but it doesn’t work.
 * Gwen goes to resolve things with Sterling first, and they kiss. In the morning, she goes to resolve things with Donovan, who is still too grumpy to admit anything.
 * Gwen and Lucy make up and end up making a plan to save Maury, based off of Qiān’s information.
 * Donovan takes a quick nap, then goes to apologize to Gwen, but is intercepted at the coffee pot by Sterling, who makes amends. They shake hands and make up
 * Then Donovan goes to apologize to Gwen, and gives her his notes he’s been working on.
 * With Lucy’s plan, they head back up to the tunnels with Maury. The artifacts moved in front of the tunnel as if to protect it. Ky finds that the artifacts are actually vessels, and that they can transfer the bad magic in Maury into a vessel, and pump him with new magic.
 * They do just that, which taps out Lucy and Ky, but Maury is saved.
 * They return to camp once more, Lucy being put in the med bay and Ky resting in the bunk room. Donovan informs Ky that he’s going to the tunnels, and if he’s not back by nightfall, then tell everyone where he was. As he’s leaving the bunk room he finds a note Ky was writing to Alex the vampire, and steals it knowing he’ll have to confront them about it later.
 * He still has questions about the tunnels, and sneaks away from camp to investigate, but not before overhearing Gwen ask Sterling if he wants to have sex with her when he walked in to tell them about Lucy’s notes.
 * Donovan at the tunnels manages to find a way to see the path without touching the marbles. He follows the tunnel to the end, where he finds the Thing. It chases him, he escapes and seals the opening by pushing the altar back into place. He ends up collapsing in the snow from pain and panic, and gets frostbite on top of being burned on his feet by magical ichor.
 * Sterling finds Gwen’s research notes on him while watching over an unconscious Lucy, reads them, and gets angry. Picks a fight with Gwen, then the two give each other the don’t speak unless spoken to treatment.

July 19th, 2041

 * Lucy wakes up after being comatose, Maury is healed, and Ky forgets to tell everyone about Donovan, and Gwen and Sterling are tense.
 * Once they realize he’s gone, they leave and find him at the entrance of the Keyhole, buried in snow. They stabilize him, and he tells Gwen about the monster before he’s brought back to camp.
 * Gwen and Lucy yell at Donovan for being stupid while Gwen patches him up and unthaws him. Once his hands are warm, he draws a picture of The Thing so everyone understands how horrifying it was, and he begs them not to go and fight it.
 * They start talking about a plan on how to fight it, and settle on watches for now. Gwen connects the dots and realizes that the Thing is Gonzalez, the missing exploration member
 * Sterling tells Ky he’s leaving and insinuates it’s because of Gwen and her notes
 * Donovan conducts therapy with Gwen. Then Ky comes in and blames Gwen for sterling leaving. Gwen confronts sterling, then sterling leaves in a huff and goes back to the med bay to write a note.
 * Ky and Gwen talk a little before Donovan calls Gwen into the med bay after conducting therapy with Sterling.
 * Gwen and Sterling kiss and make up, and spend the rest of the night talking
 * Gwen and Sterling kiss and make up, and spend the rest of the night talking

July 20th, 2041

 * Donovan confronts Ky about wanting to turn into a vampire, and lay ends up admitting that they don’t want to die. They hug it out like siblings.
 * The party takes turns guarding the caves, just in case the Thing breaks through the wall the altar controlled.

July 21st, 2041

 * The party goes to confront The Thing with success. The Thing/Gonzalez dies, and the snowstorm that's been plaguing the area stops. They emerge from the caves as everything is melting.
 * A van full of Kels stop the party as they're trying to leave Longs Peak, claiming to be from the Network and demanding that the party comes with them to Denver. They have no choice to comply.

Cast One - Interlude 3
Dr. Young, Theresa Introduction

Bridge
the monster that Zwooped Cast One

Cast Two - Arc 1
Joseki Settlement, Daywolf

August 24th, 2041

 * Theresa and Gwen make it into Fairfield, a small town in Montana after weeks of walking. They are following signs to Joseki.
 * Theresa starts gathering supplies from a pharmacy, with Gwen keeping a watchful eye out for any danger.
 * Sure enough, a Turned was lurking in the darkness. It attacks, pinning Gwen to the door. Theresa tries to run but fails, and it claws her shoulder before pinning her to the door too.
 * Gwen manages to swing the door open, tumbling outside and goading the Turned to follow her out in to the sun, which it does. Theresa hits it a few times with her bat, gets hurt a little more, Gwen swings on it with a mallet practically dealing the final blow. Theresa finishes the job and the two of them are shaken.
 * They move towards one of the abandoned houses and find a first aid kit. Gwen patches up the claw marks on Theresa's shoulder. It isn't long before they hear shouting and a gunshot.


 * Caleb rolls into Fairfield, Montana in his truck, also on his way to Joseki. He is stopped by a man who is in the process of Turning, begging in for help and pleading with him not to go to Joseki. Caleb promises help, and then puts a bullet in the man's head as a mercy.
 * Gwen leaves the house to investigate, and ends up running into Caleb. Theresa follows shortly after, and they all hit it off before getting into Caleb's truck and heading off to Joseki.
 * It turns out Caleb also has a bunch of literal junk in his back seat.


 * Skylar meets Zee Haynes, a refugee who arrived in Joseki a week ago, while relaxing in the woods.
 * Zee shows Skylar an abandoned house that him and his friends found. He directs Skylar to some penny romance novels that were in the bedroom
 * As she's looking through the books, a monster bursts out of the chained cellar and takes Zee
 * Skylar pursues the monster through the woods, finally catching up
 * Zania, a Daywolf, explains to Skylar that a bunch of boys locked her in the cellar with no way out, and that Zee was one of the culprits. It's a case of mistaken identity, and making friends with the wrong boys. She swears vengeance on the boys who locked her in the cellar.
 * Skylar reasons with Zania, and promises to help her get revenge if she lets Zee go. Zania reluctantly agrees.
 * Once Zania runs off into the woods again and Zee is sent back to Joseki, Skylar investigates the cellar and is disgusted at the treatment of Zania.
 * She returns to Joseki with some penny novels to figure out a way to bring justice to Zania without getting any of the four boys responsible killed.


 * Arcath starts dinner of by talking to Jolene, a resident of Joseki. Shortly after, Blake St. James, the town's head of security pulls Arcath aside and shows him a pack of Turned that are lurking outside of the walls. Arcath suggests that they leave them alone and keep an eye on them for the night. Blake agrees and puts the town in a curfew so no one attracts the Turned to the town.
 * Skylar approaches Arcath afterwards and tells him a fudged version of what happened with the Daywolf, and asks him for help.
 * Arcath and Skylar argue profusely about making the bullies confront the monster they made mad.
 * Skylar makes the plan that she would get Tony to talk to Zania to sort things out.

August 25th, 2041

 * Arcath sleeps fitfully, plagued by dreams/premonitions filled with fire, and the nameVatara
 * Skylar sleeps restlessly in anticipation for the confrontation between Tony and Zania
 * Everyone else sleeps peacefully. They all arrive at breakfast and have their first group interaction.
 * Caleb, Gwen, and Theresa learn that Arcath is a "true god", which blows Gwen's and Caleb's minds, while Theresa just doesn't believe him.
 * The party splits again. Theresa tracks down some charging cords and ends up having a conversation with Gwen about gods. Caleb has a short-lived one on one talk with Arcath.
 * After the talk, Arcath continues his patrol along the walls. Caleb goes to find Gwen and Theresa. Blake catches up with Arcath and updates him about reports of a strange wolf being seen throughout the night by the guards. It just watched, it didn't attack or anything.
 * Caleb gets stopped by Tyler Chapman, who is talking nonsense about change coming to Joseki. It's later revealed, after a self defense lesson, that Tyler is a follower of Vatara.


 * Skylar sets her plan into motion, waking up Tony in his trailer and tricking him into following her into the woods to confront Zania.
 * Zania, upon seeing Tony, attacks him.
 * Skylar shows her monsterous side to Tony, holding him down so he doesn't attack Zania. Zania tries to reason with Skylar and convince her to kill him for both of their safety.
 * Tony stabs Skylar in an attempt to get away. She ends up knocking him out and abandoning the plan, as it didn't go the way she had planned.
 * Soon after she leaves, Zania is captured by some hunters from Joseki, including Tyler, who had a strange interaction with Caleb earlier. They tie her up and bring her back to camp.
 * Skylar also makes it back to camp with an unconscious Tony. Her friend Marie, who is a guard, lets her in but hardly gets a chance to ask any questions as Skylar makes a beeline for Doc.
 * While Tony's wounds from Zania are being attended to, Blake confronts Skylar about her plan going awry. She lies her way through that and keeps herself out of trouble.


 * The party comes back together as a town meeting is called. Tara Carmony lays out the plan to keep the town under another curfew so they can evaluate the Daywolf threat. After that they are going to consider letting scavengers go back out, which would keep the town's supplies stocked.
 * Skylar proposes they let the Daywolf pass through the area without killing her or hunting her. They reluctantly agree.


 * Gwen sneaks away in the middle of the meeting, finding Tara's house to begin investigating. It doesn't take much poking around to find the false wall that has a staircase leading down to a basement that has a ritual circle in the back of the basement. Suspecting Tara to be a cultist, she goes back upstairs and finds more books about rituals, affirming her suspicions.
 * She decides to hide in the basement and await this ritual to happen.
 * Gwendolyn doesn't have to wait long before Tara enters her basement with someone clearly not from Joseki. The way he talks further confirms Tara's involvement in the cult.
 * Gwendolyn is discovered. A small fight ensues where she lashes out at Tartys, the stranger with Tara, and ends up kicking him in the groin. She then makes her escape from Tara's house.
 * Tara accuses Gwendolyn of stealing from her, which prompts the town guards to start a manhunt. Gwendolyn hides at Skylar's house.
 * ... (more to be added)

August 26th, 2041

 * Gwendolyn is still resting. Skylar, Nik, Caleb, Theresa, and the newcomer, Donovan, recuperate from the previous day. They play Truth or Dare. Donovan refuses to leave Gwendolyn's side and is generally aloof.

August 27th, 2041

 * Gwendolyn wakes up.
 * Dr. Young talks and threatens.
 * Skylar and the group gets kicked out of Joseki
 * They spend the night within the walls of Frailhill, but are quickly ushered out the next morning.

August 28th, 2041

 * The party finds Roderick pinned to the wall
 * The party frees him, then gets attacked by a Turned
 * Roderick blows the safehouse up
 * The Party hits the road and stops at a watering hole on Ron Nguyen's map for the night.

August 29th, 2041

 * The party leaves the watering hole and travels to Burley, Idaho
 * It's a six hour drive but they make it that night.