[ details ] This is Saga's Case Board, her bonkers little red string white board thinking area where she assembles pieces of information, evidence, conclusions, questions, etc. to get a cohesive idea of what's going on. She will use these to organize her ideas and piece together her thoughts on a variety of different topics and any mysteries she happens to encounter.
This isn't interactive like the profiling area, but I thought it might be fun to keep track of things here given it's what she does in canon. Please keep in mind that everything here is completely IC: IC thoughts, IC conclusions, IC theories, and all of this is just in her head. The thoughts shown in this section do not necessarily match what's in my head.
If there's something in here you'd prefer she didn't get involved in or didn't pursue, please do let me know on yarnzipan @ plurk. She's a big ol' Eye-aligned 'need to know' sort so she's going to get her nose in all sorts of things.
Ports seem like the most straight forward of the three, but the fact that people can fall 'overboard' and it behaves almost like a breach makes me believe that these encounters are just as much related to our journey on the Sea of Night as any of the others.
The Dark Presence pushed Wake, a crime author, to write a horror story. The way I see it, it would make a lot of sense that this ship is almost like Cauldron Lake, with the Admiral a much more benevolent force much like the Dark Presence.
Ports, breaches, and floods could all be exactly what they sound like. But the service to the story is how it allows the exploration of every 'character' like a writing exercise.
'Death' is temporary because stories never actually die. But the narrative bleed makes it difficult for the writing process to start again, for lack of a better term. A failed narrative needs to include looking back to the beginning, hence the restart. And it's never easy.
'Comas' are writer's blocks.
Wardens are editors and writing partners, where inmates are the authors of their own new narratives, their own new volumes. They can't leave until they've got a rough draft ready, effectively: a story for the power of this place to bring to life to reverse their death, one that strikes true, one that feels right, one that is truly earned.
More of the pieces fit, but those are the main ones that stuck out to me.
Burned now, it details the tragic life and the harrowing experiences that brought him to the attention of the supernatural, not to mention here. But there are questions I have from having gone over it with him:
Did his nanny kill his daughter? No one who deals with children would ever leave a child alone in the bath, let alone with the water running, let alone for as long as it would take to get changed to go out. Arthur fought the idea, but this doesn't make sense to me.
Why did his parents kill themselves? They seemed to be happy people who loved him very much from all accounts. What brought them both to that choice?
What does this Kayne character want with him? Why does he do his best to keep Arthur on the back foot? Why does he need him to do the work he wants done?
Grandfather, or maybe great uncle Odin, wrote a song for Arthur. I'm sure it has more information that we can use to figure out what's going on with the forces fucking with him and using him. The lyrics are as follows:
You've survived on broken dreams And broken lives and expectations Nothing exactly what it seems Unseen shadow machinations
The hand of chaos in the dark of the new moon The starry ship slips through the fingers You reach above, you grab another rung The ladder right beneath you splinters
Dies Irae, the day of reckoning Anger's remorse unknown til then Can't see right until it's happening An Elder God restored by man
The darkness blankets your surroundings And yet the seer takes your hand She will lead you from the shadows But only you can make the stand
Why does a King desert his kingdom? Both Gray and Black hold secrets deep Your clock rewound, a mouth for tooth is found A single timeline that will keep
Dies Irae, the day of reckoning Anger's remorse unknown til then Can't see right until it's happening An Elder God restored by man
The Sea of Night holds many wonders And many terrors that you'll face As you spiral ever higher You must begin the unsolved case
More than one lake becomes an ocean More than one King must claim his throne The shepherd's crook pulls back lost lamblings And only love will bring you home
Dies Irae, the day of reckoning Anger's remorse unknown til then Can't see right until it's happening An Elder God restored by man
Grandpa got Arthur back into music and showed him how to tap into the same kind of power that he and great-uncle Odin use for their songs. He's not a seer, but he's been able to 'hear' some of my strongly-intentioned thoughts towards him and his music feels very similar to theirs, if a little different.
He's not a seer, I don't think, but he's definitely some sort of parautilitarian.
What can he do? Why did Grandpa push so hard to get him to learn how to use these talents? And will his connection with John take him down a different path?
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viking_seer) wrote2024-02-23 11:51 pm
Case Boards
[ details ]
This is Saga's Case Board, her bonkers little red string white board thinking area where she assembles pieces of information, evidence, conclusions, questions, etc. to get a cohesive idea of what's going on. She will use these to organize her ideas and piece together her thoughts on a variety of different topics and any mysteries she happens to encounter.
This isn't interactive like the profiling area, but I thought it might be fun to keep track of things here given it's what she does in canon. Please keep in mind that everything here is completely IC: IC thoughts, IC conclusions, IC theories, and all of this is just in her head. The thoughts shown in this section do not necessarily match what's in my head.
If there's something in here you'd prefer she didn't get involved in or didn't pursue, please do let me know on yarnzipan @ plurk. She's a big ol' Eye-aligned 'need to know' sort so she's going to get her nose in all sorts of things.
CASE #1: The Barge
Breaches
Floods
Ports
A Redemption Story
Ports, breaches, and floods could all be exactly what they sound like. But the service to the story is how it allows the exploration of every 'character' like a writing exercise.
'Death' is temporary because stories never actually die. But the narrative bleed makes it difficult for the writing process to start again, for lack of a better term. A failed narrative needs to include looking back to the beginning, hence the restart. And it's never easy.
'Comas' are writer's blocks.
Wardens are editors and writing partners, where inmates are the authors of their own new narratives, their own new volumes. They can't leave until they've got a rough draft ready, effectively: a story for the power of this place to bring to life to reverse their death, one that strikes true, one that feels right, one that is truly earned.
More of the pieces fit, but those are the main ones that stuck out to me.
CASE #2: Arthur Lester
Arthur's File
Did his nanny kill his daughter? No one who deals with children would ever leave a child alone in the bath, let alone with the water running, let alone for as long as it would take to get changed to go out. Arthur fought the idea, but this doesn't make sense to me.
Why did his parents kill themselves? They seemed to be happy people who loved him very much from all accounts. What brought them both to that choice?
What does this Kayne character want with him? Why does he do his best to keep Arthur on the back foot? Why does he need him to do the work he wants done?
Dies Irae by Old Gods of Asgard
You've survived on broken dreams
And broken lives and expectations
Nothing exactly what it seems
Unseen shadow machinations
The hand of chaos in the dark of the new moon
The starry ship slips through the fingers
You reach above, you grab another rung
The ladder right beneath you splinters
Dies Irae, the day of reckoning
Anger's remorse unknown til then
Can't see right until it's happening
An Elder God restored by man
The darkness blankets your surroundings
And yet the seer takes your hand
She will lead you from the shadows
But only you can make the stand
Why does a King desert his kingdom?
Both Gray and Black hold secrets deep
Your clock rewound, a mouth for tooth is found
A single timeline that will keep
Dies Irae, the day of reckoning
Anger's remorse unknown til then
Can't see right until it's happening
An Elder God restored by man
The Sea of Night holds many wonders
And many terrors that you'll face
As you spiral ever higher
You must begin the unsolved case
More than one lake becomes an ocean
More than one King must claim his throne
The shepherd's crook pulls back lost lamblings
And only love will bring you home
Dies Irae, the day of reckoning
Anger's remorse unknown til then
Can't see right until it's happening
An Elder God restored by man
Bardlock
He's not a seer, I don't think, but he's definitely some sort of parautilitarian.
What can he do? Why did Grandpa push so hard to get him to learn how to use these talents? And will his connection with John take him down a different path?
CASE #3: Saga Anderson
I wish you were still here to help me understand, Mom.